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  • 0 8

    A History of the Dalek props in Doctor Who – From ’63 to ’88 and beyond (www.dalek6388.co.uk)
  • 15 70

    JupyterCon: I don't like Notebooks [slides] (docs.google.com)
  • 0 6

    The Meme as Meme (2013) (nautil.us)
  • 0 18

    Restartable Sequences With the Polysemic Null Segment Selector (www.pvk.ca)
  • Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring a Head of Data Science and Lead Data Scientist (www.tesorio.com)
  • 75 99

    Is Rails still relevant in 2018? (blog.eq8.eu)
  • 1 24

    MIT-created programming language Julia 1.0 debuts (news.mit.edu)
  • 1 32

    Airflow, Meta Data Engineering and a Data Platform for India (blog.socialcops.com)
  • 2 23

    Tensorflow implementation of Adversarial Autoencoders (github.com)
  • 10 41

    Service Workers (frontendian.co)
  • 9 23

    ‘Why didn’t you think this baby was ill?’ Decision-making in acute paediatrics (ep.bmj.com)
  • 58 27

    What Dropbox dropping Linux support says (www.techrepublic.com)
  • 4 27

    SCI and the “62;c62;” attack (www.polydesmida.info)
  • 21 40

    The legend of Benin’s fearless female warriors (www.bbc.com)
  • Universe (YC W18) Is Hiring a Head of Growth (Remote or NYC)
  • 1 20

    Show HN: Efficient data loading using zeta distributions (github.com)
  • 15 38

    Novel Attack Technique Uses Smart Light Bulbs to Steal Data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 16 49

    A Genetic Condition That 21 People Are Known to Have (www.nytimes.com)
  •   11

    Despite Comey Assurances, Vast Bulk of Weiner Laptop Emails Were Never Examined (www.realclearinvestigations.com)
  •   2

    Julia 1.0 (bby.us)
  • 111 200

    What You Need to Know Before Considering a PhD (www.fast.ai)
  • 8 27

    Russian archeologists have found an exceptionally rare 'beard kopek' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
  • 25 200

    Babel 7 Released (babeljs.io)
  • 115 622

    Pandoc (pandoc.org)
  • 152 192

    The Story of Why I Left Riot Games (barryhawkins.com)
  • 14 68

    JSON Changelog with SQLite (blog.budgetwithbuckets.com)
  • Cover is hiring for business operations to help fix insurance (cover.applytojob.com)
  • 21 56

    How World of Warcraft Was Made (www.usgamer.net)
  • 1 19

    Brace yourself: This is how much America’s 1% has saved (www.marketwatch.com)
  • 43 49

    BuzzFeed News Asks Readers to Chip in with Donations (www.wsj.com)
  • 111 270

    GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development (www.anandtech.com)
  • 30 135

    How to print an electric motor (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 178 176

    Why U.S. Corporate Boards Don’t Include Workers (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 23 122

    The NSA Continues to Violate Americans' Internet Privacy Rights (www.aclu.org)
  • 60 60

    Good thing in PHP nobody talks about (pixeljets.com)
  • 60 78

    California’s strict net neutrality bill is close to final passage (arstechnica.com)
  • 174 273

    Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact (www.wsj.com)
  • 124 320

    How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap (theodi.org)
  • Relationship Hero (YC S17) Is Hiring Coaches (relationshiphero.com)
  • 65 65

    New Logo and Identity for Library of Congress (www.underconsideration.com)
  • 39 39

    The Origins of Hatred for Pigeons (2016) (www.audubon.org)
  • 346 304

    I know why rejection emails suck – I write them (triplebyte.com)
  • 27 195

    Black Design – Design tools for early stage startup founders (www.black.design)
  • 25 194

    Lego Axle Sorter [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 62 297

    A Road to Common Lisp (stevelosh.com)
  • 2 31

    How Insulin Helped Create Ant Societies (nautil.us)
  • 103 87

    The Nuclear Power Plant of the Future May Be Floating Near Russia (www.nytimes.com)
  • 10 46

    The Museum of RetroTechnology (www.douglas-self.com)
  • 120 315

    Real world SSD wearout (blog.okmeter.io)
  • 47 55

    'Generous’ approach to replication confirms many social science findings (www.sciencemag.org)
  • 26 47

    Meet YC This Fall (blog.ycombinator.com)
  • 97 113

    Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash (www.nbcnews.com)
  • 36 120

    A new kernel polling interface (lwn.net)
  • 47 117

    What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your Indie App (hackernewslater.com)
  • 132 167

    Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem (www.nytimes.com)
  • 76 197

    Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization (ai.google)
  • 9 204

    How to Architect a Query Compiler, Revisited [pdf] (www.cs.purdue.edu)
  • 39 146

