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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. Walmart turns to Flipkart for tech

    116 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  2. Lavender’s Soothing Scent Could Be More Than Just Folk Medicine

    116 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  3. Japanese Woodblock Print Search

    116 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  4. Mass-Produced Electric Lada from 30 Years Ago

    116 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  5. China telecom diverted traffic in US and Canada, report finds

    116 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  6. A Nobel Prize-winning physicist sold his medal for $765,000 to pay medical bills

    116 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  7. Internet Archive is adding in-browser emulation support for Commodore 64

    116 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  8. Enabling Decentralized Private Computation

    116 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  9. A Massive Battery that Can Store Solar and Wind Energy

    115 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  10. Housing bubbles are universally destructive

    115 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  11. AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available

    115 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  12. Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot (2015)

    115 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  13. Pine64 is Working on a Linux Smartphone Running KDE Plasma

    115 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  14. “So the silence from Facebook over the weekend is.. deafening.”

    115 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  15. Librem 5 general development report – October

    115 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  16. China cracks down on religion, crosses burned at Christian churches

    115 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  17. Show HN: We made a real-time editor for web database apps

    114 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  18. YouTube comments are heavily manipulated, and I fear for our democracy

    114 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  19. America, Compromised: Lawrence Lessig Explains Corruption

    114 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  20. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    114 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  21. A man who has eaten at more than 7,300 Chinese restaurants

    114 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  22. The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)

    114 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  23. State education rankings are riddled with methodological flaws

    114 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  24. Anti-Tax Fervor Closed Their Libraries. Now Residents Are Trying to Go It Alone

    114 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  25. Why Paul Romer Won the Nobel Prize in Economics

    114 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  26. Fed likely to keep raising rates

    114 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  27. Silicon Valley's Keystone Problem: A Monoculture of Thought

    113 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  28. OpenBSD's unveil()

    113 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  29. Up: tool for writing Linux pipes in a terminal-based UI interactively

    113 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  30. Constraint Solving with MiniZinc

    113 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  31. Scientists are looking for ways to put the simulation hypothesis to the test

    113 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  32. Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your personal life

    113 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  33. Senators Demand Google Hand Over Internal Memo Urging Google+ Cover-Up

    113 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  34. A new course to teach people about fairness in machine learning

    113 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  35. An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption

    112 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  36. Why some things are darker when wet (1988)

    112 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  37. U.S. Is World’s Most Competitive Economy for First Time in a Decade

    112 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  38. Tell HN: I went and saw CSIRAC, the only first-generation computer still intact

    112 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  39. Where Oil Rigs Go to Die (2017)

    112 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  40. I lived in a Tokyo coworking space

    112 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  41. FDA approves new drug to treat influenza

    112 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  42. Programming as interaction: A new perspective for programming language research

    112 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  43. The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code

    111 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  44. Can moons have moons?

    111 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  45. RAM Doubler 2 (1996)

    111 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  46. The Early Days of GitHub – Interview with Tom Preston-Werner

    111 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  47. China systematically hijacks internet traffic: researchers

    111 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  48. Windows Defender detects malware in DMD

    111 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  49. Square Terminal

    111 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  50. What the 1949 film Twelve O’Clock High still tells us about air combat

    110 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  51. Piano Genie: An Intelligent Musical Interface

    110 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  52. Does being bored make us more creative? (2014)

    110 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  53. MIT AGI: Conversation with Yoshua Bengio [video]

    110 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  54. Generate ASCII RFC-like header diagrams for your own custom protocols

    110 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  55. Cloudera and Hortonworks merge

    110 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  56. How Curry Became a Japanese Naval Tradition

    110 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  57. Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories

    110 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  58. Apple Shortcuts User Guide

    110 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  59. Superpermutations

    110 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  60. Netflix Is Forcing Hollywood into a Talent War

    109 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  61. 10 years of gog.com

    109 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  62. Fravia’s web-searching lore (2009)

    109 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  63. Go 1.11 got me to stop ignoring Go

    109 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  64. Honda-Waymo Talks Are Said to Have Faltered on Tech Access

    109 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  65. The cost of keeping Singapore squeaky clean

    109 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  66. Show HN: Firebase2graphql – Migrate from Firebase to GraphQL on Postgres

    109 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  67. Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines

    108 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  68. The story of Augur, an Ethereum prediction market

    108 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  69. Portal from Facebook: Voice Enabled Hands-Free Video Calling

    108 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  70. Gartner picks digital ethics and privacy as a strategic trend for 2019

    108 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  71. Police Use Fitbit Data to Charge 90-Year-Old Man in Stepdaughter’s Killing

    108 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  72. Thefuck – Corrects your previous console command

    108 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  73. In El Chapo’s Trial, Extraordinary Steps to Keep Witnesses Alive

    108 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  74. Spent – Poverty Simulator (2011)

    108 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  75. GitHub's game jam returns next month

    108 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  76. First-Class Automatic Differentiation in Swift

    107 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  77. Consumption of ‘Longevity’ Vitamins Could Prolong Healthy Aging, Scientist Says

    107 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  78. Oxford Electric Bell

    107 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  79. The 2018 MacBook Air is the iPhone X’s ASP strategy all over again

    107 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  80. Executive accused of harassment at Alphabet 'X' unit is out

    107 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  81. Delaying Further Symantec TLS Certificate Distrust

    107 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  82. Google Workers Fume Over Executives’ Payouts After Sexual Misconduct Claims

    106 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  83. Your Kickstarter idea on sale in China before you’ve finished funding it (2016)

    106 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  84. Multiple Severe Vulnerabilities Reported in Juniper Networks Hardware

    106 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  85. A terminal file manager written in bash

    106 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  86. The Remarkable Persistence of 24x36

    106 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  87. Pando, the Most Massive Organism on Earth, Is Shrinking

    106 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  88. TicTacToe in SQL (Postgres)

    106 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  89. Sales results from getting 3M views on YouTube

    106 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  90. US military grounds entire fleet of F-35 jets

    106 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  91. How the Sears Catalog Undermined White Supremacy in the Jim Crow South

    105 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  92. Why might reading make people myopic?

    105 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  93. Viral “Manspreading” video is said to be staged Russian propaganda

    105 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  94. How a Month Without Computers Changed Me

    105 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  95. Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology

    105 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  96. Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system

    105 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  97. Sears Kit Homes Changed Housing

    105 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  98. More Than One in Four Home-Sellers Dropped Their Price Last Month

    105 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  99. Chess Game Using Racket’s Pasteboard

    104 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  100. Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still worth learning?

    104 points • comment • oct 15, 2018