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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. C as an intermediate language (2012)

    129 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  2. Why Did a Billionaire Give $75M to a Philosophy Department?

    128 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  3. Show HN: Genact – A nonsense activity generator

    128 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  4. What's behind rich people pretending to be self-made?

    128 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  5. Resources for Learning about .NET Internals

    128 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  6. Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm

    128 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  7. How to Measure the Working Set Size on Linux

    127 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  8. In China, consumers are becoming more anxious about data privacy

    127 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  9. Year in Pixels

    127 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  10. Modern human brain organization emerged only recently

    127 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  11. Mobile Devices Compromised by Fake Secure Messaging Clients

    127 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  12. If you multitask, so will your team

    127 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  13. Optimizing hash tables: hiding the hash code

    126 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  14. Printing and binding your own books and manuals (2003)

    126 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  15. The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem

    126 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  16. Sh*tcoin vs. buttcoin: a dummies guide to cryptocurrency manipulation

    126 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  17. Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It

    126 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  18. Linear regression by hand

    126 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  19. Chat app for use when your battery is less than 5%

    125 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  20. How to Emulate a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Jessie) on Mac OS X

    125 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  21. Coinbase booked $1B in revenue last year, has told hovering VCs to back off

    125 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  22. Network Latencies and Speed of Light

    124 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  23. Becoming a Lawyer Without Going to Law School (2015)

    124 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  24. Inside Telegram’s ambitious $1.2B ICO to create the next Ethereum

    124 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  25. Show HN: Low cost CO₂ monitoring (your office) with Prometheus and Go

    124 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  26. Oil Shell: Success with Aboriginal, Alpine, and Debian Linux

    124 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  27. A Turkish physicist wrote research papers in prison

    124 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  28. Hawaii "button pusher" refusing to cooperate with FCC, internal investigators

    124 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  29. Greeks are abandoning cigarettes in record numbers

    123 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  30. The accidental HFT firm

    123 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  31. Mechanical Laser Show (2017) [video]

    123 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  32. The perplexing life of Ernő Rubik (1986)

    123 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  33. How America Fractured in 1968

    122 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  34. Audio Adversarial Examples

    122 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  35. Show HN: Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool

    122 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  36. Glassdoor and its effect on workplace culture

    122 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  37. A16z Monthly Newsletter: Good things come in threes

    122 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  38. A Simple Compiler in JavaScript

    122 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  39. Allocation is cheap in .NET until it is not

    121 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  40. Windows 10 could have synced email, contacts, calendars with all major providers

    121 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  41. TV, retail, advertising and cascading collapses

    121 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  42. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin

    121 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  43. Want to use my wifi? (2013)

    121 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  44. VM escape vulnerabilities patched in VirtualBox

    121 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  45. Hans Peter Luhn and the Birth of the Hashing Algorithm

    121 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  46. Timescale raises $16M from Benchmark, NEA, Two Sigma Ventures

    120 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  47. “The Problem Child of Seasonal Flu”: Beware This Winter’s Virus

    120 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  48. Universities Are Becoming Hedge Funds with Schools Attached (2016)

    120 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  49. Classic RAND Papers

    120 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  50. Net neutrality bill in CA

    120 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  51. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch is reportedly set for February 6th

    119 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  52. Car insurers accused of discriminating against people with Hotmail accounts

    119 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  53. Chemotherapy, Then and Now

    119 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  54. Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Center Systems

    119 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  55. North Korea’s fabric made from stone

    119 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  56. Do we really need a new BGP?

    119 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  57. Subverted Design

    119 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  58. After alleged 'bait and switch,' Nevada DMV cancels $78M IT contract

    119 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  59. United States v. Microsoft Corp

    118 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  60. Were the Cuban sonic attack victims actually poisoned?

    118 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  61. Neopets HTML Guide

    118 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  62. Experiments reveal faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track (2014)

    117 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  63. Advice for Aspiring Writers

    117 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  64. Isso – a commenting server similar to Disqus

    117 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  65. Ursula K. Le Guin has died

    117 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  66. Distribution vs. Innovation

    117 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  67. Formula E reveals second-generation car

    115 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  68. How to see a memory

    115 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  69. Acne Vulgaris: A Disease of Western Civilization (2002)

    115 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  70. A Mystery Manuscript Found in a Used Copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland’

    114 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  71. Cloudflare Access: Like BeyondCorp, but You Don’t Have to Be at Google to Use It

    114 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  72. Clojure Numerics: Orthogonalization and Least Squares

    114 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  73. China builds ‘world’s biggest air purifier’ and it seems to be working

    114 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  74. GoPro has discontinued its developer program

    113 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  75. Google thinks the sun is 15.81 light years from earth

    113 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  76. TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and copyright infringement

    112 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  77. What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult?

    112 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  78. High Sierra broke AFP searching on our server

    112 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  79. Scammers Using Fake News to Screw with Bitcoin Investors

    112 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  80. Online Communities Are the Best Thing About the Internet

    112 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  81. Tesla employees say Gigafactory problems worse than known

    112 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  82. Building blocks of Amazon ECS

    111 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  83. Jawbone of Earliest Modern Human Out of Africa Discovered in Israeli Cave

    111 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  84. Instruction explosion in Guile

    111 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  85. Elephants Are Scared of Bees

    110 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  86. Speedy Neural Networks for Smart Auto-Cropping of Images

    110 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  87. Unsafe Zig Is Safer Than Unsafe Rust

    110 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  88. Fears grow over Tether ‘printing press’ as auditors part ways

    109 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  89. Mono and WebAssembly – Updates on Static Compilation

    109 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  90. Microsoft’s PowerShell Core Offers Cross-Platform Automation

    109 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  91. Uncovering 2017’s Largest Malvertising Operation

    109 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  92. Code Less, Think More… Incrementally

    109 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  93. Progressive web apps are coming to iOS 11.3: Cupertino, we have a problem

    109 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  94. The salacious Middle Ages

    108 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

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

    108 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  96. About rel=noopener (2016)

    108 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  97. Tether has “dissolved” relationship with auditor Friedman LLP

    108 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  98. Claude Shannon built a machine to game roulette (2017)

    107 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  99. Clinical trial finds blood-plasma infusions for Alzheimer’s safe, promising

    107 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  100. NeoPG – an opiniated fork of GnuPG 2

    107 points • comment • jan 17, 2018