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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. Clive OS: Go applications that can run without an operating system (2016)

    158 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  2. Requiring secure contexts for all new features

    158 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  3. However improbable: The story of a processor bug

    158 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  4. Show HN: On-disk B+ tree for Python 3

    158 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  5. When the Soviet Union Paid Pepsi in Warships

    157 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  6. End of the conference era?

    157 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  7. Dear SaaS vendors

    157 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  8. On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git

    157 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  9. I Built the Largest Natural Light Wet Plate Studio in the US in Over a Century

    157 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  10. Outperforming LAPACK with C++ metaprogramming

    156 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  11. Paxos derived

    156 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  12. Steve Yegge Quits, Saying Google Is 100% Competitor Focused

    156 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  13. The Woman Behind Two Men and a Truck

    156 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  14. Why it costs so much to be poor in America

    155 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  15. To Save Drowning People, Ask “What Would Light Do?”

    155 points • comment • jan 14, 2018

  16. Your company can increase voter turnout: make Election Day a company holiday

    155 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  17. Goldman Sachs Report Explores Use of Bitcoin as Currency

    155 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  18. Perl 6 Optimism

    154 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  19. How Generative Music Works

    154 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  20. Study produces 3D images that float

    154 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  21. “You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t understand why”

    154 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  22. Postgres indexes under the hood

    153 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  23. MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars

    152 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  24. Boring Flamethrower

    152 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  25. How PayPal Shares Your Data

    151 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  26. The eardrums move when the eyes move

    150 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  27. Where Planes Go to Die: A One Way Trip to the Mojave Boneyard (2015)

    150 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  28. Private landowners blocking access to public lands in the American West

    150 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  29. 9-5 Is Out. Try the 1-6 Instead

    149 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  30. An island that switches countries every six months

    149 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  31. Goodyear Hid Evidence of 'The Worst Tire in History' Linked to at Least 9 Deaths

    149 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  32. Non-Convex Optimization for Machine Learning

    148 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  33. Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion

    148 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  34. Reverse-engineering FPGAs [video]

    148 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  35. Designing Distributed Systems E-Book

    147 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  36. It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless

    147 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  37. Yacob and Amo: African precursors to Enlightenment thinkers

    147 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  38. Understanding the C/C++ memory model

    147 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  39. Introducing Chronicle, a new Alphabet business dedicated to cybersecurity

    147 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  40. Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985 (2014)

    146 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  41. Hacker101: A free class for web security

    145 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  42. Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older

    145 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  43. Vulnerable industrial controls directly connected to Internet

    145 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  44. More Things I Wish I’d Known About Bash

    144 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  45. Why I find IOTA alarming

    144 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  46. CloudFlair: Bypassing CloudFlare using Internet-wide scan data

    144 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  47. It Was Bad UX, not a “Wrong Button” in Hawaii

    144 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  48. Opening Remarks at the Securities Regulation Institute

    143 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  49. Help Recover Climate Data from Old Ship Logs

    143 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  50. Rust and QML: a timely example

    143 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  51. Grumpy Cat wins payout in copyright lawsuit

    143 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  52. FOSDEM 2018 schedule

    142 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  53. Drones that can plant 100k trees a day

    142 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  54. Diablo creator David Brevik is back with a new game: It Lurks Below

    142 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  55. The Real Adam Smith

    142 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  56. Citus and pg_partman: Creating a scalable time series database on Postgres

    141 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  57. My Forgotten Language: the brain can lose and reclaim an abandoned mother tongue

    141 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  58. Mobile Device Management invades privacy

    141 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  59. BlackRock’s Message: Contribute to Society, or Risk Losing Our Support

    141 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  60. A therapy chatbot and app for depression and anxiety

    140 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  61. Discontinue support for weak cryptographic standards

    140 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  62. Low-Latency Video Processing Using Thousands of Tiny Threads [pdf]

    140 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  63. The good guy/bad guy myth

    140 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  64. Conflict vs. Mistake

    140 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  65. Building a Distributed Log from Scratch: Sketching a New System

    140 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  66. OpenWrt in a WiFi card reader (2017)

    140 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  67. gRPC-Go Engineering Practices

    139 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  68. Advanced Denanonymization through Strava

    139 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  69. Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project

    138 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  70. Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans

    138 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  71. Why Tesla's autopilot can't see a stopped firetruck

    138 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  72. Command Line Heroes Podcast

    138 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  73. With Fungi in the Mix, Concrete Can Fill Its Own Cracks

    137 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  74. Our Ambitious Plan to Make Insecure PHP Software a Thing of the Past

    136 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  75. Sleep and Mortality: A Population-Based 22-Year Follow-Up Study (2007)

    136 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  76. 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning

    136 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  77. Do or undo – there is no VACUUM

    136 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  78. I am a roboticist in a cheese factory

    136 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  79. How China Spied on the African Union’s Computers

    135 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  80. Leap: An Online Community for Women

    135 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  81. America’s Fastest Spy Plane May Be Back and Hypersonic

    134 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  82. Long-Term Consequences of Spectre and Its Mitigations

    134 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  83. How Slack Stays Secure During Hyper Growth

    134 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  84. Tensorflow 1.5.0

    133 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  85. CoreRT – .NET Core runtime optimized for AOT compilation

    133 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  86. Client cheques that I rejected

    133 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  87. Why we wrote our Kafka Client in Pony

    133 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  88. PostgreSQL 10: Partitions of partitions

    133 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  89. The cost of games

    132 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  90. Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0

    132 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  91. Front (YC S14) Raises $66M

    132 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  92. ‘We Shall Overcome’ Is Put in Public Domain in a Copyright Settlement

    132 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  93. Decades of movie poster history go online

    132 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  94. Tinder's lack of encryption allows spying

    131 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  95. Why is setState asynchronous?

    131 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  96. Why code that never goes wrong can still be wrong

    131 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  97. Why Understanding Space Is So Hard (2016)

    130 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  98. I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant

    129 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  99. Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants Is Arrested

    129 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  100. How a 22-Year-Old Discovered Meltdown and Spectre

    129 points • comment • jan 17, 2018