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Hacker News (Nov 2018)

  1. Redbird: A modern reverse proxy for Node

    135 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  2. Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of pollutants

    135 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  3. Twitter’s Kafka adoption story

    134 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  4. The process of open-sourcing BuzzFeed’s single sign-on experience

    134 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  5. Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw (2016)

    134 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  6. Google Plans Large New York City Expansion

    134 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  7. Airbnb Backyard will sell houses in 2019

    134 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  8. The End Is Near for Mobile Apps?

    134 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  9. Inside the sordid world of America's for-profit colleges

    134 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  10. Massive MRI dataset released as part of ongoing AI project

    134 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  11. Why We Need Difficult Books

    134 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  12. Real time numbers recognition (MNIST) on an iPhone with CoreML

    134 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  13. Model View Controller isn't

    133 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  14. 4,000-year-old termite mounds found in Brazil are visible from space

    133 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  15. Wired Interviews Bill Gates (1996) [video]

    133 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  16. Amazon expected to announce NYC and Northern Virginia as new headquarters

    133 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  17. How to implement strings

    133 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  18. Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)

    132 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  19. Sen. Wyden proposes bill that could jail executives who mishandle consumer data

    132 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  20. How the World's Most Difficult Bouldering Problems Get Made (2015)

    132 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  21. Making the GPL more scary

    132 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  22. Fibers are the right solution to improve Ruby performance

    132 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  23. Non cogito, ergo sum

    132 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  24. Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck

    131 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  25. Danish physicists claim to cast doubt on detection of gravitational waves

    131 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  26. Gradient Descent Finds Global Minima of Deep Neural Networks

    131 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  27. Why doctors hate their computers

    131 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  28. Capsicum

    131 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  29. Astronomers detect water in the atmosphere of a planet 179 light-years away

    130 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  30. Architects have a lot to learn from the sound engineering of the ancients

    130 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  31. Two Celebrities Charged with Unlawfully Touting Coin Offerings

    130 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  32. So You Wanna Be a Chef (2010)

    129 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  33. MacLua5.3: Classic MacOS port of Lua 5.3

    129 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  34. Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

    129 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  35. Lawyer: ‘It’s a Free for All’ for Criminals on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)

    129 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  36. The Case Against Quantum Computing

    129 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  37. SF fines two landords $2.25M for illegal Airbnb rentals

    129 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  38. Minesweeper in Clojure

    129 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  39. Destruction of evidence charges filed for remotely wiping iPhone

    129 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  40. Why you're having trouble hiring

    129 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  41. In Medieval Europe, No Outfit Was Complete Without a Personal Eating Knife

    129 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  42. New York City’s highest-earning official is a debt collector

    129 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  43. Major Study Finds ‘Some Evidence’ of Link Between Cellphone Radiation and Cancer

    129 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  44. How to implement a multi-CDN strategy

    129 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  45. Toronto Cleared Cars Off a Major Transit Corridor

    128 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  46. H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies

    128 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  47. Learning to Predict Depth on the Pixel 3 Phones

    128 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  48. Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets (1993)

    128 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  49. Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You)

    128 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  50. Show HN: Glorious Demo – Create animations for your code samples

    128 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  51. What If Amazon.com Actually Is a Horrible Website?

    128 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  52. The Coming Crisis in Home Computers (1983)

    127 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  53. Texas Is About to Create OPEC’s Worst Nightmare

    127 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  54. Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to visa issues

    127 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  55. US Senate Candy Desk

    127 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  56. Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities

    127 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  57. Bali’s 'magic' bamboo homes [video]

    127 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  58. Argo: Open source Kubernetes native workflows, events, CI and CD

    127 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  59. Tumblr was removed from Apple’s App Store over child pornography issues

    127 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  60. The Lost Art of Steam Heating (2017) [video]

    126 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  61. RAMCloud Project

    126 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  62. Hiroshima (1946)

    126 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  63. Specification gaming examples in AI

    126 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  64. The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe, say researchers

    126 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  65. Abusing C macros to render the Mandelbrot Set at compile-time

    126 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  66. Two Cybercrime Rings and Eight Defendants Indicted for Digital Advertising Fraud

    126 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  67. OpenBGPD – Adding Diversity to the Route Server Landscape

    126 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  68. Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silicon Valley visits China

    126 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  69. Deutsche searched in money laundering probe over Panama Papers

    126 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  70. ObjectBox: Fast object-oriented database for Go

    126 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  71. Fun with NFL Stats, Bokeh, and Pandas

    126 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  72. Facebook’s top execs ‘make tobacco executives look like Mr. Rogers’

    125 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  73. Project Fi Is Now Google Fi

    125 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  74. Real-time 3D Face Reconstruction

    125 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  75. An underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods

    125 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  76. GraphQL: A Retrospective

    125 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  77. CEBIT Hanover to be cancelled

    125 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  78. Imaginary worlds dreamed by BigGAN

    125 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  79. Building an automatic chicken coop door opener

    125 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  80. 'Wallace and Gromit' Producer Aardman Animations Gives Ownership to Employees

    125 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  81. Etch a circuit board with kitchen supplies

    125 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  82. ‘Emerging’ as a Writer After 40

    125 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  83. The Most Misread Poem in America (2015)

    124 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  84. Ask HN: Is it normal for VC to take a fee on exit?

    124 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  85. MacBook Air 2018 Teardown

    124 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  86. ECCploit is the first Rowhammer attack to defeat error-correcting code

    124 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  87. The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson (2015)

    124 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  88. In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy

    124 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  89. The new boomtowns: Why more people are relocating to ‘secondary’ cities

    124 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  90. Ask HN: Has anyone managed to regain their attention span/ability to focus?

    124 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  91. Depends – the missing linker for the JVM

    123 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  92. Prosecutors Have Prepared Indictment of Julian Assange, a Filing Reveals

    123 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  93. Google says its sex misconduct policy change doesn't apply to claims in progress

    123 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  94. Dav1d: performance and completion of the first release

    122 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  95. Relit: Typed Literal Macros for Reason

    122 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  96. Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees

    122 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  97. Automatic Differentiation in Machine Learning: A Survey [pdf]

    122 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  98. How People Used to Download Games from the Radio (2014)

    122 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  99. The U.S. Housing Boom Is Coming to an End, Starting in Dallas

    122 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  100. Goboy: Multi-Platform Nintendo Game Boy Color Emulator Written in Go

    121 points • comment • nov 22, 2018