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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. Show HN: Cobrowse.io – Add screen sharing to any iOS or Android mobile app

    89 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  2. Hawaii’s false missile alert sent by worker believing attack on US was imminent

    89 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  3. GG-flip: simplest and most efficient ways to flip the sign of a number

    88 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  4. How much does it cost to build a home in Silicon Valley? (2016)

    88 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  5. Tether Is Breaking Its Peg to the Dollar

    88 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  6. What’s North Korea like?

    88 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  7. Jordan B Peterson, Critical Theory, and the New Bourgeoisie

    88 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  8. Photo Metadata and Search on MacOS

    88 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  9. The Melancholy of Don Bluth (2017)

    88 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  10. No evidence to support link between violent video games and behaviour

    88 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  11. Dropbox Developer Terms and Conditions

    88 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  12. More than 10 percent of $3.7B raised in ICOs has been stolen

    87 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  13. The Open Sourcerer's Magic Spell Book

    87 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  14. A theory of the learnable

    87 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  15. How to write a CHIP-8 interpreter

    87 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  16. Best ways to kill your startup

    86 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  17. Ethics in Machine Learning: Interview with Dr. Hanie Sedghi, Google Brain

    86 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  18. Designing Social Systems Without Causing Depression and War

    86 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  19. Paying journalists to promote brands in articles

    86 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  20. Tips for Application Performance (2015)

    86 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  21. Show HN: Datasette Publish – Turn CSVs into a SQLite-Backed JSON API

    86 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  22. V8 memory quiz

    86 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  23. Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience store

    86 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  24. “Pump-and-Dump” schemes in Telegram groups drive penny crypto coin prices up

    85 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  25. What Does It Mean to Die?

    85 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  26. A Washington state bill that would make it easier to fix your electronics

    85 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  27. The best way of looking at the brain is from within

    85 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  28. In California, Where Cancer Warnings Abound, Coffee Is Next in Line

    85 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  29. The London Time Machine

    85 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  30. LibreOffice 6.0 is coming

    85 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  31. Google Provides Free Nvidia K80 GPUs for Anyone to Train Deep Learning Models

    84 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  32. What's new in Swift 4.1

    84 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  33. Show HN: HardyPress – Use WordPress as a static site generator

    84 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  34. Biotech booms in China

    84 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  35. Making network authentication simple in a Bring Your Own Device environment

    84 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  36. GDPR and Google Analytics

    84 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  37. Isomorphic Go

    84 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  38. Retrospective: Looking Glass

    84 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  39. Twenty years of speedcubing (2003)

    84 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  40. Show HN: Peer-to-peer chat example built with JavaScript IPFS

    84 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  41. Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)

    83 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  42. The curious star appeal of Jordan Peterson

    83 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  43. Watching a Ridge Slide in Slow Motion, a Town Braces for Disaster

    83 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  44. The De Bruijn-Newman constant is non-negative

    83 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  45. Netflix plans to spend $8B to make its library 50 percent original by 2018

    83 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  46. A daredevil climber risking his life for breathtaking views

    83 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  47. Kotlin and linear programming

    83 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  48. LinkedIn won't show you your own connections without paying?

    82 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  49. CNN Is Closing Down Beme, YouTube Star Casey Neistat’s Video Company

    82 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  50. ‘The Shed at Dulwich’ was London’s top-rated restaurant. It didn’t exist

    82 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  51. Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling

    82 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  52. The reviewer’s fallacy: when critics aren’t critical enough

    82 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  53. U.S. To Probe Apple Over Updates That Slow Older iPhones

    82 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  54. How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry (2015)

    82 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  55. Ask HN: Remote workers, how do you show your work?

    82 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  56. Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp

    82 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  57. Waymo heads to Atlanta to test its self-driving cars

    82 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  58. SEC halts AriseBank ICO

    81 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  59. The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items an hour

    81 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  60. Drug lords make billions smuggling gold to Miami

    81 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  61. When a Therapist Puts Buddhism into Practice

    81 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  62. MacOS High Sierra Kills Terminal FTP

    81 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  63. Designing Schemaless, Uber Engineering’s Scalable Datastore Using MySQL (2016)

    80 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  64. Low-Level Thinking in High-Level Shading Languages (2013) [pdf]

    80 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  65. Quantifying the Effect of Tether

    80 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  66. Software Updates for IoT Devices and the Hidden Costs of Homegrown Updaters [pdf]

    80 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  67. US regulators charge three Bitcoin operators with fraud

    80 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  68. Great founders lead with product strategy

    80 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  69. 'Space graffiti': astronomers angry over launch of fake star into sky

    79 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  70. Ask HN: I own a large adult business and am moving to the Bay Area soon

    79 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  71. Apple in 2017: Report Card

    79 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  72. The SCO vs IBM Zombie Shambles On

    79 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  73. Let Me Ruin This for You: The Schadenfreude of Criticism

    79 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  74. Lojban

    79 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  75. Putting Ancient Recipes on the Plate

    79 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  76. Using page speed in mobile search ranking

    78 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  77. Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start

    78 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  78. Blocking via an Unsolvable CAPTCHA

    78 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  79. Bitcoin May Split Many Times in 2018

    78 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  80. SF tourist industry struggles to explain street misery to horrified visitors

    78 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  81. Copyright Royalty Board Boosts Songwriters’ Streaming Pay Nearly 50%

    78 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  82. Bitcoin’s energy usage is huge – we can't afford to ignore it

    77 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  83. Bitcoin and Ethereum tumble after renewed fears of regulatory crackdown

    77 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  84. Showing Off to the Universe: Beacons for the Afterlife of Our Civilization

    77 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  85. Tether has issued $450M USDT in past 4 days

    77 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  86. Cognitive and Attentional Mechanisms in Delay of Gratification (1972)

    77 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  87. Linear Regression A Tale of a Transform

    76 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  88. Ask HN: Where do you find great remote developers?

    76 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  89. MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weight Polaris Windows Core

    76 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  90. Hawaii missile alert standdown delayed by forgotten log-in

    75 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  91. Write dumb code

    75 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  92. RFC 8314: Use of Transport Layer Security for Email Submission and Access

    75 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  93. Connections between high blood sugar and dementia

    74 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  94. The Humanity Star

    74 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  95. Can I buy a GPU yet?

    74 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  96. Why Are Some People More Creative Than Others?

    74 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  97. Launch HN: ClearBrain (YC W18) – predictive models for app conversions and churn

    74 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  98. PointCNN – A simple and general framework for feature learning from point cloud

    73 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  99. Keurig to Acquire Dr Pepper Snapple in Largest Soft-Drink Deal Ever

    73 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  100. Show HN: Gymphy – Create Free Shareable Workout Plans

    73 points • comment • jan 27, 2018