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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”

    1840 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  2. Google Memory Loss

    1355 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  3. Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

    1344 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  4. Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

    1221 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  5. Ursula Le Guin has died

    1124 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  6. Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company

    1059 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  7. Aaron, 5 years later

    1000 points • comment • jan 13, 2018

  8. Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

    982 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  9. The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018

    961 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  10. Ending Bitcoin Support

    958 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  11. Start Your Own ISP

    926 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  12. Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler

    909 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  13. JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

    902 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  14. NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive

    817 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  15. Facebook open-sources Detectron

    797 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  16. LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

    793 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  17. Intel Has a Big Problem

    775 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  18. Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

    752 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  19. Waze Carpool

    747 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  20. DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing

    723 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  21. Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]

    723 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  22. Wine 3.0 Released

    716 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  23. Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

    705 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  24. LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware

    687 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  25. Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

    683 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  26. Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases

    681 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  27. Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000

    678 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  28. Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive

    660 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  29. The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday

    640 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  30. Show HN: Observable Notebooks

    629 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  31. Show HN: Self-generated custom art for your home or Airbnb

    629 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  32. My new favorite book of all time

    624 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  33. How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)

    619 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  34. Content-aware image resize library

    599 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  35. “Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York

    596 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  36. Is it time for open processors?

    590 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  37. Learn FFmpeg the hard way

    574 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  38. Hetzner Cloud

    547 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  39. Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning

    546 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  40. Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies

    536 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  41. A summary of what quantitative trading firms do

    535 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  42. Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017)

    526 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  43. Laws of UX

    525 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  44. Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS

    520 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  45. System Bus Radio: Transmits AM radio on computers without transmitting hardware

    513 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  46. People leave managers, not companies

    507 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  47. Regexper – Regular expressions visualizer

    506 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  48. Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine

    505 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  49. ActivityPub: decentralized social networking protocol

    498 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  50. UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful

    494 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  51. Extensions in Firefox 59

    490 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  52. U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether

    490 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  53. With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit

    486 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  54. AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018

    486 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  55. Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffice work well everywhere

    483 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  56. CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work

    483 points • comment • jan 14, 2018

  57. The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it

    474 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  58. Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator

    463 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  59. Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal

    463 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  60. Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase customer support. Advice?

    460 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  61. Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone

    457 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  62. EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border

    456 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  63. Branchless Doom

    450 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  64. Programming Notes for Professionals books

    447 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  65. Who the Hell Uses Onion Juice?

    446 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  66. How to solve most NLP problems: a step-by-step guide

    446 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  67. Using a Yubikey for GPG and SSH

    440 points • comment • jan 14, 2018

  68. Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100

    438 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  69. Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers

    435 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  70. Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch

    431 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  71. NSA Deletes “Honesty” and “Openness” from Core Values

    427 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  72. The Follower Factory

    425 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  73. Mary Lee Berners-Lee has died

    424 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  74. The new microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features

    418 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  75. How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”

    415 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  76. Moving efficiently in the CLI

    410 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  77. Brushing up on operating systems and C programming

    410 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  78. How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (2009)

    407 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  79. List of oldest companies: Before 1300

    404 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  80. Luna 1.0 Beta is out

    404 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  81. Microsoft MakeCode

    400 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  82. Fed Up with Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own

    400 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  83. 3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online

    396 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  84. Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda

    395 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  85. Building an AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras

    395 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  86. Why Create a New Unix Shell?

    394 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  87. Jitsi: Open-Source Video Conferencing

    388 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  88. BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales

    386 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  89. Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors

    386 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  90. How to Work Out What to Charge Clients

    382 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  91. Software Complexity Is Killing Us

    381 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  92. Pick strong consistency whenever possible

    376 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  93. Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominant market position

    375 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  94. Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt to Japan

    371 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  95. Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog

    371 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  96. Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes

    367 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  97. Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?

    365 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  98. Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018

    361 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  99. Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK

    360 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  100. George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society

    360 points • comment • jan 26, 2018