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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. Twitter admits far more Russian bots posted on election than it had disclosed

    10 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  2. Alcatraz inmates survived infamous 1962 escape, letter suggests

    10 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  3. Apple to pay $38B in U.S. taxes on foreign cash, open new campus

    10 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  4. Ask HN: Are you using Brave for daily browsing?

    10 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  5. Apple now faces 45 lawsuits surrounding “Batterygate”

    10 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  6. In World First, Monkeys Cloned Like Dolly the Sheep

    10 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  7. The Trials and Tribulations of the Title Attribute

    10 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  8. However improbable: The story of an Intel microcode bug

    10 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  9. Finland to lobby EU for abolition of daylight saving time

    10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  10. Graydon Hoare reflects on creating Rust

    10 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  11. Nouriel Roubini‏: Tether/USD peg of 1:1 is the mother of all scams/frauds

    10 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  12. Amazon Go grocery store opened and we accidentally stole a yogurt

    10 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  13. The Search for Autonomy

    10 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  14. US could topple Russia, Saudi Arabia as world's largest oil producer

    10 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  15. One Day Sprints

    10 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  16. Google Chrome now lets you permanently mute annoying websites

    10 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  17. If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg

    10 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  18. New California Declares Independence from Rest of State

    10 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  19. Utah man who runs popular YouTube channel is charged with possessing explosives

    10 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  20. 5 Notable Women in the Blockchain and Crypto Industry

    10 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  21. Where is Hubble now?

    10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  22. Bitcoin won't last in world of finance, warns Nobel-winning economist

    10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  23. For every pack of cigarettes smoked the country reaps net savings of $.32 (2009)

    10 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  24. How to Create a Cryptocurrency

    10 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  25. Apple pledges $350B investment in US economy over next five years

    10 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  26. Why I’m not falling for another too-good-to-be-true VC-funded startup

    10 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  27. Color Television: NTSC Tutorials

    10 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  28. The Shutdown Shows the Twisted Rules of a Broken Congress

    10 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  29. Strobe (1995)

    10 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  30. Burger King makes an ad about Net Neutrality

    10 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  31. Censorship by Weaponizing Free Speech: Rethinking the Marketplace of Ideas

    10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  32. Bitsequence has just ran away with their investors’ money

    10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  33. Gearing up the Web for 2018

    10 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  34. 3 free ways to advertise your startup

    10 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  35. Dark Caracal: Good News and Bad News

    10 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  36. Burger King made a surprisingly good ad about net neutrality

    10 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  37. GitLab Security Release: 10.3.4, 10.2.6, and 10.1.6

    10 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

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

    10 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  39. Intel promises Spectre- and Meltdown-proof chips this year

    10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  40. Using Linuxkit to Build an AWS Image (AMI)

    10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  41. Jordan Peterson: ‘The pursuit of happiness is a pointless goal’

    10 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  42. The crimes against dopamine

    10 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  43. Ask HN: How do you watch technical videos?

    10 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  44. Nearly 100 people in California have died from flu this season

    10 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  45. The iPhone is Dead

    10 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  46. The Short and Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler

    10 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  47. How China Infiltrated U.S. Classrooms

    9 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  48. OpenCensus: A Stats Collection and Distributed Tracing Framework

    9 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  49. New blood test could help detect eight common cancers before they spread

    9 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  50. Soft Electronics – Flexible Futures [pdf]

    9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  51. Sixty free lectures from Princeton on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies

    9 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  52. Ranking Programming Languages by GitHub Users

    9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  53. Things you might be forgetting when traveling

    9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  54. U.S. soldiers are revealing sensitive and dangerous information by jogging

    9 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  55. How Closed Trade Deals Ratchet Up the Copyright Term Worldwide

    9 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  56. Announcing TypeScript 2.7 RC

    9 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  57. Chinese workers build railway for a new train station in just NINE HOURS

    9 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  58. Bitcoin and Ethereum Have a Hidden Power Structure, and It’s Just Been Revealed

    9 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  59. The Men Who Want to Live Forever

    9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  60. How Haiti became poor

    9 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  61. State schools to make computer science a core subject – Boston Herald

    9 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  62. Snapchat Threatens Employees with Jail as Facebook Lets It Starve

    9 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  63. Playboy is suing Boing Boing – but linking is not copyright infringement

    9 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  64. Losing Your Job for Sexual Harassment Is Not a Violation of Due Process

    9 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  65. America Is Not a Democracy

    9 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  66. Compression ignition engines are a big breakthrough–we got to try one

    9 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  67. Ask HN: Moving to Tokyo as a software engineer

    9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  68. Sarah Kessler attacks Steve Yegge over so-called privilege

    9 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  69. Apple's Historic Lisa Computer Was Born 35 Years Ago Today – Inverse

    9 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  70. Stellar magnetism: What's behind the most brilliant lights in the sky?

    9 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  71. Apple shuttle buses rerouted following suspected attacks

    9 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  72. Understanding Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)

    9 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  73. Twitter Says Russian Bots Retweeted Trump 470,000 Times

    9 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  74. You don’t have to take every handout or jump through every loophole

    9 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  75. Martha Matilda Harper pioneered retail franchising, hair salon industry (2017)

    9 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  76. The X500 Pro computer case

    9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  77. Parcel v1.5.0 Released: Source Maps, WebAssembly, Rust, and More

    9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  78. 50 Cent Forgot Taking 700 Bitcoins for 2014 Album; Stake Is Now Worth Millions

    9 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  79. Cryptocurrencies Drop After Japanese Exchange Halts Withdrawals

    9 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  80. California lawmakers propose raising corporate tax by 7% to offset Trump tax cut

    9 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  81. A coding error led to $30M in ethereum being stolen (2017)

    9 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  82. US imposes tariffs on washing machines and solar panels

    9 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  83. Transitioning from R to Python with Spyder

    9 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  84. Show HN: Hack interviews by studying questions recently asked by companies

    9 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  85. TypeScript 2.7 released

    9 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  86. There is a significant ongoing decline in sperm counts of Western men

    9 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  87. The Strange Brands in Your Instagram Feed

    8 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  88. Netflix is Down

    8 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  89. What's So Bad About Blue Light?

    8 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  90. Mexico and Hungary tried junk food taxes – and they seem to be working

    8 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  91. Ask HN: Why is Python so popular for ML/DS?

    8 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  92. Why You Should Put Your Content on Both Medium and Your Own Domain

    8 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  93. Show HN: Light weight CoinMarketCap.com alternative with additional insights

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  94. A typically American response: YouTube knifes creators to “protect” them

    8 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  95. Programmers use TensorFlow AI to turn any webcam into Microsoft Kinect

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  96. First ‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  97. Cryptocurrency Mining Malware That Uses an NSA Exploit Is on the Rise

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  98. Big Brother on wheels:Why a car company may know more about you than your spouse

    8 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  99. AWS DeepLens and the Future of AI Cameras and Vision

    8 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  100. Better Containerized JVMs with JDK10

    8 points • comment • jan 18, 2018