The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2018

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Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres theguardian.com · philliphaydon · 19 Dec 2018

1.6k pts 417 comments

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Please do not attempt to simplify this code github.com · whalesalad · 27 Dec 2018

1.6k pts 627 comments

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Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL sandspiel.club · 15DCFA8F · 17 Dec 2018

1.3k pts 185 comments

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Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations? simonswords82 · 3 Dec 2018

1.3k pts 366 comments

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Quora User Data Compromised blog.quora.com · joebeetee · 4 Dec 2018

1.3k pts 505 comments

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Goodbye, EdgeHTML blog.mozilla.org · __michaelg · 6 Dec 2018

1.2k pts 657 comments

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Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States e-pluribusunum.org · danso · 23 Dec 2018

1.1k pts 154 comments

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Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver theglobeandmail.com · ericzawo · 5 Dec 2018

1.1k pts 586 comments

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Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo namepros.com · rahiel · 12 Dec 2018

1.1k pts 410 comments

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Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10 windowscentral.com · rattt · 4 Dec 2018

1.1k pts 733 comments

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JIRA is an antipattern techcrunch.com · panarky · 9 Dec 2018

1k pts 367 comments

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The Yoda of Silicon Valley nytimes.com · sohkamyung · 17 Dec 2018

976 pts 331 comments

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Robinhood launches 3% checking account techcrunch.com · ccwilson10 · 13 Dec 2018

972 pts 661 comments

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Firefox 64 Released hacks.mozilla.org · feross · 11 Dec 2018

954 pts 513 comments

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Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves bbc.com · tartoran · 18 Dec 2018

952 pts 886 comments

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Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares vmls-book.stanford.edu · yarapavan · 14 Dec 2018

938 pts 123 comments

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A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics jeremykun.com · chocolateboy · 1 Dec 2018

937 pts 214 comments

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Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada twitter.com · jwildeboer · 20 Dec 2018

902 pts 608 comments

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Facial recognition: It’s time for action blogs.microsoft.com · benryon · 7 Dec 2018

877 pts 270 comments

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Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI blogs.windows.com · TiredOfLife · 4 Dec 2018

874 pts 375 comments

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Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018? jestinjoy1 · 23 Dec 2018

842 pts 332 comments

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CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to richsnapp.com · snapwich · 14 Dec 2018

830 pts 283 comments

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Firefox desktop market share now below 9% netmarketshare.com · ngokevin · 4 Dec 2018

824 pts 740 comments

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For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain smithsonianmag.com · ingve · 19 Dec 2018

814 pts 264 comments

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An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth twitter.com · waffle_ss · 12 Dec 2018

790 pts 337 comments

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Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says electrek.co · touristtam · 6 Dec 2018

781 pts 323 comments

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DigitalOcean launches its container service techcrunch.com · neom · 11 Dec 2018

765 pts 251 comments

28

Things I Don’t Know as of 2018 overreacted.io · nhebb · 28 Dec 2018

753 pts 211 comments

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A well-known URL for changing passwords github.com · fanf2 · 6 Dec 2018

749 pts 172 comments

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Facebook's seized files published by MPs bbc.co.uk · AndrewDucker · 5 Dec 2018

738 pts 477 comments

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MailChimp deleted my account with no warning blog.rongarret.info · lisper · 19 Dec 2018

715 pts 253 comments

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Ask HN: Best talks of 2018? avrmav · 22 Dec 2018

710 pts 194 comments

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Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) robert.ocallahan.org · jakub_g · 7 Dec 2018

698 pts 329 comments

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Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much? motherjones.com · curtis · 5 Dec 2018

689 pts 509 comments

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Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit? throwaway8m · 4 Dec 2018

687 pts 508 comments

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DOOMBA richwhitehouse.com · abbeyj · 25 Dec 2018

687 pts 36 comments

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Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams? lichtenberger · 30 Dec 2018

681 pts 212 comments

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How Facebook tracks you on Android [video] media.ccc.de · gala8y · 30 Dec 2018

673 pts 203 comments

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Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode” diyphotography.net · minikites · 4 Dec 2018

669 pts 267 comments

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Guide to scaling engineering organizations stripe.com · joeyespo · 5 Dec 2018

664 pts 139 comments

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Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces rsms.me · dsego · 29 Dec 2018

664 pts 92 comments

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Larry Roberts has died nytimes.com · jbegley · 30 Dec 2018

654 pts 93 comments

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Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool remove.bg · groe · 17 Dec 2018

640 pts 108 comments

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How DOOM fire was done fabiensanglard.net · ingve · 29 Dec 2018

637 pts 115 comments

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Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? vchernobyl · 23 Dec 2018

629 pts 601 comments

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Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards reuters.com · teddyfrozevelt · 11 Dec 2018

629 pts 336 comments

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UCLA asked faculty to consider declining to review for Elsevier journals chronicle.com · faitswulff · 14 Dec 2018

619 pts 128 comments

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We should replace Facebook with personal websites motherboard.vice.com · jbegley · 20 Dec 2018

614 pts 307 comments

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Windows Sandbox techcommunity.microsoft.com · prostoalex · 19 Dec 2018

597 pts 319 comments

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Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue techcrunch.com · pseudolus · 31 Dec 2018

594 pts 383 comments

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Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. ajc.com · SQL2219 · 27 Dec 2018

592 pts 375 comments

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Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation theintercept.com · uptown · 17 Dec 2018

592 pts 356 comments

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Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space bbc.com · adzicg · 13 Dec 2018

592 pts 215 comments

54

Fridge 0.2 joeyh.name · Breadmaker · 27 Dec 2018

584 pts 144 comments

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Ask HN: Books you read in 2018? rwieruch · 12 Dec 2018

578 pts 347 comments

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I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier cnbc.com · lxm · 2 Dec 2018

574 pts 312 comments

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SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation wsj.com · dcgudeman · 18 Dec 2018

565 pts 338 comments

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Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world visalist.io · 1hakr · 9 Dec 2018

565 pts 252 comments

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Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead arstechnica.com · coatta · 12 Dec 2018

561 pts 249 comments

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How the Valley treats experienced people rachelbythebay.com · zdw · 30 Dec 2018

554 pts 493 comments