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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

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

    68 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

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

    68 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  3. New Logo and Identity for Library of Congress

    68 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  4. A clean implementation based on AlphaZero for any game in any framework

    67 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  5. You can't debug distributed systems with dashboards

    67 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  6. South Korea scrambles to avoid going the way of Japan

    67 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  7. Sparse matrix representations in SciPy (2017)

    67 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  8. Python coding interview challenges

    67 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  9. Show HN: Weltschmerz by age

    67 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  10. Do electrons think? (1949)

    67 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  11. R generation

    67 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  12. DoorDash Valuation Nearly Triples to $4B in Six Months

    67 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  13. Mysterious Musical Stones of Ringing Rocks Park in Pennsylvania

    67 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  14. A Genetic Condition That 21 People Are Known to Have

    67 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  15. Whistleblower makes shocking IRS, insider trading allegations

    67 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  16. Easing into Modern C++: A lightning talk for the unsure [video]

    66 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  17. Humans May Have Reached North America by More Than One Route

    66 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  18. A map of London as it was during the era of the Tudor monarchs

    66 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  19. Lenses for philosophers

    66 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  20. HP Ink Printers Remote Code Execution

    66 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  21. The next 700 programming languages (1966) [pdf]

    66 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  22. Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC

    66 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  23. Prenda Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Pirate Bay Honeypot Case

    66 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  24. Announcing the Arduino Command Line Interface

    66 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  25. Generating Mazes with Inductive Graphs

    66 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  26. Auto makers are figuring out how to monetize drivers’ data

    66 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  27. Seiko UC-2000 (1984) – the dawn of wearable computers

    66 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  28. The evolutionary mystery of gigantic human brains

    66 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  29. The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville (1984)

    66 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  30. JEP draft: Type operator expressions in the JVM

    66 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  31. Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests

    66 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  32. Show HN: Dankenstein – Markov Chain Twitter Bot Generator

    66 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  33. Launch HN: Federacy (YC S18) – bug bounties for startups

    66 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  34. Significant levels of glyphosate found in popular breakfast cereals

    65 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  35. Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities

    65 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  36. Google, Facebook, Amazon May Be ‘Antitrust Situation’

    65 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  37. The Relativity of Wrong (1989)

    65 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  38. The French Language and Why We Learn It

    65 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  39. M4 (computer language)

    65 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  40. Akshay Venkatesh: A Number Theorist Who Bridges Math and Time

    65 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  41. France Bans Street Harassment, Approving Hefty Fines for Catcallers

    65 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  42. Google Hacker Asks Tim Cook to Donate $2.5M in Unpaid iPhone Bug Bounties

    65 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  43. Make anonymous HTTP GET requests with proxies via Python

    65 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  44. The Design is the Implementation

    65 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  45. Abelian sandpile model

    65 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  46. San Francisco Officials to Tech Workers: Buy Your Lunch

    64 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  47. She Had a Genius Idea: Air-Conditioned Doghouses, then the City Showed Up

    64 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  48. Show HN: A decentralized index of banned users and where to find their content

    64 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  49. The origins of opera and the future of programming

    64 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  50. Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders

    64 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  51. Why does it take so long to mend an escalator? (2002)

    64 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  52. 70’s TV game recreation using an Arduino

    64 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  53. There's No 'Safe' Level of Alcohol Consumption, Global Study Finds

    64 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  54. When Not to Serialize

    64 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  55. A breakdown of a GIF decoder (2012)

    64 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  56. Balloon Pirate Radio (2007)

    64 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  57. Lerna relicences to protest ICE

    64 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  58. EU is planning to order websites to delete extremist content within 1 hour

    64 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  59. How I Recovered Millions of Transactions Using Tcl (2016)

    64 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  60. Ask HN: How to deal with GDPR / cookie notices in the context of a crawler?

    63 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  61. What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood

    63 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  62. The setup of OpenBSD Amsterdam

    63 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  63. Pixel Objectness (2017)

    63 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  64. Deploying Elixir

    63 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  65. While the planet burns our politicians fiddle

    63 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  66. From GAN to WGAN (2017)

    63 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  67. In upstate New York, a DMT-inspired psychedelic temple rises

    63 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  68. DNS: A look back at a look back

    63 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  69. Important Algorithms That Helped Define Math, Computing, Physics

    63 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  70. I was bored and made a Conway's Game of Life app in Elixir

    63 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  71. Users' Reference to B (1972)

    63 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  72. Ristretto – A technique for constructing prime order elliptic curve groups

    63 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  73. Political advertising on Google

    63 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  74. New data on college majors confirms old trend: technocracy is crushing humanism

    63 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  75. YouTube Stars Turning Viewers Into Readers

    62 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  76. OBNC Oberon Compiler

    62 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  77. To understand how group dynamics work online, look no further than Numtot

    62 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  78. We are taking new steps against broadening threats to democracy

    62 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  79. CharmPy – A high-level parallel and distributed programming framework

    62 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  80. Research identifies key weakness in modern computer vision systems

    62 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  81. Scientists make a touch tablet that rolls and scrolls

    62 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  82. Uber reportedly lost $891M in the second quarter of 2018 as growth slows

    62 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  83. Friendly Foxes’ Genes Offer Hints to How Dogs Became Domesticated

    62 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  84. Using AWS EC2 instance store vs EBS for MySQL

    62 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  85. DNA-based chemical compiler

    62 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  86. Elon Musk's Solution for Dodger Stadium Traffic Is Full of Holes

    62 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  87. Electric Scooters in New York City? They Just Might Work

    62 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  88. Show HN: Extension to highlight and tag users on Hacker News

    62 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  89. Lessons from Building a Serverless Data Pipeline with AWS Kinesis and Lambda

    61 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  90. Coroner letters changed habits of doctors whose patients died of overdoses

    61 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  91. Kinds of types in Scala: take type, return type or type parameters

    61 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  92. The Big 5.0: Transit app gets a makeover

    61 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  93. Why some computer viruses refuse to die

    61 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  94. MIT 6.875 – Cryptography and Cryptanalysis [video]

    61 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  95. The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People

    61 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  96. We are done with “Hacking”

    61 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  97. Tesla stock sinks after Musk gives tearful NYT interview

    61 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  98. GraphQL Server Tutorial with Apollo Server and Express

    61 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  99. Show HN: Flip gender in Python

    61 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  100. Meeting the W-15 Electric Pickup Truck

    60 points • comment • aug 19, 2018