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Hacker News (Jun 2018)

  1. The Natural Language Decathlon

    71 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  2. Introducing Multi-Leg Options Strategies

    71 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  3. Spite buildings: when human grudges get architectural

    71 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  4. Show HN: Build dApp front-ends using GraphQL

    71 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  5. The Chinese Communist Party’s fear of its people spells trouble

    71 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  6. Data serialization

    71 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  7. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Electric Scooters

    71 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  8. As Uber and Tesla struggle with driverless cars, Waymo moves forward

    70 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  9. Show HN: A SIMD-accelerated noise library in Rust

    70 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  10. Alphabet shareholders reject diversity proposal backed by employees

    70 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  11. A Vault containing seeds for virtually every edible plant

    70 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  12. Using KiwiSDRs to locate HF radio transmitters and numbers stations

    70 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  13. Neural Titanic: A TensorFlow.js demo

    70 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  14. On Intelligence in Cells: The Case for Whole Cell Biology (2009) [pdf]

    70 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  15. Marc Benioff of Salesforce: ‘Are We Not All Connected?’

    69 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  16. Partnership between Unity and Google

    69 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  17. Leaked screenshots of Xcode 10 on macOS 10.14

    69 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  18. The Left Hand of Equals

    69 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  19. Kaggle’s Yelp Restaurant Photo Classification Competition, Fast.ai Style

    69 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  20. F*EX – Frams' Fast File EXchange

    69 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  21. New York’s last remaining independent bookshops

    69 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  22. Facebook Back on the Defensive, Now Over Data Deals with Device Makers

    69 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  23. What is GeoMesa?

    69 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  24. Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source

    69 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  25. China is winning the global tech race

    69 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  26. Reverse Engineering the Mind: Brain and Cognitive Sciences [video]

    68 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  27. Strings Are Evil

    68 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  28. Big Trouble at 3nm

    68 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  29. Google Sets Rules to Curtail Employee Debate

    68 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  30. Harvard Is Wrong That Asians Have Terrible Personalities

    68 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  31. NSA ‘Systematically Moving’ All Its Data to the Cloud

    68 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  32. Luck in Wesnoth: Rationale (2008)

    68 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  33. The race to the riches of asteroids

    68 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  34. Huygens: Scalable, Fine-grained Clock Synchronization [pdf]

    67 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  35. New Study: Rewarding Good Teachers and Firing Bad Ones Accomplishes Nothing

    67 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  36. Frida Kahlo and the birth of Fridolatry

    67 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  37. Ask HN: Any resources to learn the fundamentals of critical thinking?

    67 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  38. Performance of the 8088 on PC, PCjr and Tandy 1000

    67 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  39. H3: Uber’s Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index

    67 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  40. A newly discovered film shows Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had polio, walking

    67 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  41. How we track customer costs in Mixpanel

    67 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  42. Wi-fi is an important threat to human health

    67 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  43. The Case for Shared Nothing (1986) [pdf]

    67 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  44. Blockchain 2018 == NoSQL 2009

    67 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  45. The Netflix Binge Factory

    67 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  46. California moves to declare coffee safe from cancer risk

    67 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  47. Can France Create Its Own MIT?

    67 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  48. Google Is Said to Not Renew Pentagon Contract That Upset Employees

    67 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  49. AV1 Released

    67 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  50. A brief introduction to the ppx extension mechanism in OCaml

    67 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  51. Pixelfed: Open Source ActivityPub-Based Photo Sharing App

    67 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  52. MS Windows Once Caused Second Life To Break An Inkjet Printer

    67 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  53. Evidence for biological shaping of hair ice (2015) [pdf]

    66 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  54. Making buildings, cars and planes from materials based on plant fibres

    66 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  55. Show HN: DeepSpeech based automated transcription service

    66 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  56. Dangerous Optimizations and the Loss of Causality in C and C++ (2010) [pdf]

    66 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  57. A first look at Ubuntu desktop metrics

    66 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  58. ​Mark Shuttleworth on where Canonical and Ubuntu Linux are going next

    66 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  59. Ask HN: Would you rather work for Google or a smaller high growth company?

    66 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  60. The children will go bathing

    66 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  61. Do Londoners dream of electric buses?

    66 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  62. Ask HN: How do you meet new people?

    66 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  63. Theranos investors cannot pursue class action: U.S. judge

    66 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  64. Debugging Serverless Apps: from monitoring invocations to observing systems

    66 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  65. Some Words on Programming the Atari Jaguar (2006)

    66 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  66. Social Security says system's costs will exceed income this year

    65 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  67. Tezos Betanet Launch

    65 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  68. Trump directs establishment of U.S. force to dominate space

    65 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  69. Today is the 40th birthday of 8086; happy birthday pal

    65 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  70. Show HN: Devpen – Markdown Editor with GitHub Style

    65 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  71. Inside the Windows 95 File System (1997) [pdf]

    65 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  72. Mach-O Tricks [pdf]

    65 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  73. Google Leads Series A Investment Round in KaiOS to Connect Next Billion Users

    65 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  74. Show HN: Node-android – Run Node.js on Android

    65 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  75. When a College Takes on American Poverty

    65 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  76. Dark Web Drug Vendor Pleads Guilty After Feds Traced His Bitcoin Transactions

    64 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  77. Scalable incremental data aggregation on Postgres and Citus

    64 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  78. Learning Cognitive Models Using Neural Networks [pdf]

    64 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  79. Get out of my building (2009)

    64 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  80. In Praise of Maintenance (2016)

    64 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  81. Sloc Cloc and Code – What Happened on the Way to Faster Cloc

    64 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  82. Ask HN: How to stop worrying and start enjoying?

    64 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  83. Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case

    64 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  84. Will the European Union ruin the internet?

    64 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  85. Reducing DRAM Footprint with NVM in Facebook

    64 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  86. Google Fuchsia release date, news and rumors

    64 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  87. An Ancient Virus May Be Responsible for Human Consciousness

    63 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  88. How Benedict Arnold went from wartime hero to resentful traitor

    63 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  89. Google was in the running to acquire GitHub, according to head of its cloud arm

    63 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  90. Steam store to sell VR porn video games

    63 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  91. 'Cash cow' sales model for a macOS app

    63 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  92. Revisting Neuromancer After Three Decades

    63 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  93. Restoring a DEC 340 Monitor

    63 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  94. A social robot that could help save indigenous languages

    63 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  95. ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF Protocols

    63 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  96. The Linotron 303: Typesetter that's part TV set

    63 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  97. The sequel to Writing an Interpreter in Go is coming this summer

    63 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  98. IEEE 754 Floating Point Type in C++

    63 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  99. Anti-Piracy lawyers sentenced to prison for defrauding copyright holder clients

    63 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  100. How pro rata works in venture capital deals (2017)

    63 points • comment • jun 17, 2018