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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

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

    49 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

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

    49 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

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

    49 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  4. Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse

    48 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  5. How Duolingo achieved a 50:50 gender ratio for new software engineer hires

    48 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  6. Fermented Shark, Anyone?

    48 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  7. One data scientist on the hype around artificial intelligence (2017)

    48 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  8. The evolution of the trackball

    48 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  9. Show HN: Hyperlogs – Easy time tracking

    47 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  10. Alto Restoration Part 18: We Crash Our Disk Drive [video]

    47 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  11. How Bitcoin Compares to History's Big Bubbles

    47 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  12. New Startup Working on Software to Help Government Fix Housing Problems

    47 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  13. How to Find Problems to Solve and Get Early Adopters by Cold-Calling Businesses

    47 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  14. A fresh approach to neuromorphic computing

    47 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  15. The Setenv Fiasco (2015)

    47 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  16. Jean Piaget and the Child’s Spontaneous Geometry

    47 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  17. Tesla’s Pay Deal to Keep Elon Musk: All or Nothing

    47 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  18. The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer's

    47 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  19. Jack the Ripper letters written by the same person, forensic linguist concludes

    47 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  20. Understanding Extreme Numbers

    46 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  21. Awl Ends

    46 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  22. UX Copywriting in Product Design

    46 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  23. Quantified sickness when you have OpenAPS and the flu

    46 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  24. Computer scientist uncovers clue to deciphering the Voynich manuscript

    46 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  25. Show HN: Pay-per-minute video/audio calls with WebRTC

    46 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  26. Linux Kernel 4.15 Released

    46 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  27. Polymail (YC S16) looks to unify business email tools into a single web app

    46 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  28. Valve appeals $2.4M fine as Australian legal battle rages on

    46 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  29. Ask HN: What is the Bitcoin price level at which miners will leave?

    46 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  30. Show HN: Stylepill – Share your project's UI components with your coworkers

    46 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  31. Better than holograms: new 3-D projection

    46 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  32. Donald Knuth celebrated his 80th birthday in Piteå

    46 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  33. Netflix adds 8.3M subscribers in Q4, revenue up 33%

    46 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  34. Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews

    46 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  35. Heroin addiction in the U.S

    46 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  36. Construction Costs: Metro Stations

    46 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  37. Quickly counting lots of stuff in little RAM: CountMinSketch in Python

    46 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  38. Steve Wozniak: ‘I don’t believe anything Elon Musk or Tesla says’

    46 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  39. Researchers implement 3-qubit Grover search on a quantum computer

    45 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  40. Transputer

    45 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  41. Stochastic Computing in a Single Device

    45 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  42. Compiling a Subset of APL into a Typed Intermediate Language (2014) [pdf]

    45 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  43. Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses (2015)

    45 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  44. Google Just Broke Amazon’s Workaround for YouTube on Fire TV

    45 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  45. A conversation about how public transport really works

    45 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  46. No, machines can’t read better than humans

    44 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  47. I trained an AI to copy my voice and it scared me silly

    44 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  48. Fishing for graphs in a Hadoop data lake

    44 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  49. Warmux – An old Worms clone project (2016)

    44 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  50. Heroku Postgres PGX: Bigger Databases, Improved Infrastructure, Same Price

    44 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  51. A Spiraling Bees’ Nest

    44 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  52. Sound and fury: how pronunciation provokes passionate reactions

    44 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  53. Scientists move Doomsday Clock ahead to 2 minutes to midnight

    44 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  54. I’m answering all the stupid questions about startup so you don’t have to ask

    44 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  55. How to secure your website with Nginx and Let's Encrypt

    44 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  56. Redundancy of x86 Machine Code (2009)

    44 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  57. Fine-Grained Text to Image Generation with Attentional GAN

    44 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  58. Show HN: Revenue Forecasting for SaaS Apps

    44 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  59. Gray Failure: The Achilles' Heel of Cloud-Scale Systems [pdf]

    44 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  60. What the Count of Monte Cristo Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity

    43 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  61. Show HN: Haproxy-auth-request – HTTP access control using subrequests

    43 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  62. Sharing Software Licenses and Modules on Blockchain

    43 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  63. Decoding the Design of In-Flight Seat Belts

    43 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  64. Dear Apple, Please Fix Notifications

    43 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  65. Scientists Discover a Bone-Deep Risk for Heart Disease

    43 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  66. Santa Monica Measured Residents’ Well-Being for Four Years

    43 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  67. Don’t do the long take home assignments like coinbase

    43 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  68. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012)

    43 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  69. Unlearning Toxic Behaviors in a Code Review Culture

    43 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  70. The accuracy, fairness, and limits of predicting recidivism

    43 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  71. I Am a 9 to 5 Developer (And So Can You)

    43 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  72. How to access Ethereum-based applications?

    43 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  73. Reading in the Dark: Does fiction matter in a post-fact age?

    43 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  74. Soros calls Facebook and Google a menace to society and obstacles to innovation

    42 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  75. Illinois Ponders Pension-Fund Moonshot: A $107B Bond Sale

    42 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  76. Trump team considers nationalizing 5G network

    42 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  77. Saildrone: autonomous sailing craft with instruments for collecting data

    42 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  78. Layoffs strike as Firefox's Mozilla reworks Asian operations

    42 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  79. Anatomy of the thread suspension mechanism in Windows

    42 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  80. Naked mole rats defy the biological law of aging

    42 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  81. Are Australians Accidentally Redomesticating the Dingo?

    42 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  82. Acute Myocardial Infarction after Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Infection

    42 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  83. A tiny robot with moves inspired by caterpillars and jellyfish

    42 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  84. Writing extendable and hardware-agnostic GPU libraries

    41 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  85. Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are bringing back the browser wars

    41 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  86. A Clever Way to Measure How Students Actually Use Edtech

    41 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  87. Sourcetrail 2018.1 – Visual Source Explorer for C, C++ and Java

    41 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  88. Ask HN: What do you look for in an applicant's GitHub?

    41 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  89. Dear Apple, please fix notifications

    41 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  90. Introducing Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies on Robinhood Crypto

    41 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  91. Polymer 2.4: Paving the way for 3.0 and TypeScript support

    41 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  92. Traverse: Visualization of Complex Nested Discussion Trees

    41 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  93. Swift Forums

    41 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  94. ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US

    41 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  95. Promising Billions to Amazon: Is It a Good Deal for Cities?

    41 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  96. SpaceX’s New Beast of a Rocket Is Go for Launch

    41 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  97. Show HN: Levels.fyi – Compare career ladders across companies

    40 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  98. Ask HN: Which functional language has the best ecosystem for a web backend?

    40 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  99. Ask HN: Why are there still recruiters?

    40 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  100. Apple previews iOS 11.3

    40 points • comment • jan 24, 2018