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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Predicting Expressive Speaking Style from Text in End-To-End Speech Synthesis

    60 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  2. Tensorflow implementation of Adversarial Autoencoders

    60 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  3. Opium or Cucumber? Debunking a Myth About Sumerian Drugs

    60 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  4. Meeting the W-15 Electric Pickup Truck

    60 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  5. Linus Torvalds on regressions

    60 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  6. Leonard Euler's Solution to the Konigsberg Bridge Problem (2006)

    60 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  7. Inside the Business of Dog Cloning

    60 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  8. Las Vegas vertical farm aims to produce over a million pounds of produce a year

    60 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  9. Facing $17B in Fire Damages, a CEO Blames Climate Change

    60 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  10. The GDPR Is a Cookie Monster

    60 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  11. The World's Newest, Most Gloriously Designed Maps

    60 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  12. California teacher pension debt overwhelms school budgets

    60 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  13. DMT Models the Near-Death Experience

    60 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  14. GitHub Commit Forgery

    60 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  15. A Botulism Outbreak Gave Rise to America’s Food Safety System

    60 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  16. PostgreSQL Accessing MySQL as a Data Source Using mysqsl_fdw

    60 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  17. Top Programming Languages: Python extends its lead, Assembly enters the Top Ten

    60 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  18. Conflict reigns over the history and origins of money

    60 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  19. Video-to-Video Synthesis [video]

    60 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  20. Ask HN: Are there any HN-style web sites with mechanical engineering content?

    60 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  21. NASA rockets once flew from launch pad in Michigan wilderness

    60 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  22. The Really Big One (2015)

    60 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  23. SC-IM: An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal

    59 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  24. Implementing SIP Telephony in Python (2008) [pdf]

    59 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  25. Ask HN: Advice on how to have quality, productive 1-1’s with your manager?

    59 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  26. Design Thinking: B2 APIs and the Hidden Costs of S3 Compatibility

    59 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  27. Is the iconic Parisian bistro dying?

    59 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  28. Show HN: Arcentry API – Programmable Cloud Diagrams

    59 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  29. See No Evil: Transparency in the Supply Chain

    59 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  30. Tesla Model 3 Is Replacing Toyota Prius as Green Car of Choice

    59 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  31. Reinforcement Learning Resources, Models and Code

    59 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  32. My Life in Pens (2009)

    59 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  33. GopherCon 2018 Performance Tuning Workshop

    59 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  34. How Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition

    59 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  35. FoundationDB high contention allocator

    59 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  36. Datalog Educational System

    59 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  37. WannaCry Outbreak Could Cost TSMC $170M

    59 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  38. Typegram – Platform for writers and their subscribers with a minimalistic design

    59 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  39. The End of the TV Writers’ Room?

    59 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  40. Are Cities Making Animals Smarter?

    59 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  41. A material found to carry current in a way never before observed

    59 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  42. Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade

    59 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  43. Call/cc for C programmers (2012)

    59 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  44. Controlling electric signals in the body could help it heal

    59 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  45. Bull Market Hits a Milestone: 3,453 Days – Most Americans Aren’t at the Party

    59 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  46. Burying ‘One Child’ Limits, China Pushes Women to Have More Babies

    59 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  47. Quantifying the impact of the Twitter fake accounts purge – a technical analysis

    59 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  48. Firms That Bossed Agriculture for a Century Face New Threat: Farmers

    59 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  49. Show HN: Unyt – Handle, manipulate, and convert data with units in Python

    59 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  50. OpenAI’s Dota 2 defeat is still a win for artificial intelligence

    58 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  51. The SF Bay Area, where the streets are paved with single young men

    58 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  52. Frank Siegert’s collection of NeXTSTEP programs (1996)

    58 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  53. An incomplete history of the QED Text Editor (2004)

    58 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  54. ‘Reprogrammed’ stem cells to be tested in people with Parkinson’s

    58 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  55. Is Literature Dead?

    58 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  56. How 2,000-year-old roads predict modern-day prosperity

    58 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  57. The pain that minimal version selection solves

    58 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  58. Tracking animals from space could predict earthquakes on the ground

    58 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  59. Coffee delivery drone patented by IBM

    58 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  60. “Common view” that Japanese are typically collectivists is not supported by data

    58 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  61. Latin American delivery startup Rappi valued above $1B

    58 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  62. Open Logic Project: An Open-Source, Collaborative Logic Text

    58 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  63. Do “sin taxes” work?

    58 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  64. As Barnes and Noble Struggles to Find Footing, Founder Takes Heat

    58 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  65. Radiolab: Post No Evil [audio]

    58 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  66. Drawing Spirograph curves in Python

    58 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  67. NTCP2 – An authenticated key agreement protocol for I2P

    58 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  68. Using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild and Lambda for automated UI testing (2017)

    58 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  69. Quantum Mechanics Toys that Didn’t Catch On

    58 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  70. Lorentz Transformations with a Mechanical Time-Globe [video]

    58 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  71. The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Changed from 180 Years Ago

    58 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  72. How to Say “I Love You” When the Language Doesn’t Exist

    58 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  73. Can you recreate Objective-C in C?

    58 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  74. Good thing in PHP nobody talks about

    58 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  75. Exif.tools – A multimedia file metadata tool

    57 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  76. Coinbase Custody is exploring a range of new assets

    57 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  77. Self-reference and Logic (2005) [pdf]

    57 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  78. What Dropbox dropping Linux support says

    57 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  79. World’s longest palindrome?

    57 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  80. Peeking Behind the Curtains of Serverless Platforms [pdf]

    57 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  81. Depression marks on seafloor suggest whales visiting prospective mining sites

    57 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  82. Welcome to Armageddon: On MUDs (2017)

    57 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  83. Trial by Combat? Trial by Cake

    57 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  84. Against Identity Politics

    57 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  85. Empty shipyard and suicides as 'Hyundai Town' grapples with grim future

    57 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  86. IST Austria: Color effects from transparent 3D-printed nanostructures

    57 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  87. Why decentralized social networking never makes it

    57 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  88. Rainworks – Rain-Activated Positive Messages and Art

    57 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  89. Robots to start killing crown-of-thorns starfish on Great Barrier Reef

    57 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  90. Philadelphians Drink a Lot More Alcohol Since the City's Soda Tax Was Imposed

    57 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  91. The legend of Benin’s fearless female warriors

    57 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  92. Dataspace 3: It Came from the S-Expressions

    56 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  93. How Two Years of Instagram Stories Has Altered the Way We Love, Act and Play

    56 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  94. Are there intrinsic properties at the most fundamental level of reality?

    56 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  95. Step-by-step code execution on the Toshiba FlashAir SD card

    56 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  96. A Kindergartener’s Best Computer Is About to Die

    56 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  97. Clojure Compilation (2014)

    56 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  98. Legal AI and the Industrialisation of Cognition (2017)

    56 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  99. X.509 Style Guide (2000)

    56 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  100. Hades: An experimental HATEOAS-based HTTP/2 reverse proxy for JSON API back ends

    56 points • comment • aug 04, 2018