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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It

    438 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  2. Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work with the Grid Down

    438 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  3. Redis will remain BSD licensed

    437 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)

    437 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  5. Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’

    436 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  6. The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy

    434 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  7. Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git

    433 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  8. A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers

    432 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  9. Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle

    432 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  10. Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales

    429 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  11. What is this Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work?

    421 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  12. Google tracks users who turn off location history

    421 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  13. What did Earth look like X million years ago?

    412 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  14. Who Left Open The Cookie Jar?

    406 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  15. My bag of tricks – loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb

    405 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  16. Write – A word processor for handwriting

    405 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  17. Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]

    404 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  18. Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never Be Illegal

    403 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  19. What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do?

    401 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  20. Where Vim Came From

    399 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  21. California Moves to Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045

    398 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  22. Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?

    398 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  23. Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research

    396 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  24. Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow

    394 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  25. The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text

    393 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  26. How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes

    393 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  27. How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap

    388 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  28. Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers

    385 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  29. Google tracks your movements, like it or not

    385 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  30. How Does Mastodon Work?

    385 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  31. Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops

    383 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  32. Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?

    383 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  33. How the Dutch created a casual biking culture

    380 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  34. Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes

    379 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  35. Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation

    374 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  36. Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

    374 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  37. Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store

    373 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  38. The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do

    372 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  39. Paul Graham on SICP (2000)

    369 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  40. Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes

    368 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  41. Gerald M. Weinberg has died

    367 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  42. Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized betting marketplace

    367 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  43. In Pursuit of Production Minimalism

    366 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  44. The 10:1 rule of writing and programming

    365 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  45. Horrors of Using Azure Kubernetes Service in Production

    361 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  46. I know why rejection emails suck – I write them

    360 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  47. Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on multi-terabyte heaps

    359 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  48. Bing.com now runs on .NET Core

    358 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  49. Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online for Less Than $10k

    356 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  50. The Secret API of Banks

    355 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  51. Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous

    355 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  52. Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Messages, Location Data Exposed

    354 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  53. Ask HN: What do you struggle with?

    352 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  54. Traveler sues US Customs and Border Protection over iPhone search and seizure

    351 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  55. Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?

    351 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  56. GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development

    351 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  57. Conference call simulator

    351 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  58. How an International Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100M

    350 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  59. Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused

    350 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  60. My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine

    349 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  61. Real world SSD wearout

    349 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  62. Ask HN: What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?

    348 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  63. Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds

    348 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  64. Ask HN: Have you built a house?

    347 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  65. What You Need to Know Before Considering a PhD

    346 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  66. YC China and Qi Lu

    345 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  67. The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon

    341 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  68. Google, but for colors

    341 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  69. New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers

    339 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  70. The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source

    338 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  71. LiteTree: SQLite with Branches

    338 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  72. Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused Amazon alternative

    337 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  73. OpenStax – openly licensed textbooks

    336 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  74. Seaweed could be scrubbing more carbon from the atmosphere than expected (2017)

    335 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  75. We are rewriting CodeMirror

    332 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  76. Startup School 2018 – Curriculum

    332 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  77. Be kind (2016)

    331 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  78. Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support

    331 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  79. TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C

    331 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  80. The scientists who starved to death surrounded by food

    331 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  81. Introduction to A* (1997)

    329 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  82. Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine

    329 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  83. Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Leaked on Twitter

    328 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  84. Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker

    328 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  85. A Road to Common Lisp

    328 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  86. Panic Attacks

    328 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  87. Google Maps is no longer a flat map

    328 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  88. IRC turns thirty

    328 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  89. WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages

    327 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  90. Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You Need to Know

    325 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  91. New Evidence That Lead Exposure Increases Crime (2017)

    325 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  92. Traveling the World on a Third World Passport

    324 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  93. The BASIC Engine

    323 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  94. Algorithm recovers speech from a potato-chip bag filmed through glass (2014)

    323 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  95. SQLite Release 3.25.0 adds support for window functions

    322 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  96. Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero Impact on Crime

    322 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  97. Why Static Websites Need HTTPS

    320 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  98. Show HN: Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C

    320 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  99. AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review

    318 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  100. The Stock Market Is Shrinking

    317 points • comment • aug 05, 2018