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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter

    440 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  2. Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime

    439 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  3. Never Write Your Own Database (2017)

    437 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  4. What happens before main() is executed in C and why is it important?

    434 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  5. Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?

    432 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  6. I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore

    427 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  7. Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?

    426 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  8. Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90%

    425 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  9. Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal

    425 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  10. Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

    424 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  11. Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

    424 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  12. Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’

    423 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  13. Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand

    423 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  14. The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now

    422 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  15. America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook

    422 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  16. Possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.1

    422 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  17. GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB

    421 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  18. Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?

    421 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  19. Things to know about the GDPR, Mozilla and Firefox

    420 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  20. Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders, Part 2

    420 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  21. Jeff Bezos announces Amazon is picking up 'The Expanse'

    418 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  22. Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set to Stop in an Emergency

    418 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  23. HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

    414 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  24. Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Cluster (2014)

    413 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  25. Amazon Aurora Backtrack

    413 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  26. 'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi

    412 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  27. Is there a fix for impostor syndrome?

    411 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  28. I Got Catfished by a Candidate

    411 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  29. Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better

    411 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  30. Telegram App Says Apple Is Blocking Updates Over Dispute with Russia

    410 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  31. Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?

    408 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  32. NSA encryption plan for ‘internet of things’ rejected by ISO

    405 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  33. Harvard Classics Book Download

    405 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  34. Discover dev – a daily digest of engineering blogs

    403 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  35. Firefox 60 released

    403 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  36. Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley

    401 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  37. 96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2M

    401 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  38. A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution

    399 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  39. Cool Backgrounds

    397 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  40. Ask HN: How do I learn math/physics in my thirties?

    395 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  41. Launch HN: Necto (YC W18) – ISP Starter Kit

    395 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  42. Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 60

    395 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  43. FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices

    394 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  44. Man Allegedly Used Change of Address Form to Move UPS Headquarters

    394 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  45. How to write efficient matrix multiplication

    393 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  46. Actix: a small, pragmatic, and fast Rust web framework

    392 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  47. A new fast hash table in response to Google’s new fast hash table

    390 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  48. Introducing .app, a more secure home for apps on the web

    390 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  49. A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS

    389 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  50. Laws of Tech Economics: Commoditize Your Complement

    388 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  51. Facebook is launching a dating feature

    387 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  52. How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (2015)

    387 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  53. Docker is a dangerous gamble

    387 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  54. Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard

    385 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  55. Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone

    383 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  56. “Manager READMEs” from some tech companies

    381 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  57. How to disappear from the internet

    381 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  58. GDPR: Programmatic ad buying plummets in Europe

    380 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  59. Lobe – Deep Learning Made Simple

    379 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  60. Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram

    375 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  61. A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and browsers

    374 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  62. Apple cracking down on applications that send location data to third-parties

    374 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  63. Moving Fast and Securing Things

    372 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  64. Why Is Location Data No Longer Private?

    371 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  65. High Speed Networking: Open Sourcing our Kernel Bypass Work

    370 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  66. Diamonds Suck (2006)

    370 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  67. A 1970s Teenager's Bedroom (1998)

    365 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  68. The Various Kinds of IO – Blocking, Non-Blocking, Multiplexed and Async

    365 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  69. Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, According to SimilarWeb

    364 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  70. Side-channel attacking browsers through CSS3 features

    363 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  71. Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how brain remembers

    362 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  72. The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]

    362 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  73. Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable?

    362 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  74. Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store

    362 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  75. The Senate has forced a vote to restore net neutrality

    361 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  76. 30 years later, QBasic is still the best

    361 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  77. PostgreSQL 11 Partitioning Improvements

    360 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  78. GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules

    359 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  79. Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench

    358 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  80. GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

    357 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  81. Android P

    357 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  82. Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition for its U.S. workers

    357 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  83. Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims

    356 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  84. Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues (2015)

    354 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  85. TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming

    354 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  86. Libui: a portable GUI library for C

    351 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  87. There are real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, netstat, etc

    349 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  88. The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day

    349 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  89. Playing battleships over BGP

    347 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  90. AI and Compute

    345 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  91. State-of-the-art text classification with universal language models

    345 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  92. C Primer

    344 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  93. Every Ruler in Europe Every Year Since 400 BC

    339 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  94. The United States of Japan

    338 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  95. Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store

    337 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  96. Thermal Paper Polaroid

    337 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  97. Tarballs, the ultimate container image format

    336 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  98. Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See Surveillance Risk

    335 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  99. Show HN: How to Tune a Guitar

    334 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  100. 7-Zip: From Uninitialized Memory to Remote Code Execution

    333 points • comment • may 03, 2018