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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

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

    75 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  2. Salt-infused graphene creates an infrared cloaking device

    75 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  3. Show HN: DomTerm – a web-based rich terminal emulator and console

    74 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  4. Should Rivers Have Rights? A Growing Movement Says It’s Time

    74 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  5. Gazing Back at the Surveillance Cameras That Watch Us

    74 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  6. How a billion dollar autonomous vehicle startup lost its way

    74 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  7. The Scheme Machine (1994) [pdf]

    74 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  8. Clicker Diet: Tracking Diet with Tally Counter

    74 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  9. Microbiologist Carl Woese changed the way we think about evolution

    74 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  10. How to start an e-commerce store that doesn’t dropship

    74 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  11. Service Workers

    74 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  12. Number of Third-Party Cookies on EU News Sites Dropped by 22% Post-GDPR

    74 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  13. Linear compression in Python: PCA vs unsupervised feature selection

    74 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  14. Invisible Institute Relaunches the Citizens Police Data Project

    74 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  15. Google’s Secret China Project Sparks Fury Among Workers

    74 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  16. Study: Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels with Autism in Offspring

    74 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  17. Vaping 'can damage vital immune system cells'

    74 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  18. Data Organization in Spreadsheets

    74 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  19. User-space RCU

    74 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  20. LHC physicists embrace brute-force approach to particle hunt

    74 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  21. On Dollar Slices, Pizza Vectors, Prosciutto Zones and Topping Hyperspace

    74 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  22. Fakernews: Builds a Markov chain using HN post titles and generates fake posts

    74 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  23. YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's Lead

    74 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  24. Dummy houses in the heart of London (2007)

    73 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  25. Ricoh releases SDKs for Pentax cameras

    73 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  26. Stop Asking Me Math Puzzles to Figure Out If I Can Code (2013)

    73 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  27. Daniel Stenberg: Now at 134 days since visa application

    73 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  28. Launch HN: Fintual Inc. (YC S18) – Automated Wealth Manager for Latin America

    73 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  29. To Grok a Mockingbird

    73 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  30. Google is irresponsible, claims Fortnite's chief in bug row

    73 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  31. AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

    73 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  32. 'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added

    73 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  33. Hackable humans and digital dictators: Q&A with Yuval Noah Harari

    73 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  34. The Maker of the AK-47 Is Entering the Electric Car Market

    73 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  35. Crypto’s $600B Crash Hits a New Low

    73 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  36. Locals reportedly frustrated with Waymo's self-driving cars

    73 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  37. Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (2007)

    73 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  38. The Largest US Trading Partners All Put Higher Tariffs on the US Than Vice Versa

    73 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  39. Scorching Summer in Europe Signals Long-Term Climate Changes

    72 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  40. Gremlins

    72 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  41. The Foundry at the Heart of DARPA’s Plan to Let Old Fabs Beat New Ones

    72 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  42. Bringing macros to Python by abusing type annotations

    72 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  43. Trap Street

    72 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  44. The Rise and Fall of Pixel QI

    72 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  45. F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Google Scale [pdf]

    72 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  46. Divergence and curl: The language of Maxwell's equations and more [video]

    72 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  47. Launch HN: JetLenses (YC S18) – Lowest Prices on Contact Lenses

    72 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  48. China launches platform to stamp out 'online rumours'

    72 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  49. Randomness in .NET

    72 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  50. Building a Self-Healing Operating System (2007) [pdf]

    72 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  51. Tesla Semi made it ‘across the country alone’

    72 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  52. AWS error exposed GoDaddy business secrets

    72 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  53. German Cryptanalytic Attacks on the British World War II “TYPEX” Machine

    72 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  54. Alexa, be my friend: Children talk to technology, but how does it respond?

    72 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  55. Show HN: Local Sheriff – Browser extension to show PII leaks to third-parties

    72 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  56. The First Thru-Hike of the Mexican Border

    71 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  57. CEO Cost Amicus $500k

    71 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  58. ‘We’re taking a look’ at whether Google searches should be regulated

    71 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  59. Compiling Lambda Calculus

    71 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  60. Even bad estimates are valuable if you use them right

    71 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  61. The Economics of Hacking an Election

    71 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  62. The early history of Windows file attributes

    71 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  63. Keylist RFC: Distributing OpenPGP Keys with Signed Keylist Subscriptions

    71 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  64. Bureaucracy as Active Ingredient

    71 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  65. How Do We Measure the Distance to a Star?

    71 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  66. They Don't Build Them Like They Used To: The New Construction Shortage

    71 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  67. PowerShell Remoting

    71 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  68. How World of Warcraft Was Made

    71 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  69. Why I Pull Out My Hair

    71 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  70. The hidden reality of ridiculously complicated algorithms

    71 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  71. Dissecting a Shader Quine

    71 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  72. CodeTriage: Help out your favorite open-source projects

    70 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  73. Fuzzing the .NET JIT Compiler

    70 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  74. New organic battery can operate for decades

    70 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  75. How broken is the USPTO: How is this a patent

    70 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  76. Ask HN: What software should I use to write a textbook?

    70 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  77. Pissed Off by Verizon, Firefighters Join the Fight to Restore Net Neutrality

    70 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  78. “The DNS Camel”, or, the rise in DNS complexity

    70 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  79. An Online Magazine You Can’t Read Online

    70 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  80. Braid 10th anniversary critical compilation

    70 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  81. BBC websites blocked in China after security change

    70 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  82. Show HN: I built Analytics for my Ghost blog

    70 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  83. Show HN: ASCII line chart with console, HTML and image outputs, written in PHP

    70 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  84. An introduction to the Julia language, part 1

    70 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  85. IMF staff made misjudgments in Greece, became cheerleaders for the euro (2016)

    70 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  86. Remote Mac Exploitation via Custom URL Schemes

    69 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  87. Clear defensive programming with Go using Verifier library

    69 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  88. A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths

    69 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  89. Publishing an iOS App with ClojureScript and React Native

    69 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  90. QLBridge – Go SQL Runtime Engine

    69 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  91. Programming in an Interactive Environment: The “Lisp” Experience (1978) [pdf]

    69 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  92. Break a dozen secret keys, get a million more for free (2015)

    69 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  93. The Unlikely Return of Birkenstock

    69 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  94. African palm oil expansion is bad news for the continent’s primates

    68 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  95. The Communist Cookbook That Defined Prague’s Cuisine

    68 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  96. Ask HN: What are some of the simplest software businesses that exist?

    68 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  97. New Logo and Identity for Library of Congress

    68 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  98. The truth about ‘breakthrough’ drugs

    68 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  99. Stripe for female founders has invited you to join Stripe Atlas

    68 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  100. Research team finds evidence of matter-matter coupling

    68 points • comment • aug 23, 2018