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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Hottest Rain on Record: Rain Falls at 119°F in Imperial, California

    90 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

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

    90 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  3. The Discord Store Beta

    90 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  4. China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus

    90 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  5. How a coding error fueled a dispute between two condensed matter theorists

    90 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  6. Probe Memory Packs 138 Terabytes per Square Inch

    90 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  7. Training classifiers with natural language explanations

    90 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  8. The daunting aftermath of releasing your dream game

    90 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  9. MoviePass Owner Sued by Shareholders as Business Model Falters

    90 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  10. War Without End

    89 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  11. How to Enable Autocomplete in Mac Terminal

    89 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  12. With Undefined Behavior, Anything Is Possible

    89 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  13. New T3 Instances – Burstable, Cost-Effective Performance

    89 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  14. The Desperate Quest for Genomic Compression Algorithms

    89 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  15. Amazon in Running to Acquire Landmark Movie Chain

    89 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  16. How we built a Super Nintendo out of a wireless keyboard (2012)

    89 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  17. Association between physical exercise and mental health: a cross-sectional study

    89 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  18. Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart

    89 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  19. Saudi sovereign fund builds 3 to 5 percent stake in Tesla

    89 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  20. Show HN: Inko – A safe and concurrent object-oriented programming language

    89 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  21. Volunteering with ScriptEd

    89 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  22. Pext: Python Extendable Tool

    88 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  23. How Fast Is a PS/2 Keyboard?

    88 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  24. SIGGRAPH 2018 Papers: Machine Learning, Graphics, and Rendering

    88 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  25. The Hacker's Diet (2005)

    88 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  26. Stacked Borrows: an aliasing model for Rust

    88 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  27. Hatchful – Create stunning logos in seconds

    88 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  28. When antibiotics turn toxic

    88 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  29. High resolution timers and high uptime headaches

    88 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  30. An office building in Seattle that doesn't have air conditioning

    88 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  31. Facial Recognition Is the Perfect Tool for Oppression

    88 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  32. Most Americans Continue to Have Privacy and Security Concerns, Survey Finds

    88 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  33. Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002) [pdf]

    87 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  34. Name and Shame: IBM

    87 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  35. Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap

    87 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  36. Tech’s Military Dilemma

    87 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  37. Products Are Functions

    87 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  38. Is Pop Music Evolving, or Is It Just Getting Louder? (2012)

    87 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  39. Why in Hong Kong people choose to sleep at McDonald's instead of going home

    87 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  40. Show HN: Favioli – Replace blank tab icons with unique per-domain emoji

    87 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  41. The Man Who Solved Bitcoin’s Most Notorious Heist

    87 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  42. Apple Pulls Gambling Apps Targeted by Chinese State Media

    87 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  43. Show HN: A smarthome dashboard concept using zircle-ui

    87 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  44. Show HN: Quetree – A Q&A site that is tree-based and hierarchical

    87 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  45. Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition

    86 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  46. ‘Why didn’t you think this baby was ill?’ Decision-making in acute paediatrics

    86 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  47. The cyclist behind an anti-cyclist Facebook group

    86 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  48. Current state of the art in objects classification

    86 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  49. Logic Programming and Compiler Writing (1980) [pdf]

    86 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  50. OpenSSH user enumeration

    86 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  51. I inspected the mastodon.social website

    86 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  52. When a 20-year-old punk put on a series of illegal shows in the desert

    86 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  53. Vanguard Warns of Worsening Odds for the Economy and Markets

    86 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  54. Doing Windows, Part 7: Third Time’s the Charm

    86 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  55. What makes Paris look like Paris? (2012)

    86 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  56. Show HN: StyleURL – Edit CSS via Chrome Devtools and turn the diff into a gist

    86 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  57. Lego Wants to Remake Its Toy Bricks without Anyone Noticing

    86 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  58. Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor

    85 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  59. PepsiCo Is Acquiring SodaStream for $3.2B

    85 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  60. Catching Cheating Servers in Decentralized Storage Networks

    85 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  61. “I Have a Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs”

    85 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  62. PC Monitors: The Evolution of LED Backlights

    85 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  63. Open Source REST API for SpaceX data

    85 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  64. The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages

    85 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  65. Japanese students create VR experience of Hiroshima bombing

    85 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  66. Diagnosing a Weak Memory Ordering Bug

    85 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  67. Regex Dictionary

    85 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  68. How Europe Learnt to Swim

    85 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  69. The MRISC32 – A vector first CPU design

    84 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  70. Predict Economic Indicators with OpenStreetMap

    84 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  71. The Great Chinese Art Heist

    84 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  72. So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?

    84 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  73. How to deploy an app to production with an actual button

    84 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  74. Introducing Driver Module Framework

    84 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  75. The simplicity of dropping Google in 2018

    84 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  76. Interesting talks from Hot Chips 2018

    84 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  77. A Detailed Look at RFC 8446 (a.k.a. TLS 1.3)

    84 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  78. Notes from Dynamicland: Geokit

    84 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  79. The Chinese Wheelbarrow (2011)

    84 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  80. Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience

    83 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  81. Chinese Billionaire Building $300M Cryptocurrency Hub in Hartford, CT

    83 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  82. Google created a fake pizza brand to test creative strategies for YouTube ads

    83 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  83. Whiteboard problems in pure Lambda Calculus (2017)

    83 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  84. How to Lose $3B of Bitcoin in India

    83 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  85. 20 Questions: A Strategy Guide (2010)

    83 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  86. Opera launches as a snap for Linux users

    83 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  87. Value-Oriented Programming

    83 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  88. Is Apple Really Your Privacy Hero?

    83 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  89. δ-presence, for when being in the dataset is sensitive

    83 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  90. Is China a developed country? A long and better answer

    83 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  91. Rideshare boycott sparked by murders in China

    82 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  92. Programming My Child

    82 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  93. CPU cache misconceptions, and the MESI cache coherence protocol

    82 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  94. Linus Torvalds on Wireguard

    82 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  95. List of Websites not available in the EU because of GDPR

    82 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  96. Where did the Microsoft tech stack disappear?

    82 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  97. Mach-O linking and loading tricks

    82 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  98. Shortage of charging stations to become a bottleneck to mass adoption of EVs?

    82 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  99. Novel Attack Technique Uses Smart Light Bulbs to Steal Data

    82 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  100. Automatic Generation of a Hybrid Query Execution Engine

    82 points • comment • aug 17, 2018