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Hacker News (Apr 2018)

  1. Hidden Masterpieces of the NYC Subway

    93 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  2. Turbo Pascal navigational aids that saved my life in 1991

    93 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  3. Show HN: FileNation – A simple way to send files using IPFS

    93 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  4. Ethereum's Compact Merkle Trie

    93 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  5. In theory, rocks from Oman could store hundreds of years of human CO2 emissions

    93 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  6. Show HN: Create a personalized and optimized webpack configuration

    92 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  7. Planning a Morrowind all-faction speedrun with simulated annealing, part 3

    92 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  8. Show HN: Bluetooth 5 and Bluetooth Low Energy – A Developer's Guide

    92 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  9. BPF, EBPF, XDP and Bpfilter

    92 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  10. Civilization Is Built on Code (2017)

    92 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  11. Electric scooter “mayhem” sounds like when cars were introduced

    92 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  12. What makes a tree a tree?

    92 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  13. Using only open-source software on Android

    92 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  14. The Programming Talent Myth (2015)

    92 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  15. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released

    92 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  16. Defeat your 99th percentile with speculative task

    92 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  17. Idle Hands Are the Dreamer's Tools

    91 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  18. How Fortnite leveled up, broke records, and changed gaming

    91 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  19. Improving SyntaxError in PyPy

    91 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  20. Show HN: RemoteML – Job Directory for Remote Machine Learning Positions

    91 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  21. Women Aren’t Always Sentenced by the Book. Maybe Men Shouldn’t Be, Either

    91 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  22. Chinese businesses and the military using “emotional surveillance technology”

    91 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  23. Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show Discrimination

    91 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  24. Viability of unpopular programming languages

    91 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  25. The 10-Year Baby Window That Is the Key to the Women’s Pay Gap

    90 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  26. Tracking the Illegal Shipment of Sarin Precursor from Belgium to Syria

    90 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  27. Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future

    90 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  28. Tech workers who are engineering a mid-30s retirement

    90 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  29. Zipline's Drones Will Deliver Blood in the United States This Year

    90 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  30. Tesla’s Musk Takes Charge of Model 3 Production as Problems Persist

    90 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  31. List of the top smart contract vulnerabilities

    90 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  32. Building Robust Systems (2008) [pdf]

    90 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  33. Pulitzer Prize Winners Moving to PR: What Does That Say About Future Journalism?

    90 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  34. Build a JSON API with Hugo's Custom Output Formats

    89 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  35. The Difficulty of Untraining Drug Dogs How to Smell Marijuana

    89 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  36. German scientists harvest their first Antarctic salad

    89 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  37. How Will Automation Affect Different U.S. Cities?

    89 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  38. Node.js 8.10 runtime now available in AWS Lambda

    89 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  39. NTSB ‘unhappy’ with Tesla release of investigative information in fatal crash

    89 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  40. Designing a Userspace Disk I/O Scheduler for Modern Datastores (2016)

    89 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  41. Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IRA accounts

    89 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  42. Ruby on WebAssembly

    89 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  43. On incomplete HTTP reads and the requests library in Python

    89 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  44. What you get is what you C: Controlling side effects in mainstream C compilers [pdf]

    89 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  45. How I Find Six Figure Remote Software Developer Jobs

    89 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  46. U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees

    89 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  47. Facebook at Work spamblocks some SQL queries

    89 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  48. GSMA puts eSIM work 'on hold' due to US collusion investigation

    88 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  49. Eventbrite has removed filming clause from agreement

    88 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  50. Understanding Bitcoin Transactions

    88 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  51. Supply and Demand Does a Poor Job of Explaining Depressed Wages

    88 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  52. Barbara Bush Dies at 92

    88 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  53. Top Senate Democrat Endorses Decriminalizing Marijuana at the Federal Level

    88 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  54. Matabele ants have evolved a complex system of battlefield triage and rescue

    88 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  55. One bad night’s sleep may increase levels of Alzheimer’s protein

    88 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  56. Retirement Shock: Need to Find a Job After 40 Years at General Electric

    88 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  57. How to build your own AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras

    88 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  58. Tell HN: My best productivity hack

    87 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  59. Show HN: Faster.js – a micro-optimizing JavaScript compiler

    87 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  60. Teen monitoring apps don't work, and drive a wedge between teens and parents

    87 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  61. The future of electronics based on memristive systems

    87 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  62. The Man Who Brought Down Lance Armstrong

    87 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  63. Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX's Plan to Fly You Across the Globe in 30 Minutes [video]

    87 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  64. How China Is Buying Its Way into Europe

    87 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  65. Everyone Wants to Go Home During Extra Innings, Maybe Even the Umps

    87 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  66. Bike Share Oversupply in China

    87 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  67. Show HN: Using deep learning to detect objects from your webcam

    87 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  68. The Imaginative Reality of Ursula K. Le Guin

    87 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  69. Ask HN: Girlfriend is being shown ads depending on what we do together. How?

    87 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

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

    86 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  71. Detecting Methane from Miles Away

    86 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  72. New research shows successful founders are far older than the stereotype

    86 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  73. How Tech Companies Own Your Day

    86 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  74. Scrcpy: Display and control of Android devices connected on USB

    86 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  75. Solved: A Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery

    86 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  76. TSB Train Wreck: Massive Bank IT Failure Going into Fifth Day

    86 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  77. A constructive look at the Atari 2600 BASIC cartridge (2015)

    85 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  78. Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)

    85 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  79. Turn-of-the-Century Pigeons Photographed Earth from Above

    85 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  80. Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

    85 points • comment • apr 07, 2018

  81. Ask HN: Is Meteor.js dead?

    85 points • comment • apr 07, 2018

  82. Wristband Lets the Brain Control a Computer with a Thought and a Twitch

    85 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  83. Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’

    85 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  84. Solid ship ballast from the age of sail tells surprising stories about history

    85 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  85. Tricks Make Virtual Reality Feel Real (2016)

    84 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  86. All I Wanted Was to Work in Tech. Be Careful What You Wish For

    84 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  87. Looking to Listen: Audio-Visual Speech Separation

    84 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  88. Doctors Battle Drug-Resistant Typhoid Outbreak

    84 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  89. The Web We Lost (2012)

    84 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  90. Toward better phone call and video transcription with new Cloud Speech-to-Text

    84 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  91. Google maps now conveniently shows you active shooters

    84 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  92. GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets

    84 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  93. Back end development in 2018

    84 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  94. IPFS Companion 2.2.0 brings window.ipfs to your Browser

    83 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  95. Millennials Moving to Suburbs Will Change Economic Development

    83 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  96. Ask HN: Is HN GDPR compliant?

    83 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  97. EMMC Hacking, or: how oranav fixed long-dead Galaxy S3 phones (2017)

    83 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  98. Don’t Do for Money What Others Do for Love

    83 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  99. Behind the scenes at YC Demo Day [video]

    83 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  100. William Stein on the struggle for open source funding in pure mathematics [pdf]

    83 points • comment • apr 27, 2018