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Hacker News (Jul 2018)

  1. Writing a Wayland compositor with wlroots: shells

    40 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  2. Bluetooth SIG Security Update

    40 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  3. Open Letter from Sandy Hook Parents to Mark Zuckerberg

    40 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  4. Why My 11-Year Old Stopped Coding Then Switched to Python

    40 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  5. Wikileaks Refused to Publish Manafort Family Texts, So Someone Else Did

    40 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  6. The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the radioisotope power system works

    39 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  7. BaSiX – A Basic interpreter written in TeX (1990) [pdf]

    39 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  8. First Report of Habitual Stone Tool Use by Cebus Monkeys

    39 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  9. Elon Musk making “kid-sized submarine” to rescue teens in Thailand cave

    39 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  10. Cross-Origin Read Blocking

    39 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  11. Deep learning and free software

    39 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  12. Getting 4 bytes or a full cache line: same speed or not?

    39 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  13. Cheating Fortnite players are flooding the internet with malware

    39 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  14. How the “Be.” battery-free toothbrush faked a demonstration video

    39 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  15. Psychedelics could be the new class of antidepressant

    39 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  16. The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web (2016)

    39 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  17. Event-Triggered Customer Segmentation

    39 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  18. Evidence Shows Hackers Changed Votes in the 2016 Election but No One Admits It

    39 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  19. Delphi Community Edition – Free Download

    39 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  20. How to See Mars Opposition and Closest Approach to Earth

    39 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  21. The Evolution of Writing

    39 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  22. Ask HN: What do you ask your interns as they finish up for the summer?

    39 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  23. Show HN: News geolocation website

    39 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  24. Sky-High Deductibles Broke the U.S. Health Insurance System

    39 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  25. Can They Make Government Jobs as Cool as Google and Goldman?

    39 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  26. Show HN: Haml-rs – Haml parser in Rust

    38 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  27. The Death, and Life, of Reading Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (2016)

    38 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  28. Court Rules Copying Photos Found on Internet Is Fair Use

    38 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  29. Happy Birthday, quicktype

    38 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  30. Facebook to publish data on Irish abortion referendum ads

    38 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  31. The Curious Time-Traveling Reverse State Monad

    38 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  32. What does “outsider artist” even mean? (2012)

    38 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  33. Quirk: Quantum Circuit Simulator

    38 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  34. Ask HN: What do you do when you suddenly feel like not working anymore?

    38 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  35. A simple distraction-free, no gimmick writing tool

    38 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  36. Alan Smithee

    38 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  37. History of Listserv

    38 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  38. Facebook investigates data firm Crimson Hexagon

    38 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  39. Free online philosophy courses

    38 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  40. An Extremely Consequential Supreme Court Decision Slipped Under the Radar

    38 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  41. Supreme Court pick: ISPs have First Amendment right to block websites

    38 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  42. Minimal Ubuntu – how small can it go?

    38 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  43. We're All Subsidizing People Who Use American Express

    38 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  44. Droppers Is How Android Malware Keeps Sneaking into the Play Store

    38 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  45. New Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2 CPU Flaws Disclosed

    38 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  46. Tesla Model 3 rollover crash shows its real-world safety

    38 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  47. Showers – 19th century luxury and health

    37 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  48. Comcast starts throttling mobile video, will charge extra for HD streams

    37 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  49. Former Valve employee details his experience at the self-organizing company

    37 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

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

    37 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  51. Apple planning 11″ iPad Pro, Mac mini, 1.57″ and 1.78″ Apple Watch, AirPower

    37 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  52. Tech's diversity crisis: 40% of VCs went to Harvard or Stanford

    37 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  53. Slime molds remember, but do they learn?

    37 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  54. Host plants tell insects when to grow longer wings and migrate

    37 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  55. Scott Pruitt resigns from EPA

    37 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  56. Twitter is “shadow banning” prominent Republicans

    37 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  57. Bugs in Samsung IoT Hub Leave Smart Home Open to Attack

    37 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  58. An Impostor Cell Line Set Back Breast Cancer Research (2017)

    37 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  59. RFC for 7xx HTTP status

    37 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  60. Ancient Dog DNA Reveals Close Relationship with Contagious Cancer

    37 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  61. Ask HN: Why is Google not making a language that runs on low memory devices?

    37 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  62. Security Advisory for rustdoc

    37 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  63. Warner Bros. wants to build a $100M aerial tramway to the Hollywood sign

    37 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  64. Tardigrade protein helps human DNA withstand radiation (2016)

    36 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  65. Reading Chess (1990)

    36 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  66. Electrical contact to molecules in semiconductor structures for the first time

    36 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  67. Ask HN: Should I quit trying to be a programmer?

    36 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  68. Vladimir Nabokov, Butterfly Illustrator (2016)

    36 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  69. A years-old, one-letter typo led to Aliens: Colonial Marines‘ weird AI

    36 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  70. Elliptic orbits explained by Albert Baez (1959) [video]

    36 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  71. Why is Juul worth $16B? It’s more like a cigarette than you think

    36 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  72. Calling the world cup goals 5 seconds before they happen on TV

    36 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  73. How PEP-572 would change the standard library

    36 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  74. #ifdef considered harmful (1992) [pdf]

    36 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  75. Going to Graceland

    36 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  76. Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots

    36 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  77. Highly Available Grafana Running on AWS Fargate and RDS Aurora

    36 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  78. Who Owns Kafka? (2011)

    36 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  79. Random oracle

    36 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  80. This Physics Pioneer Walked Away from It All (2016)

    36 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  81. How a German city changed how we read

    36 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  82. San Jose unveils proposed scooter regulations

    36 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  83. Apple Registers Several New Mac and iPad Models in Eurasia

    35 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  84. Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the Dell XPS

    35 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  85. The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work

    35 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  86. India approved net neutrality rules that ban ‘any form’ of data discrimination

    35 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  87. Evaluating the privacy implications of a canvas fingerprinting countermeasure

    35 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  88. Market Conditions, Trends and Home Prices in San Francisco

    35 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  89. How we built a Vine clone using IPFS

    35 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  90. The Peril of the Laptop Sticker

    35 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  91. ExxonMobil Bungles Rewards Card Debut

    35 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  92. KiCad 5 – A New Generation

    35 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  93. U.S. Workers Get Biggest Pay Increase in Nearly a Decade

    35 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  94. Florida man jailed for failing to unlock his phone

    35 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  95. An Old Conjecture on Stream Transducers

    35 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  96. How Fast Do People Type? (2007)

    35 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  97. Inside China’s surveillance state

    35 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  98. Is Python the Future of Programming?

    35 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  99. Google Cloud’s COO departs after 7 months

    35 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  100. Ask HN: Where can I obtain Google Glass(-like) devices for development purposes?

    35 points • comment • jul 03, 2018