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Hacker News (Jul 2018)

  1. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)

    408 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  2. Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can

    403 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  3. Web Architecture 101

    402 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  4. EU fines Asus, Denon-Marantz, Philips and Pioneer $130M for online price fixing

    400 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  5. Google Cloud Platform – The Good, Bad, and Ugly

    397 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  6. The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics

    394 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  7. The last thing libraries need is Silicon Valley “disruption.”

    394 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  8. The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE [pdf]

    393 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  9. The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up

    392 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  10. MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issues, claims YouTuber

    392 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  11. Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro

    391 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  12. Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine

    390 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  13. Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries?

    388 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  14. Async and Await in Rust: a full proposal

    383 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  15. Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags

    382 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  16. Employers will do almost anything to find workers except pay them more

    379 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  17. Elixir v1.7 released

    377 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  18. Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done (2012) [pdf]

    377 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  19. YC’s 2018 Summer Reading List

    372 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  20. Show HN: Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres

    371 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  21. An entomologist rates ant emojis

    370 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  22. Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recognition

    366 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  23. If you put chalk under a powerful microscope

    366 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  24. How we scaled Nginx

    363 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  25. BPG Image format

    361 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  26. Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon

    360 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  27. Draw This: a polaroid camera that draws cartoons

    358 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  28. Show HN: Hacker News job trends

    356 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  29. Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?

    355 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  30. Toml: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language

    355 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  31. Getting to Go: Garbage collection and runtime issues

    354 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  32. Cities don't have to offer huge subsidies to companies like Apple and Amazon

    353 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  33. Illegal Production and Use of Banned CFC-11 in China's Foam Blowing Industry

    353 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  34. Be Nice and Write Stable Code

    352 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  35. The physics of baking good pizza

    351 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  36. WebSub: Open protocol for distributed pub–sub communication on the internet

    350 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  37. Announcing TypeScript 3.0

    348 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  38. Tesla meets self-imposed deadline for Model 3, rolls out 5000 cars in a week

    347 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  39. San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartments in 73.5% of the city

    347 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  40. Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

    346 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  41. To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget

    345 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  42. A Spectre is Haunting Unicode

    344 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  43. Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system

    343 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  44. Google Cloud Downtime Postmortem

    342 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  45. Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Digitized and Put Online

    339 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  46. Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI

    337 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  47. When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing

    336 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  48. 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond

    333 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  49. Police search homes of Zwiebelfreunde board members and OpenLab in Augsburg

    333 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  50. Having Alzheimer’s at 38 (2015)

    331 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  51. Ndb – An improved debugging experience for Node.js

    330 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  52. Show HN: Learn how to work remotely from people doing it every day

    330 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  53. Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication

    329 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  54. Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%

    327 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  55. The Bulk of Software Engineering in 2018 Is Just Plumbing

    327 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  56. Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast

    327 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  57. How did Google get so big?

    326 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  58. AdamW and Super-convergence is now the fastest way to train neural nets

    326 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  59. LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro

    325 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  60. Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager

    324 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  61. The Spiral Language

    324 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  62. Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in his living room

    323 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  63. Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs

    323 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  64. Postmortem for Malicious Packages Published on July 12th, 2018

    322 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  65. The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS

    321 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  66. FCC Proposes Changing Comment System After WSJ Found Thousands of Fakes

    316 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  67. Backblaze Durability Is Eleven 9s – And Why It Doesn’t Matter

    313 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  68. Stripe Press

    313 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  69. Ask HN: As a team lead how to handle project going off the rails?

    312 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  70. Teach Yourself Computer Science

    311 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  71. Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People

    311 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  72. First Successful Test of General Relativity Near Supermassive Black Hole

    310 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  73. Bank of America questions customer’s citizenship, freezes accounts

    310 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  74. GitHub mirror compromise incident report

    309 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  75. TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program

    308 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  76. Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62%

    307 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  77. REST was never about CRUD

    307 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  78. A California mall operator is sharing license plate tracking data with ICE

    306 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  79. How to Analyze Billions of Records per Second on a Single Desktop PC

    306 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  80. Ecuador will hand over Julian Assange to the UK

    305 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  81. Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies

    304 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  82. Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup

    303 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  83. Arm kills off its anti-RISC-V site after own staff revolt

    302 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  84. Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend

    302 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  85. Chinese Researchers Achieve Quantum Entanglement Record

    302 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  86. What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?

    302 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  87. Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015)

    301 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  88. Roadmap to becoming a React developer in 2018

    301 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  89. Show HN: Kanban for E-Mail

    299 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  90. A biologist who believes that trees speak a language we can learn to listen to

    298 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  91. PEP 572: Python assignment expressions has been accepted

    297 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  92. Instapaper is going independent

    297 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  93. ‘Star Citizen’ Court Case Reveals the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200M Game

    296 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  94. Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign

    295 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  95. The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration

    295 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  96. LibreOffice is now available for Haiku

    295 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  97. Ask HN: My Microsoft account has been suspended by Microsoft without details

    295 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  98. How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)

    294 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  99. p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing

    292 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  100. A Parable by Dijkstra (1973)

    291 points • comment • jul 16, 2018