1130
154
Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States
https://e-pluribusunum.org/2018/12/21/congress-made-open-government-data-the-default-in-the-united-states/
7 years ago
842
332
Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18743465
629
601
Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18745763
392
34
Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo
https://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/wakeup/
382
125
Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler
https://github.com/swc-project/swc
329
69
Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course
https://scrimba.com/g/gneuralnetworks
304
44
The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm Explained
https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/17/wavefunction-collapse-algorithm/
294
64
Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices
https://torrentfreak.com/canada-prohibits-piracy-settlement-demands-in-isp-copyright-notices-181218/
112
Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers as executable binaries
https://github.com/genuinetools/binctr
291
204
Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content
https://magazine.artstation.com/2018/12/happened-artstation-android-app/
249
189
Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was destroyed by players
https://gametyrant.com/news/ultima-online-spent-3-years-developing-systems-that-were-destroyed-by-players
238
397
Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18748135
232
83
A $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612679/president-trump-has-signed-a-12-billon-law-to-boost-us-quantum-tech/
202
57
OrbitDB – serverless, peer-to-peer database on top of IPFS
https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db
199
51
Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (2008)
http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vision/BFS-Auto/
192
41
Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies
https://blog.bloomca.me/2018/12/22/writing-a-web-server-node.html
46
How I wound up finding a bug in GNU Tar
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/TarFindingTruncateBug
184
38
A Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times (2014)
http://nautil.us/blog/the-sound-so-loud-that-it-circled-the-earth-four-times
170
48
Schedule – 35th Chaos Communication Congress
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/timeline.html
159
162
Why American cities are weirdly shaped
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/12/22/why-american-cities-are-so-weirdly-shaped
158
32
Planning – The Core Reason Why Gameplay Feels Good (2017)
https://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2017/05/planning-core-reason-why-gameplay-feels.html
148
61
Orange Livebox ADSL modems are leaking their WiFi credentials
https://badpackets.net/over-19000-orange-livebox-adsl-modems-are-leaking-their-wifi-credentials/
134
28
A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning
http://timdettmers.com/2018/12/16/deep-learning-hardware-guide/
123
210
A Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/12/closest-grocery-store-to-me-dollar-store-food-desert-bargain/577777/
109
9
Wikipedia2Vec: Optimized Implementation for Learning Embeddings from Wikipedia
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06280
97
Gatwick drones pair 'no longer suspects'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46665615
106
11
Adapton: Programming Language Abstractions for Incremental Computation
http://adapton.org/
Ask HN: Did you learn any life changing lessons this year?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746881
103
15
Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries?
https://engineering.grab.com/designing-resilient-systems-part-1
102
Amazon hired private detectives to spy on injured worker
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/22/amaz-d22.html
Do I Offend?
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/12/do-i-offend.html
93
14
Show HN: AutoComplete.js v2.0
https://tarekraafat.github.io/autoComplete.js/
91
6
Modeling Life Outcomes with Stochastic Methods
https://tmarkovich.github.io//articles/2018-12/stochastic-life-model
89
22
Lenses: Composable Getters and Setters for Functional Programming
https://medium.com/javascript-scene/lenses-b85976cb0534
88
16
Sloc Cloc and Code Revisited – Optimizing an Already Fast Go Application
https://boyter.org/posts/sloc-cloc-code-performance/
87
Librefox, mainstream Firefox with a better privacy and security
https://github.com/intika/Librefox-Firefox
85
The Annoying Site: Source
https://theannoyingsite.com/index.js
80
Foundations for Efficient and Expressive Differentiable Programming [pdf]
http://papers.nips.cc/paper/8221-backpropagation-with-callbacks-foundations-for-efficient-and-expressive-differentiable-programming.pdf
78
ADT through the looking glass – lenses, prisms and other optics in Scala
https://kubuszok.com/2018/adt-through-the-looking-glass/
77
100
How Juul became worth $38B
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/22/juul-me-twice-shame-on-you/
76
75
Ask HN: Have I lost my skills in programming?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18745575
74
84
Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction (2013)
http://www.patrickmccray.com/2013/09/12/robert-heinlein-and-the-harsh-politics-of-science-fiction/
73
27
Life and Death of a Planetary System
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/life-and-death/intro/
72
36
Can We Really Inherit Trauma?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/health/mind-epigenetics-genes.html
Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers as executable binaries