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Hacker News (Sep 2018)

  1. To Restore Civil Society, Start with the Library

    183 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  2. Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Blockchain

    182 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  3. Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?

    182 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  4. Companies worry more about access to software developers than capital

    182 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  5. Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google tracking

    182 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  6. The Riemann Hypothesis, explained

    181 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  7. Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recognition Boarding

    181 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  8. The Inexplicably Fascinating Japanese Art of Being Useless

    181 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  9. NSA metadata program “consistent” with Fourth Amendment, Kavanaugh once argued

    181 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  10. Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room

    181 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  11. The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective

    181 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  12. Telltale Employees Left Stunned by Company Closure, No Severance

    181 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  13. Extended Validation Certificates Are Dead

    180 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  14. In test case, U.S. fails to force Facebook to wiretap Messenger calls

    180 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  15. Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That

    180 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  16. Mics that record in 3D ambisonics are the next big thing

    179 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  17. Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 12

    179 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  18. The Dangers of DNA Testing

    179 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  19. Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more

    179 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  20. Loneliness is a serious public-health problem

    179 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  21. Fennel – Lisp in Lua

    179 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  22. Why Is College in America So Expensive?

    179 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  23. The Evolution of Reddit’s Architecture (2017)

    178 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  24. Senate passes copyright bill to end 140-year protection for old songs

    178 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  25. What went wrong at Social Capital

    178 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  26. What I Learned from a Taipei Alley

    178 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  27. Many who crafted regulations after the 2008 crisis now work for Wall Street

    177 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  28. Git is already federated and decentralized

    177 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  29. What Companies Mean by Culture Fit

    177 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  30. Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a menu builder for terminal

    177 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  31. Google Photos API

    176 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  32. Deep Reinforcement Learning in Depth in 60 Days

    176 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  33. Another Week with Bad Software

    176 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  34. PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation

    176 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  35. Log(Graph): A Near-Optimal High-Performance Graph Representation (2018) [pdf]

    175 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  36. Solving My Email Problem

    175 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  37. Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google [pdf]

    175 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  38. ProtonMail Hits 5M Accounts

    175 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  39. Sperm Count Zero

    174 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  40. Qualcomm’s Chain of Trust

    174 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  41. Firefox: The Effect of Ad Blocking on User Engagement with the Web [pdf]

    174 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  42. Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom or RSS feeds

    174 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  43. Estonia sues Gemalto for €152M over ID card flaws

    174 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  44. A new book about Nietzsche: tethering philosophy to the mess of daily experience

    173 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  45. Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down

    173 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  46. Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

    173 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  47. Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible

    173 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  48. The art of creating very tiny programs for the 80x86 family of CPUs

    172 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  49. UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International

    172 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  50. Haruki Murakami Introduces the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

    172 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  51. Implementing a network protocol in Go

    172 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  52. Inside Wayback Machine, the internet’s time capsule

    172 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  53. WeWork Backs Down on Employee Noncompete Requirements

    171 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  54. EA reportedly under criminal investigation in Belgium due to FIFA's loot boxes

    171 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  55. Krita 4.1.3 Released

    171 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  56. Meshbird – distributed private networking

    171 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  57. Ripgrep 0.10.0 released (PCRE2 and multi-line support)

    171 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  58. Bloated

    171 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  59. Ask HN: Better tools for the software requirements / scoping phase?

    171 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  60. How YC Has Changed

    170 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  61. The Cartel Next Door

    170 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  62. Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK

    170 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  63. In Math Cram Sessions, Solving for Why

    170 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  64. The iPhone Franchise

    170 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  65. ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps

    169 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  66. Microwave Weapons Are Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers

    169 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  67. Breakout implemented in JavaScript in a PDF

    169 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  68. Steve Jobs licensed Amazon’s one-click patent for $1M in one phone call

    169 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  69. Lenovo: Companies working in China may have to install local backdoors

    169 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  70. Show HN: Thi.ng/hdom – S-expression based, pure ES6 UI/VDOM components

    169 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  71. Interactive Git Cheatsheet

    168 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  72. Argue with your customers

    168 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  73. Eagle.js: A hackable slideshow framework built with Vue.js

    168 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  74. Tesla Accounting Chief, HR Head Resign on the Same Day; Stock Plunges

    168 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  75. FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory

    168 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  76. The Developer Coefficient: a $300B opportunity for businesses

    168 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  77. Yale researchers 'teleport' a quantum gate

    168 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  78. Hyperkernel – A push-button approach to building provably correct OS kernels

    168 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  79. An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard

    167 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  80. Why are conversations limited to about four people?

    167 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  81. Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard

    167 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  82. The algebra and calculus of algebraic data types

    166 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  83. Ask HN: How do I choose between a job offer from Google and a promising startup?

    166 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  84. Mario Kart Wii: The History of the Ultra Shortcut [video]

    166 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  85. Automakers working to transform data from cars into secondary revenue streams

    166 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  86. Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly

    166 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  87. British astrophysicist overlooked by Nobels wins $3M award for pulsar work

    166 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  88. Intelligent, devoted, alien – parrots are unlike any other pet

    166 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  89. Uber Scam in Brazil – Drivers Have ‘Challenges’ Ending Trips

    166 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  90. A bipartisan plan to end surprise ER bills

    165 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  91. TRIZ, a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool

    165 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  92. Levenshtein Automata (2010)

    165 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  93. K3s: Kubernetes without the features I don't care about

    164 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  94. U.S. Congress Renews $5M Open Textbook Pilot for Second Year

    164 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  95. What’s the difference between an integer and a pointer?

    164 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  96. Solid-state battery startup claims breakthrough for electric vehicles

    164 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  97. How to write X in both Python 3 and JavaScript

    164 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  98. Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees

    163 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  99. Tor Browser 8.0 released

    163 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  100. Robot Operating System – A flexible framework for writing robot software

    163 points • comment • sep 05, 2018