top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-12-24

My one-liner Linux Dropbox client

http://lpan.io/one-liner-dropbox-client/

7 years ago

Blender 2.8

https://www.blender.org/2-8/

7 years ago

CSS grid garden

http://cssgridgarden.com/#en

7 years ago

Social networks are no longer social

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/23/the-year-social-networks-were-no-longer-social/

7 years ago

The Internet of Unprofitable Things

http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2018/12/24/the-internet-of-unprofitable-things/

7 years ago

Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/03/netflix-patch-testing-kids-binge-watching

7 years ago

Linux 4.20 released

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/23/187

7 years ago

IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses

https://hackaday.com/2018/12/24/ipv6-christmas-display-uses-75-internets-worth-of-addresses/

7 years ago

Ruby 2.6

https://anamaria.martinezgomez.name/2018/12/21/ruby2_6.html

7 years ago

Learn Prolog Now

http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=online

7 years ago

Patreon suspended my account. They have not notified me

https://twitter.com/Scott_Helme/status/1077254028453654529

7 years ago

SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)

https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html

7 years ago

GCompris: high quality educational software suite for children aged 2 to 10

https://gcompris.net/index-en.html

7 years ago

Sydney Opal Tower: Thousands evacuated after 'crack'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-46671811

7 years ago

Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/24/facebook-government-silence-dissent-authoritarianism/

7 years ago

If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/23/if-solar-panels-are-so-clean-why-do-they-produce-so-much-toxic-waste/#2a1c244a121c

7 years ago

The Link Between Inflammation and Depression?

https://medium.com/s/story/the-link-between-inflammation-and-depression-a6e0d5c98639

7 years ago

Show HN: Magic Grid – A simple JavaScript library for dynamic grid layouts

https://github.com/e-oj/Magic-Grid

7 years ago

★ 3.1k JavaScript MIT

Some Hong Kong companies change their name every couple of months

https://blog.dataguru.hk/2018/12/24/some-hong-kong-companies-change-their-name-every-couple-of-months-why/

7 years ago

Erlang Scheduler Details (2016)

https://hamidreza-s.github.io/erlang/scheduling/real-time/preemptive/migration/2016/02/09/erlang-scheduler-details.html

7 years ago

Sqlite – Most Deployed Database in the World

https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

7 years ago

Solving murder with Prolog

https://xmonader.github.io/prolog/2018/12/21/solving-murder-prolog.html

7 years ago

Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie

https://stephenfollows.com/using-data-to-determine-if-die-hard-is-a-christmas-movie

7 years ago

Why Most Software Engineers Lose Nothing by Unionizing

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/why-95-percent-of-software-engineers-lose-nothing-by-unionizing/

7 years ago

China drafts law protecting foreign IP and prohibiting forced tech transfer

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2179368/china-drafts-law-protecting-foreign-intellectual-property-and

7 years ago

Domain Registrar Can Be Held Liable for Pirate Site, German Court Rules

https://torrentfreak.com/domain-registrar-can-be-held-liable-for-pirate-site-court-rules-181224/

7 years ago

DragonFly BSD 5.4

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release54/

7 years ago

Show HN: Inside Python Dict – an explorable explanation

https://just-taking-a-ride.com/inside_python_dict/

7 years ago

Re: [BREAKAGE] Since 4.18, kernel sets SB_I_NODEV implicitly on userns mounts

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/22/221

7 years ago

The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-science-behind-making-your-child-smarter-11545660001

7 years ago

Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18749330

7 years ago

A Beginner’s Guide to the Mathematics of Neural Networks (1998) [pdf]

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.161.3556&rep=rep1&type=pdf

7 years ago

Canada Battery Maker Says Flow Storage Costs to Tumble by Half

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-24/canada-battery-maker-says-flow-storage-costs-to-tumble-by-half

7 years ago

Build your own bare-metal ARM cluster

https://blog.alexellis.io/build-your-own-bare-metal-arm-cluster/

7 years ago

The Illustrated BERT: How NLP Cracked Transfer Learning

https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-bert/

7 years ago

Game for learning Web Typography: The Equilateral Triangle

https://betterwebtype.com/triangle

7 years ago

Rome in Ruins

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/travel/rome-pollution-trash.html

7 years ago

E-Cigarette Maker Juul Just Gave Its Employees an Average 1.3M Bonus

https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/juul-13-million-bonus-employees-altria-investment-2-billion-dividend-talent-wars.html

7 years ago

Python 3.7.2 and 3.6.8 are now available

https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2018/12/python-372-and-368-are-now-available.html

7 years ago

Show HN: YouRepl – Watch video-tutorials and write code at the same time

https://yourepl.tumblr.com/post/180936303347/announcing-yourepl

7 years ago

Lenia – Biology of Artificial Life

https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05433

7 years ago

Buzz Aldrin thesis: Line-of-sight guidance for manned orbital rendezvous (1963)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/12652

7 years ago

SpaceX launches first U.S. national security space mission

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-launch/spacex-launches-first-u-s-national-security-space-mission-idUSKCN1OM0D9

7 years ago

The known unknowns of plastic pollution

https://www.economist.com/international/2018/03/03/the-known-unknowns-of-plastic-pollution

7 years ago

Consciousness: The last 50 years (and the next)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2398212818816019

7 years ago

EmuTOS, a free operating system for Atari computers

https://github.com/emutos/emutos

7 years ago

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