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Hacker News (2018)

  1. Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially

    525 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  2. Laws of UX

    525 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

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

    525 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  4. Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought

    525 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  5. Original Source code for the Furby [pdf]

    525 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  6. Electronic Circuit Simulator in the Browser

    524 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  7. Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita

    523 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  8. The rise of the pointless job

    523 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  9. Rust 2018 is here, but what is it?

    523 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  10. Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git

    522 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  11. Terry Davis has died

    522 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  12. ATDT relief

    522 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  13. Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync

    522 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  14. Below the Surface – Finds from an archaeological project in the River Amstel

    521 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  15. Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Renderer for C++

    521 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  16. Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS

    520 points • comment • jan 16, 2018

  17. Minecraft Global Warming

    520 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  18. Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)

    520 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  19. A True Story

    519 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  20. The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

    519 points • comment • feb 07, 2018

  21. Mathematics for Computer Science: Readings

    519 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  22. 50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach

    519 points • comment • mar 17, 2018

  23. I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores

    519 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  24. World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years

    519 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  25. Can Beethoven send takedown requests?

    518 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  26. Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details

    518 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  27. Companies struggling to fill jobs 'should try paying more,' Fed's Kashkari says

    518 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  28. Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself

    517 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  29. Getting Google to ban our entire company

    517 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  30. Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)

    517 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  31. Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

    517 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  32. Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally

    517 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  33. Sen. Wyden Confirms Cell-Site Simulators Disrupt Emergency Calls

    516 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  34. A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet

    516 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  35. Guesstimate – A Spreadsheet for things that aren't certain

    515 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  36. How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes

    515 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  37. Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

    514 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  38. How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop

    513 points • comment • feb 27, 2018

  39. The Economics of Writing a Technical Book

    513 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  40. G Suite Horror Story

    513 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  41. System Bus Radio: Transmits AM radio on computers without transmitting hardware

    513 points • comment • jan 17, 2018

  42. 12 Factor CLI Apps

    513 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  43. ESLint compromised, may have stolen your credentials

    511 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  44. Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program

    511 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  45. Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI server, and makes them pass

    511 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  46. Show HN: Google Earth for live radios

    510 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  47. Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency

    510 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  48. Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant

    509 points • comment • mar 29, 2018

  49. Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

    509 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  50. My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition

    509 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  51. A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley

    509 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  52. The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40

    508 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  53. Forgotten Employee (2002)

    508 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  54. Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites

    507 points • comment • feb 06, 2018

  55. Windows file access performance compared to Linux

    507 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  56. The insane amount of backward compatibility in Google Maps

    507 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  57. People leave managers, not companies

    507 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  58. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

    507 points • comment • feb 28, 2018

  59. Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012)

    507 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  60. Rust's 2018 roadmap

    507 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  61. OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS

    507 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  62. Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages

    507 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  63. What I wish I knew when I became CTO

    506 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  64. A First Course in Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers

    506 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  65. Regexper – Regular expressions visualizer

    506 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  66. Introducing Firefox Monitor, Helping People Take Control After a Data Breach

    505 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  67. Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine

    505 points • comment • jan 22, 2018

  68. 1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scientific Fraud

    505 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  69. Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change

    505 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  70. NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash

    505 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  71. Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?

    505 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  72. JVM Internals (2013)

    505 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  73. Pixar's Rules of Storytelling (2013)

    505 points • comment • mar 11, 2018

  74. AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones

    504 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  75. Coinbase Index Fund

    504 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  76. Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics (2017)

    503 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  77. Apple can delete purchased movies from your library without telling you

    503 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  78. The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT

    503 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  79. Unicode Dicks

    503 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  80. MIPS Goes Open Source

    502 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  81. Show HN: TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked by confidence intervals

    501 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  82. WebAssembly’s post-MVP future

    501 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  83. Writing System Software [video]

    501 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  84. Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages

    501 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  85. Id Software

    501 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  86. That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to publisher, 0% to authors

    501 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  87. NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner

    500 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  88. "@" on Twitter

    500 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  89. Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)

    500 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  90. Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash?

    499 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  91. Simple, correct, fast: in that order

    499 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  92. Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

    498 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  93. Today Is My Wife’s First Birthday Since She Died

    498 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  94. ActivityPub: decentralized social networking protocol

    498 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  95. End-to-end implementation of a machine learning pipeline (2017)

    498 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  96. Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers

    498 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  97. Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2

    498 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  98. Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions

    498 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  99. After 24 years, Doom II's final secret has been found

    498 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  100. Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

    497 points • comment • sep 21, 2018