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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Deep Space Network Now: Status of communications with our deep space explorers

    120 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  2. A Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks the Life Out of Wasps

    120 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  3. The art of stealing

    119 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  4. Cache-Line Aware Data Structures

    119 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  5. Computer Virus Cripples Several Taiwan Semiconductor Plants

    119 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  6. Show HN: Paperkast

    119 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  7. The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness

    119 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  8. Show HN: A parser for electronic component descriptions

    119 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  9. PC-Retro Motherboard Kit: Build a faithful reproduction of the 1982 IBM PC 5150

    118 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  10. Why OpenCV uses BGR color space (2015)

    118 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  11. Programming War Stories: Connectix

    118 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  12. The Workman Keyboard Layout Philosophy (2010)

    118 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  13. NAFTA: Don’t Trade Away the Internet

    118 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  14. Show HN: unicode.style

    118 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  15. Companies from the YC Summer 2018 Batch

    117 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  16. What happens when a Pacific island upsets China

    117 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  17. Functional Bits: Lambda-calculus based algorithmic information theory [pdf]

    117 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  18. Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans

    117 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  19. Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly

    117 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  20. Thieves escape by motorboat after royal jewels heist in Sweden

    117 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  21. Gource – a software version control visualization tool

    117 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  22. Germany, seeking independence from U.S., pushes cyber security research

    117 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  23. Who needs democracy when you have data?

    116 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  24. Ask HN: Can engineers from Google or Facebook solve whiteboard questions easily?

    116 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  25. After the Bitcoin Boom: Hard Lessons for Cryptocurrency Investors

    116 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  26. Path to 2 nm May Not Be Worth It

    116 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  27. Shrinking Machine Learning Models for Offline Use

    116 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  28. One Year Without AMP

    116 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  29. Sonder Raises $135M to Turn Airbnb Apartments into Hotels

    116 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  30. Regarding the Most Recent Amazon Mechanical Turk Data Contamination

    116 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  31. (XKCD) Voting software? a terrifying idea

    116 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  32. The Illegal Ramen Vendors of Postwar Tokyo

    116 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  33. What Does ‘Off the Record’ Really Mean?

    116 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  34. 'Intelligent' crows to pick up litter at French theme park

    116 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  35. Q3VM – Lightweight, embeddable Quake III Interpreter/Virtual Machine

    116 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  36. Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO

    115 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  37. A little bit of the one-time MacOS version still lingers in ZFS

    115 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  38. Life expectancy declines seen in U.S. and other high-income countries

    115 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  39. Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: discovery of an ancient-human hybrid

    115 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  40. Decentralising the web: Why is it so hard to achieve?

    115 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  41. On HtDP

    115 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  42. The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it all went wrong

    115 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  43. How Musicians Make Money, Or Don’t, In 2018

    115 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  44. History of T (2001)

    114 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  45. What Do Happy Teens Do?

    114 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  46. CrypTool Book

    114 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  47. One in five genetics papers contains Excel errors (2016)

    114 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  48. China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium

    114 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  49. A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof (2017)

    114 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  50. Ecstasy as a Remedy for PTSD? You Probably Have Some Questions

    114 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  51. Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional

    114 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  52. The personal SOS messages the BBC used to send

    114 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  53. Lobste.rs

    113 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  54. Librem 5 general development report

    113 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  55. The Elm Architecture

    113 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  56. The Math Required for Machine Learning

    113 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  57. Tech-support scammers know everything about my computer, Dell customer says

    113 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  58. Show HN: Polyhedra Viewer

    113 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  59. From Tokyo to Paris, Parents Tell Americans to Chill

    113 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  60. Mini antimatter accelerator could rival the likes of the Large Hadron Collider

    112 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  61. Tindallgrams

    112 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  62. Actor Model of Computation (2010) [pdf]

    112 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  63. Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges

    112 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  64. India Aims for the World's Biggest Health Care Overhaul

    112 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  65. The pfSense Book

    112 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  66. Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and Guns Using Basic Wifi

    112 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  67. On Software Tooling

    112 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  68. Prospecting for Hash Functions

    112 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  69. Mechanical Characterization of Structured Sheet Materials

    112 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  70. Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing

    112 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  71. Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypassing the Play Store

    111 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  72. Hacking law firms with abandoned domain names

    111 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  73. How TripAdvisor Changed Travel

    111 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  74. Surviving the App Store

    111 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  75. OCR Software Dev Exposes 200k Customer Documents

    111 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  76. Fortnite Android Installer allowed hackers to download and install anything

    111 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  77. The Approval Economy

    111 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  78. Geometric intuition for digital audio filters

    111 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  79. Ask HN: How do you all deal with lack of motivation?

    111 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  80. The Weight of Numbers: Air Pollution and PM2.5

    111 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  81. America is one of the few cultures with insults for smart people?

    111 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  82. The Dark Core of Personality

    111 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  83. U.S. Attorney Moves to Dismiss Murder-For-Hire Charges Against Ross Ulbricht

    111 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  84. Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents

    111 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  85. NetData: monitor your systems and applications, with interactive web dashboards

    110 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  86. How does Hammacher Schlemmer survive in the age of Amazon?

    110 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  87. The End of Employees

    110 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  88. Zinc: Introduce minimal cryptography library

    110 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  89. Beautiful maths simplification: quaternion from two vectors (2013)

    110 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  90. A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015)

    110 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  91. Factor: An impressive stack-based language environment

    110 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  92. A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages

    110 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  93. Vue.js Tutorial for beginners

    110 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  94. Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave trade revealed

    110 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  95. JSON Changelog with SQLite

    110 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  96. Johnny-Five v1.0 – JavaScript Robotics and IoT Framework

    110 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  97. Elon Musk’s Funding for Tesla Wasn’t So Secure

    109 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  98. First drug to prevent chronic migraines approved by EU

    109 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  99. Single-decryption EM-based attack reveals private keys from Android phones [pdf]

    109 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  100. Jobs Inside the API

    109 points • comment • aug 10, 2018