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New best story on Hacker News: Blender 2.8

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New best story on Hacker News: Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs

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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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DragonFly 5.4.1 released

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Are Your Frequent-Flier Miles About to Lose Value?

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China drafts law protecting foreign IP and prohibiting forced tech transfer

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China drafts law protecting foreign IP and prohibiting forced tech transfer

Article URL: https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2179368/china-drafts-law-protecting-foreign-intellectual-property-and Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18752365 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2BzpNrE via

Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism

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Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/24/facebook-government-silence-dissent-authoritarianism/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18752347 Points: 9 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2QL2upf via

Ask HN: PhD in the UK or US?

Hey HN, I'm a 2nd year MS student and I'm looking into applying for PhD programs. I've gotten my dual Master's in CS and Biology, and I'm looking into doing a PhD. I have a very specific idea of what I want to do, focusing on Neuroscience inspired ML architectures, and I've found potential advisors at Oxford and a few US universities. What do you think are the advantages of doing a degree at one or the other? Also, I'm a US citizen! Went to undergrad in the US and am currently attending a US university for my masters Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18750865 Points: 19 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QQgDBC via

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

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

Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/domain-registrar-can-be-held-liable-for-pirate-site-court-rules-181224/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18752469 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EP3RwX via

The Lazy Susan Is Neither Classic nor Chinese (2014)

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The Lazy Susan Is Neither Classic nor Chinese (2014)

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/lazy-susan-classic-centerpiece-chinese-restaurants-neither-classic-nor-chinese-180949844/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18750581 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RgkPdb via

The year social networks were no longer social

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

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Ruby 2.6

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A Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times (2014)

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Show HN: A particle animation christmas greeting card

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The Illustrated BERT (How NLP Cracked Transfer Learning)

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Show HN: A particle animation christmas greeting card

Article URL: https://2018.9elements.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751608 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EPc4AU via

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

Article URL: https://gcompris.net/index-en.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751739 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2evM513 via

The Illustrated BERT (How NLP Cracked Transfer Learning)

Article URL: https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-bert/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751469 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PYMBpZ via

The year social networks were no longer social

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/23/the-year-social-networks-were-no-longer-social/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751859 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2BDAiu8 via

Ruby 2.6

Article URL: https://anamaria.martinezgomez.name/2018/12/21/ruby2_6.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751823 Points: 30 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GDEJuu via

UK police release airport drone suspects, admit there may not have been drones

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UK police release airport drone suspects, admit there may not have been drones

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/24/uk-police-release-airport-drone-suspects/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751759 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2AcZbgq via

Show HN: Build your own bare-metal ARM cluster

Article URL: https://blog.alexellis.io/build-your-own-bare-metal-arm-cluster/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751260 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Sj5k1A via

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

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Build the Linux Kernel and Busybox for ARM and Run Them on QEMU

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Show HN: Build your own bare-metal ARM cluster

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

Article URL: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/22/221 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751512 Points: 7 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PZFBcv via

Build the Linux Kernel and Busybox for ARM and Run Them on QEMU

Article URL: https://www.centennialsoftwaresolutions.com/blog/build-the-linux-kernel-and-busybox-for-arm-and-run-them-on-qemu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751369 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CvfMxd via

Canada Battery Maker Says Flow Storage Costs to Tumble by Half

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-24/canada-battery-maker-says-flow-storage-costs-to-tumble-by-half Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751639 Points: 9 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2EJ81FA via

John D Cook: I disagree with Linus Torvalds about C++ (2009)

Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/09/15/linus-torvalds-cpp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751508 Points: 11 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2rQBBBl via

Canada Battery Maker Says Flow Storage Costs to Tumble by Half

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John D Cook: I disagree with Linus Torvalds about C++ (2009)

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The Annoying Site: Source

Article URL: https://theannoyingsite.com/index.js Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746923 Points: 65 # Comments: 34 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SnpCHj via

A Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun

Article URL: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/12/closest-grocery-store-to-me-dollar-store-food-desert-bargain/577777/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746790 Points: 80 # Comments: 128 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2rNmlVJ via

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

Article URL: https://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2017/05/planning-core-reason-why-gameplay-feels.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18745449 Points: 109 # Comments: 27 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2qwpco1 via

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

Article URL: https://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/wakeup/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18745324 Points: 215 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2T6RBL0 via

The Cradle of Open Access: Rising Star digs for more than fossils with its work

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/the-cradle-of-open-access-rising-star-digs-for-more-than-fossils-with-its-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18726963 Points: 14 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2BAGrXY via

Open source software in quantum computing

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The Annoying Site: Source

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Linux 4.20

Article URL: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/23/187 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18750836 Points: 18 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Vanqon via

Open source software in quantum computing

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0208561 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18750795 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EM0JBF via

Linux 4.20

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

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/23/if-solar-panels-are-so-clean-why-do-they-produce-so-much-toxic-waste/#2a1c244a121c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751049 Points: 16 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2LzLWul via

Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices

Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/canada-prohibits-piracy-settlement-demands-in-isp-copyright-notices-181218/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746980 Points: 247 # Comments: 52 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2T5MmLz via

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

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The known unknowns of plastic pollution

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The known unknowns of plastic pollution

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/international/2018/03/03/the-known-unknowns-of-plastic-pollution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18750947 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://econ.st/2Sjb1we via

Ask HN: PhD in the UK or US?

