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Hacker News (Nov 2018)

  1. And Monads for All: The State Monad

    88 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  2. Computing Higher Order Derivatives of Matrix and Tensor Expressions [pdf]

    88 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  3. Atom 1.33

    88 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  4. For Autistic Boys, the NYC Subway Is Actually Soothing

    88 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  5. New Proof Shows Infinite Curves Come in Two Types

    88 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  6. Surviving Jonestown

    88 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  7. Formalizing 100 Theorems

    88 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  8. Smoking Banana Peels Is the Greatest Drug Hoax of All Time

    88 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  9. China's AI news anchors

    88 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  10. WesternDigital/blb: Distributed object storage system for use on bare metal

    87 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  11. KDevelop 5.3 released

    87 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  12. How plants evolved to make ants their servants

    87 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  13. Pixel 3 Review

    87 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  14. Show HN: HTML-Notepad – A WYSIWYG editor of structured documents

    87 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  15. Owl: Parser generator for visibly pushdown languages

    87 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  16. Why one of America’s richest states is also its poorest

    87 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  17. Intermittent fasting: No advantage over conventional weight loss diets

    87 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  18. Turn Vim into Excel: Tips for Editing Tabular Data (2013)

    87 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  19. Show HN: RTCTunnel, build network tunnels over WebRTC

    87 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  20. Police decrypt messages after breaking pricey IronChat crypto app

    87 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  21. Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution's Speed

    87 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  22. Making transparent wood [video]

    87 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  23. A Look Inside the Tactics of Definers, Facebook’s Attack Dog

    87 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  24. Cameroon’s President takes Swiss vacations as his country grapples with crises

    87 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  25. How Dystopian Fiction Shapes Political Attitudes

    87 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  26. Nitrux – Powered by Linux, KDE Plasma 5, Qt and Nomad Desktop

    86 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  27. Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music

    86 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  28. Does Google harm local search rivals? EU antitrust regulators ask

    86 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  29. Why intel processors draw more power than expected: TDP and Turbo explained

    86 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  30. What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle

    86 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  31. What was the role of the blacksmith in medieval society?

    86 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  32. Ask HN: Dontrecruit.me – A website to collect stories about bad recruiters

    86 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  33. Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea

    86 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  34. It Can Be Done (2003)

    86 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  35. Varying Speaking Styles with Neural Text-to-Speech

    85 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  36. Sights and sounds of the final hours of World War I

    85 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  37. Ace – an embeddable code editor

    85 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  38. Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB

    85 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  39. Chess Is the Killer App

    85 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  40. Crossing the Sahara in the Fourteenth Century

    85 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  41. A state variable for crumpled thin sheets

    85 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  42. Show HN: Twiverse – Find Twitter users and get more followers

    84 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  43. Golden Thoughts for a New Nuclear Age – from a new biography of René Girard

    84 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  44. Filament and WASM: Physically-based rendering for web

    84 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  45. The healthiest people in the world don’t go to the gym

    84 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  46. FAQ – Virtualization

    84 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  47. AWS App Mesh – Service Mesh for Microservices on AWS

    84 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  48. Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?

    84 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  49. Show HN: Predict how well people will react to your writing

    84 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  50. Show HN: An experimental code search engine

    84 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  51. The World, Built by China

    84 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  52. MiSafes' child-tracking smartwatches are easy to hack

    84 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  53. A Git Horror Story: Repository Integrity with Signed Commits (2012)

    84 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  54. Trip report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting

    84 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  55. Show HN: Adios.ai – Stop email interruptions, receive emails 3 times a day

    83 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  56. Linux compatibility in IncludeOS

    83 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  57. Egypt's newly discovered tombs hold mummies, animal statues

    83 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  58. Standard Cognition Raises $40M Series A to Deliver Autonomous Checkout

    83 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  59. A time capsule in an Austrian salt mine

    83 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  60. Algorithms Designed to Fight Poverty Can Actually Make It Worse

    83 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  61. A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off on Facebook

    83 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  62. At Doomed Flight’s Helm, Pilots May Have Been Overwhelmed in Seconds

    83 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  63. How one Indian city cracked the problem of urban spread

    83 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  64. The Consistency of Arithmetic [pdf]

    83 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  65. Things nobody told me about being a software engineer

    83 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  66. Show HN: Group video chat with no signups or downloads

    82 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  67. Submarine to visit deepest parts of the ocean in Five Deeps Expedition

    82 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  68. Gradient Descent Optimisation Algorithms

    82 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  69. Band faked a fanbase, got booked for a European tour that nobody attended

    82 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  70. Genetic Programming in Clojure

    82 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  71. Soyuz MS-10 abort caused by sensor failure at booster separation

    82 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  72. Microsoft Wins $480M Army HoloLens Contract

    82 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  73. The Very Rich Indie Writer (2011)

    82 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  74. The Curse of the Honeycrisp Apple

    82 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  75. Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)

    82 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  76. Asynchronous Ratcheting Tree: Group Messaging with Strong Security Guarantees

    82 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  77. The Computer Hack That Saved Apollo 14 (2017) [video]

    82 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  78. China's brightest children are being recruited to weaponize AI

    82 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  79. Cloud Source Repositories

    82 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  80. US asks allies to avoid Huawei

    81 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  81. SIM Card Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor

    81 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  82. Fake fingerprints can imitate real ones in biometric systems

    81 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  83. Show HN: Interactive implementation of the NIST Blockchain use case flow chart

    81 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  84. Some notes on running new software in production

    81 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  85. The Decline and Fall of the Zuckerberg Empire

    81 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  86. Elon Musk: The Recode interview

    81 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  87. Why small tweaks and split testing don't work, and what to do instead

    80 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  88. NYC Housing Authority routinely disputed tests that revealed lead in apartments

    80 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  89. Why You Should Care About the Julian Assange Case

    80 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  90. Swift Intermediate Language Ownership Model Proposal

    80 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  91. Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence

    80 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  92. Killed by Google

    80 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  93. China Rules – The Land That Failed to Fail

    80 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  94. FAA Issues Boeing 737 AOA Directive After Lion Air Crash

    80 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  95. Pembrokeshire treasure hunter unearths Celtic chariot

    80 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  96. LMDB – Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager

    80 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  97. Reading minds with deep learning

    79 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  98. Memristors built with 2-nanometer-thick parts

    79 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  99. Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein

    79 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  100. Rich Command Shells (2014)

    79 points • comment • nov 28, 2018