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Hacker News (2018)

Why we should all be using Windows 95
52 points • comment • may 07, 2018
Integer overflow and SMT-solvers
52 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
Study: Renters in high-rent cities are as NIMBY as homeowners
52 points • comment • mar 12, 2018
I Bought Used Voting Machines on EBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming
52 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
Peloton raises $550M at a valuation of $4B
52 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
Nissan Chairman Ghosn arrested in Japan over financial law violation
52 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
Adventures in vulnerability reporting
52 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
Detecting Screen Content via Remote Acoustic Side Channels
52 points • comment • sep 02, 2018
Ask HN: What makes you happy in life?
52 points • comment • may 10, 2018
The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War
52 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
Ask HN: How are you implementing GDPR-compliant soft deletes?
52 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
Memo Life for You
52 points • comment • may 11, 2018
The narcissism epidemic is dead?
52 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
Syfy has canceled the Expanse, but its producers want to find it a new home
52 points • comment • may 12, 2018
A ride in Kitty Hawk’s flying car
52 points • comment • jun 07, 2018
A plea for stability in the SciPy ecosystem
52 points • comment • may 13, 2018
Zuckerberg Secretly Called Trump After the Election
52 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
To Test Einstein’s Equations, Poke a Black Hole
52 points • comment • mar 15, 2018
High-Resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python (2011)
52 points • comment • may 14, 2018
Ask HN: Anyone using Nixos in production?
52 points • comment • may 15, 2018
Faulty Logic: Debating won’t bring us closer to truth
52 points • comment • may 15, 2018
Show HN: Five Thousand Novels, Ranked by Vividness
52 points • comment • jul 10, 2018
Introducing kEdge: a fresh approach to cross-cluster communication
52 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
Peter Thiel Employee Helped Cambridge Analytica Before It Harvested Data
52 points • comment • mar 28, 2018
U.S. lawmakers want Google to reconsider links to China's Huawei
52 points • comment • jun 20, 2018
DigitalOcean doubles all plan memory for free, and provides more plan options
52 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
The scooter company that raised 400M in 4 months is what is wrong with SV
52 points • comment • jul 01, 2018
Oddball Galaxy Puts Dark Matter Theory to the Test
52 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
Northern Lights as seen from inside a U2 spy plane
52 points • comment • mar 18, 2018
Ask HN: Working remotely in Portugal for an Irish company
52 points • comment • mar 18, 2018
Ariane chief seems frustrated with SpaceX for driving down launch costs
52 points • comment • may 21, 2018
Facebook Locking Out GDPR Users Until They Consent
52 points • comment • may 22, 2018
OPDS – A standard for digital content distribution
52 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
Compile Time Prevention of SQL-Injections in Rust
52 points • comment • may 22, 2018
Building and Running a Geographically Distributed Engineering Team
52 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
Murders in US very concentrated (2017)
52 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
Creating a Unique Beer “Koozie” and Growing to $1.1M/month
52 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
Ask HN: Has anyone experienced workplace training that made a difference?
52 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
Engineered Band Gap Pushes Graphene Closer to Displacing Silicon
52 points • comment • may 26, 2018
Naked Europe covers up
51 points • comment • sep 01, 2018
Node.js v9.9.0
51 points • comment • mar 21, 2018
A new kind of labor movement in Silicon Valley?
51 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
Show HN: Golimit – Ringpop-based distributed and decentralized rate limiter
51 points • comment • may 29, 2018
Spiking attractor networks
51 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
Walmart Launches Small Army of Autonomous Scanning Robots
51 points • comment • mar 22, 2018
Addicted to vaped nicotine, teenagers have no clear path to quitting
51 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
Energy-efficient encryption for the internet of things
51 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
Nvidia Gives Lackluster Forecast on Inventory, Shares Plunge
51 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
Hacker Guccifer 2.0 revealed as Russian agent when forgets VPN
51 points • comment • mar 23, 2018
Valve’s “Steam Play” Uses Vulkan to Bring More Windows Games to Linux
51 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
Lucky iron fish
51 points • comment • mar 23, 2018
Bitcoin key mechanism and elliptic curves over finite fields
51 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
Google's 'secret' smart city on Toronto's waterfront sparks row
51 points • comment • mar 23, 2018
California lets self-driving startup Zoox offer autonomous rides
51 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
Enterprise Wi-Fi at home: Reflecting on almost three years with pro gear
51 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
Comparison of text editing methods
51 points • comment • sep 02, 2018
The function that gives AI value is the ability to make predictions
51 points • comment • jul 10, 2018
Drones Used to Find Toy-Like “Butterfly” Land Mines
51 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
xkcd's 2018 CVE List
51 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
Beyond Sexual Orientation (2016)
51 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
Michael Phelps Says He Contemplated Suicide After 2012 Olympics
51 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
Catching integer overflows in C
51 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
BACE1 deletion in the adult mouse reverses preformed amyloid deposition
51 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
State data to be used to limit child gamers in China
51 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
11,000 years ago, our ancestors survived abrupt climate change
51 points • comment • mar 26, 2018
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, Citizens (2014) [pdf]
51 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
Did Ken, Ritchie and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminated text strings? (2011)
51 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
Academics Shouldn't Sell Out Truth for Justice
51 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
Regexp Ranges and Locales: A Long Sad Story
51 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
Maclisp Dunnet (1982)
51 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
Show HN: CloudMapper, open-source tool for visualizing AWS environments
51 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
Damn It All: The Penguin Book of Hell
51 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
Ask HN: How do I find meaningful things to work on if programming is a hobby?
51 points • comment • mar 28, 2018
How Yan Lianke Became China's Most Controversial Satirist
51 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
Gene Medic: retro edutainment game for the Atari 2600 in 6502 assembly language
51 points • comment • mar 29, 2018
Apps, Trackers, Privacy, and Regulators: The Mobile Tracking Ecosystem [pdf]
51 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
Suspicious Minds
51 points • comment • jul 21, 2018
Canadian Supreme Court: Reporter must give RCMP material about accused terrorist
51 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
Japan to buy at least 20 more F-35A stealth fighters
51 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
Kickstarter vs. Indiegogo – A Creator's Perspective
51 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
The manned elevators of NYC (2017)
51 points • comment • mar 29, 2018
Disumbrationism, a Hoax Art Movement of the 1920s
51 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
Something doesn’t ad up about America’s advertising market
51 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
The Amazon Alexa Eavesdropping Nightmare Came True
51 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
Coffee sold in California must carry cancer warning, judge rules
51 points • comment • mar 30, 2018
Project Volutus: Micro data centers at base of cell towers
51 points • comment • nov 03, 2018
Microsoft is putting Windows on the back burner
51 points • comment • mar 30, 2018
Phonautograph
51 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
What Is Going to Happen With Whois?
51 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
Rasterization in One Weekend
51 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
How we made the microprocessor
51 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
The State of Web Browsers – 2019 edition
51 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
The Dozenal Society of America
51 points • comment • apr 01, 2018
Why most female newscasters have the same hair
51 points • comment • sep 15, 2018
GitLab Is Moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform
51 points • comment • jun 25, 2018
Stop using strncpy already (2013)
51 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
Ask HN: What best practices for in-house Docker Registry?
51 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
A frugal social worker left $11M to children's charities in his will
51 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
The richest American family hired terrorists to shoot sleeping families
51 points • comment • apr 03, 2018
The Death of the IPO
51 points • comment • oct 27, 2018