710
194
Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18740939
7 years ago
468
226
An Apology and an Update
https://slackhq.com/an-apology-and-an-update
395
Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since 1900
https://pudding.cool/2018/12/countries/
354
186
Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-politics-1mdb-goldman/malaysia-seeks-7-5-billion-in-reparations-from-goldman-sachs-ft-idUSKCN1OK0GU
341
72
Show HN: A new spline
https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2018/12/21/new-spline.html
324
129
YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess
https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-copyright-protection-system-is-a-total-mess-can-it-be-fixed-181222/
254
55
How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002) [pdf]
https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~susan/475/HowToBeAProgrammer.pdf
247
137
Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer
https://beta.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2179192/chinese-battery-expert-hongjin-tan-charged-stealing
222
147
The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong small town
https://spectator.us/der-spiegel-small-town/
208
78
The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-machine-learning-race-is-really-a-data-race/
203
107
What Is Glitter?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.html
196
160
C++20 Ranges
http://ericniebler.com/2018/12/05/standard-ranges/
Quora pays thousands for posting questions
https://quorapartners.quora.com/The-Quora-Partner-Program-in-2018
188
224
Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-46657505
165
44
Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2014)
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/11/dostoyevsky-dream/
164
How to Version-Control Jupyter Notebooks
https://nextjournal.com/schmudde/how-to-version-control-jupyter
207
Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
https://www.wsj.com/articles/deformities-alarm-scientists-racing-to-rewrite-animal-dna-11544808779
122
43
Introspected REST: An alternative to REST and GraphQL
https://github.com/vasilakisfil/Introspected-REST
115
54
Simple rules for documenting scientific software
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006561
112
64
Technorealism, Alvin Toffler, and the Forgotten Third Wave
http://txti.es/technorealism
109
182
Five Years That Changed Dating
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/tinder-changed-dating/578698/
108
Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta
https://abe-winter.github.io/2018/12/20/stalin.html
106
42
Don't allow popups during page unload
https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5989473649164288
Depression, Self-Identity and Reality: Living in a Story Created by Facebook
https://medium.com/privateid-blog/depression-self-identity-and-reality-living-in-a-fictional-story-created-by-social-media-38f230ab9bf7
102
133
PewDiePie’s Battle for the Soul of the Internet
https://quillette.com/2018/12/20/pewdiepies-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-internet/
101
22
TensorFlow Lite is for mobile and embedded devices
https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/
98
26
How Flutter uses Widgets, Elements, RenderObjects to create eye-candy at 120fps
https://medium.com/flutter-community/the-layer-cake-widgets-elements-renderobjects-7644c3142401
97
12
Apollo 8’s Earthrise: The Shot Seen Round the World
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/science/earthrise-moon-apollo-nasa.html
93
219
What did Jesus really look like? (2015)
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35120965
92
As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new transport system (2017)
https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2017/07/01/a-generational-failure-as-the-u-s-fantasizes-the-rest-of-the-world-builds-a-new-transport-system/
90
40
Building TypeScript Projects with Bazel
https://blog.mgechev.com/2018/11/19/introduction-bazel-typescript-tutorial/#hn
87
56
Raw String Literals Removed From Java 12 as Feature Set Frozen
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/jdk-12-new-features
83
95
The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption in the wild
https://elie.net/blog/security/the-bleak-picture-of-two-factor-authentication-adoption-in-the-wild/
80
4
QUIC Crypto and simple state machines
https://cryptologie.net/article/446/quic-crypto-and-simple-state-machines/
36
When Power Goes to Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart (2013)
https://www.npr.org/2013/08/10/210686255/a-sense-of-power-can-do-a-number-on-your-brain?ft=1&f=1007
75
24
Show HN: RedixDB – a fast persistent key-value store with the Redis protocol
https://alash3al.github.io/redix/
73
45
On Disbelieving Atrocities (1944)
https://pastebin.com/zpk4LP1s?
11
Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/machine-learning-ux/
69
10
Chip Industry's Fundamental Shifts in 2018
https://semiengineering.com/fundamental-shifts-in-2018/
68
17
Reple: “Replay-Based” REPLs for Compiled Languages
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brock/blog/reple.php
66
23
Amazon reveals private Alexa voice data files
https://www.heise.de/amp/meldung/Amazon-reveals-private-voice-data-files-4256015.html
How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002) [pdf]