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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. NeoPG – an opiniated fork of GnuPG 2

    107 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

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

    107 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  3. How to Beat Amazon

    107 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  4. Show HN: Bootrino.com – Netboot Run-From-RAM OS's on AWS, Google and Digital Ocean

    106 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  5. Rejoiner: Unified GraphQL schema from gRPC microservices

    106 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  6. An old theory of quantized gravity is gaining new life

    106 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  7. Pebble is dead and hardware buttons are going with it

    106 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  8. Ultraslow radio for decentralized global digital communication (2013)

    105 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  9. Tesla ‘on Autopilot’ slams into parked fire truck on freeway

    105 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  10. Towards LaTeX in the Browser

    105 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  11. How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments

    105 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  12. Primg – Generate prime numbers whose binary representation looks like any image

    105 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  13. A History of the Erlang VM (2011) [pdf]

    104 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  14. High Performance Browser Networking (2013)

    104 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  15. Artist Nan Goldin​ takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin

    104 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  16. Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web

    104 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  17. QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics

    104 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  18. Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox

    104 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  19. Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011)

    104 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  20. Pornhub “Hawaii on Alert” traffic stats

    104 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  21. The Evolution of Pleasure and Pain

    103 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  22. Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature (2013)

    103 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  23. Piknik – Copy and paste anything over the network

    103 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  24. How Does MoviePass Make Money?

    102 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  25. DNA Testing Botched My Family's Heritage

    102 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  26. Objects larger than the wavelength of sound in an acoustic tractor beam

    102 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  27. Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News

    102 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  28. How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook

    102 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  29. Root Cause of Reboot Issue Identified; Updated Guidance

    101 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  30. Using Self-Organizing Maps to Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem

    101 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  31. Upcoming Go protobuf release

    101 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  32. Dr. Seuss’ arms race allegory

    101 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  33. Ted Nelson’s published papers on computers and interaction, 1965 to 1977

    100 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  34. Mistakes in time

    100 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  35. The MacBook Air: A Decade’s Worth of Legacy

    100 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  36. Superheroes don’t work 90-hour weeks

    100 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  37. China’s Economic Growth Looks Strong, Maybe Too Strong

    100 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  38. What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?

    100 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  39. SpaceX performs static fire test on Falcon Heavy

    99 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  40. Google experiments in local news with an app called Bulletin

    99 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  41. GDB 8.1 Released

    99 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  42. What Life Looks Like When Night Lasts for Days

    99 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  43. What gig workers can learn from romance writers

    98 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  44. Digital marketing: a free curriculum

    98 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  45. Ask HN: How do you keep track of releases/deployments of dozens micro-services?

    98 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  46. Naomi Parker Fraley, the Real Rosie the Riveter, Dies at 96

    98 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  47. U.S trade body backs Bombardier against Boeing

    98 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  48. Beyond Biohazard: Why Danger Symbols Can’t Last Forever

    98 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  49. In Japan, there's an industry devoted to cleaning up after people who died alone

    98 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  50. Ursula K. Le Guin on “Spare Time”

    97 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  51. Replace Skype with Discord for Better Audio Quality and Web-Based Interviews

    97 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  52. ARM immediate value encoding (2014)

    96 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  53. Candy Wrappers Are Listening (2014)

    96 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  54. The DNA of Iceland's First Known Black Man, Recreated from Living Descendants

    96 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  55. CodeReddit – Reddit that looks like code

    96 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  56. Maersk reinstalled thousands of servers and workstations to fix NotPeyta

    96 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  57. How JavaScript works: The building blocks of Web Workers

    96 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  58. Nicolas Cage DeepFake

    96 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  59. Newton’s Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble [pdf]

    95 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  60. A man accused of cheating at video games may lose his Guinness World Record

    95 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  61. Guaranteed Minimum Agriculture: Why Basic Jobs Might Fare Better Than UBI

    95 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  62. Show HN: Collateralized Debt Agreements Using Smart Contracts and Virtual Cats

    95 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  63. Easy laser-cut electronics cases for maker boards (2017)

    95 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  64. Biker Protestor 'Throttles' Traffic Around FCC Headquarters

    95 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  65. Twitter's COO Noto Resigns to Become Chief Executive at SoFi

    95 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  66. Show HN: A radically more scalable alternative to Bayesian Optimization

    94 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  67. Predicting Death for Better End-Of-Life Care

    94 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  68. The Untreatable: The Spanish Flu of 1918

    94 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  69. The Peterloo Massacre of 1819

    94 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  70. Visual tour of classical electromagnetism

    94 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  71. TomTom ditches map updates for some sat-navs

    94 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  72. Cryptocurrency bloodbath continues as Bitcoin falls below $10,000

    94 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  73. Archiving the alternative press threatened by wealthy buyers

    93 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  74. Show HN: Triangulart – Isometric graphic editor, like pixel art with triangles

    93 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  75. WebAssembly and Rust: performance analysis

    93 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  76. Fir: A Friendly, Interactive Ruby REPL

    93 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  77. Drug companies alleged to have flooded West Virginia with opioid painkillers

    92 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  78. Inside Moscow's Metro

    92 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  79. Show HN: Bistro – A light-weight column-oriented data processing engine

    92 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  80. Data Brokers: Online Game Revenue Models with AI

    92 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  81. America's Love Affair with Avocado

    92 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  82. The Joys of Victimhood (1989)

    92 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  83. Writing Complex Macros in Rust: Reverse Polish Notation

    92 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  84. The Quantum Theory and Reality (1979) [pdf]

    92 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  85. Wreck found by reporter may be last American slave ship

    92 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  86. Building a Website with C++

    92 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  87. Tarsnap Support for Bitcoin Ending April First

    92 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  88. A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot

    91 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  89. Do You Have the Right to Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawyer Disagrees?

    91 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  90. Lithium chloride kills a honey bee parasite by a systemic mode of action

    91 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  91. The User Experience of Lootboxes

    91 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  92. Asana raises $75M Series D round led by Generation Investment Management

    91 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  93. CSS Gridish

    91 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  94. The Lost Art of Staying Put

    90 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  95. How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual

    90 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  96. Loss of Locational Privacy While Traveling in Your Automobile (2013) [pdf]

    90 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  97. Blockshell – A minimal blockchain learning CLI

    90 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  98. Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase

    90 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  99. A new grad SDE makes 2x more in SF than Toronto after tax and COL

    89 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  100. Oculus Start: Technical and Financial Resources for Beginning VR Developers

    89 points • comment • jan 19, 2018