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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. Norway as a destination for tech founders

    60 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  2. WebGPU demos

    60 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  3. Tools for Thinking and Tools for Systems

    60 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  4. 2017 Homicide Rates in Latin America and the Carribean

    60 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  5. Slack comes to Linux as a snap

    60 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  6. AI Learning How to Play Pong in RealTime – PyTorch

    60 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  7. Code alignment issues

    60 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  8. Vernacular Economics: How Building Codes and Taxes Shape Regional Architecture

    60 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  9. 6 alternative (and better) uses for blockchain

    60 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  10. Kickass – Asteroid on any web page

    60 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  11. Analysts put GM and Waymo far ahead in driverless car race

    60 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  12. Show HN: Turn a source image into an animated party emoji

    60 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  13. Hyperloop costs and challenges undermine pinned hopes

    59 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  14. HomePod arrives February 9, available to order this Friday

    59 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  15. A Handmade Executable File (2015)

    59 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  16. Urban Housing Solution That Has No Good Name

    59 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  17. Apple Rejects Academic App That Detects Net Neutrality Violations

    59 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  18. Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech-To-Text

    59 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  19. User succumbs to a seizure in virtual reality while other players can only watch

    59 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  20. Cooking the Books: Optimizing Purchase and Use of Ingredients

    59 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  21. For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, Lame

    58 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  22. Identifying a SaaS Market That Machine Learning Can Address

    58 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  23. Keen eye spies bee and spider bedfellows in 'world-first'

    58 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  24. A Life Hearing Voices: How I Manage Auditory Hallucinations

    58 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  25. Lab meat to transform meat industry in 2021

    58 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  26. A Simple Decompiler (1988)

    58 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  27. The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420

    58 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  28. Dutch intelligence agency spied on Russian hacking group

    58 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  29. Snowflake Computing raises $263M for its data warehouse

    58 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  30. AMD Reassembles the Radeon Technologies Group

    57 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  31. Joe Frank, Spinner of Strange Radio Tales, Has Died

    57 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  32. How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to profits

    57 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  33. Why Is Bitcoin Valuable?

    57 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  34. Tech Giants Brace for Europe’s New Data Privacy Rules

    57 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  35. The History of Kaiser Permanente

    57 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  36. The Kessler Syndrome Explained (2014)

    57 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  37. A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)

    57 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  38. Women would lose $4.6B in earned tips if ‘tip stealing’ rule is finalized

    57 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  39. Voice-matching technology was developed by MIT/Lincoln Labs under NSA contract [pdf]

    56 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  40. How a Fine-Dining Empire Made the Southwest Palatable to Outsiders (2016)

    56 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  41. Kernel Feature Selection via Conditional Covariance Minimization

    56 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  42. Tesla soliciting supplier quotes for Model Y crossover, production March 1, 2020

    56 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  43. Making GHC an order of magnitude faster with one neat trick

    56 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  44. Ijk – Transforms arrays into virtual DOM trees

    56 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  45. Keep Your Hands on the Wheel and Don't Look Down

    55 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  46. New population of one of world's rarest fish found off Tasmania

    55 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  47. This Conversation Is Going Nowhere

    55 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  48. Why do I do this to myself? Bob's first predictions for 2018 – I, Cringely

    55 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  49. Cisco Security Advisory Cisco ASA RCE and DoS Vulnerability

    55 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  50. Ask HN: Finding your weak spots?

    55 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  51. Richest 1% took 82% of new global wealth last year, report says

    55 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  52. Allstate uses social media to check claims

    55 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  53. Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time

    55 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  54. Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100% (2017)

    54 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  55. The uncertain state of video game streaming online

    54 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  56. Association Between Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Cognitive Development

    54 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  57. QISKit: A software development kit for writing quantum computing programs

    54 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  58. Mail-Order Magazines Did More Than Just Sell Things

    54 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  59. Snap lays off two dozen employees

    54 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  60. 2017 and the Rebirth of Cyberpunk

    54 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  61. CSS Paint API: New possibilities in Chrome 65

    54 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  62. Why treating diabetes keeps getting more expensive

    54 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  63. Restoring MacOS device from a snapshot with APFS (2017)

    53 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  64. Meltdown and Spectre with Matt Godbolt [audio]

    53 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  65. Intel: Meltdown, Spectre silicon fixes coming 2018; 3D XPoint RAM, not so much

    53 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  66. Porting Go Web Applications to AWS Lambda

    53 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  67. Micro Soldering Microscopes

    53 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  68. The narcissism epidemic is dead?

    52 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  69. Introducing kEdge: a fresh approach to cross-cluster communication

    52 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  70. DigitalOcean doubles all plan memory for free, and provides more plan options

    52 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  71. Montana to FCC: You can’t stop us from protecting net neutrality

    52 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  72. My next laptop isn't gonna be a Mac

    52 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  73. TIS-100 Signal Averager (2016) [video]

    52 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  74. Serverless Architectures Security Guide

    51 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  75. Bubble, Bubble, Fraud and Trouble

    51 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  76. 10,000 steps a day: Might there be something better?

    51 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  77. How we made the microprocessor

    51 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  78. Something doesn’t ad up about America’s advertising market

    51 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  79. The Eastern Corner of Siberia Is the Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth

    51 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  80. What Flannery O’Connor taught me about chronic illness

    51 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  81. Venmo can now instantly transfer money to your debit card for 25 cents

    51 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  82. Robust research needs many lines of evidence

    51 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  83. Michael Phelps Says He Contemplated Suicide After 2012 Olympics

    51 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  84. Partial Application and Lambda Parameter Syntax for JavaScript

    51 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  85. Reverse Engineering the TEC-06 Serial Protocol

    51 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  86. Google Is Eating Apple's Ecosystem for Lunch

    51 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  87. Did Ken, Ritchie and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminated text strings? (2011)

    51 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  88. “I guess you can’t use NYU Libraries if you don’t have Twitter or Facebook?”

    50 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  89. Netflix is down

    50 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  90. A fatal inconsistency within neoliberalism

    50 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  91. Dutch agencies provide crucial intel about Russia’s interference in US elections

    49 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  92. SYN packet handling in the wild

    49 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  93. Ask HN: What books have most influenced the way you see the world?

    49 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  94. Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

    49 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  95. Addressing the recent attention focused on Strava and our global heatmap

    49 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  96. Scenes from the First Rare Digital Art Auction

    49 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  97. Show HN: Noticeable – Easily keep your audience updated on what's new

    49 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  98. Ask HN: How to make fewer mistakes?

    49 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  99. The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything

    49 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  100. Arbitrary code execution through unsanitized browser UI

    49 points • comment • jan 31, 2018