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Hacker News (2018)

  1. Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

    553 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  2. Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement

    553 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

  3. Some notes about HTTP/3

    552 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  4. The Benjamin Franklin method for learning more from programming books

    551 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  5. Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers are pulling out

    551 points • comment • mar 26, 2018

  6. The hotel bathroom puzzle

    550 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  7. Why Skylake CPUs Are Sometimes 50% Slower

    550 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  8. Study Shows a Productivity Boost of Working From Home

    550 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  9. How to self-publish a book: A handy list of resources

    550 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  10. In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information

    548 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  11. Epic Games releases $12M worth of Paragon assets for free

    548 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  12. Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)

    548 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  13. French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Journals

    548 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  14. Stripe Is Now a $20B Company

    548 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  15. Hetzner Cloud

    547 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  16. Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8

    547 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  17. Lyft Files for IPO

    546 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  18. Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning

    546 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  19. Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead

    546 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  20. Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

    546 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  21. Color: From Hex codes to Eyeballs

    546 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  22. History of the browser user-agent string (2008)

    546 points • comment • mar 05, 2018

  23. Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire

    546 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  24. The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble

    545 points • comment • feb 16, 2018

  25. The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York”

    545 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  26. Ask HN: What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great?

    545 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  27. I don’t understand Graph Theory

    545 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  28. We're in a Golden Age for Amateur Radio

    544 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  29. NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection

    543 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  30. The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)

    542 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  31. Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

    542 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  32. Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby

    541 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  33. Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities

    541 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  34. Ask HN: How to self-learn math?

    541 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  35. Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python

    541 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  36. EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing

    541 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  37. Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0

    540 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  38. Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful

    540 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  39. Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year

    540 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  40. Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)

    540 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  41. Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF

    540 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  42. Advent of Code 2018

    540 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  43. DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastructure [pdf]

    540 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  44. Flask 1.0 Released

    539 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  45. MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’

    538 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  46. Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series

    538 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  47. How not to run a CA

    537 points • comment • mar 01, 2018

  48. Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]

    537 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  49. Thinking About Thinking (1999)

    537 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  50. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)

    537 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  51. The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works

    536 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  52. States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules

    536 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  53. Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies

    536 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  54. Dry Water

    536 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  55. Why Use OpenStreetMap Instead of Google Maps?

    536 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  56. I've compiled the best SaaS Landing pages and broke down all their secrets

    536 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  57. Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election

    536 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  58. What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan

    535 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  59. The Effect of Sleep on Happiness

    535 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  60. Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video]

    535 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  61. A summary of what quantitative trading firms do

    535 points • comment • jan 21, 2018

  62. All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders

    534 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  63. How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit

    534 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  64. The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization

    534 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  65. Microsoft open sources parts of Minecraft: Java Edition

    534 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  66. Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers

    534 points • comment • feb 14, 2018

  67. Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat

    533 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  68. Do not use NPM 5.7

    533 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  69. The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext

    533 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  70. Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Apple Object to W3C Fork of DOM Spec

    533 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  71. Facebook’s patents show a commitment to collecting personal information

    533 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  72. Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory

    532 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  73. A Dutch first: Ingenious BMW theft attempt

    532 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  74. Changes to U.S. federal authorities relating to production and marketing of hemp

    532 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  75. Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

    532 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  76. Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months

    532 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  77. How I use Wireshark

    531 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  78. Neural scene representation and rendering

    531 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  79. Stripe Terminal – Programmable point of sale

    530 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  80. Write Your Own Virtual Machine

    530 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  81. An Intensive Introduction to Cryptography

    530 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  82. Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people

    530 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  83. Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid

    530 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  84. Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning

    529 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

  85. iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics

    529 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  86. Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coercion by angels and VCs

    528 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  87. Introducing Git protocol version 2

    528 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  88. Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

    528 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  89. The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects

    527 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  90. Successful second round of fusion experiments with Wendelstein 7-X

    527 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  91. IBM’s Old Playbook

    527 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  92. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)

    527 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  93. How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS

    527 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  94. Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok

    527 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  95. Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

    526 points • comment • mar 13, 2018

  96. How the Valley treats experienced people

    526 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  97. Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web

    526 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  98. Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017)

    526 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  99. Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?

    526 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  100. Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story

    525 points • comment • oct 19, 2018