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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Show HN: A Rust macro that parses Java-like syntax and runs it as a Rust program

    190 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  2. A Guide to Python's Magic Methods (2012)

    189 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  3. Patrick Stewart Returns as Jean-Luc Picard for a New Star Trek Series

    189 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  4. Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation

    189 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  5. A Ray-Tracing Pioneer Explains How He Stumbled into Global Illumination

    189 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  6. Solve Less General Problems

    188 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  7. What Does Immersing Yourself in a Book Do to Your Brain?

    188 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  8. Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its 5,000 Model 3 target

    187 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  9. Rainway takes a game running on one system and streams it to another device

    187 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  10. CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer

    187 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  11. How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation

    187 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  12. Why Prosperity Has Increased but Happiness Has Not

    186 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  13. Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay?

    186 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  14. Cracking WPA-2 Just Got a Whole Lot Easier

    186 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  15. Telco lobbyists accidentally send their talking points

    186 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  16. Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old

    185 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  17. From GNU social to Mastodon

    185 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  18. In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor

    185 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  19. Ask HN: What are your go-to blogs and books on building business applications?

    184 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  20. Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens

    184 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  21. Poland was shockingly liberal during the 1400s

    184 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  22. The Mind: Most polarizing card game of the year?

    184 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  23. How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2017)

    183 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  24. Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri to find out

    183 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  25. Portability benchmark of Dota2 on MacOS

    183 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  26. The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores

    183 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  27. Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?

    183 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  28. Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN

    183 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  29. Duke Team Finds Missing Immune Cells That Could Fight Lethal Brain Tumors

    182 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  30. From developer to entrepreneur: Learning to build an indie startup

    182 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  31. Leaked white paper proposes U.S. Congressional regulation of social media

    182 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  32. VuePress: a static site generator that excels at working with documentation

    182 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  33. A satellite engineer explains the basics of space electronics

    181 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  34. Intel microcode license updated to permit redistribution

    181 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  35. Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations?

    181 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  36. What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition

    181 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  37. US elections remain 'dangerously vulnerable' to cyber-attacks

    181 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  38. µUBSan: clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime

    181 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  39. Go 1.11 and Beyond

    181 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  40. Luna Studio – Visual and textual functional programming language

    181 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  41. Privatizing Poverty

    181 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  42. Show HN: I trained a neural network to learn Arabic morphology

    180 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  43. Advocates say paper ballots are safest

    180 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  44. Why use GraphQL, good and bad reasons

    180 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  45. Jepsen: Dgraph 1.0.2

    180 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  46. Wikipedia bans agenda-driven editor, but punishes the messenger too

    179 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  47. ATtention Spanned: Comprehensive Android Vulnerability Analysis of AT Commands

    179 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  48. One-Process Programming Notes

    179 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  49. The Twilio API for WhatsApp

    179 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  50. Beta release of PHP 7.2 in the Google App Engine standard environment

    179 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  51. Fusion.js: A Plugin-Based Universal Web Framework

    178 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  52. How to Succeed with a Startup [video]

    178 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  53. Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language

    178 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  54. False Advertising for College Is Pretty Much the Norm

    178 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  55. Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?

    178 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  56. Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars

    177 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  57. The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming

    176 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  58. How to explain infinity to kids

    176 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  59. A deep dive into the Go memory allocator and garbage collector

    176 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  60. MacOS System 6, Version 6.0.8: run in browser

    175 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  61. Why HP Fell

    175 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  62. Why You Should Build a Hackintosh

    175 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  63. SpaceX set to re-fly a Block 5 rocket for the first time tonight

    174 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  64. Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem

    174 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  65. Idempotence: What is it and why should I care?

    174 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  66. SEC Charges Rothenberg Ventures in Fraudulent Scheme

    174 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  67. Australia’s Proposed Surveillance Laws Will Break the Trust Tech Depends On

    174 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  68. Google Titan Security Key now available

    174 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  69. Advice for Haskell beginners (2017)

    174 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  70. Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

    173 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  71. Code review review is the manager’s job

    173 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  72. Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion (2014)

    173 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  73. Shamir's Secret Sharing

    173 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  74. Markdeep markup language

    173 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  75. Magic Leap One Creator's Edition First Look

    172 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  76. Show HN: Remote jobs for people with disabilities

    172 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  77. Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

    172 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  78. Build a VM step by step with Rust

    172 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  79. Show HN: TinyGo – LLVM-based Go compiler for microcontrollers

    171 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  80. Python Pandas: Tricks and Features

    171 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  81. What happens when we work non-stop

    171 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  82. Show HN: Toy – A thin C++ game engine

    171 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  83. For $450, a Japanese Company Will Quit Your Job for You

    171 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  84. An Oral History of ‘GoldenEye 007’ on the N64

    170 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  85. Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009)

    170 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  86. Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lotus Notes system

    170 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  87. “I Used AI to Clone My Voice and Trick My Mom into Thinking It Was Me”

    170 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  88. TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: built differently for time-series data

    169 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  89. The Python scientific stack, compiled to WebAssembly

    169 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  90. We Don’t Run Cron Jobs (2016)

    169 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  91. The Oldest Building in Every US State

    169 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  92. Nim partners with Status.im

    169 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  93. Posting Instagram Sponsored Content Is the New Summer Job

    169 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  94. How did you get it to run on a Gameboy?

    169 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  95. Java is still available at zero-cost

    168 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  96. Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking Ban

    168 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  97. Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler

    167 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  98. Cherry MX History

    167 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  99. Kofi Annan has died

    167 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  100. Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one

    167 points • comment • aug 21, 2018