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Hacker News (Nov 2018)

  1. An Independent Assessment of the Human Rights Impact of Facebook in Myanmar

    70 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  2. Cascade: A Just-In-Time Compiler for Verilog

    70 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  3. A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)

    70 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  4. Intel CPUs fall to new hyperthreading exploit that pilfers crypto keys

    70 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  5. Patients shocked, burned by spinal cord stimulators touted to treat pain

    70 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  6. Mountain Gorillas Are Doing Better

    70 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  7. Turning the CPU-GPU Hybrid System on Its Head

    70 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  8. Can we rule out near-term AGI? [video]

    70 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  9. Towards Understanding Linear Word Analogies

    69 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  10. Winds of Change: The Case for New Digital Currency

    69 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  11. The Chemists’ War

    69 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  12. Study to determine typical transit time for a swallowed Lego figurine head

    69 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  13. Introduction to Fountain Codes: LT Codes with Python

    69 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  14. The Lounge – Modern cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client

    69 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  15. US homeless fundraiser: GoFundMe campaign 'based on a lie'

    69 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  16. PG&E-friendly wildfire bill being prepared by lawmakers in wake of lethal fires

    69 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  17. NASA Insight is on Mars

    69 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  18. Soviet Children’s Books That Broke the Rules of Propaganda

    69 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  19. Amazon May Be Hiding Its Plans to Test New Wireless Tech

    69 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  20. Extending optionals in Swift

    69 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  21. Google C++ Style Guide Is No Good

    69 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  22. Intro to Congestion Control

    69 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  23. The world is not an engineering problem

    69 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  24. Ask HN: Are any of you IEEE members?

    68 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  25. Character by character TTY input in Unix, then and now

    68 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  26. Overturned polygons: shapes with less than two sides

    68 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  27. DevOps for a Commodore 64

    68 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  28. The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome

    68 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  29. The US military is testing stratospheric balloons that never have to come down

    68 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  30. No, you don't need a blockchain

    68 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  31. Forced Out by Deadly Fires, Then Trapped in Traffic

    68 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  32. A Commodore hacker’s story

    68 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  33. Amazon reviews now unreliable: negative reviews filtered (Anker example)

    68 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  34. Show HN: MindForger Markdown IDE – Autolinking, MathJax Menu and CSV Export

    68 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  35. Why can't all cities have bike bridges like Copenhagen's Cycle Snake? (2014)

    68 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  36. E-mails from Amazon regarding user's e-mails being disclosed

    67 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  37. What’s Wrong with Bananas

    67 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  38. Introducing Amazon Translate Custom Terminology

    67 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  39. AWS Firecracker Open Source: Secure and Fast MicroVM for Serverless Computing

    67 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  40. New Satellites Will Hunt Pirates, and Maybe Terrorists

    67 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  41. PHP Sadness

    67 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  42. Learn Service Workers inside and Out with a New PWA Mastery Game

    67 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  43. IBM's future system of the past

    67 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  44. Google Sheets Query Function (2016)

    67 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  45. 40M people with diabetes will be left without insulin by 2030, study predicts

    67 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  46. Samsung opens its Bixby assistant to developers

    66 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  47. Huawei: NZ bars Chinese firm on national security fears

    66 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  48. Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot

    66 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  49. On Rigorous Error Handling

    66 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  50. While iPhone sales remain stagnant, Apple services hit $10B in revenue

    66 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  51. A Solar Storm Likely Detonated Dozens of Sea Mines During the Vietnam War

    66 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  52. Open-sourcing FBGEMM for state-of-the-art server-side inference

    66 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  53. BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017)

    66 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  54. Embracing the Laws of Physics: Three Reversible Models of Computation

    66 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  55. The Fax Is Not Yet Obsolete

    66 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  56. Microsoft Pulling Even with Apple in Ranks of Biggest Companies

    66 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  57. Adopting Lessons from Offline Ray-Tracing to Real-Time Ray-Tracing [pdf]

    66 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  58. The Importance of Learning Primitive Communication Methods

    66 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  59. Show HN: Harmony of the Spheres – Gravity Simulator

    66 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  60. How Rust Helps Keep Kentik’s Performance on High

    66 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  61. Reverse Engineering Pokémon Go Plus

    66 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  62. Twitter’s Problem Isn’t the Like Button

    66 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  63. Hacking Christmas lights (2010)

    66 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  64. What Facebook Knew and Tried to Hide [audio]

    66 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  65. A lost language encoded in Inca cords

    66 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  66. Show HN: Arcentry – Create Interactive Cloud Diagrams

    66 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  67. New York’s Wealthiest Cut Losses as Manhattan Real Estate Falters

    66 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  68. Using deep learning to detect malaria in images

    66 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  69. Show HN: Codeadvice – Create, edit and collaborate on code online

    66 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  70. Neglected side projects for less than $1000

    65 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  71. Why I lost $42,500 making a VR game

    65 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  72. High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification

    65 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  73. SPARK by Example

    65 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  74. The CONS microprocessor (1974) [pdf]

    65 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  75. Fishing for Hackers: Analysis of a Linux Server Attack (2014)

    65 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  76. The Hoba meteorite, estimated at 66 tons, left no crater when it fell to Earth

    65 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  77. SSH Access through Cloudflare

    65 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  78. Stardew Valley on FreeBSD

    65 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  79. Dynamic Automatic Differentiation of GPU Broadcast Kernels [pdf]

    65 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  80. The Power to Serve – FreeBSD Power Management

    65 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  81. A 96-year-old artist who saved a village

    65 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  82. Ask HN: What excites you most about Neuromorphic Hardware?

    65 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  83. They Hacked Their School District When They Were 12

    65 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  84. Targeted advertising has become the norm on the internet, and it's hurting us

    64 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  85. Ask HN: What's your routine/ways to keep being productive day by day?

    64 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  86. IP Geolocation Through Reverse DNS

    64 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  87. Civil’s tokenomics has left its journalists wondering where their salary is

    64 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  88. Google PageRank Is Not Dead

    64 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  89. TiDB Cloud, Managed as a Service and in the Marketplace

    64 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  90. Limiting the power of package installation in Debian

    64 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  91. Proposed new tag: IMG (1993)

    64 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  92. Expresso: A simple expressions language with polymorphic extensible row types

    64 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  93. 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian

    64 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  94. How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment

    64 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  95. Zuckerberg told execs the company's at 'war,' called media coverage 'bulls---'

    64 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  96. One Reason That MIT Should Reinstate Scheme and 6.001 (2009)

    64 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  97. Ask HN: Who was your most impressive hire?

    64 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  98. Creating Expressive C++ Smart Pointers for Remote Memory

    64 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  99. Insomnia: To Pursue Sleep So Hard You Become Invigorated by the Chase

    64 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  100. Show HN: Dweb.page – Your Gateway to the Distributed Web

    64 points • comment • nov 23, 2018