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Hacker News (Jul 2018)

  1. In 2017, US had largest decline in CO2 emissions

    138 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  2. Page Lifecycle API

    138 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  3. YC Startup School Library

    138 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  4. Parrots have evolved a primate-like telencephalic-midbrain-cerebellar circuit

    138 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  5. Banner ads on CNN.com contain keyloggers

    138 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  6. The Road to QUIC

    138 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  7. Have we overestimated the effectiveness of psychotherapy?

    138 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  8. The intolerable rise of perfectionism

    138 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  9. Our Use of Haskell and Elm

    138 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  10. GCC 8.2 Released

    137 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  11. WebReplay – Time Travel Debugging for Firefox

    137 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  12. Zero-Knowledge Proofs

    137 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  13. Why standard Indonesian is not spoken throughout Indonesia

    137 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  14. Krita in the Windows Store: an update

    136 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  15. The Turkish city that lives for breakfast

    136 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  16. Trump is going after California’s clean car mandate

    135 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  17. Saudi Aramco’s $2T Zombie IPO

    135 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  18. Introducing Telegram Passport

    135 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  19. Why your brain never runs out of problems to find

    135 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  20. Mozilla to Remove Support for Built-In Feed Reader from Firefox

    135 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  21. Scientists reverse aging-associated skin wrinkles and hair loss in a mouse model

    135 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  22. Interrobang

    135 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  23. Jim Tcl version 0.78

    135 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  24. That sinking feeling

    134 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  25. MacBook Pro throttling not a CPU issue, but rather power throttling of the VRM

    134 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  26. Coinbase reportedly gets approval from US regulators for tokenized securities

    134 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  27. Introduction to compute shaders

    134 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  28. Palliative sedation, an end-of-life practice that is legal everywhere

    134 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  29. A man who paves India's roads with old plastic

    134 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  30. An app that reads Wikipedia to teach you about cities you’re driving through

    134 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  31. GKE On-Prem Alpha

    134 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  32. We’re underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video

    133 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  33. China is making electric buses cheap, just like it did for solar panels

    133 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  34. The Data Transfer Project

    133 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  35. The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Small, Trainable Neural Networks

    133 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  36. ‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores Harvard’s Admissions

    133 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  37. Ferret: a Lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems

    133 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  38. Water compresses under a high gradient electric field

    133 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  39. Scala: Understanding implicits

    133 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  40. Art technicians: The industry’s dirty secret, or all part of the process?

    133 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  41. Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic

    133 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  42. A New Angle on L2 Regularization

    132 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  43. Show HN: Gaia – Build powerful pipelines in any programming language

    132 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  44. Using a virus to kill what antibiotics can’t

    132 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  45. Show HN: Online challenge: Build a CPU from scratch

    132 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  46. Heatwave unveils ancient settlements in Wales

    132 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  47. GitLab 11.1 released with security dashboards and enhanced code search

    132 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  48. Microsoft is updating Notepad

    132 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  49. PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years

    132 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  50. Show HN: TaskBotJS – TypeScript and JavaScript background job processing

    132 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  51. When Sports Betting Is Legal, the Value of Game Data Soars

    131 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  52. Utah voting system fending off 1B hacking attempts per day

    131 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  53. How to start a lab when funds are tight

    131 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  54. In Q2 2018, Global VC Scales Tipped In Favor Of Chinese Startups Over American

    131 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  55. Ask HN: Best Lego Mindstorms alternative for fun programming projects?

    131 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  56. Job-hopping increases, in possible boon to wage growth and productivity

    131 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  57. Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them

    131 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  58. Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained (2006) [pdf]

    130 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  59. A Major Industry-Funded Alcohol Study Was Compromised

    130 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  60. WebAmp: WinAmp 2 in Your Browser

    130 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  61. Improving our account management policies to better support customers

    130 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  62. Show HN: Web DSP audio editor

    130 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  63. Really Friendly Command Line Intro

    130 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  64. OBike Refund in Singapore, Australia, and Malaysia

    130 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  65. A team of former FBI investigators claims to have identified D.B. Cooper

    130 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  66. Phoebus cartel

    129 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  67. Average annual hours worked per country

    129 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  68. Reproducible machine learning with PyTorch and Quilt

    129 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  69. No Joke: The Onion Faces Layoffs by Univision, Says Report

    129 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  70. Building a Program Synthesizer

    129 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  71. Show HN: CSS Scan – Instantly check or copy computed CSS from any element

    129 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  72. GitHub is down

    129 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  73. What I Learned Working for Steve Ballmer

    129 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  74. PANDAS revives the debate about the immune system and mental illness (2015)

    129 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  75. Consistency Models

    129 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  76. How to build an NPM worm

    129 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  77. A Mansion Filled with Hidden Worlds: When the Internet Was Young

    129 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  78. Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

    129 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  79. Annoyed by Restaurant Playlists, a Master Musician Made His Own

    128 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  80. An extensive ZFS setup on MacOS

    128 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  81. Fuzzyset – A Human-Readable Interactive Representation of a Code Library

    128 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  82. New Video of F-117s Flying Out of Tonopah Despite Their Fates Being Sealed

    128 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  83. Loon and Wing graduate from Google/Alphabet X

    128 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  84. EU parliament calls for Privacy Shield to be pulled until US complies

    128 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  85. Why Mastercard Doesn't Use OAuth 2.0

    128 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  86. FAA pushes back on Boeing exemption for 787 safety flaw

    128 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  87. Home insulation in China blamed for rise in emissions of ozone-depleting gas

    128 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  88. Reinforcement learning’s foundational flaw

    128 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  89. Microsoft: Join Developer Design

    128 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  90. PEP 572 and decision-making in Python

    128 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  91. Logic Theorist

    127 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  92. AI and Blockchain: An Introduction

    127 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  93. Treating violence as a public health problem has produced great results

    127 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  94. C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio

    127 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  95. Amazon EC2 Instance Update – Faster Processors and More Memory

    127 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  96. Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes

    127 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  97. Lessons from Interviewing 400 Engineers Over Three Startups

    127 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  98. Show HN: Kontext – Learn new words by watching movies in a foreign language

    127 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  99. The Haskell School of Music – From Signals to Symphonies (2014) [pdf]

    127 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  100. Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile (2015)

    127 points • comment • jul 12, 2018