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Hacker News (Jul 2018)

  1. A Parable by Dijkstra (1973)

    291 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  2. JavaScript fundamentals before learning React

    290 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  3. Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150B

    290 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  4. Google Cloud Global Loadbalancer Outage

    289 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  5. Show HN: Make a business model canvas in your browser

    286 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  6. The Power of Positive People

    286 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  7. A Tutorial Introduction to Kubernetes

    285 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  8. Ask HN: Where can one learn about the history of the internet and the protocols?

    284 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  9. The Java type system is broken

    284 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  10. Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity

    284 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  11. I created the exact same app in React and Vue

    284 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  12. ActivityPub could be the future

    283 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  13. Djbsort: A new software library for sorting arrays of integers

    283 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  14. Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid is a platform designed to re-decentralize the web

    283 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  15. Pipelines – a guided tour of the new IO API in .NET

    283 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  16. 14,400-year-old flatbread remains that predate known agriculture

    283 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  17. React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity

    281 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  18. Red Flags Signaling That a Rebuild Will Fail

    280 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  19. Potential DNA damage from CRISPR has been ‘seriously underestimated’ study finds

    280 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  20. Rules of optimization

    280 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  21. The everything-is-a-file principle – Linus Torvalds

    278 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  22. How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)

    277 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  23. British divers make contact with missing Thai football team

    276 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  24. SRE Fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs

    276 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  25. Firefox switching to clang-cl for Windows builds

    275 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  26. Code with Mu: a simple Python editor for beginner programmers

    275 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  27. Ask HN: What are the things keep in mind while giving/preparing for a tech talk?

    275 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  28. Sonic Pi: Compose electronic music with code

    274 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  29. Signaling in tech is some fucked up shit (2016)

    274 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  30. Public.resource.org wins appeal on right to publish the law [pdf]

    273 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  31. Work less, get more: New Zealand firm's four-day week an 'unmitigated success'

    273 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  32. Ask HN: Got a CS degree, but I’m unable to be programmer. What can I do?

    273 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  33. Ex-SolarCity employees: We were fired after reporting millions in fake sales

    273 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  34. Rockstar: A programming language where programs are also song lyrics

    273 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  35. Former Apple Employee Charged with Theft of Autonomous Car Project Trade Secrets

    272 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  36. The soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion

    271 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  37. Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning security and pen testing?

    271 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  38. Why restaurants became so loud

    269 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  39. Georgia Has a Coast?

    268 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  40. Inside the Windows Console

    268 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  41. Google Unveils Titan Security Key, a Yubico-Like Phishing Resistant 2FA Device

    268 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  42. Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster

    267 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  43. Ask HN: Were you happy moving your API from REST to GraphQL?

    267 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  44. Why Kubernetes Is the New Application Server

    267 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  45. Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface

    267 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  46. Escaping the SPA rabbit hole with modern Rails

    266 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  47. Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native

    266 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  48. Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras

    266 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  49. You don't need ML/AI, you need SQL

    265 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  50. The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers

    265 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  51. Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C

    265 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  52. U.S. to make More Drugs Easily Available, Cutting Role Doctors Play

    264 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  53. The rich world needs higher real wage growth

    263 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  54. MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday

    263 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  55. Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

    262 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  56. Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed EU copyright law

    262 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  57. GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms 50-50 R&D pact

    262 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  58. 15 Years of SparkFun

    262 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  59. Is timeless UI design a thing?

    262 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  60. How Britain beat the odds to achieve space flight, and then abandoned it

    262 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

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

    262 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  62. The death of a TLD

    261 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  63. Keep a Changelog

    261 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  64. Unix system programming in OCaml (2014)

    260 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  65. Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to the open web

    259 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  66. Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union

    259 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  67. The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan

    259 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  68. Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M

    259 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  69. What travel insurance really means

    258 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  70. Seedbank – Collection of Interactive Machine Learning Examples

    258 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  71. Timsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data

    257 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  72. Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language for the modern web

    257 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  73. My favorite apps on F-Droid

    256 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  74. Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor

    256 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  75. Secret Life of an Autistic Stripper

    256 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  76. Our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner world

    254 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  77. L-theanine, a constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state (2008) [pdf]

    254 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  78. Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It

    254 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  79. I’m leaving China

    253 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  80. Choice of search engine on Android nuked by “Anonymous Coward” (2009)

    253 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  81. AMD stock rises after best earnings in 7 years

    253 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  82. Lessons learned scraping 100B product pages

    253 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  83. German court issues first GDPR ruling

    252 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  84. Latest Text of EU Copyright Directive Shows It's Even Worse Than Expected

    251 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  85. Firefox Lockbox

    250 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  86. Conflating pointers with arrays: C's biggest mistake? (2009)

    250 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  87. Jupiter has 10 more moons we didn't know about

    249 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  88. Into the Borg – SSRF inside Google production network

    248 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  89. How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit

    248 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  90. Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research

    247 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  91. Devhints: A collection of developer cheatsheets

    247 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  92. I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    246 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  93. South Korea has limited a working week to 52 hours, in order to stop overwork

    246 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  94. Classic Algorithms Implemented in JavaScript

    245 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  95. How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database

    245 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  96. What industry has the highest revenue per employee?

    243 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  97. Nancy Pearl’s Rule of 50 for dropping a bad book

    242 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  98. Goldman Sachs model to predict World Cup game results didn’t come close

    242 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  99. Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

    242 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  100. IP addresses and routing

    241 points • comment • jul 25, 2018