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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store

    1601 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  2. Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs

    1527 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  3. Thank you HN

    1323 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  4. Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed

    1299 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  5. Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available

    1070 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  6. Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node

    1050 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  7. Pandoc

    989 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  8. Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate

    941 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  9. Bullshit Jobs

    924 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  10. NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

    915 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  11. Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System

    913 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  12. Go 2 Draft Designs

    904 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  13. CLI: Improved

    903 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  14. Julia 1.0

    883 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  15. Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server

    863 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  16. Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking

    854 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  17. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?

    844 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  18. Bye bye BetterSlack

    830 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  19. Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

    823 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  20. Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

    795 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  21. My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

    779 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  22. Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)

    771 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  23. Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets

    764 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  24. Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces

    758 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  25. How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites

    754 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  26. DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

    749 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  27. To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008)

    720 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  28. Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy

    697 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  29. Don’t Do This in Production

    678 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  30. You don’t need standups

    663 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  31. Learning Math for Machine Learning

    663 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  32. LEGO built a life-size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces

    660 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  33. Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality

    658 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  34. 1/0 = 0

    640 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  35. Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff

    633 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  36. Building a Kickass Portfolio

    631 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  37. John McCain has died

    604 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  38. Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning

    602 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  39. Show HN: Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding

    601 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  40. 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

    594 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  41. Exapunks

    592 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  42. Filament: Physically-based rendering engine

    589 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  43. How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind

    588 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  44. Serverless Docker Beta

    587 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  45. Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers

    583 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  46. 4D toys

    582 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  47. Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster

    578 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  48. Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders

    576 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  49. Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

    571 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  50. EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time

    569 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  51. Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool

    568 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  52. AWS icon quiz

    565 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  53. National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions

    564 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  54. I’m a very slow thinker (2016)

    561 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  55. What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)

    554 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  56. Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

    553 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  57. Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire

    546 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  58. NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection

    543 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  59. Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python

    541 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  60. EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing

    541 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  61. Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful

    540 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  62. Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series

    538 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  63. The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext

    533 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  64. A Dutch first: Ingenious BMW theft attempt

    532 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  65. Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid

    530 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  66. Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

    528 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  67. Original Source code for the Furby [pdf]

    525 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

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

    522 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

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

    521 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  70. Minecraft Global Warming

    520 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  71. Can Beethoven send takedown requests?

    518 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

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

    517 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

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

    516 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  74. G Suite Horror Story

    513 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

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

    498 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  76. I don't trust Signal

    495 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  77. Bash Infinity: Standard library and boilerplate framework for Bash

    494 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  78. Katie's New Face

    487 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  79. FCC admits it was never actually hacked

    485 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  80. Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time

    479 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  81. Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal

    479 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  82. PyPy.js: Python in the web browser

    478 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  83. Introducing Android 9 Pie

    472 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  84. The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI

    470 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  85. Commons Clause

    469 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  86. GLB: GitHub's open source load balancer

    468 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  87. Software development requires servant leaders

    468 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  88. Dear customers of Cloudflare: an appeal regarding Tor

    465 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  89. Periodic fasting starves cisplatin‐resistant cancers to death

    463 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  90. Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere

    463 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  91. The Bitter Regrets of a Useless Chinese Daughter

    461 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  92. HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook

    458 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  93. A time in 1994 when Steve Jobs got to use a device like an iPhone

    457 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  94. Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch

    452 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  95. Linux Kernel Developer Criticizes Intel for Meltdown, Spectre Response

    450 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  96. Teens who refuse to use social media

    446 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  97. Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance

    446 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  98. Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing

    442 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  99. Procrastination is more about managing emotions than time: study

    441 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  100. Dijkstra's in Disguise

    441 points • comment • aug 12, 2018