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Hacker News (Apr 2018)

  1. Show HN: 8-bit Sounds – Studio2600 for the VCS (Atari 2600)

    75 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  2. The Key to Everything

    74 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  3. Iran hit by global cyber attack that left U.S. flag on screens

    74 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  4. NASA Mars Mission Faces Setback After Heat Shield Cracks Under Pressure

    74 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  5. Software resilience: The 500 test

    74 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  6. Buzzword Convergence: Making Sense of Quantum Neural Blockchain AI

    74 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  7. Ember.js 3.1 and 3.2 Beta Released

    74 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  8. The truth about Apple's engineering [video]

    74 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  9. Show HN: A React drag-and-drop library

    74 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  10. For the first time ever, Microsoft will distribute its own version of Linux

    74 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  11. Conway notation

    74 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  12. Plasmodium-associated changes in human odor attract mosquitoes

    73 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  13. Tesla Autopilot failing where there was a fatal car accident [video]

    73 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  14. Mice compensate for extra exercise by reducing other physical activity: study

    73 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  15. Core Memory Upgrade for Arduino

    73 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  16. Freeman Dyson’s Life, Through His Letters

    73 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  17. America is moving toward becoming a better version of itself

    73 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  18. Show HN: Writt – Make and publish notes from Telegram

    73 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  19. How to Subvert Backdoored Encryption [pdf]

    72 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  20. The Panopticon Singularity (2002)

    72 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  21. I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with harassment from customers

    72 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  22. The World’s Emptiest Airport Is a Red Flag

    72 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  23. Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – how that could change

    72 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  24. China Rolls Out 'Social Credit Score' System

    72 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  25. Show HN: IP Geolocation and Threat Data API

    72 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  26. If iPads were meant for kids

    72 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  27. The Agile Fluency Model

    72 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  28. The Case Against Lectures

    72 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  29. Forking Redis: SSL/TLS and Transactions

    72 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  30. Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match

    72 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  31. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2018)

    71 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  32. OPPO Digital will gradually stop manufacturing new products

    71 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  33. Drawing with boids

    71 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  34. Jaron Lanier Interview on What Went Wrong with the Internet

    71 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  35. The Guardian covertly sends your data to 58 tracking services

    71 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  36. To opt out of Facebook’s tracking, I’m going to have to join Facebook

    71 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  37. In the 1950s, a California teacher's annual mortgage payments were 14% of salary

    71 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  38. Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2017?

    71 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  39. Multi-core cryptography for Node.js

    71 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  40. Sedentary Behavior May Thin Memory-Related Brain Area

    71 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  41. DHS Confirms Presence of Cell-Site Simulators in U.S. Capital

    71 points • comment • apr 07, 2018

  42. Only 12 vaquita porpoises remain, watchdog group reports

    71 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  43. Chat is Google's next big fix for Android's messaging mess

    70 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  44. How Bolt does fraud detection better

    70 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  45. My 10-Year Odyssey Through America’s Housing Crisis

    70 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  46. Show HN: Blank – A stack-based programming language I wrote 21 years ago

    70 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  47. Police extracted fingerprints from WhatsApp photos to convict drug dealers

    70 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  48. How I learned to live again, after running a man over

    70 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  49. Tesla owner almost crashes on video trying to recreate fatal Autopilot accident

    70 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  50. Show HN: SubSync – Automatically download subtitles for your movies

    70 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  51. Fluree DB – A scalable blockchain database

    70 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  52. Language-integrated provenance in Haskell

    70 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  53. Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates

    69 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  54. A sketch of string unescaping on GPGPU

    69 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  55. Ask HN: Is “a decentralized alternative to X” the new “Uber for X”?

    69 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  56. Show HN: Cointabb

    69 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  57. Improved Docker Container Integration with Java 10

    69 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  58. Police say shooter’s anger over YouTube policies ‘appears to be the motive’

    69 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  59. Understanding OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect

    69 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  60. Optimizing Paxos with batching and pipelining (2012) [pdf]

    69 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  61. Show HN: Glyph – Static Site Generator Powered by GitHub Issues and Pages

    69 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  62. Zillow surprises investors by buying up homes

    69 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  63. Billion-Dollar Facebook Investor Tells Mark Zuckerberg to Quit as Chairman

    69 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  64. Ask HN: Why don't more entrepreneurs focus on lifestyle businesses?

    69 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  65. A Hawaiian island got about 50 inches of rain in 24 hours

    68 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  66. The History of Processing

    68 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  67. Apple Will Start Paying Back Taxes to Irish Government Next Month

    68 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  68. The Nature of the Firm (1937)

    68 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  69. It's time for us to say farewell

    68 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  70. Show HN: JSON storage bins with schema validation

    68 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  71. How the Reformulation of OxyContin Ignited the Heroin Epidemic [pdf]

    68 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  72. How convict labour increased inequality

    68 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  73. The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers

    68 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  74. Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?

    68 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  75. The Impoliteness of Overriding Methods (2012)

    68 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  76. Blocked by Facebook and the Vulnerability of New Media

    68 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  77. MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data

    67 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  78. Show HN: Moustique – C++14 coroutine-based non-blocking IO on Linux

    67 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  79. Controversial New Milk Shakes Up Big Dairy

    67 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  80. IRS electronic filing system breaks down hours before midnight deadline

    67 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  81. Burr conspiracy

    67 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  82. Why we should collectively worry about Facebook and Google owning our data

    67 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  83. Early Days: The VIC-20 Programmer's Reference Guide

    67 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  84. Summer of the shark

    67 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  85. Fermilab used aspirin to detect water leaks in their rings (1979) [pdf]

    67 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  86. Ask HN: What are some amazing open source projects that you have found recently?

    67 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  87. A survey of comics research in computer science

    67 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  88. All of the World's Yeast Probably Originated in China

    67 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  89. Study suggests drunk people are better at creative problem solving

    67 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  90. Installing Fonts Using Homebrew

    67 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  91. Sourdough Starters, Recipes, and Baker's Handbook

    67 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  92. How long does it take to linear search 200MB in memory?

    67 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  93. Google can be forced to pull results globally, Canada supreme court rules

    67 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  94. Building a Content-Based Search Engine IV: Earth Mover's Distance

    67 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  95. Viua VM: parallel, register-based, bytecode virtual machine

    67 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  96. Ask HN: Strategies for database reliability when I have no control over the DB?

    67 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  97. Some of my problems with correctness research

    66 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  98. There’s a new version of Firefox for VR

    66 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  99. 64-bit Tiano Core UEFI for the Raspberry Pi 3

    66 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  100. Show HN: Umbrella Note – Simple app for notes and journals

    66 points • comment • apr 13, 2018