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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. 'Text bomb' is latest Apple bug

    192 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  2. AI is going to supercharge surveillance

    191 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  3. The Design of Software is a Thing Apart

    191 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  4. Bitfinex fails to perform promised audits

    191 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  5. ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US

    191 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  6. Ask HN: Is big-endian dead?

    191 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  7. Taking Equifax to Small Claims Court

    190 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  8. Some thoughts on Spectre and Meltdown

    190 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  9. Three months of content moderation for Facebook in Berlin

    190 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  10. Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy

    190 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  11. The UX of AI

    189 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  12. Waymo Launches Its Self-Driving Armada

    189 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  13. Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business

    188 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  14. The Challenges of Being in the New Contract Workforce

    188 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  15. Announcing TypeScript 2.7

    188 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  16. Fools and their crypto

    187 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  17. How to tame the tech titans

    187 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  18. MPEG: A crisis, the causes and a solution

    187 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  19. My Delorean runs Perl

    186 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  20. BMW's Apple CarPlay annual fee is next-level gouging

    186 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  21. Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose? (2017)

    186 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  22. The Neuroscience of Changing Your Mind

    186 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  23. Nanopore MinION – $1k solid-state DNA sequencers

    186 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  24. The worst distractions are the ones we love

    185 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  25. Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda

    184 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  26. The Fall of Travis Kalanick

    184 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  27. Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++

    184 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  28. California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B

    182 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  29. Librem 5 Phone Progress Report

    182 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  30. When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager crew

    182 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  31. Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)

    182 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  32. Qubes Air: Generalizing the Qubes Architecture

    181 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  33. Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong

    181 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  34. Show HN: How to store a set of four 5-bit values in one 16-bit value

    180 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  35. Dell could emerge as a public company through a reverse merger with VMware

    180 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  36. OnePlus Is Again Sending User Data to a Chinese Company Without User Consent

    179 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  37. Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

    179 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  38. Why Personas Fail

    178 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  39. Redox OS Crash Challenge

    177 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  40. Indistinguishable from Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips (2012) [video]

    176 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  41. MiniZinc: free and open-source constraint modeling language

    176 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  42. SPAs are harder and always will be (2013)

    175 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  43. No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore

    175 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  44. Interactive GPU Programming, Part 1: Hello CUDA

    175 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  45. Why Don’t the 20 Cities on Amazon's HQ2 Shortlist Collectively Bargain?

    175 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  46. Exploring what loneliness does to the human body

    175 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  47. YC Series A Program

    174 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  48. The hidden costs of serverless

    174 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  49. Can staying awake beat depression?

    172 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  50. A practitioner’s guide to reading programming languages papers

    172 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  51. Find and analyze any reachable server and device on the internet

    171 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  52. Can (a ==1 && a== 2 && a==3) ever evaluate to true?

    170 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  53. Modern network load balancing and proxying

    170 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  54. The radical idea of a world without jobs

    170 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  55. Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology including testosterone production

    169 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  56. Fourier transforms of images (2017)

    169 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  57. How to Hack a Turned-Off Computer, or Running Unsigned Code in Intel ME

    169 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  58. The Transistor, Part 1: Groping in the Dark

    169 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  59. Alibaba neural network defeats human in global reading test

    169 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  60. High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets (2013)

    168 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  61. The Founder’s Guide To Selling Your Company (2014)

    168 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  62. The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google

    168 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  63. Black Death 'spread by humans not rats'

    168 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  64. Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

    167 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  65. Bolt: An End-To-End Payments Stack with Zero Fraud

    167 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  66. Life in the age of noise

    167 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  67. Making Sense of Super Smash Bros. Melee

    166 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  68. OverTheWire: Wargames to learn and practice security concepts

    166 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  69. Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on Leave

    165 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  70. Google winning 98% ad spots it auctions off, after order to treat others equally

    165 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  71. Switzerland “Should Become the Crypto-Nation” Says Minister

    165 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  72. A minimalist guide to tmux

    164 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  73. PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

    164 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  74. Webpack 4 Beta released

    164 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  75. Show HN: Interactive Ansible Tutorial

    164 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  76. Prisma – An open-source GraphQL API layer for your database

    164 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  77. Linear logic and deep learning [pdf]

    164 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  78. Python 1.0.0 is out (1994)

    163 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  79. Experiences with running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes

    162 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  80. The Bad Hair, Incorrect Feathering, and Missing Skin Flaps of Dinosaur Art

    161 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  81. Deep-copying in JavaScript

    161 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  82. Patchwork – Decentralized messaging and sharing app built on Secure Scuttlebutt

    161 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  83. Driving a Car in Manhattan Could Cost $11 Under Congestion Plan

    161 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  84. Show HN: PonziCoin, a transparent, decentralized Ponzi Scheme you can trust

    161 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  85. Ivy – A static website generator built in Python

    160 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  86. Nuclear Commission Approves a Safety Aspect of NuScale Power’s Advanced Reactor

    160 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  87. Paul Bocuse, Celebrated French Chef, Dies at 91

    160 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  88. Bootstrap 4

    160 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  89. Ticks may be the next global health threat

    160 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  90. Google ditches Ubuntu for Debian for internal engineering environment

    160 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  91. Linux Driver Management 1.0 Released

    160 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  92. Show HN: 2D multiplayer battle royale game

    160 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  93. Vitalik Buterin Has Left VC Firm Fenbushi Capital

    160 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  94. Warren Miller, Ski Bum Turned Filmmaker, Dies at 93

    160 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  95. GRV – Git Repository Viewer

    160 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  96. Ransomware as a Service

    159 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  97. Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble

    159 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  98. Inventor Claims to Have Solved Floating Point Error Problem

    159 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  99. Programming the Linux Framebuffer

    158 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  100. However improbable: The story of a processor bug

    158 points • comment • jan 19, 2018