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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. Who I think Satoshi Nakamoto is

    40 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  2. 'Unsolvable' exam question leaves Chinese students flummoxed

    40 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  3. The Secret Sci-Fi Life of Alice B. Sheldon (2006)

    40 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  4. Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead

    40 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  5. Bike-share schemes improve safety; helmet laws do not

    39 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  6. Coetzee’s Boyhood Photographs

    39 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  7. Rough Waters: Gentrification and Cataclysmic Money

    39 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  8. Efficacy of elderberry extract for treatment of influenza a and B virus (2004)

    39 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  9. Intel CEO sold shares on same day OEMs informed of bugs: report

    39 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  10. Ameo – Redis-compatible distributed key-value store with WebSocket API

    39 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  11. Report content directly to GitHub Support

    39 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  12. Eloquis: Early in the market and targeted the wrong customer segment

    39 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  13. Yale’s Most Popular Class Ever: Happiness

    39 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  14. Launch HN: Enzyme (YC S17) – Automating FDA Compliance and Approval

    39 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  15. In Birds’ Songs, Brains and Genes, Erich Jarvis Finds Clues to Speech

    38 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  16. Finnish bank forbids employees from investing in cryptocurrencies

    38 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  17. Luna visual programming language beta release

    38 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  18. Why American men are getting less marriageable

    38 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  19. Ask HN: Providing cheaper EdTech tools for rural zones

    38 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  20. How to Be a Rocket Ship: Be More Productive One Minute at a Time

    38 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  21. Fish skin helped bears burned in the Thomas Fire get back on their feet

    38 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  22. Analysts See Oil Demand Peaking by 2030 as Electric Vehicles Boom

    38 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  23. Show HN: Switchboard – makes it easy to route incoming calls and messages

    38 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  24. Bay Area family’s quest to create a backyard container home

    38 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  25. U.K. Appoints a Minister for Loneliness

    37 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  26. GitHub: Commit together with co-authors

    37 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  27. Podcast Transcription with Amazon Transcribe

    37 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  28. Porn watchers will have to prove they are over 18 under new laws

    37 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  29. Watching the Bitcoin fire from a safe distance – what just happened

    37 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  30. Product Misjudgment

    37 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  31. Requiring Universities to Ban Anonymous Speech on Campus Is Unconstitutional

    37 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  32. Show HN: Amp – A text editor for your terminal, written in Rust

    37 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  33. Modifying Your Own Genes Is Just An Injection Away If You’re Feeling Lucky

    37 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  34. Show HN: One Click Shrug Emoji Copy

    37 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  35. Intel Announces Q4 2017 and FY 2017 Results

    37 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  36. 82% of Wealth Created in 2017 Went to the top 1%, says Oxfam

    37 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  37. Will Everything Stay in New Orleans If Cameras Capture It All?

    36 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  38. What are the end to end encrypted desktop messengers?

    36 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  39. Thousands of Starbucks Employees Are Getting Raises After GOP Tax Cuts

    36 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  40. In Praise of Simple Problems

    36 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  41. Racing to space, together

    36 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  42. Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

    36 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  43. Freemasons and Ritual Murder: The Story of William Morgan

    36 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  44. How America Fell in Love with Vodka

    36 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  45. How do towels stay on hooks?

    36 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  46. On the Rise of Digital Addiction Activism

    36 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  47. Finding Family Ties to Indian Slavery in New Mexico

    36 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  48. The story of the Moscow Planetarium

    36 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  49. Richard Stallman's lifestyle

    35 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  50. Status.im puts $5M into Matrix.org to fuel FOSS decentralised comms

    35 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  51. Southwest's Bullshit Lawsuit Over a Site That Made $45

    35 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  52. Children get new ears grown from their own cells

    35 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  53. Heavy lifting with McSema 2.0

    35 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  54. 80's kids started programming at an earlier age than today's millennials

    35 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  55. Delta Air Lines Tightens Rules for Service and Support Animals

    35 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  56. Shawn Pearce, author of Gerrit and Git-related projects, has died

    35 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  57. How I built my MVP in 5 hours and got to $10k MRR in two months

    35 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  58. Building Cross-Lingual End-to-End Product Search with Tensorflow

    35 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  59. Why the IRS Fears Bitcoin

    35 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  60. The Accidental HFT Firm – Now we were sending orders before the data pkt arrived

    35 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  61. Boosting the performance of PostgreSQL’s COPY command by dropping indexes

    35 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  62. Kicking Off the New Year with New Droplet Plans

    34 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  63. Facebook invented a new time unit called the ‘flick’ and it’s truly amazing

    34 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  64. Tuskegee Truth Teller

    34 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  65. Show HN: ML data annotations and tagging made easy

    34 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  66. The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool

    34 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  67. Jack Dongarra on the TOP500 list of supercomputers

    34 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  68. This new experiment could finally unite the two biggest theories in physics

    34 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  69. Epic Games acquires Cloudgine

    34 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  70. Visualizing Incomplete and Missing Data

    34 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  71. How to Make a Consciousness Meter (2017)

    34 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  72. Why a Bitcoin future will always end up in centralization

    34 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  73. The hustle is dumb and killing you

    33 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  74. Bootstrap 4.0 Released

    33 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  75. Building a Successful Information Security Career (2008)

    33 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  76. Markov mashups of Erowid trip reports and ICO whitepapers

    33 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  77. Cells Are Not Computers and DNA Is Not a Programming Language (Stanford Seminar)

    33 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  78. Nursing Home Recreates Communist East Germany for Dementia Patients

    33 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  79. How to Prepare a Talk

    33 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  80. The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem

    33 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  81. Tech firms let Russia probe software widely used by U.S. government

    33 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  82. A sample of brilliance

    33 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  83. One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”

    33 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  84. Horrible doors on British trains (2010)

    32 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  85. Gmail auto labels

    32 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  86. Dutch agencies provide crucial intel about Russia's interference in US-elections

    32 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  87. The story of the fake bomb detectors (2014)

    32 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  88. We all think our jobs are safe from automation

    32 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  89. A Prayer’s Chance: The scandal of mental health in West Africa (2017)

    32 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  90. With Firefox Version 58, WebAssembly Gets 10X Faster

    32 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  91. Only 13 arrests in 7 years of SF online auto break-in reports, DA says

    32 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  92. Bolt launches an Amazon-like checkout experience for the rest of online retail

    32 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  93. The Right Way to Accept a Job Offer

    32 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  94. GitHub giveth; Wikipedia taketh away

    32 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  95. Ask HN: Can I ask for more severance pay?

    32 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  96. Eve is winding down

    32 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  97. An Adaptive Packed-Memory Array (2007) [pdf]

    31 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  98. Volkswagon’s Campaign for ‘Clean Diesel’

    31 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  99. Strava fitness tracker reveals military base

    31 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  100. $PHP = ;

    31 points • comment • jan 24, 2018