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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. Using parallel sequential scan in PostgreSQL

    104 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  2. Chess Game Using Racket’s Pasteboard

    104 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  3. A Gentle Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (2012)

    103 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  4. What happened when Buffer stopped using Slack on Fridays

    103 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  5. Exploring C Semantics and Pointer Provenance [pdf]

    103 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  6. Japan set to allow gene-editing tools for research into early human development

    103 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  7. Harvard Asian-American discrimination case opens with packed courtroom

    103 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  8. How law enforcement is trying to avoid disabling Face ID

    103 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  9. How working memory gets you through the day

    103 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  10. Scheme 9 from Empty Space, Reimagined

    103 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  11. A honeypot programmed in Micropython for the ESP8266

    102 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  12. Why Can a Machine Beat Mario but Not Pokemon?

    102 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  13. Sandsifter: x86 processor fuzzer

    102 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  14. Prepare for changes to macOS Server 5.7.1

    102 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  15. D-Wave Launches Free Quantum Cloud Service

    102 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  16. Flatbush: A very fast static spatial index for 2D points and rectangles in JS

    102 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  17. The art of Virtual Analog filter design [pdf]

    102 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  18. Launch HN: Station (YC W18) – One place for all your web apps

    102 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  19. Securing your users' authentication

    102 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  20. A Proof About Where Symmetries Can’t Exist

    102 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  21. Show HN: Visualize Your Rails App to ER Diagram Automatically

    102 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  22. Optical Tweezers

    101 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  23. Reinvent the Social Web

    101 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  24. Six Principles for Making New Things (2008)

    101 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  25. Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to 3 Evolutionary Scientists

    101 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  26. 200,000+ MikroTik routers worldwide compromised to inject cryptojacking malware

    101 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  27. Can optical illusions fool AI too?

    101 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  28. Log driven programming (2013)

    101 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  29. Ask HN: Lost $10k as my email was hacked. Any ways to recover it?

    101 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  30. DeBroglie – Generate tile-based maps using wave function collapse

    100 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  31. Transferring GitHub stars

    100 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  32. The impact of gratitude on adolescent materialism and generosity

    100 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  33. Show HN: ekill – Like xkill, but for annoying web page elements

    100 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  34. Sales engagement startup Apollo says its massive contacts database was stolen

    100 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  35. Stacked Diffs versus Pull Requests

    100 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  36. Terraform Collaboration for Everyone

    100 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  37. SpaceX successfully lands its Falcon 9 rocket at Vandenberg for the first time

    100 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  38. TransitMatters, a transit advocacy group in Boston

    100 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  39. Introducing AdaNet: Fast and Flexible AutoML with Learning Guarantees

    100 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  40. Build a 100% Serverless Website with AWS in 7 Easy Steps

    99 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  41. Smalltalk on the JVM

    99 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  42. 3D-printing a stainless steel bridge full of sensors

    99 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  43. Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming U.S. elections

    99 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  44. Theranos Criminal Case Is Broader Than Publicly Disclosed, Prosecutors Say

    99 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  45. An Update on the Security Issue

    99 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  46. Headquarter Locations of Top 101 Y Combinator Companies

    99 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  47. Formality – An efficient programming language and proof assistant

    99 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  48. A step toward systems that can assess competence using neurological data

    99 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  49. Thoughts on Microsoft Joining OIN's Patent Non-Aggression Pact

    99 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  50. GeoCities Japan is shutting down

    99 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  51. A timing attack with CSS selectors and JavaScript

    99 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  52. Scmutils in Clojure

    99 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  53. Lyft speeds ahead with its autonomous initiatives

    98 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  54. Meditation in the Time of Disruption

    98 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  55. Joachim Roenneberg, who foiled Nazi nuclear plan, has died

    98 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  56. Why Iran's nomads are fading away

    98 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  57. US to Allow Cars Without Steering Wheels

    98 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  58. Systems, not Programs

    98 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  59. Quantum computers will break the encryption that protects the internet

    98 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  60. Loglan – a predicate logic-based language for humans

    98 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  61. Finance makes Apple and Google forced friends

    98 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  62. Big Integer Design

    98 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  63. Show HN: I made a script to generate self-signed SSL certs for local development

    98 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  64. Harvard’s Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in Federal Court

    98 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  65. The Looming Danger of Non-Banks

    98 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  66. Grand Theft Auto 'cheats' homes raided

    98 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  67. What Happens When a Drone Hits an Airplane Wing? [video]

    98 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  68. Reusing Old Hardware

    98 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  69. An Elaborate Academic-Journal Hoax

    98 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  70. Dissecting the Bloodthirsty Bliss of Death Metal

    98 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  71. How to be an open source gardener (2014)

    98 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  72. Quest for Glory III and IV

    98 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  73. Drug cocktail almost doubles lifespan of worms

    97 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  74. Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House

    97 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  75. Java Is Still Free

    97 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  76. CloudWatch Is of the Devil, but I Must Use It

    97 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  77. Show HN: Oat++ – Zero-dependency C++ framework for high-performance web services

    97 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  78. How to Extract and Analyze Data from Wikipedia Using SQL

    97 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  79. Nobody’s Cellphone Is Really That Secure

    97 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  80. Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors

    97 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  81. The Great Fish Market Migration of 2018

    97 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  82. Gaza: Coding in a conflict zone

    97 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  83. Magic Leap is real and it’s a janky marvel

    97 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  84. Reinforcement Learning for Improving Agent Design

    97 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  85. The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail

    96 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  86. How to Build a Real-Time Object Detection iOS App Using TensorFlow

    96 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  87. SoftBank Gives Startups Billions of Reasons to Hold Off IPOs

    96 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  88. California governor signs nation’s strictest net neutrality rules into law

    96 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  89. Malicious Python libraries found and removed from PyPI

    96 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  90. In 1979, a chain email about science fiction spawned the modern internet?

    96 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  91. Ply: Lightweight, Dynamic Tracing in Linux

    96 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  92. SDSL – Succinct Data Structure Library 2.0

    96 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  93. 2080 Ti TensorFlow GPU Benchmarks

    96 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  94. Option Pricing with Fourier Transform and Exponential Lévy Models [pdf]

    96 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  95. The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD

    95 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  96. The Chamber of Guf

    95 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  97. NetLogo – A multi-agent programmable modeling environment

    95 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  98. Tale of Three Probabilistic Families: Discriminative, Descriptive and Generative

    95 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  99. Reservoir computing

    95 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  100. AI Startups in Montreal

    95 points • comment • oct 22, 2018