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Hacker News (Jul 2018)

  1. Light painting animations directly from Blender

    241 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  2. Where grep came from [video]

    241 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  3. Impossible color

    241 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  4. A Real-World WebAssembly Benchmark

    241 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  5. IP addresses and routing

    241 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  6. Autopsy of a deep learning paper

    240 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  7. Why Isn't Debugging Treated as a First-Class Activity?

    239 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  8. SUSE to be acquired by EQT Partners

    239 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  9. Writing a Game Boy emulator

    239 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  10. Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux

    238 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  11. The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon millions

    238 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  12. Doing Windows, Part 5: A Second Try

    238 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  13. Taskbook: Like Trello but for the Terminal

    238 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  14. 500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under CC

    237 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  15. Lost in Math

    237 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  16. Plans for OCaml 4.08

    237 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  17. XARs: An efficient system for self-contained executables

    236 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  18. Apple’s Shortcuts will flip the switch on Siri’s potential

    235 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  19. Mozilla Overhauls Speech-To-Text Contribution Interface

    234 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  20. Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel was disrupted

    232 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  21. Riving, a Viking-age woodworking technique

    232 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  22. PuzzleScript – an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine

    232 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  23. Show HN: Percy – A Rust and WebAssembly isomorphic virtual DOM implementation

    231 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  24. Microsoft announces Surface Go

    231 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  25. WhatsApp sends Cease and Desists for apps that use native Android APIs

    231 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  26. Python has brought computer programming to a vast new audience

    230 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  27. The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)

    230 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  28. The State of Rust on Haiku

    230 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  29. Evolving Floorplans

    230 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  30. Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Are Near: Meet a Teen Who Rides One Every Day

    229 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  31. 52-hertz whale

    228 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  32. How to take 7 years to ship a beta

    227 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  33. Security Begins at the Home Router

    227 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  34. El Fuego Viviente Chili Sauce

    226 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  35. Taking Go modules for a spin

    226 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  36. Evolving the Firefox Brand

    226 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  37. In Brazil, it is considered rude to be on time to a party

    225 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  38. FBI would rather prosecutors drop cases than disclose stingray details (2015)

    225 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  39. A graph of programming languages connected through compilers

    225 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  40. NetBSD 8.0 released

    225 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  41. How the Blog Broke the Web

    224 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  42. Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5

    224 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  43. The Joy of Missing Out

    222 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  44. FWD:Everyone

    222 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  45. The Blockchain Bubble Will Pop, What Next?

    222 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  46. Most Remote Spots in USA Wilderness Complexes

    222 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  47. Jeff Dean’s ML System Architecture Blueprint

    221 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  48. The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care

    221 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  49. Getting Started with Quantum Computing in Python

    221 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  50. Air Gapping a MacBook Air: The Great BCM15700A2 Mystery

    220 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  51. Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics

    220 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  52. Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful?

    220 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  53. Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration platform

    219 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  54. Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban

    219 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  55. ReactOS 0.4.9 released

    219 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  56. The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens

    218 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  57. Common Git Problems and How to Fix Them

    218 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  58. Departing Facebook security officer advocated for shifts in company’s culture

    218 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  59. Membrane Framework – An Elixir framework for multimedia streaming applications

    218 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  60. North American vs. Japanese zoning

    217 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  61. The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt

    217 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  62. Show HN: Solving Rush Hour, the 6x6 Sliding Block Puzzle

    217 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  63. Uganda Bans VPNs to Prevent Users from Dodging Its New Social Media Tax

    217 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  64. Show HN: Open source non-linear notepad app

    216 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  65. Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry

    215 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  66. Ask HN: How to pursue acquisition?

    215 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  67. Shutting Down the BGP Hijack Factory

    215 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  68. Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress with Mugshots

    215 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  69. A used voting machine from the 2016 election

    214 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  70. Ask HN: How do you organize/track your personal goals?

    214 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  71. eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the Bay Area

    213 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  72. Judge Orders Los Angeles Times to Delete Part of Published Article

    213 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  73. Dhall – A Distributed, Safe Configuration Language

    213 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  74. Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

    213 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  75. The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective

    213 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  76. Russ Cox on Go dependency management

    212 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  77. The most relaxing vacation you can take is going nowhere

    212 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  78. Introducing Jib — Build Java Docker images better

    210 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  79. Iran's Wolf Wall, Second-Longest in the World, Is Still Shrouded in Mystery

    210 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  80. American Cities Are Drowning in Car Storage

    210 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  81. First ever color X-ray on a human

    210 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  82. Senator Asks US Agencies to Remove Flash from Government Websites

    209 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  83. A Short Guide to Hard Problems

    209 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  84. The moving sofa problem

    209 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  85. AT&T promised lower prices after Time Warner merger, but it’s raising them

    209 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  86. Advice

    208 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  87. Administrative Purgatory

    208 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  88. OpenAI Five Benchmark

    208 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  89. What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps, and why?

    208 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  90. How to scale a distributed system [pdf]

    207 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  91. Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich

    206 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  92. SICP Distilled – An Idiosyncratic Tour of SICP in Clojure

    206 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  93. Glow: Better Reversible Generative Models

    206 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  94. A Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars [video]

    205 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  95. 2018 MacBook Pro Review

    204 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  96. Elastic TabStops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code (2017)

    204 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  97. Unveil(2) – Unveil parts of a restricted filesystem view

    204 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  98. PythonRobotics: Python sample codes for robotics algorithms

    204 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  99. The future of WebAssembly – A look at upcoming features and proposals

    204 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  100. An Illustrated Proof of the CAP Theorem

    203 points • comment • jul 14, 2018