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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. The Language of Salmon-Skin Coats (2016)

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  2. Implementing a Simple Compiler on 25 Lines of JavaScript

    8 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  3. An explanation of JavaScript’s weird type system

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  4. How to find direction as a prospective CTO founder?

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  5. The NSAs voice-recognition system raises hard questions for Echo and Google Home

    8 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  6. Cancer blood test ‘enormously exciting’

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  7. The Apple Cash FAQ

    8 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  8. Show HN: The Missing GitHub Feature: Treeview for PRs

    8 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  9. Report: Apple making fewer iPhone Xs due to weak demand

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  10. Mathematical difference between white and black notes in a piano

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  11. Jackpotting: Secret Service warns ATM scheme has hit U.S., report says

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  12. Which is the most actively developed BSD in 2018?

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  13. Ask HN: Older developer hiring platform?

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  14. How Much Would an iPhone Cost If Apple Were Forced to Make It in America?

    8 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  15. Google is building Bulletin, a hyperlocal community news service

    8 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  16. StartupMate – The best 750+ Resources for Startuppers

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  17. Free Software Foundation Receives $1M Donation from Pineapple Fund

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  18. Celeste is hard, but its creators are smart about difficulty

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  19. Owning an Electric Car Is Twice as Cheap as Owning a Gas Vehicle

    8 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  20. Highway of riches, road to ruin: Inside the Amazon's deforestation crisis

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  21. Wehe: An app to track Net Neutrality violations

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  22. This Is How the World Gets Sick

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  23. How to write a blog post

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  24. Gene Sharp, US scholar whose writing helped inspire Arab Spring, dies at 90

    8 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  25. Philadelphia Wants to Be First U.S. City to Open Safe Injection Sites

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  26. Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance

    8 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  27. Injured motorcyclist accuses robot-driven vehicle of 'negligent driving'

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  28. Logojoy vs. 99 Designs vs. small agency vs. big agency

    8 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  29. Cryptocurrency startup Prodeum pulls an exit scam, leaves a [censored] behind

    8 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  30. Samsung Enters Crypto Mining Market, “Mass Producing” ASIC Chips

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  31. Ask HN: Why don't I believe blockchain will change the world?

    8 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  32. Satoshi to Bitcoin: Everything you need to know

    8 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  33. Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Voynich Manuscript

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  34. Humanity Star

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  35. Announcing the AI Fund: Building Transformative AI Companies

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  36. Faster R-CNN: Down the rabbit hole of modern object detection

    8 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  37. Electric Vehicles Cost Less Than Half as Much to Drive

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  38. Being a Developer After 40 (2016)

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  39. Switzerland just showed why Bitcoin may struggle to go mainstream

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  40. Why Is Snowplowing Still a Thing? – Motherboard

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  41. Regional Rapid Transit for the Bay Area

    8 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  42. How I, Tonya’s effects crew captured the film’s impossible skating shot

    8 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  43. Is Strava snitching on US soldiers at secret military bases?

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  44. Snap Inc. threatens jail time for leakers

    8 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  45. Formerly secret report details the triumphs and setbacks of the Lunokhod-2 robot

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  46. Scientists Have Cloned Monkeys for the First Time

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  47. Up close with Apple’s HomePod

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  48. Kimberly-Clark fires up to 5,500 workers – using tax cuts to pay for the layoffs

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  49. NonPetya ransomware forced Maersk to reinstall 4000 servers, 45000 PCs

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  50. Two ex-Google engineers built an entirely different kind of self-driving car

    7 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  51. Gun-toting robbers force wealthy currency trader to transfer Bitcoin fortune

    7 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  52. What You Believe Affects What You Achieve

    7 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  53. GM and Waymo lead driverless car race, Tesla far behind

    7 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  54. George Soros on Google and Facebook at Davos

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  55. Containers versus Operating Systems

    7 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  56. Unexpected challenges of making money on the internet

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  57. Scientist claims human-chimpanzee hybrid born in Florida lab century ago

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  58. Failed Your Resolutions Already? Time to Try a Habit-Breaking Device

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  59. Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he does not regret firing James Damore

    7 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  60. Ingvar Kamprad (founder IKEA) has passed away

    7 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  61. Apple Successfully Avoids $50B in American Taxes

    7 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  62. Fitting larger neural networks into memory

    7 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  63. Ask HN: At what point do bootstrapped/pre-seed founders need to pay themselves?

    7 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  64. Cloud Atlas 'astonishingly different' in US and UK editions, study finds (2016)

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  65. Ask HN: What does “I'll let you two take it from here” really mean?

    7 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  66. Marriage Counselor Turns to Blockchain to Solve Couple's Trust Issues

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  67. Glenn Greenwald: Russia Investigation Is a Red Herring

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  68. More Than 750 American Communities Have Built Their Own Internet Networks

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  69. Ford Is Finally Getting Serious About Making Electric Cars

    7 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  70. Physicists planning to build powerful lasers that could rip apart empty space

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  71. New botnet infects cryptocurrency mining computers, replaces wallet address

    7 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  72. A perfect guide for cracking a JavaScript interview

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  73. Rocket Lab: Space Startup Succeeds on Second Test Mission

    7 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  74. Kiwi Farms, the Web’s Biggest Stalker Community

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

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

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  76. Show HN: Augmented Reality Ghost Story in Japanese Zen Temple

    7 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  77. BMW to charge for Apple CarPlay yearly, as a subscription

    7 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  78. Andreessen Horowitz's Spin Master Built Silicon Valley as You Know It

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  79. The Sedona's 5's Excellent Adventure (1996)

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  80. Everything that you wanted to know about Google ARCore

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  81. Waymo strikes a deal to buy ‘thousands’ more self-driving minivans from Fiat

    7 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  82. Report: GM and Waymo lead driverless car race; Tesla lags far behind

    7 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  83. How a new technology is changing the lives of people who cannot speak

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  84. Webpack Academy

    7 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  85. Five myths about Bitcoin’s energy use

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  86. Trump wants to end NASA funding for the International Space Station by 2025

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  87. Nvidia Asks Retailers to Stop Selling to Miners and Sell to Gamers Instead

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  88. Show HN: Simple, Readable, Experimental Blockchain in Python

    7 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  89. There have been 11 US school shootings this year. Is it time to arm teachers?

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  90. Ask HN: Why don't Facebook and/or Google offer paid ad free versions?

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  91. Getting High with Benjamin and Burroughs (2008)

    7 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  92. Scientists Discover Clean Water Ice Just Below Mars' Surface

    7 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  93. Why isn't there any free sublime text (non electron) alternative?

    7 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  94. Facebook hires the scientist who helped build IBM Watson to lead A.I. expansion

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  95. A Scalable Distributed Spatial Index for the Internet-Of-Things (2017) [pdf]

    7 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  96. USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion

    7 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  97. Twitter Suspends House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Account

    7 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  98. Spectre mitigations in MSFT VC++ compiler

    7 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  99. Victorian-era photos of tech devices are inspiring virtual reality engineers

    7 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  100. List of startup tools, avoid reinventing the wheel

    7 points • comment • jan 20, 2018