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Hacker News (2018)

  1. Firefighting foam heats up coal fire debate (2010)

    68 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  2. Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil

    68 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  3. It's time for us to say farewell

    68 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  4. A Hawaiian island got about 50 inches of rain in 24 hours

    68 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  5. The Impoliteness of Overriding Methods (2012)

    68 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  6. Character by character TTY input in Unix, then and now

    68 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  7. Harvard Is Wrong That Asians Have Terrible Personalities

    68 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  8. A Unix Shell poster from 1983

    68 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  9. Future Shock Documentary (1972) [video]

    68 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  10. Blocked by Facebook and the Vulnerability of New Media

    68 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  11. Beenz, a digital currency before Bitcoin

    68 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  12. Overview of Intel SGX – Part 1, SGX Internals

    68 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  13. Show HN: JSON storage bins with schema validation

    68 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  14. Apple Will Start Paying Back Taxes to Irish Government Next Month

    68 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  15. The US military is testing stratospheric balloons that never have to come down

    68 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  16. Luck in Wesnoth: Rationale (2008)

    68 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  17. Turkey's Erdogan restricting the internet

    68 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  18. Reverse Engineering the Mind: Brain and Cognitive Sciences [video]

    68 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  19. Show HN: Share company announcements in your coworkers' new tab

    68 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  20. Controlling a Quadcopter with Hand Gestures

    68 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  21. Set up Sublime Text for lightweight all-in-one data science IDE (2015)

    68 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  22. Forced Out by Deadly Fires, Then Trapped in Traffic

    68 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  23. Visual Studio Code January 2018 Update (version 1.20)

    68 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  24. Strings Are Evil

    68 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  25. Urbanism and Standards of Respectability

    68 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  26. The History of Processing

    68 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  27. Lessons from Coinbase’s Wild Ascent

    68 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  28. Why plastic items in a dishwasher take longer to dry than metal,glass or ceramic

    68 points • comment • mar 03, 2018

  29. Modern C++: 7 Ways to Fake It Until You Have It

    68 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  30. Bitcoin drops below $10K after three days of cryptocurrency correction

    68 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  31. German police raid homes of Tor-linked group's board members

    68 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  32. Research team finds evidence of matter-matter coupling

    68 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  33. The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers

    68 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  34. Funds Back Proposal to Remove Zuckerberg as Facebook Chairman

    68 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  35. Wasabi: A Framework for Dynamically Analyzing WebAssembly

    68 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  36. Coincheck Says It Lost Crypto Coins Valued at About $400M

    68 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  37. To help model financial systems, some economists are turning to biology

    68 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  38. Overturned polygons: shapes with less than two sides

    68 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  39. The Nature of the Firm (1937)

    68 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  40. African palm oil expansion is bad news for the continent’s primates

    68 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  41. The Communist Cookbook That Defined Prague’s Cuisine

    68 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  42. How convict labour increased inequality

    68 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  43. Reverse Engineering of a Huawei P20 from China

    68 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  44. Privacy-preserving sentence semantic similarity

    68 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  45. A Very Sleepy MySQL Attack

    68 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  46. The street art collective taking back Dublin’s walls

    68 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  47. Dave Kleiman's estate sues Craig Wright for $10B

    68 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  48. Orkney islands could get first electric plane service

    68 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  49. Fuzzing TCP servers

    68 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  50. How the Reformulation of OxyContin Ignited the Heroin Epidemic [pdf]

    68 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  51. Why I never finish my Haskell programs (part 2)

    68 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  52. The truth about ‘breakthrough’ drugs

    68 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  53. Europe is drawing fresh battle lines around the ethics of big data

    68 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  54. Meet the Endoterrestrials

    68 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  55. A forgotten theory of dreams that inspired Vladimir Nabokov

    68 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  56. Micromusic.net chiptune radio (1999)

    68 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  57. Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?

    68 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  58. What's the significance of 0.05 significance? (2013)

    68 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  59. Apple rejects Puffin Browser on iOS

    68 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  60. Why can't all cities have bike bridges like Copenhagen's Cycle Snake? (2014)

    68 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  61. A Commodore hacker’s story

    68 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  62. Smart homes and vegetable peelers

    68 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  63. Catalog of Missing Devices: Gadgets that could exist if not for copyright laws

    68 points • comment • feb 03, 2018

  64. Declassified documents show three Mexican presidents worked for the CIA

    68 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  65. 7 is the largest prime followed by a cubic number

    68 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  66. Elon Musk vs. Short sellers

    68 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  67. Show HN: I made wits.io where writers can earn money with book summaries

    68 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  68. Liberating a X200

    68 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  69. Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?

    68 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  70. The Boys Are Not All Right

    68 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  71. Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection in 2016 Memo, While Warning of Death

    68 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  72. Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages

    68 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  73. Keeping “Free Law” Free

    68 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  74. Introducing Navigate on Autopilot

    68 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  75. Elmore Leonard's Rules for Writers (2010)

    68 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  76. ML-powered newspaper for showing news from many political perspectives

    68 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  77. Ask HN: What are some of the simplest software businesses that exist?

    68 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  78. Wordmesh: Using t-SNE and word2vec to generate clustered wordclouds

    68 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  79. The Benefits of Server Side Rendering Over Client Side Rendering

    68 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  80. Heat loss from big corporate projects

    68 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  81. Attacking end-to-end email encryption [video]

    68 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  82. A Survey of $RANDOM

    68 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  83. Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content

    68 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  84. Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?

    68 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  85. Introduction to the Pony programming language

    68 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  86. GAN Lab: An Interactive, Visual Experimentation Tool for GANs

    68 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  87. Samsung Unveils 32 GB DDR4-2666 SO-DIMMs

    68 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  88. Big Trouble at 3nm

    68 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  89. Show HN: I ran sentiment analysis on Show HN comments and got the meanest ones

    68 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  90. Molecular oxygen in comet's atmosphere not created on its surface

    68 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  91. NSA ‘Systematically Moving’ All Its Data to the Cloud

    68 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  92. Seattle’s Mystery Soda Machine Has Gone Missing

    68 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  93. British Rail Corporate Identity from 1965–1994

    68 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  94. Benchmarking OS primitives

    67 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  95. More compute shaders

    67 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  96. MS Windows Once Caused Second Life To Break An Inkjet Printer

    67 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  97. Ask HN: Is there server-side software that we are missing in 2018?

    67 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  98. You can't debug distributed systems with dashboards

    67 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  99. When Televisions Emitted X-Rays

    67 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  100. Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA

    67 points • comment • mar 20, 2018