Lindy Hacker News | | submit
Articles written in 2018 that Hacker News still talks about.
Go back or forward one year. See all articles from 2010 to 2019.
2018Why salt was so important throughout history (bookworm.club)
118 points | 3 years ago with 104 comments
2018What I wish I knew when learning OCaml (baturin.org)
117 points | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2018Central Banking for All: A Public Option for Bank Accounts (greatdemocracyinitiative.org)
116 points | 4 years ago with 103 comments
2018AT&T Long Lines – A Forgotten System (personal.garrettfuller.org)
115 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2018Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google again (bugs.debian.org)
115 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments
2018The Old (neocha.com)
115 points | 1 year ago with 51 comments
2018Modeling the effectiveness of respiratory masks in reducing influenza (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
115 points | 5 years ago with 98 comments
2018Why do C to Z80 compilers produce poor code? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
115 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2018How the famous “comfy shorts” quote worked in Japanese Pokémon (legendsoflocalization.com)
115 points | 2 years ago with 56 comments
2018JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures (github.com)
115 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2018Toilets in a Medieval Castle (ancient.eu)
113 points | 4 years ago with 68 comments
2018Master List of Logical Fallacies (utminers.utep.edu)
113 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments
2018Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager (quantamagazine.org)
113 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2018The dirty secret of mathematics: We make it up as we go along (medium.com)
113 points | 2 years ago with 101 comments
2018Blueberry Earth or “what if the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries?“ (arxiv.org)
112 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2018Archiving Web Sites (lwn.net)
112 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2018Hacking CD/DVD/Blu-ray for Biosensing (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
112 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2018Fields Medal was never meant for ‘the greatest mathematical genius' (science.org)
112 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments
2018PC-XT Emulator on a ESP8266 (mcuhacker.wordpress.com)
112 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2018How to Become a Centaur (jods.mitpress.mit.edu)
111 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2018Demystifying Differentiable Programming (arxiv.org)
110 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2018Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past (spectrum.ieee.org)
110 points | 2 years ago with 89 comments
2018On Cache Invalidation: Why Is It Hard? (yihui.org)
110 points | 4 years ago with 70 comments
2018Making Playstation 1 Modchips (blog.kchung.co)
110 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2018Nuclear Close Calls: Able Archer 83 (atomicheritage.org)
110 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments
2018Sun Microsystems PizzaTool (medium.com)
110 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments
2018East German Doping Victims Die 10 to 12 Years Earlier (zeit.de)
110 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments
2018Improved chess game compression (lichess.org)
109 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments
2018Reversible and irreversible decisions (fs.blog)
109 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2018A 'subterranean Galapagos' inside the Earth (vice.com)
109 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2018Various ways to include comments on a static site (darekkay.com)
109 points | 3 years ago with 47 comments
2018March 5, 1981: Timex Sinclair ZX81 Launched (dayintechhistory.com)
108 points | 3 years ago with 81 comments
2018A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (smithsonianmag.com)
108 points | 4 years ago with 133 comments
2018Bats in Portuguese Libraries (smithsonianmag.com)
107 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments
2018On ELF, Part 2 (kestrelcomputer.github.io)
107 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2018The first thing that ever sold online was pizza (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
107 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments
2018Generate static sites from Markdown files with Caddy (blog.thomaspuppe.de)
106 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2018V8 has optimized new JavaScript language features (github.com)
106 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2018Silurian Hypothesis: Were There Civilizations on Earth Before Humans? (sci-news.com)
105 points | 4 years ago with 138 comments
2018How to avoid being a secretary for engineers (idratherbewriting.com)
105 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments
2018Bland God: Notes on Mark Zuckerberg (stingingfly.org)
105 points | 4 years ago with 79 comments
2018The design thinking movement is absurd (sts-news.medium.com)
105 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments
2018APL: An Array Oriented Programming Language (medium.com)
105 points | 2 years ago with 96 comments
2018“Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” asks Goldman Sachs (arstechnica.com)
104 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments
2018Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights (blog.jldc.me)
104 points | 4 years ago with 61 comments
2018Methods for Array Initialization in Rust (joshmcguigan.com)
103 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2018Your real biological clock is you’re going to die (hmmdaily.com)
103 points | 2 years ago with 128 comments
2018The story of ispc: origins (part 1) (pharr.org)
103 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments
2018Staying on the path to high performing teams (lethain.com)
103 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments
2018Transparently running binaries from any architecture in Linux (ownyourbits.com)
103 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
More

If you like quirky internet articles, you'll like the Unclutter reader mode too!