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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. Tesla Autopilot retrofit on a classic P85 (2016)

    130 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  2. The extra­ordinary influence of the Iliad and Odyssey

    130 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  3. America Isn’t Ready for the Lanternfly Invasion

    130 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  4. Spatial: A High Level Programming Language for FPGAs

    130 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  5. A Sudden Illness (2003)

    130 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  6. First-ever DNSSEC root key rollover

    129 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  7. Show HN: An Easy Programming Language That Runs in the Browser

    129 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  8. WorkerDom – The Same DOM API and Frameworks You Know, but in a Web Worker

    129 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  9. How to Handle Monetary Values in JavaScript

    128 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  10. A packaging tutorial for Guix

    128 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  11. Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

    128 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  12. Founder’s Guide to the Y Combinator Interview

    128 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  13. PgFormatter: A PostgreSQL SQL syntax beautifier

    128 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  14. Is front-end development having an identity crisis?

    128 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  15. Transforming Wikipedia into a cultural knowledge quiz

    128 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  16. A remaster with no old code: Crash Bandicoot was rebuilt nearly from scratch

    128 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  17. A fraudster got $12M out of a Canadian university

    128 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  18. The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project

    127 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  19. Sway 1.0-beta.1 release highlights

    127 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  20. Introducing Haskell to a Company

    127 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  21. Impossibly Hungry Judges (2017)

    127 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  22. TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution

    127 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  23. Baidu Research Announces Breakthrough in Simultaneous Translation

    127 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  24. Why non-Muslims are converting to sharia finance

    127 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  25. Show HN: Relica – Cross-platform local, remote, and multi-cloud file backups

    126 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  26. The high-risk, high-reward world of selling random stuff on Amazon

    126 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  27. Doctors warn of alarming C-section 'epidemic'

    126 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  28. The Birth of Prolog (1992) [pdf]

    126 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  29. Euclidea – Geometric construction game with straightedge and compass

    126 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  30. Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings

    126 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  31. A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows

    125 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  32. How a Gang of Hedge Funders Strip-Mined Kentucky’s Public Pensions

    125 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  33. Black holes ruled out as universe’s missing dark matter

    125 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  34. 3factor apps: a pattern for fast iteration, resilience and high scalability

    125 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  35. Insufficient Sleep Associated with Risky Teen Behavior

    125 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  36. How to build a Moon base

    125 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  37. UCSD Pascal pioneer Ken Bowles has died

    125 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  38. Carlsberg glues beer cans together as it abandons plastic rings

    125 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  39. Sqlite: Code Of Conduct

    124 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  40. Apple Said to Have 'Dramatically Reduced' iPhone Repair Fraud in China

    124 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  41. UBeam CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot

    124 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  42. The Prolog Story (2010)

    124 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  43. Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty

    123 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  44. Modernizing Transport Security

    123 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  45. China’s hidden camps

    123 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  46. Documents OCR: Improving Efficiency by Making PDFs Searchable

    123 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  47. Visualizing Science: Illustration and Beyond

    123 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  48. BlazingSQL – A GPU SQL Engine for RAPIDS Open-Source Software from Nvidia

    123 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  49. 4043 byte PC emulator (2013)

    123 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  50. The City That Had Too Much Money

    123 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  51. How Vancouver Became a Money Laundering Paradise [audio]

    123 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  52. Foundations of ML and AI: Book recommendations

    122 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  53. TinyEMU, a RISC-V/i486 VM for Linux in the Browser

    122 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  54. Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream

    122 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  55. TensorFlow Code for Google Research's BERT: Pre-Training Method for NLP Tasks

    122 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  56. The Tyranny of the U.S. Dollar

    122 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  57. A Map of Every Building in America

    122 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  58. Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry

    121 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  59. High-end house rents in Vancouver plunge up to 20% as inventory spikes: experts

    121 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  60. Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work (2006) [pdf]

    121 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  61. A Framework for Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells

    121 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  62. Rapids – Open GPU Data Science

    121 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  63. The Water Abundance XPrize winner makes water from air

    121 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  64. Tech giants face 2% UK digital services tax

    121 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  65. Tesla deploys massive new Autopilot neural net in v9

    121 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  66. Django zero-downtime migrations for Postgres that respect database locks

    120 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  67. Flocking

    120 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  68. Stripe has democratised online payments and reshaped the digital economy

    120 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  69. Show HN: A website that converts any IPFS file to HLS and reups it to IPFS

    120 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  70. Duckspeak vs. Smalltalk: Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple (2011)

    120 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  71. CFDPython: A sequence of Jupyter notebooks featuring "12 Steps to Navier-Stokes"

    120 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  72. Tether (USDT) price falling to $0.95

    120 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  73. How an outsider bucked prevailing Alzheimer's theory, clawed for validation

    120 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  74. Show HN: Giraffe – Functional ASP.NET Core web framework for F#

    119 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  75. Chemists thrilled by speedy atomic structures

    119 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  76. Spatial – Collaborate from anywhere in AR

    119 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  77. What Made Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem Hard to Prove

    119 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  78. Neil Armstrong Remembered

    119 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  79. Darpa Is Making Insects That Can Deliver Bioweapons, Scientists Claim

    119 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  80. How Twitter poisoned politics

    118 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  81. Login_duress: A BSD authentication module for duress passwords

    118 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  82. Microsoft Sandboxes Windows Defender

    118 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  83. Writing a Screencast Video Editor in Haskell

    118 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  84. Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies

    118 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  85. Hire by Google: Applicant tracking system and recruiting software (2017)

    118 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  86. Snap, Flatpak and AppImage, package formats compared

    118 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  87. Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event

    118 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  88. Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome?

    118 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  89. Jin Yong, the 'Tolkien of Chinese literature', has died

    118 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  90. Building a Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform, Real-Time Game Streaming Protocol

    117 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  91. Uber Proposals Value It at $120B in Possible 2019 IPO

    117 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  92. Human Retinas Grown in a Dish Reveal Origin of Color Vision

    117 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  93. Show HN: Percollate – a command-line tool to grab web pages as PDFs

    117 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  94. United Airlines Threatens to Engage Collections for Passengers Who Skip Segments

    117 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  95. A Comparison of Functional Data Structures on the JVM

    117 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  96. How much does a cable box really cost? The industry would prefer you don't ask

    117 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  97. Thieves and Geeks: Russian and Chinese Hacking Communities

    117 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  98. Enabling Decentralized Private Computation

    116 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  99. Banksy Shredder Built with CSS Grid

    116 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  100. Japanese Woodblock Print Search

    116 points • comment • oct 31, 2018