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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. Writing a Portable CPU/GPU Ray Tracer in C#

    113 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  2. The Logical Disaster of Null

    113 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  3. The Eudora Email Client Source Code

    112 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  4. How I got my first thousand users

    112 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  5. Mice with 3D-Printed Ovaries Successfully Give Birth

    112 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  6. Shoes – An easy little GUI toolkit for Ruby

    112 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  7. Non-Recursive Make Considered Harmful: Build Systems at Scale (2016) [pdf]

    112 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  8. Making art with SSH key randomart

    112 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  9. Ancient Rome’s Collapse Is Written into Arctic Ice

    111 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  10. The Old Robots

    111 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  11. YubiKey comes to the iPhone with Mobile SDK for iOS and LastPass support

    111 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  12. 1958 Imperial: What It's Like to Drive an Auto-Pilot Car

    111 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  13. What really happened to that melted NASA camera?

    111 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  14. Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?

    111 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  15. Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals

    111 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  16. Shadow DOM enabled in Firefox nightly

    111 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  17. Epigenetics: The Evolution Revolution

    111 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  18. Varieties of Argumentative Experience

    111 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  19. How ‘Authentic Relating’ Made Vulnerability a Movement (2017)

    110 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  20. Our machine learning and NLP journey

    110 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  21. A giant 360 LED clock

    110 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  22. Using Flywheel Batteries to Charge Electric Vehicles in Ten Minutes

    110 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  23. Haskell's Missing Concurrency Basics (2016)

    110 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  24. Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history

    110 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  25. New Car: An Accessible Minivan

    110 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  26. Everest: A lightweight REST API client written in JavaFX

    110 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  27. When the Compiler Bites

    110 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  28. What is Software Engineering?

    109 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  29. “The Idiot” Savant: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot

    109 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  30. Mint-lang: a language for the front-end web

    109 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  31. 'Murdered' Journalist Is Alive and Well

    109 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  32. Lisp, Jazz, Aikido

    109 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  33. California’s next bold step on climate should be building near transit

    109 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  34. Anatomy of an online misinformation network

    109 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  35. SoftBank Will Invest $2.25B in Cruise

    109 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  36. YouTube rolls out new tools to help you stop watching

    108 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  37. Google I/O 2018 codelabs

    108 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  38. The Ulam Spiral of Primes (2010)

    108 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  39. The YIMBYs lost in California but they’re just getting started

    108 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  40. Spinoza’s philosophy of freedom

    108 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  41. People crave silence, yet are unnerved by it

    108 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  42. ZSH, tmux, Emacs and SSH: A copy-paste story

    108 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  43. 3D Face Reconstruction with Position Map Regression Networks

    107 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  44. Computing Partial Differential Equations with Water

    107 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  45. Sononym: Machine Learning Sample Organizer for Musicians

    107 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  46. GCP opening a third zone in Singapore

    107 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  47. GHC Parser Principles

    107 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  48. Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles

    107 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  49. Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back

    107 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  50. History of Symbolics Lisp Machines (2007)

    107 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  51. Parallel Index Scans in PostgreSQL

    107 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  52. Programming Language Theory in Agda

    107 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  53. EC2 Instance Update – C5 Instances with Local NVMe Storage

    106 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  54. Show HN: I built a peer-to-peer publishing platform

    106 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  55. California AG Files Extortion Charges Against MugShots.com

    106 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  56. Google Duplex will call salons, restaurants, and pretend to be human for you

    106 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  57. NYC Renters Paid Extra $616M Thanks to Airbnb, Study Says

    106 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  58. Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber (2016)

    106 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  59. Empiricism and the limits of gradient descent

    106 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  60. Learning to Optimize Tensor Programs

    105 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  61. How to Train and Build a Conversational News Chatbot

    105 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  62. Dungeons and Dragons: The revival of a 'geeky' pastime

    105 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  63. New variety in the chip market, and trouble for Intel (2017)

    105 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  64. Tesla CEO Musk Says Company Is Flattening Management Structure in Reorganization

    105 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  65. Makita has made a sturdy coffee machine aimed at construction workers

    105 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  66. A 1950s-Era New York Knife Law Has Landed Thousands in Jail

    105 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  67. Rick Toone, Luthier

    105 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  68. Boeing's folding wingtips get the FAA green light

    104 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  69. The Sound of Madness

    104 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  70. A simple mechanism could have been decisive for the development of life

    104 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  71. Regional Persistent Disks on Google Kubernetes Engine

    104 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  72. The popular creation story of astronomy is wrong

    104 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  73. Google I/O'18: Keynote Livestream [video]

    104 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  74. USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff

    104 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  75. Tesla that crashed in Autopilot mode sped up before hitting truck: police

    104 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  76. Alan Turing’s chemistry hypothesis turned into a desalination filter

    104 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  77. Talos II Lite

    104 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  78. Katran: A high-performance layer 4 load balancer

    104 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  79. The Last Days of Time Inc

    104 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  80. Ask HN: When is federation a better solution than decentralization?

    103 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  81. Show HN: Offline Object Detection and Tracking on a Raspberry Pi

    103 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  82. The Last Days of the Blue-Blood Harvest

    103 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  83. Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'

    103 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  84. GNU Mcron

    103 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  85. Oni – Modern Modal Editing

    103 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  86. The myth of ‘mad’ genius

    103 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  87. 'My £1,000 Macbook Air was stolen at airport security and no one cares'

    103 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  88. Tesla Executive Leaves for Waymo

    103 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  89. Facebook management moves around but people don’t leave

    103 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  90. Emergency room patients can face steep bills even when treatment is declined

    103 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  91. Why I'm leaving Open Source

    102 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  92. “Cost of Living” pay for remote workers is BS

    102 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  93. TensorFlow: Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems (2015) [pdf]

    102 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  94. Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests

    102 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  95. Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution

    102 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  96. Europe Takes First Steps in Electrifying World’s Shipping Fleets

    102 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  97. The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines (1995)

    102 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  98. How a “location API” allows cops to figure out where we all are in real-time

    102 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  99. Notes on Nationalism (1945)

    101 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  100. Vuetube – Video resources that will help you to improve your Vue skills

    101 points • comment • may 28, 2018