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Hacker News (2018)

Polygenic adaptation and convergent evolution in rainforest hunter-gatherers
54 points • comment • may 10, 2018
Ask HN: Work from home (WFH) setup
54 points • comment • may 11, 2018
AdGuard Pro for iOS will be discontinued due to Apple's policy
54 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
Star Performer Created a ‘Toxic Culture’ at Silicon Valley Community Foundation
54 points • comment • may 12, 2018
A static binary rewriter that does not use heuristics
54 points • comment • may 12, 2018
Building a $30k/Month User Testing Service – Askable Co-Founder Interview
54 points • comment • may 12, 2018
Show HN: Yet Another HN “Who's Hiring” Browser
54 points • comment • may 13, 2018
Mail-Order Magazines Did More Than Just Sell Things
54 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
Show HN: Anansi – a NoWeb-inspired literate programming preprocessor
54 points • comment • jul 08, 2018
Picture of Single Trapped Atom Wins UK Science Photography Prize
54 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
Understanding the first imperative of a commercial Certificate Authority
54 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
Kola Superdeep Borehole
54 points • comment • jun 18, 2018
Bitcoin estimated to use 0.5% of the world's electric energy by end of 2018
54 points • comment • may 16, 2018
Steve, a Famous Northern Light, Stays Mysterious and Keeps His Name
54 points • comment • mar 16, 2018
QISKit: A software development kit for writing quantum computing programs
54 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
How North Korean hackers became the world’s greatest bank robbers
54 points • comment • may 20, 2018
I know how hard it would have been to escape the helicopter crash in NYC
54 points • comment • mar 18, 2018
What's the history behind 192.168.1.1?
54 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
An Underground Farm Delivering Rare Herbs to New York’s Top Chefs
54 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
The US is running out of bombs – and it may soon struggle to make more
54 points • comment • may 22, 2018
Apple's iPhones Trail Samsung, Google Devices in Internet Speeds
54 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
Spain leads the world in organ donation. What’s stopping other countries?
54 points • comment • jun 27, 2018
Bloomberg: In an era of hyper-wealth, economy-class rich starts at $25M
54 points • comment • may 24, 2018
What Are the Differences Between Clojure, Scheme/Racket and Common Lisp?
54 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
Apple has removed Infowars podcasts from iTunes
54 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
The Ascetic Beauty of Brancusi
54 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
China’s social credit system ‘could interfere in other nations’ sovereignty’
54 points • comment • jun 28, 2018
Ask HN: Which project management and team communication software do you use?
54 points • comment • jun 26, 2018
RSA-230 has been factored
53 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
Your “high bar” is wrecking your team
53 points • comment • jun 21, 2018
Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding
53 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
Complex Animals Led to More Oxygen, Says Maverick Theory
53 points • comment • mar 21, 2018
Hurricane Maria Killed as Many American Citizens as 9/11 Did
53 points • comment • sep 22, 2018
A comparison of adaptive radix trees and hash tables [pdf]
53 points • comment • may 29, 2018
Show HN: An “automatic” way to learn Chinese
53 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
DSP Inside TI Radar Puts AI on Edge
53 points • comment • may 31, 2018
Show HN: Just Get Me Food
53 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
1971 B5500 Eliza clone written in Lispified Algol
53 points • comment • jun 19, 2018
Show HN: A simple interactive resume-making tool
53 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
Oral History of John Backus (2006) [pdf]
53 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
Automated PCB Reverse Engineering (2017) [pdf]
53 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
Millenials aren't entitled; Boomers were just lucky
53 points • comment • mar 23, 2018
Show HN: Crypto Table – A Periodic Table of Cryptocurrencies
53 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
Hardware Guy – A short story (2010)
53 points • comment • jun 02, 2018
GPS mapping application in uLisp
53 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
For the U.S. And China, a Technology Cold War That’s Freezing Over
53 points • comment • mar 24, 2018
Show HN: A cross platform app for mirroring the clipboard between synced devices
53 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
Cloth: ClojureScript and Clojure library for interacting with Ethereum
53 points • comment • mar 24, 2018
Money can buy happiness, but not unconditionally
53 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
New way to recycle lithium-ion batteries
53 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
