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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. For women on Twitch, appearing single has become a minefield

    30 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  2. A Versatile Computer-Generated Dynamic Flight Display (1976)

    30 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  3. The T Project (2010)

    30 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  4. Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation

    30 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  5. How Bad Is Selfish Routing? (2001) [pdf]

    30 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  6. Sprints, marathons and root canals

    30 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  7. How to Simulate an Avalanche – And All Its Subtle Mechanics

    30 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  8. “God Mode” exploit found in old x86 chips

    30 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  9. ARM Aims to Deliver Core i5 Like Performance at Less Than 5 Watts

    30 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  10. Artificial Photosynthesis

    30 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  11. Newgrad: Post a job for new grads

    30 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  12. Show HN: A free and open-source command line note organizer

    30 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  13. In Anarchic Corner of Copenhagen, Police and Dealers Play Cat and Mouse

    30 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  14. UnDraw: MIT licensed illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

    30 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  15. Dude, She’s (Exactly 25 Percent) Out of Your League

    30 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  16. Microsoft reverts decision to discontinue Skype 7 (Skype Classic) after backlash

    30 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  17. Understanding the Chain fountain

    30 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  18. Show HN: Mind Maps with org

    30 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  19. Show HN: Sketch.sh - Interactive OCaml and ReasonML Sketchbook

    29 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  20. An anthropological dispatch from the landfill dig to unearth Atari’s E.T. (2014)

    29 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  21. How liberalism is enslaving Ireland as a colony of Silicon Valley

    29 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  22. Astronomers report the most distant radio galaxy ever discovered

    29 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  23. U.S. Investor Sues AT&T for $224M Over SIM swap and Loss of Cryptocurrency

    29 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  24. Epic's Fortnite Installer allowed to install anything on your Android phone

    29 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  25. Pappas Pärlor, the man who turns the world into 8bit video games

    29 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  26. The homogenization of scientific computing (2013)

    29 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  27. Working Backwards

    29 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  28. An Emacs major mode for Hledger

    29 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  29. KDE developers release stable images for the the Pinebook

    29 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  30. Hacker swipes Snapchat’s source code, publishes it on GitHub

    29 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  31. A constant loud clicking or crunching noise in her head stumped doctors

    29 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  32. Show HN: Chat Circles – Anonymous Chat Site Built with D3 and WebSockets

    29 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  33. H-1B use skyrocketed among Bay Area tech giants

    29 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  34. Achieving consensus with 99% dishonest actors

    29 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  35. Google's new hardware security key was made by a Chinese company

    29 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  36. Erdogan to Boycott iPhones as Turkey’s Feud with U.S. Escalates

    29 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  37. The Round Houses, or Tulou’s, of Southern China (2012)

    29 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  38. Coiled Snake: A vim plugin for automatically folding Python code

    29 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  39. The Early History of Programming Languages (1976) [pdf]

    29 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  40. Hi-Vision Laserdisc – HD in ‘93 [video]

    29 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  41. Inaccurate Images of Colonial America Made by European Printmakers

    29 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  42. California to become first state to require companies to have women on boards

    29 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  43. Chromogeometry (2008)

    29 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  44. Lawsuit names NordVPN, Tesonet in proxy data extraction scheme

    29 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  45. Preservationists, please save a dying language before it’s too late: Chicagoese

    29 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  46. The Brownie Camera Page

    29 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  47. Blocks Courtesy of Konrad Zuse (2014)

    29 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  48. Apple Patent Turns Car Windscreen into Giant Augmented Reality Screen

    29 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  49. Tengen: Atari Games vs. Nintendo (2015) [video]

    29 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  50. Elon Musk’s Twitter Account: ‘Am Considering Taking Tesla Private at $420’

    29 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  51. Are Blockchains the Answer for Secure Elections? Probably Not

    29 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  52. Twitter suspends Alex Jones for urging people to keep “battle rifles” ready

    29 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  53. Fortnite Boycotts Google Play Store; Teaches Kids to Sideload

    29 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  54. The inescapable weight of my $100,000 student debt

    29 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  55. Show HN: HSTR – easily view, navigate, search and manage your shell history

    28 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  56. Elizabeth Warren unveils bold new plan to reshape American capitalism

    28 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  57. Jack Ma honors 50 Afrikan wildlife rangers who are fighting poaching

    28 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  58. Put your keys in the fridge to keep them safe from car thieves

    28 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  59. Doing Windows, Part 9: Windows Comes Home

    28 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  60. Lisa Brennan-Jobs Recalls Memories of Her Famous Father

    28 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  61. Attacked from Within (2009)

    28 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  62. Further RFC Key Words (2013)

    28 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  63. Internationalized domain names in Linux

    28 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  64. The $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes

    28 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  65. Inside the American Museum of Natural History’s Hidden Masterpiece (2013)

    28 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  66. Building a Site in 24 Hours and Growing It to +$2M/Year

    28 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  67. Gatekeepers or Censors? How Tech Manages Online Speech

    28 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  68. Show HN: Woye – Insert plain text, get information from YouTube and Wikipedia

    28 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  69. On Connection Speeds and Appropriate Technology

    28 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  70. It’s Tough Being a Right Whale These Days

    28 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  71. AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX Overclocked to 6 GHz on All 32 Cores LN2 Cooling

    28 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  72. C considered dangerous

    28 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  73. Germany’s Failed Climate Goals a Wake-Up Call for Governments Everywhere

    28 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  74. Software Heritage Archive

    28 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  75. Linus Torvalds burned the pull request with STACKLEAK security feature

    28 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  76. Ancient Mass Graves Could Be Filled with Tsunami Victims

    28 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  77. An easier approach to partial fractions decomposition

    28 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  78. Chrome Android sending location data to Google 14 times hourly,even background [pdf]

    28 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  79. On-Chip Interconnection Architecture of the Tile Processor (2007) [pdf]

    28 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  80. What Happened When I Tried Talking to Twitter Abusers

    28 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  81. Learning binary file formats (2003)

    28 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  82. Scaring Animals Can Help Save Them

    28 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  83. Google Drive will hit a billion users this week

    28 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  84. The Go team is looking for compiler/runtime engineers for the next big stage

    28 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  85. Understanding international surveillance agreements: 5 Eyes, 9 Eyes, and 14 Eyes

    28 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  86. Implementation of adversarial attacks and defences

    28 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  87. Ask HN: What websites do you check each morning?

    28 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  88. George P. Shultz on the Future of the International System [video]

    28 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  89. Theorists with a Swamp, not a Theory

    27 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  90. Magnitude 8.2 quake strikes in the Pacific, but very deep: USGS

    27 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  91. Mark Zuckerberg Is Totally Out of His Depth

    27 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  92. Taiwan coffee chain 85°C kowtows to China after Chinese netzens threaten boycott

    27 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  93. Dyson gears up for electric car testing

    27 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  94. Studying impossible systems with analogues

    27 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  95. Spaghetti injunction: Pastafarianism is not a religion, Dutch court rules

    27 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  96. GDPR: Smart Practices

    27 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  97. Developing a viable cannabis breathalyzer

    27 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  98. California may mandate a woman in the boardroom, but businesses are fighting it

    27 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  99. TypeScript is nearly half as popular as JavaScript for React apps

    27 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  100. Control government-backed attack alerts in G Suite

    27 points • comment • aug 02, 2018