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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. ‘Alexa’ has become a less popular baby name since Amazon launched Echo

    22 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  2. Vim 8.1 is available

    22 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  3. Life on the Poincaré Disk

    22 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  4. Show HN: Ip Man. Mac menu bar app displaying your IP

    22 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  5. Beastly Numbers (1996) [pdf]

    22 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  6. Show HN: I made wits.chat – A way to read everyday and share what you learned

    22 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  7. At least 58 Palestinians killed and thousands injured by Israeli forces

    22 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  8. 200 people in cars, on bikes, on buses and light rail

    22 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  9. How to Harden SSH with Identities and Certificates (2014)

    22 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  10. U.S. safety agency (NHTSA) says 'did not assess' Tesla Autopilot effectiveness

    22 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  11. The Wedding Sting (2015)

    22 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  12. Why Is Amazon's Generosity to a Seattle Homeless Shelter Such a Pain?

    22 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  13. Nanoscope: Method-Tracing Tool for Android

    22 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  14. Adobe to acquire Magento for $1.68B

    22 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  15. I spent 16 months on this Bitcoin explainer. by Art of the Problem

    22 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  16. Google announces six new voices for Assistant at #IO18 – including John Legend

    21 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  17. Ask HN: What you watch to laugh?

    21 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  18. You Need Deli Cups

    21 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  19. The Deep Time of Walden Pond

    21 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  20. Reconfigurable Cache Architecture for Storage Systems with Online Workload

    21 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  21. Ask HN: Is Electron really that bad for desktop apps?

    21 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  22. When the Movies Went West

    21 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  23. E-recycling innovator is going to prison for trying to extend computers' lives

    21 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  24. AMD Zen CPU Microcode Added to Linux-Firmware Tree, Bulldozer Updated – Phoronix

    21 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  25. Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one of GDPR

    21 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  26. Microsoft’s meeting room of the future

    21 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  27. Free E-book: Distributed Systems Observability

    21 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  28. Comcast confirms plan to buy 21st Century Fox and control of Hulu

    21 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  29. Google's front for lobbying

    21 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  30. No amount of alcohol, sausage or bacon is safe according to cancer experts

    21 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  31. The End of Intelligence

    21 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  32. Ask HN: Who is looking for help on their side project? (May 2018)

    21 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  33. Ask HN: What is the best online course to start learning python?

    21 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  34. Story-Oriented Programming

    21 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  35. TIME’s Latest Cover Photo Is a Drone Photo of 958 Drones

    21 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  36. Show HN: Kitten – Tiny multi-server automation tool

    21 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  37. Butchers 'living in fear' as vegan attacks on the rise

    21 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  38. Crab crisis: Maryland seafood industry loses 40% of workforce in visa lottery

    21 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  39. Mike Meru Has $1M in Student Loans. How Did That Happen?

    21 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  40. Cross Entropy

    21 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  41. “Scientists are leaving Amazon reviews and it's amazing”

    21 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  42. Is it really a Leonardo?

    21 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  43. Facebook charm offensive just turns into being offensive

    21 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  44. Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions (2016)

    21 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  45. I found some COBOL. Last comment is from 1985. Written by my mother

    21 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  46. Ask HN: What skills would get me the best remote job?

    20 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  47. Satellite data suggests China and other authoritarian regimes are fudging GDP

    20 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  48. A serious security vulnerability has been found in 7-Zip

    20 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  49. 75% Chrome traffic is now over HTTPS

    20 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  50. Don the Talking Dog

    20 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  51. How I write Go HTTP services after seven years

    20 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  52. Ask HN: How do you reduce unsolicited phone calls?

    20 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  53. The Effect of Ad Transparency on Ad Effectiveness

    20 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  54. The 3-ladder system of social class in the U.S. (2012)

    20 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  55. Experience with Viruses on Unix systems (1989) [pdf]

    20 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  56. Firefox 63 set to block in-browser crypto-miners

    20 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  57. Even Privacy Advocates Are Tracking You Online

    20 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  58. Tech Breakthroughs That Could Make People Love the Bus

    20 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  59. Yippies vs. Zippies: New book reveals ’70s counterculture feud

    20 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  60. CSV Schema Language – A Language for Defining and Validating CSV Data

    20 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  61. How to Generate Free Wildcard SSL Certificates with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu

    20 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  62. Updating the Go Code of Conduct

    20 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  63. The Gun-Law Loophole That Entices Tycoons and Criminals to Play Cop

    20 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  64. Ask HN: Is Signal down?

    20 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  65. Cities from the sea: the true cost of reclaimed land

    20 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  66. NASA’s EM-drive is a magnetic WTF-thruster

    20 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  67. Ask HN: What has your experience with lesser-known TLDs been?

    20 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  68. How I write Go HTTP services after 7 years

    20 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  69. The World Wants More Camel Milk

    20 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  70. How gender bias affects healthcare

    20 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  71. Releasing the Eudora Email Client Source Code

    20 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  72. Ask HN: What are all the “hacker news” sites for other disciplines?

    20 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  73. Bill Gates: Trump twice asked me the difference between HIV and HPV

    20 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  74. Serverboards 18.04 Released

    20 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  75. The contrast between Tesla and the rest of the auto industry is terrifying

    20 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  76. Glyphosate shown to disrupt microbiome 'at safe levels', study claims

    20 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  77. I work in tech and quit the perfect job

    20 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  78. Intuition of Gradient Descent for Machine Learning

    19 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  79. Muons: the little-known particles helping to probe the impenetrable

    19 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  80. Show HN: CampTarget, road routing and planning helper

    19 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  81. Show HN: Instaaa 2.0 – Promote your business everywhere with a single click

    19 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  82. Coding bootcamp broke the law. How to get into tech?

    19 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  83. Open source's big German win: 300,000 users shift to Nextcloud for file sharing

    19 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  84. Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents

    19 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  85. Russian journalist faked his death to root out who was after him

    19 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  86. UM Foundation invests tens of millions in offshore tax havens

    19 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  87. [pdf] GDPR Complaint vs. Facebook

    19 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  88. DynoRoot1111 (CVE-2018-1111)

    19 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  89. Show HN: Decoupled – A lightweight music player for iOS

    19 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  90. Life gets better after 50: why age tends to work in favour of happiness

    19 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  91. Ask HN: Client won't pay me my invoice and disputed Paypal payment 3 months ago

    19 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  92. Girls and Software

    19 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  93. Show HN: Klaro – open-source consent management for websites (GDPR and ePrivacy)

    19 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  94. Trump withdraws from Iran nuclear agreement

    19 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  95. Visiting Newton's Atelier before The Principia, 1679-1684

    19 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  96. Show HN: Avoid GDPR by blocking EU visitors

    19 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  97. Google Is Listing “Nazism” as the Ideology of the California Republican Party

    19 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  98. Show HN: S&P 500 Annualized Returns Fun Facts

    19 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  99. Tell HN: Free Online Cloud Computing Course from Carnegie Mellon

    19 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  100. Ask HN: How to explain being sole employee in job title?

    19 points • comment • may 09, 2018