Sipeed MAIX: inexpensive, crowd-funded RISC-V module
53 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
Group Opposing Sex Work Gave Money to Prosecutors: Got Stings Against Johns
53 points • comment • mar 24, 2018
Donating $1B to help accelerate land and ocean conservation
53 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
Google Parent Alphabet and Aramco in Talks to Build Tech Hub in Saudi Arabia
53 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
Show HN: CattlePi automated setup and updates for Raspberry Pi(s)
53 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
Facebook buys offline data gathered by marketers or gathered from other sources
53 points • comment • mar 25, 2018
Phobos May Have Come from Massive Impact on Mars
53 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
Ancient DNA sheds light on what happened to the Taino, the native Caribbeans
53 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
A Cyclical Theory of Open Source
53 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
SEC Names Valerie A. Szczepanik Senior Advisor for Digital Assets and Innovation
53 points • comment • jun 06, 2018
Show HN: Simple note-taking and blogging
53 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
Rooftop solar power may be flooding the grid
53 points • comment • jun 07, 2018
Keybase advisory: Local Privilege Escalation on Linux via Keybase-Redirector
53 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
Business students more likely to have a brain parasite spread by cats
53 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
Twitter says bug may have exposed some direct messages to third-party developers
53 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
Drupal Core – Highly Critical – Remote Code Execution
53 points • comment • mar 28, 2018
Become a Facebook-Free Business
53 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
China will soon have air power rivalling the West’s
53 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
Bruce Schneier: “Click Here to Kill Everybody” [video]
53 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
Show HN: More feedback for Show HN stories
53 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
Avatars, identicons, and hash visualization
53 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
A Kingdom from Dust
53 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
Collecting and the age of memeing
53 points • comment • nov 03, 2018
The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
53 points • comment • mar 30, 2018
FRAMES – A Framework for Representing Knowledge (1974)
53 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
Technological Change and Obsolete Skills: Evidence from Men’s Pro Tennis (2017) [pdf]
53 points • comment • mar 30, 2018
Show HN: Crowdsourced Language Learning Site
53 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
Pass-Through Businesses Are Rethinking Their Status in Wake of Tax Law
53 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
The New Retirement Plan: Save Almost Everything, Spend Virtually Nothing
53 points • comment • nov 03, 2018
Fine Print: Unusual legal footnotes
53 points • comment • apr 01, 2018
University friends: By chance or by design?
53 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
Methods for Studying Coincidences (1989) [pdf]
53 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
Reading bits in far too many ways
53 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
London murder rate overtakes New York for first time ever
53 points • comment • apr 02, 2018
Mathematics in the 20th century – Sir Michael Atiyah [pdf]
53 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
Before Present
53 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
Do images of the brain make us more likely to believe what we read?
53 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
Gaming's most fiendish anti-piracy tricks (2010)
53 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
‘Quantum Atmospheres’ May Reveal Secrets of Matter
53 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
Retpoline: A Branch Target Injection Mitigation [pdf]
53 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
New Hardware for Massive Neural Networks (1988) [pdf]
53 points • comment • nov 03, 2018
To Make Sassages
53 points • comment • apr 05, 2018
Customized regression model for Airbnb dynamic pricing
53 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
Pseudonymisation is helping firms comply with GDPR
53 points • comment • apr 05, 2018
Exploring Programming Language Architecture in Perl (2010)
53 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
Doug McIlroy's C++ regular expression matching library
53 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are
53 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
Meltdown and Spectre with Matt Godbolt [audio]
53 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
Is there an actual Facebook crisis, or media narrative about Facebook crisis?
53 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
How to become a successful artist on Mastodon
53 points • comment • jun 24, 2018