top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-12-18

Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46604625

7 years ago

952 upvotes – 886 comments

SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-spacex-is-raising-500-million-in-funding-11545142054

7 years ago

565 upvotes – 338 comments

Stop Learning Frameworks

https://sizovs.net/2018/12/17/stop-learning-frameworks/

7 years ago

515 upvotes – 294 comments

Dotsies (2012)

http://dotsies.org/

7 years ago

460 upvotes – 194 comments

Reasons Python Sucks

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/825-8-Reasons-Python-Sucks.html

7 years ago

405 upvotes – 535 comments

Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30

https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/55998-building-a-spotify-player-for-my-mac-se30/

7 years ago

346 upvotes – 59 comments

Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war

https://towardsdatascience.com/why-you-should-care-about-the-nate-silver-vs-nassim-taleb-twitter-war-a581dce1f5fc

7 years ago

318 upvotes – 200 comments

Why you should learn F#

https://dusted.codes/why-you-should-learn-fsharp

7 years ago

272 upvotes – 174 comments

Analyzing Hacker News book suggestions in Python

https://towardsdatascience.com/hacker-news-book-suggestions-64b88099947

7 years ago

264 upvotes – 60 comments

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/

7 years ago

262 upvotes – 69 comments

Librem 5 dev kits are shipping

https://puri.sm/posts/2018-devkits-are-shipping/

7 years ago

253 upvotes – 94 comments

Dad and the Egg Controller

https://www.pentadact.com/2018-12-18-dad-and-the-egg-controller/

7 years ago

253 upvotes – 49 comments

How Alexa knows “peanut butter” is one shopping-list item, not two

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

7 years ago

246 upvotes – 140 comments

The Little Printf

https://ferd.ca/the-little-printf.html

7 years ago

208 upvotes – 25 comments

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

7 years ago

206 upvotes – 108 comments

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/

7 years ago

204 upvotes – 175 comments

Stop Datamining Me

https://www.stopdatamining.me/opt-out-list/

7 years ago

197 upvotes – 92 comments

Google Chrome to stop back-button hijacking

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/1344199

7 years ago

193 upvotes – 124 comments

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

7 years ago

192 upvotes – 327 comments

The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love

https://datadating.tacticaltech.org/viz

7 years ago

191 upvotes – 119 comments

Firing Frankness

https://mondaynote.com/50-years-in-tech-part-13-firing-frankness-3d17e207d1cf

7 years ago

183 upvotes – 168 comments

Show HN: DPAGE – build and publish webpages on the decentralized internet

https://dpage.io/

7 years ago

161 upvotes – 30 comments

V8 release v7.2

https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-72

7 years ago

159 upvotes – 134 comments

Show HN: Goldpinger – Visualize Kubernetes cluster connectivity

https://github.com/bloomberg/goldpinger

7 years ago

158 upvotes – 20 comments

Comma-Separated Tree

https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/comma-separated-tree

7 years ago

153 upvotes – 61 comments

Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System (2000) [pdf]

http://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/clarke00freenet.pdf

7 years ago

152 upvotes – 71 comments

The universal decay of collective memory and attention

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0474-5

7 years ago

144 upvotes – 21 comments

Walt Mossberg Quits Facebook

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/walt-mossberg-quit-facebook.html

7 years ago

139 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Bubblin – Bandcamp for books

https://bubblin.io

7 years ago

138 upvotes – 88 comments

The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention

https://fs.blog/2018/12/spacing-effect/

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 34 comments

Envoy Proxy at Reddit

https://redditblog.com/2018/12/18/envoy-proxy-at-reddit/

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 46 comments

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

7 years ago

135 upvotes – 130 comments

Advent of Code Python Solutions, Explained

https://www.michaelfogleman.com/aoc18/

7 years ago

134 upvotes – 17 comments

How the hell have you done it? (1961)

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2018/12/how-hell-have-you-done-it.html

7 years ago

118 upvotes – 13 comments

Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing (2016)

https://www.dusterwald.com/2016/07/path-tracing-vs-ray-tracing/

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 33 comments

“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/

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 41 comments

On Ghost Users and Messaging Backdoors

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/12/17/on-ghost-users-and-messaging-backdoors/

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 55 comments

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/

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 88 comments

Program Verification with F* (2017)

http://prosecco.gforge.inria.fr/personal/hritcu/teaching/mpri-jan2017/

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 3 comments

The Practical Guide to Hacking Bluetooth Low Energy

https://blog.attify.com/the-practical-guide-to-hacking-bluetooth-low-energy/

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 7 comments

Top Patreon creators launching an alternate crowdfunding platform

https://www.businessinsider.com/jordan-peterson-says-hell-launch-patreon-alternative-before-christmas-2018-12

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 182 comments

Equivalence of State Machines and Coroutines

http://250bpm.com/blog:141

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 37 comments

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/

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 66 comments

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

7 years ago

79 upvotes – 22 comments

Anthony Levandowski: Pronto AI

https://medium.com/pronto-ai

7 years ago

77 upvotes – 38 comments

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/

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 89 comments

Disinformation Report: An Investigation into Russian IRA Activities in 2016

https://www.newknowledge.com/disinforeport

7 years ago

71 upvotes – 35 comments

Cybercriminals Use Malicious Memes That Communicate with Malware

https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/cybercriminals-use-malicious-memes-that-communicate-with-malware/

7 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

Hello, JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs (2012)

http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/12/hello-jit-world-joy-of-simple-jits.html

7 years ago

66 upvotes – 10 comments

The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu (1007-1010)

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/omori/court/murasaki.html

7 years ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: Do you think Google's recaptcha has gone greedy off late?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18704960

7 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments
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