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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. Why open office design makes people less productive

    48 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  2. UK Universities: Is free speech under threat?

    47 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  3. New mandoc feature: -T html -O toc (Table of contents)

    47 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  4. For AI, translation is about more than language

    47 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  5. China just laid out how it wants Google to help it persecute its Muslim minority

    47 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  6. Poutine Dynamics (2016)

    47 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  7. Who paid 99¢?

    47 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  8. Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented (2002)

    47 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  9. The Power of Shutting Up and Sitting in Silence

    47 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  10. The $349 Nokia 7.1 brings a low price, flagship-style design to the US

    47 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  11. A Brief History of Shopping: From Sears to Amazon in four uneasy upheavals

    47 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  12. Skills and education (2007)

    47 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  13. Interactive example of how Facebook leaked access tokens

    47 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  14. The last lighthouse keeper of Capri

    47 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  15. Show HN: My implemented vision of a PIM

    47 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  16. Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking

    47 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  17. What's the Use of a Horse's Tail?

    47 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  18. Review: ‘Istanbul: The Dice Game’ rules the bazaar

    47 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  19. China’s Government Has Ordered a Million Citizens to Occupy Uighur Homes

    47 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  20. PeerTube, a free and federated video platform reaches 1.0

    47 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  21. Applying Predictive Analytics to Flight Delays

    47 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  22. Consider the Wombat

    47 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  23. New material could up efficiency of concentrated solar power

    46 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  24. YouTube down worldwide

    46 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  25. The future of photography is code

    46 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  26. Tesla Q3 2018 Vehicle Safety Report

    46 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  27. The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy

    46 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  28. New Theory Explains Why Europe's Original Dogs Vanished

    46 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  29. Salesforce CEO: tech billionaires 'hoard their money' and won't help homeless

    46 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  30. Kubernetes on Bare Metal

    46 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  31. Iterative Optimization on Hot Paths in Go Apps

    46 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  32. In a new study, those who ate more organic food had fewer cancer diagnoses

    46 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  33. Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist (2017)

    46 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  34. Is Rust functional?

    46 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  35. GPP – general-purpose preprocessor

    46 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  36. Donald Daters, a dating app for Trump supporters, leaked its users’ data

    46 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  37. The History of Notre-Dame Cathedral’s Gargoyles

    46 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  38. Super-tomato shows what plant scientists can do

    45 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  39. Barcelona's Sagrada Familia agrees to deal over lack of building permit

    45 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  40. Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science

    45 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  41. Don’t offer co-workers help unless asked

    45 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  42. How some animals use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate

    45 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  43. Barry Martin's Hopalong Orbits Visualizer

    45 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  44. Up to 17 F-22 Raptors may have been damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Michael

    45 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  45. Show HN: A JavaScript budgeting app that implements a KNN to make predictions

    45 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  46. A New Biography of Churchill

    45 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  47. WhatsApp founder: I sold out, but I walked away from $850M when I quit FB

    45 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  48. China Makes a Big Play in Silicon Valley

    45 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  49. Running a Wall of Sheep in the Wild

    45 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  50. Introducing the Distance Field Generator

    45 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  51. How Snowflake Rebuilt Its AWS Stack on Azure

    45 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  52. The magical realism of Santa Cruz del Islote

    45 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  53. Azul GUI Framework

    45 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  54. What Businessweek got wrong about Apple

    45 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  55. If the Rich Really Want to ‘Do Good,’ They Should Become Class Traitors Like FDR

    45 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  56. Brex Has Amassed A Valuation Of $1.1B In Under Two Years

    45 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  57. Warhol photography archives publicly available

    45 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  58. Federal prosecutors have filed new charges against swatter Tyler Barriss

    45 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  59. Food Scientists Are Getting Fed Up with Picky Eaters

    45 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  60. Firefox 63 – Tricks and Treats

    45 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  61. Testing Privacy-Preserving Telemetry with Prio

    45 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  62. Optimizing Clang: A Practical Example of Applying BOLT

    45 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  63. Using Data Science to Help Women Make Contraceptive Choices

    45 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  64. The problem with education philanthropy

    45 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  65. I'm Just a Middle-Aged House Dad Addicted to Pot

    44 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  66. Science Fiction Interfaces (2017)

    44 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  67. Magic Mushroom Drug Evolved to Mess with Insect Brains

    44 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  68. Person Retrieval in Surveillance Video using Height, Color and Gender

    44 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  69. Yet Another Rant About Blockchains

    44 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  70. After a year of #MeToo, American opinion has shifted against victims

    44 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  71. Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature (2016) [pdf]

    44 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  72. Canada's last witch trials: Women accused of fake witchcraft

    44 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  73. Verizon Says 44,000 Managers Qualify for Company Buyout Offer

    44 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  74. Visopsys

    44 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  75. CEO Shoots Self to Test Bulletproof Jacket

    44 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  76. BlackBerry announces a new quantum-resistant code signing service

    44 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  77. Feds Order Google to Hand Over a Load of Innocent Americans' Locations

    44 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  78. REPT: reverse debugging of failures in deployed software

    44 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  79. Sidney Darlington, inventor of the Darlington transistor

    44 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  80. Active Expressions: Basic Building Blocks for Reactive Programming (2017)

    44 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  81. Umbra Composit does high-resolution 3D scans

    44 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  82. HDR image to LDR using edge-preserving multiscale decompositions

    44 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  83. OOP vs. Functional Programming (2014)

    44 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  84. Side Projects are deadweight to employability

    43 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  85. RSC head of voice: “I want actors to use their own accents”

    43 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  86. Smell and behavior: The scents of taking action

    43 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  87. The Conspiratorial Hate We See Online Is Increasingly Appearing in Real Life

    43 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  88. 2018 Desktop Linux Platform Issues

    43 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  89. EBay Sues Amazon, Alleging Sellers Were Illegally Poached

    43 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  90. Videos for "Learn Enough Ruby to Be Dangerous"

    43 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  91. Buildpacks Go Cloud Native

    43 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  92. What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?

    43 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  93. The Private Magic of Treehouses

    43 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  94. Endgame: how Australian preppers are bugging out and hunkering down

    43 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  95. Show HN: Astro-Bot – A programming question with every new tab

    43 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  96. Waking up early serves capitalism

    43 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  97. Atmospheric railway

    43 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  98. New Pompeii Graffiti May Rewrite History

    43 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  99. The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration

    43 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  100. How the Chinese Government Works to Censor Debate in Western Democracies

    43 points • comment • oct 04, 2018