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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled

    200 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  2. Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular?

    200 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  3. After Journalist’s Alleged Murder, Tech Execs Distance Themselves from Saudis

    199 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  4. Did Facebook’s faulty data push publishers to make terrible decisions on video?

    199 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  5. Create React App 2.0: Babel 7, Sass, and More

    199 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  6. Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

    199 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  7. IRL Glasses Block All the Screens Around You

    199 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  8. The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language

    198 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  9. Google to Charge Phone Makers for Android Apps in Europe

    198 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  10. Understanding Quaternions

    198 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  11. Problems with infinite scroll

    198 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  12. Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (1996)

    198 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  13. Create your own dysfunctional single-page app

    198 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  14. SQL as an API language

    198 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  15. This is the best drone according to Amazon? – The HS100

    198 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  16. 14-year-long oil spill in Gulf of Mexico may be worst in U.S. history

    197 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  17. What we lose by reading 100,000 words every day

    196 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  18. Lolbench: automagically and empirically discovering Rust performance regressions

    196 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  19. Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates

    196 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  20. Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever

    196 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  21. Flight rules for Git

    195 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  22. The Single Board Computer Database

    194 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  23. Justice Department Sues to Stop California Net Neutrality Law

    194 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  24. You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquette of iPad Tipping

    194 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  25. Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare

    194 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  26. Google Engineers Organizing a Walk Out to Protest the Protection of Andy Rubin

    194 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  27. Avoiding Zombie Startups

    194 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  28. Literate raytracer: a simple implementation of raytracing in Javascript

    193 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  29. Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read?

    193 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  30. New law lets you defer capital gains taxes by investing in opportunity zones

    192 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  31. PNG format co-designer Glenn Randers-Pehrson has died

    192 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  32. Scooters are taking cars off the road, a survey says

    192 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  33. Arabic, a great language, has a low profile

    192 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  34. How to Host or Attend a Tiny Conference

    192 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  35. Joanna Rutkowska leaves Qubes OS, joins Golem

    192 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  36. Warp – self-contained, single binary applications

    191 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  37. Copenhagen Suborbitals: The world’s only manned, amateur space program

    191 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  38. Algebra and the Lambda Calculus (1993)

    190 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  39. Stellar Smart Contracts

    190 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  40. Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?

    190 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  41. Former CIA Chief of Disguise Explains How Spies Use Disguises [video]

    190 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  42. Interim OS: minimalist OS influenced by Lisp machines and Plan 9

    190 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  43. The backlash against overtourism

    190 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  44. Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated hack that stole aviation secrets

    190 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  45. Ask HN: What are good projects to understand CUDA and GPU Programming?

    189 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  46. Hello P5.js Web Editor

    188 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  47. ChuChu TV is responsible for widely-viewed toddler content on YouTube

    188 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  48. Google drops plans for Berlin campus after protests

    188 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  49. Brave – A private, secure and fast browser

    188 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  50. A shadowy op-ed campaign is now smearing SpaceX in space cities

    188 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  51. When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated

    187 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  52. Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

    187 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  53. A Rust FFI adventure in unsafety

    187 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  54. Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Closer to Medicinal Use

    187 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  55. Study: Google is the biggest beneficiary of the GDPR

    186 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  56. Intel kills off the 10nm process?

    186 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  57. Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier

    186 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  58. Show HN: A list of programmers coding live

    186 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  59. Using /proc to get a process' current stack trace

    186 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  60. Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf]

    186 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  61. The Cryptocurrency Industry Is 'On the Brink of an Implosion', Research Says

    185 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  62. You can now run WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers

    184 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  63. Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k

    184 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  64. Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary

    184 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  65. NIST: Blockchain Technology Overview [pdf]

    184 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  66. Grad Student Solved a Fundamental Quantum Computing Problem

    184 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  67. Pharo: An immersive programming experience

    183 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  68. The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth

    183 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  69. A fun optimization trick from rsync

    183 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  70. Myth of the Brown Recluse

    183 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  71. Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s

    183 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  72. An Elm compiler for the Erlang Virtual Machine

    182 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  73. Interface Hall of Shame – QuickTime 4.0 Player (1999)

    182 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  74. Falcon: A high-performance web server for Ruby, supporting HTTP/2 and HTTPS

    182 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  75. Scaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing – Aka RFCs

    182 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  76. Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming language

    182 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  77. Talking to the Mailman – Interview with Richard Stallman

    181 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  78. Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on what the roller-coaster ride felt like

    181 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  79. New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry into Net Neutrality Comments

    181 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  80. Surgery students 'losing dexterity to stitch patients'

    181 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  81. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket seems to be a hit with satellite companies

    181 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  82. US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at almost every level

    181 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  83. Towards fearless SIMD

    180 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  84. 15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620

    180 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  85. The Big List of RPG Plots

    180 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  86. 42 (school)

    179 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  87. Gig-Economy Workers Are the Modern Proletariat

    179 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  88. Electrical properties of dendrites help explain our brain’s computing power

    179 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  89. See what you can create with 140 characters of JavaScript and a canvas

    178 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  90. Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

    178 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  91. Tesla’s Model 3 Is Becoming One of America’s Best-Selling Sedans

    178 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  92. Alarm as China eases 25-year ban on rhino and tiger parts

    178 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  93. Show HN: Coffee Chat – Trade your expertise

    177 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  94. Caroll Spinney Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years

    177 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  95. How WeChat faded into the silence in India

    177 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  96. Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest Hand Over Data

    176 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  97. Gates Still Working Behind the Scenes at Microsoft

    176 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  98. How the Finnish survive without small talk

    176 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  99. Packets per Second Limitations in EC2

    176 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  100. Ham vs. Ham as Radio Amateurs Are in Conflict with ARRL

    175 points • comment • oct 06, 2018