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Hacker News (Jul 2018)

  1. “I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

    1997 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  2. EU copyright law proposal rejected

    1837 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  3. Farewell, Google Maps

    1728 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  4. Learn how to design large-scale systems

    1249 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  5. Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar

    1246 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  6. Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

    1177 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  7. Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars

    1100 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  8. California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online

    1057 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  9. Amazon Dark Patterns

    1003 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  10. The Bullshit Web

    1003 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  11. Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

    990 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  12. A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet

    981 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  13. Thailand cave rescue: all 12 boys and coach successfully rescued

    953 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  14. Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

    947 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  15. European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case

    911 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  16. Please stop asking me to use the app

    880 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  17. MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

    872 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  18. People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard

    855 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  19. YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course

    843 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  20. Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm

    818 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  21. The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

    774 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  22. Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

    762 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  23. Show HN: Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations

    761 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  24. Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times

    756 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  25. Stripe Issuing – An API for creating physical and virtual cards

    723 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  26. The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

    710 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  27. Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?

    709 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  28. Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

    699 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  29. Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design

    695 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  30. Machine Learning Guides

    690 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  31. Timeline of the far future

    689 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  32. My home lab setup for highly-available Internet

    688 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  33. How to get kids to pay attention

    665 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  34. Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified

    664 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  35. Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]

    659 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  36. Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

    648 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  37. Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day

    642 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  38. How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions

    634 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  39. Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities

    632 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  40. How a Hacker Proved Cops Used a Stingray to Find Him

    620 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  41. Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly

    610 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  42. Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast misses

    603 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  43. Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch

    600 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  44. Learn C and Build Your Own Lisp (2014)

    590 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  45. Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB

    577 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  46. The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea

    575 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  47. The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand

    574 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  48. Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach

    568 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  49. PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding

    567 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  50. Refresh: concept for a new kind of web browser

    558 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  51. Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

    556 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  52. Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copyright law

    555 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  53. The hotel bathroom puzzle

    550 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  54. Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF

    540 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  55. Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]

    537 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  56. Why Use OpenStreetMap Instead of Google Maps?

    536 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  57. The Effect of Sleep on Happiness

    535 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  58. Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat

    533 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  59. Electronic Circuit Simulator in the Browser

    524 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  60. Below the Surface – Finds from an archaeological project in the River Amstel

    521 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  61. ESLint compromised, may have stolen your credentials

    511 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  62. The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT

    503 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  63. That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to publisher, 0% to authors

    501 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  64. Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash?

    499 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  65. Simple, correct, fast: in that order

    499 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  66. Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server-side

    496 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  67. Keeping a plaintext “did” file

    488 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  68. Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life

    486 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  69. Learn how to write an emulator

    473 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  70. Foundations Machine Learning

    473 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  71. iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2

    472 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  72. How to beat LinkedIn: The Game

    472 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  73. Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit

    466 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  74. Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)

    466 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  75. Ex-Valve employee describes internal politics at 'self-organizing' companies

    463 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  76. Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories

    463 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  77. Learning Dexterity

    460 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  78. Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Finalized

    460 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  79. My adventures getting Disney’s Moana island scene to render well with Pbrt

    458 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  80. Apple releases software fix for MacBook Pro slowdown

    458 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  81. Show HN: Router7 – A pure-Go implementation of a small home internet router

    457 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  82. China Begins Production Of x86 Processors Based On AMD's IP

    456 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  83. Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed – They're Paid For

    450 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  84. MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-retina displays blurry

    449 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  85. Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one

    446 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  86. Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux

    446 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  87. Solar Just Hit a Record Low Price in the U.S

    445 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  88. “Stylish” browser extension steals all your internet history

    443 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  89. How America Uses Its Land

    443 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  90. India's first RISC-V based Chip is Here: Linux boots on Shakti processor

    440 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  91. A div that looks different in every browser

    440 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  92. Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud

    437 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  93. Show HN: Layoutit – An interactive CSS Grid generator

    429 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  94. Trial wipes out over 80% of Australian disease-spreading mosquito

    424 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  95. A new digital divide: Young people who can’t use keyboards

    423 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  96. Zulip – Open-source, threading-based Slack alternative

    417 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  97. Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?

    415 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  98. Itty Bitty: Sites contained within their own links

    414 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  99. Knative – Kubernetes-based platform to manage modern serverless workloads

    413 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  100. Ask HN: What are your favorite statistics and probability textbooks?

    412 points • comment • jul 06, 2018