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1. Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States (e-pluribusunum.org)
1130 points by danso on Dec 23, 2018 | 154 comments
2. Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
629 points by vchernobyl on Dec 23, 2018 | 601 comments
3. Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?
842 points by jestinjoy1 on Dec 23, 2018 | 332 comments
4. How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002) [pdf] (ic.ac.uk)
254 points by mtmail on Dec 22, 2018 | 55 comments
5. Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler (github.com/swc-project)
382 points by kn8 on Dec 23, 2018 | 125 comments
6. Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was destroyed by players (gametyrant.com)
249 points by foggyToads on Dec 23, 2018 | 189 comments
7. Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (2008) (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
199 points by jacquesm on Dec 23, 2018 | 51 comments
8. Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers as executable binaries (github.com/genuinetools)
294 points by GordonS on Dec 23, 2018 | 112 comments
9. The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm Explained (robertheaton.com)
304 points by janvdberg on Dec 23, 2018 | 44 comments
10. The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race (sloanreview.mit.edu)
208 points by lxm on Dec 22, 2018 | 78 comments
11. A $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech (technologyreview.com)
232 points by jonbaer on Dec 23, 2018 | 83 comments
12. The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong small town (spectator.us)
222 points by jackfoxy on Dec 22, 2018 | 147 comments
13. Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course (scrimba.com)
329 points by mrborgen on Dec 23, 2018 | 69 comments
14. Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies (bloomca.me)
192 points by bloomca on Dec 23, 2018 | 41 comments
15. Can We Really Inherit Trauma? (nytimes.com)
72 points by DoreenMichele on Dec 23, 2018 | 36 comments
16. Why American cities are weirdly shaped (economist.com)
159 points by pseudolus on Dec 23, 2018 | 162 comments
17. Adapton: Programming Language Abstractions for Incremental Computation (adapton.org)
106 points by jxub on Dec 23, 2018 | 11 comments
18. Orange Livebox ADSL modems are leaking their WiFi credentials (badpackets.net)
148 points by wolvtech on Dec 23, 2018 | 61 comments
19. Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content (artstation.com)
291 points by apersona on Dec 23, 2018 | 204 comments
20. Portal: Personal Onion Router to Assure Liberty (github.com/grugq)
61 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 23, 2018 | 23 comments
21. Chip Industry's Fundamental Shifts in 2018 (semiengineering.com)
69 points by Lind5 on Dec 22, 2018 | 10 comments
22. Foundations for Efficient and Expressive Differentiable Programming [pdf] (nips.cc)
80 points by espeed on Dec 23, 2018 | 14 comments
23. Schedule – 35th Chaos Communication Congress (ccc.de)
170 points by rurban on Dec 23, 2018 | 48 comments
24. Turning GraphQL diagrams to mock back end (graphqleditor.com)
60 points by aexol on Dec 22, 2018 | 11 comments
25. Let’s Try t-SNE (observablehq.com)
77 points by mbostock on Dec 21, 2018 | 13 comments
26. Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify? (citylab.com)
77 points by laurex on Dec 20, 2018 | 34 comments
27. Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction (2013) (patrickmccray.com)
74 points by benbreen on Dec 23, 2018 | 84 comments
28. Depression, Self-Identity and Reality: Living in a Story Created by Facebook (medium.com/privateid-blog)
106 points by borjamoya on Dec 22, 2018 | 44 comments
29. TensorFlow Lite is for mobile and embedded devices (tensorflow.org)
101 points by tosh on Dec 22, 2018 | 22 comments
30. Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
238 points by digianarchist on Dec 23, 2018 | 397 comments

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