woid

top stories

Hacker News (Mar 2018)

  1. A Supreme Court Case That Could Give Tech Giants More Power

    109 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  2. Show HN: Shiori – Simple self hosted bookmarks manager

    109 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  3. Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 PCs specifically set to block updates

    109 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  4. The New Law That Killed Craigslist’s Personals Could End the Web as We’ve Known

    109 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  5. The Building Blocks of Interpretability

    109 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  6. Investigation Confirms IBM Layoffs Targeted Older Workers

    109 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  7. Judge rules Seattle homeless man’s truck is a home

    108 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  8. Debugging across pipes and sockets with strace [pdf]

    108 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  9. Every Good Regulator of a System Must Be a Model of That System (1970) [pdf]

    108 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  10. Tandem – Decentralized, cross-editor, collaborative editing

    108 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  11. Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained neural network

    108 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  12. Mail art

    107 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  13. Fiftieth anniversary of Whole Earth Catalog

    107 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  14. Human-powered cranes and lifting devices (2010)

    107 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  15. Data on 1.2M Facebook users from 2005 (2011) [use archive.org url in thread]

    107 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  16. Comparing AWS Lambda performance of Node.js, Python, Java, C# and Go

    107 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  17. Tracing stolen Bitcoin, using a precedent from 1816

    107 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  18. An iOS App in Assembly (2014)

    107 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  19. Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth

    107 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  20. Enemy within: gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease

    106 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  21. Stigler Diet

    106 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  22. Ask HN: Will HN allow account and comment deletions?

    106 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  23. Amazon Is Hiring More Developers for Alexa Than Google Is Hiring for Everything

    106 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  24. Ask HN: Why is PayPal's password length limit still a thing?

    106 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  25. Types, and Why You Should Care [video]

    106 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  26. JavaScript and Node performance coding tips to make applications faster

    105 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  27. DoorDash raises $535M, now valued at $1.4B

    105 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  28. 'Fifth Generation' Became Japan's Lost Generation (1992)

    105 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  29. Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your Thinking

    105 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  30. Apparent use of Sandvine devices for malicious or dubious ends in two countries

    105 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  31. Dropbox Amendment to Form S-1

    105 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  32. Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog

    105 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  33. Userland PCI drivers

    105 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  34. Non-uniform memory access meets the OOM killer

    105 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  35. Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers

    105 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  36. Using Google Cloud AutoML to Classify Poisonous Australian Spiders

    104 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  37. Show HN: Hotspot 3D – Compare Phones with WebGL

    104 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  38. When Did Americans Stop Marrying Cousins? Ask the World’s Largest Family Tree

    104 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  39. Growth ideas for SaaS

    104 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  40. Roger Bannister has died

    104 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  41. Creator of “Ren and Stimpy” Accused of Preying on Underage Girls

    104 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  42. Using Prettier to format your JavaScript code

    104 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  43. Clojure Don’ts: Lazy Effects (2015)

    104 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  44. Mononoke – A Mercurial source control server designed to support large monorepos

    104 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  45. Eating out increases levels of phthalates in the body, study finds

    104 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  46. I've just learned Rust and I think I'm in love

    104 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  47. Make your own build system

    103 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  48. The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution (2017)

    103 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  49. ProteinNet: A standardized data set for machine learning of protein structure

    103 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  50. How Facebook’s Naive Optimism Built a Toolbox for Totalitarianism (2014)

    103 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  51. What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town

    103 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  52. Varnish Cache 6.0.0

    103 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  53. Sortix: small self-hosting OS aiming to be a clean, modern Posix implementation

    103 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  54. Equifax CIO Put ‘2 and 2 Together’ Then Sold Stock, SEC Says

    103 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  55. Launch HN: EnvKey (YC W18) – Smart Configuration and Secrets Management

    103 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  56. Income Inequality (2016)

    103 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  57. Show HN: RemoteHacker.com – Find a project partner

    102 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  58. Representing the Impractical and Impossible with JDK 10 “var”

    102 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  59. Images of Los Angeles when it was covered in wetlands

    102 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  60. K programming language (2005)

    102 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  61. Amazon's Japanese headquarters raided by nation's regulator

    102 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  62. The voices of ancient women

    102 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  63. I am a “MasterChef” survivor

    102 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  64. Takeaways from Nassim Taleb's New Book “Skin in the Game”

    102 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  65. The Eccentric Lives of Steinhaus, Banach and Ulam (2014)

    102 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  66. Interstellar communication. IX. Message decontamination is impossible

    102 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  67. YouTube’s fake views economy

    102 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  68. Unratified Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

    101 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  69. CIA new nominee director Gina Haspel ran a torture site and destroyed evidence

    101 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  70. A small town that kept Walmart out now faces Amazon

    101 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  71. Biologist E.O. Wilson suggests ‘moon shot’ conservation effort

    101 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  72. Fallout 3 in Fallout 4 mod cancelled due to voice acting copyright

    101 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  73. The real reason for large DDoS attacks? It's IP Spoofing, not memcached

    101 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  74. Fact Checking “The Founder”

    101 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  75. GitHub client built with React, Apollo, GraphQL

    101 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  76. Sndio: a small audio and MIDI framework part of the OpenBSD project

    101 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  77. Carl Icahn dumps $31M in steel-related stocks before White House tariff talks

    101 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  78. Code your own Proof of Stake blockchain in Go

    100 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  79. HALP: High-Accuracy Low-Precision Training

    100 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  80. Nim language v0.18.0 released

    100 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  81. In field tests, device harvests water from desert air

    100 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  82. Why GitHub Won't Help with Hiring

    100 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  83. Ask HN: What tools have most helped your day-to-day productivity?

    100 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  84. GEMM: From Pure C to SSE Optimized Micro Kernels (2014)

    100 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  85. APL Style: Patterns/Anti-patterns

    100 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  86. Apple unveils new iPad 9.7“ with Apple Pencil support

    99 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  87. The KK Computer: A Radical 6502 Redesign

    99 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  88. It has gotten much easier to wage record-breaking DDoSes

    99 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  89. ‘Blockchain’ is meaningless

    99 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  90. Postmates postmortem: eight hours as delivery drivers

    99 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  91. Google Chrome’s next update will finally block autoplay videos that have sound

    99 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  92. Bandaid – Dropbox service proxy

    99 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  93. SCL – A Very British Coup

    99 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  94. Burning Out: What Really Happens Inside a Crematorium

    99 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  95. Tech company Lanetix fired software engineers seeking to organize, union claims

    99 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  96. OpenTTD 1.8.0-RC1

    99 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  97. Picat: A Logic-Based, Multi-Paradigm, Programming Language

    99 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  98. On journeys (2015)

    99 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  99. Kenneth Eng Is on the Other Side of Viral Now

    99 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  100. Firefox Master Password System Has Been Poorly Secured for the Past 9 Years

    99 points • comment • mar 19, 2018