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Hacker News (2018)

What would happen if you had a golf ball that doubled in density once an hour?
60 points • comment • jun 20, 2018
Sawppy the Rover
60 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
TCP-Starvation
60 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
MIT Should Not Be Supporting the Saud Monarchy
60 points • comment • may 07, 2018
Comcast 'blocks' encrypted email service: Reminder of why net neutrality matters
60 points • comment • mar 12, 2018
Newly digitized recordings offer a glimpse of the Ukrainian-Jewish past
60 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
Economists See Merit in Trump’s Trade Case Against China
60 points • comment • mar 24, 2018
John Urschel's Favorite Theorem
60 points • comment • may 10, 2018
Reddit holds the secret to fixing Facebook
60 points • comment • mar 14, 2018
King’s Quest: The Tale of How an Nvidia Engineer’s Cube Became His Castle (2014)
60 points • comment • may 11, 2018
MyHeritage Says 92M User Accounts Have Been Compromised
60 points • comment • jun 20, 2018
Children of the Opioid Epidemic
60 points • comment • may 12, 2018
What caused the Black Death and could it strike again? (2016)
60 points • comment • jun 17, 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
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
The Fast Meme Transform: Convert Audio into Linux Commands
60 points • comment • jul 13, 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
Remains of the murdered Romanovs 'authentic'
60 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning
60 points • comment • may 18, 2018
About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.3
60 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
Macedonia Agrees to Change Its Name to End Bitter Dispute with Greece
60 points • comment • jun 12, 2018
OrmHate (2012)
60 points • comment • may 21, 2018
Engineering and Software Engineering (2010) [pdf]
60 points • comment • may 22, 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
Sabre (computer system)
60 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
Still All on One Server: Perforce at Scale (2011) [pdf]
60 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
GitHub Commit Forgery
60 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
Ask HN: Are you a remote worker that escaped to the countryside?
60 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
How Hard Is It to Get a Cartoon into the New Yorker? (2011)
60 points • comment • mar 21, 2018
Tackling youth unemployment by growing mushrooms from coffee waste
60 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
Dream launches online VR collaboration and productivity tool
59 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
Why Your Health Insurer Doesn’t Care About Your Big Bills
59 points • comment • may 28, 2018
Scientists are working to eliminate senescent cells
59 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Investigated
59 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
The Next Great Digital Extinction
59 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
Urban Housing Solution That Has No Good Name
59 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
The Hair of Physicists (2012)
59 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
Unique brain “fingerprint” can predict drug effectiveness
59 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
Sony Venice – Full Frame Digital Cinematography Camera
59 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
Tusk: an unofficial, open-source Evernote app
59 points • comment • jun 03, 2018
Why US Inequality Is Worse Than Other Developed Nations
59 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
Whistleblower alleges manipulation in the VIX fear gauge
59 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
How Swift’s Mirror Works
59 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
Fossil – A high-reliability distributed software configuration management system
59 points • comment • jun 04, 2018
Is the iconic Parisian bistro dying?
59 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
XNU kernel heap overflow due to bad bounds checking in MPTCP
59 points • comment • jun 05, 2018
When Burkina Faso Vibrated with a New Culture
59 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
Thousands of Americans Will Be Denied a Passport Because of Unpaid Taxes
59 points • comment • jul 07, 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
Three bad recipes generated by neural network (2017)
59 points • comment • jun 16, 2018
Six women computer scientists respond to why women don’t pursue computer science
59 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
Special Paint on the Hood of the World War II Jeep Could Detect Mustard Gas
59 points • comment • jun 09, 2018
Hacking an assault tank...a Nerf one
59 points • comment • sep 16, 2018
Eric Weinstein on the crisis of late capitalism
59 points • comment • jul 04, 2018
Storage access policy: Block cookies from trackers
59 points • comment • sep 22, 2018
Research team uncovers lost images from the 19th century
59 points • comment • jun 22, 2018
First Evidence of Sleep in Flight
59 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
Selfie: new book explores how we became so self-obsessed
59 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
SQLite Code of Conduct
59 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
As Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise, Major Crops Are Losing Nutrients
59 points • comment • jun 19, 2018
The down side to wind power
59 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
A Simple Guide to Machine Learning with Decision Trees
59 points • comment • mar 28, 2018
Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in 2016
59 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
The Sierra Network
59 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
Twitter apologizes for 'Kill all Jews' trending topic
59 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
The Book Is a Time Machine
59 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
Bigger brains are smarter, but not by much
59 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
The Death Row Book Club
59 points • comment • mar 29, 2018
Notes on using git-replace to get rid of giant objects
59 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
It’s time to rethink the purpose of travel
59 points • comment • jun 18, 2018
Pioneering study finds more than 200,000 rats in Barcelona’s sewers
59 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger
59 points • comment • jun 27, 2018
GopherCon 2018 Performance Tuning Workshop
59 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
Hyperloop costs and challenges undermine pinned hopes
59 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
AP: Video expert says White House clip of CNN reporter was likely doctored
59 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
How One Jira Ticket Made My Employer $1MM/Month: 7 Metrics That Actually Matter
59 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
NFL players' surprising performance hack: going vegan
59 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
An Astronaut Who Might Get Us to Mars
59 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
The year in post-quantum crypto [video]
59 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
Fortran is still a thing (2017)
59 points • comment • jun 07, 2018
Are Cities Making Animals Smarter?
59 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
Announcing the MapD Cloud: self-service GPU-accelerated analytics
59 points • comment • apr 03, 2018
See No Evil: Transparency in the Supply Chain
59 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech-To-Text
59 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
My Life in Pens (2009)
59 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
The search for Jackie Wallace
59 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
Welcome to DNS, or Saving the DNS Camel [pdf]
59 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
Cooking the Books: Optimizing Purchase and Use of Ingredients
59 points • comment • jan 17, 2018