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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. When Cancer Was Conquerable

    99 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  2. Systemisers are better at maths

    98 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  3. Go 1.11beta3 is in average 11x faster for crypto/tls benchmarks on ARM64

    98 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  4. Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn

    98 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  5. They’re Falsely Accused of Shoplifting, but Retailers Demand Penalties

    98 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  6. Dynamic Django Models with Model Models

    98 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  7. The problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or FB, it’s “surveillance capitalism”

    98 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  8. Anbox – A container-based approach to boot full Android on a regular Linux

    98 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  9. Man victim of 'vomit fraud,' and his wife found the video to prove it

    98 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  10. 'Acoustic attack' report on US diplomats in Cuba is flawed, neurologists say

    98 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  11. Press leaks during Google's all-hands meeting enrage insiders

    98 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  12. Monitoring and Observability in the .NET Runtime

    98 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  13. The Dark Reality Behind America’s Greatest Thrift Store Empire

    98 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  14. The Origin of Stimulus JavaScript Framework

    98 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  15. In Praise of Defensive Football

    98 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  16. Show HN: Eno – A lightning fast, user-friendly YAML/TOML alternative

    97 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  17. Dweb: Building a Resilient Web with WebTorrent

    97 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  18. Diagrams: A diagram editor for the Mac

    97 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  19. RedHat and SUSE Withdrawing Support for OpenLDAP

    97 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  20. How to make a self-hosted video livestream

    97 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  21. Beijing struggles to defuse anger over China's P2P lending crisis

    97 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  22. New Zealand Passes Law to Crack Down on Foreign Home Buyers

    97 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  23. User guide and WASM demos for nphysics: Rust physics engine with multibodies

    97 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  24. ‘Legacy system’ exposed Black Hat 2018 attendees’ contact information

    97 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  25. The Art of Not Dying: the First Emperor’s Pursuit of Immortality

    97 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  26. Paradise Lost: How Tourists Are Destroying the Places They Love

    97 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  27. CMU Engineers Find Innovative Way to Make a Low-Cost 3D Bioprinter

    97 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  28. Tech Billionaires Hack Their Taxes with a Philanthropic Loophole

    97 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  29. Overnight Brain Stimulation Improves Memory

    97 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  30. GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go

    97 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  31. Data Engineering Patterns with Apache Airflow [video]

    96 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  32. Ransom: Routing Around Nation-States

    96 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  33. I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports

    96 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  34. Understand what AI sees

    96 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  35. An update on state-sponsored activity

    96 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  36. V.S. Naipaul has died

    96 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  37. Why We Should Watch Less News

    96 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  38. V8 release v6.9

    96 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  39. Apple was overtaken by Huawei in global smartphone sales

    96 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  40. Show HN: FreshJobs – An aggregator of junior and entry-level jobs

    96 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  41. iOS 12 uses Lua code downloaded from Apple's servers

    95 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  42. Study finds flaw in emergent gravity

    95 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  43. Irony Alert: Disney About 'Overzealous Copyright Holders'

    95 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  44. Systemd's DynamicUser feature is currently dangerous

    95 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  45. Life lessons from differential equations (2015)

    95 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  46. Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?

    95 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  47. Cubans cheer as internet goes nationwide for a day

    95 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  48. Publii – open source static CMS for everyone

    95 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  49. Let’s all go back to Tumblr

    95 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  50. Ask HN: Software development after 40, how do you keep the fire?

    95 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  51. Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability

    94 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  52. Y Combinator Learns Basic Income Is Not So Basic After All

    94 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  53. Giant shipload of soybeans drifts off China, victim of trade war with US

    94 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  54. JSCPP, a simple C++ interpreter written in JavaScript

    94 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  55. Assertions in Production Code? (2008)

    94 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  56. The PowerPC 600 series, part 1: Introduction

    94 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  57. How to Read an RFC

    94 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  58. France approves 720MW of solar as price falls another 5%

    94 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  59. Japanese fleet catches 177 whales in latest hunt

    94 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  60. What I've learned since quitting Elm

    94 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  61. Bitcoin, Ether Sink as ‘Sense of Panic’ Grips Crypto Investors

    94 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  62. Show HN: HugeGraph – An open source fast and highly scalable graph database

    94 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  63. History of Lisp (1979) [pdf]

    94 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  64. The Nuclear Power Plant of the Future May Be Floating Near Russia

    94 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  65. Hydrogen derived from ammonia could open up new export market for Australia

    93 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  66. Databot: High-performance Python data-driven programming framework

    93 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  67. Ask HN: How to find contract work in Bay Area?

    93 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  68. A collection of sysadmin test questions and answers for interviews/exams

    93 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  69. Kernels, a free hosted Jupyter notebook environment with GPUs

    93 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  70. The VU Meter and How It Got That Way

    93 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  71. You could have invented that Bluetooth attack

    93 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  72. On the uses and misuses of panics in Go

    93 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  73. Handling of U.S. trade dispute causes rift in Chinese leadership: sources

    93 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  74. Using John Varney's rhythm wheel to differentiate 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures

    93 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  75. Australian draft law requires tech companies to hand over encrypted messages

    93 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  76. Recycling in the United States is in serious trouble. How does it work?

    93 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  77. Startup Had ‘Masturbation’ Zone, Exec Who Took Off Pants in Meeting: Lawsuit

    93 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  78. Show HN: Wikipedia2Vec – A tool for learning embeddings of words and entities

    92 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  79. A tweet storm explaining the history and state of Ethereum's Casper research

    92 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  80. Show HN: A Go implementation of TensorFlow's streaming quantiles estimator

    92 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  81. An Ultrahot Exoplanet Has Metallic Skies

    92 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  82. The Places in America Where Most Income Goes to Rent

    92 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  83. Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier

    92 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  84. Middle-aged men for rent in Japan

    92 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  85. The Linux Documentation Project Guides

    92 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  86. To Fix Back Pain, You Might Have To Change The Way You Sit

    91 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  87. Introducing the Tink cryptographic software library

    91 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  88. Getting Deep into EVM: How Ethereum Works Backstage

    91 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  89. Hyperledger – Linux’s open source approach to blockchain building

    91 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  90. Search Engine for Web Page Source Code with 300M Sites Indexed

    91 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  91. From Father to Son, Last Words to Live by (2007)

    91 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  92. Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive

    91 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  93. 385 Feet of Crazy: The Most Audacious Flying Machine

    91 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  94. Clover: 4-Bit Quantized Linear Algebra

    91 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  95. Taking an Ancestry Test Could Make It Harder to Buy Life Insurance

    91 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  96. The TTY demystified (2008)

    91 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  97. What stable kernel should I use?

    90 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  98. Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'

    90 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  99. The Discord Store Beta

    90 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  100. Sex, Steroids, and Arnold: The Story of the Gym That Shaped America

    90 points • comment • aug 26, 2018