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Hacker News (Apr 2018)

  1. Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data

    348 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  2. 'Demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides Inside Computer Chip

    348 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  3. Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Web

    346 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  4. A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe

    346 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  5. Japanese anime director Isao Takahata has died

    345 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  6. The Price of Free Is Actually Too High

    345 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  7. How to write a spelling corrector (2016)

    345 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  8. Go's New Brand

    343 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  9. The Moon in 4k resolution [video]

    343 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  10. Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming it’s journalistic

    342 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  11. Blind since birth, writing code at Amazon since 2013

    342 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  12. FCC approves SpaceX plan for satellite broadband network

    342 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  13. I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter

    341 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  14. Bulldoze the business school

    340 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  15. Seattle vacates hundreds of marijuana charges going back 30 years

    337 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  16. Show HN: ReLaXed – High-quality PDFs using web technologies

    336 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  17. Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages

    336 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  18. Parsing JSON is a Minefield

    335 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  19. Deep Painterly Harmonization

    335 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  20. Cryptographic Right Answers

    335 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  21. Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?

    335 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  22. High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up for University

    334 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  23. Ketamine has 'fast-acting benefits' for depression

    332 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  24. Interns with toasters: how I taught people about load balancers

    331 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  25. Redesigning the Scientific Paper

    331 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  26. Tech company career ladders

    328 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  27. Brutalist Design Is the Bad Influence We All Need

    327 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  28. Show HN: Giving a Broken Barcode Scanner a New Life with Elixir and Nerves

    324 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  29. The NetHack dev team is happy to announce the release of NetHack 3.6.1

    324 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  30. Parsing: a timeline

    323 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  31. Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of Representatives [pdf]

    323 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  32. Facebook retracted Zuckerberg’s messages from recipients’ inboxes

    322 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  33. A dive into the making of a 64K Intro

    318 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  34. Coinbase acquires Earn.com

    318 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  35. Southwest 1380: think about the flight attendants

    318 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  36. Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper

    317 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  37. The NES Homebrew Scene

    317 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  38. The differences between tinkering and research (2016)

    316 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  39. Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service

    316 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  40. Show HN: AI Grant – Get $2,500 for your AI project in minutes

    315 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  41. Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the U.S

    314 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  42. What I learned by living without artificial light

    314 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  43. Apple is making a show based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ books

    313 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  44. Patent Review System Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court

    312 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  45. San Francisco’s Seismic Gamble

    310 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  46. The Ocean Cleanup's Machine Is About to Set Sail

    309 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  47. Types of Regression Analysis

    308 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  48. Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities

    308 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  49. YouTube and Facebook Are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals

    307 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  50. After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?

    307 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  51. Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This?

    307 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  52. The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes

    307 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  53. Gitlab 10.7 Released

    305 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  54. Someone Stole My Book (and My Job) and Is Selling It on Amazon

    305 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  55. Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (2017)

    305 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  56. Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study

    305 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  57. Jolla is the last company with an 'alternative' mobile operating system

    304 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  58. Tesla crash in September showed similarities to fatal Mountain View accident

    302 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  59. Study shows salaries of young women 8% higher than men in peer group (2010)

    302 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  60. We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hackathon

    302 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  61. How to Easily Detect Objects with Deep Learning on Raspberry Pi

    302 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  62. Credit card fraud warning signs

    300 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  63. I miss Windows Phone

    299 points • comment • apr 07, 2018

  64. It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked

    299 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  65. Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally

    298 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  66. The Many Ways Google Harvests Data

    298 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  67. A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

    296 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  68. CockroachDB 2.0 released

    294 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  69. PowerHammer: Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers Through Power Lines

    293 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  70. In India, high-pressure exams are creating a student suicide crisis

    292 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  71. Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram

    292 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  72. Publisher Gets Carte Blanche to Seize New Sci-Hub Domains

    291 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  73. Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful

    290 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  74. A thread on on the beauty of procedurally generated maps

    289 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  75. Apple's investment into Clangd and refactoring tooling

    289 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  76. AV1 beats x264 and libvpx-vp9 in practical use case

    288 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  77. Socioeconomic group classification based on user features [pdf]

    288 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  78. A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

    288 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  79. Interactive Go programming with Jupyter

    288 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  80. Should I just stop attempting to make these trivial patches? (2004)

    287 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  81. California Opens Investigation into Tesla Workplace Conditions

    287 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  82. Jeff Dean takes over as Google’s AI chief

    287 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  83. European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse

    286 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  84. Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

    286 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  85. Immutable.rs: immutable data structures for Rust

    285 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  86. Introduction to Decision Tree Learning

    283 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  87. Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

    281 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  88. 8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators (2015)

    280 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  89. For mathematicians, = does not mean equality

    280 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  90. ReformedFelonForHire.com – High quality software skills, at a competitive price

    280 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  91. Learn React by building a web app

    280 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  92. Python Environment

    278 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  93. Addressing Recent Claims of “Manipulated” Blog Posts in the Wayback Machine

    277 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  94. Apps of a Feather

    277 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  95. Reading Aloud to Young Children Has Benefits for Behavior and Attention

    277 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  96. Facebook Scans What You Send Other People on Messenger App

    276 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  97. How to Be a Systems Thinker

    276 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  98. Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app

    274 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  99. The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font

    274 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  100. Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now generally available

    272 points • comment • apr 18, 2018