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Top of Month - Dec 2018

1. Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
   (19 Dec 2018 | 1562 points | Comments)

2. Please do not attempt to simplify this code
   (27 Dec 2018 | 1552 points | Comments)

3. Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL
   (17 Dec 2018 | 1323 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
   (3 Dec 2018 | 1322 points | Comments)

5. Quora User Data Compromised
   (4 Dec 2018 | 1254 points | Comments)

6. Goodbye, EdgeHTML
   (6 Dec 2018 | 1178 points | Comments)

7. Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States
   (23 Dec 2018 | 1130 points | Comments)

8. Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver
   (5 Dec 2018 | 1081 points | Comments)

9. Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
   (12 Dec 2018 | 1065 points | Comments)

10. Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
    (4 Dec 2018 | 1061 points | Comments)

11. JIRA is an antipattern
    (9 Dec 2018 | 1012 points | Comments)

12. The Yoda of Silicon Valley
    (17 Dec 2018 | 976 points | Comments)

13. Robinhood launches 3% checking account
    (13 Dec 2018 | 972 points | Comments)

14. Firefox 64 Released
    (11 Dec 2018 | 954 points | Comments)

15. Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves
    (18 Dec 2018 | 952 points | Comments)

16. Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares
    (14 Dec 2018 | 938 points | Comments)

17. A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics
    (1 Dec 2018 | 937 points | Comments)

18. Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
    (20 Dec 2018 | 902 points | Comments)

19. Facial recognition: It’s time for action
    (7 Dec 2018 | 877 points | Comments)

20. Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI
    (4 Dec 2018 | 874 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?
    (23 Dec 2018 | 842 points | Comments)

22. CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to
    (14 Dec 2018 | 830 points | Comments)

23. Firefox desktop market share now below 9%
    (4 Dec 2018 | 824 points | Comments)

24. For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain
    (19 Dec 2018 | 814 points | Comments)

25. An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth
    (12 Dec 2018 | 790 points | Comments)

26. Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says
    (6 Dec 2018 | 781 points | Comments)

27. DigitalOcean launches its container service
    (11 Dec 2018 | 765 points | Comments)

28. Things I Don’t Know as of 2018
    (28 Dec 2018 | 753 points | Comments)

29. A well-known URL for changing passwords
    (6 Dec 2018 | 749 points | Comments)

30. Facebook's seized files published by MPs
    (5 Dec 2018 | 738 points | Comments)

31. MailChimp deleted my account with no warning
    (19 Dec 2018 | 715 points | Comments)

32. Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?
    (22 Dec 2018 | 710 points | Comments)

33. Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)
    (7 Dec 2018 | 698 points | Comments)

34. Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much?
    (5 Dec 2018 | 689 points | Comments)

35. Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?
    (4 Dec 2018 | 687 points | Comments)

36. DOOMBA
    (25 Dec 2018 | 687 points | Comments)

37. Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?
    (30 Dec 2018 | 681 points | Comments)

38. How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]
    (30 Dec 2018 | 673 points | Comments)

39. Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
    (4 Dec 2018 | 669 points | Comments)

40. Guide to scaling engineering organizations
    (5 Dec 2018 | 664 points | Comments)

41. Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces
    (29 Dec 2018 | 664 points | Comments)

42. Larry Roberts has died
    (30 Dec 2018 | 654 points | Comments)

43. Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool
    (17 Dec 2018 | 640 points | Comments)

44. How DOOM fire was done
    (29 Dec 2018 | 637 points | Comments)

45. Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards
    (11 Dec 2018 | 629 points | Comments)

46. Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
    (23 Dec 2018 | 629 points | Comments)

47. UCLA asked faculty to consider declining to review for Elsevier journals
    (14 Dec 2018 | 619 points | Comments)

48. We should replace Facebook with personal websites
    (20 Dec 2018 | 614 points | Comments)

49. Windows Sandbox
    (19 Dec 2018 | 597 points | Comments)

50. Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
    (31 Dec 2018 | 594 points | Comments)

51. Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space
    (13 Dec 2018 | 592 points | Comments)

52. Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation
    (17 Dec 2018 | 592 points | Comments)

53. Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.
    (27 Dec 2018 | 592 points | Comments)

54. Fridge 0.2
    (27 Dec 2018 | 584 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
    (12 Dec 2018 | 578 points | Comments)

56. I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier
    (2 Dec 2018 | 574 points | Comments)

57. Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world
    (9 Dec 2018 | 565 points | Comments)

58. SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation
    (18 Dec 2018 | 565 points | Comments)

59. Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead
    (12 Dec 2018 | 561 points | Comments)

60. How the Valley treats experienced people
    (30 Dec 2018 | 554 points | Comments)

61. Lyft Files for IPO
    (6 Dec 2018 | 546 points | Comments)

62. Write Your Own Virtual Machine
    (14 Dec 2018 | 546 points | Comments)

63. Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0
    (4 Dec 2018 | 545 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
    (12 Dec 2018 | 542 points | Comments)

65. Rust 2018 is here, but what is it?
    (6 Dec 2018 | 537 points | Comments)

66. Changes to U.S. federal authorities relating to production and marketing of hemp
    (21 Dec 2018 | 536 points | Comments)

67. The Friendship That Made Google Huge
    (3 Dec 2018 | 532 points | Comments)

68. Guesstimate – A Spreadsheet for things that aren't certain
    (29 Dec 2018 | 529 points | Comments)

69. Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics (2017)
    (27 Dec 2018 | 526 points | Comments)

70. ATDT relief
    (12 Dec 2018 | 524 points | Comments)

71. They Rejected Us
    (7 Dec 2018 | 522 points | Comments)

72. AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones
    (21 Dec 2018 | 521 points | Comments)

73. Windows file access performance compared to Linux
    (29 Dec 2018 | 518 points | Comments)

74. Stop Learning Frameworks
    (18 Dec 2018 | 515 points | Comments)

75. Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
    (28 Dec 2018 | 514 points | Comments)

76. Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users
    (14 Dec 2018 | 512 points | Comments)

77. My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
    (24 Dec 2018 | 510 points | Comments)

78. MIPS Goes Open Source
    (17 Dec 2018 | 508 points | Comments)

79. Fish shell 3.0
    (28 Dec 2018 | 506 points | Comments)

80. Why Not to Use Quora
    (10 Dec 2018 | 500 points | Comments)

81. As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
    (19 Dec 2018 | 499 points | Comments)

82. Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
    (20 Dec 2018 | 498 points | Comments)

83. Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library
    (21 Dec 2018 | 498 points | Comments)

84. A blogging style guide
    (7 Dec 2018 | 495 points | Comments)

85. Archive.org donations are currently matched by a generous supporter 2-to-1
    (12 Dec 2018 | 494 points | Comments)

86. Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Real
    (1 Dec 2018 | 490 points | Comments)

87. Blender 2.8
    (24 Dec 2018 | 481 points | Comments)

88. SIPC Says It Has Serious Concerns About Robinhood's New Product
    (14 Dec 2018 | 480 points | Comments)

89. The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
    (6 Dec 2018 | 479 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
    (8 Dec 2018 | 478 points | Comments)

91. New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers
    (26 Dec 2018 | 478 points | Comments)

92. How to Grow Old (1951)
    (14 Dec 2018 | 476 points | Comments)

93. Neural Networks as Ordinary Differential Equations
    (17 Dec 2018 | 474 points | Comments)

94. Repl.it Multiplayer
    (6 Dec 2018 | 473 points | Comments)

95. Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
    (3 Dec 2018 | 472 points | Comments)

96. PyTorch 1.0 is out
    (7 Dec 2018 | 470 points | Comments)

97. An Apology and an Update
    (22 Dec 2018 | 468 points | Comments)

98. The Elements of UI Engineering
    (31 Dec 2018 | 468 points | Comments)

99. Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent
    (8 Dec 2018 | 467 points | Comments)

100. My Dad's Friendship with Charles Barkley
     (16 Dec 2018 | 467 points | Comments)