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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. RISC-V Boom CPU

    33 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  2. The irresistible rise of internet dating – Daily chart

    33 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  3. Apple reportedly arguing headquarter buildings are worth $200 to reduce tax bill

    33 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  4. Bessel Beam

    33 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  5. The company behind the adorably doomed robot Kuri is shutting down

    33 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  6. Assume the Worst: Enumerating AWS Roles Through ‘AssumeRole’

    33 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  7. It’s easy to become obese in America. These 7 charts explain why

    33 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  8. Lost in the Storm

    33 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  9. From Silence to Sound

    33 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  10. Amazon pays £1.7m corporation tax in the UK

    33 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  11. Is Julia the next big programming language? MIT thinks so, as version 1.0 lands

    33 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  12. On exploiting the jemalloc memory manager (2014)

    33 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  13. Bootstrapping the Industrial Age (2007)

    33 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  14. What's the Best App for Making Memes?

    33 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  15. First Large-Scale Quantum Simulation of Topological State of Matter

    33 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  16. The Bhikkhu Diet (2003)

    33 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  17. Intel has no chance in servers and they know it

    33 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  18. Utilizing video memory for system swap

    33 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  19. Elon Musk Makes $82B Gambit to Silence Tesla Critics

    33 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  20. The Strange Persistence of First Languages (2015)

    33 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  21. Listen to Her: Gender on This American Life (2017)

    33 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  22. We’re headed for a future where only the wealthy can enjoy nature

    32 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  23. Random Paths via Chiseling

    32 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  24. Android Spyware Can Record Almost Anything on Infected Devices

    32 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  25. Trump administration lifts ban on pesticides linked to declining bee numbers

    32 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  26. Thousands of Amazon workers receive food stamps

    32 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  27. Deleting Facebook

    32 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  28. Observations on the testing culture of test-driven development

    32 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  29. Microsoft case results in prison time for restore CD copier

    32 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  30. Connect's Julian Gough: We're Being Algorithmically Sorted and Controlled

    32 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  31. Fred Turner: Silicon Valley Thinks Politics Doesn’t Exist

    32 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  32. The Power of Prolog: An Introduction to Modern Prolog

    32 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  33. Laziness Does Not Exist but unseen barriers do

    32 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  34. The Women Code Breakers Who Unmasked Soviet Spies

    32 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  35. Mac-like FreeBSD Laptop

    32 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  36. Ask HN: How do you take notes?

    32 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  37. Internal Facebook Note: Here Is a “Psychological Trick” to Target Teens

    32 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  38. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2018)

    32 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  39. Ask HN: Non-SMTP single server internal mail system?

    32 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  40. 15 FBI agents to date have died from cancers linked to Sept 11 attacks

    32 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  41. The dubious distinction, and literary legacy, of Leo Szilard

    32 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  42. What If Banks Were Publicly Owned? In LA, This May Soon Be a Reality

    32 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  43. A riddle wrapped in a curve (2015)

    32 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  44. Fred Brooks vs. Dijkstra? (2015)

    32 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  45. “Let Us Calculate”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination

    32 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  46. The Secrets of the Wave Pilots (2016)

    32 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  47. Dark Energy May Be Incompatible with String Theory

    32 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  48. Children born to spies in Canada should not be handed citizenship, says Ottawa

    32 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  49. The Unlikely Activists Who Took on Silicon Valley – And Won

    32 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  50. How Insulin Helped Create Ant Societies

    32 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  51. Twitter sysadmin: “I’m deleting the Twitter app from all my devices”

    32 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  52. Does $60,000 a year make you middle-class or wealthy on Planet Earth?

    32 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  53. Discerning the Out-Of-Order Advantage: Is It Speculation or Dynamism? (2013) [pdf]

    32 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  54. You Could Be Kicked Offline for Piracy If This Music Industry Lawsuit Succeeds

    32 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  55. Bill Gates Noticed a Economy Trend No One Is Paying Attention To

    32 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  56. Qualcomm Now Sampling Next-Gen 7nm Snapdragon SoC For 2019 Android Smartphones

    31 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  57. Ask HN: What are some good projects/resources to learn distributed systems?

    31 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  58. US President Says Windmills Are Bird Killers as He Tries to Revive Coal Industry

    31 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  59. Patrick Stewart stuns fans with 'Star Trek' return

    31 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  60. Alvin Toffler Investigated by FBI for Communist Activities

    31 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  61. Architecture of Mask RCNN – A PyTorch Implementation

    31 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  62. Otter – Searchable Voice Notes with Speech-To-Text

    31 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  63. Things I Learned Reading the Same Book 100 Times Over 10 Years

    31 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  64. WordPress is at a Crossroads

    31 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  65. Intel has no chance in servers and they know it

    31 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  66. When Genetic Diseases Threaten Patient Privacy

    31 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  67. Trapped in 99M-Year-Old Amber, a Beetle with Pilfered Pollen

    31 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  68. Open Petri Nets

    31 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  69. China’s coming Austrian collapse

    31 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  70. Mystery Russian satellite's behaviour raises alarm in US

    31 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  71. The Man Who Walked Backward

    31 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  72. DX12 Ray Tracing Tutorials

    31 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  73. Using deep learning to answer questions about photos

    31 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  74. Somebody at Fitbit Needs a Lesson on the Menstrual Cycle

    31 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  75. Beijing is planning world’s longest rail tunnel to link Taiwan to mainland

    31 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  76. We Are All Scutoids: A Brand-New Shape, Explained

    31 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  77. Show HN: Efficient data loading using zeta distributions

    31 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  78. T-Mobile Security Incident

    31 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  79. Questions on the Bethesda reselling drama

    31 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  80. Checking Code Style with Neural Networks (2017)

    31 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  81. Dancing Pigs or Externalities? Measuring Rationality of Security Decisions [pdf]

    31 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  82. The Dark Side of Early Diagnosis

    31 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  83. Ask HN: How about creating an indie alternative to Udemy?

    31 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  84. Google, Apple and others no longer require employees to have a college degree

    31 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  85. Apple at $1T: The Missing Theory

    31 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  86. Chocolate, bioterrorism and the birth of Brazilian funk

    31 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  87. STTR: A system for tracking all vehicles all the time at the edge of the network

    31 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  88. SEC Charges Mike Rothenberg for Fraud

    31 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  89. Amazon issues rare public response to Bernie Sanders

    31 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  90. Topological phenomena explored in a programmable quantum simulation

    31 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  91. In ‘Small Fry,’ Steve Jobs Comes Across as a Jerk. His Daughter Forgives Him

    31 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  92. Treehouse CEO says 32-hour, 4-day workweek created “a lack of work ethic”

    31 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  93. Epigrams on Programming (1982)

    30 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  94. Can I use a non-monospaced font in either Vim or gVim?

    30 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  95. Can zoos be redesigned for a more ethical generation?

    30 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  96. Ask HN: Cities underserved by tech jobs?

    30 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  97. Google’s censored search engine could actually help Chinese citizens

    30 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  98. How LeBron James’ Tattoos Could Affect Baseball

    30 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  99. You cant delete your netflix account. Doesnt this violate GDPR?

    30 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  100. The Intermediate Class

    30 points • comment • aug 04, 2018