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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. The California Consumer Privacy Act Should Be Condemned, Not Celebrated

    37 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  2. Make your own quadrille, graph, hex, etc. paper

    37 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  3. Ask HN: How do I choose between software engineering and data science?

    37 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  4. Information Civics: Deconstructing Power Structures of Social Computing Networks

    37 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  5. Twitter company email addresses why it’s #BreakingMyTwitter

    37 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  6. Coinbase and the Widespread Adoption of Cryptocurrency

    37 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  7. PEP 505: Bringing None-Aware Operators to Python

    37 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  8. Dispatches from the Rap Wars (2016)

    37 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  9. Issue: Async script stalls page load

    37 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  10. Build a Simple CRUD App with Angular 6 and ASP.Net Core 2.1

    37 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  11. The Art of Travel (1872)

    37 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  12. Ask HN: Engineers, don't you feel like pawns?

    37 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  13. Run Chaos Experiments Without Risking Your Job

    37 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  14. Direct vascular channels connect skull to dura, enabling myeloid cell migration

    37 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  15. Why do women live longer than men?

    37 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  16. Projects: Back to C

    37 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  17. AMD Is on Fire

    36 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  18. Google Censorship Plan Is “Not Right” and “Stupid,” Says Former Google Manager

    36 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  19. Why we downplay Fermi’s paradox

    36 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  20. Rohingya turn to blockchain to solve identity crisis

    36 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  21. Stop Don't blindly take that coding challenge

    36 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  22. Show HN: Greetings cards that don't skirt around your emotions

    36 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  23. What lives inside fog water droplets

    36 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  24. Programming Languages

    36 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  25. The Sex Life of Samuel Pepys (2016)

    36 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  26. Incarceration as Incapacitation: An Intellectual History

    36 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  27. Logitext – An educational proof assistant for first-order classical logic

    36 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  28. The Ghosts of the Orphanage

    36 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  29. How to Design for the Modern Web

    36 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  30. Windows 10 Leak Exposes Microsoft's New Monthly Charge

    36 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  31. Ask HN: Bootcamp for self-taught developers?

    36 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  32. Ask: How do you apply “programmer’s” efficiency in everyday life things?

    36 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  33. NL2Bash – Generating bash commands from natural language

    36 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  34. QEMU 3.0 Released

    36 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  35. New York Becomes the City That Never Shuts Up

    36 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  36. An Introduction to BON – Business Object Notation (1999)

    36 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  37. Where even Walmart won't go: how Dollar General took over rural America

    36 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  38. Steve Jobs' daughter makes clear he was a truly rotten person

    36 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  39. Easter Island’s society might not have collapsed

    36 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  40. Statement on Police Activity on the Road to Black Rock City

    35 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  41. Trump Unveils His Plan to Weaken Car Pollution Rules

    35 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  42. Top geneticist loses 3.5M grant in first test of landmark bullying policy

    35 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  43. $50 a Month for 1Mbps: How AT&T and Verizon Rip Off DSL Customers

    35 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  44. CastSan: efficient detection of bad C++ casts [pdf]

    35 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  45. Why is San Francisco covered in human feces?

    35 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  46. My journey to securing sensitive data in Puppet code

    35 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  47. AP and Princeton: Google tracks location of users even when they tell it not to

    35 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  48. Piping Botnet – Turning Green Technology into a Water Disaster

    35 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  49. BEAKL – Theory and observations to find the optimal keyboard layout (2017)

    35 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  50. Reddit Was Hacked

    35 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  51. If Google bows to China’s censorship, it will put tech giant on a slippery slope

    35 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  52. Ask HN: Why are there no public social networks?

    35 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  53. Ask HN: Had anyone already had to deal with the GDPR fines / abuse?

    35 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  54. People buried at Stonehenge may have come from as far away as Wales

    35 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  55. Blocking Compromised Passwords on PyPI

    35 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  56. VW will stop firing ‘hail cannons’ after farmers protest

    35 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  57. Ask HN: What exciting open-source science projects can one contribute to?

    35 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  58. Oracle to charge for Java from Jan 2019

    35 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  59. The US Is the Lowest Taxed Large Developed Economy in the World

    35 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  60. Burnout vs. Major Depressive Disorder (2014)

    35 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  61. Common Reasons Kubernetes Deployments Fail

    35 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  62. Show HN: A Chrome extension that extracts used CSS and combines it into one file

    35 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  63. Where do people get money to buy CA homes these days? Often, from mom and dad

    35 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  64. The many faces of consistency

    35 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  65. Podcasting the Past

    35 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  66. OpenRISC port accepted into GCC

    35 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  67. GSoC wrap-up – Splitting Servo's script crate

    35 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  68. Cyberpunk 2077 Gameplay Reveal – 48-minute walkthrough

    35 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  69. EU may force iPhone to switch from Lightning to USB

    35 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  70. Sex, religion and a towering treatise on anatomy

    34 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  71. Reverse Engineering A/B Tests (2009)

    34 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  72. A Universal Scripting Framework (1996) [ps]

    34 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  73. How to write a good coding article

    34 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  74. Poetry Is Everywhere

    34 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  75. A Medicaid patient lost the care he'd received for 20 years. Died 3 months later

    34 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  76. Ask HN: What is going on?

    34 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  77. Show HN: A syntax-diagram generator for rust's macro_rules()

    34 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  78. IETF draft proposes encrypted message security for all

    34 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  79. American Fast Food Took Over Kuwait and Made Its People Obese [video]

    34 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  80. How Hollywood Is Racing to Catch Up with Netflix

    34 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  81. WireGuard: Next Generation Kernel Network Tunnel [pdf]

    34 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  82. Ask HN: How long does it take to learn a new keyboard layout?

    34 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  83. I Was So Wrong About Microsoft

    34 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  84. Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance

    34 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  85. What Drove Sigmund Freud to Write a Scandalous Biography of Woodrow Wilson?

    34 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  86. U.S. airline worker steals plane, takes it for flight before crashing it

    34 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  87. The Cowboy Cartographer Who Loved California

    34 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  88. IBM Has a Watson Dilemma

    34 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  89. Fixing the External Monitor Color Problem with Your 2018 MacBook Pro

    34 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  90. A Type of Simulation Which Some Experimental Evidence Suggests We Don't Live In [pdf]

    34 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  91. For some, experiencing trauma may act as a form of cognitive training

    34 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  92. Show HN: Simple way to obtain pseudorandomness from CPU context switch in Go

    34 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  93. Dthreads: Efficient Deterministic Multithreading (2011) [pdf]

    33 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  94. Effects of Adaptogens on the Central Nervous System (2010)

    33 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  95. What does the GDPR actually mean for startups?

    33 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  96. Steve Jobs' daughter Lisa's biography describes cold Steve

    33 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  97. John Coltrane and the End of Jazz

    33 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  98. The Boy Who Heard Too Much (2009)

    33 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  99. Pylava: A fork of the Pylama code audit tool for Python 3.7

    33 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  100. The Lost World of Weegee

    33 points • comment • aug 22, 2018