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462
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393
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284
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229
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18688647
201
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194
46
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174
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167
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155
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https://onebyezero.blogspot.com/2018/12/string-tokenization-in-c.html
151
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Parrot Uses Alexa to Order Watermelon, Lightbulbs While Owner Is Out
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147
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https://www.robertsapolskyrocks.com/depression.html
144
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http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts-its-midlife-crisis/
143
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Australian Gag Order Stokes Global Debate on Secrecy
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/world/australia/australia-gag-order-court.html
142
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PG&E falsified gas pipeline records for years after deadly explosion
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pge-safety-investigation-20181214-story.html
140
79
A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS
https://cyber-itl.org/2018/12/07/a-look-at-home-routers-and-linux-mips.html
131
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How the CIA Trains Spies to Hide in Plain Sight
https://www.wired.com/story/mastermind-cia-disguise/
123
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/dec/13/the-untold-story-of-how-india-sex-workers-prevented-an-aids-epidemic-ashok-alexander-a-stranger-truth
120
9
Show HN: CHIP-8 console implemented in FPGA
https://github.com/pwmarcz/fpga-chip8
117
57
In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming (1977)
http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis77.htm
105
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Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/business/apple-california-manufacturing-history.html
25
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https://gizmodo.com/two-stalagmites-found-in-chinese-cave-are-a-holy-grail-1831074289
104
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Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-15/robinhood-will-retool-checking-product-following-scrutiny
101
17
Machine Learning Often a Complicated Way of Replicating Simple Forecasting
https://medium.com/@mikeharrisNY/machine-learning-often-a-complicated-way-of-replicating-simple-forecasting-methods-in-financial-25c38db2f624
99
22
William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85
https://fair.org/home/william-blum-us-policy-critic-derided-by-nyt-dies-at-85/
90
The Revival of Great SQL Ideas
https://winand.at/newsletter/2018-12/consistency-cloud-jit
43
Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance (2013)
https://yosefk.com/blog/efficiency-is-fundamentally-at-odds-with-elegance.html
84
6
Einstein’s most effective life hack wasn’t about productivity
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45
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MU_puzzle
82
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Post-traumatic stress disorder may mimic autism in some children
https://www.spectrumnews.org/opinion/viewpoint/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-may-mimic-autism-children/
78
23
Storing unboxed trait objects in Rust
https://guiand.xyz/blog-posts/unboxed-trait-objects.html
77
55
The Time Has Come to Finally Delete Facebook
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/11/its-time-for-all-of-us-to-finally-delete-facebook.html
10
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https://worthdoingbadly.com/sqlitebug/
14
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http://www.morebeyond.co.za/why-we-suck-at-solving-wicked-problems/
73
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http://nickroessler.com/latex-cve-2018-17407/
8
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https://blog.sumtypeofway.com/an-introduction-to-recursion-schemes/
72
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https://achainofblocks.com/2018/12/13/what-is-stellar-consensus-protocol-federated-byzantine-agreement/
71
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China introduces ‘social’ punishments for scientific misconduct
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07740-z
15
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http://web.archive.org/web/20180221100932/www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2008/08/30/20-abandoned-cities-from-around-the-world.html
Simulated Dendrochronology of US Immigration 1790-2016
https://web.northeastern.edu/naturalizing-immigration-dataviz/
70
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https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A10450694
64
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/12/usb-killer-fries-devices/
40
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https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/orphan-drugs/
62
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https://tworingsoft.com/blog/2018/12/10/fun-with-unicode-in-swift.html
61
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/ge-powered-the-american-centurythen-it-burned-out-11544796010
60
Ask HN: How do I become a better team lead for a small, junior dev team?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18687213
58
USGS Announces Largest Continuous Oil Assessment in Texas and New Mexico
https://www.usgs.gov/news/usgs-announces-largest-continuous-oil-assessment-texas-and-new-mexico
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