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Hacker News (Jan 2018)

  1. Too Much Music: A Failed Experiment in Dedicated Listening

    73 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

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

    73 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  3. Increased Network Bandwidth for EC2 Instances

    73 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  4. Two Different Kinds of Illustration

    73 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  5. Bad month for the main thread

    73 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  6. Game consoles are doing better than ever

    72 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  7. Weaponising Information: Enter an Age of Unbridled Hyperconnectivity

    72 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  8. Venezuelan Hyperinflation Explodes, Soaring Over 440,000 Percent

    72 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  9. Update on Pocket and Firefox Integration

    72 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  10. The iOS Economy, Updated

    72 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  11. Canary Releases in Practice

    72 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  12. Mental Overload Detection with Respiration Variability Spectrogram

    72 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  13. Postgres Hidden Gems

    72 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  14. Ask HN: Do You Consider Remote a Working Perk?

    72 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  15. Kotlin 1.2.20 released

    72 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  16. How Hackers Are Hiding Content and Links via PNG Files

    72 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  17. Bug of the Year (2011)

    72 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  18. What's Hiding Inside Egypt's Great Pyramid? Tiny Robots May Find Out

    71 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  19. Google’s Project Fi now caps data bills at $60

    71 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  20. The Impact of Listening to Music on Cognitive Performance (2013)

    71 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  21. How Apple fumbled a five-year lead in voice control

    71 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  22. All Followers Are Fake Followers

    71 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  23. Your recruiter is not your friend

    71 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  24. Pushing the Limits of Extreme Breath-Holding

    71 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  25. Blockchain Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90%

    70 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  26. People Keeping Mold-A-Rama Alive

    70 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  27. Welcome to the neighbourhood, have you read the terms of service?

    70 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  28. Ask HN: Mozilla Persona Post-Mortem

    70 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  29. Tesla’s Elon Musk May Have Boldest Pay Plan in Corporate History

    70 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  30. The Gen Z Pyramid Scheme Sweeping Instagram

    70 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  31. Governments Worry That Cryptocurrencies Could Be the ‘Next Swiss Bank Account’

    70 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  32. Membarrier system call performance and the future of Userspace RCU on Linux

    70 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  33. New porn laws will mean Pornhub asks for your name and address

    70 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  34. The 2018 Seed Stage Reset

    69 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  35. Rethinking front-end error reporting

    69 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  36. A look inside Amazon’s Spheres as they get set to open

    69 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  37. Using VirtualBox to install Debian onto an external USB drive for Mac

    69 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  38. Starting an ISP is hard (2016)

    69 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  39. Breaking Into an Information Security Career

    69 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  40. Compared to paper towel, Dyson hand dryers blow 1300x as many viral germs (2016)

    69 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  41. Solresol

    69 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  42. Greenlet – Move an async function into its own thread in the browser

    68 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  43. To help model financial systems, some economists are turning to biology

    68 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  44. Apple rejects Puffin Browser on iOS

    68 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  45. Keeping “Free Law” Free

    68 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  46. Declassified documents show three Mexican presidents worked for the CIA

    68 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  47. Controlling a Quadcopter with Hand Gestures

    68 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  48. Coincheck Says It Lost Crypto Coins Valued at About $400M

    68 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  49. Privacy-preserving sentence semantic similarity

    68 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  50. Fuzzing TCP servers

    68 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  51. Bitcoin drops below $10K after three days of cryptocurrency correction

    68 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  52. All Your IOPS Are Belong to Us: Case Study in Performance Optimization (2015) [pdf]

    67 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  53. Nuclio: Serverless for Real-Time and Data-Driven Applications

    67 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  54. Malicious Chrome extension is next to impossible to manually remove

    67 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  55. California Police Chiefs Misrepresent License Plate Privacy Bill

    67 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  56. An ER visit, a $12,000 bill – and a health insurer that wouldn’t pay

    67 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  57. Open Application for YC Growth Program

    67 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  58. Show HN: HTML5 webcam pics to email with motion detection

    67 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  59. Styled Components v3.0.0

    67 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  60. GE Woes Deepen as SEC Investigation Throws Wrench in Turnaround

    66 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  61. Mike Moritz slams politically correct tech culture, praises Chinese work ethic

    66 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  62. Teaching an Almost 40-year Old Unix about Backspace

    66 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  63. Serverless Golang API with AWS Lambda

    66 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  64. Women who took on the Mafia

    65 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  65. Open Letter to the Airbnb Community About Building a 21st Century Company

    65 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  66. Milton's Morality: Fallen Man and the Fallen Stature of 'Paradise Lost'

    65 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  67. Show HN: A blockchain alternative to Airbnb

    65 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  68. Minitel – The Rise and Fall of a National Tech Treasure [video]

    65 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  69. Ariane rocket suffers from rare launch anomaly

    65 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  70. Httpie: A cURL alternative

    64 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  71. Wells Fargo double charged everyone on their bill pays today

    64 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  72. Do compilers take inline as a hint?

    64 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  73. Machine Learning-Based End-To-End CRISPR/Cas9 Guide Design

    64 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  74. Mice can inherit learned sensitivity to a smell (2013)

    64 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  75. The Trippy, High-Speed World of Drone Racing

    64 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  76. Posse of SF police with battering ram sent to arrest architect for iPhone theft

    63 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  77. Chipmakers Rally in Talent War

    63 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  78. Apple Expands California Self-Driving Test Fleet to 27 Cars

    63 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  79. The Anti-Bamboozler: Early writings of H. L. Mencken

    63 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  80. Language at the End of the World

    63 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  81. Who Built the Pyramids? (2003)

    63 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  82. Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years

    63 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  83. The revolutionary ideas of Thomas Kuhn

    63 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  84. Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apostrophes

    63 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  85. How big cats hunt zebras and impalas, and how these prey flee their predators

    63 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  86. The Economics of Privacy (2005)

    62 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  87. On the global survival of mafias

    62 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  88. A motorbike-racing robot

    62 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  89. Measuring the Tendency of CNNs to Learn Surface Statistical Regularities

    61 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  90. Scalable and accurate deep learning for electronic health records

    61 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  91. Lifeguards use a drone to help rescue people in danger of drowning

    61 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  92. Podcasters are seeing encouraging numbers

    61 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  93. “This Is Serious”: Facebook Begins Its Downward Spiral

    61 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  94. Apple prepares macOS users for discontinuation of 32-bit app support

    61 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  95. Choosing between programming in the kernel or in user space

    61 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  96. A password for the Hawaii emergency agency was hiding in a public photo

    61 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  97. After Bitcoin Futures, Watch Out for Crypto Repos

    61 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  98. Kickass – Asteroid on any web page

    60 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  99. About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.3

    60 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  100. A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy

    60 points • comment • jan 30, 2018