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Hacker News (2018)

  1. Gradient Descent Optimisation Algorithms

    82 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  2. A Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve

    82 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  3. The reviewer’s fallacy: when critics aren’t critical enough

    82 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  4. Saving the ‘god of ugly things’: NZ battles to restore its rodent-sized insects

    82 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  5. Post-traumatic stress disorder may mimic autism in some children

    82 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  6. Show HN: Tet – A todo app that deletes your tasks at the end of the day

    82 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  7. Librefox, mainstream Firefox with a better privacy and security

    82 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  8. XNU target config for Raspberry Pi 3 (2016)

    82 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  9. The State Pension Funding Gap

    82 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  10. Launch HN: Sterblue (YC S18) – Software for drones to inspect power lines

    82 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  11. Nelson woman delighted after Apple unlocks iPhone of late husband

    82 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  12. After publishers sued Sci-Hub, Russian ISPs are preventing access

    82 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  13. Wells Fargo shifts many jobs overseas following layoffs in the US

    82 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  14. The American Housing Crisis Might Be Our Next Big Political Issue

    82 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  15. Show HN: Facebook data analyzer

    82 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  16. Asynchronous Ratcheting Tree: Group Messaging with Strong Security Guarantees

    82 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  17. Musk shakes up SpaceX in race to make satellite launch window: sources

    82 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  18. The origin of circuits (2007)

    82 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  19. TypeScript 3.0

    82 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  20. CPU cache misconceptions, and the MESI cache coherence protocol

    82 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  21. MU puzzle

    82 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  22. The Computer Hack That Saved Apollo 14 (2017) [video]

    82 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  23. The Year on the Net (1996)

    82 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  24. Novel Attack Technique Uses Smart Light Bulbs to Steal Data

    82 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  25. VCG has acquired 500px

    82 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  26. Using Moiré Patterns to Guide Ships

    82 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  27. Infection Monkey – An automated pentest tool

    82 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  28. A Machine Learning cheatsheet focusing on the most popular algorithms

    82 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  29. Ask HN: Remote workers, how do you show your work?

    82 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  30. Friendly web development tutorials for complete beginners

    82 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  31. Ranges, Code Quality, and the future of C++

    82 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  32. The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter

    82 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  33. On holy wars, and a plea for peace

    82 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  34. In 1914, a 200ft wave at Trinidad, California (2014)

    82 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  35. Bitcoin has a huge scaling problem–Lightning could be the solution

    82 points • comment • feb 04, 2018

  36. Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004)

    82 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  37. PunyForth programming language for the ESP8266

    82 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  38. The game industry of Iran (2016)

    82 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  39. “Whole Earth” origin (1976)

    82 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  40. The Substitutability of Physical and Social Warmth in Daily Life (2013)

    82 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  41. Asking the right question is more important than getting the right answer

    82 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  42. Mark Cuban says studying philosophy may soon be worth more than computer science

    82 points • comment • feb 24, 2018

  43. Show HN: Pocket Puter

    82 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  44. Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox

    82 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  45. The History of Video Synthesizers

    82 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  46. The Forgotten Soviet-Japanese War of 1939

    82 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  47. The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm

    82 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  48. Improving AI language understanding by combining multiple word representations

    82 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  49. Aarch64 support added

    82 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  50. It appears Apple may be unable to recover data from failed 2018 MacBook Pros

    82 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  51. Tell HN: Sprint no longer assigning IPv4 addresses

    82 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  52. What Our Diversions Reveal about Us (1670)

    82 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  53. Robocalypse Now: Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in CSGO [video]

    82 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  54. CNN Is Closing Down Beme, YouTube Star Casey Neistat’s Video Company

    82 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  55. Veblen goods

    82 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  56. Andy Warhol's Ruthenian Catholicism

    82 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  57. Boeing may have used a lobbying firm to plant a scathing story about SpaceX

    82 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  58. Soyuz MS-10 abort caused by sensor failure at booster separation

    82 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  59. Show HN: Scale 3D, API for 3D labeling of LIDAR, camera, and radar data

    82 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  60. Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling

    82 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  61. The Very Rich Indie Writer (2011)

    82 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  62. Ask HN: How can felons find programming jobs?

    82 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  63. ‘Nobody is using it’: Amazon Spark is not taking off with brands, agencies

    82 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  64. China's brightest children are being recruited to weaponize AI

    82 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  65. The compute and data moats are dead

    82 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  66. Show HN: Panther – A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP

    82 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  67. Building apps on top of Google Sheets

    82 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  68. Activist Publishes 11,000 Private DMs Between Wikileaks and Its Supporters

    82 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  69. Data says GMO corn increases crop yields and provides health benefits

    82 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  70. Show HN: Group video chat with no signups or downloads

    82 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  71. How leaves talk to roots

    82 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  72. Xinjiang - A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen

    82 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  73. The people owned the web, tech giants stole it. This is how we take it back

    82 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  74. Migrate from GitHub to GitLab

    82 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  75. How to write a parser in Go

    82 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  76. How the growth of cities changes farming

    82 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  77. Department of Homeland Security moves to rescind International Entrepreneur Rule

    82 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  78. Rust turns three

    82 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  79. A German Couple Winds Up on U.S. No-Fly List

    82 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  80. Elon Musk: The Recode interview

    81 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  81. Accurate Genomic Prediction of Human Height

    81 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  82. Self-driving technology is going to change more than cars

    81 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  83. Physicists discover new quantum electronic material

    81 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  84. Loudness Penalty: Find out if audio will be turned down by streaming services

    81 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  85. Reflections on founder mental health, coaching, a decade after losing my mom

    81 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  86. A Texas-Sized Pavement Problem

    81 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  87. Ghana teacher drawing MS word on blackboard gets real computers

    81 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  88. She Was My World, but We Couldn’t Marry

    81 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  89. Lost in Occupation: How Google Maps Is Erasing Palestine

    81 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  90. Google Maps has found a better way to navigate India’s chaotic roads

    81 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  91. SEC halts AriseBank ICO

    81 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  92. A tilt of the head facilitates social engagement

    81 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  93. The many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2

    81 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  94. The Annoying Site: Source

    81 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  95. PewDiePie’s Battle for the Soul of the Internet

    81 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  96. The benefits of migrating Gov.uk Pay’s codebase to the Gov.uk Design System

    81 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  97. Functional Geekery Episode 48 – Matthias Felleisen [audio]

    81 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  98. Judge rules that Amazon isn't liable for damages caused by a hoverboard it sold

    81 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  99. Wolkenkit 3.0 – a CQRS and event-sourcing framework for JavaScript

    81 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  100. Python machine learning notebooks for beginners and experts

    81 points • comment • dec 11, 2018