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New best story on Hacker News: Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States

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Dcentralized url shortening service base on IPFS

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

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

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Why do some Hong Kong companies change their name every couple of months?

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Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices

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Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (2008)

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

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Froid: Optimization of Imperative Programs in a Relational Database [pdf]

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A Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun

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The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race

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Apollo 8’s Earthrise: The Shot Seen Round the World

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

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Show HN: AutoComplete.js v2.0

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Adapton: Programming Language Abstractions for Incremental Computation

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

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Intuition is wrong, unless these conditions are met

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Lenses: Composable Getters and Setters for Functional Programming

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

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Compiler Fuzzing Through Deep Learning [pdf]

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Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was destroyed by players

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Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies

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Evan Spiegel’s Imperious Style Made Snapchat a Success Until Users Fled

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Blazor Toast Notifications Using Only C#, HTML and CSS

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Portal: Personal Onion Router to Assure Liberty

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Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction (2013)

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Can We Really Inherit Trauma?

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The Cradle of Open Access: Rising Star digs for more than fossils with its work

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Foundations for Efficient and Expressive Differentiable Programming [pdf]

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Dcentralized url shortening service base on IPFS

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Why do some Hong Kong companies change their name every couple of months?

Article URL: https://blog.dataguru.hk/2018/12/24/some-hong-kong-companies-change-their-name-every-couple-of-months-why/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18750576 Points: 19 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GAEK2A via

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

Article URL: https://github.com/e-oj/Magic-Grid Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18750561 Points: 40 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GCPGwD via

Evan Spiegel’s Imperious Style Made Snapchat a Success Until Users Fled

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/evan-spiegels-imperious-style-made-snapchat-a-successuntil-users-fled-11545588892 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18749884 Points: 43 # Comments: 30 from Hacker News: Front Page https://on.wsj.com/2EFXM4N via

Intuition is wrong, unless these conditions are met

Article URL: https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2018/11/16/daniel-kahneman-do-not-trust-your-intuition-even-f/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18749753 Points: 28 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2LzF1Bx via

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

Article URL: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/12652 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18749377 Points: 47 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2LxfdpE via

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

Article URL: https://kubuszok.com/2018/adt-through-the-looking-glass/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18749162 Points: 52 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2rU8Dk9 via

Lenses: Composable Getters and Setters for Functional Programming

Article URL: https://medium.com/javascript-scene/lenses-b85976cb0534 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18749085 Points: 47 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2V4D1pb via

Blazor Toast Notifications Using Only C#, HTML and CSS

Article URL: https://codedaze.io/blazor-toast-notifications-using-only-csharp-html-css/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18748818 Points: 44 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RfuO2p via

Adapton: Programming Language Abstractions for Incremental Computation

Article URL: http://adapton.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18748663 Points: 72 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://adapton.org/ via

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

Article URL: https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18748542 Points: 116 # Comments: 34 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2vdk1Zg via

Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (2008)

Article URL: http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vision/BFS-Auto/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18748501 Points: 144 # Comments: 38 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/T69cgQ via

Compiler Fuzzing Through Deep Learning [pdf]

Article URL: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/hleather/publications/2018_deepfuzzing_issta.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18748193 Points: 11 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RcauPv via

Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies

Article URL: https://blog.bloomca.me/2018/12/22/writing-a-web-server-node.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18748080 Points: 92 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EGZvHi via

Show HN: AutoComplete.js v2.0

Article URL: https://tarekraafat.github.io/autoComplete.js/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18747942 Points: 44 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ENuuSR via

Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was destroyed by players

Article URL: https://gametyrant.com/news/ultima-online-spent-3-years-developing-systems-that-were-destroyed-by-players Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18747898 Points: 203 # Comments: 157 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2lM2OT8 via

Froid: Optimization of Imperative Programs in a Relational Database [pdf]

Article URL: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p432-ramachandra.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18747807 Points: 24 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2FwgoRR via

Foundations for Efficient and Expressive Differentiable Programming [pdf]

Article URL: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/8221-backpropagation-with-callbacks-foundations-for-efficient-and-expressive-differentiable-programming.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18747767 Points: 59 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PYcGFN via

Portal: Personal Onion Router to Assure Liberty

Article URL: https://github.com/grugq/portal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18747654 Points: 51 # Comments: 19 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/XGbUvQ via

Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction (2013)

Article URL: http://www.patrickmccray.com/2013/09/12/robert-heinlein-and-the-harsh-politics-of-science-fiction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18747326 Points: 61 # Comments: 59 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2LwsoqY via