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Hacker News (Apr 2018)

  1. Mailtrain.org, self-hosted open-source newsletter app like Mailchimp

    179 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  2. ‘The China Hustle’, a finance documentary

    179 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  3. The Cold Case of the Max Headroom Signal Intrusion

    179 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  4. Kafka, GDPR and Event Sourcing

    178 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  5. The “unpatchable” exploit that makes every current Nintendo Switch hackable

    178 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  6. Larry Harvey, co-founder of Burning Man, has died

    178 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  7. Executing gradient descent on the earth

    178 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  8. Beep security update

    178 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  9. CSS Sans – A font created in CSS

    177 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  10. Trillions of Viruses Fall from the Sky Each Day

    177 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  11. Towards a Type System for Containers and AWS Lambda to Avoid Failures [pdf]

    177 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  12. Structured Procrastination (1995)

    176 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  13. A List of Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks

    176 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  14. How to Find Product Market Fit – founder of Segment (2017) [video]

    176 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  15. Smoked foods are tastier, less harmful with a tip from the auto industry

    176 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  16. FreeCAD 0.17 “Roland” released

    176 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  17. At the Bottom of the Ocean, a Gloomy Discovery

    175 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  18. Writing to the Framebuffer

    175 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  19. Eminent Philosophers Name the Most Important Philosophy Books from 1950-2000

    174 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  20. Show HN: Phoenix 2.6 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

    174 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  21. Ford to Stop Selling Every Car in North America but the Mustang and Focus Active

    174 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  22. Dark side of ergonomics in Rust

    174 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  23. Show HN: Generating fun Stack Exchange questions using Markov chains

    174 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  24. CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran (2013)

    173 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  25. Parallel tasks in Python: concurrent.futures

    173 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  26. Is sorted using SIMD instructions

    173 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  27. A coworker stole my spicy food, got sick, and is blaming me (2016)

    173 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  28. Setting Up a Cayman Islands Company [pdf]

    172 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  29. Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)

    172 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  30. HyperTools: A Python toolbox for gaining insights into high-dimensional data

    172 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  31. Rental car companies have been waging a quiet legislative war against start-ups

    172 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  32. Zelle, the Banks’ Answer to Venmo, Proves Vulnerable to Fraud

    171 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  33. AVIF – AV1 based image format

    171 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  34. Three kinds of memory leaks

    171 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  35. The secret life of NaN

    171 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  36. Show HN: HTTP/2 Python-Asyncio Web Microframework

    170 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  37. Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy

    170 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  38. Why I Moved Back from Gradle to Maven

    170 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  39. Ask HN: What are well designed SaaS websites?

    169 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  40. Wall Street’s Big Banks Are Waging a Technological Arms Race

    169 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  41. Why I'm declining funding from Ruby Together

    169 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  42. Giving meaning to 100B analytics events a day with Kafka, Dataflow and BigQuery

    169 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  43. Older Americans Are ‘Hooked’ on Vitamins

    169 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  44. Facebook is in the privacy spotlight but should Google be next

    169 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  45. Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20

    168 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  46. Improved fraud prevention with Radar 2.0

    168 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  47. Mode Studio – Python, R and SQL Editor

    168 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  48. Comparing Google’s TPUv2 against Nvidia’s V100 on ResNet-50

    168 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  49. Spirit A319 at Boston, Jul 17th 2015, fumes on board, captain died 50 days later

    168 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  50. Ask HN: Turning 40 soon – seeking personal and professional life advice

    168 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  51. Setting Emacs theme based on ambient light

    168 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  52. Problems with CSVs (2016)

    168 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  53. In UK universities there is a daily erosion of integrity

    166 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  54. Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a budget?

    166 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  55. Hackett – A Haskell-like language with support for Racket’s macro system

    166 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  56. ACE Submarine Cable Cut Impacts Ten Countries

    166 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  57. Ursa Labs: an innovation lab for open source data science

    166 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  58. The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees

    166 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  59. The Power to Revoke Lies with the Certificate Authority

    166 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  60. Mounting criticism of NIH's relationship with the alcohol industry

    165 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  61. U.S. Agencies Agree to Slash Approval Times for Infrastructure Projects

    165 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  62. Native Clojure with GraalVM

    165 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  63. Encoding data into dubstep drops

    165 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  64. IAmA Dane Jasper, CEO of Sonic, Northern California's Largest Independent ISP

    165 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  65. Transparent ceramics made with aluminum

    165 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  66. Improved code caching

    164 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  67. An Update on Our Plans to Restrict Data Access on Facebook

    164 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  68. API and Other Platform Product Changes

    164 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  69. Growing a Language, by Guy Steele (1998) [video]

    164 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  70. An open source implementation of DeepVoice 3: 2000-Speaker Neural Text-to-Speech

    163 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  71. Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write

    163 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  72. 500M of “Have I been Pwned” hashes broken

    163 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  73. Elm at Pacific Health Dynamics

    163 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  74. Causes and consequences of the Sicilian Mafia

    163 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  75. So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations

    163 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  76. Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comments Against It

    163 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  77. Hunger Is a Gatekeeper of Pain in the Brain

    163 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  78. Statement on Nature Machine Intelligence

    162 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  79. Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?

    162 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  80. Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion

    162 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  81. Java is Pass-by-Value

    161 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  82. Based on his testimony today, Mark Zuckerberg puts users last during a crisis

    161 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  83. Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source

    161 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  84. Facebook to exclude US users from some privacy enhancements

    161 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  85. Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering

    161 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  86. A Visual History of Eve: 2014 - 2018

    161 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  87. Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]

    161 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  88. Another Dead Whale Is Reminder Of Plastic Problem

    161 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  89. New tools for open source maintainers

    161 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  90. “Drupalgeddon2” touches off arms race to mass-exploit powerful web servers

    160 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  91. When There’s an Audience, People’s Performance Improves

    160 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  92. I founded Happy Cow Milk to make a difference in dairying. I failed

    160 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  93. Nintendo's secretive creative process

    160 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  94. Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English?

    160 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  95. Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa with Routine Antibiotics

    160 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  96. Ask HN: Organizing company knowledge?

    160 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  97. A Layman’s Intro to Western Classical Music

    159 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  98. Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts

    159 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  99. How to Find Consulting Clients

    159 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  100. General Assembly sells to Adecco for $413M

    159 points • comment • apr 16, 2018