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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. 7-Zip: From Uninitialized Memory to Remote Code Execution

    333 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  2. The real power of Linux executables

    333 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  3. Reality Driven Development: Fixing Project Management in Software

    332 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  4. Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know

    331 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  5. Steve Wozniak Recounts His Efforts to Engineer the Apple II Floppy Disk System

    331 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  6. Who controls glibc?

    330 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  7. Google Maps Platform

    329 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  8. How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance

    329 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  9. Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (113 Models Explained)

    328 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  10. MacOS command line version of the WireGuard VPN is now available for testing

    324 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  11. WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal

    323 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  12. Ted Dabney, a Founder of Atari and a Creator of Pong, Has Died

    323 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  13. A Plane That Accidentally Circumnavigated the World (2014)

    322 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  14. JavaScript is Good, Actually

    321 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  15. The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s

    320 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  16. Fonts for Complex Data

    319 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  17. I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report

    318 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  18. Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction Support Groups

    318 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  19. Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits

    316 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  20. Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad

    316 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  21. Gmail Icons are Hard

    315 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  22. Scrum disempowers developers

    315 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  23. Deconstructing Kitty

    314 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  24. Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws

    313 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  25. Salesforce CEO Benioff calls for national privacy law

    313 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  26. CBS “60 Minutes” piece on Google’s abuse of dominance

    313 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  27. 100 prisoners problem

    312 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  28. Glom – Restructured Data for Python

    310 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  29. Hello Qt for Python

    310 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  30. Apple faces class action lawsuit over failing MacBook butterfly keyboards

    310 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  31. Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store

    308 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  32. Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (2012)

    308 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  33. Our Approach to Employee Security Training

    307 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  34. California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes

    306 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  35. Tech watchdogs call on Facebook, Google for transparency around censored content

    305 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  36. Japan's secret spy agency

    304 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  37. U.S. Launches Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation

    303 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  38. China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

    303 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  39. Tom Wolfe Has Died

    302 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  40. Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage

    300 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  41. Over 30? Too Old for Tech Jobs in China

    300 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  42. List of screw drives

    299 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  43. Google embraces, extends, and extinguishes

    299 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  44. What's Going on in Your Child's Brain When You Read Them a Story?

    298 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  45. Multiple OS Vendors Release Security Patches After Misinterpreting Intel Docs

    298 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  46. How Rust 1.26 more than tripled the speed of my code

    298 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  47. Web Authentication API

    298 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  48. California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes

    297 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  49. Surviving Your 40s

    296 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  50. How Judea Pearl Became One of AI's Sharpest Critics

    295 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  51. A mistake about manufacturing costing Americans millions of jobs

    294 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  52. A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming (1971) [pdf]

    294 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  53. Canon has sold its last film camera

    294 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  54. Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard

    294 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  55. Show HN: HyperApp – 1k JavaScript framework for building web applications

    293 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  56. Tesla beats expectations with $3.4B in revenue

    293 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  57. Tcpdump Examples

    293 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  58. NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot

    292 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  59. The life cycle of HIV in 3D [video]

    292 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  60. Farewell from the Pineapple Fund

    292 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  61. How to Sell – a guide for SaaS startups

    292 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  62. How to start a Go project in 2018

    291 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  63. AstroNavigation – A free course

    291 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  64. EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line

    291 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  65. Americans Are a Lonely Lot, and Young People Bear the Heaviest Burden

    290 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  66. Show HN: Cannoli – A compiler for a subset of Python written in Rust

    289 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  67. Young Chinese are sick of working long hours

    289 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  68. Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread

    288 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  69. Common Lisp homepage

    288 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  70. A CLI game to learn Vim

    288 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  71. A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME

    287 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  72. Concorde ‘B’

    285 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  73. Apple Signs Deal with Volkswagen for Driverless Car

    285 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  74. A new Xbox controller to make gaming accessible to more people with disabilities

    285 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  75. Beautiful Racket

    284 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  76. Mastodon 2.4.0

    284 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  77. FBI repeatedly overstated encryption threat figures to Congress, public

    283 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  78. Warriorjs – An exciting game of programming and artificial intelligence

    283 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  79. Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter

    282 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  80. DigitalMars C/C++ Compiler

    281 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  81. A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain

    281 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  82. Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

    281 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  83. College May Not Be Worth It Anymore

    280 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  84. Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction

    279 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  85. We May First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets

    279 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  86. USB Reverse Engineering: Down the Rabbit Hole

    278 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  87. Things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition (2015)

    277 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  88. Walmart Beats Amazon in $15B Flipkart Battle

    277 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  89. Yubico and Microsoft Introduce Passwordless Login

    276 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  90. StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migrated to Mix

    276 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  91. Charging electric scooters is a cut-throat business

    276 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  92. Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

    274 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  93. Tesla Plunges After a Conference Call

    274 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  94. An embedded database written in Rust

    274 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  95. Mara: A lightweight ETL framework, halfway between plain scripts and Airflow

    272 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  96. Australian regulator investigates Google data harvesting from Android phones

    272 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  97. DigitalOcean Introduces Kubernetes Product

    272 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  98. Enter the Matrix – A technical overview and guide to all things Matrix

    270 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  99. Asciinema – Record and share your terminal sessions

    269 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  100. Amazon’s Fake Review Economy

    268 points • comment • may 08, 2018