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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Valve’s “Steam Play” Uses Vulkan to Bring More Windows Games to Linux

    51 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  2. Joy (programming language) interpreter in Prolog

    51 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  3. Bitcoin key mechanism and elliptic curves over finite fields

    51 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  4. Automatic conversion between simplified and traditional Chinese

    51 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  5. In Praise of Karel Capek

    51 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  6. Microsoft’s Cloud Service Leaves a Lot to be Desired

    51 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  7. What Men and Women Consider Hardcore Gaming Are Not The Same

    51 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  8. Higher Quality 2D Text Rendering (2013)

    51 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  9. Inside the haywire world of Beirut’s electricity brokers

    51 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  10. Introducing Project Paper Cuts

    51 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  11. Schrödinger’s cat among biology’s pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life?

    51 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  12. The 5 Stages of YAML

    50 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  13. From Harlem to Herrang: An Original Lindy Hopper Blooms in Sweden

    50 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  14. Apple's Board Says Tim Cook Has to Fly Private from Now On (2017)

    50 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  15. Complex numbers in JavaScript

    50 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  16. DeepDribble: Simulating Basketball with AI

    50 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  17. Pygmy: Open-source URL shortener in Python

    50 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  18. Anatomy of a Random Number Generator

    50 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  19. APL Quotations and Anecdotes

    50 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  20. Silicon Inquiry: A personal inquiry into the tech industry

    50 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  21. Ask HN: Is it possible to get pigeonholed to certain company sizes/cultures?

    50 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  22. My_basic: Lighweight BASIC interpreter written in standard C

    50 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  23. Linux Kernel TCP Vulnerability

    50 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  24. GPU Headaches: Notes on Installing CUDA, CuDNN and Tensorflow on Manjaro

    50 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  25. GitHub will now tell you if your password has been pwned

    50 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  26. Ice confirmed at the Moon's poles

    50 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  27. String.hashCode() is plenty unique

    50 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  28. How the U.S. Saved the World from Financial Ruin

    50 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  29. GitHub Classroom report predicts positive student learning outcomes

    50 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  30. Miner's “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” (1956)

    50 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  31. Fast strongly universal 64-bit hashing everywhere

    49 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  32. Too Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are

    49 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  33. Punctuation that failed to make its mark

    49 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  34. The Usefulness of Abstracting Over Time

    49 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  35. Wall Street analysts were blown away by Model 3's next-gen, military-grade tech

    49 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  36. Dataspace 0: Those Memex dreams again

    49 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  37. BuzzFeed News Asks Readers to Chip in with Donations

    49 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  38. Primality Testing Under Adversarial Conditions

    49 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  39. Eden: a Lua-based scripting language in Clojure

    49 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  40. Anatomy of Tik Tok, the Viral Video App from China's Bytedance

    49 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  41. Code Inflation (2015) [pdf]

    49 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  42. Expressive Temperature

    49 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  43. Building a simple static site generator in 100 lines

    49 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  44. Survival Of The Sluggish: Scientists Find An Upside To A Low Metabolism

    49 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  45. What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience death

    49 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  46. M. Hashimoto(Hashicorp CEO) loses access to Google account, asks help on Twitter

    49 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  47. Hume the Humane

    49 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  48. End of Greek Aid Package as Country Faces Demographic Crisis

    49 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  49. AMD once again have a top performance crown

    49 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  50. Building a Tetris Game using TypeScript and Angular (2017)

    49 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  51. BuBBLE: A Lisp Dialect DSL Written in Haskell

    49 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  52. The Museum of RetroTechnology

    49 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  53. The World’s Fastest Man (2014)

    48 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  54. Byteconf React – free React.js conf streamed on Twitch, live right now

    48 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  55. All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks

    48 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  56. A Linux Auditd Rule Set Mapped to MITRE's Attack Framework

    48 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  57. Apple Kills the App Store Affiliate Program, and I Have No Idea What to Do

    48 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  58. Extreme temperatures 'especially likely for next four years'

    48 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  59. ‘Functional Fingerprint’ May Identify Brains Over a Lifetime

    48 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  60. The Joy programming language

    48 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  61. Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study

    48 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  62. Jigsolved: Computer Vision to Solve Jigsaw Puzzles

    48 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  63. Guide to Python Import Statements

    48 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  64. Meet YC This Fall

    48 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  65. pH7Builder: An Open Source Social Dating CMS

    48 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  66. What's in a Production Web Application?

    48 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  67. A Rare E.R. that Treats Opioid Addiction on Demand

    48 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  68. Show HN: A single command terminal configuration installer

    48 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  69. The Quorum Programming Language

    48 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  70. Launch HN: MAC'D (YC S18) – Fast-Casual, Build-Your-own Mac and Cheese

    48 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  71. Microsoft to partners: If you want to work with us, offer paid family leave

    48 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  72. When China Rules the Web

    48 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  73. In Search of a Bigger Boom (2012)

    47 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  74. Tell HN: Braintree is no longer startup-friendly

    47 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  75. 1968 Created the 'Ultimate' Anti-Sport Sport

    47 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  76. Show HN: Create a restaurant website in one click

    47 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  77. Reddit Experiencing Elevated Error Rates

    47 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  78. Electric scooters are illegal in the UK because of 1835 law

    47 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  79. Confirmation Bias – Why nobody is allowed to be successful on the internet

    47 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  80. Ann Arbor's Duo Security sold for $2B: What it teaches us

    47 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  81. Why Mistranslation Matters

    47 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  82. The Computer Chronicles – Microchip Technology (1983) [video]

    47 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  83. Walk Monster (2012)

    47 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  84. Silver Coins Lead to One of the Earliest Roman Sites in Yorkshire

    47 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  85. Announcing FoundationDB Summit

    47 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  86. VS Code Can Do That?

    47 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  87. OpenAI plays DOTA against former professionals in an hour

    47 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  88. Where does logical language come from? The social bootstrapping hypothesis

    47 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  89. Facebook is down

    47 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  90. Tries as the evolution of nothing

    47 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  91. The islands with a flourishing 'third gender'

    47 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  92. How can I avoid just making rich people richer?

    47 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  93. No Amount of Alcohol Use Is Safe, Analysis of Studies Finds

    46 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  94. Theranos: Blitzscaling, Blitzfailing, or Blitzfrauding?

    46 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  95. Visual UI Regression Testing with WebAssembly and the Kantu Selenium IDE

    46 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  96. OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go

    46 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  97. Tech's most egregious violations of user privacy

    46 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  98. The Chinese Typewriter: A History

    46 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  99. Knight TV resurrection

    46 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  100. Solitude appears to have an image problem in Japan

    46 points • comment • aug 11, 2018