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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. Bloomberg stands by Chinese chip story as Apple, Amazon ratchet up denials

    87 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  2. Prehistoric art hints at lost Indian civilisation

    87 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  3. Google X Executive Accused of Sexual Harassment Still Works There, Employees Say

    87 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  4. A Review of the Neural History of Natural Language Processing

    87 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  5. The World Is Built on Probability (1988)

    87 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  6. How I lost my faith in Lisp (2002)

    86 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  7. MAC address age tracking

    86 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  8. A Reddit Forum That Guesses Who You Are Based on What's in Your Fridge

    86 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  9. Police told to avoid looking at recent iPhones to avoid lockouts

    86 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  10. A Fast x86 Implementation of Select (2017) [pdf]

    86 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  11. Fletcher's Checksum

    86 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  12. Police spies infiltrated UK leftwing groups for decades

    86 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  13. West Virginia’s Supreme Court Impeachment Crisis

    86 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  14. My Fiancé Jamal Khashoggi Was a Lonely Patriot

    86 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  15. Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd Media Type

    85 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  16. Optimal Time-Inconsistent Beliefs: Misplanning, Procrastination, and Commitment [pdf]

    85 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  17. Are dark kitchens the satanic mills of our era?

    85 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  18. East German coffee crisis

    85 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  19. Teaching CS in the schools

    85 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  20. Ask HN: How can we make React better?

    85 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  21. 2080 RTX performance on Tensorflow with CUDA 10

    85 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  22. The Meaning of “Aquemini”

    85 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  23. UGears – 3D Wooden Mechanical Model Kits, 3D Puzzles

    85 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  24. A Billionaire’s Sears Fiasco Is Finally Nearing Its End

    85 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  25. Junk Arson Science Sent Claude Garrett to Prison for Murder 25 Years Ago

    85 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  26. Hetzner DIY Private Networking with Tinc

    84 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  27. Show HN: SQL Viewer – UI for uber/queryparser, written in Haskell

    84 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  28. Physicists investigate why matter and antimatter are not mirror images

    84 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  29. Show HN: UXHunt – Your Daily Dose of UX Intelligence (and Our Side Project)

    84 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  30. ‘Ghost kanji’ lurk in the Japanese lexicon

    84 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  31. Brave 0.55 released

    84 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  32. Chances DNA can be used to find your family? Sixty percent and rising

    84 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  33. Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’

    84 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  34. As a female engineer, I am not diversity

    84 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  35. Want to Punish Saudi Arabia? Cut Off Its Weapons Supply

    83 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  36. Benjamin Button Reviews the New MacBook Pro (2016)

    83 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  37. Reified Generics: The Search for the Cure

    83 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  38. Tyndall F-22s, Left Behind Before Michael Hit, Possibly Damaged Beyond Repair

    83 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  39. Stop cherry-picking, start merging, Part 1: The merge conflict

    83 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  40. Descent Source Code

    83 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  41. Future of Statistical Programming

    83 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  42. Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]

    83 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  43. Injecting .Net Assemblies into Unmanaged Processes

    83 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  44. Cisco coughs up baker’s dozen of vulnerabilities and other security nasties

    83 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  45. Löb and möb: strange loops in Haskell (2013)

    83 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  46. Naked mole-rat mortality rates defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age [pdf]

    83 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  47. Channels, Concurrency, Cores: A New Concurrent ML Implementation (2017) [video]

    83 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  48. Voice control engine that runs fully in the browser using WebAssembly

    83 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  49. Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following

    83 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  50. What Our Diversions Reveal about Us (1670)

    82 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  51. Open-source crypto is no better than closed-source crypto

    82 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  52. Improving AI language understanding by combining multiple word representations

    82 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  53. “Whole Earth” origin (1976)

    82 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  54. The Dickensian Conditions of Life in a For-Profit Lockup

    82 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  55. The compute and data moats are dead

    82 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  56. Boeing may have used a lobbying firm to plant a scathing story about SpaceX

    82 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  57. CSV 1.1 – CSV Evolved (for Humans)

    82 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  58. Six years later, Star Citizen is still raking it in

    82 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  59. Musk shakes up SpaceX in race to make satellite launch window: sources

    82 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  60. Inside the Secretive World of Tax-Avoidance Experts (2015)

    82 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  61. Space Transportation System

    82 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  62. Building a live video streaming website – Part 3 – DRM

    81 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  63. World has 10 years to get climate change under control, U.N. scientists say

    81 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  64. Lost in Occupation: How Google Maps Is Erasing Palestine

    81 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  65. Inexpensive chip-based device may transform spectrometry

    81 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  66. On McNeil Island, the only residents are dangerous sex offenders

    81 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  67. An Unintuitive Take on Data Augmentation for Self-Driving Cars

    81 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  68. The Mathematician (1947)

    81 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  69. Introducing PyTorch across Google Cloud

    81 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  70. The making of Supreme Commander

    81 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  71. Compiling to Categories (2017) [video]

    81 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  72. Show HN: Webpage to PDF Microservice

    81 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  73. Drilling Down on Depth Sensing and Deep Learning

    81 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  74. What is the ‘legitimate interests’ basis?

    81 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  75. Nvidia drivers on Linux are trash

    80 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  76. Learning Acrobatics by Watching YouTube

    80 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  77. Actors for Squeak Smalltalk

    80 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  78. Netflix to let viewers pick how TV episodes and movies will end

    80 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  79. Alchemy: A Language and Compiler for Homomorphic Encryption Made Easy [pdf]

    80 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  80. The Intl.RelativeTimeFormat API

    80 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  81. The First Photo Ever Created by a Japanese Photographer (2016)

    80 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  82. Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released

    80 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  83. When's a van a van and when's it a car?

    79 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  84. Polly: LLVM Framework for High-Level Loop and Data-Locality Optimizations

    79 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  85. Oceans warming faster than anticipated, study finds

    79 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  86. Murdered Saudi Rumoured to Have Used Apple Watch App to Record His Own Death

    79 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  87. Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents

    79 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  88. Show HN: How much is my life costing now

    79 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  89. Games in less than 13kB of JavaScript

    79 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  90. Saudi Backlash Threatens U.S. Startups

    79 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  91. Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had with developers?

    79 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  92. A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and geopolitics (2016)

    79 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  93. PeerTube stable 1.0.0

    79 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  94. CNCF to Host Cloud Native Buildpacks in the Sandbox

    79 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  95. In few years renewable power may become a better economic option

    79 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  96. For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends

    79 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  97. Apple tells Congress it found no signs of hacking attack

    79 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  98. Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 30% of Staff

    78 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  99. The Turk

    78 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  100. Life on a neutron star (2004)

    78 points • comment • oct 24, 2018