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Hacker News (Jul 2018)

  1. Tuple Spaces – Good Ideas Don't Always Win (2011)

    107 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  2. As Economics Improve, Solar Shines in Rural America

    107 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  3. We need a new model for tech journalism

    106 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  4. Hawaiian Style: The Roots of the Aloha Shirt

    106 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  5. Exploring .NET Core platform intrinsics: Part 4 – Alignment and pipelining

    106 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  6. It’s hard to have an unusual name in China

    106 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  7. What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (2016)

    106 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  8. Why local US newspapers are sounding the alarm

    106 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  9. Welcome to the New Space Age

    105 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  10. When is a nation not a nation? Somaliland’s dream of independence

    105 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  11. Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler

    105 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  12. SQLite with a Fine-Toothed Comb (2016)

    105 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  13. Launch HN: JITX (YC S18) – Automating Circuit Board Design

    105 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  14. A Fear of Lawsuits Really Does Seem to Result in Extra Medical Tests

    105 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  15. WordTsar – A Wordstar clone

    105 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  16. A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment

    105 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  17. The Jackintosh: A Real GEM – Remembering the Atari ST

    105 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  18. Do Our Questions Create the World?

    105 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  19. Conservation of Intent: why A/B tests aren’t as effective as they look

    105 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  20. Rise of Kotlin: A Programming Language for the Next Generation

    105 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  21. Did Qatar pay a billion dollar ransom?

    104 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  22. Cheap FPGA Development Boards

    104 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  23. Announcing Rust 1.27.2

    104 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  24. Sex and Sexuality

    104 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  25. Optimizing a breadth-first search

    104 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  26. As the SpaceX steamroller surges, European rocket industry vows to resist

    104 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  27. The Theory of Interstellar Trade

    103 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  28. The Failure Mode of Clever (2010)

    103 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  29. Survival of the Richest

    103 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  30. Ask HN: Going to lead a struggling dev team in a different culture, now what?

    103 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  31. Motherhood in the Age of Fear

    103 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  32. U.S. employment conditions compare poorly to the rest of the developed world

    103 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  33. The tasting of surströmming

    103 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  34. Slack channels are a waste of time

    103 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  35. How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live streams

    103 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  36. Chrome 68 Released: HTTP Sites Marked as “Not Secure”

    103 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  37. New Wearable Sensor Detects Stress Hormone in Sweat

    102 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  38. Perceptrons from memristors

    102 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  39. Launch HN: RevenueCat (YC S18) – Simple API for Managing In-App Subscriptions

    102 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  40. MH370 Was ‘Manipulated’ Off Course to Its End, Report Says

    102 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  41. Bringing Blogging to the Fediverse

    102 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  42. Case Studies Where Phase 2 and Phase 3 Trials had Divergent Results [pdf]

    102 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  43. Lunar mystery solved by recovery of lost Apollo mission tapes

    102 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  44. Thomas Bayes and the crisis in science

    102 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  45. IBM's Watson recommended 'unsafe and incorrect' cancer treatments

    102 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  46. Review of the Purism Librem 13

    102 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  47. MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar 2018 Teardown

    102 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  48. An AI system for editing music in videos

    101 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  49. Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock

    101 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  50. Why touchscreens in cars don’t work

    101 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  51. SF hospital charged $15K ‘trauma response fee’ for baby that needed no treatment

    101 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  52. Implementing Open Source Container Security, Part 1: Runtime Security

    101 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  53. The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Translation (2017)

    101 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  54. EnclaveDB: A secure database using SGX

    101 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  55. Undershoot: Parsing theory in 1965

    101 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  56. Humidity in New Jersey impeding radio transmissions and slowing stock trades

    101 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  57. Haskell’s State monad is not a monad (2014)

    101 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  58. The Last Hope for Scala's Infinity War [video]

    101 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  59. CS50, Harvard’s Largest Class Expands Its Line Up of Courses

    100 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  60. The Shareholder Value Myth (2013)

    100 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  61. Show HN: A Build System for Packaging Applications in LXC Containers

    100 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  62. Smart TVs Track More Than What’s on Tonight

    100 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  63. Logic programming courses

    100 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  64. There was a time when search engines were a thing, and it seems they still are

    100 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  65. Show HN: Bo, the Swiss army knife of data examination and manipulation

    100 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  66. Housing Costs Reduce the Return to Education

    100 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  67. Automatic Algorithms Optimization via Fast Matrix Exponentiation (2015)

    100 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  68. Vulnerability in Hangouts Chat: how Electron makes open redirect great again

    100 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  69. Scaling: Ethereum’s make or break challenge [video]

    99 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  70. Three Major Physics Discoveries and Counting

    99 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  71. Causal Inference Book

    99 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  72. Historic Tale Construction Kit – Bayeux

    99 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  73. Rapidstring: Maybe the fastest string library ever

    99 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  74. The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context

    99 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  75. Steve Ditko Dead: Spider-Man Co-Creator Was 90

    98 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  76. DIRT Protocol raises $3M to build a Wikipedia for structured data

    98 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  77. Interfacing with native methods on Graal VM

    98 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  78. Fero – A secure signing server built around the YubiHSM2

    98 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  79. Hackers account for 90% of login attempts at online retailers

    98 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  80. Advice giving: A subtle pathway to power

    98 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  81. Self-Regulated Learning: Beliefs, Techniques, and Illusions [pdf]

    98 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  82. Why Do the Biggest Companies Keep Getting Bigger? It’s How They Spend on Tech

    98 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  83. The Entire History of Steel

    98 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  84. The physics of infinity

    98 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  85. Friedrich Nietzsche: The truth is terrible

    98 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  86. OpenBSD in Amsterdam: VMs on vmd(8) servers

    98 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  87. Liberapay is in trouble

    98 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  88. Bitcoin Hash Rate Rapidly Growing Despite Price

    98 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  89. How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country

    98 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  90. A Vigilante Fighting Engine Exhaust

    98 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  91. Almost 80% of US workers live from paycheck to paycheck

    97 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  92. Nagini: A Static Verifier for Python [pdf]

    97 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  93. Slackware maintainer getting ripped off

    97 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  94. Pizza Physics: Why Brick Ovens Bake the Perfect Italian-Style Pie

    97 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  95. Program Synthesis in 2017-18

    97 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  96. Writing Iterators in Julia 0.7

    97 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  97. Go Fishing

    97 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  98. Think everyone died young in ancient societies? Think again

    97 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  99. How thick is the atmosphere? A derivation of the Boltzmann distribution

    97 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  100. A Global Guide to State-Sponsored Trolling

    97 points • comment • jul 20, 2018