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Hacker News (Jun 2018)

  1. Bogus copyright and trademark complaints: EFF’s Hall Of Shame

    88 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  2. Using Deep Learning to Help Pathologists Find Tumors

    87 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  3. The 640K memory limit of MS-DOS

    87 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  4. Forget GDPR, EU's New Copyright Proposal Will Be a Disaster for the Internet

    87 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  5. The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012)

    87 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  6. ECDSA Key Extraction Side Channel in Multiple Crypto Libraries

    86 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  7. Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative

    86 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  8. Make a Pseudoscope (2005)

    86 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  9. HardenedBSD: Feature comparison vs other BSD distros

    86 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  10. Attitudes matter in an aging world

    86 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  11. Apple’s Secret Offshore Island Hop Revealed by Paradise Papers Leak (2017)

    86 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  12. Root Cause Analysis of a Non-Deterministic JavaScriptCore Vulnerability

    86 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  13. A Friendly Introduction to Cross-Entropy Loss (2016)

    86 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  14. How to get away with financial fraud

    86 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  15. 150-Year Green Card Wait for Indian Immigrants With Advanced Degrees

    86 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  16. Thousands of Apps Leak Sensitive Data via Misconfigured Firebase Back Ends

    86 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  17. Freelancers are precarious. When should they push back?

    86 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  18. Dark Patterns in UI/UX Design

    86 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  19. A Connectome-Based Convolutional Network Model of the Drosophila Visual System

    86 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  20. Notorious Kindle Unlimited abuser has been booted from the bookstore

    85 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  21. Ask HN: What are the best hacks to fight depression?

    85 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  22. 'Facebook is taking everything': rising rents drive out Silicon Valley families

    85 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  23. E-Cigarette Maker Juul Labs Is Raising $1.2B

    85 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  24. SICP Goodness – Why you don't need looping constructs

    85 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  25. Tesla short sellers $2B in the red for June as shares soar

    84 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  26. Why NASA Projects Miss Deadlines and Blow Budgets

    84 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  27. Make. It. Simple. Linux Desktop Usability

    84 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  28. Vynchronize – A fun realtime video sync platform for friends

    84 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  29. Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup

    84 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  30. A Bitter Guide to Open Source

    84 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  31. Married in Montana: Servicemembers take advantage of state’s double-proxy law

    84 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  32. Modern C++ Features – std::optional

    84 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  33. Most Americans’ Wages Have Actually Declined Over the Past Year

    84 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  34. Recommended path to read the Lua source code by the author of LuaJIT (2007)

    84 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  35. There Are No Laws of Physics, There’s Only the Landscape

    84 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  36. Tether releases law firm report attesting to $2.55 billion USD reserves

    84 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  37. Query Parquet files in SQLite

    84 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  38. Critical vulnerability of NPM package macaddress

    84 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  39. Design Tip: Never Use Black (2012)

    84 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  40. Interview with Freeman Dyson

    83 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  41. List of common misconceptions

    83 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  42. SMS over IRC

    83 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  43. Ask HN: How do you manage your mental health?

    83 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  44. The myth of revealed preference for suburbs

    83 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  45. Vertical Takeoff and Vertical Landing, Now Available for Model Rockets

    83 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  46. Police Broke into Chelsea Manning’s Home with Guns Drawn – In a “Wellness Check”

    83 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  47. Free Software Needs Free Tools (2010)

    83 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  48. Intercepting and Emulating Linux System Calls with Ptrace

    83 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  49. The debate over whether to use genetically modified mosquitoes to fight malaria

    83 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  50. Saving the ‘god of ugly things’: NZ battles to restore its rodent-sized insects

    82 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  51. I Helped Design the ‘Machine Learning President’ Game

    82 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  52. How Spiders Fly

    82 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  53. Friendly web development tutorials for complete beginners

    82 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  54. A Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve

    82 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  55. A Reputation-Laundering Firm That Ruined Its Own Reputation

    82 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  56. Migrate from GitHub to GitLab

    82 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  57. Scientists develop thermal camouflage that can fool infrared cameras

    81 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  58. The web apps that will eat mobile

    81 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  59. MongoDB 4.0 will add support for multi-document transactions

    81 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  60. Macintosh Startup Sound History [video]

    81 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  61. A career decision influenced by Nassim Taleb

    81 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  62. Tesla shareholders reject bid to strip Musk of chairman role

    81 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  63. Adventures in Deleting Tweets

    81 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  64. New York stock exchange has its first female leader in 226-year history

    81 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  65. Reverse Engineering Instruments’ File Format

    81 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  66. Parsing with Derivatives: A Functional Pearl (2011) [pdf]

    81 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  67. Not All Facts Are Equal

    81 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  68. Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (2008)

    81 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  69. Raymond E. Feist on Building a World from Scratch

    81 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  70. The Life and Death of Teletext

    81 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  71. Judge rules that Amazon isn't liable for damages caused by a hoverboard it sold

    81 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  72. JavaScript Engine Fundamentals: Shapes and Inline Caches

    81 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  73. The Nixie Tube Story: The Neon Display Tech That Engineers Can’t Quit

    81 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  74. Ask HN: Acquihire early stage bootstrapped SaaS advice

    81 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  75. Loudness Penalty: Find out if audio will be turned down by streaming services

    81 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  76. Current Inflation Has Different Effects on Different Age Groups

    81 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  77. Functional Geekery Episode 48 – Matthias Felleisen [audio]

    81 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  78. Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish

    81 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  79. Teaching My Computer to Write Its Own Music (2015)

    81 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  80. Running graphics-accelerated GUI apps in LXD containers on a Ubuntu desktop

    80 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  81. Go-benchmark: Golang benchmarks used for optimizing code

    80 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  82. Wind, solar farms produce 10% of US power in the first four months of 2018

    80 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  83. A Child’s Garden of Inter-Service Authentication Schemes

    80 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  84. BlueChip – An ORM-like syntax for retrieving data from GraphQL or JsonAPI

    80 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  85. German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, operator says (2016)

    80 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  86. How “Jurassic Park” led to the modernization of dinosaur paleontology

    80 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  87. The Current State of Java Value Types

    80 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  88. Mathematics Shows How to Ensure Evolution

    80 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  89. SEC issues warning against John McAfee’s crypto shilling

    80 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  90. Cells Talk and Help One Another via Tiny Tube Networks

    79 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  91. Streaming with linear types

    79 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  92. Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?

    79 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  93. U.S. Supreme Court will hear Apple's appeal of App Store class-action lawsuit

    79 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  94. Data processing on modern hardware

    79 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  95. For $1B, Elon Musk’s Tunnel to O’Hare Would Be a Miracle

    79 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  96. A massive cache of law enforcement personnel data has leaked

    79 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  97. Ask HN: What’s your “Everyone has a price” experience?

    79 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  98. Modal Logic Playground

    79 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  99. Ubiq: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Log Processing Infrastructure (2016)

    79 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  100. The Growing Emptiness of the “Star Wars” Universe

    79 points • comment • jun 01, 2018