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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. In the eye of a chicken, a new state of matter comes into view (2014)

    31 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  2. A World In Decay

    31 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  3. A dataset of crimes committed in Buenos Aires

    31 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  4. Privacy by Design (2010) [pdf]

    31 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  5. A practical guide to microchip implants

    31 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  6. The Old Taxonomy of the Logical Fallacies

    31 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  7. The Law of the Somalis, a Nation Successful Without Any Central Government

    31 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  8. All Good Magazines Go to Heaven

    30 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  9. FSF Binutils release 2.30 now available

    30 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  10. W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry for a Beautiful Short Film About Running

    30 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  11. Rolls-Royce and Google Cloud attempt to make autonomous ships a reality

    30 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  12. Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble

    30 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  13. The Navy's ‘fast, agile’ warship has been stuck in ice since Christmas Eve

    30 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  14. Citus 7.2: Distributed Postgres with CTEs, complex subqueries, set operations

    30 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  15. AT&T CEO’s net neutrality plan calls for regulation of websites

    30 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  16. Ask HN: Help me generate an idea for my next project

    30 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  17. Ethereum miner with Terraform

    30 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  18. Howl: a nostalgic homage to the brief, hazy era of “pure” London punk

    30 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  19. Show HN: AirHelp flight scanner finds all past flights and checks for eligibility

    30 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  20. US appeals court says Tinder Plus pricing is discriminatory

    30 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  21. As Cape Town water crisis deepens, scientists prepare for ‘Day Zero’

    30 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  22. Plug wars: the battle for electric car supremacy

    30 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  23. Norton I, Emperor of the United States

    30 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  24. Does Harvard discriminate against Asian-Americans?

    30 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  25. We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now

    30 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  26. A shitcoin startup just exitscammed with millions of dollars – with this message

    30 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  27. Flurry of Lawsuits Fight Repeal of Net Neutrality

    30 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  28. For Bonobos, it pays to have powerful allies

    29 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  29. Why We Must Practice the Art of Good Conversation

    29 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  30. BitConnect promoters cover their asses as site struggles with server downtime

    29 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  31. Hawaii official who sent false missile alert has been fired

    29 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  32. Google expanding global infrastructure with new GCP regions and subsea cables

    29 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  33. How Nike Avoids Paying Taxes in Australia

    29 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  34. Space mining is going to seriously disrupt Earth's economy

    29 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  35. Telegram Raises Target for Biggest ICO Ever to $2B

    29 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  36. How we’re fixing “unlimited” vacation

    29 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  37. The marketing stack that got us to 100 customers

    29 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  38. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Default to the X.Org Stack, Not Wayland

    29 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  39. Want to see all data Windows 10 sends Microsoft?

    28 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  40. No salary for Elon Musk but a $7bn payout if Tesla reaches $650bn valuation

    28 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  41. Ford Is Building a Transportation Operating System

    28 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  42. The Magnetic Field Is Shifting. The Poles May Flip. This Could Get Bad

    28 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  43. The popularity of Microsoft’s Surface is the least realistic thing on TV

    28 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  44. Preview of Scratch 3.0 GUI

    28 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  45. Ask HN: Best language for general AI programming?

    28 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  46. Ask HN: How do you fight self-skepticism towards your own ideas?

    28 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  47. What are some YouTube channels to progress into advanced levels of programming?

    28 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  48. Ask HN: Started a new job and their existing code sucks. What to do?

    28 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  49. How Do You Rebuild Your Life After Leaving a Polygamous Sect?

    28 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  50. Apple HomePod

    27 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  51. The idea that all things are conscious is gaining academic credibility

    27 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  52. High Times Beckon for Using Hemp to Build Houses

    27 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  53. Rocket Lab sends its Electron rocket to orbit for the first time

    27 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  54. SF tourist industry struggles to explain street misery to horrified visitors

    27 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  55. Uber CEO calls for new ebenfits system for gig economy workers

    27 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  56. R Function for Simulating Gaussian Processes

    27 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  57. Apple Leak Reveals Sudden iPhone X Cancellation

    27 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  58. New Zealand's Rocket Lab launches first rocket into orbit from Māhia Peninsula

    27 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  59. Why hasn't D started to replace C++

    27 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  60. U.S. military revising its rules after fitness trackers exposed sensitive data

    27 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  61. Social media is giving us Trypophobia

    27 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  62. Redesigning Hawaii’s Emergency Alert System UI

    27 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  63. Ask HN: Is RSS making a real resurgence?

    27 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  64. Documents reveal that Whole Foods is leaving some shelves empty on purpose

    26 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  65. $534m worth of NEM stolen from Coincheck is largest ever cryptocurrency theft

    26 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  66. Net neutrality will be enforced in New York under orders from governor

    26 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  67. Is It Legal to Swap Someone’s Face into Porn Without Consent?

    26 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  68. The Suicide Prevention Hotline is pinned to the top of r/cryptocurrency

    26 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  69. Cake raises $5M for a swipeable mobile browser

    26 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  70. Show HN: Connect to Your Data, Clean, Wrangle, Combine, Explore, Publish

    26 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  71. No One in China Wants to Get Married Anymore, and It's Making Beijing Nervous

    26 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  72. Failing to become an internet celebrity in China

    26 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  73. Facebook Is the New Excel – Alex Muir

    26 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  74. Somehow, sometimes, this happens

    26 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  75. The first cosplay took place in 1939

    26 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  76. The Lightning Network

    25 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  77. The Shallowness of Google Translate (Douglas Hofstadter, 2018)

    25 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  78. Jess Houlgrave on Blockchain for the Art Market

    25 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  79. Time Is the Ultimate Success, Not Money

    25 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  80. Show HN: Appenguin – Turn your website into an Android app

    25 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  81. Please Stop Using Local Storage

    25 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  82. A Shrinking Pie? The IPv4 Transfer Market in 2017

    25 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  83. Ask HN: What's your email setup?

    25 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  84. Algorithms are making American inequality worse

    25 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  85. DNS66: OSS ad blocker for Android that works for all apps (no root needed)

    25 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  86. Microsoft’s Performance Contributions to Git in 2017

    25 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  87. Trisis has mistakenly been released on the open internet

    25 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  88. Why Japanese Web Design Is (Still) the Way It Is

    25 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  89. Why Gates and Jobs shielded their kids from tech

    25 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  90. WhatsApp Business App

    25 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  91. A mattress conspiracy theory got even weirder after top comment got deleted

    25 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  92. Cargo raises $5.5M to let Uber drivers sell snacks and essentials nationwide

    25 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  93. Trump administration is thinking about nationalizing 5G mobile network

    25 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  94. Meteorite or Meteorwrong?

    24 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  95. Deep Learning for Forecasting Stock Returns in the Cross-Section [pdf]

    24 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  96. Smart contract tutorial – I

    24 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  97. I go back to my old macbook air from my new macbook pro – because it was better

    24 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  98. 60% of the world’s saiga antelopes wiped out in three weeks

    24 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  99. Fees calculation in Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) explained

    24 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  100. Hawaii fires employee who sent false ballistic missile alert

    24 points • comment • jan 30, 2018