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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

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

    43 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  2. Atmospheric railway

    43 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

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

    43 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  4. Waking up early serves capitalism

    43 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  5. Competition is hotting up in the coffee industry

    42 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  6. A tale of the unending hunt for dark matter

    42 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  7. The Deal of the Art

    42 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  8. Is WebAssembly faster than JavaScript?

    42 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  9. Debugging Distributed Systems With Why-Across-Time Provenance [pdf]

    42 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  10. Relational inductive biases, deep learning, and graph networks

    42 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  11. Commuting by Bicycle is down?

    42 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  12. LibrePCB: First release candidate

    42 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  13. Show HN: Callbaxx.js – A utility library to bring callbacks to synchronous code

    42 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  14. Climate Change Will Get Worse. These Investors Are Betting on It

    42 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  15. George Holtz codes 11 hours straight live stream [video]

    42 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  16. Apple Pulling High-Grossing Scammy Offer Subscription Apps Off the App Store

    42 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  17. Small Colleges Can Save Towns in Middle America (2017)

    42 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  18. LADbible Is the Most Popular Publisher on Facebook

    42 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  19. Boise and Reno capitalize on the California real estate exodus

    42 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  20. The Hiring Post (2015)

    42 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  21. For collecting weather data, tiny satellites measure up to expensive cousins

    42 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  22. Brotopia: Analysis and Review

    42 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  23. Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam

    42 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  24. Show HN: An ASCII z-depth world (view source)

    42 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  25. What Toasters and Distributed Systems Might Have in Common

    41 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  26. Why Half a Degree of Global Warming Is a Big Deal

    41 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  27. Niall Ferguson: The Destructive Power of Social Networks

    41 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  28. Appalachian Mountains becoming more rugged (2007)

    41 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  29. Israel's Cyber-Spy Industry Helps World Dictators Hunt Dissidents and Gays

    41 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  30. Xkcd: Google Announcement

    41 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  31. Fork Over Passwords or Pay the Price, New Zealand Tells Travelers

    41 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  32. Mind’s quality control center found in long-ignored brain area

    41 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  33. Ask HN: What does it feel like to master playing an instrument by ear?

    41 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  34. Decentralized token swap/payment widget on any websites

    41 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  35. Open sourcing TRFL: a library of reinforcement learning building blocks

    41 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  36. Technology led a hospital to give a patient 38 times his dosage

    41 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  37. “High End” Apartment Construction Creates Mismatch of Supply and Demand

    41 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  38. Google shutters Google+ social network after WSJ reports a huge security lapse

    41 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  39. Eight Futures of Work: Scenarios and Their Implications

    41 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  40. VW CEO says they’ll have ‘EVs as good as Tesla’s for half the price by 2020’

    41 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  41. GitHub Actions

    41 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  42. Legless Japanese businessmen: the photographer who caught a Tokyo epidemic

    41 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  43. A $500M Central Bank Heist and How It Was Foiled

    41 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  44. Maximized Monte Carlo Testing with MCHT

    41 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  45. Membership is the future of journalism

    41 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  46. Ask HN: When has big $$$ before product-market-fit ever worked out?

    41 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  47. 'Facebook baby ads taunted me after stillborn'

    41 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  48. Show HN: Monero Web Miner for Low-Tech Static Sites

    41 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  49. The World's Tiniest Optical Gyroscope Is Now Smaller Than a Grain of Rice

    41 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  50. Show HN: CoinMarketBook – CoinMarketCap, but with a different metric

    40 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  51. A New Biography of Benjamin Franklin's Early Life

    40 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  52. Improving C++ Builds with Split DWARF

    40 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  53. Annon: Configurable API gateway that acts as a reverse proxy with plugin system

    40 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  54. YC Hackathon without writing code

    40 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  55. Capitalism is becoming less competitive

    40 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  56. Google Tink

    40 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  57. Practical TLA+

    40 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  58. Money Can Buy Happiness [pdf]

    40 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  59. Literary Hoax is an Underappreciated Genre

    40 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  60. Rpitx: RF Transmitter for Raspberry Pi

    40 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  61. State of the Art: Reproducibility in Artificial Intelligence [pdf]

    40 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  62. XMPP – Myths and Legends

    40 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  63. So, today, for the first time in *25* years of Apple, I downgraded

    40 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  64. Facebook has lost 30% of its value since July

    40 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  65. “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

    40 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  66. Thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Vasily Grossman’s “Life and Fate”

    39 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  67. The Greatest Use of Life: On William James

    39 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  68. Pantagruel: An Unambiguous, Undefined Program Specification Language

    39 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  69. The Making of Darius

    39 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  70. The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)

    39 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  71. Entire broadband industry sues Vermont to stop state net neutrality law

    39 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  72. If Printed Dictionaries Are History, What'll Children Sit on to Reach the Table?

    39 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  73. The eXpress Data Path: Fast Programmable Packet Processing in the OS Kernel [pdf]

    39 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  74. Ask HN: Best remote only company to work for?

    39 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  75. Show HN: FFdynamic – Extend FFmpeg with A/V process composition, runtime control

    39 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  76. I’m Leaving Google — Here’s the Real Deal Behind Google Cloud

    39 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  77. The indefatigable efforts of J. M. Keynes

    39 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  78. Thalmic Labs ending sale of Myo armbands

    39 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  79. C is the desert island language

    39 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  80. The Museum of Accidents Offers a Glimpse into Japanese Introspection

    39 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  81. The Jacquard Loom: A Driver of the Industrial Revolution (2016)

    39 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  82. Cern scientist: 'Physics built by men – not by invitation'

    39 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  83. More Than 150 Vulnerabilities Discovered in US Marine Corp Websites

    39 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  84. Jack Dorsey runs two multibillion-dollar companies without using a computer

    39 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  85. Using roughtime as a “cryptographic notary”

    39 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  86. Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as liberal activists

    39 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  87. TimescaleDB 1.0 Is Production Ready

    39 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  88. The Library of Congress has launched a new crowd-sourced transcription tool

    39 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  89. Labor Supply and the Attention Tax

    39 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  90. From Design to Front-end

    39 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  91. Anything for this: The costs, benefits of life in elite sport

    39 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  92. Mexico’s tenth journalist killed this year

    39 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  93. RECC, the Robert Elder Compiler (and Emulator and Microkernel) Collection

    39 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  94. Burning Desire for Efficiency (2012)

    39 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  95. Lagunitas Brewing to lay off 12 percent of its workforce

    39 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  96. Amazon Announces $100M Donated to Charities Through AmazonSmile

    39 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  97. Ask HN: Is FaceID harmfull for your eyes?

    38 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  98. Freedom to fail – or managing to succeed?

    38 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  99. Analysis in Higher Gauge Theory

    38 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  100. Various species of ants engage in some kind of agriculture (2016)

    38 points • comment • oct 03, 2018