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Hacker News (Nov 2018)

  1. Ask HN: Why is Atom a whopping 845 MB on my Mac?

    30 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  2. Chrome 71 will block any and all ads on sites with “abusive experiences”

    30 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  3. Peter Thiel Pledges to Support Trump’s 2020 Campaign

    30 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  4. Confessions of US Postal Worker: “We deliver Amazon packages until we drop dead”

    30 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  5. H-1B Fraud Claim at Dolby Leads to State Department, Homeland Security Complaint

    30 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  6. Living with an Unmarried Partner Now Common for Young Adults

    30 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  7. Google 'betrays patient trust' with DeepMind Health move

    30 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  8. The Adorable Optimism of the IPCC

    30 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  9. DeepMind's AlphaZero on Carlsen-Caruana Games 1, 3, 5 and 8 (Sicilian Defence)

    30 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  10. A story about Upwork fucking over freelancers in order to upsell their clients

    30 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  11. Google in China: When ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Met the Great Firewall

    30 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  12. Where Trolls Reigned Free: A New History of Reddit

    30 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  13. How to cure a hangover: what one man found after a 10-year quest

    30 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  14. Oil drilling: Wrong coordinate system creates lake 1,300 feet deep (1980)

    30 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  15. Amazon Managed Blockchain -Easily create and manage scalable blockchain networks

    29 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  16. How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

    29 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  17. Stack(age): History, philosophy, and future

    29 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  18. Nancy Pelosi's Husband Purchases Large Blocks of Options on Amazon, Facebook

    29 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  19. Pinebook: My First Few Surprising Hours with a $99 Linux Laptop

    29 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  20. Namecheap announces support for TOTP-based 2FA

    29 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  21. Doctors said my mother was on her death bed. She just needed bananas

    29 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  22. Glencore’s Misadventure in the Congo Threatens Its Cobalt Dreams

    29 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  23. Ask HN: Is Atom now dead in the water?

    29 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  24. Ask HN: Knowing what we know about Facebook, why do you still have an account?

    29 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  25. Elliot Schrage on Definers

    29 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  26. Command and Conquer 4K remaster coming

    29 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  27. The automation charade

    29 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  28. Political Reality: Buy Ads on Facebook or Risk Losing the Election

    29 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  29. Google Services Inaccessible Due to BGP Leak

    29 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  30. Brexit uncertainty means UK is uninvestable

    29 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  31. 'Conservative Move': A relocation service for conservatives fleeing blue states

    29 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  32. Show HN: Truck.app – an rsync client for Mac

    29 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  33. The Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form New Foundation to Support GraphQL

    29 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  34. RPCS3 Progress Report: September 2018

    29 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  35. Brave Browser is taking the web by storm

    29 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  36. The Bucolic Life of a Cambodian Grandmother Accused of Mass Killings (2017)

    29 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  37. Looking back at Project Athena

    29 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  38. Visualizing Large Scale Uber Movement Data

    29 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  39. Google ReCaptcha targeting non-Google browsers

    29 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  40. Compartmentalized computing with CLIP OS

    29 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  41. A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada

    29 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  42. How Cooperating Microbes Shaped Life on Earth

    29 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  43. Knut Wicksell: the Birth of Modern Monetary Policy (2004) [pdf]

    29 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  44. Noise Pollution Is Making the Oceans Unbearable for Underwater Life

    28 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  45. A diet supplemented with red algae could reduce greenhouse gases emitted by cows

    28 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  46. Google details just how good dark mode is for your battery

    28 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  47. Top 12 Things That Destroy Developer Productivity

    28 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  48. Amazon deal will disrupt plans for affordable housing on Long Island City sites

    28 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  49. Elon Musk renames his BFR spacecraft Starship

    28 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  50. Novel Quantum Emitter Provides Key Building Block for a Quantum Internet

    28 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  51. Ask HN: What are your predictions for the next 10 years for our daily lives?

    28 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  52. Cherry-Picking and the Scientific Method (2013) [pdf]

    28 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  53. Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome

    28 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  54. Belize’s thriving Afro-Caribbean community

    28 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  55. US proposal for defining gender has no basis in science

    28 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  56. China confounds all that western liberals believed about the net

    28 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  57. Uber/makisu: Fast and flexible Docker image building tool

    28 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  58. Financial Times bot warns if articles quote too many men

    28 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  59. Florida passes Amendment Four, restoring voting rights to convicted felons

    28 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  60. Ask HN: Do you keep work logs, and if so, how do you use them?

    28 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  61. Physics can explain the fastball’s unexpected twist, new study finds

    28 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  62. Study: Over 20 years, Silicon Valley workers’ median wage has fallen by 14%

    28 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  63. Apple will no longer report iPhone numbers

    28 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  64. How coddled young radicals got discomfort all wrong (2015)

    28 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  65. Windows 10's first paid-for, Linux-based distro

    28 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  66. How the U.S. Systematically Puts Black Farmers Out of Business

    28 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  67. I've used Apple computers my entire life. why I'm never buying one again

    28 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  68. Rivian unveils all-electric pickup truck with unbelievable specs

    28 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  69. Show HN: Essential – A weekly planner for work, personal and social life

    28 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  70. New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+

    28 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  71. LinkedIn Is Now Home to Hyperpartisan Content, False Memes, and Troll Battles

    28 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  72. React-sky: easy animated backgrounds

    28 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  73. Statusfy – A Marvelous Open Source Status Page System

    27 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  74. Bitcoin crashes through $4,000

    27 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  75. Introducing the C++ Lambda Runtime

    27 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  76. Zuckerberg made his execs use Android after Apple slammed FB's privacy approach

    27 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  77. Backblaze’s Custom Data Center PDU

    27 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  78. Elon Musk Admits Everyone Was Right About Tesla

    27 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  79. XxHash – an extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm

    27 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  80. Twitter took down thousands of accounts that discouraged voting in midterms

    27 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  81. The weird and wonderful feline world of Louis Wain

    27 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  82. QUIC-Tracker: an open-source QUIC test suite

    27 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  83. First Battle of the Marne – Entente forces counter attack

    27 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  84. Getting Started with Qt for WebAssembly

    27 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  85. Show HN: DiagramJS – Create beautiful node diagrams using JavaScript

    27 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  86. Science confirms it: People are not pets

    27 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  87. The world’s biggest telescope is ready. The problem: staffing it

    27 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  88. Wilfred Owen: Bugle marks centenary of war poet's death

    27 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  89. Limited Availability of Spaces API in NYC3

    27 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  90. Sega Dreamcast at 20: the futuristic games console that came too soon

    27 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  91. Marriage 101: There Are No Soul Mates

    27 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  92. The promise and peril of gene drives

    27 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  93. Ask HN: Self-taught devs, what are the best cheap resources for learning webdev?

    27 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  94. Ask HN: Whitepaper v Academic Paper: What’s the best way to share breakthroughs?

    27 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  95. To the Gulf of Minneapolis (2016)

    26 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  96. Tech stocks are getting slammed, Dow tanks more than 500 points

    26 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  97. Predictive Scaling for Amazon EC2, Powered by Machine Learning

    26 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  98. Sheryl Sandberg’s saintly image in Silicon Valley is unravelling

    26 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  99. The Dragon: Fear and Power

    26 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  100. Bitcoin plunges 12%, reaching lowest value in a year

    26 points • comment • nov 14, 2018