| 1. | | SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation (wsj.com) |
| 565 points by dcgudeman on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 338 comments [ext] |
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| 2. | | Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves (bbc.com) |
| 952 points by tartoran on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 886 comments [ext] |
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| 3. | | Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool (remove.bg) |
| 640 points by groe on Dec 17, 2018 [ext] | 108 comments [ext] |
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Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com) |
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370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
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| 4. | | Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation (theintercept.com) |
| 592 points by uptown on Dec 17, 2018 [ext] | 356 comments [ext] |
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| 5. | | Dotsies (2012) (dotsies.org) |
| 460 points by severine on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 194 comments [ext] |
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| 6. | | I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? (reddit.com) |
| 393 points by huhtenberg on Dec 15, 2018 [ext] | 191 comments [ext] |
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Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com) |
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292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
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| 7. | | Reasons Python Sucks (hackerfactor.com) |
| 405 points by BerislavLopac on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 535 comments [ext] |
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| 8. | | How Alexa knows “peanut butter” is one shopping-list item, not two (amazon.com) |
| 246 points by georgecarlyle76 on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 140 comments [ext] |
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| 9. | | What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life (quantamagazine.org) |
| 262 points by dnetesn on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 69 comments [ext] |
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How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press) |
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117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
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| 10. | | Analyzing Hacker News book suggestions in Python (towardsdatascience.com) |
| 264 points by MLpractitioner on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 60 comments [ext] |
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| 11. | | Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war (towardsdatascience.com) |
| 318 points by oska on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 200 comments [ext] |
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| 12. | | Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System (2000) [pdf] (stanford.edu) |
| 152 points by rayvy on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 71 comments [ext] |
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The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com) |
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487 points by htx5127 610 days ago | hide | 15 comments
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| 13. | | Stop Learning Frameworks (sizovs.net) |
| 515 points by ingve on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 294 comments [ext] |
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| 14. | | NAACP returns Facebook donation, calls for boycott on Tuesday (axios.com) |
| 188 points by tareqak on Dec 17, 2018 [ext] | 145 comments [ext] |
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| 15. | | Show HN: DPAGE – build and publish webpages on the decentralized internet (dpage.io) |
| 161 points by brisky on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 30 comments [ext] |
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From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com) |
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98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
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| 16. | | Show HN: Bubblin – Bandcamp for books (bubblin.io) |
| 138 points by marvindanig on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 88 comments [ext] |
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| 17. | | Show HN: Goldpinger – Visualize Kubernetes cluster connectivity (github.com/bloomberg) |
| 158 points by seeker89 on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 20 comments [ext] |
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| 18. | | Implementing VisiCalc (2015) (rmf.vc) |
| 90 points by franzb on Dec 17, 2018 [ext] | 18 comments [ext] |
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The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com) |
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376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
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| 19. | | How the hell have you done it? (1961) (lettersofnote.com) |
| 118 points by merrier on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 13 comments [ext] |
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| 20. | | Why you should learn F# (dusted.codes) |
| 272 points by aloisdg on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 174 comments [ext] |
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| 21. | | Ambient Cruelty (reallifemag.com) |
| 145 points by kawera on Dec 17, 2018 [ext] | 70 comments [ext] |
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Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets () |
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374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
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| 22. | | Dependent Haskell (serokell.io) |
| 137 points by Serokell on Dec 17, 2018 [ext] | 88 comments [ext] |
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| 23. | | Advent of Code Python Solutions, Explained (michaelfogleman.com) |
| 134 points by fogleman on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 17 comments [ext] |
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| 24. | | The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention (fs.blog) |
| 136 points by yarapavan on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 34 comments [ext] |
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Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com) |
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327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
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| 25. | | Bastard Tetris (fph.altervista.org) |
| 146 points by geocar on Dec 17, 2018 [ext] | 35 comments [ext] |
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| 26. | | A Dictionary of Gestures (spectator.us) |
| 63 points by secondary on Dec 17, 2018 [ext] | 4 comments [ext] |
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| 27. | | On Ghost Users and Messaging Backdoors (cryptographyengineering.com) |
| 97 points by kandarpck on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 55 comments [ext] |
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From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com) |
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110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
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| 28. | | Firing Frankness (mondaynote.com) |
| 183 points by shawndumas on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 168 comments [ext] |
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| 29. | | Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time (businessinsider.com) |
| 192 points by pseudolus on Dec 18, 2018 [ext] | 327 comments [ext] |
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| 30. | | On Having No Head: Cognition Throughout Biological Systems (2016) (nih.gov) |
| 98 points by DimiD on Dec 17, 2018 [ext] | 10 comments [ext] |
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Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com) |
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