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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. Rust at CloudFlare

    267 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  2. Cloud Memorystore: A fully managed in-memory data store service for Redis

    267 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  3. Self-criticism can take a toll on our minds and bodies

    266 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  4. International Obfuscated C Code Contest – 2018 Winning Entries

    266 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  5. Man donated blood every week for 60 years and helped save 2.4M babies

    266 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  6. Netflix is now worth more than Comcast

    265 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  7. Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings

    265 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  8. Vermont will cover $10K of expenses for people who move there and work remotely

    264 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  9. A Year Using Matrix and Riot

    264 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  10. California Supreme Court Transforms the Test for Who Is an Employee

    264 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  11. Devices Which Track Cellphones, Intercept Calls Found All Over DC, MD, VA

    263 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  12. Disney, please sell the rights to Monkey Island back to its creator Ron Gilbert

    263 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  13. The TSA has a watch list of people who present “challenges” to screening

    262 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  14. The Engineer vs. the Border Patrol

    262 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  15. Ghostery exposed everyone's email address in its GDPR email by not using BCC

    261 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  16. Lessons from My Math Degree That Have Nothing to Do with Math

    261 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  17. A puzzle that tiles infinitely across both sides, based on the Klein Bottle

    260 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  18. Ask HN: Amazon software engineers, how is the work culture now?

    260 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  19. Facebook now denying access unless EU users opt-in to tracking

    259 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  20. YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating

    259 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  21. Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms

    259 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  22. Oracle plans to dump risky Java serialization

    259 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  23. The Erlang Runtime System

    258 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  24. A Recycled IP Address Caused Me to Pirate Books by Accident

    258 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  25. Prices for dried coffee husks are outstripping those for beans

    258 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  26. Introducing Surface Hub 2

    258 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  27. Statistics, Fast and Slow

    258 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  28. Ask HN: How to become a remote contractor?

    257 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  29. Progress – A Tool to Monitor Progress for Commands in Linux (2016)

    257 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  30. Perceived Physical Activity and Mortality: Study

    256 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  31. Is K8s Too Complicated? 

    255 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  32. Researchers have developed a water-based battery to store solar and wind energy

    254 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  33. Tesla in autopilot mode crashes into parked Laguna Beach police cruiser

    254 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  34. Earth-Moon Fire Pole

    254 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  35. Show HN: Write every day, measure your progress, achieve your writing goals

    254 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  36. Fridge 0.1

    254 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  37. Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016)

    254 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  38. Tiny Trains: Neat Narrow-Gauge Rail Connects German Island to Mainland

    254 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  39. Apps for which macOS applies compatibillity fixes

    253 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  40. FCC fines robocaller record $120M

    253 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  41. So Your Startup Received the Nightmare GDPR Letter

    253 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  42. Mussels test positive for opioids in Seattle's Puget Sound

    253 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  43. Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf]

    253 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  44. Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers

    252 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  45. Why the Luddites Matter

    252 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  46. PicoLisp

    251 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  47. Instapaper is temporarily shutting off access for European users due to GDPR

    250 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  48. Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation

    249 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  49. Steve Jobs at MIT Sloan School of Management (1992) [video]

    249 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  50. Announcing .NET Core 2.1

    249 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  51. Self-Awareness for Introverts [pdf]

    249 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  52. Facebook monthly visits down 5% in April

    247 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  53. AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just an accident

    247 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  54. Stopping the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career (2016)

    246 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  55. Real-Time Ray Tracing Demo

    246 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  56. Congress wants to extend the copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years

    245 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  57. Oculus Go

    244 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  58. Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

    244 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  59. “But didn't you write an embedded OS?”

    244 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  60. Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum

    244 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  61. Google's Plan to Make Tech Less Addictive

    244 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  62. Nebulet: A microkernel that runs WebAssembly in Ring 0

    243 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  63. Foundations of Data Science [pdf]

    243 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  64. Philip Roth has died

    243 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  65. Stack Overflow for Teams

    243 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  66. GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL

    242 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  67. Unifying Theories of Psychedelic Drug Effects

    242 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  68. Tech’s Two Philosophies

    241 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  69. Core Erlang by Example

    240 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  70. On Cumulative Advantage and How to Think About Luck

    240 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  71. When FFI Function Calls Beat Native C

    240 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  72. Ask HN: How is DDoS protection implemented?

    240 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  73. In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time

    239 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  74. Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86

    239 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  75. Has wine gone bad?

    239 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  76. Pure CSS Francine

    239 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  77. Opening of Romeo and Juliet Recited in the Accent of Shakespeare’s Time [video]

    239 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  78. Senator requests better https compliance at US Department of Defense [pdf]

    239 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  79. Impact – HTML5 Game Engine

    238 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  80. Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available

    238 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  81. How to send local files to Chromecast with Python

    237 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  82. Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system

    237 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  83. SQLite Query Language: upsert

    236 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  84. Shortwave Trading: The West Chicago Tower Mystery

    235 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  85. Finding the longest straight line you could sail without hitting land

    235 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  86. Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Central Washington

    234 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  87. America has a truck driver shortage

    234 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  88. GCC 8.1 Released

    234 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  89. The Zen of Erlang (2016)

    234 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  90. Ask HN: Looking to branch out into remote work, how to start

    233 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  91. CSCI E-23a: Introduction to Game Development

    233 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  92. Working Lego pinball machine built from 15,000 bricks

    231 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  93. ClassicKit – A collection of UI components for iOS influenced by Windows 95

    231 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  94. Nasa will send helicopter to Mars to test otherworldly flight

    231 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  95. The Psychology of Japanese Train Stations

    231 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  96. ReasonML – React as first intended

    229 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  97. The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

    229 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  98. Book recommendation: Measure what matters

    229 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  99. Twitter suspended our Open Data project's account and wiped all our followers

    229 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  100. Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep Learning

    228 points • comment • may 30, 2018