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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Nelson woman delighted after Apple unlocks iPhone of late husband

    82 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  2. Linus Torvalds on Wireguard

    82 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

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

    82 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  4. The nightmarishly complex wheat genome finally yields to scientists

    82 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  5. Where did the Microsoft tech stack disappear?

    82 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  6. Researchers Move Closer to Completely Optical Artificial Neural Network

    82 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  7. Barnes and Noble says books on anxiety are soaring

    81 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  8. Introducing the Cultural Leadership Fund

    81 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  9. Leibniz's Explanation of Binary Arithmetic (1701)

    81 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  10. Optimizing is-multiple checks with modular arithmetic

    81 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  11. Federated Learning

    81 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  12. Trump Accuses Google of Burying Conservative News in Search Results

    81 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  13. Music and Machine Learning

    81 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  14. Why is a Java guy so excited about Node.js and JavaScript?

    81 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  15. Collective awareness, or the models that we use to understand the world

    80 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  16. The Eno notation language

    80 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  17. The neglected benefits of the commute

    80 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  18. Filter Before You Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser

    80 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  19. Ask HN: How's the Paris startup scene?

    80 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  20. Video game crash of 1983

    80 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  21. Japanese Medical School Deducted Points from Exam Scores of Female Applicants

    80 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  22. Unsupervised machine translation

    80 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  23. A new form of carbon, schwartzites, has been created

    80 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  24. Snapchat Source Code GitHub Leak Caused by Bad iOS Update

    80 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  25. Going Serverless: From Common Lisp and CGI to AWS Lambda and API Gateway

    79 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  26. US companies giving in to pressure from China

    79 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  27. PowerShell and Markdown

    79 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  28. DeepTAM: Deep Tracking and Mapping

    79 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  29. How the First World War Transformed Art

    79 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  30. Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras

    79 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  31. Typed Clojure in Theory and Practice [pdf]

    79 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  32. Bitcoin Whale's Bad Trade Leaves Counterparties Holding the Bag

    79 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  33. Manners in Early Modern England

    79 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  34. The rise and rise of JSON (2017)

    79 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  35. What Caused the Dinosaur Extinction?

    79 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  36. Lifeguard Drone Rescues Swimmer in Spain

    79 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  37. Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2

    79 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  38. GUIs Considered Harmful (1992)

    79 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  39. Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors?

    78 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  40. What It Takes to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes (2017)

    78 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  41. Bombing forest fires sounds ridiculous, but is grounded in physics

    78 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  42. Unimania: I Need Your Facebook Data, Location, and Your Browsing History

    78 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  43. Evenly distributing points on a sphere

    78 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  44. The Mopeds Are Coming

    78 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  45. Show HN: De-sk, modular office desk system

    78 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  46. How We Made Joins Faster, Part Three

    78 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  47. Methodologies for measuring open source project health

    78 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  48. Apple confirms TV series order of Asimov’s Foundation

    78 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  49. Open-guides/og-aws:Amazon Web Services – a practical guide

    78 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  50. California’s strict net neutrality bill is close to final passage

    78 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  51. Sarcasm Analysis Using Conversation Context

    77 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  52. Firefox Offers Recommendations with Latest Test Pilot Experiment: Advance

    77 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  53. Nimbus, An Ethereum 2.0 Sharding Client

    77 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  54. Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)

    77 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  55. The greatest paper map of the United States, made by one guy in Oregon (2012)

    77 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  56. The Fall of Schlitz: How Milwaukee’s Famous Beer Became Infamous (2010)

    77 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  57. California Is Deteriorating into a Feudal Society of Inherited Land Wealth

    77 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  58. An open-source standards and software project for intimate hardware (maybe NSFW)

    77 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  59. Ronald Wayne, the third co-founder of Apple

    77 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  60. China’s Consumption Downgrade: Skip Avocados, Cocktails and Kids

    77 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  61. China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods

    77 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  62. How and Why We Designed Lucida (2014)

    77 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  63. Greek island to run on wind, solar power

    77 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  64. Security Chasms of WASM [pdf]

    77 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  65. Yuval Noah Harari extract: ‘Humans are a post-truth species’

    76 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  66. Symantec Distrust in Firefox Nightly 63

    76 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  67. Passport queues vex airlines

    76 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  68. Detailed articles on the avionics of NASA’s space shuttle

    76 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  69. Benzodiazepines: Our Other Prescription Drug Problem

    76 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  70. The rise (and rise) of the healthcare administrator

    76 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  71. Geospatial indexing on Hilbert curves

    76 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  72. Algorithm and Blues: The Tyranny of the Coming Smart-Tech Utopia

    76 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  73. A walkthrough the AcridRain password stealer

    76 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  74. Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible

    76 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  75. Is Lisp Still Unique? Or at Least Different? (2002)

    76 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  76. The Story of an American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave

    76 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  77. What the Luddites Really Fought Against (2011)

    76 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  78. Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)

    76 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  79. Most Millennials are not on track when it comes to saving for retirement

    76 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  80. A more realistic route to autonomous driving

    76 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  81. A visual history of the future (2014) [pdf]

    76 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  82. Kitten Programming Language

    76 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  83. Fast Multiplication with Slow Additions

    76 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  84. Thorium power has a protactinium problem

    76 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  85. Cable networks are speeding up TV shows to cram in ads

    76 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  86. The Spy Who Drove Me

    76 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  87. The FMV Pipeline of “Full Throttle Remastered”

    75 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  88. Deprecating the Observer Pattern (2010) [pdf]

    75 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  89. Aerial photos reveal the stark divide between rich and poor

    75 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  90. Understanding Simpson’s Paradox (2013) [pdf]

    75 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  91. Vkvg: Vulkan vector drawing, trying to stay close to Cairo API

    75 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  92. Angst Swells as Australian Population Nears 25M

    75 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  93. Dear Venmo: Update Your Privacy Settings

    75 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  94. Face detection – An overview and comparison of different solutions

    75 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  95. The Revolution Against the Revolution: Looking Back on Shays’ Rebellion

    75 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  96. Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web

    75 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  97. Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech

    75 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  98. “Little Languages” by Jon Bentley (1986) [pdf]

    75 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  99. Show HN: BetterSlack – A Chrome extension to make Slack better

    75 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  100. Earth at risk of becoming 'hothouse' if tipping point reached, report warns

    75 points • comment • aug 07, 2018