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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. Poor Man’s Bose – Open Office and on the Go Noise Control

    143 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  2. As fake videos become more realistic, seeing shouldn't always be believing

    143 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  3. Anonymity on the Internet Must Be Protected (1995)

    143 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  4. Playing Mortal Kombat with TensorFlow.js

    143 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  5. Lawsuit claims Ancestry.com gets preferential access to New York public archives

    143 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  6. Announcing Rust 1.30

    142 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  7. The tragic end of Telltale Games

    142 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  8. React v16.6.0: lazy, memo and contextType

    142 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  9. Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter in Go

    142 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  10. Apple Bloomberg Congressional Letter

    142 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  11. Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna (2017)

    142 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  12. Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

    141 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  13. Google’s Secret and Linear Algebra (2004) [pdf]

    141 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  14. Show HN: MicroMDM – Open Source MDM Server for Apple Devices

    141 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  15. Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset (2017)

    141 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  16. How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name?

    141 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  17. Generative Coding – “The Nature of Code” Ported to Three.js

    140 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  18. Why Are Japan’s Cherry Blossom Trees Blooming in Fall?

    140 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  19. The future’s so bright, I gotta wear blinders

    140 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  20. Mathematics as thought

    140 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  21. Data Factories

    140 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  22. Ask HN: What is it like to run a VPN as a business?

    140 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  23. Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg is Positioning His Research Against Supermicro

    140 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  24. Isochronic Map shows how long it took to travel the world in 1914 (2015)

    140 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  25. Eugene Shoemaker Is Still the Only Man Buried on the Moon

    139 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  26. Automatic Differentiation with Julia

    139 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  27. Two in Three Americans Now Support Legalizing Marijuana

    139 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  28. Supply Chain Security Is the Whole Enchilada, but Who’s Willing to Pay for It?

    139 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  29. Green tea supplements ruined my liver

    139 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  30. VSCode silently opts you in to data collection

    139 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  31. Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebooks (2017)

    138 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  32. New North American Trade Deal Has Bad News for Canadian Copyright

    138 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  33. Firebase outages and misleading status reporting

    138 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  34. Scientists say halting deforestation 'just as urgent' as reducing emissions

    138 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  35. Japan’s special take on a packed lunch

    138 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  36. A Hacker from South Africa Rescued the First NASA Computer in Space (2016)

    138 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  37. The next recession

    137 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  38. The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003

    137 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  39. Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption

    137 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  40. L.A.'s Most Derided Piece of Public Art Is About to Light Up Again

    137 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  41. An overview of the top web hacking techniques of 2017

    137 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  42. A RISC-V chip with built-in neural networks

    137 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  43. Robinhood Gets Almost Half Its Revenue from Bargain with High-Speed Traders

    136 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  44. Rethink Robotics shuts down

    136 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  45. Do we really live longer than our ancestors?

    136 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  46. Ethernaut: wargame to learn about smart contract security

    136 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  47. On the Law of Diminishing Specialization

    136 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  48. State considered harmful: A proposal for a stateless laptop (2015)

    136 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  49. Designing a new funding structure for bootstrappers

    136 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  50. When Blockbuster Video Tried Burning Game Cartridges on Demand

    135 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  51. How to read Kafka: part I

    135 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  52. Compiling Lisp to JavaScript in 350 Lines of Haskell

    135 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  53. Global Kernel Locks in APFS

    135 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  54. Programs compiled by Go 1.11 allocate an unreasonable amount of virtual memory

    135 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  55. The DS GPU and its fun quirks

    135 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  56. The Murgia Hack System

    135 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  57. California to ban weak default passwords on internet-connected devices

    134 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  58. Are Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars?

    134 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  59. How Manhattan Became a Rich Ghost Town

    134 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  60. Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix

    134 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  61. Linus Torvalds Back in Charge of Linux

    134 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  62. Show HN: Mole – an open source tool to easily create ssh tunnels

    134 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  63. Solar foods

    134 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  64. Let’s talk about PAKE

    133 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  65. We Are All Lawyers Now – The Rise of the Legalish

    133 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  66. Why did the golden age of the Simpsons end?

    133 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  67. Fedora 29

    133 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  68. Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers

    133 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  69. Internet Relay Chat turns 30–and we remember how it changed our lives

    133 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  70. Why Zig When There Is Already CPP, D, and Rust? (2017)

    133 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  71. The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust

    132 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  72. Show HN: Trigonoparty – JavaScript trigonometry visualization

    132 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  73. Why Netflix Rolled Its Own Node.js Functions-As-a-Service Runtime

    132 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  74. Blazor, a framework for browser-based .NET apps using WebAssembly [video]

    132 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  75. Domain Storytelling: A DDD tool to visualize domain stories in the browser

    132 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  76. Tricks That Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos for Now

    132 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  77. The Costs of Programming Language Fragmentation

    132 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  78. RedisGraph: a fast, queryable property graph database for Redis

    131 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  79. The interesting ideas in Datasette

    131 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  80. Richard Branson suspends Saudi Arabia’s investment over missing journalist

    131 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  81. The Strangest Book on the Theory of Computation (2009)

    131 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  82. A Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V [pdf]

    131 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  83. A Love Story That Upended the Texas Prison System

    131 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  84. Climate change and the 75% problem

    131 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  85. Nginx C function

    131 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  86. To Heil, or Not to Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich

    131 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  87. RISC-V: More Than a Core

    131 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  88. SimpleSSR: Server-Side Rendering at Scale

    131 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  89. Google has sacked dozens over sexual harassment since 2016

    131 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  90. Waymo self-driving car crashed when driver fell asleep and triggered manual mode

    131 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  91. Proposition C

    131 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  92. The peer review industry: implausible and outrageous

    130 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  93. A Sudden Illness (2003)

    130 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  94. Rete – JavaScript framework for node-based visual programming

    130 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  95. Facebook adding “fbclid” parameter to outbound links

    130 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  96. Project Atlas

    130 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  97. A Look at Game Streaming Tech in the Browser

    130 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  98. Twenty Questions Of Maddening, Delicious Geometry

    130 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  99. Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?

    130 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  100. Open-Source Machine Learning Repos to Inspire Your Next Project

    130 points • comment • oct 10, 2018