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Hacker News (Jul 2018)

  1. The Fast Meme Transform: Convert Audio into Linux Commands

    60 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  2. The lack of security guarantees of Spectre-V1 mitigations

    60 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  3. Newly digitized recordings offer a glimpse of the Ukrainian-Jewish past

    60 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  4. Mellite: an environment for creating experimental computer-based music

    60 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  5. Inside the Paper: Build Systems a La Carte

    59 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  6. Selfie: new book explores how we became so self-obsessed

    59 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  7. Street dogs in Moscow learn to ride the subway

    59 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  8. To Explain or to Predict? (2010) [pdf]

    59 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  9. All EFF’d Up

    59 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  10. New Study Confirms That American Workers Are Getting Ripped Off

    59 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  11. Unique brain “fingerprint” can predict drug effectiveness

    59 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  12. The Tragedy at Tofino, B.C.: Inside the Sinking of Leviathan II

    59 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  13. The Book Is a Time Machine

    59 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  14. Eric Weinstein on the crisis of late capitalism

    59 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  15. Purges: A Growing Threat to the Right to Vote

    59 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  16. Thousands of Americans Will Be Denied a Passport Because of Unpaid Taxes

    59 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  17. Temporal side-channels and you: Understanding TLBleed

    59 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  18. Swimming with Sharks: Navy Physician Remembers the Indianapolis Disaster

    59 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  19. The Source of Dr Seuss’ Lorax?

    59 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  20. UK unveils new Tempest fighter jet

    58 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  21. A Radical New Scheme to Prevent Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise

    58 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  22. Custom mechanical keyboards

    58 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  23. What's the Deepest Hole Ever Dug?

    58 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  24. Patreon mistakenly shut down successfully funded project Armory3D

    58 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  25. PS4 5.05 BPF Double Free Kernel Exploit Writeup

    58 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  26. Steps Toward Super Intelligence Part I: How We Got Here

    58 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  27. Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?

    58 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  28. Why is history always about humans?

    58 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  29. When does white space matter in HTML? (2016)

    58 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  30. Researchers Mount Successful GPS Spoofing Attack Against Road Navigation Systems

    58 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  31. Facebook finds Declaration of Independence 'racist'

    58 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  32. Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 39% to $52.9B

    58 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  33. The Transformative Power of Suffering

    58 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  34. Two scientists are changing the way the world looks at mist

    58 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  35. No Shirt, No Swipe, No Service

    57 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  36. Resistant protocols: How decentralization evolves

    57 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  37. NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Competition

    57 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  38. Adversarial childhood events are associated with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

    57 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  39. Earhart’s last calls: Research suggests dozens heard radioed cries for help

    57 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  40. SF hospital charged $15K ‘trauma response fee’ for baby that needed no treatment

    57 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  41. Playtesting Tabletop Games

    57 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  42. Why the world should adopt a basic income

    57 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  43. Amazon Lumberyard: A Scream of Anguish

    57 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  44. Thailand cave rescue relied on talent, luck, and on sticking to the rules

    57 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  45. Out of the frying pan and into the fire

    57 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  46. The Computer and the Brain (1958) [pdf]

    57 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  47. Discord does not allow 3rd party clients

    56 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  48. Show HN: Brutal.js – a small framework for building brutalist web applications

    56 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  49. Complicating the Narratives

    56 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  50. Under GDPR, Data Breach Reports in UK Have Quadrupled

    56 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  51. Ask HN: Is software engineering really a dead-end job after 35-40?

    56 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  52. Using achievement stats to estimate sales on Steam

    56 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  53. My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader

    56 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  54. UK spaceport proposed for Sutherland site

    56 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  55. Differential Synchronization (2009)

    56 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  56. SF’s appalling street life repels residents – now it’s driven away a convention

    56 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  57. Why Are Young Billionaires So Boring?

    56 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  58. Mathematical Metaphysics (2015) [pdf]

    56 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  59. V8n – Fluent validation library for JavaScript

    56 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  60. China’s Planning to Partially Lift Web Censorship in Hainan

    56 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  61. Cassava crisis: the deadly food that doubles as a vital Venezuelan crop (2017)

    56 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  62. Push to Weaken U.S. Endangered Species Act Runs into Roadblocks

    56 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  63. Snow – Conceal messages in ASCII text (2013)

    56 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  64. What We Learned from Analyzing 100M Bugs

    56 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  65. Flaws in diamonds might hold the key to a new type of secure communications

    55 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  66. Wrongfully convicted Isaac Wright Jr returns to courtroom as an attorney (2017)

    55 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  67. Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pros are now available, and the top specs are much faster

    55 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  68. Commodore 64 SID replacement using a Teensy 3.6

    55 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  69. The Bugs in Our Mindware (2016)

    55 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  70. From Filesystems to CRUD and Beyond

    55 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  71. Cancer and mobile phones

    55 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  72. Dawn of the Microcomputer: The Altair 8800

    55 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  73. The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)

    55 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  74. Up to Two-Thirds of Bitcoin Transactions Have No Economic Value

    55 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  75. Researcher says careers should be longer but have more breaks along the way

    55 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  76. Do I need to pay for Java now?

    55 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  77. British Airways shows how not to GDPR

    55 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  78. Easter Island statues may have 'walked' out of quarry (2012)

    55 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  79. Ultrasound can cause anomalies in the Xiaomi MI5S Plus gyroscope

    55 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  80. A peek into China’s top ‘bodyguard factories’

    55 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  81. South Korean cam-hunter squads conduct electronic sweeps of public spaces

    55 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  82. Opera Limited files for a $115M US IPO

    55 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  83. Are Kilian Jornet's Speed Records Too Good to Be True?

    55 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  84. GDPR-Compliant EU Version of USA Today Website

    55 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  85. Long Live WebGL (2013)

    55 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  86. Blue Origin plans to charge at least $200K for space rides

    54 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  87. Phantom traffic jams, and why lane expansion isn’t really successful

    54 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  88. Show HN: Anansi – a NoWeb-inspired literate programming preprocessor

    54 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  89. Income mobility has been rising fastest in Britain

    54 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  90. How Browsers’ Explanations Impact Misconceptions About Private Browsing [pdf]

    54 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  91. Systems Languages: An Experience Report

    54 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  92. Use of drugs by people seeking to boost mental performance is rising worldwide

    54 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  93. A Social History of Jello Salad

    54 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  94. Monks Who Play Punk (2007)

    54 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  95. Morocco's nutty, decadent spread is made from the prized oil of the argan tree

    54 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  96. Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course

    54 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  97. I'm bored, what do I do?

    54 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  98. Apple's iPhones Trail Samsung, Google Devices in Internet Speeds

    54 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  99. Vim.wasm: Vim Ported to WebAssembly

    54 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  100. Yes you can use challenging vocabulary in a picture book

    54 points • comment • jul 02, 2018