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1.Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo (namepros.com)
1065 points by rahiel on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 410 comments [ext]
2.ATDT relief (rachelbythebay.com)
524 points by discreditable on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 143 comments [ext]
3.Ant Colonies Retain Memories That Outlast the Lifespans of Individuals (smithsonianmag.com)
395 points by bangonkeyboard on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
4. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
4.Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead (arstechnica.com)
561 points by coatta on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 249 comments [ext]
5.Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs (github.com/grafana)
444 points by bovermyer on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 162 comments [ext]
6.An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth (twitter.com/gbrockell)
790 points by waffle_ss on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 337 comments [ext]
7. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
7.The Onion Futures Act (wikipedia.org)
260 points by gkaemmer on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
8.Show HN: Free and open-source home for art made with code (shadergif.com)
144 points by antoineMoPa on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
9.Optician Sans – A free font based on the historical eye charts (optician-sans.com)
250 points by dcschelt on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
10. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
10.Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017) (cnn.com)
223 points by Tomte on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 162 comments [ext]
11.Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX? [ext]
542 points by InGodsName on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 150 comments [ext]
12.Norwegian frigate sinking has far-reaching implications (aspistrategist.org.au)
275 points by occamrazor on Dec 11, 2018 [ext] | 204 comments [ext]
13. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
13.Internet Search Tips (gwern.net)
174 points by telotortium on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
14.Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve (langille.org)
185 points by whalesalad on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
15.Marriott Data Breach Traced to Chinese Hackers, US Readies Crackdown on Beijing (nytimes.com)
195 points by jumelles on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
16. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend (mradford.com)
199 points by MattyRad on Dec 11, 2018 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
17.How to Grow Software Architecture out of Jupyter Notebooks (github.com/guillaume-chevalier)
189 points by jedwhite on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
18.“Diagram of All Space and Time” by Carl Sagan (1960s?) (loc.gov)
184 points by benbreen on Dec 11, 2018 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
19. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Growth Ranker – Top-growing products on Indie Hackers (growthranker.com)
95 points by bsears on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
20.A New Connection Between the Gut and Brain (scientificamerican.com)
165 points by neo4sure on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
21.Let’s build a browser engine (2014) (limpet.net)
188 points by chiefofgxbxl on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
22. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
22.Write good git commit messages (juffalow.com)
360 points by pafo on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 198 comments [ext]
23.Michael Seibel on Leadership Attributes in Successful Startup Leaders (torch.io)
149 points by camerony on Dec 11, 2018 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
24.Response to 'Reasons why Lisp games suffer' (techsnuffle.com)
106 points by etiam on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 88 comments [ext]
25. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
25.For-Profit College Chain Closes, Shutting Out Nearly 20k Students (nytimes.com)
144 points by rchaudhary on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
26.Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support (phoronix.com)
174 points by pantalaimon on Dec 11, 2018 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
27.Storing C++ Objects in Distributed Memory (eecs.berkeley.edu)
122 points by xiii1408 on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
28. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
28.Writing a book in public (200wordsaday.com)
138 points by basilesamel on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
29.Ask HN: Books you read in 2018? [ext]
578 points by rwieruch on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 347 comments [ext]
30.How to do with probabilities what people say you can’t (1985) [pdf] (ucla.edu)
108 points by sytelus on Dec 12, 2018 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
31. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments

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