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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. Decision Tables

    160 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  2. FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals

    159 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  3. Bloomberg’s chip story reveals murky world of national security reporting

    159 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  4. Madrid announces new rules of the road in bid to banish traffic from center

    159 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  5. The true power of regular expressions (2012)

    159 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  6. Continued progress porting Emacs to Rust

    159 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  7. Parallel Supercomputing for Astronomy with Julia

    159 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  8. Is Saudi money becoming radioactive?

    159 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  9. An update on GNU performance

    159 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  10. In Amazon Go, no one thinks I'm stealing

    159 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  11. Show HN: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family

    158 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  12. Slack on a SNES

    158 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  13. In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts

    158 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  14. Reinforcement Learning with Prediction-Based Rewards

    158 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  15. The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students

    158 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  16. Faster R with FastR

    158 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  17. How We Wrote a Textbook

    158 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  18. Oil droplets guided by pilot waves do not give rise to double-slit interference

    157 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  19. Oboe: A C++ library for low latency audio in Android

    157 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  20. Masstree: A cache-friendly mashup of tries and B-trees

    157 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  21. Asterix in Translation: The Genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge

    157 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  22. Instagram Has a Massive Harassment Problem

    157 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  23. Intel's New Low: Commissioning Misleading Core I9-9900K Benchmarks [video]

    157 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  24. The Slide Rule

    157 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  25. Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship

    156 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  26. The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire

    156 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  27. The X hole

    156 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  28. Why Italy Could Be the Epicenter of the Next Financial Crisis

    156 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  29. Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

    156 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  30. Spreadsheet of Steven Pinker’s book recommendations

    155 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  31. FT8 – Tipping Point for Ham Radio?

    155 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  32. How Intel Virtualisation Works

    155 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  33. Why Patterns Failed and Why You Should Care

    155 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  34. The Bookish Life: How to Read and Why

    155 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  35. MLab is being acquired by MongoDB

    155 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  36. Flying a Cessna 172 for 65 days nonstop

    155 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  37. How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk (2017)

    155 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  38. Porting C to Rust

    155 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  39. The Art of Prolog, Second Edition

    154 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  40. The Joy of Haxe

    154 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  41. RaptorJIT 1.0: Lua implementation for high-perf low-level system programming

    154 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  42. Tell HN: Executing a 51% attack on a real live CryptoCurrency, livestream

    154 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  43. Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla: Fight the S.E.C., or I Quit

    154 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  44. Blockchain isn't about democracy and decentralisation – it's about greed

    153 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  45. As Chinese investment pours into the EU, the Europeans are beginning to worry

    153 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  46. Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faster web

    153 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  47. JS Visualizer – Visualize Context, Hoisting, Closures, and Scopes in JavaScript

    153 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  48. Atari Asteroids: Creating a Vector Arcade Classic

    153 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  49. Using machine learning to index text from billions of images

    153 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  50. How to Find a Million-Dollar, One-Person Business Idea

    152 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  51. C++: Associative map containers with compile-time lookup

    152 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  52. World's longest sea crossing: Hong Kong-Zhuhai bridge opens

    152 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  53. C++17 constexpr Compile-time Ray Tracer (2017)

    152 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  54. Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths about AI

    152 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  55. What Comes After the Roomba?

    152 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  56. Stephen Hawking’s Final Paper: How to Escape from a Black Hole

    151 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  57. Unix in East Germany (1990)

    151 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  58. A tutorial on Principal Component Analysis

    151 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  59. Heathrow Airport fined £120K for serious failings in data protection practices

    151 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  60. Managed CockroachDB: Geo-Distributed Database as a Service

    151 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  61. ‘Two-faced’ membrane can create electricity from salty and fresh water

    151 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  62. Are our brains Bayesian? (2016)

    150 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  63. Running Your Company by Patrick Collison [video]

    150 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  64. You can't impress developers. So don't try

    150 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  65. Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)

    150 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  66. Show HN: Lisp with copying GC in 537 lines of C (plus Lisp 1.5 on top)

    150 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  67. UK cyber security agency backs Apple, Amazon China hack denials

    150 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  68. Node.js Foundation and JavaScript Foundation Announce Intent to Merge

    150 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  69. The Growth of Reddit

    150 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  70. Invisible Manipulation: ways our data is being used against us

    150 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  71. Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice

    149 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  72. Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Replace Traffic Lights, Shorten Commutes

    149 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  73. Merging a Hasselblad 500C/M and a FujiFilm Instax 9

    149 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  74. Show HN: A note-taking web app that won't ever betray you

    149 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  75. Show HN: Stay with founders in San Francisco

    148 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  76. Business networking for nerds (2017)

    148 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  77. Massive octopus nursery found in deep sea

    148 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  78. Show HN: Basilica – word2vec for anything

    148 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  79. Morocco abruptly drops clock change

    147 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  80. Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default

    147 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  81. Solving Sol

    147 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  82. “Social network” of brains lets people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads

    147 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  83. Nvtop: Nvidia GPU htop-like monitoring tool

    147 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  84. MPEG-G: the ugly

    147 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  85. Trees Could Change the Climate More Than Scientists Thought

    146 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  86. Fixing a Bug in an 18 Year Old Shockwave Game

    146 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  87. Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand Over Data 300 Times

    146 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  88. iOS 12: Core Data External Binary Data Storage Becomes Corrupt

    146 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  89. Run Perl in the browser with WebPerl

    145 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  90. Building a Titan: Better security through a tiny chip

    145 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  91. Validating UTF-8 bytes using only 0.45 cycles per byte (AVX edition)

    145 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  92. Adding an Effect System to OCaml [video]

    145 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  93. A Long Peek into Reinforcement Learning

    145 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  94. Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)

    145 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  95. Time to End Factory Farming?

    144 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  96. Publishing more data behind our reporting

    144 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  97. US mid-terms: Hackers expose 'staggering' voter machine flaws

    144 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  98. How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry

    144 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  99. Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech is “a dangerous path”

    144 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  100. Ask HN: How to start a startup that requires a high amount of initial capital?

    144 points • comment • oct 04, 2018