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Hacker News (2018)

  1. How plants evolved to make ants their servants

    87 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  2. Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution's Speed

    87 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  3. HardenedBSD: Feature comparison vs other BSD distros

    86 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  4. Lenses: Composable Getters and Setters for Functional Programming

    86 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  5. The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher (1991)

    86 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  6. I'm a Heart Doctor and Wary of the New Apple Watch

    86 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  7. Netflix is getting huge, but can it get great?

    86 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  8. NES Emulator on the UEFI Shell Running Super Mario Bros [video]

    86 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  9. A Fast x86 Implementation of Select (2017) [pdf]

    86 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  10. Show HN: Talent vs. Luck – A recreation of the paper's model

    86 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  11. Chip advances require fresh ideas, speakers say

    86 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  12. Gardener: Manage Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers

    86 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  13. VW Solves Quantum Chemistry Problems on a D-Wave Machine

    86 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  14. Building TypeScript Projects with Bazel

    86 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  15. Next-generation of GPS satellites are headed to space

    86 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  16. Root Cause Analysis of a Non-Deterministic JavaScriptCore Vulnerability

    86 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  17. Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry

    86 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  18. Show HN: Datasette Publish – Turn CSVs into a SQLite-Backed JSON API

    86 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  19. Lego Wants to Remake Its Toy Bricks without Anyone Noticing

    86 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  20. Show HN: Smooth UI, a React UI Library for Humans

    86 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  21. Ethics in Machine Learning: Interview with Dr. Hanie Sedghi, Google Brain

    86 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  22. Colour Clash: The Engineering Miracle of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

    86 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  23. Annotated notes to Fast.ai's lesson on Image Classification

    86 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  24. The World’s Highest-Earning Airline Route

    86 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  25. A Friendly Introduction to Cross-Entropy Loss (2016)

    86 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  26. Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition

    86 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  27. ECDSA Key Extraction Side Channel in Multiple Crypto Libraries

    86 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  28. Does Google harm local search rivals? EU antitrust regulators ask

    86 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  29. Why Robot Brains Need Symbols

    86 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  30. Dark Patterns in UI/UX Design

    86 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  31. A 'Walden' for the YouTube Age

    86 points • comment • feb 11, 2018

  32. A Slower Speed of Light (2012)

    86 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  33. Show HN: Refjar.com – bookmark links and fetch online discussions

    86 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  34. Vanguard Warns of Worsening Odds for the Economy and Markets

    86 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  35. Paying journalists to promote brands in articles

    86 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  36. AI revives in-memory processors

    86 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  37. Ejection Decision (2016)

    86 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  38. Roam has constructed an international housing network for digital nomads

    86 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  39. ‘Why didn’t you think this baby was ill?’ Decision-making in acute paediatrics

    86 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  40. The Peter Principle Isn't Just Real, It's Costly

    86 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  41. China is angered by Apple's iPhone event mentioning Taiwan

    86 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  42. A treasure trove of skate culture is being saved

    86 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  43. Amazon hired private detectives to spy on injured worker

    86 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  44. Modeling Life Outcomes with Stochastic Methods

    86 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  45. Scrcpy: Display and control of Android devices connected on USB

    86 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  46. What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle

    86 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  47. 'We're doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else will mention

    86 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  48. It Can Be Done (2003)

    86 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  49. Freelancers are precarious. When should they push back?

    86 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  50. 150-Year Green Card Wait for Indian Immigrants With Advanced Degrees

    86 points • comment • jun 16, 2018

  51. How I lost my faith in Lisp (2002)

    86 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  52. TSB Train Wreck: Massive Bank IT Failure Going into Fifth Day

    86 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  53. Crippling DDoS vulnerability put the entire Bitcoin market at risk

    86 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  54. Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessness problems?

    86 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  55. The Silence of the Bugs

    86 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  56. Google fined in India for search bias

    86 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  57. Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials

    86 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  58. Egypt says village found in Nile Delta predated pharaohs

    86 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  59. Fletcher's Checksum

    86 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  60. What did Jesus really look like? (2015)

    86 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  61. Attitudes matter in an aging world

    86 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  62. Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music

    86 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  63. LinkedIn sucks

    86 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  64. Police spies infiltrated UK leftwing groups for decades

    86 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  65. What I Learned Making ARKit Prototypes

    86 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  66. Solved: A Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery

    86 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  67. MAC address age tracking

    86 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  68. Speaking in code: hands-free programming

    86 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  69. Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience store

    86 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  70. A rescue diver on what it was like to save the Thai boys in the cave

    86 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  71. How flashing lights and pink noise might banish Alzheimer’s and improve memory

    86 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  72. My Fiancé Jamal Khashoggi Was a Lonely Patriot

    86 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  73. Pluralization rules around the world

    86 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  74. A Reddit Forum That Guesses Who You Are Based on What's in Your Fridge

    86 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  75. What makes Paris look like Paris? (2012)

    86 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  76. How to get away with financial fraud

    86 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  77. Git v2.20.0

    86 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  78. OpenSSH user enumeration

    86 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  79. Napoleon’s Equine Strategy in 1813 (2013)

    86 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  80. How Tech Companies Own Your Day

    86 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  81. Show HN: StyleURL – Edit CSS via Chrome Devtools and turn the diff into a gist

    86 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  82. When a 20-year-old punk put on a series of illegal shows in the desert

    86 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  83. Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea

    86 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  84. New research shows successful founders are far older than the stereotype

    86 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  85. Facebook reportedly plans to launch its own cryptocurrency

    86 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  86. Kweb: A new approach to building rich webapps, in Kotlin

    86 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  87. V8 memory quiz

    86 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  88. Detecting Methane from Miles Away

    86 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  89. The case for electric scooters

    86 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  90. What was the role of the blacksmith in medieval society?

    86 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  91. Nitrux – Powered by Linux, KDE Plasma 5, Qt and Nomad Desktop

    86 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  92. I inspected the mastodon.social website

    86 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  93. Texas Instruments CEO Brian Crutcher resigns for violating code of conduct

    86 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  94. Hayabusa-2: Japan’s rovers ready for touchdown on asteroid

    86 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  95. Tips for Application Performance (2015)

    86 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  96. Front-End Microservices

    86 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  97. Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults Through Network Requests

    86 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  98. Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

    86 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  99. Post-Spectre Threat Model Re-Think

    86 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  100. So Long TNT, There's a New Explosive in Town

    86 points • comment • jul 08, 2018