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Hacker News (2018)

A California DMV employee who napped at work every day for 3 hours
29 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
Elon Musk and the Cult of the Celebrity Savior
29 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
Mailfence: Secure and private email service
29 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
Why We Must Practice the Art of Good Conversation
29 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
A guide for how to talk to a developer
29 points • comment • may 23, 2018
Ask HN: What is your blogging platform of choice in 2018?
29 points • comment • jun 05, 2018
Why I Don't Buy Organic, and Why You Might Not Want to Either
29 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
Hawaii official who sent false missile alert has been fired
29 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
Forensic Analysis and Anonymisation of Printed Documents [pdf]
29 points • comment • jun 27, 2018
Inaccurate Images of Colonial America Made by European Printmakers
29 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
Blocks Courtesy of Konrad Zuse (2014)
29 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
The Day the Golden Gate Bridge Flattened (2012)
29 points • comment • may 26, 2018
Elwha: Roaring back to life (2016)
29 points • comment • mar 21, 2018
How China acquires ‘the crown jewels’ of U.S. technology
29 points • comment • may 26, 2018
Ask HN: Government contracting
29 points • comment • jun 16, 2018
Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout (2004) [pdf]
29 points • comment • may 27, 2018
Google's new hardware security key was made by a Chinese company
29 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
I Know the Salaries of Thousands of Tech Employees
28 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
U.S. expected to impose up to $60B in China tariffs by Friday
28 points • comment • mar 20, 2018
MobileLab: Accurate testing to prevent mobile performance regressions
28 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
Announcing the deprecation of GitHub Services
28 points • comment • may 28, 2018
Vellvm – Verifying the LLVM [video]
28 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
Elizabeth Warren unveils bold new plan to reshape American capitalism
28 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
Show HN: StrongDM – 1-click access to any database or server in any environment
28 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
What Happened When I Tried Talking to Twitter Abusers
28 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
Belize’s thriving Afro-Caribbean community
28 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
Ask HN: How do remote workers deal with taxes?
28 points • comment • jun 26, 2018
Probiotics are mostly useless and can actually hurt you
28 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
Ambulances Were Called to Amazon Warehouses 600 Times in Three Years
28 points • comment • may 31, 2018
Slot-based UI development in Swift
28 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
Possible Church Built on the Site of Constantine’s Conversion to Christianity
28 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
A diet supplemented with red algae could reduce greenhouse gases emitted by cows
28 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
Show HN: Git-Ready to Deploy? Check for uncommitted and non-pushed changes
28 points • comment • jun 02, 2018
Elon Musk renames his BFR spacecraft Starship
28 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
Scaring Animals Can Help Save Them
28 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
The Future of Electric Cars Is Brighter with Elon Musk in It
28 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
It’s Tough Being a Right Whale These Days
28 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
Ask HN: What are your predictions for the next 10 years for our daily lives?
28 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
The Geeks Who Put a Stop to Pennsylvania's Partisan Gerrymandering
28 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
China reverses 25-year ban on trade and use of rhino horns and tiger bones
28 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
Citizen Thiel
28 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
To detect new odors, fruit fly brains improve on a well-known computer algorithm
28 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
Google Play Store’s Algorithm Quietly Changes, Tanking Some Apps’ Rankings
28 points • comment • jun 28, 2018
Saudi Arabia Says Jamal Khashoggi Is Dead
28 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
What Social Media are you using outside HN?
28 points • comment • mar 28, 2018
Financial Times bot warns if articles quote too many men
28 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
Put your keys in the fridge to keep them safe from car thieves
28 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
Apple will no longer report iPhone numbers
28 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
Show HN: CSS selector generator for shortest, unique, robust selectors
28 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
Ask HN: Where did you donate money in 2018?
28 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
The Political Path to GPS: How war and peace forged the universal map
28 points • comment • jun 19, 2018
Top 12 Things That Destroy Developer Productivity
28 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
New GDPR law becomes bedtime story for grown-ups
28 points • comment • jun 04, 2018
Runtime Analysis of the M-to-N Schedulling Model (1996) [pdf]
28 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
Trump Attacks Amazon, Saying It Does Not Pay Enough Taxes
28 points • comment • mar 29, 2018
New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+
28 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
European Parliament publishes a corrigendum to the GDPR
28 points • comment • jun 06, 2018
Cherry-Picking and the Scientific Method (2013) [pdf]
28 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
Ask HN: Best language for general AI programming?
28 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
‘Dead Skunk’ Stench from Marijuana Farms Outrages Californians
28 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
“Real developers don't use UIs”: The value of web UIs for CLI-oriented users
28 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
Google details just how good dark mode is for your battery
28 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
Working on Compiler-Assisted Performance Analysis on GCC
28 points • comment • may 30, 2018
Australia passes new law to thwart strong encryption
28 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
Tesla Says Autopilot Was Engaged in Fatal Crash Under Investigation
28 points • comment • mar 31, 2018
Firefox is now built with clang LTO on all platforms
28 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
The real reason the sound of your own voice makes you cringe
28 points • comment • jul 15, 2018
Google reads your gmails and scrape your purchases
28 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
Human-powered helicopter
28 points • comment • may 23, 2018
China confounds all that western liberals believed about the net
28 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
AMD's Hidden Strategy
28 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
Microplastic pollution in oceans is far worse than feared, say scientists
28 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
How the chili pepper got to China (2016)
28 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
“Chromecast automatically transfers that PIN using short, inaudible audio tones”
28 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
Ask HN: Started a new job and their existing code sucks. What to do?
28 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
Florida passes Amendment Four, restoring voting rights to convicted felons
28 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
The popularity of Microsoft’s Surface is the least realistic thing on TV
28 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
Apple Further Refutes Bloomberg Report Suggesting Spies Tampered with Servers
28 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
Two-Way Communication Is Possible with a Single Quantum Particle
28 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
Study: Over 20 years, Silicon Valley workers’ median wage has fallen by 14%
28 points • comment • nov 23, 2018
Introducing Machine Learning Practica
28 points • comment • may 29, 2018
Noise Pollution Is Making the Oceans Unbearable for Underwater Life
28 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
After 48, you’re less likely to get jobs in Silicon Valley, report finds (2017)
28 points • comment • jul 29, 2018
Physics can explain the fastball’s unexpected twist, new study finds
28 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Productivity Boost of Working from Home
28 points • comment • apr 03, 2018
How does an ancient Greek mosaic get from excavation site to museum? [video]
28 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
Seattle's Sound Transit light-rail riders increasing by the millions
28 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
Ask HN: How to optimize Electron apps?
28 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
New Bin Picking Solution Developed by Lean Team of Engineers
28 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
The nanny state shouldn't alarm us, it’s the gluttonous food industry giants
28 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
Untethered Soft Robotics
28 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
Windows 10's first paid-for, Linux-based distro
28 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
India Lacks Formal, Salaried Jobs
28 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
The US Air Force Spent $326,000 Replacing Broken Coffee Cups in the Last 2 Years
28 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
Linus Torvalds on C++ (2007)
28 points • comment • jun 03, 2018
Tesla delivers 'historic' $311m profit
28 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
Venetian Cryptography
28 points • comment • apr 05, 2018
Possible Python rival? Programming language Julia is winning over developers
28 points • comment • sep 02, 2018
Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?
28 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
API Pulse – Monitor the Health of Your API
28 points • comment • sep 26, 2018