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Hacker News (Apr 2018)

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

    159 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  2. How to Find Consulting Clients

    159 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  3. Russia’s move to block Telegram another attack on online freedom of expression

    158 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  4. CoinTracker raises $1.5M to make tracking cryptocurrency investments easy

    158 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  5. Alphabet Q1 2018 Earnings [pdf]

    158 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  6. Sunsetting Tor Messenger

    158 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  7. ‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances

    157 points • comment • apr 07, 2018

  8. How I Write SQL, Part 1: Naming Conventions (2014)

    157 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  9. The Wren Programming Language

    157 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  10. Show HN: Telescope – News and RSS Reader

    157 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  11. Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?

    157 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  12. RFC 7858: DNS over TLS (2016)

    156 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  13. Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

    156 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  14. YouTube networks drop thousands of creators as YouTube policy shifts

    156 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  15. Fake ad blockers in Chrome Web Store

    156 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  16. Do You Trust This Computer? [video]

    156 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  17. Darwin: a genomics co-processor provides up to 15,000x acceleration

    155 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  18. To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

    155 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  19. U.S. companies banned from selling components to ZTE

    155 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  20. Autonomous braking: 'The most significant development since the safety belt'

    155 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  21. DragonFly BSD 5.2

    154 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  22. Smartphone Security: You'll Never Guess Who Just Messaged You

    154 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  23. Theranos Lays Off Most of Its Remaining Workforce

    154 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  24. Young Japanese are surprisingly content

    154 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  25. Accelerating Deep Neuroevolution: Train Atari in Hours on a Single Computer

    154 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  26. Mark Zuckerberg Is Either Ignorant or Deliberately Misleading Congress

    154 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  27. It's Time for a DevTools for Designers

    154 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  28. IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware

    154 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  29. History of Spring Framework and Spring Boot

    153 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  30. China's global kidnapping campaign may now be reaching inside U.S. borders

    153 points • comment • apr 07, 2018

  31. Startup School Beijing

    153 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  32. Facebook Says Up to 87M People's Data May Have Been Improperly Shared

    153 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  33. WiFi Backscatter – Connecting RF-Powered Devices to the Internet (2014) [video]

    153 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  34. The Race to Save the Axolotl

    153 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  35. Ex-Facebook Executive: “You Don’t Realize It but You Are Being Programmed”

    152 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  36. Taste is increasingly dictated by algorithms

    152 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  37. TurboTax Freemium Funnel: Critical Analysis and UX Teardown

    151 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  38. France’s Zone Rouge – A Forbidden No Man’s Land Poisoned by War (2015)

    151 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  39. Show HN: Interactive WebGL visualization of all 47K buildings in Manhattan

    151 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  40. Mill: Better Scala Builds

    151 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  41. Rolls-Royce and Boeing invest in UK space engine

    150 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  42. New Shepard's 8th test flight [video]

    150 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  43. Introducing Fly Edge Apps

    150 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  44. Wcc: The Witchcraft Compiler Collection

    150 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  45. Rust Formal Verification Working Group

    150 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  46. Scientists Fix Genetic Risk Factor for Alzheimer’s Disease in Human Brain Cells

    150 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  47. Thinning in brain regions important for memory linked to sedentary habits

    149 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  48. Hosting Jupyter Notebooks for 100k Users [video]

    149 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  49. Proposal to restore a destroyed Ethereum contract

    149 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  50. Google Bans Crypto-Currency Mining Extensions from Chrome Store

    149 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  51. The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web (2005)

    149 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  52. Designing a 'Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer' from Diamond Age

    148 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  53. VC from Asia is skyrocketing

    148 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  54. Fake Barack Obama delivers a PSA about “deep fakes” using a deep fake video

    148 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  55. Elon Musk reveals his productivity rules in a letter he sent to Tesla employees

    148 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  56. Large crack in East African Rift is evidence of continent splitting in two

    148 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  57. Working on an iPad Pro as my main computer

    147 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  58. Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) [pdf]

    147 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  59. 24 hours in a diner in New York

    146 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  60. Why I’m Using the Cerny Method of Game Development

    146 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  61. Socioeconomic sorting at the metropolitan level is making America more polarized

    146 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  62. Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019 to receive updates

    145 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  63. Go: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    145 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  64. The unsolved mystery of who owns 221b Baker Street

    145 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  65. Ask HN: Why are big companies so much less efficient?

    145 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  66. Origins of the myth of dopamine as the ‘pleasure chemical’

    144 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  67. China Slaps Tariffs on U.S. Products

    144 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  68. Lessons on product and marketing from the growth of Domino’s Pizza

    144 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  69. A look at VDO, the new Linux compression layer

    144 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  70. Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art Piece

    144 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  71. Netflix Blog: Tips for High Availability

    144 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  72. Where I started might not be useful to you

    143 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  73. Massive Breach in Panera Bread

    143 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  74. Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Prepare for an I.P.O. Wave

    143 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  75. Inside the Linux boot process (2006)

    143 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  76. Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

    143 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  77. The Great Theorem Prover Showdown

    143 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  78. AWS EC2 T2 Instances Demystified: Don’t Learn the Hard Way

    143 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  79. Uber is launching Uber Rent, a rental car service with Getaround

    142 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  80. Tiny Steps Towards Liberating Bootloaders and Modem Firmware of MediaTek Phones

    142 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  81. Reverse engineering the Notability file format

    142 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  82. Show HN: InKino – An open-source movie app made with Flutter

    142 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  83. People Are Turning Their Instagram Accounts into Bots

    142 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  84. A US millionaire who buried treasure in the Rockies has offered one main clue

    142 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  85. The quadratic formula and low-precision arithmetic

    142 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  86. Why Whales Got So Big

    142 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  87. Why Invest in Cities? There's Always Another Boise

    142 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  88. Kubrick found what he wanted by trying things out

    141 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  89. Parents in poorer countries devote more time to their kids' homework

    141 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  90. The joy of index cards (2009)

    141 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  91. Bulgaria played a vital role in introducing yogurt to the West

    141 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  92. Denver Post Rebels Against Its Hedge-Fund Ownership

    141 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  93. A more privacy-friendly blog

    140 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  94. Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000)

    140 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  95. Want airline food? Take Amtrak

    140 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  96. Haxing Minesweeper

    140 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  97. The Artificial Intelligentsia

    140 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  98. Apple will start paying $21B in back taxes to Ireland

    140 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  99. Sinclair Spectrum Designer Rick Dickinson Has Died

    140 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  100. Fully Homomorphic Encryption: Secret Key Homomorphic Encryption Over Integers

    140 points • comment • apr 27, 2018