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565
338
SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation
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515
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https://sizovs.net/2018/12/17/stop-learning-frameworks/
460
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http://dotsies.org/
405
535
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https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/825-8-Reasons-Python-Sucks.html
346
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318
200
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272
174
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https://dusted.codes/why-you-should-learn-fsharp
264
60
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https://towardsdatascience.com/hacker-news-book-suggestions-64b88099947
262
69
What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-a-newfound-kingdom-means-for-the-tree-of-life-20181211/
253
94
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49
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https://www.pentadact.com/2018-12-18-dad-and-the-egg-controller/
246
140
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https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/36ca7d4c-cd98-40a9-a9c5-0cde2ab922ab/how-alexa-knows-that-peanut-butter-is-one-shopping-list-item-not-two
208
25
The Little Printf
https://ferd.ca/the-little-printf.html
206
108
Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/the-web-now-belongs-to-google-and-that-should-worry-us-all
204
175
Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality
https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/17/geoffrey-hinton-and-demis-hassabis-agi-is-nowhere-close-to-being-a-reality/
197
92
Stop Datamining Me
https://www.stopdatamining.me/opt-out-list/
193
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Google Chrome to stop back-button hijacking
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/1344199
192
327
Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/blue-apron-stock-price-tumbles-below-1-first-time-2018-12-1027818501
191
119
The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love
https://datadating.tacticaltech.org/viz
183
168
Firing Frankness
https://mondaynote.com/50-years-in-tech-part-13-firing-frankness-3d17e207d1cf
161
30
Show HN: DPAGE – build and publish webpages on the decentralized internet
https://dpage.io/
159
134
V8 release v7.2
https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-72
158
20
Show HN: Goldpinger – Visualize Kubernetes cluster connectivity
https://github.com/bloomberg/goldpinger
★ 2.6k JavaScript Apache-2.0– 7 years ago
153
61
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https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/comma-separated-tree
152
71
Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System (2000) [pdf]
http://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/clarke00freenet.pdf
144
21
The universal decay of collective memory and attention
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0474-5
139
80
Walt Mossberg Quits Facebook
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/walt-mossberg-quit-facebook.html
138
88
Show HN: Bubblin – Bandcamp for books
https://bubblin.io
136
34
The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention
https://fs.blog/2018/12/spacing-effect/
46
Envoy Proxy at Reddit
https://redditblog.com/2018/12/18/envoy-proxy-at-reddit/
135
130
Novogratz's Crypto Trading Desk Lost $136M in Nine Months
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-28/novogratz-s-crypto-trading-desk-lost-136-million-in-nine-months
17
Advent of Code Python Solutions, Explained
https://www.michaelfogleman.com/aoc18/
118
13
How the hell have you done it? (1961)
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2018/12/how-hell-have-you-done-it.html
112
33
Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing (2016)
https://www.dusterwald.com/2016/07/path-tracing-vs-ray-tracing/
107
41
“Farout”, the Farthest Object Ever Seen in the Solar System
https://www.universetoday.com/140901/just-discovered-farout-the-farthest-object-ever-seen-in-the-solar-system/
97
55
On Ghost Users and Messaging Backdoors
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/12/17/on-ghost-users-and-messaging-backdoors/
Central Londoners to be subjected to facial recognition test this week
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/londons-police-will-be-testing-facial-recognition-in-public-for-2-days/
95
3
Program Verification with F* (2017)
http://prosecco.gforge.inria.fr/personal/hritcu/teaching/mpri-jan2017/
7
The Practical Guide to Hacking Bluetooth Low Energy
https://blog.attify.com/the-practical-guide-to-hacking-bluetooth-low-energy/
182
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https://www.businessinsider.com/jordan-peterson-says-hell-launch-patreon-alternative-before-christmas-2018-12
84
37
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http://250bpm.com/blog:141
83
66
Wolkenkit 3.0 – a CQRS and event-sourcing framework for JavaScript
https://www.thenativeweb.io/blog/2018-12-04-18-17-introducing-wolkenkit-3-0/
79
22
United States should prepare to build a prototype fusion power plant, panel says
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/united-states-should-prepare-build-prototype-fusion-power-plant-panel-says
77
38
Anthony Levandowski: Pronto AI
https://medium.com/pronto-ai
74
89
A Chinese electric car is coming to the US
https://qz.com/1500303/chinas-qiantu-will-be-first-chinese-electric-carmaker-to-challenge-tesla-in-the-us/
35
Disinformation Report: An Investigation into Russian IRA Activities in 2016
https://www.newknowledge.com/disinforeport
18
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https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/cybercriminals-use-malicious-memes-that-communicate-with-malware/
10
Hello, JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs (2012)
http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/12/hello-jit-world-joy-of-simple-jits.html
64
6
The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu (1007-1010)
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/omori/court/murasaki.html
63
Ask HN: Do you think Google's recaptcha has gone greedy off late?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18704960
