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Hacker News (Nov 2018)

  1. Making trains run on time

    38 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  2. The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal with It

    38 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  3. Edward Snowden: Saudis Used Israeli Spyware to Target Khashoggi

    38 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  4. The taming of the dog, cow, horse, pig and rabbit

    38 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  5. Human Cost of the Post-9/11 Wars: Lethality and the Need for Transparency [pdf]

    38 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  6. Study challenges conventional wisdom of how cell membranes work

    38 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  7. How does the process of colourisation affect our understanding of history?

    38 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  8. Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue

    38 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  9. A history of sports fans resorting to performance-enhancing curses

    38 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  10. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2018)

    38 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  11. Google Cloud CEO Being Replaced by Oracle's Thomas Kurian

    38 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  12. A Cavernous World under the Woods

    38 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  13. Everything Old Isn't New Again (Yet)

    38 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  14. From Satori to Silicon Valley (2000)

    38 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  15. Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion in social networks (2014)

    38 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  16. A Week in Xinjiang’s Absolute Surveillance State

    38 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  17. Storing data on videotape (1975)

    38 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  18. Brexit: UK and EU 'agree text' of draft withdrawal agreement

    38 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  19. Inside Silicon Valley, Many Have Long Known Sheryl Sandberg Isn’t a Saint

    38 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  20. Blockchain’s Hype Is Dying According to Corporate America’s Earnings Calls

    38 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  21. LEMNA: explaining deep learning based security applications

    38 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  22. Swiss experiment with sound to make cheese tastier

    38 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  23. The Most Important Non-Programming Skills for Programmers

    38 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  24. How Has San Francisco Run Out of Money for Affordable Housing?

    37 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  25. What to expect from a no-deal Brexit

    37 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  26. Startup Boom a “Dangerous, High-Stakes Ponzi Scheme”: Chamath Palihapitiya

    37 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  27. ​Mark Shuttleworth reveals Ubuntu 18.04 will get a 10-year support lifespan

    37 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  28. L4Drop: XDP DDoS Mitigations

    37 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  29. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Second Edition

    37 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  30. The tragedy of the commons in evolutionary biology (2007) [pdf]

    37 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  31. Scylla 3.0 announced – Secondary Indexes, Cassandra 3.0 compatibility and more

    37 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  32. Basecamp Outage Post-mortem

    37 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  33. UK supermarket TV advert on palm oil banned for being too political

    37 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  34. The Facebook Era Is Over

    37 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  35. Show HN: Lima, a Swift-based DSL for responsive iOS development

    37 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  36. Science and the Rise of the Co-Authors (2015)

    37 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  37. Materialized views vs. Rollup tables in Postgres

    37 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  38. Existing laser tech could be used for “porch light” to attract alien astronomers

    37 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  39. Microsoft is sharing Indian bank customers' data with U.S. intelligence agencies

    37 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  40. Stan Lee, Superhero of Marvel Comics, Dies at 95

    37 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  41. All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art

    37 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  42. Ask HN: Is Google failing at UI/UX/design simplicity in its products?

    37 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  43. Ask HN: Books about database implementation (relational algebra, etc.)?

    37 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  44. Climate Solutions: Is It Feasible to Remove Enough CO2 from the Air?

    37 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  45. A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You (1999)

    37 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  46. Things I Wish I'd Known About Spark When I Started

    37 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  47. Hacker Say They Compromised ProtonMail. ProtonMail Says It's BS

    37 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  48. Why Do Taxonomists Write the Meanest Obituaries? (2016)

    36 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  49. Google Cloud Networking Incident

    36 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  50. TripAdvisor Launches Redesign to Hook the Non-Bookers

    36 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  51. Show HN: Quicksy – Jabber with phone number verification and contact discovery

    36 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  52. Commuting by bike – tips and tricks

    36 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  53. The last true knight on Malta

    36 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  54. Do You Have a Moral Duty to Leave Facebook?

    36 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  55. Swedish ISP Protests Site Blocking by Blocking Rightsholder’s Website Too

    36 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  56. Zippers for non-inductive types

    36 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  57. Anti-vaccination stronghold in NC hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in 20 years

    36 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  58. Building Slack Bots for Fun: A Serverless Release Gong

    36 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  59. Google to Sunset Analytic Services SDK, Transitions Mobile Analytics to Firebase

    36 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  60. Participate in the 2018 Go User Survey

    36 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  61. Chinese startup Makeblock is bringing robots to classrooms

    36 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  62. Editing Babies? We Need to Learn a Lot More First

    36 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  63. Student-Loan Debt Is Crushing Millennials

    36 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  64. Björk on nature and technology

    36 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  65. What a meth: Woman held for 3 months after cops mistake candy floss for drugs

    36 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  66. Google pulls gender pronouns from Gmail Smart Compose to reduce bias

    35 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  67. Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and Timing Attacks on SSH (2001) [pdf]

    35 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  68. How Facebook’s P.R. Firm Brought Political Trickery to Tech

    35 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  69. Fountain codes (2005) [pdf]

    35 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  70. Promote women because they're good, not because they're women

    35 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  71. Inside Bill Browder’s War Against Putin

    35 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  72. Editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions

    35 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  73. How do you use the internet mindfully?

    35 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  74. New Research About Kids’ Screen Time and Mental Health

    35 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  75. One System, Universal Service?

    35 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  76. Not All Patterns, but Enough (2008) [pdf]

    35 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  77. A Quick Reference to Airfield Standards [pdf]

    35 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  78. The Vacuum Tube’s Many Modern-Day Uses

    35 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  79. Lost in Translation: Encapsulation

    35 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  80. Swarmlike collective behavior in bicycling

    35 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  81. Readiness protocol problems with Unix dæmons (2015)

    35 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  82. How Streak built a graph database on Cloud Spanner to wrangle billions of emails

    35 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  83. Ask HN: Book which comprehensively covers probability theory?

    35 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  84. Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover

    35 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  85. The Battle for Amazon HQ2 Was a Con

    35 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  86. Building real-time messaging server in Go

    35 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  87. A scientist makes the case for the power of DNA

    35 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  88. Make vs. Tup (2016)

    35 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  89. Ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch charged with fraud in US

    35 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  90. Apple's Hardware with T2 Security Chip Will Currently Block Linux from Booting

    35 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  91. Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’

    35 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  92. The Rebel Real: an attempt to design a new mouse

    34 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  93. Sheryl Sandberg and the emptiness of leaning in

    34 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  94. Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?

    34 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  95. HSN-1000 Nuclear Event Detector (2005) [pdf]

    34 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  96. 25 Most Valuable Startups That Failed This Year

    34 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  97. A Big LITTLE Problem: A Tale of Big.LITTLE Gone Wrong

    34 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  98. Ask HN: What are the most exciting areas of research in CS right now?

    34 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  99. The Negro Motorist Green Book

    34 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  100. Transitioning from Video to Physical Game Development: An Education (2014)

    34 points • comment • nov 11, 2018