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Hacker News (2018)

  1. Be kind (2016)

    331 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  2. The scientists who starved to death surrounded by food

    331 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  3. Elixir at PagerDuty

    331 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  4. Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit

    331 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  5. Redesigning the Scientific Paper

    331 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  6. The Titanic Was on Fire for Days Before the Iceberg Hit

    331 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  7. Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know

    331 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  8. C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books

    331 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  9. 3D Color Print

    331 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  10. TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C

    331 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  11. Survivorship bias and startup hype

    331 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  12. Interns with toasters: how I taught people about load balancers

    331 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  13. NASA finds a large amount of water in an exoplanet's atmosphere

    331 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  14. Try OCaml

    331 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  15. Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research

    331 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  16. Steve Wozniak Recounts His Efforts to Engineer the Apple II Floppy Disk System

    331 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  17. Having Alzheimer’s at 38 (2015)

    331 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  18. Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support

    331 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  19. Italian Anti-Corruption Authority Adopts Onion Services

    331 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  20. Ndb – An improved debugging experience for Node.js

    330 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  21. Lasik’s Risks Are Coming into Sharper Focus

    330 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  22. Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

    330 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  23. How The New York Times Uses Software to Recognize Members of Congress

    330 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  24. Who controls glibc?

    330 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  25. The Waiting Time Paradox, Or, Why Is My Bus Always Late?

    330 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  26. Show HN: Learn how to work remotely from people doing it every day

    330 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  27. Teacher in Ghana has no computers so he draws Microsoft Word on the blackboard

    330 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  28. IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses

    330 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  29. GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button

    330 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  30. Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (2016)

    330 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  31. Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine

    329 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  32. Google Maps Platform

    329 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  33. Ask HN: Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverless” architecture?

    329 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  34. How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance

    329 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  35. The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging

    329 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  36. Introduction to A* (1997)

    329 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  37. Some obscure C features

    329 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  38. TinySeed – A Startup Accelerator Designed for Bootstrappers

    329 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  39. Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication

    329 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  40. A Road to Common Lisp

    328 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  41. The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter

    328 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  42. Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

    328 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  43. Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform

    328 points • comment • feb 18, 2018

  44. Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker

    328 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  45. Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Leaked on Twitter

    328 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  46. Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them

    328 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  47. Panic Attacks

    328 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  48. Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve

    328 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  49. Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes capture

    328 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  50. Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

    328 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  51. Wells Fargo Bans Cryptocurrency Purchases on Its Credit Cards

    328 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  52. Tech company career ladders

    328 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  53. My Amazon Interview Horror Story

    328 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  54. Google Maps is no longer a flat map

    328 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  55. Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

    328 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  56. Saas CTO Security Checklist

    328 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  57. “Modern” C++ Lamentations

    328 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  58. Go += Package Versioning

    328 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  59. IRC turns thirty

    328 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  60. Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (113 Models Explained)

    328 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  61. Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)

    327 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  62. Brutalist Design Is the Bad Influence We All Need

    327 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  63. Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast

    327 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  64. Should you use www or not in your domain? (2017)

    327 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  65. WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages

    327 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  66. The Bulk of Software Engineering in 2018 Is Just Plumbing

    327 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  67. YC's Series A Diligence Checklist

    327 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  68. Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful

    327 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  69. FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than was thought

    327 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  70. Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59%

    327 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  71. Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting down sometime in 2020

    327 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  72. Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%

    327 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  73. Car Hacker's Handbook (2016)

    327 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  74. Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”

    327 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  75. British intelligence hacked Belgacom then sabotaged investigation

    327 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  76. iOS 12 Safari Array reverse bug

    327 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  77. Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought

    326 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  78. Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts

    326 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  79. Ask HN: Any recommended resources to develop system thinking?

    326 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  80. Facebook turned on face recognition silently

    326 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  81. Long Live Mister Rogers' Quiet Revolution

    326 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  82. Rust things I miss in C

    326 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  83. Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code

    326 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  84. AdamW and Super-convergence is now the fastest way to train neural nets

    326 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  85. How did Google get so big?

    326 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  86. Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements

    326 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  87. People can die from giving up the fight

    326 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  88. 'Talent Wants Transit': Companies Near Transportation Gaining the Upper Hand

    326 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  89. Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

    326 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  90. Fertility 'breakthrough' as human eggs grown in lab for first time

    325 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  91. Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You Need to Know

    325 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  92. Attacks against machine learning – an overview

    325 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  93. NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars

    325 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  94. Why I Don't Sign Non-Competes

    325 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  95. LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro

    325 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  96. The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video]

    325 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  97. I fought Equifax's lawyers in court and won: Part 2

    325 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  98. Fellow Engineers: This is where your money comes from

    325 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  99. Notes on Discrete Mathematics (2017) [pdf]

    325 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  100. New Evidence That Lead Exposure Increases Crime (2017)

    325 points • comment • aug 31, 2018