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841.

Games Console (mitxela.com)

134 points by laurentdc on Dec 26, 2018 | 5 comments

842.

Companies controlled by PE firms use bankruptcy to shed pension obligations (washingtonpost.com)

133 points by kaboro on Dec 31, 2018 | 148 comments

843.

Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

133 points by sunasra on Dec 26, 2018 | 138 comments

844.

Amazon uses dummy parcels to catch thieves (bbc.com)

133 points by adzicg on Dec 13, 2018 | 135 comments

845.

Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Sources Say (bloomberg.com)

133 points by tareqak on Dec 21, 2018 | 124 comments

846.

How Criminals Steal $37B a Year from America’s Elderly (bloomberg.com)

133 points by arbuge on Dec 7, 2018 | 87 comments

847.

British Telecom bars Huawei's 5G kit from core of network (bbc.com)

133 points by zerogvt on Dec 6, 2018 | 73 comments

848.

Ask HN: Best Centralized Backup Solution

133 points by bkgh on Dec 16, 2018 | 67 comments

849.

US Border Officers Don’t Always Delete Collected Traveler Data (engadget.com)

133 points by toufiqbarhamov on Dec 11, 2018 | 40 comments

850.

Giving Mono Souper Powers (mono-project.com)

133 points by MikusR on Dec 7, 2018 | 27 comments

851.

Solving murder with Prolog (xmonader.github.io)

133 points by yarapavan on Dec 24, 2018 | 18 comments

852.

Industry pushes sugary products, while obfuscating the health hazards (ucsf.edu)

132 points by laurex on Dec 26, 2018 | 123 comments

853.

Optimizing Siri on HomePod in Far‑Field Settings (machinelearning.apple.com)

132 points by cift on Dec 3, 2018 | 71 comments

854.

Show HN: Bake – A modular build system and package manager for C/C++ (github.com)

132 points by ajmmertens on Dec 30, 2018 | 70 comments

855.

9cc: A Small C Compiler (github.com)

132 points by matt_d on Dec 14, 2018 | 68 comments

856.

The -a to -z of Command-Line Options (2003) (catb.org)

132 points by polm23 on Dec 10, 2018 | 64 comments

857.

A novel way to stop the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (economist.com)

132 points by known on Dec 3, 2018 | 53 comments

858.

JAX: Numpy with Gradients, GPUs and TPUs (github.com)

132 points by one-more-minute on Dec 8, 2018 | 29 comments

859.

Reverse Engineering Guide for Beginners: Methodology and tools (0x00sec.org)

132 points by febin on Dec 28, 2018 | 21 comments

860.

Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergraduate CS program (2009) (cemerick.com)

131 points by bb88 on Dec 29, 2018 | 136 comments

861.

The new word processor wars: A fresh crop of productivity apps (geekwire.com)

131 points by prostoalex on Dec 4, 2018 | 104 comments

862.

How the CIA Trains Spies to Hide in Plain Sight (wired.com)

131 points by Quanttek on Dec 15, 2018 | 76 comments

863.

What Startups Really Mean by “Why Should We Hire You?” (angel.co)

131 points by joeyespo on Dec 1, 2018 | 73 comments

864.

Fuzzing Like It’s 1989 (blog.trailofbits.com)

131 points by ploggingdev on Dec 31, 2018 | 16 comments

865.

WALL·E – Typeset in the Future (typesetinthefuture.com)

131 points by bangonkeyboard on Dec 5, 2018 | 8 comments

866.

Interactive Jupyter/Python demos of popular machine-learning algorithms (github.com)

131 points by trekhleb on Dec 26, 2018 | 2 comments

867.

Let the Fountain Pens Flow (nytimes.com)

130 points by CaliforniaKarl on Dec 27, 2018 | 114 comments

868.

US Senate Passes Sweeping Criminal Justice Reform Bill (bbc.com)

130 points by beefman on Dec 19, 2018 | 108 comments

869.

Dutch hospitals to drop U.S. body brokers, cite ethical concerns (reuters.com)

130 points by Jerry2 on Dec 9, 2018 | 79 comments

870.

Twitter user hacks 50k printers to tell people to subscribe to PewDiePie (zdnet.com)

130 points by smacktoward on Dec 1, 2018 | 76 comments