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Hacker News (Sep 2018)

  1. Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

    256 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  2. Wharton professor says America should shorten the work day by 2 hours

    256 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  3. Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (2015)

    256 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  4. When Zuckerberg Asserted Control, Instagram’s Founders Chafed

    255 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  5. Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk (2014)

    254 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  6. The future of Java and OpenJDK updates without Oracle support

    254 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  7. Why Are Newspaper Websites So Horrible?

    254 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  8. New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in murder

    254 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  9. Introduction to Calculus with Derivatives

    254 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  10. MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers

    252 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  11. Ask HN: How do you decide when you've done enough work for the day?

    252 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  12. The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS

    251 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  13. CEO’s Plan to Save Sears Would Hand His Hedge Fund $1B

    251 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  14. Freezing your credit is now free in all states under a new law

    251 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  15. But Rich People Live Here, So We Can't Be Going Broke

    250 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  16. Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3

    249 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  17. Java 11 released

    249 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  18. Nim 0.19

    249 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  19. D3-dag – Layout algorithms for visualizing directed acylic graphs

    248 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  20. Hayabusa-2: Japan's rovers send pictures from asteroid

    248 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  21. How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever

    248 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  22. Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phones

    248 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  23. If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming Language [video]

    248 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  24. How to Be Better at Parties

    247 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  25. Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

    247 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  26. Molecule produced during fasting has anti-aging effect on vascular system

    246 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  27. Show HN: Zero – Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud

    245 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  28. Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' queries to work out what was nicked

    245 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  29. Unexpected benefit with Ryzen – reducing power for build server

    245 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  30. Introducing Workers KV

    244 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  31. Insane complexity of calendrically correct date and time operations

    244 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  32. Source for theguardian.com

    244 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  33. A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago

    243 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  34. We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong

    243 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  35. Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs

    242 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  36. What Is Systems Programming, Really?

    242 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  37. Amazon Investigates Employees Leaking Data for Bribes

    241 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  38. Open Machine Learning Course

    241 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  39. MatchSticks: Portable CNC System for Automating Wood-Working Joinery

    240 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  40. AI Company Accused of Using Humans to Fake Its AI

    239 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  41. Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry

    238 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  42. Apple File System Reference [pdf]

    238 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  43. Perkeep: personal storage system for life

    237 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  44. Why I Did Not Go to Jail (2014)

    237 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  45. A South Vietnamese Air Force Officer and a Crazy Carrier Landing (2015)

    237 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  46. No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Their Personal Data

    237 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  47. Why does sorting in computer science mean ordering rather than categorizing?

    236 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  48. CBS Shuts Down Stage 9, a Fan-Made Recreation of the USS Enterprise

    235 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  49. Any positive number can be written as a sum of three palindromes

    234 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  50. Hospitals to launch their own drug company to fight high prices and shortages

    234 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  51. HTTPS-Portal: Automated HTTPS server powered by Nginx, Let’s Encrypt and Docker

    233 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  52. iOS 12, reviewed

    233 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  53. India Pushes Back Against Tech ‘Colonization’ by Internet Giants

    233 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  54. PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink

    233 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  55. How America lost its love for the stick shift

    233 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  56. Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?

    232 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  57. Rails, still?

    232 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  58. MacOS Marzipan

    232 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  59. I worked in an Amazon warehouse. Bernie Sanders is right to target them

    231 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  60. Yes Facebook is using your 2FA phone number to target you with ads

    231 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  61. Genoa Bridge Collapse: The Road to Tragedy

    231 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  62. Can We Survive the Next Financial Crisis?

    231 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  63. FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)

    231 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  64. Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major

    230 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  65. You Don't Need Moment.js

    230 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  66. Murdered body found after tree ‘unusual for the area’ grew from seed in stomach

    230 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  67. Police that collect more in fees and fines are less effective at solving crime

    230 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  68. Using Rust for Game Development [video]

    229 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  69. Funding Choices – Google’s new tool for GDPR compliance and content monetization

    229 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  70. Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error

    229 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  71. 20M historical artifacts destroyed in Brazil National Museum fire

    227 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  72. Mysterious great white shark lair discovered in Pacific Ocean

    226 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  73. E Ink Waveforms are a closely guarded secret

    225 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  74. The Servers Are Burning

    224 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  75. Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice

    224 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  76. Federal chokehold on marijuana stymies studies on epilepsy, autism

    224 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  77. Facebook blocked users from posting some stories about its security breach

    224 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  78. Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

    223 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  79. LLVM 7.0.0 released

    223 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  80. Ask HN: What topics/subjects are worth learning for a new software engineer?

    223 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  81. The mean age of high-tech founders is 43, economists say

    222 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  82. Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)

    222 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  83. How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method Work?

    222 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  84. Show HN: A new protocol for packet radio including ECDSA and compression

    222 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  85. Introducing the Librem Key

    221 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  86. Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career

    221 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  87. Show HN: My new SaaS side-project, after years of open source

    220 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  88. Generative art: New and recreated vintage art, made with code and imagination

    220 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  89. How to read a mathematics textbook (2016)

    219 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  90. How to Design for the Modern Web

    219 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  91. Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption

    219 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  92. Isochronous Curves

    218 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  93. A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor

    218 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  94. Ask HN: Who here has built a profitable startup while keeping their day job?

    217 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  95. Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, then rolled it back

    217 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  96. What is ActivityPub, and how will it change the internet?

    217 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  97. A file that’s both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (2012)

    217 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  98. Vocore2, a ridiculously small Linux PC

    216 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  99. The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel business model

    215 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  100. I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on

    214 points • comment • sep 09, 2018