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Hacker News (Apr 2018)

  1. Ask HN: What visas are available for working in Europe without a degree?

    113 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  2. Background checks pay for Checkr, which just raised $100M

    113 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  3. In Historic Move, Harvard Teaching and Research Assistants Vote to Unionize

    113 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  4. Cancer breakthrough leads China’s biotech boom

    113 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  5. Germs That Love Diet Soda

    113 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  6. Lessons on Bubbles from Bitcoin

    112 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  7. Show HN: React Pattern Book – A low maintenance pattern library/style guide

    112 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  8. Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator with Optimized Message Datapath

    112 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  9. Rationale: Or why am I bothering to rewrite nanomsg?

    112 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  10. Hand Made Vacuum Tubes by Claude Paillard (2012) [video]

    112 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  11. Basecoin, aka the Basis Protocol

    112 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  12. AMD Ryzen 7 2700X User Publishes Benchmarks and Overclocking Results

    112 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  13. As Facebook Struggles, Rivals’ Leaders Stay Mostly Mum

    112 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  14. iOS, the Future of MacOS, Freedom, Security and Privacy

    112 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  15. Finland is scrapping plans to extend its basic income project

    112 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  16. 14 years of Mark Zuckerberg saying sorry, not sorry about Facebook

    112 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  17. Homeland Security to Compile Database of Journalists, Bloggers

    112 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  18. Hollywood Groups Advocate for More Internet Regulation

    111 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  19. Migrating to React’s New Context API

    111 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  20. The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper

    111 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  21. Interactive computational neuroscience – part 1, spiking neurons

    111 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  22. Lung Cancer Patients Live Longer with Immune Therapy

    111 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  23. The Chemistry of William Gibson’s Neuromancer

    110 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  24. Newspaper op-eds change minds

    110 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  25. Losing the Nobel Prize

    110 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  26. Japan Wants to Allow Crypto ICOs [video]

    110 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  27. F-Secure Hack Can Unlock Millions of Hotel Rooms with Handheld Device

    110 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  28. Unprivileged Docker Builds – A Proof of Concept

    110 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  29. Modeling the Magic Leap One Experience

    110 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  30. Designing, folding, and flying the finest paper airplanes [video]

    110 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  31. Union Types in Flow and Reason

    109 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  32. Friendship’s Dark Side

    109 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  33. 'We're doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else dare mention

    109 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  34. Zuckerberg struggles to name a single Facebook competitor

    109 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  35. Dapps

    109 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  36. Crystals That May Have Helped Vikings Navigate Northern Seas

    109 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  37. Dissecting the NVIDIA Volta GPU Architecture via Microbenchmarking

    109 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  38. AMD Ryzen 7 2700X gets overclocked to break the 6GHz barrier

    109 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  39. Ask HN: Uncommon but attainable programmer skillsets valued by employers?

    109 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  40. The World After Capital

    109 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  41. What is empathy?

    108 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  42. Peepeth: Unstoppable Microblogging

    108 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  43. Turn TensorFlow functions into mathematical notations and diagrams

    108 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  44. Gerontopoly: Homeownership, wealth, and age

    108 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  45. Notes on Resonance

    108 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  46. Programming in the Debugger

    108 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  47. The murder that shook Iceland

    108 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  48. Airbus and Boeing are exploring the viability of electric planes

    108 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  49. GraphQL Best Practices

    108 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  50. Drupal Remote Code Execution vulnerability exploited widely

    108 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  51. When algorithms surprise us

    108 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  52. George Washington’s “Yelp Reviews”

    108 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  53. In Racine County, houses are being designated ‘blighted’ to make way for Foxconn

    108 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  54. Ask HN: Effective methods to fight depression?

    108 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  55. Show HN: Turn Touch wooden smart home remote now shipping

    107 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  56. U.S. Said to Investigate AT&T and Verizon Over Wireless Collusion Claim

    107 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  57. Get Started with Blockchain Using the New AWS Blockchain Templates

    107 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  58. Chart of the Milky Way Includes More Than 1B Stars

    107 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  59. Power9 Benchmarks vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance on Debian Linux

    107 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  60. Google is about to launch a Gmail Web Redesign

    107 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  61. The BEAM needs an APL-y language

    107 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  62. Avoid Google Maps with Gnome Maps on GNU/Linux

    106 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  63. US Navy remotely lands F/A-18 Super Hornet on carrier deck

    106 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  64. Everything You Wanted to Know About Synchronization (2013) [pdf]

    106 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  65. 911 calls from chronically ill drop after Milwaukee community initiative

    106 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  66. Earth Day and the Hockey Stick: A Singular Message

    106 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  67. Two Decades of War Have Eroded the Morale of America’s Troops

    106 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  68. C++17 Compiler Bug Hunt

    106 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  69. A Garage Sale Find of Rare Beatles Photos Took Collector on Magical Mystery Tour

    105 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  70. Gruen transfer

    105 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  71. The Fossil distributed version control system

    105 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  72. Anatomy of a Program in Memory (2009)

    105 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  73. Amazon is said to be building home robots

    105 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  74. Rich Formula: Quant Trading (2015)

    105 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  75. Alphabet's Median Pay Nears $200k

    105 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  76. The Qualcomm 'Tax' Rebellion (2017)

    105 points • comment • apr 07, 2018

  77. What Color is Your Function? (2015)

    105 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  78. Apps and scripts that make exported Facebook data easier to handle and organise

    104 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  79. New features from the last few versions of Git

    104 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  80. Hyper 2, Electron based terminal

    104 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  81. EdgeDB: A New Beginning

    104 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  82. The Blindness of Social Wealth

    103 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  83. The Lava Layer Anti-Pattern (2014)

    103 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  84. A ‘thrilling’ mission to get the Swedish to change overnight

    103 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  85. Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food?

    103 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  86. MoviePass no longer lets you see the same movie more than once

    103 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  87. Dunbar's Number

    103 points • comment • apr 07, 2018

  88. Generative Adversarial Networks for Extreme Learned Image Compression

    103 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  89. No “Material Difference Between 5G and LTE”

    102 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  90. MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading

    102 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  91. Extra Technical Obstacles for Facebook Quitters

    102 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  92. How the Nintendo Switch prevents firmware downgrades

    102 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  93. Tokyo and Hong Kong in 2018

    102 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  94. The illusion of time

    102 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  95. The Theory of Quantum Information

    102 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  96. A Few Thoughts on Ray Ozzie’s “Clear” Proposal

    102 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  97. Rural Kansas is dying

    102 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  98. FDA clears first contact lens with light-adaptive technology

    102 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  99. The real threat to Facebook is the Kool-Aid turning sour

    102 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  100. Incrementally Improving the DOM

    101 points • comment • apr 09, 2018