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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK

    360 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  2. Twirp: A new RPC framework for Go

    359 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  3. Embedded in Rust: Brave new I/O

    359 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  4. Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad has died

    359 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  5. It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless

    352 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  6. It’s About Time for Time Series Databases

    351 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  7. Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America

    351 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  8. Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost

    350 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  9. A Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz (2012)

    347 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  10. Firefox 58

    345 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  11. I think I found a Mac kernel bug?

    344 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  12. Terraforming 1Password

    342 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  13. Netflix is now worth more than $100B

    342 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  14. Burger King Has an Opinion on Net Neutrality

    339 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  15. Elixir v1.6 released: code formatter, dynamic supervisors, and more

    335 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  16. SpaceX can't test fire its Falcon Heavy rocket due to the government shutdown

    335 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  17. Some obscure C features

    329 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  18. Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

    328 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  19. Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them

    328 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  20. Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”

    327 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  21. Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts

    326 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  22. Fellow Engineers: This is where your money comes from

    325 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  23. Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi

    324 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  24. Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

    323 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  25. 2018 Stellar roadmap

    323 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  26. How to Study: A Brief Guide

    321 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  27. Org-Mode for Visual Studio Code

    320 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  28. Intel Warned Chinese Companies of Chip Flaws Before U.S. Government

    318 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  29. Thousands of Turks accused of using Bylock app despite never having used it

    317 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  30. DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (2017)

    315 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  31. Inside Amazon Go

    311 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  32. Show HN: A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS

    310 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  33. Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locations for stargazing

    309 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  34. The paradigms of programming

    308 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  35. Guide to JavaScript Frameworks

    306 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  36. Nintendo Labo Official Site

    305 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  37. Why I left Google (HN search results)

    304 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  38. Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac

    302 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  39. An Amazon Order Might Lock You Out of Trusted Traveler Programs

    301 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  40. 20 Years of LWN

    301 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  41. PyTorch, a year in

    301 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  42. CIA rendition flights from rustic North Carolina called to account by citizens

    299 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  43. Godot 3.0 game engine released

    299 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  44. Trial of a blood test that detects eight common forms of cancer

    297 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  45. PID Without a PhD (2016) [pdf]

    297 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  46. Why is Rust difficult?

    297 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  47. 'It Was the First Time I Cried in the Operating Room'

    296 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  48. 219 days of postmarketOS

    296 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  49. Nintendo Labo: make, play, and discover

    294 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  50. Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean

    292 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  51. Worked for 52 Years, Still Running: 1912 C-T 4WD Electric Truck

    289 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  52. The Google Lunar X Prize’s Race to the Moon Is Over. Nobody Won

    289 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  53. Finding Profitable Startup Ideas

    289 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  54. After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea

    288 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  55. Why Discrete Math Is Important

    285 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  56. Bitcoin Fall Extends to 25% as Fears of Crackdown Linger

    284 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  57. An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform [video]

    279 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  58. Zstandard – Real-time data compression algorithm

    279 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  59. Amazon Go and the Future

    277 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  60. In-N-Out managers earn triple the industry average

    277 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  61. DNS over HTTPS

    276 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  62. An open source GitHub-like platform as an alternative for AWS Lambda

    275 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  63. Amazon Health

    274 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  64. Turning Down a Blockchain Job Offer

    272 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  65. Ten days in Shenzhen

    268 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  66. U.S. tests nuclear power system to sustain astronauts on Mars

    268 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  67. NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve

    266 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  68. Why social media bosses don’t use social media

    265 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  69. Building a Lightroom PC

    263 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  70. JS things I didn’t know existed

    263 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  71. Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016)

    263 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  72. Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders

    263 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  73. Scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 Nodes

    263 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  74. Tech Start-Up Fires Engineers Amid Union Organizing Effort

    262 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  75. Datomic Cloud

    259 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  76. How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis

    258 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  77. Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

    258 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  78. How and why I run my own DNS servers

    257 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  79. Show HN: A HN/Reddit-style site for scientific pre-prints and publications

    257 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  80. Going Global with Your Startup

    257 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  81. Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore

    256 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  82. Why I left Google to join Grab

    254 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  83. A prime number whose binary representation looks like a giraffe

    253 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  84. One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC per month

    253 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

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

    252 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  86. LibreOffice 6.0 released

    251 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  87. Indefinite solitary confinement in Canadian prisons ruled unconstitutional

    251 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  88. Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

    251 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  89. 7-Zip: Multiple Memory Corruptions via RAR and ZIP

    251 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  90. Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)

    250 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  91. Homebrew 1.5.0

    250 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  92. How a fix in Go 1.9 sped up our Gitaly service by 30x

    250 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  93. Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past [video]

    246 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  94. Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language

    244 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  95. ‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs

    244 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  96. Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting users watch videos

    242 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  97. The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking

    242 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  98. The Public Domain Starts Growing Again Next Year

    242 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  99. BeyondCorp: How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee Access

    241 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  100. Ten Years' Worth of Learning About Pricing

    241 points • comment • jan 18, 2018