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Hacker News (2018)

  1. Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench

    358 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  2. Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

    357 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  3. GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

    357 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  4. California to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present

    357 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  5. Depixelizing Pixel Art (2011)

    357 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  6. EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen

    357 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  7. Unexpected challenges of making money on the internet

    357 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  8. Android P

    357 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  9. Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material

    357 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  10. Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition for its U.S. workers

    357 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  11. Examples of everything new in ECMAScript 2016, 2017, and 2018

    356 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  12. VirtualBox 6.0 released

    356 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  13. Show HN: Hacker News job trends

    356 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  14. How Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate America’s Nightmare

    356 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  15. Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims

    356 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  16. Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States

    356 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  17. Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides

    356 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  18. Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online for Less Than $10k

    356 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  19. Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended

    355 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  20. SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round

    355 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  21. Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous

    355 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  22. Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29

    355 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  23. Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen

    355 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  24. Model-Based Machine Learning Book

    355 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  25. Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?

    355 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  26. Toml: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language

    355 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  27. The Secret API of Banks

    355 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  28. Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps

    354 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  29. Psychedelics could heal brain cells in people suffering from depression: study

    354 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  30. Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB

    354 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  31. Web application from scratch, part I

    354 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  32. Ask HN: What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?

    354 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  33. Getting to Go: Garbage collection and runtime issues

    354 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  34. Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Messages, Location Data Exposed

    354 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  35. Show HN: Mimicking the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript

    354 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  36. Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention (2015)

    354 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  37. Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues (2015)

    354 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  38. TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming

    354 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  39. Appropriate Uses for SQLite

    353 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  40. Cloudflare's new DNS attracting 'gigabits per second' of rubbish

    353 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  41. Ask HN: Anyone making money through algorithmic trading?

    353 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  42. Create Statistics in PostgreSQL 10

    353 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  43. Fast, Safe, and Complete(ish) Web Service in Rust

    353 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  44. Illegal Production and Use of Banned CFC-11 in China's Foam Blowing Industry

    353 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  45. My Journey into Fractals

    353 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  46. Apple T2 Security Chip: Security Overview [pdf]

    353 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  47. Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2B

    353 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  48. Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica researcher

    353 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  49. Cities don't have to offer huge subsidies to companies like Apple and Amazon

    353 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  50. The Game Engine Black Book: Doom

    353 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  51. Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’

    353 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  52. Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals

    353 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  53. Ask HN: 40+ Career Advice?

    353 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  54. The Cube Rule of Food Identification

    352 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  55. On becoming a better developer (2015)

    352 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  56. The New Wave of Indian Type

    352 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  57. Show HN: Watch Stanford CS Lectures Together

    352 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  58. Be Nice and Write Stable Code

    352 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  59. AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys

    352 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  60. It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless

    352 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  61. Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

    352 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  62. Ask HN: What do you struggle with?

    352 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  63. The physics of baking good pizza

    351 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  64. Traveler sues US Customs and Border Protection over iPhone search and seizure

    351 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  65. Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft

    351 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  66. Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?

    351 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  67. Snapchat CEO’s leaked memo on survival

    351 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  68. How to Write a Technical Paper [pdf]

    351 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  69. GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development

    351 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  70. Conference call simulator

    351 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  71. Ikarus electric “rocket” – Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan [video]

    351 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  72. Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing

    351 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  73. In an Era of ‘Smart’ Things, Sometimes Dumb Stuff Is Better

    351 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  74. It’s About Time for Time Series Databases

    351 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  75. Libui: a portable GUI library for C

    351 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  76. Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America

    351 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  77. Why I've lost faith in p values

    351 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  78. Killing processes that don't want to die

    351 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  79. Clojure 1.10 release

    350 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  80. Giving up reading news will make us happier

    350 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  81. Impersonators who are paid to flirt on dating apps

    350 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  82. How an International Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100M

    350 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  83. Flow chart of cognitive biases

    350 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  84. WebSub: Open protocol for distributed pub–sub communication on the internet

    350 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  85. Software-Defined Radio for Engineers [pdf]

    350 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  86. Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost

    350 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  87. Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused

    350 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  88. Honda will use GM’s self-driving technology, invests in Cruise

    350 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  89. Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs

    349 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  90. What I learned in ten years of blogging

    349 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  91. How to Find Your Earliest Users

    349 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  92. My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine

    349 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  93. Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing what you click

    349 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  94. The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day

    349 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  95. There are real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, netstat, etc

    349 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  96. Post-Mortem and Security Advisory: Data Exposure After travis-ci.com Outage

    349 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  97. Real world SSD wearout

    349 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  98. The Real History of TechCrunch

    349 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  99. In 2004, Zuckerberg Broke Into a Facebook User's Private Email Account (2010)

    349 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  100. Ask HN: What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?

    348 points • comment • aug 06, 2018