    Oops, I Wrote a C++ Compiler (praeclarum.org)
  • 71 175

    Solve Less General Problems (hacksoflife.blogspot.com)
  • 158 94

    Y Combinator Learns Basic Income Is Not So Basic After All (www.wired.com)
  • New Incentives (YC S16 Non-Profit) Is Hiring a Program Manager (new-incentives.breezy.hr)
  • 75 110

    A little bit of the one-time MacOS version still lingers in ZFS (utcc.utoronto.ca)
  • 9 21

    Enterprise programming language (github.com)
  • 75 223

    C compiler with support for structs written in Assembly (git.savannah.nongnu.org)
  • 14 48

    Building a Tetris Game using TypeScript and Angular (2017) (www.ivaylopavlov.com)
  • 15 96

    Show HN: Ledger-analytics – Analytics for ledger-cli (github.com)
  • 2 13

    Thousands of People Live in These Ancient Spanish Caves (www.nationalgeographic.com)
  • 124 115

    Path to 2 nm May Not Be Worth It (www.eetimes.com)
  • 17 125

    AMD Announces Dual-Vega Radeon Pro V340 Card with 32GB of ECC HBM Memory (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 11 26

    Ask HN: Test Engineer Interview
  • 97 69

    Google is irresponsible, claims Fortnite's chief in bug row (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 10 30

    Artificial Photosynthesis (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 112 258

    VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing (github.com)
  • 70 74

    Show HN: BetterSlack – A Chrome extension to make Slack better (g3rv4.com)
  • 53 86

    How to Enable Autocomplete in Mac Terminal (timleland.com)
  • 9 35

    NL2Bash – Generating bash commands from natural language (github.com)
  • 27 128

    The Real Deal About rel="me" (wiki.zegnat.net)
  • 21 92

    Databot: High-performance Python data-driven programming framework (github.com)
  • 0 20

    Machine learning environment setup within 10 minutes (medium.com)
  • 25 74

    Deprecating the Observer Pattern (2010) [pdf] (infoscience.epfl.ch)
  • 11 58

    Using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild and Lambda for automated UI testing (2017) (aws.amazon.com)
  • 32 44

    Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable? (2016) (nautil.us)
  • 0 12

    Cryptographic Definitions and an Analysis of Helios, Helios-C, and JCJ (eprint.iacr.org)
  • Impraise is hiring senior data engineers and senior data analysts in Amsterdam (jobs.impraise.com)
  • 0 11

    Davidson Desktop Doohickeys: Puzzle Cubes (ultimaker.com)
  • 9 43

    ForgeFed: An extension to ActivityPub for web-based Git services federation (github.com)
  • 13 158

    Pseudo-bandlimited pixel art filtering in 3D: A mathematical derivation (themaister.net)
  • 9 31

    A Bash and Python script for generating payloads that bypass virus scanners (github.com)
  • 34 110

    Hacking law firms with abandoned domain names (medium.com)
  • 1 23

    Xoodoo cookbook [pdf] (eprint.iacr.org)
  • 92 278

    Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout (blog.teamblind.com)
  • 50 34

    In Anarchic Corner of Copenhagen, Police and Dealers Play Cat and Mouse (www.nytimes.com)
  • 27 114

    Programming War Stories: Connectix (aarongiles.com)
  • 19 144

    The Berklee College of Music Sampling Archive (wiki.laptop.org)
  • 7 31

    An O(N) Sorting Algorithm: Machine Learning Sort (arxiv.org)
  • 4 63

    From GAN to WGAN (2017) (lilianweng.github.io)
  • 91 193

    Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine (rave.dj)
  • GoLorry (W16, Based in India) Is Hiring a Full-Time Django API Engineer
  • 102 273

    U.S. states reconsider confidential deals in workplace harassment (www.nytimes.com)
  • 54 133

    Game Programming Patterns: Double Buffer (2014) (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
  • 16 100

    PyTorch for Scientific Computing: Quantum Mechanics Example Part 2 (www.pugetsystems.com)
  • 89 136

    China Built the World’s Largest Telescope, Then Came the Tourists (www.wired.com)
  • 97 397

    Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf] (drive.google.com)
  • 103 104

    Shavian alphabet (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 34 85

    Show HN: Quetree – A Q&A site that is tree-based and hierarchical (www.quetree.com)
  • 77 50

    What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience death (theconversation.com)
  • 37 108

    Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap (palmerluckey.com)
  • 106 84

    Why is a Java guy so excited about Node.js and JavaScript? (blog.sourcerer.io)
  • 35 127

    The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server (www.satsignal.eu)
  • 70 106

    Artificial Intelligence Is Now a Pentagon Priority. Will Silicon Valley Help? (www.nytimes.com)
  • 12 14

    GlobalEntry.gov has invalid SSL certificate (www.globalentry.gov)
  • 20 37

    BEAKL – Theory and observations to find the optimal keyboard layout (2017) (deskthority.net)
  • 52 54

    Ask HN: Is it possible to get pigeonholed to certain company sizes/cultures?