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1. Quora User Data Compromised (quora.com)
1254 points by joebeetee on Dec 4, 2018 | 505 comments
2. Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI (windows.com)
874 points by TiredOfLife on Dec 4, 2018 | 375 comments
3. Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10 (windowscentral.com)
1061 points by rattt on Dec 4, 2018 | 733 comments
4. Firefox desktop market share now below 9% (netmarketshare.com)
824 points by ngokevin on Dec 4, 2018 | 740 comments
5. Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 (techcrunch.com)
545 points by mikece on Dec 4, 2018 | 327 comments
6. Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode” (diyphotography.net)
669 points by minikites on Dec 4, 2018 | 267 comments
7. Hashicorp Vault v1.0 (hashicorp.com)
409 points by blopeur on Dec 4, 2018 | 92 comments
8. Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018 (blog.ycombinator.com)
413 points by craigcannon on Dec 4, 2018 | 53 comments
9. China Announces Punishments for Intellectual-Property Theft (bloomberg.com)
337 points by kjhughes on Dec 4, 2018 | 199 comments
10. Microsoft and Docker team up to make packaging cloud-native applications easier (techcrunch.com)
276 points by kaboro on Dec 4, 2018 | 77 comments
11. What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next (bratheory.com)
409 points by hazelynut on Dec 4, 2018 | 225 comments
12. Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012) (jesshamrick.com)
423 points by sytelus on Dec 4, 2018 | 257 comments
13. Google personalizes search results even when you’re logged out, new study finds (theverge.com)
350 points by dcu on Dec 4, 2018 | 165 comments
14. Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website (darkreader.org)
369 points by alexanderby on Dec 4, 2018 | 175 comments
15. Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning (julialang.org)
161 points by one-more-minute on Dec 3, 2018 | 24 comments
16. A Not-Called Function Can Cause a 5X Slowdown (randomascii.wordpress.com)
309 points by deafcalculus on Dec 4, 2018 | 125 comments
17. Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features (techcrunch.com)
161 points by brandnewlow on Dec 4, 2018 | 106 comments
18. A history of the distributed transactional database (infoq.com)
105 points by evanweaver on Dec 4, 2018 | 25 comments
19. Using Zig to Provide Stack Traces on Kernel Panic for a Bare Bones OS (andrewkelley.me)
136 points by andxor on Dec 4, 2018 | 42 comments
20. Jupyter Notebook Tutorial – Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning in PyTorch (github.com/openmined)
218 points by williamtrask on Dec 4, 2018 | 5 comments
21. Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane (upbound.io)
185 points by sytse on Dec 4, 2018 | 36 comments
22. Movim – Federated, open-source alternative to Tumblr (movim.eu)
182 points by edhelas on Dec 4, 2018 | 137 comments
23. Teensy 3.1 bare metal: Writing a USB driver (2014) (kevincuzner.com)
106 points by kersny on Dec 3, 2018 | 15 comments
24. Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Advance the Use of Alternative Data (nasdaq.com)
118 points by rainboiboi on Dec 4, 2018 | 82 comments
25. String Matching Based on Compile Time Perfect Hashing in Zig (andrewkelley.me)
84 points by luu on Dec 4, 2018 | 4 comments
26. NULL: The worst mistake of computer science? (2015) (lucidchart.com)
209 points by BerislavLopac on Dec 3, 2018 | 368 comments
27. Fortnite dev launches Epic Games Store that takes 12% of revenue (venturebeat.com)
274 points by richardboegli on Dec 4, 2018 | 229 comments
28. YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M (bbc.com)
278 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 4, 2018 | 310 comments
29. Yale scientists make a borophene breakthrough (yale.edu)
111 points by mangoleaf on Dec 4, 2018 | 8 comments
30. PC/GEOS (github.com/bluewaysw)
115 points by beefhash on Dec 4, 2018 | 76 comments

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