For the best experience on desktop, install the Chrome extension to track your reading on news.ycombinator.com
Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | history | 2018-12-09register
Stories from December 9, 2018
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
31.
Why is nuclear fusion so hard? (sigfpe.com)
148 points by panic on Dec 8, 2018 | 170 comments
32.
Infinitesimal machinery (1993) [pdf] (eecs.berkeley.edu)
35 points by abecedarius on Dec 8, 2018 | 2 comments
33.
The Why of Y (2001) [pdf] (dreamsongs.com)
29 points by pmoriarty on Dec 8, 2018 | 6 comments
34.
Denis Johnson's God (lithub.com)
26 points by flannery on Dec 8, 2018 | 1 comment
35.
Yangtze River Port and Logistics: On-The-Ground Research Shows Assets Fabricated (hindenburgresearch.com)
111 points by ilamont on Dec 9, 2018 | 40 comments
36.
An Epidemic of Loneliness in America? (nytimes.com)
109 points by laurex on Dec 9, 2018 | 117 comments
37.
NLP-progress: Tracking Progress in Natural Language Processing (nlpprogress.com)
75 points by sndean on Dec 9, 2018 | 3 comments
38.
Technology That Changed Air Travel (tryretool.com)
67 points by refrigerator on Dec 9, 2018 | 20 comments
39.
Story of XL1 (2003) (headen.com)
16 points by okfine on Dec 9, 2018 | 1 comment
40.
After 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using Waymo's service (arstechnica.com)
165 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Dec 8, 2018 | 200 comments
41.
The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang reviewed (spectator.us)
37 points by whocansay on Dec 8, 2018 | 30 comments
42.
Git v2.20.0 (iu.edu)
93 points by jjuhl on Dec 9, 2018 | 16 comments
43.
How Premium Mediocre Conquered Fashion (businessoffashion.com)
88 points by technobabble on Dec 9, 2018 | 101 comments
44.
Group led by Thomas Piketty presents plan for ‘a fairer Europe’ (theguardian.com)
96 points by rapnie on Dec 9, 2018 | 124 comments
45.
How the Ancients can help the Moderns (standpointmag.co.uk)
21 points by wellokthen on Dec 8, 2018 | 6 comments
46.
What's behind Mediterranean diet and lower cardiovascular risk (medicalxpress.com)
44 points by dnetesn on Dec 8, 2018 | 42 comments
47.
The State of Web Browsers – 2019 edition (ferdychristant.com)
51 points by zwliew on Dec 9, 2018 | 45 comments
48.
The Mythical Matched Modules (2009) [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)
18 points by akkartik on Dec 8, 2018 | 1 comment
49.
Kweb: A new approach to building rich webapps, in Kotlin (kweb.io)
88 points by pplonski86 on Dec 9, 2018 | 38 comments
50.
What Straight-A Students Get Wrong (nytimes.com)
55 points by wallflower on Dec 8, 2018 | 69 comments
51.
The Psychopharmacology of Everyday Life (nybooks.com)
17 points by lxm on Dec 5, 2018 | 3 comments
52.
Women were written out of science history – it’s time we put them back in (thenextweb.com)
51 points by ccnafr on Dec 9, 2018 | 6 comments
53.
China Warns Canada of ‘Heavy Price’ Over Huawei Arrest (nytimes.com)
68 points by vaultcool on Dec 9, 2018 | 64 comments
54.
Dear iPhone–It Was Just Physical, and Now It’s Over (nautil.us)
38 points by dnetesn on Dec 8, 2018 | 17 comments
55.
Minneapolis Confronts Its History of Housing Segregation (slate.com)
35 points by jseliger on Dec 9, 2018 | 17 comments
56.
Is the Internet to Blame for the Rise of Authoritarianism? (nakedcapitalism.com)
55 points by howard941 on Dec 9, 2018 | 20 comments
57.
 [flagged] Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Is a Winning Climate Strategy (theatlantic.com)
77 points by indigodaddy on Dec 9, 2018 | 70 comments
58.
APL is more French than English (1978) (jsoftware.com)
35 points by tosh on Dec 9, 2018 | 4 comments
59.
 [dupe] Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline (nymag.com)
22 points by MagicPropmaker on Dec 9, 2018 | 4 comments
60.
Hate Amazon? Try Living Without It (nytimes.com)
28 points by MagicPropmaker on Dec 9, 2018 | 53 comments

Consider applying for YC's Fall 2026 batch! Applications are open till July 27.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search:

HN For You