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Hacker News (Sep 2018)

  1. The Causal Revolutionary – Interview with Judea Pearl

    75 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  2. If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer

    75 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  3. A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother

    75 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  4. Tolstoy’s ‘Resurrection’ is strikingly similar to how we treat prisoners today

    75 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  5. Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight after freak tide (2017)

    75 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  6. The Irrelevance of Thingies

    75 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  7. Saving the Prized Chile That Grows Only in Oaxaca’s Mountains

    75 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  8. Why the Navy Misses the Old F-14 Tomcat, Despite All of the Problems

    75 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  9. Traveling Ruby: self-contained, portable Ruby binaries

    75 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  10. Show HN: Docute – Fast way to create a documentation site

    75 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  11. Stripe's take on software engineer efficiency made me angry

    75 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  12. A Brief History of Alibaba Founders

    75 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  13. Laser-Cut Music Box [video]

    74 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  14. Kidney Stones Are More Beautiful Than You Might Think

    74 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  15. Larry Summers Calls Fed Bank Stress Test Results ‘Absurd’

    74 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  16. Building Raspberry Pi Systems with Yocto

    74 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  17. Procedurally Generating Islands (2017)

    74 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  18. Computer Science Encyclopedia Can Fill a Gap

    74 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  19. The Lasp Programming System

    74 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  20. Phishing Is the Internet’s Most Successful Con

    74 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  21. Complexity and Strategy (2017)

    74 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  22. Medieval Wellness Tips

    74 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  23. A Better Way to Cancel Noise

    74 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  24. A Love Letter to Concrete

    73 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  25. Autonomous Trucks and the Future of the American Trucker

    73 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  26. A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (1970) [pdf]

    73 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  27. Why Can’t Apes Talk?

    73 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  28. Introduction to HAProxy Stick Tables

    73 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  29. Suffering-oriented programming (2012)

    73 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  30. Interview with Andrew Ng [audio]

    73 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  31. Using websockets to easily build GUIs for Python programs

    73 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  32. The Coders of Kentucky

    73 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  33. Chipforge opensource foundry [pdf]

    72 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  34. Facebook could be breaking EU law by using shadow data for ads

    72 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  35. Stories – Medium clone built with Rails

    72 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  36. Sourcegraph Master Plan

    72 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  37. Defusing COBOL Bombs with Smart Automation

    72 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  38. The Privacy Revolution in Action

    72 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  39. Beyond Deep Fakes

    72 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  40. The sunk cost fallacy

    72 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  41. Evidence of 7,200-year-old cheese-making found on the Dalmatian Coast

    72 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  42. The Eternal Life of the Instant Noodle

    72 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  43. How America Killed Transit

    72 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  44. Show HN: Arc Studio Pro – Collaborative Editing/Version Control for Screenplays

    72 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  45. How to code a sine scroll on Amiga

    71 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  46. British Airways: Suspect code that hacked fliers ‘found’

    71 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  47. How Qualcomm Tried and Failed to Steal Intel's Crown Jewel

    71 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  48. Why are America's elite universities censoring themselves on China?

    71 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  49. Static Program Analysis [pdf]

    71 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  50. A Soviet-era airport, once the height of luxury, faces demolition in Armenia

    71 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  51. Ambly: embedded ClojureScript

    71 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  52. Butterfly raises $250M for portable full-body ultrasound scanner

    71 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  53. Frankfurt kitchen

    71 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  54. Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosystem (2017)

    71 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  55. Ada on FPGAs with PicoRV32

    71 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  56. Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (BEZOS) Act

    71 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  57. Proving our universe is one among many would be a fourth Copernican revolution

    71 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  58. Another Victim of the Magecart Assault Emerges: Newegg

    71 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  59. The Scottish Register of Tartans

    71 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  60. The Dark (Patterns) Side of UX Design [pdf]

    71 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  61. Show HN: Search for a domain expert on Reddit

    71 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  62. The Futhark Debugger

    70 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  63. The woes of incremental resource drains in big systems

    70 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  64. AMD Contributes 8.5x More Code to the Linux Kernel Than Nvidia

    70 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  65. Number of hedge fund startups lowest in nearly two decades

    70 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  66. EC2 Instances with 6, 9, and 12 TB of Memory

    70 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  67. Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year in a Row

    70 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  68. Twitch is reportedly blocked in China

    70 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  69. The once-endangered vicuña is thriving in the Peruvian Andes

    70 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  70. Physics as a Way of Thinking (1936)

    70 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  71. Apparent Evidence for Hawking Points in the CMB Sky

    70 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  72. Skyscrapers, trains and roads: How Addis Ababa came to look like a Chinese city

    70 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  73. Lambda lifting

    70 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  74. A Cardiologist’s 9/11 Story

    70 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  75. Feedify is compromised with code mirroring Magecart

    70 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  76. Show HN: Apify SDK – A scalable web crawling and scraping library for JavaScript

    70 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  77. Metamolds: Creating ideal 3D printed silicone molds faster and cheaper

    70 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  78. Show HN: No More Google, privacy-friendly alternatives to Google products

    70 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  79. Alane: Using Aluminum Hydride as Fuel

    69 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  80. New Libre GPU Effort Based on RISC-V

    69 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  81. Introducing Cloud Inference API

    69 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  82. Transplanted mammals take a century to re-learn migration routes

    69 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  83. Sand scarcity is about more than “running out” of sand

    69 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  84. Paper Trails: Living and Dying with Fragmented Medical Records

    69 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  85. A Tool Lets Urban Planners See The Potential Impact Of Their Ideas

    69 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  86. Show HN: Leptus – Erlang REST framework that runs on top of Cowboy web server

    69 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  87. Vaccines Against H.I.V., Malaria and Tuberculosis Unlikely, Study Says

    69 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  88. Top cancer researcher fails to disclose corporate ties in major journals

    69 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  89. Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

    69 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  90. Ask HN: Why isn't Japan's asteroid rover landing the top story in the US?

    69 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  91. Nuitka 0.6.0 released

    69 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  92. GAN Lab: An Interactive, Visual Experimentation Tool for GANs

    68 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  93. Cold Boot Attacks

    68 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  94. Set up Sublime Text for lightweight all-in-one data science IDE (2015)

    68 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  95. Future Shock Documentary (1972) [video]

    68 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  96. Wasabi: A Framework for Dynamically Analyzing WebAssembly

    68 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  97. You Can't Always Hash Pointers in C (2016)

    68 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  98. Modern C++: 7 Ways to Fake It Until You Have It

    68 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  99. 7 is the largest prime followed by a cubic number

    68 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  100. Why I never finish my Haskell programs (part 2)

    68 points • comment • sep 09, 2018