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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. T-Mobile Database Breach Exposes 2M Customers' Data

    109 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  2. Goodbye VSCode, Hello Emacs Again

    109 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

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

    109 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  4. Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming automation crisis

    109 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  5. Tracking collars reveal just how extreme a wild cheetah’s movements can be

    108 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  6. Briar Project

    108 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  7. Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA

    108 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  8. WaveDrom Editor – Digital timing diagram rendering engine

    108 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  9. Cognitive Dissonance in Programming

    108 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  10. How Numba and Cython speed up Python code

    108 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  11. Hackers at convention to ferret out election system bugs

    108 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  12. The City Born in a Day: The Origin Story of Oklahoma City

    107 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  13. How intermittent breaks in interaction improve collective intelligence

    107 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  14. Postgres data types you should consider using

    107 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  15. Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform WebAssembly VM in Go

    107 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  16. PIN number analysis (2012)

    107 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  17. TorrentFreak Is Blocked as a Pirate Site and Hacking Resource

    107 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  18. Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

    107 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  19. Creating the alien writing in Infinifactory (2015)

    107 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  20. Pocket’s 30M Users Are Great for Publishers

    107 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  21. Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994)

    107 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  22. Setting up a second keyboard for more shortcuts in Emacs

    107 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  23. The financial mistakes behind why a startup laid off 400 employees overnight

    107 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  24. Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries

    106 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  25. Artificial Intelligence Is Now a Pentagon Priority. Will Silicon Valley Help?

    106 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  26. Iterative methods done right (life's too short to write for-loops)

    106 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  27. Amazon Aurora Serverless

    106 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  28. An EPYC NixOS Build Farm

    106 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  29. Going FLOSS-only on Android

    106 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  30. Developments in tech in Toronto over the past seven years

    106 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  31. MkDocs 1.0

    106 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  32. 2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize Winners

    106 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  33. Bluetooth Low Energy Swiss-Army Knife

    105 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  34. Two years with CloudFormation: lessons learned

    105 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  35. What does genius look like in math? Where does it come? Dandelin spheres [video]

    105 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  36. Schism: A library of CRDT implementations of Clojure’s core data types

    105 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  37. The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves (2017) [video]

    105 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  38. Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Security Question

    105 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  39. Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling

    105 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  40. 'Coerced into tipping'? How apps are changing the culture of tipping in SF

    105 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  41. Border between Belgium and the Netherlands at Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau (2017)

    104 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  42. Ajit Pai grilled by lawmakers on why FCC spread “myth” of DDoS attack

    104 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  43. Causal Models

    104 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  44. Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap

    104 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  45. Magic Leap One now available for $2295

    104 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  46. MoviePass keeps plan at $10, but limits subscribers to three movies a month

    104 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  47. Shavian alphabet

    104 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  48. Domino-effect of climate events could move Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state

    104 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  49. Machine learning links brain connectivity patterns with psychiatric symptoms

    104 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  50. Turkish Grammar by Predicate Logic

    104 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  51. Indigenous community built a DIY drone to fight off illegal loggers (2016)

    104 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  52. Fred Turner: Silicon Valley Thinks Politics Doesn’t Exist

    103 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  53. CCleaner v5.45 Introduces Data Collection with No Way to Opt-Out

    103 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  54. History of editors for Lisp

    103 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  55. How a tiny hospital used AI to lower costs and improve patient outcomes

    103 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  56. LaTeX TikZ for Cryptographers

    103 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  57. Walmart stumbles with its 'last mile' package delivery plan

    103 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  58. Scream – virtual network sound card for Windows

    103 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  59. Consider applying for grad school

    103 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  60. Dear Ad Networks

    103 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  61. Google Assistant’s latest feature: “Tell me something good”

    103 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  62. Blogging with Emacs org-mode

    102 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  63. Hackers sell data of 130M Chinese hotel guests on dark web for 8 Bitcoin

    102 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  64. The Disturbing Fate of a Planet Made of Blueberries

    102 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  65. Evaluating Vax Lisp 3.1

    102 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  66. Deploying TLS 1.3 at scale with Fizz, a performant open source TLS library

    102 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  67. ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me’ and America’s Post-Truth Era

    102 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  68. Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash

    102 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  69. PyTorch for Scientific Computing: Quantum Mechanics Example Part 2

    102 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  70. Amiga Graphics Archive

    102 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  71. Taking on a Patent Troll: Caveat Troglodytarum

    102 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  72. DuckDuckGo's bang

    102 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  73. TKVDB: radix tree persistent key/value storage engine written in ANSI C

    102 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  74. The International 2018: Results

    102 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  75. Newly Discovered 'Rose Hip' Neurons May Be Unique To Humans

    102 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  76. ‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe. How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There?

    102 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  77. Crystal 0.26.0 released

    101 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  78. Vectorized processing for Apache Arrow

    101 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  79. Systems Neuroscience Is About to Get Bonkers

    101 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  80. MinUnit – A minimal unit testing framework for C (2002)

    101 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  81. The Peter Principle is a joke taken seriously. Is it true?

    101 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  82. Solving Spectre and Meltdown may ultimately require a new type of processor

    101 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  83. Vue CLI 3: A Game Changer for Front End Development?

    100 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  84. 'It's Enrico Pallazzo': The inside Story of 'The Naked Gun' Baseball Game

    100 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  85. Yagni (2015)

    100 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  86. A Haskell Compiler – Slides on GHC Implementation (2013)

    100 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  87. AssemblyAI: speech-to-text API

    100 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  88. “Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape (2008)

    100 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  89. China’s Re-education Camps

    100 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  90. Deep learning beginner to expert: techniques from Fast.ai

    100 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  91. Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office politics

    100 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  92. LI2: Lego Institute for Lego Investigation

    100 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  93. Show HN: Ledger-analytics – Analytics for ledger-cli

    100 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  94. Usenet – A worldwide distributed discussion system

    100 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  95. The fightback against the Bitcoin energy guzzlers has begun

    100 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  96. Colaboratory, a free cloud based Jupyter notebook environment requires no setup

    100 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  97. My Haskell Journey from C#

    99 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  98. When Cancer Was Conquerable

    99 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  99. Why GE Digital Failed

    99 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  100. Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

    99 points • comment • aug 04, 2018