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Hacker News (2018)

The lack of security guarantees of Spectre-V1 mitigations
60 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
'Anti-meme law' could see Mexicans jailed for posting insulting images
60 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
Comcast 'blocks' encrypted email service: Reminder of why net neutrality matters
60 points • comment • mar 12, 2018
Rust Runtime for AWS Lambda
60 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
Show HN: Qeys.io – Web app license validation
60 points • comment • jun 07, 2018
Upcoming Changes to PNG Support at Twitter
60 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
John Urschel's Favorite Theorem
60 points • comment • may 10, 2018
How we’ve scaled Dropbox (2012) [video]
60 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
Reddit holds the secret to fixing Facebook
60 points • comment • mar 14, 2018
Noisy: Random DNS, HTTP/S traffic noise generator
60 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
King’s Quest: The Tale of How an Nvidia Engineer’s Cube Became His Castle (2014)
60 points • comment • may 11, 2018
Children of the Opioid Epidemic
60 points • comment • may 12, 2018
Engineering and Software Engineering (2010) [pdf]
60 points • comment • may 22, 2018
Intel Begins EOL Plan for Xeon Phi 7200-Series ‘Knights Landing’ Host Processors
60 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy
60 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
Unpacking 260k visitor photos at the Royal Ontario Museum
60 points • comment • may 15, 2018
Facebook Publishes Enforcement Numbers for the First Time
60 points • comment • may 15, 2018
WebGPU demos
60 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
Van Gogh’s Japanese Idyll
60 points • comment • jun 26, 2018
A source emailed me his life’s work. Then, he ended his life
60 points • comment • mar 16, 2018
Top-level domain name registry service on Google App Engine (registry.Google)
60 points • comment • may 16, 2018
Kidnapping insurance keeps a lid on ransom inflation
60 points • comment • may 29, 2018
Zyxel Germany: Recorded telephone calls publicly available
60 points • comment • may 17, 2018
Google Maps Platform now integrated with the GCP Console
60 points • comment • may 17, 2018
Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning
60 points • comment • may 18, 2018
MyHeritage Says 92M User Accounts Have Been Compromised
60 points • comment • jun 20, 2018
About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.3
60 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
MacBook Pro 15 (2018) – Beware the Core i9
60 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
Still All on One Server: Perforce at Scale (2011) [pdf]
60 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
Mellite: an environment for creating experimental computer-based music
60 points • comment • jul 27, 2018
What would happen if you had a golf ball that doubled in density once an hour?
60 points • comment • jun 20, 2018
California High Court Rules Starbucks Must Pay for Off-The-Clock Work
60 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
Newly digitized recordings offer a glimpse of the Ukrainian-Jewish past
60 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
Amazon Teams Up with Law Enforcement to Deploy New Facial Recognition Technology
60 points • comment • may 22, 2018
Some people repeatedly win the Wisconsin Lottery. Do they play fair?
60 points • comment • mar 19, 2018
Exquisite Corpse: The Winter of 1947 in Europe
60 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
U.S. Government Can’t Get Rid of Kaspersky Labs Software
60 points • comment • may 23, 2018
How Stack Overflow for Teams Fits into the Community
60 points • comment • may 24, 2018
Severely injured worker sues Tesla
60 points • comment • may 24, 2018
Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing
60 points • comment • mar 20, 2018
Using International Students as Cash Cows Does No One Any Favours
59 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
Why Your Health Insurer Doesn’t Care About Your Big Bills
59 points • comment • may 28, 2018
Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?
59 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Investigated
59 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
Machine Identification Code
59 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger
59 points • comment • jun 27, 2018
Call/cc for C programmers (2012)
59 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
Unsupervised Predictive Memory in a Goal-Directed Agent
59 points • comment • may 29, 2018
The End of the TV Writers’ Room?
59 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
Urban Housing Solution That Has No Good Name
59 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
Storage access policy: Block cookies from trackers
59 points • comment • sep 22, 2018
Three bad recipes generated by neural network (2017)
59 points • comment • jun 16, 2018
'Liquid gold': students make world's first brick out of human urine
59 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
Tusk: an unofficial, open-source Evernote app
59 points • comment • jun 03, 2018
How to Brexit? – Explore the (im)possibilities of the different Brexit scenarios
59 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
Whistleblower alleges manipulation in the VIX fear gauge
59 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
Burying ‘One Child’ Limits, China Pushes Women to Have More Babies
59 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
Apple Rejects Academic App That Detects Net Neutrality Violations
59 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
GopherCon 2018 Performance Tuning Workshop
59 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
Stripe won't work with lower than TLS 1.2, starting tomorrow
59 points • comment • jun 13, 2018
The Next Great Digital Extinction
59 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
A Simple Guide to Machine Learning with Decision Trees
59 points • comment • mar 28, 2018
A Mathematician’s Apology (1940) [pdf]
59 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
The Sierra Network
59 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
Suspect born on 29 Feb 2000 commits crime on 28 Feb 2018
59 points • comment • sep 13, 2018
The Death Row Book Club
59 points • comment • mar 29, 2018
China is crushing Europe's electric car dreams
59 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
US officials: Kaspersky “Slingshot” report burned anti-terror operation
59 points • comment • mar 21, 2018
Quantifying the impact of the Twitter fake accounts purge – a technical analysis
59 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
The Tragedy at Tofino, B.C.: Inside the Sinking of Leviathan II
59 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
Genetic programming and the halting problem (2006) [video]
59 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
The Strange Case of the Missing Joyce Scholar
59 points • comment • jun 12, 2018
Are Cities Making Animals Smarter?
59 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
Hyperloop costs and challenges undermine pinned hopes
59 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
See No Evil: Transparency in the Supply Chain
59 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
How One Jira Ticket Made My Employer $1MM/Month: 7 Metrics That Actually Matter
59 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade
59 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
An Astronaut Who Might Get Us to Mars
59 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
How Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition
59 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
Announcing the MapD Cloud: self-service GPU-accelerated analytics
59 points • comment • apr 03, 2018
A History of Flavoring Food with Castoreum
59 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
Ask HN: Why aren't you using a public cloud?
59 points • comment • may 20, 2018
Bigger brains are smarter, but not by much
59 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
The search for Jackie Wallace
59 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
Beijing to Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020
59 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
Cooking the Books: Optimizing Purchase and Use of Ingredients
59 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
Strest – Flexible REST Tests in YAML
59 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
SBFT: A Scalable Decentralized Trust Infrastructure for Blockchains
59 points • comment • apr 06, 2018
A material found to carry current in a way never before observed
59 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
Swimming with Sharks: Navy Physician Remembers the Indianapolis Disaster
59 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
On the reproducibility of Perturbative Neural Networks, in response to Reddit
59 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
Facebook Stock Tanks After Data Breach Report, Shaving Off Billions
59 points • comment • mar 19, 2018
CosmoFlow: Using Deep Learning to Learn the Universe at Scale
59 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
Reverse Engineering WhatsApp
59 points • comment • apr 09, 2018
The Taming of the Screw (2000)
59 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
A history of CPAN (2015)
59 points • comment • jun 25, 2018
Production Rules (Read-Eval-Print-λove)
59 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
Common Mistakes in Firebase Security Rules
59 points • comment • apr 10, 2018
Post-mortem: MRI disables every iOS device in facility
59 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
All EFF’d Up
59 points • comment • jul 05, 2018