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Hacker News (Sep 2018)

  1. PayPal ends business dealings with Alex Jones's Infowars

    56 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  2. Engineering tour de force births programmable optical quantum computer

    56 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  3. North, Thalmic's Secret Smart Glasses Play

    56 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  4. Show HN: Clipboard Plus, free and open-source clipboard manager for Windows

    56 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  5. Brazil Nuts Are Brought to You by Rodents

    56 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  6. Ask HN: Did anyone just get prompted by Google Chrome with a privacy form?

    56 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  7. The Escape of Bernd Boettger (2014)

    56 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  8. Global scan – exposed .git repos

    56 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  9. DNA detectives hunting the causes of cancer

    56 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  10. Microsoft to ‘warn’ Windows 10 users not to install Chrome or Firefox

    56 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  11. Pycket: A Tracing JIT For a Functional Language (2015) [pdf]

    56 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  12. The Curse of the Bahia Emerald, a Giant Green Rock That Ruins Lives (2017)

    56 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  13. On SGQR, Singapore's unified QR code payment system

    56 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  14. Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?

    56 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  15. React-copy-write: immutable React state management library

    56 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  16. The Village Voice (1955-2018)

    56 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  17. Pivotal CRISPR patent battle won by Broad Institute

    56 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  18. Network topologies for large-scale compute centers: It's the diameter (2016)

    55 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  19. Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics

    55 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  20. Show HN: Minimal Bookmarking Site

    55 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  21. World's first animal was a pancake-shaped ocean dweller

    55 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  22. A Chinese Company Reshaping the World Leaves a Troubled Trail

    55 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  23. A blog in pure Org/Lisp

    55 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  24. Show HN: Replays of technical interviews with engineers from Google, FB and more

    55 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  25. Ask HN: Where are other tech scenes outside Bay Area

    55 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  26. The ‘Post-PC Era’ Never Really Happened and Likely Won’t

    55 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  27. Comparing the NYT op-ed to tweets from cabinet members

    55 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  28. Gamma Steganography

    55 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  29. Leaked video reveals Amazon's union-busting playbook

    55 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  30. An Open Source Release of the Freedom U540-C000's Bootloader

    55 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  31. Marshall Islands warned against adopting digital currency

    55 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  32. NYT sues FCC, says it hid evidence of Russia meddling in net neutrality repeal

    55 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  33. Survival Tips for Women in Tech

    55 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  34. Youth-apprenticeship program in Colorado mirrors a successful Swiss model

    55 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  35. When Concorde was the future

    55 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  36. Google defends Gmail data sharing, gives few details on violations

    55 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  37. Optimize Dokku Deployment Speed for Ruby on Rails Apps with Dockerfile

    55 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  38. Show HN: Micro JavaScript framework inspired by finite-state machine

    55 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  39. Ray Tracing Is No New Thing

    54 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  40. Interview with Dr Erika Camacho on the Hartman-Grobman theorem [audio]

    54 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  41. Net neutrality gives “free” Internet to Netflix and Google, ISP claims

    54 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  42. Ten Trillion-Degree Quasar Astonishes Astronomers (2016)

    54 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  43. Code, conflict, and conduct

    54 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  44. The problem of shitty software is you because you pay for this shit

    54 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  45. Kansas-born woman told birth certificate not proof of citizenship for passport

    54 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  46. Show HN: Visual CSS Grid Editor

    54 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  47. The acceptance of bad scientific practice to the benefit of productivity

    54 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  48. Twitter CEO: conservative employees ‘dont feel safe to express their opinions’

    54 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  49. Aspider: A lightweight, asynchronous micro-framework based on asyncio

    54 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  50. State of JavaScript 2018 Survey

    54 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  51. Most Doctors Are Ill-Equipped to Deal with the Opioid Epidemic

    54 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  52. Removing jQuery from GitHub.com front end

    54 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  53. Karl Ove Knausgaard Concludes “My Struggle”

    54 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  54. NCIX Data Breach

    54 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  55. Krukenberg procedure

    54 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  56. RL3: a rule-based information-extraction and entity-recognition engine

    54 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  57. How Libcorrect Corrects Errors, Part I

    54 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  58. In Search of Darkness

    54 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  59. Do images of the brain make us more likely to believe what we read?

    53 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  60. Benchmarking C++ Sets

    53 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  61. Fullscreen mobile modal: how hard can it be?

    53 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  62. Edward Snowden surveillance powers ruled unlawful

    53 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  63. SEPA: A Simple, Efficient Permutation Algorithm

    53 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  64. Java’s Checked Exceptions Are Evil? (2015)

    53 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  65. Hide your real name in Open Source

    53 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  66. Twitter says bug may have exposed some direct messages to third-party developers

    53 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  67. Advice from a Geographer: Put Away the Map

    53 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  68. Automated PCB Reverse Engineering (2017) [pdf]

    53 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  69. ‘Quantum Atmospheres’ May Reveal Secrets of Matter

    53 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  70. Manga comics turn gray – but spirited – along with readers

    53 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  71. Reading bits in far too many ways

    53 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  72. Nepal cracks down on lucrative helicopter rescue scams

    53 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  73. Dumb Rules That Make Your Best People Want to Quit (2017)

    53 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  74. Hurricane Maria Killed as Many American Citizens as 9/11 Did

    53 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  75. Avatars, identicons, and hash visualization

    53 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  76. Ask HN: What is the best API documentation you have ever seen?

    53 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  77. Hooking up brains to machines could be the ‘next big thing’ for gaming

    53 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  78. Parry and Thrust: On Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley

    53 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  79. Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour

    53 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  80. Uber Rebrand

    52 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  81. A Flannery O’Connor Reading List

    52 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  82. Over half the firmwares uploaded to TCSL Armor have invalid certificates

    52 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  83. AttackDefense is giving free access to their online cybersecurity lab

    52 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  84. Europe’s Triumphs and Troubles Are Written in Swiss Ice

    52 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  85. TensorFlow 1.11 released

    52 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  86. European observatory on Algorithmic Sovereignty

    52 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  87. An ancient engineering feat that harnessed the wind

    52 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  88. MTNT: Machine Translation of Noisy Text

    52 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  89. Novelrank is gone

    52 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  90. Why California's Privacy Law Won't Hurt Facebook or Google

    52 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  91. The Cult of Reason

    52 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  92. Detecting Screen Content via Remote Acoustic Side Channels

    52 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  93. Amazon researcher explains science behind Alexa's newly announced whisper mode

    52 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  94. The Numbers Behind a Fields Medalist's Math

    52 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  95. Data Wrangling with Apache Kafka and KSQL

    52 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  96. The Subway Doesn't Have to Be Hot and Gross

    52 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  97. Bomb squad warning over magnet fishing

    52 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  98. Moon Is Stepping Stone, Not Alternative to Mars, NASA Chief Says

    52 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  99. USB drives with no phantom load

    51 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  100. Milkymist: VJ on an FPGA

    51 points • comment • sep 24, 2018