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Hacker News (2018)

  1. Ask HN: What are your favorite statistics and probability textbooks?

    412 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  2. Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS

    412 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  3. What did Earth look like X million years ago?

    412 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  4. Hennessy and Patterson win Turing Award

    412 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  5. 'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi

    412 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  6. Amazon's policies promote counterfeiting

    412 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  7. Chrome will stop displaying ads that are repeatedly flagged as disruptive

    411 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  8. Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

    411 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  9. Introduction to Machine Learning for Coders: Launch

    411 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  10. Hello wasm-pack

    411 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  11. Is there a fix for impostor syndrome?

    411 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  12. Foxconn buys Belkin for $866M

    411 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  13. Darpa invests $100M in a silicon compiler

    411 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  14. I Got Catfished by a Candidate

    411 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  15. Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better

    411 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  16. This blog has moved

    411 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  17. Show HN: Hacking slot machines with a buttonhole camera and brute-force search

    411 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  18. Telegram App Says Apple Is Blocking Updates Over Dispute with Russia

    410 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  19. Ikea founder leaves fortune to no one, structures it to ensure it lasts forever

    410 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  20. Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users

    410 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  21. Moving efficiently in the CLI

    410 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  22. Eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist

    410 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  23. Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline

    410 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  24. Brushing up on operating systems and C programming

    410 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  25. Time to talk about why so many postgrads have poor mental health

    410 points • comment • mar 31, 2018

  26. ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ Is a Love Letter to Amateur Cooks

    410 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  27. Getting any Facebook user's friend list and partial payment card details

    410 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  28. Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Xbox Empire and Went Too Far

    409 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  29. YC Top Companies List

    409 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  30. The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment?

    409 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  31. Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells

    409 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  32. Twitter Will Show Who Pays for Ads and How Much They Spend

    409 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  33. Now 2.0

    409 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  34. Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?

    408 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  35. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)

    408 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  36. Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet Technology

    408 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  37. Inheritance Often Doesn't Make Sense

    408 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  38. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)

    408 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  39. Wapp – a single-file web framework by the creator of SQLite

    408 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  40. What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills

    408 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  41. The Psychology of Money

    408 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  42. Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018

    408 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  43. ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

    408 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  44. DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon Systems Vulnerabilities

    408 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  45. State of React Native 2018

    408 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  46. Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?

    408 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  47. Lessons learned from a failing local mall

    407 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  48. Stuffing a Tesla Drivetrain into a 1981 Honda Accord

    407 points • comment • mar 04, 2018

  49. Ask HN: Am I just a wantrepreneur?

    407 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  50. How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (2009)

    407 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  51. Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees

    407 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  52. Working remotely, 4 years in

    407 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  53. Vue Native

    406 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  54. Who Left Open The Cookie Jar?

    406 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  55. Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

    406 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  56. Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones without permission

    406 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  57. My daughter's disabled. Please don't look away from her

    406 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  58. California to Introduce 'Right to Repair' Bill

    405 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  59. Harvard Classics Book Download

    405 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  60. Show HN: Alan – a low-code application platform

    405 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  61. Deodorants, perfumes, soaps pollute air at levels as high as cars

    405 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  62. Family fun with deepfakes

    405 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  63. My bag of tricks – loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb

    405 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  64. NSA encryption plan for ‘internet of things’ rejected by ISO

    405 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  65. Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing

    405 points • comment • mar 24, 2018

  66. Keybase Exploding Messages

    405 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  67. Write – A word processor for handwriting

    405 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  68. Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is doing throttling

    405 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  69. Growing Our SaaS to $1M+ ARR: 7 People, 3 Years, No VC Money

    404 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  70. Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It Would Be

    404 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  71. List of oldest companies: Before 1300

    404 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  72. Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit

    404 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  73. Luna 1.0 Beta is out

    404 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  74. “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

    404 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  75. Asciinema 2.0

    404 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  76. How I Wrote a Modern C++ Library in Rust

    404 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  77. The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history

    404 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  78. Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]

    404 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  79. Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation

    403 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  80. Firefox 60 released

    403 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  81. Fortran is still a thing

    403 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  82. Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System'

    403 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  83. Famous cryptographers’ tombstone cryptogram decrypted

    403 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  84. Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never Be Illegal

    403 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  85. Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can

    403 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  86. Discover dev – a daily digest of engineering blogs

    403 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  87. China Telecom's Internet Traffic Misdirection

    403 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  88. Web Architecture 101

    402 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  89. Spectrum is joining GitHub

    402 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  90. Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

    402 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  91. Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

    402 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  92. D3.js 5.0 is out

    402 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  93. PeerTube: A decentralized video hosting network, based on free software

    402 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  94. Microsoft Releases 125M Building Footprints in the US as Open Data

    402 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  95. What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next

    402 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  96. Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names

    402 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  97. Hashicorp Vault v1.0

    402 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  98. Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latency

    402 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  99. Nuklear: A single-header ANSI C GUI library

    401 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  100. 96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2M

    401 points • comment • may 06, 2018