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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. Jesse Jackson ’88 tees are hot in Asia. Here’s why

    18 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  2. NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I Can't Say I'm Safe' in Russia – HuffPost

    18 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  3. Inferno v6 released

    18 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  4. Ask HN: Resources for the “engineering” aspects of software engineering

    18 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  5. 'Distracted boyfriend meme' is sexist, rules Swedish advertising watchdog

    18 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  6. Throttling conditions to be considered in Messaging platform – Service Bus

    18 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  7. Why Tech Founders Need a Moral Compass

    18 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  8. Saudi Arabia's missing princes (2017)

    18 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  9. The Most Influential Paper Gerard Salton Never Wrote (2004) [pdf]

    18 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  10. Researchers develop nature-inspired surfaces that can harvest water from fog

    17 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  11. The CIA's former Chief of Disguise reveals what makes a good disguise (video)

    17 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  12. Can we go electric before it's too late?

    17 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  13. How new-lines affect the Linux kernel performance

    17 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  14. AU metadata laws under fire as 'authority creep' has more agencies with access

    17 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  15. IPFS, the Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained

    17 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  16. Supermicro.com website is down

    17 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  17. Wall Street Quietly Warns That 5G Wireless Is Being Aggressively Over-Hyped

    17 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  18. 90% of apps on Google Play contain third-party trackers

    17 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  19. Latest Revision to ARM Instruction Set Includes Optimizations for JavaScript

    17 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  20. ASP.NET Core Ditching .NET Framework, Will Be 'Part of .NET Core' Going Forward

    17 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  21. Executive exodus: Jamie Dimon and other top CEOs quit Saudi conference

    17 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  22. The Roman 'Brexit': how life in Britain changed after 409 AD

    17 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  23. The Robinhood High-Frequency Trading Scandal: The Plot Thickens

    17 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  24. Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?

    17 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  25. Frankenstein and the gory gang: how the novel blazed a trail for high art horror

    17 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  26. What developers say Apple needs to do to make the Apple TV a gaming console

    17 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  27. Ask HN: What stock trading API do you use or recommend?

    17 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  28. Amazon, Palantir are aiding mass deportations of govt ‘undesirables’

    17 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  29. Facebook extends account deletion grace period from 14 to 30 days

    17 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  30. Erdogan demands that Saudis prove missing journalist left their consulate alive

    17 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  31. The Keyhole Problem (2002) [pdf]

    17 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  32. Deno – A secure TypeScript runtime on V8

    17 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  33. Deep Red: The Beginning of the End of a Familiar Open Source Business Model?

    17 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  34. Military Leaders Are Starting to Freak Out Over Russia’s Info Warfare Dominance

    17 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  35. Taming Performance Variability [pdf]

    17 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  36. Wikipedia rejected an entry on Strickland in May because she wasnt famous enough

    17 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  37. Russian hackers were caught in the act

    17 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  38. A recent experiment may have placed organisms in a state of quantum entanglement

    17 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  39. Towns across the US make it illegal for teenagers to trick-or-treat

    17 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  40. Amazons move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in one of its biggest warehouses

    17 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  41. The Google+ Bug Is More About the Cover-Up Than the Crime

    17 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  42. How China's New Missile Concept Could Cripple American Air Power

    17 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  43. Nash equilibrium

    17 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  44. A Mysterious Fossil Points to the Origins of Lizards and Snakes

    17 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  45. During Google’s early self-driving tests, there were over “a dozen accidents”

    17 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  46. Harvard's dirty secrets on display

    17 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  47. Canada becomes second country to legalise recreational marijuana

    17 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  48. The Electric Chair That Might Soon Be Used in Tennessee

    17 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  49. Gab Vanishes, and the Internet Shrugs

    17 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  50. This latest academic journal hoax is over-hyped and the reporting on it is bad

    17 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  51. Robot Criminals

    17 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  52. What’s Snapchat’s AR Endgame?

    17 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  53. The U.S. Library of Congress Lets You Stream Hundreds of Free Films

    17 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  54. How to stop saying “um”, “ah”, and “you know”

    17 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  55. Ask HN: What's was the hardest part about starting to code?

    17 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  56. Tesla confirms Q3 production: 80,000 vehicles and 83,500 deliveries

    17 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  57. Show HN: Callwarden

    17 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  58. American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politicians in the Middle East

    16 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  59. A brief romantic encounter at UC-Davis triggered an absurd Title IX process

    16 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  60. CVE-2018-4407 Vid: crash any macOS High Sierra or iOS 11 device on the same WiFi

    16 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  61. Ask HN: Success with hacker news jobs

    16 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  62. Oscar Wilde in America

    16 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  63. Why the NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code

    16 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  64. ‘Lifeboats’ Amid the World’s Wildfires

    16 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  65. California Becomes First State to Mandate Female Board Directors

    16 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  66. Redirect Detective

    16 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  67. How we increased productivity with a fruit basket at work

    16 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  68. Bunnicula, asynchronous messaging with RabbitMQ for Clojure

    16 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  69. Countdown to PHP 5.6 EOL

    16 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  70. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2018)

    16 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  71. 2 Men Rejected NBA's $3M Offer. That Decision Made Them $800M

    16 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  72. Facebook's Joel Kaplan faces Kavanaugh critics at emotional town hall

    16 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  73. What we can learn about trade policy from a misbegotten 19th century effort

    16 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  74. Why Yu-Gi-Oh Is Actually About Dealing with Childhood Trauma

    16 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  75. Fortean Slips: Toilet Paper Plagiarism (1997)

    16 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  76. NP-3 Nitrogen Plastic Welder

    16 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  77. Repression in Saudi Arabia has reached a new level

    16 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  78. We Got Spanked: What We Know So Far

    16 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  79. We are heading for a New Cretaceous, not for a new normal

    16 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  80. Executive accused of harassment at Alphabet 'X' unit is out

    16 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  81. Event-driven investing: How I made 33x my money in two weeks

    16 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  82. Negative Time Iteration

    16 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  83. Facilitation Tools for Meetings and Workshops (2013) [pdf]

    16 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  84. Jeff Bezos: Today's internet is a 'confirmation bias machine'

    16 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  85. Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait

    16 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  86. Amazon drops on revenue miss

    16 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  87. A modern annotated code companion to Paul Graham's “On Lisp”

    16 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  88. How Watership Down (the film) terrified an entire generation

    16 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  89. NOAA Begins Posting Hurricane Michael Damage Assessment Imagery

    16 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  90. Using Fressian to exchange values between WebAssembly modules and ClojureScript

    16 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  91. Shipwreck found in Black Sea is 'world's oldest intact'

    16 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  92. Walmart's strategy to solve the Amazon puzzle is working

    16 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  93. California Considers Placing a Mileage Tax on Drivers (2017)

    16 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  94. Famous Experiment Dooms Alternative to Quantum Weirdness

    16 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  95. Dedicated Server: STOR-72T

    16 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  96. Repl.it (YC W18) raises $4.5M led by Andreessen Horowitz

    16 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  97. The Future of Zend

    16 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  98. The Ketchup Conundrum (2004)

    16 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

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

    16 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  100. Hy – a Lisp embedded in Python

    16 points • comment • oct 20, 2018