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Hacker News (Nov 2018)

  1. Show HN: Gmail Classic – CSS for Reverting Gmail's New Look

    220 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  2. Amazon Textract – Extract text and data from virtually any document

    220 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  3. A military exercise staged 35 years ago almost triggered World War Three

    220 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  4. NH judge orders Amazon to give Echo recordings in murder case

    220 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  5. Facebook policy chief admits hiring PR firm to attack George Soros

    219 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  6. A Mystery Font That Took Over New York

    219 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  7. Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives [pdf]

    219 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  8. Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)

    219 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  9. Bisected: The Unfortunate Reason Linux 4.20 Is Running Slower

    218 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  10. China Expands Research Funding, Luring U.S. Scientists and Students

    218 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  11. Ask HN: Online banks where I can open account worldwide?

    217 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  12. Learn React for free

    217 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  13. Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm

    216 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  14. Why we’re changing Flickr free accounts

    216 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  15. Getting started with linear algebra

    216 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  16. Improving Ourselves to Death

    216 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  17. World first as wind turbine upgraded with high temperature superconductor

    216 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  18. KDE Connect 1.10 released

    215 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  19. The Lie Behind the Lie Detector

    214 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  20. Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone

    213 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  21. The Road to GraphQL

    213 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  22. Zig: software should be perfect [video]

    213 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  23. A cheaper, smaller Raspberry Pi 3 is now available

    212 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  24. Spectre.css – A Lightweight, Responsive and Modern CSS Framework

    212 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  25. Building your own shell using Rust

    212 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  26. Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (2017)

    211 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  27. Show HN: Find a Study Buddy for your MOOC

    211 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  28. Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer

    211 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  29. Protect the last of the wild

    211 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  30. Major sites running unauthenticated JavaScript on their payment pages

    211 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  31. How a Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes and a Software Sweatshop

    211 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  32. I Bootstrapped My Side Project to $6k/Month (2017)

    211 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  33. What’s Hiding in Your PDF?

    210 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  34. Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers

    209 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  35. Mac mini Late 2018 Teardown

    209 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  36. Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code

    208 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  37. A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI

    208 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  38. XSStrike: XSS detection suite

    206 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  39. GoCity – Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code

    206 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  40. The Baseline Costs of JavaScript Frameworks

    206 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  41. Show HN: FreePizza.io – free pizza for usergroups, meetups, hackathons, talks

    206 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  42. Show HN: Not Depressing News

    206 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  43. Show HN: End-to-end LTE example with Docker and emulated radio

    205 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  44. Show HN: Cruip – Free landing page templates for startups

    205 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  45. Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning

    204 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  46. Cycle.js – A functional and reactive JavaScript framework for predictable code

    204 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  47. Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 iOS app

    204 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  48. Going to university does not broaden the mind

    204 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  49. Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme

    204 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  50. Swathing is going out of fashion, as most farmers desiccate to ripen their crops

    204 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  51. Web Writable Files API: Simplifying Local File Access

    204 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  52. Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video]

    203 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  53. How Restaurants Got So Loud

    203 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  54. Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?

    203 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  55. My Grandfather Thought He Solved a Cosmic Mystery

    203 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  56. Clojure REBL [video]

    203 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  57. Datomic: Event Sourcing without the hassle

    202 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  58. Orangutans are the only great apes besides humans to ‘talk’ about the past

    202 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  59. Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court

    202 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  60. AT&T blacks out HBO, Cinemax for Dish, Sling TV users over carriage dispute

    202 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  61. When Hospitals Merge to Save Money, Patients Often Pay More

    201 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  62. How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018: NLL edition

    201 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  63. U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further

    200 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  64. Fast line-following robots

    200 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  65. Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+

    200 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  66. An elevator in a Chicago skyscraper fell 84 floors, requiring a dramatic rescue

    200 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  67. Ask HN: Older textbooks/papers you consider classics still worth studying today?

    200 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  68. How hustle culture took over advertising

    199 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  69. Instant runoff voting is the system we need

    199 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  70. The LM383 Story

    199 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  71. Tailwind: style your site without writing any CSS

    199 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  72. Why Not to Build a Time-Series Database

    199 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  73. FOSS is free as in toilet

    199 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  74. Notorious patent enforcement entity values its entire portfolio at $2, folds

    198 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  75. Show HN: Tabulator – Easy-to-use JavaScript library for interactive tables

    198 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  76. 25 years ago today, NCSA Mosaic 1.0 was released

    198 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  77. U.S. Freelance Workforce, Now 56.7M People, Grew 3.7M Since 2014

    197 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  78. An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Travelers in the EU

    197 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  79. Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN

    197 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  80. How my sexual health searches ended up in the hands of big tech companies

    197 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  81. Ask HN: Resources for blind developers and sysadmins?

    196 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  82. Advanced web security topics

    196 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  83. $200 retail whole genome sequencing now available

    196 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  84. Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy

    195 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  85. Ask HN: How can I learn to read mathematical notation?

    194 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  86. How We Built a Cost-Based SQL Optimizer

    194 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  87. What is the highest point on Earth as measured from Earth's center?

    194 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  88. Concurrency Glossary

    193 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  89. Erlang/OTP 21's new logger

    193 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  90. Build a do-it-yourself IMSI Catcher for about $20

    193 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  91. Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038

    193 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  92. Advent of Nim

    193 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  93. How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart

    192 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  94. U.S. Federal Railroad Administration Legalizes Lightweight Train Cars

    192 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  95. States should ban contracts barring employees from seeking higher pay at a rival

    192 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  96. Helsinki to Begin Anonymous Recruiting

    192 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  97. Modeling Message Queues in TLA+

    192 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  98. Maximizing password manager attack surface

    191 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  99. Comparison of the Best NSFW Image Moderation APIs 2018

    191 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  100. Israel silent as Iran hit by computer virus more violent than Stuxnet – report

    191 points • comment • nov 01, 2018