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1471.

Ex-Canadian Diplomat Michael Kovrig Detained in China (cbc.ca)

71 points by colinprince on Dec 11, 2018 | 19 comments

1472.

Android Open Source Project Now Includes the Fuchsia SDK and a Fuchsia ‘device’ (9to5google.com)

71 points by MikusR on Dec 12, 2018 | 15 comments

1473.

Abandoned Cities from Around the World (web.archive.org)

71 points by crypto-jeronimo on Dec 15, 2018 | 15 comments

1474.

Simulated Dendrochronology of US Immigration 1790-2016 (web.northeastern.edu)

71 points by adzm on Dec 15, 2018 | 14 comments

1475.

Git v2.20.0 (lkml.org)

71 points by conductor on Dec 10, 2018 | 7 comments

1476.

An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

71 points by sytelus on Dec 28, 2018 | 6 comments

1477.

Hyperloop startup Arrivo is shutting down as workers are laid off (theverge.com)

70 points by prostoalex on Dec 24, 2018 | 94 comments

1478.

Eviation’s Alice is an all-electric, nine-person aircraft (robbreport.com)

70 points by EastLondonCoder on Dec 4, 2018 | 85 comments

1479.

Evan Spiegel’s Imperious Style Made Snapchat a Success Until Users Fled (wsj.com)

70 points by prostoalex on Dec 24, 2018 | 77 comments

1480.

Combining Golang and PHP can solve real-world development challenges (blog.spiralscout.com)

70 points by dhotson on Dec 10, 2018 | 66 comments

1481.

The Squishiest, Sweetest Sleep (nytimes.com)

70 points by kawera on Dec 6, 2018 | 54 comments

1482.

Mozilla is deeply concerned about Microsoft killing EdgeHTML (thenextweb.com)

70 points by _hztt on Dec 7, 2018 | 53 comments

1483.

Did Google Cripple Edge’s YouTube Performance? (medium.com)

70 points by janderit on Dec 19, 2018 | 52 comments

1484.

O2 'to seek millions' in damages over data outage (bbc.co.uk)

70 points by bauc on Dec 9, 2018 | 46 comments

1485.

A Very Sleepy MySQL Attack (blog.cotten.io)

70 points by cottenio on Dec 2, 2018 | 43 comments

1486.

SOUL: A New Efficient, Portable, Low-Latency Audio Programming Language (soul-lang.org)

70 points by ArtWomb on Dec 7, 2018 | 43 comments

1487.

Amazon Promised Drone Delivery in Five Years Five Years Ago (paleofuture.gizmodo.com)

70 points by oldgradstudent on Dec 4, 2018 | 42 comments

1488.

Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: The ‘Little Professors’ (2008) (h2g2.com)

70 points by zeristor on Dec 15, 2018 | 39 comments

1489.

Comma2k19 – A dataset of over 33 hours of commute in California's 280 highway (github.com)

70 points by pd0wm on Dec 20, 2018 | 35 comments

1490.

Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service (cncf.io)

70 points by biggestlou on Dec 19, 2018 | 24 comments

1491.

While we blink, we lose the Web (a rant on WebKit/Blink monoculture) (andregarzia.com)

70 points by soapdog on Dec 4, 2018 | 20 comments

1492.

BleedingBit: The hidden attack surface within BLE chips [pdf] (go.armis.com)

70 points by keyme on Dec 6, 2018 | 14 comments

1493.

The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead's Short-Lived Wall of Sound (motherboard.vice.com)

70 points by braythwayt on Dec 29, 2018 | 13 comments

1494.

Transfer learning in low-data environments with FloydHub, fast.ai, and PyTorch (blog.frame.ai)

70 points by robbiemitchell on Dec 11, 2018 | 11 comments

1495.

Show HN: Stack Decisions – see why tools are being chosen (stackshare.io)

70 points by yonasb on Dec 6, 2018 | 10 comments

1496.

Two Intricate Calligraphy Pages from a 16-Century Manuscript Have Been Decoded (blogs.getty.edu)

70 points by ohjeez on Dec 20, 2018 | 9 comments

1497.

FAIR turns five: What we’ve accomplished and where we’re headed (code.fb.com)