Hacker News on 22 December 2018

• Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?
• An Apology and an Update
• Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since 1900
• Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs
• Show HN: A new spline
• YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess
• How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002) [pdf]
• Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer
• The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong small town
• The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race