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Hacker News (2018)

  1. The Planet Now Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago

    219 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  2. A Missing Link in Postgres 11: Fast Column Creation with Defaults

    219 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  3. Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2011)

    219 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  4. ReactOS 0.4.9 released

    219 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  5. UK spies: You know how we said bulk device hacking would be used sparingly?

    219 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  6. The Hardest Woods

    219 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  7. How Not to Negotiate a $6.1B Deal

    219 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  8. Intel and the Danger of Integration

    219 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  9. Goldman-Backed Circle Buys Digital Exchange Poloniex

    219 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  10. Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)

    219 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  11. A Mystery Font That Took Over New York

    219 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  12. Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds

    219 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  13. Principles of Chaos Engineering

    219 points • comment • jan 27, 2018

  14. Demand for Ruby on Rails is Still Huge

    219 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  15. Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives [pdf]

    219 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  16. Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban

    219 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  17. Ethereum Sharding FAQ

    219 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  18. A Tiny, $25 Million Mistake (2014)

    219 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  19. Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption

    219 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  20. Facebook policy chief admits hiring PR firm to attack George Soros

    219 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  21. How people die vs. media coverage of death

    219 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  22. Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

    219 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  23. Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles

    219 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  24. At 88, doctor pursues a long-ignored treatment for strokes, heart attacks

    219 points • comment • apr 07, 2018

  25. Thunderbird Starts Working on Improving Its Interface

    219 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  26. Bringing transparency to ER prices, one hospital bill at a time

    219 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  27. Kaggle Datasets – Discover and analyze open data

    219 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  28. African elephants are migrating to safety, telling each other how to get there

    218 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  29. Unslacking Tideways Company

    218 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  30. Physics Travel Guide: a tool that makes learning physics easier

    218 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  31. Panera Bread did nothing about its customer data vulnerability for eight months

    218 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  32. Southern Europe Has Not Seen Net Job Creation in over a Decade

    218 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  33. Chernoff face

    218 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  34. The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens

    218 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  35. Huawei Caught Faking Smartphone Photo with a DSLR

    218 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  36. The enemy within: Gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease

    218 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  37. Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early days

    218 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  38. Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars and lane dividers

    218 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  39. Membrane Framework – An Elixir framework for multimedia streaming applications

    218 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  40. Bisected: The Unfortunate Reason Linux 4.20 Is Running Slower

    218 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  41. An AWS Region is coming to South Africa

    218 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  42. Zuckerberg set up fraudulent scheme to 'weaponise' data, court case alleges

    218 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  43. A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor

    218 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  44. FCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segments and scripts

    218 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  45. How to build a brain – An introduction to neurophysiology for engineers

    218 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  46. MIT AGI: Boston Dynamics [video]

    218 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  47. America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price

    218 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  48. Show HN: Word2Bits – Quantized Word Vectors

    218 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  49. AirPods get stuck in low-quality 16 kHz audio mode when starting a VM

    218 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  50. FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch

    218 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  51. Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months from launching

    218 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  52. Steve Wozniak on Smart Watches, Motivating Engineers, Siri, and More

    218 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  53. China Expands Research Funding, Luring U.S. Scientists and Students

    218 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  54. Caffeine dosing strategies to optimize alertness during sleep loss

    218 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  55. Ocean-going robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and science

    218 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  56. Common Git Problems and How to Fix Them

    218 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  57. Text Embedding Models Contain Bias

    218 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  58. Departing Facebook security officer advocated for shifts in company’s culture

    218 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  59. Can We Grow More Food on Less Land?

    218 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  60. Isochronous Curves

    218 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  61. An American served a year in prison for copyright conduct that is legal in EU

    218 points • comment • feb 17, 2018

  62. What is ActivityPub, and how will it change the internet?

    217 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  63. Removing Old Versions of TLS

    217 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  64. Ask HN: Who here has built a profitable startup while keeping their day job?

    217 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  65. North American vs. Japanese zoning

    217 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  66. Reducing Memory Usage in Ruby

    217 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  67. Introduction to OCaml

    217 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  68. Reinforcement Learning – Bandit Problems

    217 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  69. A file that’s both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (2012)

    217 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  70. Uganda Bans VPNs to Prevent Users from Dodging Its New Social Media Tax

    217 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  71. Ask HN: Online banks where I can open account worldwide?

    217 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  72. Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, then rolled it back

    217 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  73. Tales from the far-flung Faroes

    217 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  74. A closer look at Google Duplex

    217 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  75. The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt

    217 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  76. Intel 9th Gen Review

    217 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  77. Medieval trade networks

    217 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  78. Salesforce is buying MuleSoft at enterprise value of $6.5B

    217 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  79. Chess boxing

    217 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  80. Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business

    217 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  81. Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend

    217 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  82. Using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English

    217 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  83. Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account

    217 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  84. The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini

    217 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  85. The 50th Anniversary of Doug Engelbart's Great Demo

    217 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  86. The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India

    217 points • comment • jan 15, 2018

  87. Analog Devices AD9361 – when microchips are more profitable than drugs

    217 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  88. Learn React for free

    217 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  89. The Second Edition of “Refactoring”

    217 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  90. Show HN: Solving Rush Hour, the 6x6 Sliding Block Puzzle

    217 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  91. Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists

    216 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  92. Australians who won't unlock their phones could face ten years in jail

    216 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  93. How Does setState Know What to Do?

    216 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  94. Launch HN: CoinTracker (YC W18) – Cryptocurrency portfolio and tax manager

    216 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  95. Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)

    216 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  96. The Story Behind Susan Kare’s Iconic Design Work for Apple

    216 points • comment • jun 12, 2018

  97. Why we’re changing Flickr free accounts

    216 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  98. When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy

    216 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  99. Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books

    216 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  100. Bloomberg News Pays Reporters More If Their Stories Move Markets

    216 points • comment • oct 07, 2018