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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. Show HN: Favicon Kit – get and embed Favicons from any web site (CDN and API)

    54 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  2. How North Korean hackers became the world’s greatest bank robbers

    54 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  3. Star Performer Created a ‘Toxic Culture’ at Silicon Valley Community Foundation

    54 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  4. GDPR

    54 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  5. Seattle now decade’s fastest-growing big city in the U.S.

    54 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  6. A static binary rewriter that does not use heuristics

    54 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  7. Polygenic adaptation and convergent evolution in rainforest hunter-gatherers

    54 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  8. Show HN: Yet Another HN “Who's Hiring” Browser

    54 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  9. Apple and Russia Face Off Over Telegram on App Store

    54 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  10. A Crash-Course in PHP Namespaces for WordPress Developers

    54 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  11. Ask HN: Work from home (WFH) setup

    54 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  12. Bitcoin estimated to use 0.5% of the world's electric energy by end of 2018

    54 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  13. Bloomberg: In an era of hyper-wealth, economy-class rich starts at $25M

    54 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  14. 20-week Study: Facial exercises help middle-aged appear more youthful

    54 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  15. The US is running out of bombs – and it may soon struggle to make more

    54 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  16. Discussion if Google Fonts is GDPR compliant

    54 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  17. Learning Erlang as an Experienced Developer

    53 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  18. Carbon emissions from tourism are rising at an alarming rate

    53 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  19. Show HN: Ping.gy – An app to connect with people within 1km from you

    53 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  20. Who is Losing the Nile?

    53 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  21. A megathread on breaking away from Google

    53 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  22. Show HN: A search engine that doesn't track you, where users vote for results

    53 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  23. How Social Media Exploits Our Moral Emotions

    53 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  24. Ask HN: What are you currently self hosting?

    53 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  25. U.S. Supreme Court to hear case about who gets paid in class action lawsuits

    53 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  26. Show HN: Trailer Nite – Find something to watch tonight

    53 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  27. Show HN: I'm Creating a GitHub Repo Quality Bot

    53 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  28. How to write your own BitTorrent client in Java by using Bt library

    53 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  29. DSP Inside TI Radar Puts AI on Edge

    53 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  30. A comparison of adaptive radix trees and hash tables [pdf]

    53 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  31. Limited airborne transmission of Ebola is ‘very likely,’ analysis says (2015)

    53 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  32. And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet

    53 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  33. Analysis vs Algebra predicts eating corn? (2010)

    52 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  34. Memo Life for You

    52 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  35. Facebook Locking Out GDPR Users Until They Consent

    52 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  36. Syfy has canceled the Expanse, but its producers want to find it a new home

    52 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  37. Compile Time Prevention of SQL-Injections in Rust

    52 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  38. Ask HN: Anyone using Nixos in production?

    52 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  39. A plea for stability in the SciPy ecosystem

    52 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  40. Ariane chief seems frustrated with SpaceX for driving down launch costs

    52 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  41. High-Resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python (2011)

    52 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  42. Backdoor injected to NPM express-cookies package

    52 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  43. Why we should all be using Windows 95

    52 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  44. Engineered Band Gap Pushes Graphene Closer to Displacing Silicon

    52 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  45. Ask HN: Is a React Native like approach to desktop apps better than Electron?

    52 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  46. The Curse of Konzo

    52 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  47. Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Understand Journalism

    52 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  48. Ask HN: What makes you happy in life?

    52 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  49. How Culture Molds Habits of Thought (2000)

    52 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  50. Faulty Logic: Debating won’t bring us closer to truth

    52 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  51. Was Cleopatra Beautiful? (1997)

    51 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  52. Facial recognition tech wrongly identified 2,000 people as potential criminals

    51 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  53. The Big Lie of Venture Capital

    51 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  54. Three-body Gallery

    51 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  55. Startup Wants to Replace Cars and Subways with Elevated Pods

    51 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  56. Ask HN: What's it like to live in San Francisco?

    51 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  57. One Cubit the More: Remembering J. Robert Oppenheimer

    51 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  58. The ongoing bailout list of the financial system

    51 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  59. Generative adversarial network in 70 lines of Julia

    51 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  60. Making of “Logon's run – 3D meets the aging bits”

    51 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  61. The treadmill was invented as a prison rehabilitation device

    51 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  62. Solar energy companies in California deploy batteries to homes to stablize grid

    51 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  63. How can we be sure AI will behave? Perhaps by watching it argue with itself

    51 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  64. What will happen when an ant falls from the Empire State Building

    51 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  65. Ask HN: Anyone interested in sharing our office space with us? Bangalore, India

    51 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  66. Show HN: Golimit – Ringpop-based distributed and decentralized rate limiter

    51 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  67. Ask HN: I think my company might be selling. What should I be doing to prepare?

    51 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  68. Show HN: SugarTeX – readable LaTeX language extension and transcompiler to LaTeX

    50 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  69. Minimal Responsive Grid System

    50 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  70. The1975..com (very odd glitch)

    50 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  71. Birchbox reached a deal, but it will leave some investors with nothing

    50 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  72. Real-Time AI: Microsoft Announces Preview of Project Brainwave

    50 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  73. Hiding Information in Rendered Text

    50 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  74. The meaning of the Vision Fund

    50 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  75. Ask HN: What do you consider resume red flags?

    50 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  76. Sony introduces the DPT-CP1 digital paper tablet with a $600 price tag

    50 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  77. 30+ Machine Learning Resources

    50 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  78. WhatsApp's CEO Is Suddenly Leaving Facebook. It Could Cost Him $1B

    49 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  79. The Soon-To-Be-Extinct Embedded Software Engineer

    49 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  80. Cinematic rendering – an alternative to volume rendering for 3D CT (2016)

    49 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  81. Pranking My Roommate with Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads (2014)

    49 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  82. Activist Jailed for Facebook Posts; FBI Tracks Him as “Black Identity Extremist”

    49 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  83. New York City Launches First Blockchain Initiatives

    49 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  84. Twenty-first century Victorians

    49 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  85. Backdoor in ssh-decorator package

    49 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  86. Bertrand Russell – Message to Future Generations (1959) [video]

    49 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  87. Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or Any EU Traffic Under GDPR

    49 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  88. Save the nuclear power plants that generate 50% of America’s clean electricity

    49 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  89. NeTV2 – An open video development board

    49 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  90. Why Nora Vasconcellos is the future of skateboarding

    49 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  91. What GDPR means for your app or side project

    49 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  92. The baby formula crime ring

    49 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  93. Show HN: Minimal Fibers

    49 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  94. The Mgmt configuration management language

    48 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  95. Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum

    48 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  96. How will the GDPR impact machine learning?

    48 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  97. The Silent Type: On Ulysses S. Grant

    48 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  98. Peter Thiel and Palantir Are at the Heart of the Iran Nuclear Deal

    48 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  99. Australians will no longer be able to order from Amazon’s American site

    48 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  100. Traders with Pockets Full of Crypto Quit Wall Street

    48 points • comment • may 30, 2018