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Hacker News (Jul 2018)

  1. Slow Reading: the antithesis of speed reading

    155 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  2. ARM: “RISC-V Architecture: Understand the Facts”

    155 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  3. Sending and Receiving SMS on Linux (2015)

    154 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  4. An Interview with Andy Hertzfeld

    154 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  5. The year Mexico legalised drugs

    154 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  6. Why I’m Using a Flip Phone

    154 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  7. Facebook relaxed rules to give companies special access to user data

    153 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  8. No Paper Is That Good

    153 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  9. Why Salt Was So Important Throughout History

    153 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  10. Mea culpa: there is a crisis in the humanities

    153 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  11. Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?

    153 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  12. Programming Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi

    153 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  13. Improving the fast inverse square root (2010)

    152 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  14. Why I published Venmo users’ “drug” deals on Twitter

    152 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  15. The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry (2013)

    152 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  16. To Persuade Someone, Look Emotional

    152 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  17. The case for copying business ideas

    152 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  18. Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and LambdaEdge

    151 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  19. Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows

    151 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  20. Site Reliability Engineering

    151 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  21. How Property Taxes Shape Our Cities

    151 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  22. Open sourcing oomd, a new approach to handling OOMs

    151 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  23. TherML – Thermodynamics of Machine Learning

    151 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  24. Designing an email-only Slack interface

    151 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  25. Intel to Acquire eASIC: Lower Cost ASICs in FPGA Design Time

    150 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  26. Non-official site with a tampered version of KeePass

    150 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  27. MapTiler: Map overlay, cut map tiles for Google Maps, GIS layers and mobile apps

    150 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  28. Something about functions in Bash (2017)

    150 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  29. Tesla has asked some suppliers for cash back to help it become profitable

    150 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  30. Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware

    149 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  31. Show HN: Owl, a new kind of parser generator

    149 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  32. Learning ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’ from a single demonstration

    149 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  33. In 5 states, richest Americans live in a “new Gilded Age”

    149 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  34. Ask HN: Please help me recall a certain programmer horror story

    149 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  35. Almond – The Open Virtual Assistant

    149 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  36. Why I use the IBM Model M keyboard that is older than me

    149 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  37. Intel delays 10nm Cannon Lake processors, again, until late 2019

    148 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  38. Libaco: A fast and lightweight C asymmetric coroutine library

    148 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  39. Why No HTTPS?

    147 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  40. “POSIX advisory locks are broken by design”

    147 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  41. Walkthrough for Systemd Portable Services

    147 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  42. Glances: cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python

    147 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  43. Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles every day

    147 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  44. The Fred Rogers We Know

    147 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  45. The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective

    146 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  46. Going sponsor-free – 3blue1brown

    146 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  47. The mysterious heart of the Roland TR-808 drum machine

    146 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  48. Whole House Fan and Evaporative Cooler

    146 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  49. Chrome developer tools to master

    146 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  50. Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything

    146 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  51. Some suddenly become accomplished artists or musicians with no previous training

    146 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  52. Missouri disaster: Duck boat’s designer had no engineering training

    146 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  53. Review: A Counterfeit, $100 iPhone X

    145 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  54. Ryū: Fast Float-To-String Conversion

    145 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  55. What do Stanford CS PhD students think of their PhD program? [pdf]

    145 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  56. OAuth for the Open Web

    145 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  57. Composing Programs – An introduction to programming in the tradition of SICP

    145 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  58. A Complete Electron Microscopy Volume of the Brain of Adult Fruit Fly

    145 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  59. Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days

    145 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  60. Collection of quotes on interesting notations and how they affect thought

    144 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  61. Is America Encouraging the Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurship? (2017)

    144 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  62. Credit card thieves using free-to-play apps to launder their ill-gotten gains

    144 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  63. Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?

    144 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  64. Let’s celebrate Hugo’s 5th birthday

    144 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  65. Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?

    144 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  66. The cold blue light of modern touchscreens poses health problems

    144 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  67. Version Control Before Git with CVS

    144 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  68. Mailinator.com: Anatomy of a Spammy Campaign

    143 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  69. Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

    143 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  70. Sapper – Progressive web apps powered by Svelte

    143 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  71. Fedora CoreOS, Red Hat CoreOS, and the future of Container Linux

    143 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  72. An ingenious vintage German cycle map (2014)

    143 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  73. Facebook finally hands over leave campaign Brexit ads

    143 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  74. Link Between Alzheimer’s and Herpes

    143 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  75. How Helsinki Arrived at the Future of Urban Travel First

    142 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  76. NetSpectre: Read Arbitrary Memory Over Network [pdf]

    142 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  77. Spectrum internet is getting kicked out of New York

    142 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  78. Research shows the difference between emotional and informational support

    142 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  79. Google Has Been Letting App Developers Read Users' Gmail, Unsurprisingly

    142 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  80. A response about dep and vgo

    142 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  81. Back-and-forth exchanges boost children’s brain response to language

    142 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  82. A new Darpa program to develop insect-scale robots

    142 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  83. Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data

    141 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  84. A Taste of Linear Logic (1993) [pdf]

    141 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  85. Ask HN: How to raise a seed round for people with no elite connections?

    141 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  86. How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books

    141 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  87. The Whole of WordPress Compiled to .NET Core and a NuGet Package with PeachPie

    141 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  88. India's ISRO conducts key crew escape test for human space mission

    141 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  89. Apollo Accelerators – Amiga Classic accelerator boards

    141 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  90. Bill to End Patent Office Validity Challenges Introduced in House

    141 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  91. The missing profits of nations

    141 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  92. Unidentified Plane-Bae Woman’s Statement Confirms the Worst

    140 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  93. Facebook Lenses

    140 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  94. Secret History of Silicon Valley (2009)

    140 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  95. Emacs and TLS

    140 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  96. How JPEG actually works (2006)

    140 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  97. Tattoo Ink Nanoparticles Persist in Lymph Nodes (2017)

    139 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  98. Practical Common Lisp (2009)

    139 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  99. DigitalOcean’s quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud

    139 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  100. Big Bang telescope finale marks end of an era in cosmology

    139 points • comment • jul 24, 2018