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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. Setting, Elaborating, Reflecting on Goals Improves Academic Performance (2010) [pdf]

    65 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  2. Lakes of Wada

    65 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  3. Using QEMU to produce Debian filesystems for multiple architectures

    65 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

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

    65 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

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

    65 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  6. Inspection Paradox (2015)

    65 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  7. Supreme Court Refuses Billionaire Who Wanted to Turn People Away from CA Beach

    65 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  8. Whither the Software Artist?

    65 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  9. Libnop: C++ Native Object Protocols

    65 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  10. Objections are goals

    65 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  11. Growth AMA with YC Partner Gustaf Alströmer

    65 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  12. Porn-loving US official spreads malware to government network

    65 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  13. Short sellers are good for markets

    65 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  14. Digital IDs Are More Dangerous Than Thought

    65 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  15. Ask HN: How do I stop being resentful towards other devs

    64 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  16. Mark Hofmann

    64 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  17. Finding and Exploiting Safari Bugs Using Publicly Available Tools

    64 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  18. How the founders of Brex built a billion-dollar business in less than 2 years

    64 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  19. Twice as long – life expectancy around the world

    64 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  20. Show HN: Dangless-malloc – Safe dangling pointer errors (master thesis)

    64 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  21. Why Democracies Are Turning Against Chinese Influence

    64 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  22. U.S. Stocks Plunge Most Since February

    64 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  23. The byproducts of reading OpenBSD netcat code

    64 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  24. China's GPS 'rival' Beidou

    64 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  25. Mouse Underlaying: New keylogger technique

    63 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  26. The Japanese traffic light blues: Stop on red, go on what?

    63 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  27. Concatenative language (2017)

    63 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  28. Building a speech recognition system for amateur radio communication

    63 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  29. What is good color? (2015)

    63 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  30. What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia

    63 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  31. Testing the June Intelligent Oven

    63 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  32. The Problem with Facebook and Virtual Reality

    63 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  33. Ask HN: Whats the best way to learn C++ for Deep learning?

    63 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  34. PhotoPrism: web app for browsing, organizing and sharing your photo collection

    63 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  35. Validating UTF8 Strings via Lookup Tables

    63 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  36. Some ancient narratives contain remarkably reliable records of real events

    63 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  37. Sdns – Lightweight, fast recursive dns server with dnssec support

    63 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  38. The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens

    63 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  39. Show HN: termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal

    63 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  40. YouTubers Will Enter Politics

    63 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  41. Tesla quietly drops “full self-driving” option as it adds $45,000 Model 3

    63 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  42. Show HN: GraphQL lib for real-time apps

    63 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  43. To Err Is Human: Mistakes and slips in skydiving and other disciplines

    63 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  44. How to Catch When Proxies Lie [pdf]

    62 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  45. Web accessibility for 2019

    62 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  46. Gandhi for the Post-Truth Age

    62 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  47. Attacking Google Authenticator

    62 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  48. Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture

    62 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  49. Apple tells Congress that it has found no sign of microchip tampering

    62 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  50. We See Facts: The BBC’s Ceefax Teletext Service

    62 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  51. Confirmation That Earth's Core Is Solid

    62 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  52. The Economic Viability of Mars Colonization (1998)

    62 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  53. Darknet – A neural network framework written in C and CUDA

    62 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  54. Why Apple Eventually Lost Me and I’m Switching Back to Windows

    62 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  55. Autism is under-diagnosed in women

    62 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  56. Some Great SaaS Visualizations

    62 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  57. Brave New World Revisited, Revisited

    62 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  58. The Internet Will Be the Death of Us

    62 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  59. How one-sided objects like a Mobius strip work

    62 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  60. Ask HN: The difference between “overvalued” and “that's how much it is now”?

    62 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  61. Surprise graphene discovery could unlock secrets of superconductivity

    62 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  62. Ask HN: Should I incorporate a company for software side projects?

    62 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  63. Basic Web Scraping with Emacs

    62 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  64. Center for Democracy and Technology Launches VPN Trustworthiness Initiative

    62 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  65. Setting Up Your Tech on the Assumption You’ll Be Hacked

    61 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  66. Ray Ozzie on Lotus Notes and Slow Hunch Innovation (2011)

    61 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  67. Covariance and contravariance in subtyping

    61 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  68. Poke at system files with Shortcuts

    61 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  69. Show HN: BackendLab – Code-free web app builder

    61 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  70. Wikileaks' Assange says Ecuador seeking to end his asylum

    61 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  71. Bloomberg Reports China Infiltrated the Supermicro Supply Chain We Investigate

    61 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  72. Logical Clocks Are Easy (2016)

    61 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  73. Ask HN: Was hired to improve company's devops, founder won't listen to my ideas

    61 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  74. Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2000) [pdf]

    61 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  75. Deprecation of Legacy TLS 1.0 and 1.1 Versions

    61 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  76. Games Today Shut the Door to Tomorrow’s Devs

    61 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  77. Compact Sparse Merkle Trees – Efficient Non-Membership Proofs

    61 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  78. IBM acquires RedHat (official press release)

    61 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  79. Incremental – Library for incremental computations

    61 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  80. Linus Torvalds is back in charge of Linux

    61 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  81. Commodore Hacking Issue 9 (1995)

    61 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  82. Lawrence Livermore National Lab's powerful new supercomputer

    61 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  83. A Roadmap for the Upcoming U.S. Treasury Bull Market

    61 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  84. 'Anti-meme law' could see Mexicans jailed for posting insulting images

    60 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  85. The tech giants, the US and the Chinese spy chips that never were; or were they?

    60 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  86. Show HN: CSS Grid Playground in Webflow

    60 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  87. Popularity Dynamics and Intrinsic Quality in Reddit and Hacker News (2015) [pdf]

    60 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  88. EFF Wins DMCA Exemption Petitions for Tinkering and Repair

    60 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  89. Ask HN: How do you pay remote employees in different countries?

    60 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  90. Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2018 Results

    60 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  91. 'Liquid gold': students make world's first brick out of human urine

    59 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  92. Using International Students as Cash Cows Does No One Any Favours

    59 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  93. Raised by YouTube

    59 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  94. Machine Identification Code

    59 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  95. Node.js setInterval callback function unexpected halt

    59 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  96. First Evidence of Sleep in Flight

    59 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  97. Why US Inequality Is Worse Than Other Developed Nations

    59 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  98. Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in 2016

    59 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  99. Welcome to DNS, or Saving the DNS Camel [pdf]

    59 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  100. The down side to wind power

    59 points • comment • oct 05, 2018