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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. NASA wants to send humans to Venus – here’s why that’s a brilliant idea

    11 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  2. Banksy confirms building shredder into painting frame [video]

    11 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  3. The Waugh effort

    11 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  4. Colons in computer science paper titles

    11 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  5. Why I’m Leaving the Republican Party

    11 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  6. Yes, Apple and Samsung Have Been Slowing Down Your Phone on Purpose

    11 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  7. When Asian Women Are Harassed for Marrying Non-Asian Men

    11 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  8. A new way to measure nearly nothing: Ultracold trapped atoms to measure pressure

    11 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  9. Ask HN: How do you become the best at something?

    11 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  10. Gab.com Lands at Uniregistry

    11 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  11. Poet in the Pit

    11 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  12. Trusting the delivery of Firefox Updates

    11 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  13. How to Level Up in Python

    11 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  14. Model correctly and write less code, using Akka Streams

    11 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  15. Your move, Bloomberg

    10 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  16. SageMath 8.4 released

    10 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  17. Why do incoming spam SMS cost money in the US?

    10 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  18. Brood parasite

    10 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  19. The Next-Gen Drive-Thru Is About AI, Not Mobile Ordering

    10 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  20. Grandville, Visions, and Dreams

    10 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  21. Neil deGrasse Tyson: The future of science in the US is bleak

    10 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  22. Loss of Native American languages affects our understanding of the natural world

    10 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  23. Postgres 11: Monitoring JIT Performance, Auto Prewarm and Stored Procedures

    10 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  24. Historians Don’t Have to Live in the Past

    10 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  25. China to launch artificial moon bright enough to replace city's streetlights

    10 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  26. Russian Fancy Bear APT Linked to Earworm Hacking Group

    10 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  27. The Screenwriting Mystic Who Wanted to Be the American Führer

    10 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  28. Why we shouldn't be too modest

    10 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  29. Countdown to Python 2 EOL

    10 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  30. The Mythical Modulo Mask (2014)

    10 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  31. Facebook hires Nick Clegg as head of global affairs

    10 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  32. Privacy expert resigns from Alphabets Smart City proj over surveillance concerns

    10 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  33. A small JS+SVG library for drawing railroad syntax diagrams, like on JSON.org

    10 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  34. The Army May Have Found Its Next Rifle in a Colorado Garage

    10 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  35. Btrfs to Ship Multiple Performance Improvements in the Next Linux Kernel

    10 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  36. Chinese hypersonic nuclear plane creates plumes of light on secret test flight

    10 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  37. Option/Either/Future Monads in JS, Python, and More

    10 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  38. How to run a calm workplace

    10 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  39. Jamal Khashoggi case: Saudi Arabia says journalist killed in fight

    10 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  40. I Have a Laptop with 4GB RAM – An Electron Rant

    10 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  41. Archery in the upcoming Robin Hood movie [video]

    10 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  42. Facebook cheated/miscommunicated massively on video view numbers

    10 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  43. Type12 – bring back realism in technical interviews

    10 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  44. On Monday Someone Moved 12,220 BTC ($82M) in block 545,877

    10 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  45. Facebook, Apple confirm they were targets of Supermicro malware attack

    10 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  46. Technology Myths and Urban Legends

    10 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  47. Ask HN: Migrate from Google+ to what exactly?

    10 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  48. grep gullible /usr/dict/words || echo missing

    10 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  49. Kim Dotcom Loses Privacy Battle Following High Court Appeal

    10 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  50. Hungry Tree

    10 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  51. Recalling memories in context

    10 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  52. Ted Cruz supports Section 230 repeal during debate with Beto O'Rourke

    10 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  53. Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7B Behind in Royalty Payments

    10 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  54. Fight Seasonal Affective Disorder with Light

    10 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  55. GitHub down for 6 hours

    10 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  56. Twitter didn't act after bomb suspect made threats on its platform

    10 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  57. The Wall Street Journal Dartboard Contest (1999)

    10 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  58. Tunnel with a rail system is found under Mexico-California border

    10 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  59. Mapping the Missing: Cartographer Plots Disappeared Native Women

    10 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  60. The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

    10 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  61. Hyperloop unveils full-scale 750-mph passenger capsule

    10 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  62. Helium anecdotally shown to disrupt most processors in iPhones / Apple Watches

    10 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  63. Christie’s $432K AI Art Sale – Interview

    10 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  64. Physiognomy is a 19th-century pseudoscience. Why can’t we stop practicing it?

    10 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  65. Show HN: Pinecoin – Money Grown on Trees

    10 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  66. Organic foods cut your cancer risk, study suggests

    10 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  67. How a Handful of American Tech Companies Help Radicalized the World

    10 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  68. Building Beautiful Command Line Interfaces with Python

    10 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  69. Oral History of Dave House (2004) [pdf]

    10 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  70. I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat – but farm it properly (2010)

    10 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  71. The Battle for the Home

    10 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  72. Apple, Amazon deny claims Chinese spies implanted backdoor chips in hardware

    10 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  73. Instagram says it will now detect bullying in photos

    10 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  74. Bayesian Modelling and Monte Carlo Inference for GAN [pdf]

    10 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  75. Microsoft AutoML toolkit open source now

    10 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  76. The OpenJDK Community TCK License Agreement (OCTLA)

    10 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  77. NY Post: Break up Amazon before it does any more damage to America

    10 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  78. Ask HN: Best 19“ rack for home use?

    10 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  79. Parity founder demos Substrate, live launches a blockchain in minutes

    10 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  80. $541M Dollars Printed Everyday – Where Does It Go?

    10 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  81. Saudi conference site apparently hacked to display image of murdered journalist

    10 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  82. The future is keyless: Introducing Nexkey

    10 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  83. Model 3 best-selling car by revenue delivers surprisingly high gross margin

    10 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  84. Elon Musk Takes a Swing at the S.E.C., in a Tweet

    9 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  85. Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women

    9 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  86. Apple boosts chipmaking efforts with $600M Dialog Semiconductor deal

    9 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  87. Sears Files for Bankruptcy

    9 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  88. Raptor Announces “Blackbird” Micro-ATX, Low-Cost POWER9 Motherboard

    9 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  89. Ask HN: What is a good MOOC to learn multivariable calculus?

    9 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  90. Math and Art: Strikingly Beautiful Images from the SuiteSparse Matrix Collection

    9 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  91. A Trio of Wealthy Russians Made an Enemy of Putin. Now They’re All Dead

    9 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  92. Ask HN: Mind blowing documentaries?

    9 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  93. Ask HN: How to find a co-founder?

    9 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  94. The MTA spends about $836M every 19 days

    9 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  95. Trump’s tariffs are backfiring even on beneficiaries

    9 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  96. Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination

    9 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  97. A Farmer Who Wants to Go Beyond Organic

    9 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  98. The AI Cold War That Could Doom Us All

    9 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  99. William Hazlitt Was the Consummate Critic

    9 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  100. Practical Implementation of Memristor-Based Threshold Logic Gates

    9 points • comment • oct 09, 2018