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Hacker News (2018)

  1. Madison Square Garden Has Used Face-Scanning Technology on Customers

    118 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  2. People are “consistently inconsistent” in reasoning about controversial topics

    118 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  3. Introducing YC Series A Batches

    118 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  4. The Meaninglessness of the Stock Market Index in a Digital World

    118 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  5. Feasibility of low-level GPU access on the Web

    118 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  6. Malaysia Opposition, Led by 92-Year-Old, Wins Upset Victory

    118 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  7. Chinese city gets 'smartphone zombie' walkway

    118 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  8. Pseudonyms to protect authors of controversial articles

    118 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  9. No one’s ready for GDPR

    118 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  10. Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome?

    118 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  11. Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies

    118 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  12. GIMP 2.10.0 Released

    118 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  13. Container Linux on the Desktop [slides]

    118 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  14. Snap, Flatpak and AppImage, package formats compared

    118 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  15. Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost

    118 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  16. The Nvidia Turing GPU Architecture Deep Dive: Prelude to GeForce RTX

    118 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  17. Writing a Screencast Video Editor in Haskell

    118 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  18. NAFTA: Don’t Trade Away the Internet

    118 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  19. Dissecting QNX [pdf]

    118 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  20. Microsoft Sandboxes Windows Defender

    118 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  21. Facebook chooses Canada for Dating feature launch

    118 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  22. The forgotten 80s home robot trend

    118 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  23. PC-Retro Motherboard Kit: Build a faithful reproduction of the 1982 IBM PC 5150

    118 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  24. Widescreen laptops are dumb

    118 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  25. Oceans and Lakes Are Becoming 'Dead Zones' Again

    118 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  26. George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of self-driving cars

    118 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  27. United States v. Microsoft Corp

    118 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  28. Google Data Studio in 10 Minutes: Step-By-Step Guide

    118 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  29. The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities from Scratch

    118 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  30. Steve Wozniak on why he is leaving Facebook [video]

    118 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  31. Jin Yong, the 'Tolkien of Chinese literature', has died

    118 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  32. Why OpenCV uses BGR color space (2015)

    118 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  33. One Year of PostmarketOS: Mainline Calling

    118 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  34. Telltale Autopsy

    118 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  35. Show HN: Vaex - Out of Core Dataframes for Python and Fast Visualization

    118 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  36. Efficient Methods and Hardware for Deep Learning [pdf]

    118 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  37. Show HN: I implemented seamless copy and paste of images, and wrote a tutorial

    118 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  38. Gracefully Restarting a Go Program Without Downtime

    118 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  39. Hire by Google: Applicant tracking system and recruiting software (2017)

    118 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  40. How the CIA Trains Spies to Hide in Plain Sight

    118 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  41. Dispatch: web-based IRC client in Go

    118 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  42. The Beginning of the Monte Carlo Method (1987)

    118 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  43. Adolescents’ rich and nuanced relationship with risky behaviour

    118 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  44. Oblivious DNS: Plugging the Internet’s Biggest Privacy Hole

    118 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  45. In a world of digital nomads, we will all be made homeless

    118 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  46. Neopets HTML Guide

    118 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  47. When optimising code, never guess, always measure

    118 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  48. Unmanned grocery delivery is underway in Arizona

    118 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  49. With EFF’s help, language teacher responds to threat over ‘invalid’ patent

    118 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  50. SpaceX just launched two of its space internet satellites

    118 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  51. Show HN: unicode.style

    118 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  52. IOTA: The Brave Little Toaster That Couldn’t

    118 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  53. Oberon System Implemented on a Low-Cost FPGA Board (2015) [pdf]

    118 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  54. Douglas Rain, voice of HAL, has died

    118 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  55. Facebook Is Full of Emotional-Support Groups

    118 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  56. Learn How to Fold a World-Record-Setting Paper Airplane

    118 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  57. Researchers Unmask Anonymous Twitter Accounts With 97% Accuracy Using ML

    118 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  58. Dynimize: Speed Up MySQL with CPU Performance Virtualization

    118 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  59. DragonFFI: C Foreign Function Interface and JIT Using Clang/LLVM

    118 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  60. Use Emacs Org Mode and REST APIs for an up-to-date stock portfolio

    118 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  61. News for the tz database

    118 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  62. RTL-entropy: Uses RTL-SDR to turn a DVB-T dongle into an entropy source

    118 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  63. Is the Alzheimer's “Amyloid Hypothesis” Wrong? (2017)

    118 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  64. Tiny Art in Less Than 280 Characters (2017)

    118 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  65. Three academics are launching a new journal for arguments to be made anonymously

    118 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  66. Elephant 'smoking' footage baffles experts

    118 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  67. The Slippery Math of Causation

    118 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  68. Eroom's law

    118 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  69. Not your Tibetan Buddhism

    118 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  70. Were the Cuban sonic attack victims actually poisoned?

    118 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  71. Login_duress: A BSD authentication module for duress passwords

    118 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  72. RTL-SDR compatible decoder application for the Meteor M2 weather satellite

    118 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  73. Čezeta e-scooter: The rebirth of the chicest communist-era scooter

    117 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  74. Where the Super-Rich Go to Buy Their Second Passport

    117 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  75. Show HN: Grayscale the Web – A Chrome extension to help avoid mindless browsing

    117 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  76. Zelle users are finding out the hard way there’s no fraud protection

    117 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  77. Building a Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform, Real-Time Game Streaming Protocol

    117 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  78. Exercise 'doesn't slow' progression of dementia if you already have dementia

    117 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  79. Isso – a commenting server similar to Disqus

    117 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  80. Knusperli: A deblocking JPEG decoder

    117 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  81. Companies from the YC Summer 2018 Batch

    117 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  82. Ursula K. Le Guin has died

    117 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  83. Adversarial Examples That Fool Both Computer Vision and Time-Limited Humans

    117 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  84. Mastodon WTF timeline (2017)

    117 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  85. Judge the value of what you have by what you had to give up to get it

    117 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  86. Flight Recorder becomes part of OpenJDK

    117 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  87. United Airlines Threatens to Engage Collections for Passengers Who Skip Segments

    117 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  88. Gource – a software version control visualization tool

    117 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  89. Policy laundering

    117 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  90. On Redis master-slave terminology

    117 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  91. Ban Targeted Advertising

    117 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  92. Zoox and Its $800M Robo Taxi Dream [video]

    117 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  93. The Shirky Principle (2010)

    117 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  94. A Comparison of Functional Data Structures on the JVM

    117 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  95. Alphabet unit halts glucose-detecting contact lens project

    117 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  96. The World’s Loudest Sound (2014)

    117 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  97. Show HN: Percollate – a command-line tool to grab web pages as PDFs

    117 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  98. Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers. Make Macros Instead (2014)

    117 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  99. How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom (2017)

    117 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  100. Amazon Is Kicking All Unauthorized Apple Refurbishers Off Amazon Marketplace

    117 points • comment • nov 10, 2018