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Hacker News (2018)

  1. ViperCard – An open source re-creation and re-imagination of HyperCard

    441 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  2. High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations

    441 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  3. Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)

    441 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  4. How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006)

    441 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  5. Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

    441 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  6. Dijkstra's in Disguise

    441 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  7. VS Code can do that?

    441 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  8. Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders

    440 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  9. Using a Yubikey for GPG and SSH

    440 points • comment • jan 14, 2018

  10. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

    440 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  11. Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter

    440 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  12. A div that looks different in every browser

    440 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  13. Japan starts space elevator experiments

    440 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  14. India's first RISC-V based Chip is Here: Linux boots on Shakti processor

    440 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  15. AMD Discloses Initial Zen 2 Details

    440 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  16. Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages

    439 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  17. Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime

    439 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  18. Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth

    439 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  19. Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality

    438 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  20. We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It

    438 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  21. 'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 world record

    438 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  22. Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds

    438 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  23. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)

    438 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  24. Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100

    438 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  25. Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work with the Grid Down

    438 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  26. Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort-Of Cheap

    438 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  27. Never Write Your Own Database (2017)

    437 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  28. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)

    437 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  29. Startups I Want to Fund

    437 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  30. Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud

    437 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  31. Redis will remain BSD licensed

    437 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  32. Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk

    437 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  33. 50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download

    437 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  34. Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’

    436 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  35. Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

    436 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  36. TLS 1.3 approved

    436 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  37. Probability Theory for Scientists and Engineers

    436 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  38. Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless

    435 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  39. Air pollution linked to “huge” reduction in intelligence

    435 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  40. Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers

    435 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  41. What happens before main() is executed in C and why is it important?

    434 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  42. My Favorite PostgreSQL Queries and Why They Matter

    434 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  43. David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Languages

    434 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  44. Show HN: Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4, React, Angular, Vue.js

    434 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  45. In web design, everything easy is hard again

    434 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  46. The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy

    434 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  47. Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children

    433 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  48. 911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage

    433 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  49. Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git

    433 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  50. Designing very large JavaScript applications

    433 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  51. Let Teenagers Sleep In

    433 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  52. Woman Rides Bicycle to 183.9 MPH, a New World Record

    433 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  53. Slack is the opposite of organizational memory

    433 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  54. Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?

    432 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  55. Don’t work “remotely”

    432 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  56. MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired

    432 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  57. Firefox Developer Tools: Accessibility inspector

    432 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  58. Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?

    432 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  59. A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers

    432 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  60. Distributed architecture concepts I learned when building a large payment system

    432 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  61. Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle

    432 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  62. How Google Code Search Worked: Regex Matching with a Trigram Index (2012)

    432 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  63. The History of Unix, by Rob Pike [video]

    431 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  64. Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch

    431 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  65. Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome

    431 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  66. Facebook has auto-enrolled users into a facial recognition test in Europe

    430 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  67. Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer

    430 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  68. Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sustainable business model

    430 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  69. Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (2001-2016)

    430 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  70. Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite

    430 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  71. Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims

    430 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  72. Found trapped in a diamond: a type of ice not known on Earth

    430 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  73. Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales

    429 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  74. VPN leaks users’ IPs via WebRTC

    429 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  75. Show HN: Layoutit – An interactive CSS Grid generator

    429 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  76. Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

    429 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  77. Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracking protection

    429 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  78. Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases

    429 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  79. Slow Software

    429 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  80. For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose

    428 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  81. Datasets for Machine Learning

    428 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  82. Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In an Underslept State'

    428 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  83. Apple introduces macOS Mojave

    428 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  84. Square to buy Weebly for $365M

    428 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  85. How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 100 engineers

    427 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  86. Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsholders Website Too

    427 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  87. The Mystery of the Slow Downloads

    427 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  88. China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tribunal

    427 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  89. Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?

    427 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  90. Practical Tips for Cheating at Design

    427 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  91. NSA Deletes “Honesty” and “Openness” from Core Values

    427 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  92. I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore

    427 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  93. ‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem

    426 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  94. Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?

    426 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  95. Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

    426 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  96. Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over

    426 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  97. Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress

    426 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  98. Police forcing me to install Jingwang spyware app, how to minimize impact?

    426 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  99. Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor mortality ratings

    425 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  100. Heavy multitaskers have reduced memory

    425 points • comment • oct 26, 2018