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Hacker News (Jul 2018)

  1. Ask HN: Should I abandon a functioning SaaS with no paying users?

    79 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  2. EPA's proposed new rule would allow it to ignore the best available science

    79 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  3. Oo7: Low-Overhead Defense Against Spectre Attacks

    79 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  4. A yak shave with SGI's EFS

    79 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  5. Declassified videos of atmospheric nuclear tests (2017)

    79 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  6. When California Was the Bear Republic

    79 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  7. A Privacy Bomb Is About to Be Dropped on the California Economy and the Internet

    79 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  8. Two Generals and Time Machines

    79 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  9. Uefi-jitfuck – A JIT Brainfuck compiler running on x86_64 UEFI

    79 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  10. The F-35 Is a $1.4 Trillion National Disaster (2017)

    79 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  11. The Great EU Debt Write Off (2012)

    79 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  12. European regulators reject latest proposal by ICANN over its Whois data service

    79 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  13. Google’s Voice Assistant Could Talk Its Way Into Call Centers

    79 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  14. Oasis Labs: privacy-first high-performance cloud computing on blockchain

    79 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  15. A Look Back at Why Blockbuster Really Failed and Why It Didn't Have To (2014)

    78 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  16. Letter from Shenzhen

    78 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  17. John Conway: Discovering free will (2011)

    78 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  18. Escape Compasses

    78 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  19. Kathleen Howell is developing potential orbits around a Lagrange point

    78 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  20. Open plan offices don’t live up to the hype, finds Harvard Business School study

    78 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  21. RoboSat: feature extraction from aerial and satellite imagery

    78 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  22. Artemis – Neutralizing BGP hijacking within a minute

    78 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  23. Frank's Compulsive Guide to Postal Addresses

    78 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  24. And Nobody Noticed It Was a Fake Cake

    78 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  25. Lay Out Your Code Like You'd Lay Out Your House

    78 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  26. Engineering a Hook That Could Make Drone Deliveries Real

    78 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  27. London’s Super-Recognizer Police Force (2016)

    78 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  28. Ask HN: How to stop Google indexing dynamic search pages?

    78 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  29. Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18) – Communicate changes to sites without writing code

    78 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  30. Brief History of JIT in MoarVM for Perl 6

    78 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  31. A new shape called the scutoid has been discovered in our cells

    77 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  32. Cirq: A quantum programming library in Python

    77 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  33. The EPA Is Hiding Proof That a Widely Used Chemical Causes Leukemia

    77 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  34. Ask HN: Best programming language or theory to learn before learning Rust?

    77 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  35. Millions of educated, experienced workers are tossed aside by a strong economy

    77 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  36. Analyzing Articles on Hacker News Using NLP

    77 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  37. Fermat’s Library – Annotating Academic Papers Every Week

    77 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  38. CO2 shortage: Lessons learned from a storm in a pint glass?

    76 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  39. Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide

    76 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  40. A Drop of 4 Degrees Made a Big Difference for a Garment Maker's Bottom Line

    76 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  41. The Bay Area caste system

    76 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  42. The libkern C++ Runtime

    76 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  43. VS Code June 2018

    76 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  44. Free energy principle

    76 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  45. Serverless Native Java Functions Using GraalVM and Fn Project

    76 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  46. At Initialized Capital, Odd Couple Looks to Do VC Differently

    76 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  47. Show HN: Snibox – Self-hosted snippets manager

    76 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  48. Ask HN: Researchers: What practical research hasn't been commercialized?

    76 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  49. Dell XPS 13 Kabylake Makes for a Great Linux Laptop

    76 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  50. You Wouldn’t Steal a Meme: The Threat from Article 13

    76 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  51. Ask HN: What highly scalable thing have you built with Go?

    76 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  52. Google Books and the open web

    76 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  53. Pop_OS 18.04: the state of the art in GNU/Linux on desktop

    75 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  54. British divers at heart of Thai cave rescue among best in world

    75 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  55. A 4-Day Workweek? A Test Run Shows a Surprising Result

    75 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  56. Social Media: An Apology

    75 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  57. Everyone Has an Accent

    75 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  58. Post Office owes $3.5M for using wrong Statue of Liberty on a stamp

    75 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  59. A $3B Plan to Turn Hoover Dam into a Giant Battery

    75 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  60. Reverse-Engineering WebAssembly [pdf]

    75 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  61. In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable

    75 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  62. Hundreds of nuclear blast videos show explosions in the ocean and Nevada desert

    75 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  63. The Egison Programming Language

    75 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  64. Understanding JavaScript Objects

    75 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  65. Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber Exec as CTO

    74 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  66. Android Emulator – AMD Processor and Hyper-V Support

    74 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  67. Apple dropping Intel as radio chip supplier, killing off the product – report

    74 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  68. Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance

    74 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  69. How much does Netflix spend on Amazon AWS?

    74 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  70. Functional Reactive Programming

    74 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  71. Interview with Patrick Collison

    74 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  72. Felony Charges for 13-Year-Old Who Recorded His Conversation with School Admins

    74 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  73. Why fundraising is a terrible experience for founders: Lessons learned

    74 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  74. Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks

    74 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  75. NZ Court of Appeal Upholds Kim Dotcom Extradition Decision to the US

    74 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  76. The Dark Silicon Problem and What It Means for CPU Designers (2013)

    74 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  77. Microsoft: The Early Days (2000)

    74 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  78. 2018 Deloitte Millennial Survey [pdf]

    74 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  79. APL at Its Core

    74 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  80. Competitive Programmer's Handbook

    74 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  81. Men Beware: The Abercrombie and Fitch Effect

    74 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  82. The Opium of the Intellectuals (2005)

    74 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  83. Compromised supply chain within a supply chain poses new risks

    74 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  84. Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation

    73 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  85. Bicycle Control Design in Python

    73 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  86. Shocks to military support and subsequent assassinations in Ancient Rome

    73 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  87. Shorthand

    73 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  88. It’s called vomit fraud. And it could make your Uber trip really expensive

    73 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  89. Reversing cause and effect is no trouble for quantum computers

    73 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  90. Netflix introduces Lemur: x.509 certificate orchestration (2015)

    73 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  91. Is Firefox lying to users about viruses in downloads?

    73 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  92. East German Doping Victims Die 10 to 12 Years Earlier – psychologist

    73 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  93. How much is time wrong around the world? (2014)

    73 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  94. Winklevoss Twins Bitcoin ETF Rejected by SEC

    73 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  95. Functional approaches to dependency injection (2016)

    73 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  96. The amyloid hypothesis on trial

    73 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  97. Some MacBook Pro users complain about throttling issues

    73 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  98. Tesla strikes another mammoth energy storage deal in California

    72 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  99. Computing normals for 3D Bézier curves

    72 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  100. The two-time pad: midwife of information theory?

    72 points • comment • jul 17, 2018