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Hacker News (Jul 2018)

  1. The Case Against Patents (2013)

    175 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  2. Grand Jury Indicts Russian Officers for Hacking Related to the 2016 Election

    174 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  3. Removing Bad Actors on Facebook

    173 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  4. Running JRuby on the Graal JIT

    173 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  5. SpaceX is working on a kid-size submarine to extract those boys in Thailand

    173 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  6. The Federalist Papers: Author Identification Through K-Means Clustering

    173 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  7. FanDuel founders to receive no cash from sale to Paddy Power Betfair

    173 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  8. WebAssembly is more than the web

    172 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  9. Google warns Android might not remain free because of EU decision

    172 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  10. “I-Cut-You-Choose” Cake-Cutting Protocol Inspires Solution to Gerrymandering

    172 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  11. Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases

    172 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  12. Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Followers

    172 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  13. Address Verification and Full PGP Support

    172 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  14. Extreme Bitcoin Mining Aids an Unexpected Revolution in Iceland

    172 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  15. A Clone of the Classic Mac OS Finder in Modern Cocoa and Objective-C

    171 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  16. Crafting Interpreters

    171 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  17. Show HN: Oathkeeper – Cloud-Native Identity and Access Proxy

    171 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  18. Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?

    171 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  19. Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of CitiBike

    171 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  20. Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work

    171 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  21. Transparent SLIs: See Google Cloud the way your application experiences it

    171 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  22. Why Does Your Company Deserve More Money?

    171 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  23. Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

    171 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  24. Tutorial: Designing a GraphQL API

    170 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  25. Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure’ starting in July

    170 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  26. Ancient public library discovered in Germany

    170 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  27. Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf]

    170 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  28. Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2018 Results [pdf]

    170 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  29. Why Japanese Whisky Is So Good and So Hard to Find

    170 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  30. Ask HN: What “dumbphones” are available and viable in the US?

    170 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  31. Solar and wind are coming. And the power sector isn’t ready

    169 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  32. Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions process under wraps

    169 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  33. Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android

    169 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  34. Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime

    169 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  35. Kialo – a platform for rational debate

    168 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  36. Delivering WordPress in 7kb

    168 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  37. Chaos Computer Club criticizes police action

    167 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  38. Ask HN: What talks or videos do you suggest to watch on a long flight?

    167 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  39. Love letter to Vue

    167 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  40. Qt for Python available at PyPi

    167 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  41. Making a low level Linux debugger, part 3: our first program

    167 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  42. Literate Programming: Empower Your Writing with Emacs Org-Mode

    167 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  43. E-waste mining could be big business and good for the planet

    166 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  44. Amiga 600 FPGA Conversion

    166 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  45. Someone Uploaded What Look to Be Apple’s Internal iPhone Repair Videos

    165 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  46. The LDC D language compiler can now generate WebAssembly

    165 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  47. How Netflix became a billion-dollar titan

    165 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  48. A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'

    164 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  49. An XMPP/Jabber echo bot written in sed

    164 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  50. Digicert Withdraws from the CA Security Council

    164 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  51. Darpa Plans a Major Remake of U.S. Electronics

    164 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  52. The seeming irrationality of a well-tuned emotional system

    164 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  53. Elsevier demands unacceptable for Germany’s academic community

    164 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  54. Thoughts On Machine Learning Accuracy

    164 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  55. Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate

    163 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  56. Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition

    163 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  57. Prose: a Golang library for text processing

    163 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  58. TerminalView – A terminal inside Sublime Text 3

    163 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  59. Asmttpd: Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly (2017)

    163 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  60. Ask HN: Who are some unsung heroes in open source that need more support?

    163 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  61. Termgraph: Python CLI Tool to Draw Graphs

    163 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  62. Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium

    162 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  63. Surviving as an ‘Old’ in the Tech World

    162 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  64. Openbook social network

    162 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  65. High-power thermoelectric generator utilises thermal difference of only 5°C

    161 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  66. Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 or newer

    161 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  67. A browser extension to make Medium more readable

    161 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  68. Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College

    160 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  69. Say Hello to Full Employment

    160 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  70. How Postcards Solved the Problem of Disappearing Rice

    160 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  71. An Introduction to Mathematical Optimal Control Theory [pdf]

    160 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  72. The Rise of Edible Insect Farming

    160 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  73. Twitter shares drop after reporting declining monthly active users

    160 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  74. Are we stuck with cement?

    159 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  75. Axolotl Genome Slowly Yields Secrets of Limb Regrowth

    159 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  76. Captain Einstein – Experience Relativity in Virtual Reality

    159 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  77. Why punk keeps connecting people across space and time

    159 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  78. Sony Releases Stacked CMOS Sensor for Smartphones with 48 Effective Megapixels

    159 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  79. Richard Feynman's Integral Trick

    159 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  80. Building an Inclusive Code Review Culture

    159 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  81. Ex-Apple Employee Stole Secrets for Chinese Firm, U.S. Says

    159 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  82. Munro Teardown Shows Tesla Model 3 Solidly Profitable [video]

    158 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  83. Tencent loses $143B in market value

    158 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  84. DeepLog: Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis from System Logs (2017) [pdf]

    158 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  85. The brain may clean out Alzheimer’s plaques during sleep

    158 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  86. Apple's AirPods and Live Listen are a revolution for the hearing impaired

    158 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  87. The Biomass Distribution on Earth

    157 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  88. Ask HN: How do you sell to governments and large organizations?

    157 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  89. Police accused of deploying facial recognition 'by stealth' in London

    157 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  90. Police raid at Zwiebelfreunde: Donor data compromised

    156 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  91. Analysis of USB fan given to journalists at North Korea-Singapore Summit [pdf]

    156 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  92. Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?

    156 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  93. Man Spends 23 Years Carving Sprawling Underground Temple Under His House

    156 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  94. Geosharded Recommendations with Hilbert Curve at Tinder

    156 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  95. Why Envy Might Be Good for Us

    156 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  96. What if people were paid for their data?

    156 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  97. The Food of My Youth

    156 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  98. Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acquisition talks underway

    156 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  99. Comparing City Street Orientations

    156 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  100. 'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication

    156 points • comment • jul 25, 2018