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1021.

Investigating Jeanne Calment’s Longevity Record (leafscience.org)

108 points by nkurz on Dec 17, 2018 | 58 comments

1022.

Unknown Civil War Faces are Being Identified Through Facial Recognition App (thevintagenews.com)

108 points by arto on Dec 3, 2018 | 47 comments

1023.

Show HN: KubeDB – Kubernetes-ready production-grade databases (kubedb.com)

108 points by tamalsaha001 on Dec 17, 2018 | 35 comments

1024.

We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data (extrahop.com)

108 points by cws on Dec 7, 2018 | 32 comments

1025.

How to do with probabilities what people say you can’t (1985) [pdf] (ftp.cs.ucla.edu)

108 points by sytelus on Dec 12, 2018 | 22 comments

1026.

Cerberus – Semantic models for C (cl.cam.ac.uk)

108 points by pplonski86 on Dec 29, 2018 | 8 comments

1027.

A foreigner's guide to WeChat payments in China (blog.lerner.co.il)

107 points by reuven on Dec 31, 2018 | 112 comments

1028.

How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 (vulture.com)

107 points by pcestrada on Dec 1, 2018 | 85 comments

1029.

MX-80 – Ahead of its time: A small, lightweight computer printer (global.epson.com)

107 points by NuSkooler on Dec 9, 2018 | 78 comments

1030.

“Farout”, the Farthest Object Ever Seen in the Solar System (universetoday.com)

107 points by mpweiher on Dec 18, 2018 | 41 comments

1031.

A month of Flutter: a look back (bendyworks.com)

107 points by abraham on Dec 31, 2018 | 35 comments

1032.

Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (2013) [video] (youtube.com)

107 points by tosh on Dec 4, 2018 | 33 comments

1033.

A jackal's nose for the job (rbth.com)

107 points by curtis on Dec 8, 2018 | 13 comments

1034.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2018)

106 points by whoishiring on Dec 3, 2018 | 170 comments

1035.

Ask HN: Did you learn any life changing lessons this year?

106 points by drieddust on Dec 23, 2018 | 97 comments

1036.

Tech Unicorns Are Going Public at Near-Record Pace (wsj.com)

106 points by jcfrei on Dec 19, 2018 | 92 comments

1037.

Response to 'Reasons why Lisp games suffer' (techsnuffle.com)

106 points by etiam on Dec 12, 2018 | 88 comments

1038.

Why Exaggeration Jokes Work (theatlantic.com)

106 points by samclemens on Dec 25, 2018 | 64 comments

1039.

Depression, Self-Identity and Reality: Living in a Story Created by Facebook (medium.com)

106 points by borjamoya on Dec 22, 2018 | 44 comments

1040.

Don't allow popups during page unload (chromestatus.com)

106 points by feross on Dec 22, 2018 | 42 comments

1041.

Marriott’s breach response is so bad, security experts are filling in the gaps (techcrunch.com)

106 points by guiambros on Dec 10, 2018 | 22 comments

1042.

Teensy 3.1 bare metal: Writing a USB driver (2014) (kevincuzner.com)

106 points by kersny on Dec 3, 2018 | 15 comments

1043.

Adapton: Programming Language Abstractions for Incremental Computation (adapton.org)

106 points by jxub on Dec 23, 2018 | 11 comments

1044.

Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping (ai.googleblog.com)

106 points by rbanffy on Dec 11, 2018 | 9 comments

1045.

Awesome Python Applications: 180+ case studies in shipping Python software (github.com)

106 points by mhashemi on Dec 20, 2018 | 5 comments

1046.

How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control (nytimes.com)

105 points by skilled on Dec 26, 2018 | 135 comments

1047.

Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess (nytimes.com)

105 points by ingve on Dec 15, 2018 | 100 comments

1048.

Wireguard VPN: Typical Setup (2017) (ckn.io)

105 points by tosh on Dec 16, 2018 | 50 comments

1049.

Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods (cloud.google.com)

105 points by frankchn on Dec 12, 2018 | 38 comments

1050.

A history of the distributed transactional database (infoq.com)

105 points by evanweaver on Dec 4, 2018 | 25 comments