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Hacker News (Sep 2018)

  1. An economist thinks US is bankrupt: What it means for retirement

    46 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  2. Respiratory virus pathogens on frequently touched surfaces at airports

    46 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  3. 6 days until the EU votes on an extinction-level event for the internet

    46 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  4. A gentle introduction to Go Modules

    46 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  5. Musk’s Tesla Fun Does Not Amuse SEC

    46 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  6. Ask HN: What programming languages a CS undergrad should know?

    46 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  7. The Most Dangerous Muse: Parkinson’s disease gave her the gift of creativity

    46 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  8. Ask HN: Does anyone do academic writing in their own time?

    46 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  9. Multi-Cloud Is a Trap

    46 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  10. Understanding user support systems in open source

    46 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  11. Measuring Information in Millibytes

    46 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  12. Net successfully snares space debris

    46 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  13. Well-Behaved Dogs May Have Happier Owners

    46 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  14. The startup world’s cuddly, cutthroat battle to walk your dog

    46 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  15. Paternity leave at startups: designing a policy for new parents

    46 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  16. Drawing Lines is Hard (2015)

    46 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  17. The Daring Life of a Forgotten Female War Photographer

    46 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  18. Profile: David A. Huffman (1991)

    46 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  19. Panasonic developing two full-frame mirrorless cameras with Leica L-mount

    45 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  20. China's largest electric scooter maker Niu files for $150M IPO in the US

    45 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  21. Bright green comet 21P will light up the skies of September

    45 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  22. Floor Plan Models

    45 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  23. Workplace Wellness Plans Offer Big Incentives, but May Cost Your Privacy

    45 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  24. Show HN: Simplified music notation

    45 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  25. Ask HN: Reading recommendations for understanding food allergies?

    45 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  26. The varieties of material existence

    45 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  27. A Trip to Tolstoy Farm

    45 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  28. Teaching foreign policy majors to code

    45 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  29. When I left my nine-to-five to follow my passion, my life fell apart

    45 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  30. Why Amazon is eating the world (2017)

    45 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  31. Empty bottles quickly with a whirlpool trick (2012) [video]

    45 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  32. Facebook animal trade exposed in Thailand

    45 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  33. Scalable 10 Gbps TCP/IP Stack Architecture for Reconfigurable Hardware (2015) [pdf]

    45 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  34. Visual Transfer Between Atari Games Using Competitive Reinforcement Learning

    45 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  35. A dozenal notation for western music

    45 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  36. Biased News Media or Biased Readers? An Experiment on Trust

    45 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  37. Valve new-employee handbook (2012) [pdf]

    45 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  38. A Minimal LRIT GOES Receiver

    45 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  39. Why reading 100 books a year won’t make you successful

    44 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  40. Optimizing is-multiple checks with modular arithmetic

    44 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  41. Tesla Model 3 Stolen from Mall of America Using Smartphone

    44 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  42. “Predator boot camps” in Australia teach once-abundant mammals to fear predators

    44 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  43. Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac

    44 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  44. Startups Flock to Turn Young Blood into an Elixir of Youth

    44 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  45. TSB boss Paul Pester to step down after IT fiasco

    44 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  46. How Did Cool Become Such a Big Deal? (2014)

    44 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  47. The Super Rich of Silicon Valley Have a Doomsday Escape Plan

    44 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  48. Indeterminacy – John Cage (1959)

    44 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  49. The Evolution of the App Store and the App Business

    44 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  50. Brave Browser Chooses Qwant as Its Default Search Engine in France and Germany

    44 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  51. YouTube download sites are “biggest piracy threat” to music industry

    44 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  52. Spiders Have Exploded Over Greek Town, Coating Everything in a 1000 Foot Web

    44 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  53. Mysterious new brain cell found in people

    43 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  54. Shimport: Use JavaScript modules in all browsers, including dynamic imports

    43 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  55. The hierarchy of countries winning Nobels in the sciences is shifting

    43 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  56. Ancient Pets Got Proper Burials

    43 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  57. First Ring System Around Asteroid (2014)

    43 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  58. There's Not Enough Time

    43 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  59. Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps

    43 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  60. New research in sea slugs sparks controversy about the way memories are stored

    43 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  61. The First Quieter Megacity, Thanks to Electric Vehicles

    43 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  62. Why is Google selling potentially compromised Chinese security keys?

    43 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  63. Programming abstract art

    43 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  64. How Ninja become gaming's first crossover star

    43 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  65. Show HN: Lightcube, a Game Written in Octaspire Dern

    43 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  66. Zipf’s Law in Passwords (2017) [pdf]

    43 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  67. Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet

    43 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  68. E-cigarette use as a predictor of cigarette smoking

    43 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  69. New York’s Elevators Define the City (2016)

    43 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  70. US imposes new tariffs on $200B of Chinese goods

    43 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  71. Slack is Down

    43 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  72. Tell Me It’s Going to be OK

    43 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  73. TensorFlow Data Validation

    43 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  74. How to think in Turkic languages

    43 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  75. The Echo Chamber Is the Enemy of Democracy

    43 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  76. In 2012, North Carolina banned policies based on sea level rise forecasts

    43 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  77. Low-Tech Game Systems (2003)

    43 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  78. Hayekian communism

    43 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  79. Announcing Azure Pipelines with unlimited CI/CD minutes for open source

    43 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  80. Breakdown: on Borwein integrals

    42 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  81. Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple (2016)

    42 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  82. A comprehensive evaluation of third-party cookie policies

    42 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  83. Advances in OpenBSD packages [pdf]

    42 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  84. Dragonfly: an intelligent P2P based file distribution system

    42 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  85. Show HN: Meetter – Reduce time wasted by meetings

    42 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  86. California passes nation’s first IoT security bill – too little too late?

    42 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  87. 1K ZX Chess

    42 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  88. A Plea to Unfuck Our Codes of Conduct

    42 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  89. What Is the Point of Mozilla?

    42 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  90. Show HN: VNote 2.0 – PlantUML editing via Preview Tunnel

    42 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  91. This is the most complete guide to finding anyone’s email

    42 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  92. Spheres can make concrete leaner, greener

    42 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  93. Field Guide for Designing Human Interaction with Intelligent Systems (1998) [pdf]

    42 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  94. California just replaced cash bail with algorithms

    42 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  95. Practical Range Query Filtering with Succinct Tries – SIGMOD BestPaper [video]

    42 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  96. Software Rot and Classes of Rot Resistance

    42 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  97. Direct contact among galactic civilizations by interstellar spaceflight (1962)

    42 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  98. Analyzing Trinitite: A Radioactive Piece of Nuclear History

    42 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  99. Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours

    42 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  100. How Azure Sphere Ensures IoT Security Within a 4MiB Linux Stack

    42 points • comment • sep 27, 2018