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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture

    70 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  2. Things an architect should know

    70 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  3. Cyclogyro

    70 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  4. Notes on Landauer's principle, reversible computation, Maxwell's Demon (2003) [pdf]

    70 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  5. The metamorphosis of Escher

    70 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  6. “Poliolike” Childhood Muscle-Weakening Disease Reappears

    70 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  7. National Theater in London Offers Glasses with Live Subtitles

    70 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  8. Looking Glass: an extremely low latency KVM FrameRelay implementation

    70 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  9. Show HN: How to start a business in France

    70 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  10. Epic Games Sues YouTuber 'Golden Modz' Over 'Magical' Fortnite Powers

    70 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  11. Doing a Job (1982)

    70 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  12. As U.S. fertility rates collapse, finger-pointing and blame follow

    70 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  13. Study Links Uber and Lyft to Increase in U.S. Traffic Deaths

    70 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  14. The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care

    70 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  15. Hijacking HTML canvas and PNG images to store arbitrary text data

    70 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  16. We cannot afford to be indifferent to internet spying (2013)

    69 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  17. Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves

    69 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  18. Ultimate Writer: An Open Digital Typewriter

    69 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  19. Heinlein and Clarke discuss the Moon landings as they happen (2016)

    69 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  20. How The Koenigsegg Regera Hits 248 MPH Without A Gearbox (2015)

    69 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  21. Machine Learning Algorithms Examples in MatLab/Octave

    69 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  22. Prolog as Description and Implementation Language in CS Teaching (2004) [pdf]

    69 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  23. Cleveland.com’s ‘right to be forgotten’ removes names from some crime stories

    69 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  24. Music industry hails passage of the Music Modernization Act

    69 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  25. New in Postgres 11: Monitoring JIT Performance, Auto Prewarm, Stored Procedures

    69 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  26. For a German Chef, Hospital Food Is the Ultimate Challenge

    69 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  27. AI Spirits

    69 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  28. Around 62% of all Internet sites will run an unsupported PHP version in 10 weeks

    69 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  29. 2018 UtahJS Pay, Education, Job-title Survey

    69 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  30. Gab.com banned from PayPal

    69 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  31. New study links common herbicides and antibiotic resistance

    69 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  32. Former Googlers on how they knew it was time to quit

    69 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  33. Defamation lawsuit over “Shitty Media Men” spreadsheet could break new ground

    69 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  34. Notes on Type Layouts and ABIs in Rust

    68 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  35. A Comprehensive Guide to Sentiment Analysis

    68 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  36. Reverse Engineering of a Huawei P20 from China

    68 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  37. Working at Netflix Sounds Like Hell

    68 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  38. A Unix Shell poster from 1983

    68 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  39. Micromusic.net chiptune radio (1999)

    68 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  40. Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security [video]

    68 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  41. Introducing Navigate on Autopilot

    68 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  42. Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil

    68 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  43. Meet the Endoterrestrials

    68 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  44. Show HN: Share company announcements in your coworkers' new tab

    68 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  45. Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?

    68 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  46. Orkney islands could get first electric plane service

    68 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  47. Funds Back Proposal to Remove Zuckerberg as Facebook Chairman

    68 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  48. Julia parallel task runtime (WIP)

    68 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  49. Wallaroo goes full Apache 2.0

    68 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  50. Lessons from Coinbase’s Wild Ascent

    68 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  51. Europe is drawing fresh battle lines around the ethics of big data

    68 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  52. Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages

    68 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  53. Must-See Tech Talks for Every Programmer (2014)

    68 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  54. How Do Insurance Companies Know My Health History? (2017)

    67 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  55. Qnnpack: PyTorch-integrated open source library for mobile deep learning

    67 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  56. Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links

    67 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  57. The excruciating final hours of George Washington (2014)

    67 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  58. How I Made $2k in a Month from One Medium Article

    67 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  59. PiDP-11: Recreating the PDP-11/70

    67 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  60. Parsing logs 230x faster with Rust

    67 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  61. New tool streamlines the creation of moving pictures

    67 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  62. Solo – Open-source FIDO2 security key

    67 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  63. Salmon Farmers Are Scanning Fish Faces to Fight Killer Lice

    67 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  64. Emperor Akihito of Japan is a published marine biologist

    67 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  65. Cathay Pacific flags data breach affecting 9.4M passengers

    67 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  66. Challenge – AI Initiative

    67 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  67. Show HN: Occupod – a solid mobile sleeping shelter

    67 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  68. Constructing human-grade parsers

    67 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  69. IPCC: Climate scientists consider ‘life changing’ report

    67 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  70. The BNC Connector and How It Got That Way

    67 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  71. Small company or big company?

    67 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  72. High-Res Graphics on a Text-Only TRS-80 Model 4 from 1983

    67 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  73. Understanding How Apache Pulsar Works

    67 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  74. Rifts Break Open at Facebook Over Kavanaugh Hearing

    66 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  75. When the U.S President Phones Friends, the Chinese Listen and Learn

    66 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  76. Hidden Tribes: A Study of America's Polarized Landscape [pdf]

    66 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  77. A future for fork(2)

    66 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  78. ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector [video]

    66 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  79. Show HN: Gravity – Kubernetes snapshots for on-premise deployments

    66 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  80. A Guide to Post-Quantum Cryptography

    66 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  81. Ursula K. Le Guin’s poetry reveals a writer humbled by the craft

    66 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  82. Node 11.0

    66 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  83. Bypass Paywalls – A Firefox extension to bypass paywalls of many news sites

    66 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  84. Sigmund Jähn, the first German to travel into space

    66 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  85. GitLab 11.4 Released with Merge Request Reviews and Feature Flags

    66 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  86. Entering the next phase of Project Valhalla

    66 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  87. US Lawmakers Urge Canada to Snub China's Huawei in Telecoms

    66 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  88. NixOS 18.09 Jellyfish Released

    66 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  89. SymbiFlow: A FOSS Verilog-to-Bitstream FPGA synthesis flow for Various FPGAs

    66 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  90. Extreme Botany: The Precarious Science of Endangered Rare Plants

    66 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  91. How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database

    66 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  92. Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update due to major issues – The Verge

    66 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  93. FTC hearings on tech companies included economists who take money from them

    65 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  94. Whither the Software Artist?

    65 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  95. GPU LSM: A Dynamic Dictionary Data Structure for the GPU [pdf]

    65 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  96. On Thursday a rocket failed. Three humans remain on the ISS. What’s next?

    65 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  97. 40% of the American middle class face poverty in retirement, study concludes

    65 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  98. Cloudera and Hortonworks merging

    65 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  99. Why Mathematicians Can’t Find the Hay in a Haystack

    65 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  100. Lakes of Wada

    65 points • comment • oct 07, 2018