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Hacker News (Jun 2018)

  1. The Koch brothers are campaigning against tax rises for public transit projects

    133 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  2. Plants repeatedly got rid of their ability to obtain their own nitrogen

    133 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  3. Leaf-Node Weakness in Bitcoin Merkle Tree Design

    133 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  4. Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay

    133 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  5. CS230: Deep Learning – Project Reports and Posters, Spring 2018

    133 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  6. A Linguistic Enclave in Central Europe

    133 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  7. TCP small queues and WiFi aggregation – a war story

    132 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  8. Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975)

    132 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  9. Go 1.11 Beta 1 is released

    132 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  10. Ugandan wins Africa prize for bloodless malaria test

    132 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  11. The world's smallest desert is in Canada

    132 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  12. In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Ocean Food Chains

    132 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  13. Gracefully Scaling to 10k PostgreSQL Connections for $35/mo, Part Two

    132 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  14. Scikit-learn user guide (2017) [pdf]

    132 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  15. How to stop the decline of public transport in rich countries

    131 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  16. Show HN: World Cup API for 2018

    131 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  17. The Land Before Binary

    131 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  18. An Airline Fee That Exists for No Apparent Reason

    131 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  19. The Tapplock IoT padlock has multiple security vulnerabilities

    131 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  20. California Unanimously Passes Historic Privacy Bill

    131 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  21. How to Steal 50M Bees

    131 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  22. EU committee will vote on an apocalyptically stupid, copyright proposal

    130 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  23. Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s

    130 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  24. Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler (2002)

    130 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  25. USB Product ID Allocations for Free Software / Open Hardware

    130 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  26. JavaScript: Does It Mutate?

    130 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  27. Giteabot account was compromised

    130 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  28. Project Capillary: End-to-end encryption for push messaging, simplified

    129 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  29. Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and GitHub

    129 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  30. Does China’s digital police state have echoes in the West?

    129 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  31. AMD Demos 7nm Vega GPU

    129 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  32. Internet is losing its memory: Cerf

    129 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  33. FreeBSD gets pNFS support

    129 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  34. Improving Deep Learning Performance with AutoAugment

    128 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  35. Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered in a Folder on a Private Forum

    128 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  36. Kubernetes 1.11 includes In-Cluster Service Load Balancing and CoreDNS

    128 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  37. CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

    128 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  38. AMPstinction

    128 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  39. FreeBSD has lower latency, and Linux has faster application speeds

    128 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  40. AMD is sending Ryzen/Radeon care packages to game developers

    128 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  41. Stanford research turns human blood cells into functional neurons

    128 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  42. Do We Need Distributed Stream Processing?

    127 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  43. How McKinsey Lost Its Way in South Africa

    127 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  44. Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool

    127 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  45. Classic 1984 video game Robot Odyssey available online

    127 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  46. A vacuum tube ROM?

    127 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  47. RemoteStorage – An open protocol for per-user storage on the Web

    127 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  48. Spanish football league defends phone 'spying'

    127 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  49. Apple, Samsung Declare Peace

    126 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  50. The Quant King, the Drug Hunter, and the Quest to Unlock New Cures

    126 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  51. Arizona Uber crash driver was 'watching TV'

    126 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  52. Phil’s Data Structure Zoo

    126 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  53. Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)

    125 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  54. Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study

    125 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  55. How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs?

    125 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  56. Tell HN: We're bringing back the “Work at a Startup” event on Saturday July 28

    125 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  57. Python's GIL implemented in pure Python

    125 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  58. Doing Windows, Part 1: MS-DOS and Its Discontents

    125 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  59. PoC||GTFO-18 [pdf]

    125 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  60. Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed EU Copyright Overhaul

    125 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  61. Amazon2csv: Amazon products scraper to CSV (no API token required)

    125 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  62. Crypto Coin Graveyard Fills Up Fast as ICOs Meet Their Demise

    125 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  63. Facial recognition CEO: software is not ready for use by law enforcement

    125 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  64. ARM Details “Project Trillium” Machine Learning Processor Architecture

    125 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  65. Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem

    124 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  66. Mysterious ‘Jumping Gene’ That Appears 500k Times in Human DNA

    124 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  67. FBG – Lightweight C Linux framebuffer graphics with parallelism

    124 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  68. Optimization tricks in Python: lists and tuples

    124 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  69. Physics as a Way of Thinking (1936) [pdf]

    124 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  70. A Former Tesla Staffer Became an Internet Millionaire in His Spare Time

    124 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  71. US government to use facial recognition technology at Mexico border crossing

    124 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  72. Flattr now deletes your web browsing history within 3 months

    124 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  73. Politicians in favor of upload filtering get channel deleted by upload filtering

    124 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  74. Using the Chrome OS Graphics Stack on Intel-Based Linux Desktops

    124 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  75. HyperRogue – a non-Eyclidean roguelike

    123 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  76. MapKit JS – Embed interactive Apple maps on your website

    123 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  77. Delhi’s air pollution monitors have recorded the highest levels they can measure

    123 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  78. Pledge and Unveil in OpenBSD [pdf]

    123 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  79. Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet

    123 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  80. Scientists say new material can triple lithium-ion battery energy density

    123 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  81. We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air

    123 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  82. Humans grow linearly, companies grow exponentially – interview with Khalid Halim

    123 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  83. Self-Supervised Tracking via Video Colorization

    123 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  84. The CEO of Stripe reveals what it's really like running a $9.2B startup

    123 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  85. What's My Color IQ?

    122 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  86. ‘Gaming disorder’ is officially recognized by the World Health Organization

    122 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  87. In Memory of Jesse Helms and the Condom on His House (2008)

    122 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  88. How Instagram’s algorithm works

    122 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  89. Nation’s top three most expensive places for renters: all in Bay Area

    122 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  90. Web Prolog and the Programmable Prolog Web [pdf]

    122 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  91. Everyone is watching what you do online. How user tracking with cookies works

    122 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  92. Seximal: A better way to count [video]

    122 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  93. The Game Theory of Anonymous Donations

    121 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  94. For Static Sites, There’s No Excuse Not to Use a CDN

    121 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  95. How Tree Trunks Are Cut to Produce Wood with Different Appearances and Uses

    121 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  96. AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New Chip Network Scheme

    121 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  97. “They’ll Just Make It Illegal”

    121 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  98. Show HN: Grep with colours written in Go

    121 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  99. Building the Commodore computer that should have existed

    121 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  100. Rust is Not so Hairy

    121 points • comment • jun 18, 2018