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1. Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found (thetimes.co.uk) 589 points by laurex 17 hours ago | 65 comments 2. Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application (chriskiehl.com) 400 points by goostavos 13 hours ago | 22 comments 3. Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies (useguard.com) 400 points by rameerez 15 hours ago | 40 comments 4. Some WeWork Board Members Seek to Remove Adam Neumann as CEO (wsj.com) 349 points by moltensodium 16 hours ago | 27 comments 5. Hacking the Brain (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) 307 points by whereareyo 16 hours ago | 15 comments 6. Four common mistakes in audio development (2016) (atastypixel.com) 243 points by PascLeRasc 14 hours ago | 12 comments 7. The Church of Interruption (sambleckley.com) 232 points by scribu 11 hours ago | 22 comments 8. Serverless: 15% slower and 8x more expensive (einaregilsson.com) 192 points by kiyanwang 2 hours ago | 19 comments 9. NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack [pdf] (people.freebsd.org) 182 points by ksec 12 hours ago | 13 comments 10. My father was IBM’s first black software engineer (latimes.com) 181 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 15 comments 11. A Blue Collar Slob’s Introduction to the Rare Oakland Manzanita [video] (youtube.com) 176 points by montalbano 19 hours ago | 16 comments 12. A Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality (2017) (wired.com) 162 points by EndXA 22 hours ago | 18 comments 13. Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower (wired.com) 161 points by rblion 7 hours ago | 10 comments 14. Money as a System of Control (2017) (thedistillery.pub) 157 points by TheDistillery 12 hours ago | 13 comments 15. Realtek RTL836x series of Ethernet switch ICs has a 8051 hidden inside (twitter.com) 156 points by dexen 23 hours ago | 17 comments 16. Ask HN: PostgreSQL or MySQL? 153 points by ReD_CoDE 22 hours ago | 57 comments 17. Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor (drive.google.com) 148 points by brian_herman 12 hours ago | 18 comments 18. ProtoThreads: Lightweight, Stackless Threads in C (dunkels.com) 141 points by retrocryptid 15 hours ago | 7 comments 19. A Burning B-52 Nearly Caused A Nuclear Catastrophe (thedrive.com) 138 points by vinnyglennon 19 hours ago | 10 comments 20. Keyhut POS, Free, Single Dev QBasic POS for DOS (keyhut.com) 131 points by jandeboevrie 4 hours ago | 16 comments 21. Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the country (theatlantic.com) 123 points by nsnick 6 hours ago | 4 comments 22. Goodbye Aron Eisenberg:( — aka Nog (DS9) (twitter.com) 122 points by LyalinDotCom 18 hours ago | 16 comments 23. Folding Paper Globes (mapscaping.com) 121 points by BerislavLopac 12 hours ago | 5 comments 24. Thomas Cook collapses, stranding 150k UK holidaymakers (theguardian.com) 114 points by daanavitch 6 hours ago | 15 comments 25. Reverse-engineering precision op amps from a 1969 analog computer (righto.com) 101 points by matt_d 15 hours ago | 5 comments 26. Why I don't love Light Rail Transit (danco.substack.com) 96 points by dweekly 10 hours ago | 45 comments 27. Ask HN: Parents of HN, what are your best sources for evidence-based parenting? 88 points by kqr 13 hours ago | 19 comments 28. Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service (theregister.co.uk) 81 points by zerop 21 hours ago | 17 comments 29. Psychological Effects of a 1-Month Meditation Retreat (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) 78 points by idclip 15 hours ago | 9 comments 30. When TCP sockets refuse to die (idea.popcount.org) 77 points by ingve 10 hours ago | 2 comments More

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