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Hacker News (2018)

  1. A Classical Math Problem Gets Pulled into the Modern World

    80 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  2. Nvidia drivers on Linux are trash

    80 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  3. YouTube Accounts Of Famous Singers Hacked. Despacito video deleted.

    80 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  4. Filter Before You Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser

    80 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  5. Swatch Internet Time (1998)

    80 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  6. Building Real Time Analytics APIs at Scale

    80 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  7. Great founders lead with product strategy

    80 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  8. Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released

    80 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  9. Pembrokeshire treasure hunter unearths Celtic chariot

    80 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  10. The American midwest is quickly becoming a blue-collar version of Silicon Valley

    80 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  11. Western Digital WD Black 3D NAND SSD Review

    80 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  12. Pandas on Ray – Early Lessons from Parallelizing Pandas

    80 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  13. Prototyping an ltrace clone using eBPF

    80 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  14. Ask HN: Do you have a software consultant or outsourcing horror story?

    80 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  15. China Rules – The Land That Failed to Fail

    80 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  16. The secret maps used in World War II

    80 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  17. Netflix to let viewers pick how TV episodes and movies will end

    80 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  18. A Child’s Garden of Inter-Service Authentication Schemes

    80 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  19. Ten years after the financial crisis, GSE securities have expanded $804B

    80 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  20. Mark Karpelès, ex-CEO MtGox – AMA

    80 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  21. Elon Musk’s Boring Company Gets Preliminary Permit for NYC-DC Hyperloop

    80 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  22. Ask HN: How's the Paris startup scene?

    80 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  23. German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, operator says (2016)

    80 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  24. “The street finds its own uses for things” (2012)

    80 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  25. Marchetti's constant

    80 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  26. LMDB – Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager

    80 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  27. BlueChip – An ORM-like syntax for retrieving data from GraphQL or JsonAPI

    80 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  28. The Intl.RelativeTimeFormat API

    80 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  29. Snapchat Source Code GitHub Leak Caused by Bad iOS Update

    80 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  30. How Amazon Rebuilt Itself Around Artificial Intelligence

    80 points • comment • feb 02, 2018

  31. Adversarial patch

    80 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  32. Electronics-Recycling Innovator Going to Prison for Extending Computers’ Lives

    80 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  33. SEC issues warning against John McAfee’s crypto shilling

    80 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  34. Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Study Finds

    80 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  35. Quantifying the Effect of Tether

    80 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  36. HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis (2016) [video]

    80 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  37. Swift Intermediate Language Ownership Model Proposal

    80 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  38. The Shipping Container Is a Blessing to All Humanity

    80 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  39. Wind, solar farms produce 10% of US power in the first four months of 2018

    80 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  40. Low-Level Thinking in High-Level Shading Languages (2013) [pdf]

    80 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  41. How did software get so reliable without proof? (1996) [pdf]

    80 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  42. Collective awareness, or the models that we use to understand the world

    80 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  43. What the History of Math Can Teach Us About the Future of AI

    80 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  44. Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD (2017) [pdf]

    80 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  45. How “Jurassic Park” led to the modernization of dinosaur paleontology

    80 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  46. Unsupervised machine translation

    80 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  47. Azure Storage: How fast are disks?

    79 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  48. Memristors built with 2-nanometer-thick parts

    79 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  49. Lojban

    79 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  50. Getting specific about generics

    79 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  51. How a Tick Digs Its Hooks In

    79 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  52. Open Sourcing Oclif, the CLI Framework That Powers Our CLIs

    79 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  53. How the First World War Transformed Art

    79 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  54. High Performance Computing: Are We Just Getting Wrong Answers Faster? (1998) [pdf]

    79 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  55. Facebook Q2 2018 Earnings

    79 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  56. Learn you an Agda (2011)

    79 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  57. Fitts’s law

    79 points • comment • mar 18, 2018

  58. The rise and rise of JSON (2017)

    79 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  59. Chinese Hackers Breach U.S. Navy Contractors

    79 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  60. A massive cache of law enforcement personnel data has leaked

    79 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  61. Every Building on Every Block: A Time Capsule of 1930s New York

    79 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  62. Custom string delimiters in Swift 5

    79 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  63. Show HN: Free open-source IPTV cloud service

    79 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  64. Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

    79 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  65. The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption in the wild

    79 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  66. Acephalic Agile: Worse than Waterfall?

    79 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  67. Show HN: One Click Pose Estimation

    79 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  68. Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents

    79 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  69. Google’s Voice Assistant Could Talk Its Way Into Call Centers

    79 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  70. For $1B, Elon Musk’s Tunnel to O’Hare Would Be a Miracle

    79 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  71. On 5th anniversary of Snowden leak, Michigan effectively bans the NSA

    79 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  72. Lifeguard Drone Rescues Swimmer in Spain

    79 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  73. Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?

    79 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  74. Uber CEO says Uber and Alphabet are discussing working together on self-driving

    79 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  75. When's a van a van and when's it a car?

    79 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  76. The Predictions of Robert A. Heinlein, from the Cold War to the Waterbed

    79 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  77. US companies giving in to pressure from China

    79 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  78. A learning platform to teach the Ada and SPARK programming languages

    79 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  79. Instead of Writing a Thousand Words, Part One: Ideas

    79 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  80. Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived?

    79 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  81. Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? (2007)

    79 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  82. Two Generals and Time Machines

    79 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  83. NYC Subway Trains Might Start Moving Faster

    79 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  84. A portmanteau of every word in English (2015)

    79 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  85. Ubiq: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Log Processing Infrastructure (2016)

    79 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  86. Apple tells Congress it found no signs of hacking attack

    79 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  87. Saudi Arabia Quietly Pumps Up Its Stock Market

    79 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  88. Show HN: Using AI to Summarize Terms and Conditions

    79 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  89. The SCO vs IBM Zombie Shambles On

    79 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  90. Photographs: Removed

    79 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  91. Live Coding in Sporth: A Stack-Based Language for Audio Synthesis [pdf]

    79 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  92. Why We Need Dynamic Secrets

    79 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  93. Sinister parasites that control their hosts' minds

    79 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  94. Controlling the Spice, Part 1: Dune on Page and Screen

    79 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  95. Show HN: VPNHome – 1-click, self-hosted OpenVPN deployment and management app

    79 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  96. PowerShell and Markdown

    79 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  97. Mono on AIX and IBM i

    79 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  98. Containers

    79 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  99. Polly: LLVM Framework for High-Level Loop and Data-Locality Optimizations

    79 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  100. Murdered Saudi Rumoured to Have Used Apple Watch App to Record His Own Death

    79 points • comment • oct 13, 2018