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Hacker News (Apr 2018)

  1. FDA permits marketing of AI-based device to detect diabetes-related eye problems

    272 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  2. Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to Allo, double down on RCS

    271 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  3. MacOS monitoring the open source way

    271 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  4. Ask HN: What are some examples of beautiful x86 assembly code?

    271 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  5. Stock Markets Tumble Amid Worries Over Tech Firms and Trade Tensions

    271 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  6. Apple says it’s now powered by renewable energy worldwide

    271 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  7. America should borrow from Europe’s data-privacy law

    270 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  8. Google’s new Chat service shows contempt for Android users’ privacy

    270 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  9. How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018

    269 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  10. Nerves – Craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir

    268 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  11. Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called the i-motif inside cells

    267 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  12. React-basic: Description of the conceptual model of React

    267 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  13. Why New York City Stopped Building Subways

    266 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  14. Destroy All Software screencasts free this week

    266 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  15. The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science

    265 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  16. Firefox updates its iOS web browser to turn Tracking Protection on by default

    265 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  17. Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos

    265 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  18. Systems built on trust, norms, and institutions function better than blockchain

    264 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  19. Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?

    263 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  20. How to become a bank (2016)

    263 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  21. Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison

    262 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  22. The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet

    262 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  23. Quake III Arena GPL Source Release (2012)

    261 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  24. EU copyright proposal could undermine the use of Creative Commons licenses

    260 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  25. 9,096 Stars in the Sky – Is That All?

    258 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  26. You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI

    258 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  27. Kaniko: Build container images in Kubernetes

    257 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  28. Giving Up on the Current MacBook Pro Keyboard

    256 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  29. PostgreSQL Begins Adding LLVM JIT Support For Faster Performance

    256 points • comment • apr 07, 2018

  30. How Dyson Saw Feynman

    256 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  31. AWS Explained: The Basics

    256 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  32. A manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene

    255 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  33. A step-by-step guide to the “World Models” AI paper

    255 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  34. A rundown of the new Gmail

    254 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  35. Walking While Black

    254 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  36. Illegal prime

    253 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  37. Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail

    253 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  38. Kasparov versus the World

    251 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  39. Mailinator launches Disposable SMS

    250 points • comment • apr 07, 2018

  40. Go-internals: Chapter 2, “Interfaces” released

    249 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  41. A History of APL in 50 Functions

    248 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  42. Why are diapers so expensive?

    248 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  43. The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's phone without Apple

    247 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  44. Underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video

    247 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  45. Instagram ranked worst social network for young people's mental health

    247 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  46. An enzyme that digests plastic could boost recycling

    247 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  47. NEON is the new black: fast JPEG optimization on ARM servers

    247 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  48. Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter

    247 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  49. Interview with CTO and Co-founder of Zapier on Working with Remote Engineers

    246 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  50. Project from Hell (2008)

    245 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  51. Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits

    245 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  52. Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017)

    244 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  53. Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it

    244 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  54. Original Windows File Manager with enhancements

    244 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  55. Last satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System launched

    244 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  56. Show HN: A site that lets you search and subscribe to “Who is hiring?”

    244 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  57. Why there are so many online mattress-in-a-box companies

    243 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  58. Jenkins X: a CI/CD solution for cloud applications on Kubernetes

    242 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  59. Gron: A command line tool that makes JSON greppable

    242 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  60. Mathematics I Use (2012)

    242 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  61. Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?

    241 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  62. Top Checklists on HN

    241 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  63. It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance

    241 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  64. FreedomBox

    240 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  65. How engineers can stand out from the applicant pool

    240 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  66. How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream

    240 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  67. Qusim.py – A toy multi-qubit quantum computer simulator written in Python

    240 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  68. An Introduction to Hashing in the Era of Machine Learning

    240 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  69. Soviet-Era Industrial Design

    239 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  70. Distributed SQLite for Go applications

    239 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  71. Tell HN: Sci-Hub's TLS certificate has started failing

    238 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  72. Reddit’s Redesign

    238 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  73. Using USB-VGA dongles as SDR transmitter

    238 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  74. Differentiable Plasticity: A New Method Learning to Learn

    238 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  75. Qt for WebAssembly Technology Preview

    238 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  76. A Virtual Machine

    238 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  77. A lesson in wireless engineering from the Raspberry Pi

    238 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  78. Google bug bounty for security exploit that influences search results

    238 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  79. Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest suspect at a pop concert

    237 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  80. Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of metallic glass

    237 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  81. What happened, Gmail?

    237 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  82. What Erlang Taught Me About Distributed Systems

    236 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  83. Pharo MOOC

    236 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  84. France’s government is building its own encrypted messenger service

    236 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  85. Building Tiny Rust Binaries for Embedded Linux

    236 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  86. Abusing Linux's firewall: the hack that allowed us to build Spectrum

    236 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  87. How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons from Madagascar

    236 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  88. Intel brings a six-core i9 CPU to laptops

    235 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  89. Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space

    235 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  90. OpenAI Charter

    234 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  91. Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship

    233 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  92. Using GnuCash as a Freelancer to Track Finances and Prepare Taxes

    233 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  93. One of Estonia's first "e-residents" explains what it means

    233 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  94. TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips

    233 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  95. Nikon versus Canon: A Story of Technology Change

    232 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  96. Show HN: Travel spontaneously on a budget

    232 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  97. Portugal electricity generation temporarily reaches 100% renewable

    231 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  98. Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2017)

    230 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  99. Planning a Morrowind all-faction speedrun with simulated annealing, part 2

    229 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  100. Linux 4.17-rc1: “We removed more lines than we added”

    229 points • comment • apr 16, 2018