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Hacker News (Apr 2018)

  1. Decentralized applications – “experimenting with blockchain” is more than tech

    52 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  2. Shellfish Gene: One piece of mobile DNA has spread itself throughout the oceans

    52 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  3. Launch HN: Caelum Health (YC S17) – Digital Therapeutic for Stomach Problems

    52 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  4. Awesome-live-reloading – A collection of live reloading tools and libraries

    52 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  5. Ask HN: What periodicals have great long-form articles?

    52 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  6. Chaos engineering tools and practices in TiDB

    51 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  7. Announcing a single C++ library manager for Linux, macOS and Windows: Vcpkg

    51 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  8. Modern-Day BBSing on an Epson CP/M-based Laptop from 1984

    51 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  9. How to Level the College Playing Field

    51 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  10. DeepMarks: A Digital Fingerprinting Framework for Deep Neural Networks

    51 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  11. “Did We Create This Monster?” How Twitter Turned Toxic

    51 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  12. The richest American family hired terrorists to shoot sleeping families

    51 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  13. Should we use [paywall] tag where applicable?

    51 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  14. Why does software cost so much?

    51 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  15. Universal Basic Income Is Not Feasible

    51 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  16. Ask HN: Blogging to get contracting/job leads?

    51 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  17. The Dozenal Society of America

    51 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  18. Glyphosate found in granola, crackers and oatmeal

    51 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  19. Show HN: FunctionKit – Approachable functional concepts brought to Swift

    51 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  20. Debugging microservices on Kubernetes with the Conduit service mesh 0.4 release

    51 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  21. Magic Bitboards: Finding all valid bishop moves in a 64-bit multiply (2008)

    51 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  22. Perspectives on new stem cells for vision loss paper

    51 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  23. BigCommerce raises $64M to power e-commerce sites

    51 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  24. Wang Tiles and Turing Machines

    51 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  25. Tell HN: Goo.gl (Google link Shortener) is shutting down

    50 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  26. Show HN: Value My Funnel – Figure out the value of a visitor, lead and customer

    50 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  27. Towards a Virtual Stuntman

    50 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  28. Startup Mechanics (2017) [video]

    50 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  29. Cross Chess

    50 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  30. Unlearning toxic behaviors in a code review culture

    50 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  31. Former CEO of Paypal, Intuit: “Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history”

    50 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  32. Clarify Me, Please, God of the Galaxies

    50 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  33. Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation (2002) [pdf]

    50 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  34. Launch HN: Krypton for Teams – Simple SSH Key Storage for DevOps

    50 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  35. Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech

    50 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  36. Trump’s cell phone use is security “nightmare” waiting to happen, lawmakers say

    50 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  37. Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body

    49 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  38. Chinese Tech Companies’ Dirty Secret [video]

    49 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  39. Starbucks to Close All U.S. Stores for Racial-Bias Education

    49 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  40. Deep Probabilistic Programming Languages: A Qualitative Study

    49 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  41. JPMorgan's Blockchain Chief Is Setting Out on Her Own

    49 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  42. Steve Jobs MIT Class (1992) [video]

    49 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  43. PrivacyGuide: Towards an Implementation of EU GDPR on Privacy Policy Evaluation

    49 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  44. The Fear Cycle

    49 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  45. Show HN: API store

    49 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  46. Big Wind: Fire-Fighting Machine Made from Tank and Jet Parts (2015)

    49 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  47. Twitter is down

    49 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  48. Octahedral Impostors

    49 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  49. Show HN: SuperString – A fast and memory-optimized string library for C++

    49 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  50. Our Early Ancestors Stalked Eight-Foot-Tall Sloths

    49 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  51. The Quantum Pascal's Triangle (2002)

    49 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  52. Telegram is the hot new source for pirated content

    49 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  53. Ask HN: What are some good architectures for building recommendation systems?

    49 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  54. CNN.com quietly turned on TLS/HTTPS over the weekend

    48 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  55. LHD: Improving Cache Hit Rate by Maximizing Hit Density [pdf]

    48 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  56. The emotions we feel may shape what we see

    48 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  57. Ask HN: How do you GDPR for your small side projects?

    48 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  58. Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (1973)

    48 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  59. Whether Ethereum is a security

    48 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  60. To treat some diseases, researchers are putting immune cells on a diet

    48 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  61. Iowow – C11 skiplist-based persistent key/value storage engine

    48 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  62. Can a State University Fire a Professor for Being an Ass on Twitter?

    48 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  63. Can Facebook be replaced? Let’s invest $100,000

    48 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  64. To Make Cordial Pepper Water

    48 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  65. The Alternative to the Four-Hour Mindset

    48 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  66. Google is bleeding cash trying to take on Amazon in the smart home

    48 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  67. A Module-System Discipline for Model-Driven Software Development (2017)

    48 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  68. Why Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Work with the Pentagon

    48 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  69. Microsoft Professional Program for Artificial Intelligence

    48 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  70. The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS

    48 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  71. Cops used dead man’s finger in attempt to access his phone

    48 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  72. How ‘Oumuamua Got Shredded

    48 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  73. Anna: A KVS for any scale

    47 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  74. Rails 5.2.0 Released – Active Storage, Redis Cache Store, HTTP/2 Early Hints

    47 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  75. Early images of Netflix.com show how far it has come in 20 years

    47 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  76. Lobste.rs site migration complete

    47 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  77. Peter Madsen sentenced to life for murdering journalist Kim Wall

    47 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  78. Foxconn Will Take 7M Gallons of Water per Day from Lake Michigan to Make LCDs

    47 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  79. Why I Left Academic Philosophy

    47 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  80. Ask HN: Is anyone else receiving spoofed gmail spam in their inbox?

    47 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  81. Getting started with Python testing

    47 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  82. Which is the most ideologically diverse American city?

    47 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  83. GameLad – Gameboy emulator written in C++

    47 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  84. Publishing Our Internal Enforcement Guidelines and Expanding Our Appeals Process

    47 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  85. Deconstructing Xen (2017)

    47 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  86. Debate between sheep and grain

    47 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  87. Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history

    47 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  88. PaintsChainer – AI-Powered Automatic Colorization

    47 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  89. Why I'm boycotting TurboTax this year

    46 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  90. A new book on Renaissance mathematics makes a bold case

    46 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  91. Backoff: Python function decorators for configurable backoff and retry

    46 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  92. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak quits Facebook over data abuse scandal

    46 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  93. A man took his Mercedes for a service and left the dashcam on

    46 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  94. New DNA structure inside human cells known as the “i-motif” has been identified

    46 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  95. Apple is reportedly building a ’16K’ VR headset

    46 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  96. Evolved Policy Gradients

    46 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  97. Practical Memory Safety with Random Embedded Secret Tokens [pdf]

    46 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  98. NYSE suspends trading in Amazon, Alphabet due to pricing issue

    46 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  99. Mark Zuckerberg is either lying, incompetent,or an inept CEO. What do you think?

    46 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  100. The Forever Nomad

    45 points • comment • apr 30, 2018