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Hacker News (Jun 2018)

  1. Why Asians Don’t Advance to Exec Level

    45 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  2. Avoid FIFA World Cup CDN Issues

    45 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  3. Does gravity CAUSE the bending of spacetime, or IS it the bending of spacetime?

    45 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  4. Sinsy: HMM-based Singing Voice Synthesis System

    45 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  5. Thomas Bernhard, Karl Kraus, and Other Vienna-Hating Viennese

    45 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  6. Instagram announces IGTV

    45 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  7. The Google H1 Fritz Chip

    45 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  8. Alphabet shareholders reject diversity proposal backed by employees

    44 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  9. Attacks against GPG signed APT repositories

    44 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  10. The War on Dignity

    44 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  11. Prediction of the FIFA World Cup 2018 – A random forest approach

    44 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  12. This car is on Autopilot. What happens next?

    44 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  13. Ask HN: “Expert Level” JavaScript questions?

    44 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  14. Fixing Weak Wi-Fi Router Security

    44 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  15. Ask HN: What's the best documentation you've ever read?

    44 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  16. Plan to split California into three states earns spot on November ballot

    44 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  17. Transdifferentiation of human adult peripheral blood T cells into neurons

    44 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  18. Online museum of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software

    44 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  19. Decades-old PGP bug allowed hackers to spoof just about anyone’s signature

    44 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  20. In an age of all-knowing algorithms, how do we choose not to know?

    43 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  21. Motorists ‘are being misled by autonomous driving aids’ – report

    43 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  22. Ajit Pai says you’re going to love the death of net neutrality

    43 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  23. Economist Bryan Caplan thinks education is mostly pointless showing off

    43 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  24. Studies find evidence that meditation is demotivating

    43 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  25. Medical Mystery Grows as U.S. Consulate Workers in China Fall Ill

    43 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  26. Art Is Becoming a Financial Product, and Blockchain Is Making It Happen

    43 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  27. Show HN: Verdaccio – Open-Source Lightweight private NPM proxy registry

    43 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  28. The Telltale Chart (2002)

    43 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  29. The Insanity of Driving

    43 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  30. Software updates: the “unknown unknown” of the replication crisis

    43 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  31. Office 365, Skype, MS Teams, and VS Code Are All Being Rewritten in React Native

    43 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  32. Friends don't let friends use AOL (2000)

    43 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  33. California Privacy Bill would reign in Silicon Valley information brokers power

    43 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  34. Adrian Lamo’s cause of death remains a mystery

    43 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  35. Tech Companies Still Aren’t Hiring Black Workers

    42 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  36. Reclaiming RSS

    42 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  37. Show HN: Royalty free music at no charge

    42 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  38. Tesla employees reveal how they were fired

    42 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  39. C++ for C Programmers: part 1

    42 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  40. PCG: a family of better random number generators

    42 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  41. The Onion Declares War on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook

    42 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  42. A Landmark Study on the Origins of Alcoholism

    42 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  43. Michel Foucault’s lessons for business

    42 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  44. Ask HN: How will it go for Raspberry Pi in the coming years?

    42 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  45. The Search for an HIV Vaccine

    42 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  46. IQ scores have been in decline for cohorts born since 1975

    42 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  47. Sotheby’s top art forgery detective

    42 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  48. An arcane new accounting standard is helping reporters follow the money

    42 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  49. What makes a country good at football?

    42 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  50. Why we must oppose the new copyright directive

    42 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  51. Static access control using phantom types (2008)

    42 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  52. Patterson's Cipher for Jefferson – Challenge Solved After 200 Years (2009)

    42 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  53. Europa: Browser-Based AudioWorklet Synth

    42 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  54. The Pros and Cons of Stealing Fine Art

    42 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  55. Airbnb could plan to IPO by late 2020

    42 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  56. Texas researchers seek to redefine U.S. whiskey

    42 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  57. Beans Were an Ancient Egyptian Emblem of Death

    42 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  58. Why working on a side project is your best move as a developer

    42 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  59. First complaints under the GDPR lodged within hours

    41 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  60. SoC it to EM: EM side-channel attacks on a complex SoC [pdf]

    41 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  61. JeffBezos Is Already $40B Richer This Year–While Typical Amazon Worker Made $12K

    41 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  62. Memory Management – Changes for the programmer over the years

    41 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  63. Ask HN: Good books/resources that provide overviews of large industries?

    41 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  64. ICE hacked its algorithmic risk-assessment tool, it always recommended detention

    41 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  65. YouTube Blocks Blender Videos Worldwide

    41 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  66. Terraforming Ourselves: What sort of world do we want to live in?

    41 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  67. Show HN: Declarative Testing Framework for REST, GraphQL APIs

    41 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  68. Power Mac G5 – Technical Specifications (2003)

    41 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  69. Ask HN: Which companies have the best engineering culture?

    41 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  70. Amtrak exploring ending Southwest Chief through service

    41 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  71. How I stopped being awful at managing: Leadership lessons from a Dev

    41 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  72. 13-Year-Old Charged with Felony for Recording Conversation with School Principal

    41 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  73. Sleepy in Songdo, Korea’s Smartest City

    41 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  74. Show HN: Smart Fruit – A Python schema-based machine learning library

    41 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  75. React-Starter-Kit – Open Source Universal React Redux GraphQL Boilerplate

    41 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  76. Solitude and Leadership (2010)

    41 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  77. Congratulations GitHub on the acquisition by Microsoft

    41 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  78. Ernst Haeckel’s Jellyfish

    41 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  79. Memory Disambiguation on Skylake

    41 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  80. A Critic Uses the DMCA to Avoid Criticism

    41 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  81. It took a long time for de Gaulle to become ‘de Gaulle’

    41 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  82. Xkcd: Customer Rewards

    41 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  83. The sniff test of self-recognition confirmed: Dogs have self-awareness (2017)

    41 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  84. Ur-Fascism (1995)

    40 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  85. Amnesty research reveals the civilian toll of bombings by US-led forces in Syria

    40 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  86. How to Structure Django Projects

    40 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  87. Scalable Distributed Deep-RL with Importance Weighted Actor-Learner

    40 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  88. The dark story behind Stalin’s popular photo with a Soviet girl

    40 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  89. All the people Apple just pissed off to better protect your privacy

    40 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  90. Ask HN: Ever been the last engineer at a failing startup?

    40 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  91. After 6 years of lawsuits, we've won the war on magnets is over

    40 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  92. Ace: a syntax-driven C preprocessor (1989) [pdf]

    40 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  93. Opus Magnum – Automated Puzzle Solver [video]

    40 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  94. Porting Sweet 16 (2004)

    40 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  95. Energy Department Proposes Forcing Utilities to Buy Coal Power

    40 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  96. The Pain Refugees: The forgotten victims of America’s opioid crisis

    40 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  97. A New Massive Helen Keller Archive Gets Launched

    40 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  98. New chemical analysis of Aztec turquoise suggests it didn’t come from the SW US

    40 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  99. The Death of a Once Great City

    40 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  100. Why Apple doesn’t care about professional Mac users anymore (2016)

    40 points • comment • jun 14, 2018