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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Ask HN: Is There a Hacker News Equivalent for Politics?

    21 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  2. Can Line Arrays Form Cylindrical Waves? A Line Array Theory Q&A (2005)

    21 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  3. We underestimate the threat of facial recognition technology at our peril

    21 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  4. The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley

    20 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  5. Plain old untrendy troubles and emotions (2008)

    20 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  6. Self-Driving Car Makers Prepare to Blame “Jaywalkers”

    20 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  7. How Shogun (YC W18) Got to 1000 Positive Reviews in the Shopify App Store

    20 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  8. So, could programmers convince society not to use software-only voting systems?

    20 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  9. Product Evaluation of the Zilog Z80-CTC (1979) [pdf]

    20 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  10. Categorifying cardinal arithmetic [pdf]

    20 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  11. Alex Jones is a crackpot–but banning him from Facebook might be a bad idea

    20 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  12. Redis: This is not the license change you are looking for

    20 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  13. EU taking another look at phone chargers because they’re still not standardized

    20 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  14. Lerna adds clause to MIT license blocking certain companies from using it

    20 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  15. Google Store warranty horror story: what to do next?

    20 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  16. Pragmatics (2015)

    20 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  17. Two-thirds of users in Indonesia and Nigeria think FB is the Internet (2015)

    20 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  18. New Attack Recovers RSA Encryption Keys from EM Waves Within Seconds

    20 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  19. Ask HN: How much of your career has been building vs. maintaining?

    20 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  20. Tesla short sellers are sitting on a paper loss of nearly $2B after rally

    20 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  21. US invaded by savage tick that sucks animals dry, spawns without mating

    20 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  22. Data-Parallel Rank-Select Bit-String construction

    20 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  23. Vivaldi Co-Founder: Competing with Google Isn’t Scary When You’ve Done It Before

    20 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  24. BlackRock voted for proposal to replace Tesla’s Musk with independent chairman

    20 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  25. Your Android phone pings Google a lot more then you might think

    20 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  26. Researchers Find Downside to Sleeping More Than 8 Hours a Day

    20 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  27. Venezuela President Maduro survives 'drone assassination attempt'

    20 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  28. Ask HN: Why was the Aretha Franklin post removed?

    20 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  29. Slack is down

    20 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  30. Patreon Acquires Memberful

    20 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  31. Organized Resources for Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing

    20 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  32. NEC unveils facial recognition system for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

    20 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  33. Beyond the Doctor: The Remarkable Verity Lambert

    20 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  34. Ask HN: How can I generate side income?

    20 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  35. The Generator Functions of Existential Risks

    20 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  36. Magic Leap One: Creator Edition

    20 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  37. Ask HN: Has Intellectual Ventures Gone Dark?

    20 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  38. Why do millions of Chinese people want to be 'spiritually Finnish'?

    20 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  39. Colonising Mars is unlikely and a bad idea

    20 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  40. Escape from the Mayo Clinic: Teen accuses hospital of 'medical kidnapping'

    20 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  41. Town dusts off typewriters after cyber-attack

    20 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  42. Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 and Von Neumann

    20 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  43. Bumper Falls Off Brand New Tesla Model 3 After 30 Minutes and Some Rain

    19 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  44. The Cost of JavaScript in 2018

    19 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  45. PDF Embedding Attacks

    19 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  46. U.S. wage growth is getting wiped out by inflation

    19 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  47. Parallel Haskell Manifesto (1993)

    19 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  48. Do teens use Facebook? It depends on their family’s income

    19 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  49. Elon Musk faces investor lawsuit

    19 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  50. Satanic Temple Protests Ten Commandments Monument with Goat-Headed Statue

    19 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  51. Tesla Receives Subpoena Over Musk's Take-Private Tweet

    19 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  52. Google is rolling out a new Chrome design across all OSs next month

    19 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  53. China builds ‘world’s biggest air purifier’, and it seems to be working

    19 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  54. John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ Bitfi wallet got hacked again

    19 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  55. Unprivileged filesystem mounts, 2018 edition

    19 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  56. Bitcoin and Ethereum Fall Substantially in $18B Crypto Market Wipeout

    19 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  57. Coalition of 40+ Tech Companies Endorse MANRS Routing Security Actions

    19 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  58. Firefox axes add-ons, developer pushes back

    19 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  59. Sharing on Social Media: How Twitter Replies Contribute to Emotional Intensity

    19 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  60. Turkey’s Financial Crisis Surprised Many. Except This Analyst

    19 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  61. Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme: Hex-Core, GTX 1050 Ti, 64GB RAM, Under 4 Pounds

    19 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  62. ROCA vs. ROBOT: An Eternal Golden Braid

    19 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  63. Low-carb diets could shorten life, study suggests

    19 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  64. The JPEG Committee Is “exploring Blockchain” to Put DRM into JPEG

    19 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  65. SIMPLOT: an antique animal movement simulator (2013)

    19 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  66. Future elections may be swayed by chatbots

    19 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  67. MongoDB: How to Use the JSON Schema Validator

    19 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  68. The Dangers of Key Reuse: Practical Attacks on IPsec IKE [pdf]

    19 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  69. Small Dogs Pee Higher to Lie About Their Size

    19 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  70. Smartphones backdoor using AT command allowing full control via USB cable

    19 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  71. Companies dropping college degree as hiring requirement

    19 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  72. Homemade synthetic aperture radar – Henrik's Blog

    19 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  73. The science behind non-Newtonian noodles (2014)

    19 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  74. The Story of Shmetty (1999)

    19 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  75. The origins of the TV remote

    19 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  76. WhatsApp warns that Google Drive backups are not encrypted

    19 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  77. Ask HN: What types of knowledge are worth knowing?

    19 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  78. When Science Was Big (2017)

    19 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  79. Lenovo Thinkpad P1 (2018)

    19 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  80. Show HN: Telegram is the new IRC – list of communities, bots and channels

    19 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  81. The sugar conspiracy (2016)

    19 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  82. On Boredom (1975)

    19 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  83. Ask HN: Side income while still highly invested in full time job?

    19 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  84. US plane wreck to be cleared from Swiss Alps after 70 years

    19 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  85. Extinct tech you forgot existed

    19 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  86. California's resurrected net neutrality bill just passed a hurdle

    19 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  87. Deepfakes for dancing: AI to fake those dance moves you always wanted

    19 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  88. MIT-created programming language Julia 1.0 debuts

    18 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  89. Bayer stock plunges after jury awards man $289M in Roundup cancer trial

    18 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  90. China’s patriotism drive risks ostracising its intellectuals

    18 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  91. Ask HN: Any good books on system design interviews?

    18 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  92. The Making of Future Man: On Hugo Gernsback (2017)

    18 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  93. Ask HN: How to learn to sleep on your back?

    18 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  94. Novel optics for ultrafast cameras create new possibilities for imaging

    18 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  95. Amazon now pays the lowest taxes ever

    18 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  96. That XKCD on voting machine software security is wrong

    18 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  97. Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis on a Relativistic Turing Machine

    18 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  98. Software authors have professional discipline of cute puppy compared to aviation

    18 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  99. Go 1.11 Beta 3 is released

    18 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  100. Suffering on Stack Overflow

    18 points • comment • aug 10, 2018