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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. Ten Years' Worth of Learning About Pricing

    241 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  2. Self-Crashing Cars

    240 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  3. Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order

    240 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  4. MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning

    239 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  5. Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America

    238 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  6. So You Want to Compete with Steam

    238 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  7. Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages

    237 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  8. If you watch closely enough, everything is a speaker

    237 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  9. Evidence that the brain’s ability to control thinking relies on beta rhythms

    237 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  10. How a malicious seed generation website stole $4M

    237 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  11. Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan

    236 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  12. German Union Steps Up Fight for ‘Modern’ 28-Hour Workweek

    235 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  13. Craftsmanship – The alternative to the four-hour work week mindset

    234 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  14. Surfers three times more likely to have antibiotic-resistant bacteria in guts

    234 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  15. Impatience: The Pitfall of Every Ambitious Person

    234 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  16. Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin description page

    233 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  17. Tsunami warning ends for B.C. after large earthquake strikes off Alaska

    231 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  18. Memo: Foxconn cost to Wisconsin nearing $4.5B

    231 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  19. Changes to the YouTube Partner Program

    231 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  20. Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals

    230 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  21. Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective [pdf]

    230 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  22. Introduction to OS Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs (2007) [pdf]

    230 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  23. It can all go to zero

    229 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  24. The CLARA Method of De-Escalation

    228 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  25. Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece

    227 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  26. The Rise of German Board Games

    227 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  27. China, Unhampered by Rules, Races Ahead in Gene-Editing Trials

    227 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  28. It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (2004)

    227 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  29. Dutch intelligence first to alert U.S. about Russian hack of Democratic Party

    227 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  30. Show HN: Paper Programs – Run JavaScript on pieces of paper

    226 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  31. Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly 100 economists

    225 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  32. How I review code

    225 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  33. The US is the most expensive nation in which to have a baby

    224 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  34. Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (2015)

    224 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  35. Y Combinator is accepting applications for S18

    223 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  36. Mayor quits FCC committee, says it favors ISPs over the public interest

    223 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  37. Employees at Practice Fusion got nothing as execs pocketed millions

    222 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  38. How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm and Intel

    222 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  39. USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air War Exercise

    221 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  40. New Zealand startup successfully launches rocket

    220 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  41. Earthsea – A Rival to Tolkien and George RR Martin (2015)

    220 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  42. Turning Soybeans into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Billions

    220 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  43. Principles of Chaos Engineering

    219 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  44. Thunderbird Starts Working on Improving Its Interface

    219 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  45. The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India

    217 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  46. Reducing Memory Usage in Ruby

    217 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  47. Sudden savant syndrome, in which exceptional abilities emerge after brain injury

    216 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  48. Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books

    216 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  49. An update on Redis Streams development

    215 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  50. Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to artificial intelligence

    215 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  51. What happens when you grep the file you've redirected grep to?

    214 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  52. Convert React JavaScript Code to TypeScript with Proper Typing

    214 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  53. Developer Skills Report

    213 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  54. Dvxk: A Vulkan-Based D3D11 Implementation for Linux with Wine

    213 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  55. Google IT Support Professional Certificate

    213 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  56. Keep Webpack Fast: A Field Guide for Better Build Performance

    212 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  57. Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017

    212 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  58. Meltdown and Spectre Linux Kernel Status

    212 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  59. Leaflet – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps

    211 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  60. Kaggle Learn review: there is a deep learning track and it is worth your time

    210 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  61. The U.S. Gets Less Subway for Its Money Than Its Peers

    210 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  62. Forging a Swiss Lens: How Zurich's tech scene changed my view of SV

    210 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  63. I miss blogrolls

    210 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  64. The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently

    210 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  65. Data Science at the Command Line

    209 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  66. Fast base64 encoding and decoding

    208 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  67. Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.im

    208 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  68. Getting free of toxic tech culture

    207 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  69. You Can’t Fire Equifax, but Your Employer Can

    206 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  70. Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations?

    206 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  71. British 15-year-old gained access to intelligence, pretending to be head of CIA

    205 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  72. Sugar lobby paid scientists to blur sugar's role in heart disease (2016)

    205 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  73. The Eve programming language project is winding down

    205 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  74. Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation

    205 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  75. C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013)

    204 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  76. Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly

    204 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  77. Send the Barbarian in First

    204 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  78. Blizzard games were vulnerable to DNS rebinding attack

    203 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  79. Stream and Go: News feeds for 300M users, built on RocksDB and Raft

    203 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  80. The U.S. will impose duties on solar equipment and washing machines made abroad

    202 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  81. Why is only half of Mars magnetized?

    202 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  82. Minigo: An open-source implementation of the AlphaGo Zero algorithm

    202 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  83. It’s Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done [audio]

    202 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  84. Beyond the Bitcoin bubble

    201 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  85. Cape Town could be the first city to run out of water

    200 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  86. Dark Algorithms and UX in Health Insurance

    199 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  87. Advanced Distributed Systems

    199 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  88. Donald Knuth turns 80, seeks problem-solvers for The Art of Computer Programming

    198 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  89. Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production

    198 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  90. The 10,000 Year Clock

    197 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  91. Can We Copy the Brain?

    197 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  92. Stream Processing for Go

    196 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  93. Google and Facebook are watching our every move online

    196 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  94. GitLab 10.4 released

    195 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  95. The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy

    195 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  96. Andrew Ng launches $175M AI fund

    194 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  97. Graham's Number Is Too Big to Tell How Big It Is

    193 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  98. On being an Engineering Manager

    192 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  99. Ethereum programming for web developers

    192 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  100. 'Text bomb' is latest Apple bug

    192 points • comment • jan 18, 2018