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Hacker News (Nov 2018)

  1. Comparison of the Best NSFW Image Moderation APIs 2018

    191 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

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

    191 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  3. De-facto closed source: the case for understandable software

    190 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  4. Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia

    190 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  5. How to Talk to People, According to Terry Gross

    190 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  6. Tantalizing but preliminary evidence of a “brain microbiome”

    190 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  7. Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them

    190 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  8. Guessing the pressed keyboard keys by analyzing the audio from the microphone

    188 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  9. China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk

    188 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  10. Evolved antenna

    188 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  11. Georgia’s secretary of state posts personal details of absentee voters online

    188 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  12. WWF Report Reveals Staggering Extent of Human Impact on Planet

    188 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  13. Paint16b: A 16 byte paint program written in 12 lines

    188 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  14. Ketamine might help prevent suicide

    187 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  15. About Database Connection Pool Sizing

    187 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  16. Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and UAE over Yemen

    187 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  17. Video Games in East Germany: The Stasi Played Along

    187 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  18. A Gentle Visual Intro to Data Analysis in Python Using Pandas

    187 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  19. Why Standing Desks Are Overrated

    187 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  20. Writing Network Drivers in Go [pdf]

    186 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  21. Two major research funders to bar grantees from publishing in hybrid journals

    186 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  22. Data Structure and Algorithms Interview Questions for Programmers

    186 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  23. Pwning eBay – How I Dumped eBay Japan's Website Source Code

    186 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  24. FSF marks commons clause as non-free, recommends users fork software using it

    186 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  25. Predatory lenders have co-opted New York’s court system

    185 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  26. I Used to Be Homeless

    184 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  27. Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success

    184 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  28. FDA promised a ‘lower-cost option’ to EpiPen, but the price isn’t any lower

    184 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  29. A Lisp Way to Type Theory and Formal Proofs (2017) [pdf]

    183 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  30. Quitting Amazon 5 months after I started

    183 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  31. Why Are Antiques So Cheap? Because Everyone Lives in the Kitchen

    183 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  32. Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12 Gb DRAM Chips

    182 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  33. Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision

    182 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  34. A chemical so hot it destroys nerve endings – in a good way

    182 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  35. Introspected REST: An Alternative to REST and GraphQL

    182 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  36. AT&T to cut off some customers' service in piracy crackdown

    181 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  37. Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

    181 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  38. Silicon Valley wages have dropped for non-tech jobs

    181 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  39. What's Going on in Your Child's Brain When You Read Them a Story?

    181 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  40. Errors in Go: From denial to acceptance

    181 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  41. Neo4j nabs $80M Series E as graph database tech flourishes

    181 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  42. A key ingredient for a universal flu vaccine may come from llamas

    181 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  43. Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio is worried about AI’s future

    180 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  44. Strato Pi – An Industrial Raspberry Pi

    180 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  45. FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support

    180 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  46. Rendered Insecure: GPU Side Channel Attacks Are Practical [pdf]

    180 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  47. Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet

    179 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  48. Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chinese ownership

    178 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  49. Ask HN: Companies using Racket?

    178 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  50. How Multi-Beam Flash Lidar Works

    178 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  51. A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." (1999-2015)

    178 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  52. Three European Countries Block Tax on Tech Giants

    178 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  53. Why I’m Giving $1.8B for College Financial Aid

    178 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  54. Quietly, Japan has established itself as a power in the aerospace industry

    177 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  55. Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI

    177 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  56. Students Evaluating Teachers Doesn’t Just Hurt Teachers, It Hurts Students

    177 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  57. U.S. Supreme Court to hear Apple App Store antitrust dispute

    177 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  58. SiFive Introduces 7 Series RISC-V Cores with E7, S7 and the U7 Series

    177 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  59. Aminal: Golang terminal emulator from scratch

    177 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  60. GAN Dissection: Visualizing and Understanding Generative Adversarial Networks

    176 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  61. Gitless: A simple version control system built on top of Git

    176 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  62. Amazon's Stealth Brands: Everything on Amazon Is Amazon

    176 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  63. Show HN: An open-source collaborative whiteboard

    175 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  64. Show HN: Technical note app that builds a knowledge base

    175 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  65. Decentralized network 42: a big dynamic VPN

    175 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  66. Amazon’s consumer business has turned off its Oracle data warehouse

    175 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  67. Key Papers in Deep Reinforcement Learning

    174 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  68. Utah man dies from rabies, the first in the state since 1944

    174 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  69. The Science Is Clear: Dirty Farm Water Is Making Us Sick

    174 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  70. Horizon: Facebook’s Open Source Applied Reinforcement Learning Platform

    173 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  71. The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software

    173 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  72. What does WhatsApp’s upcoming monetisation mean for the company and its users?

    173 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  73. A Binary Star Is About to Go Supernova and Could Produce a Gamma-Ray Burst

    173 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  74. Generating Software Tests: Breaking Software for Fun and Profit

    173 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  75. Sedans Aren’t Dead, American Sedans Are

    172 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  76. The Rust borrow checker from a different perspective

    172 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  77. Show HN: Above-average products selling for below-average prices

    172 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  78. Ask HN: Is Google Compute down?

    172 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  79. Tiny Emus: 8-Bit emulators

    172 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  80. What can I do about climate change?

    171 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  81. ASP.NET Core 3.0 will only run on .NET Core

    171 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  82. WebSockets – A Conceptual Deep-Dive

    171 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  83. C2x: the next real revision of the C standard

    171 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  84. World Draw

    170 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  85. ‘Remarkable’ global decline in the number of children women are having

    170 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  86. Sorry, upgrading your Dropbox Business plan will take 11 months

    170 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  87. Ads just work, no matter what you think

    170 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  88. JAB Code – A high-capacity 2D color bar code

    170 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  89. C-Sky: A $6 Linux dev board with HDMI and USB

    169 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  90. H-1B visa fraud: Sunnyvale man indicted for bringing in 600 workers illegally

    169 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  91. Sennheiser Headset Software Could Allow Man-In-the-Middle SSL Attacks

    168 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  92. Math and Analogies

    168 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  93. SMT Solving on an iPhone

    168 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  94. Crystal 0.27.0 released

    168 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  95. Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a codebase nobody on the team could understand?

    167 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  96. Still in love with Rust

    167 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  97. Archiving web sites

    167 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  98. Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip

    167 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  99. Space Harrier – Developer Interview Collection

    167 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  100. Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers

    167 points • comment • nov 24, 2018