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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. The ‘Frequent Flier’ Program That Grounded a Hospital’s Soaring Costs

    17 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  2. Bloomberg: Crypto exchange Bitfinex, tether said to get subpoenaed by CFTC

    17 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  3. Free Software Foundation Receives $1M from Pineapple Fund

    17 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  4. Cape Town Is 90 Days Away from Running Out of Water

    17 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  5. OnePlus got pwned, exposed up to 40,000 users to credit card fraud

    17 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  6. Make This Amazon Charade Illegal

    17 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  7. Twist, startup behind AirPlay-powered smart home light, abruptly shuts down

    17 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  8. Nutella 'riots' spread across French supermarkets

    17 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  9. Volkswagen Admits to Testing Diesel Fumes on Monkeys

    17 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  10. YouTube is kicking 'tens of thousands' out of its advertising program

    17 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  11. Ask HN: Is it possible to train oneself to be calmer/kinder?

    17 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  12. Humph, He, Ha: In Degas’s opinion, ‘literature has only done harm to art’

    17 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  13. Google, please don't kill the blogs

    17 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  14. Ask HN: Best way to learn copywriting and sales?

    17 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  15. Show HN: Etherbots.io – Collectible fighting robots on the blockchain

    17 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  16. Why Is Apple Suddenly Hiring So Many More Designers?

    17 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  17. Apple commits to contribute over $350B into US economy over five years

    17 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  18. Last Year Was a $67B Bonanza for U.S. Startups

    16 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  19. A curated list of fundraising Asian startups

    16 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  20. Unmasking D.B. Cooper (2007)

    16 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  21. Google Fiber’s wireless Internet service is leaving Boston

    16 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  22. Bitcoin dips below $10,000 for first time since December

    16 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  23. Quantum Poetics: Why physics can’t get rid of metaphor

    16 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  24. The Men Who Want to Live Forever

    16 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  25. Optimization over Explanation

    16 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  26. The breakthrough drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal

    16 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  27. Stacktrace improvements in .NET Core 2.1

    16 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  28. Home Depot hourly employees to receive up to $1,000 bonus due to tax reform

    16 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  29. Citrix Podio went down for 27 hours. This is what happened

    16 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  30. Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world

    16 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  31. Cavalier collector: how Charles I gained and lost some of the world’s best art

    16 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  32. Over the Next Year, Germany Will Hit a Scary Demographic Milestone

    16 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  33. Ray Dalio: “If you're holding cash you're going to feel pretty stupid”

    16 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  34. Facebook will now ask users to rank news organizations they trust

    16 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  35. The Men Who Want to Live Forever

    16 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  36. Show HN: git-gud - A (really really) simple Git commit checker

    16 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  37. Is really Python such a pain for a bigger projects?

    16 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  38. Apple’s HomePod sales copy is so bad I bought a Google Home Max

    16 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  39. Apple's fraudulent battery replacement program, and what you can learn from it

    16 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  40. Is This the Beginning of the End of the Bitcoin Bubble?

    16 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  41. Towards a More Peaceful World [insert `!' or `?' Here]

    16 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  42. Trump issues tariffs on imported solar panels – Axios

    16 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  43. Multiple issue and pull request templates

    16 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  44. Let's Enhance – free online image upscale and enhancement with neural networks

    16 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  45. First Look at Nintendo Labo (Video)

    15 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  46. Google Colab offers free K80 GPU for deep learning

    15 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  47. What's Causing SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Delays

    15 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  48. Why Most Business Laptops Still Have Horrible, 1366 X 768 Screens

    15 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  49. ReactScope – Visualize React component hierarchy, state, and props in real time

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  50. Update on Twitter’s Review of the 2016 U.S. Election

    15 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  51. IRS map tracking the migration of Americans and their income across states

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  52. A $14,000 pillow: Why buying eiderdown is so expensive

    15 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  53. 50 Cent – Rapper and Bitcoin HODLer

    15 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  54. The Amazigh Adventures of Le Petit Prince (2017)

    15 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  55. When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing

    15 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  56. Are Facebook groups a radicalization machine?

    15 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  57. Show HN: React component using CSS Grids for dynamic layouts

    15 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  58. List of Blogs that brings out the Hacker in You

    15 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  59. China Has Already Gene-Edited 86 People with CRISPR

    15 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  60. Gemnasium is acquired by GitLab

    15 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  61. Teens more likely to be hacking computers than smoking or having sex

    15 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  62. World's first electric container barges to sail from European ports this summer

    15 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  63. Luna, the visual way to create software

    15 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  64. Ask HN: Entry-level salary and skillset for a software engineer specializing in ML

    15 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  65. Show HN: Stomped.io – Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Platformer Game

    15 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  66. Dakota Fire Hole (2012) [video]

    15 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  67. We all nearly missed the largest underwater volcano eruption ever recorded

    15 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  68. The Ultimate Guide to Being an Introvert

    15 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  69. Go-style defer() implementation for C

    15 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  70. We couldn't afford an Oculus so we built one

    14 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  71. Google's Colab just introduced GPU support for free

    14 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  72. Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful

    14 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  73. Apple's Decision to Delay Features and Focus on Software Quality Extends to Mac

    14 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  74. Bootstrap 4 is released

    14 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  75. NAT66: The good, the bad, the ugly

    14 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  76. “Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro … contains a hard-coded password”

    14 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  77. Missile Alert System Redesign

    14 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  78. BlackRock’s Message: Contribute to Society, or Risk Losing Our Support

    14 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  79. Exploring handwritten digit classification: a tidy analysis of the MNIST dataset

    14 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  80. Why Greek Statues Have Such Small Penises

    14 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  81. Made more money as a contractor than as a freelance developer. Help!

    14 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  82. System Startup Gets a Boost with LinuxBoot Project

    14 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  83. Why Beginning Programmers Should Use “Git”

    14 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  84. Researchers Use a Blockchain to Boost Anonymous Torrent Sharing

    14 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  85. Please ignore and remove your wp-config from GitHub

    14 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  86. A Flexible Reflection System in C++: Part 1

    14 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  87. The Autonomous Driving Cookbook

    14 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

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

    14 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  89. BitConnect is shutting down its lending and exchange platform

    14 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  90. Five Chinese Children Get Lab-Made Ears Grown from Their Own Cells

    14 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  91. Apple iPhone X 'End of Life' Predicted, Production Cuts Seen

    14 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  92. Is MoviePass Here to Stay?

    14 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  93. NoT: Taking the ‘Internet’ Out of IoT

    14 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  94. Amazon won't say if it hands your Echo data to the government

    14 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  95. Tether now prints $100M daily since January 16

    14 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  96. A Tale of Two Samsungs: ARM vs. Qualcomm in Android Graphics

    13 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  97. Python with Context Managers

    13 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  98. Show HN: TechInterview.Club Hack Interviews by Studying Recently Asked Questions

    13 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  99. Tensors for beginners

    13 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  100. How do I test Plasma Mobile? (part 1)

    13 points • comment • jan 26, 2018