top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-12-23

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

Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18743465

7 years ago

Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18745763

7 years ago

Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo

https://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/wakeup/

7 years ago

Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler

https://github.com/swc-project/swc

7 years ago

★ 33.3k Rust Apache-2.0

Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course

https://scrimba.com/g/gneuralnetworks

7 years ago

The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm Explained

https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/17/wavefunction-collapse-algorithm/

7 years ago

Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices

https://torrentfreak.com/canada-prohibits-piracy-settlement-demands-in-isp-copyright-notices-181218/

7 years ago

Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers as executable binaries

https://github.com/genuinetools/binctr

7 years ago

★ 2.5k Go MIT

Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content

https://magazine.artstation.com/2018/12/happened-artstation-android-app/

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18748135

7 years ago

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/

7 years ago

OrbitDB – serverless, peer-to-peer database on top of IPFS

https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db

7 years ago

★ 8.7k JavaScript MIT

Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (2008)

http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vision/BFS-Auto/

7 years ago

Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies

https://blog.bloomca.me/2018/12/22/writing-a-web-server-node.html

7 years ago

How I wound up finding a bug in GNU Tar

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/TarFindingTruncateBug

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

Schedule – 35th Chaos Communication Congress

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/timeline.html

7 years ago

Why American cities are weirdly shaped

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/12/22/why-american-cities-are-so-weirdly-shaped

7 years ago

Planning – The Core Reason Why Gameplay Feels Good (2017)

https://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2017/05/planning-core-reason-why-gameplay-feels.html

7 years ago

Orange Livebox ADSL modems are leaking their WiFi credentials

https://badpackets.net/over-19000-orange-livebox-adsl-modems-are-leaking-their-wifi-credentials/

7 years ago

A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning

http://timdettmers.com/2018/12/16/deep-learning-hardware-guide/

7 years ago

A Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/12/closest-grocery-store-to-me-dollar-store-food-desert-bargain/577777/

7 years ago

Wikipedia2Vec: Optimized Implementation for Learning Embeddings from Wikipedia

https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06280

7 years ago

Gatwick drones pair 'no longer suspects'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46665615

7 years ago

Adapton: Programming Language Abstractions for Incremental Computation

http://adapton.org/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Did you learn any life changing lessons this year?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746881

7 years ago

Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries?

https://engineering.grab.com/designing-resilient-systems-part-1

7 years ago

Amazon hired private detectives to spy on injured worker

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/22/amaz-d22.html

7 years ago

Do I Offend?

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/12/do-i-offend.html

7 years ago

Show HN: AutoComplete.js v2.0

https://tarekraafat.github.io/autoComplete.js/

7 years ago

Modeling Life Outcomes with Stochastic Methods

https://tmarkovich.github.io//articles/2018-12/stochastic-life-model

7 years ago

Lenses: Composable Getters and Setters for Functional Programming

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/lenses-b85976cb0534

7 years ago

Sloc Cloc and Code Revisited – Optimizing an Already Fast Go Application

https://boyter.org/posts/sloc-cloc-code-performance/

7 years ago

Librefox, mainstream Firefox with a better privacy and security

https://github.com/intika/Librefox-Firefox

7 years ago

★ 1.7k JavaScript MPL-2.0

The Annoying Site: Source

https://theannoyingsite.com/index.js

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

ADT through the looking glass – lenses, prisms and other optics in Scala

https://kubuszok.com/2018/adt-through-the-looking-glass/

7 years ago

How Juul became worth $38B

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/22/juul-me-twice-shame-on-you/

7 years ago

Ask HN: Have I lost my skills in programming?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18745575

7 years ago

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/

7 years ago

Life and Death of a Planetary System

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/life-and-death/intro/

7 years ago

Can We Really Inherit Trauma?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/health/mind-epigenetics-genes.html

7 years ago