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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. 19 Machine Translation engines compared for 48 language pairs

    18 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  2. Microsoft's undersea datacenter has live webcams now

    18 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  3. TxFS: Leveraging File-System Crash Consistency to Provide Transactions [pdf]

    18 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  4. AMD ROCm GPU Support for TensorFlow

    18 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  5. Show HN: BountyGraph: Crowdfunded Bug Bounties and Security Audits

    18 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  6. Structure (2013)

    18 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  7. California passes strongest net neutrality law in the country

    18 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  8. The Utter Failure of Fictional Time Travel

    18 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  9. Google, Apple and 13 others no longer require employees to have a college degree

    18 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  10. Ask HN: How to learn to communicate clearly?

    18 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  11. Amazon applies a restocking fee of 25% of the item price

    18 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  12. The Tragedy of Systemd

    18 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  13. The Case for the Fat Startup (2010)

    18 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  14. The Patient Change Agent

    18 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  15. Let's Stop Pretending Facebook and Twitter's CEOs Can't Fix This Mess

    18 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  16. Show HN: A DNS over HTTPS proxy in 80 lines of Golang

    18 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  17. The New Science of Seeing Around Corners

    18 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  18. Human Rights Groups Tell Google to Cancel Its China Censorship Plan

    18 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  19. Musical.ly shutting down after $1B acquisition

    18 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  20. Tesla likely to face SEC investigation following Musk tweets

    18 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  21. Machine learning environment setup within 10 minutes

    18 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  22. Remote Code Execution on packagist.org

    18 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  23. Ask HN: Where's the downvote button?

    18 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  24. West Virginia to introduce mobile phone voting for midterm elections

    18 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  25. Ask HN: What are some of the best text-only websites?

    18 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  26. Nvidia Reinvents Computer Graphics with Turing Architecture

    18 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  27. A modest proposal for optional methods in Swift protocols

    18 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  28. The Fictional Foods We Wish Were Real

    18 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  29. CAPPORT Architecture

    18 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  30. The Super Bowl of Beekeeping

    18 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  31. Wikileaks: Google is not what it seems (2014)

    18 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  32. MIT Blockchain Systems Consortium: Scalable AI and Blockchain for Humanity

    18 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  33. Projecting the globe onto regular solids

    18 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  34. Drive-in 'sex boxes' for prostitution are a wild success in Switzerland

    18 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  35. Princeton Blockchain Reading Group

    17 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  36. How did Tim Cook fix Apple's broken supply chain?

    17 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  37. I Moved To The Bay Area From Belgium A Month Ago. Here Are My First Impressions.

    17 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  38. Arris made the first product to support the open Wi-Fi mesh networking standard

    17 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  39. Things I learned on the way from Walmart cashier to 6-figure web developer

    17 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  40. Interpretations of Probability

    17 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  41. Being average at more than 1 thing is more valuable than being great in 1 only

    17 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  42. What Follows the End of History? Identity Politics

    17 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  43. One potential vulnerability per 4 KLOC of Android С++ source code

    17 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  44. Open source cryptography takes a step forward with the release of OpenPGPjs 4.0

    17 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  45. iOS 12 Relies on Downloaded Lua Code

    17 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  46. Apple delays FaceTime group chats from iOS 12 to a ‘future software update’

    17 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  47. Tesla Is Seeking a Wide Investor Pool for Its Take-Private Plan

    17 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  48. Show HN: GitAuthors – A GitHub contributors page for the command line

    17 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  49. Show HN: A parser for sqlite databases to implement full ALTER TABLE support

    17 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  50. Darpa Subterranean Challenge

    17 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  51. How to deal with a psychopath

    17 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  52. LeBron James funds a new STEM-focused public school for at-risk kids

    17 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  53. Pilotless Emergency Services Helicopters Coming to Silicon Valley

    17 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  54. 11-year-old changed election results on replica Florida website in under 10 mins

    17 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  55. Researchers from Harvard, Yale and Stanford Published in Fake Academic Journals

    17 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  56. Amazon Ending Prime 20% Off Games Discount

    17 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  57. Ask HN: Is Google Chrome's autotranslate feature a huge vulnerability?

    17 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  58. NASA doesn’t have the funds to get to Mars alone, Ted Cruz says

    17 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  59. How China Is Quickly Becoming an AI Superpower

    17 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  60. Twitter is wrong: facts are not enough to combat conspiracy theories

    17 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  61. Sol-R – A CUDA/OpenCL-based realtime ray-tracer

    17 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  62. China Is Treating Islam Like a Mental Illness

    17 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  63. Trust Me I'm Lying: A Summary and Review

    17 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  64. Teachers Are Using Airbnb and Uber to Supplement Pay

    17 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  65. The world is a terrible place right now, largely because it is what we make it

    17 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  66. How smallpox claimed its final victim

    17 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  67. Special caution is warranted for branded combination nootropics (2017)

    17 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  68. Have elite US colleges lost their moral purpose altogether?

    17 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  69. “Monster Hunter World” game spends 25% of CPU time switching between threads

    17 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  70. Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch at 500 fps

    17 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  71. We’re in a new age of obesity. How did it happen?

    17 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  72. Stars memorize rebirth of our home galaxy

    17 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  73. L-R Beauty is in the ear of the beholder

    17 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  74. Ask HN: Which cloud behemoth is best for individual learning?

    17 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  75. Ask HN: What is your favorite gym motivation video?

    17 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  76. When the Mac mini goes pro, will the pros get Mac minis?

    17 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  77. A surprising campus free speech problem: left-wingers fired for their opinions

    17 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  78. Labor Board Backs Startup Engineers Fired for Unionizing

    16 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  79. Intel’s SGX blown wide open by, you guessed it, a speculative execution attack

    16 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  80. Yes, You Can Put a Price on a T-Rex (2015)

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  81. How encrypted communications apps failed to protect Michael Cohen

    16 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  82. A legal push to revive US net neutrality rules is gaining momentum

    16 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  83. Brace yourself: This is how much America’s 1% has saved

    16 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  84. Platforms Are Not Publishers

    16 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  85. One.one.one.one a record is 1.1.1.1 (and reverse)

    16 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  86. Cats, Doris Lessing, and Me

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  87. Work on Paper Batteries Charged by Bacteria

    16 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  88. Bernie Sanders’ problem with Amazon

    16 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  89. The World of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Is as Crazy in Real Life

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  90. Why Are Record Companies Dumping Their Spotify Stock? – Office of Copyright

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  91. WeChat shutdown cryptocurrency and blockchain accounts

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  92. The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community (2016)

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  93. Say Hello to the New WordPress Editor

    16 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  94. Enterprise programming language

    16 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  95. The Engineer/Manager pendulum (2017)

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  96. My wonderful world of macOS

    16 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  97. The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views

    16 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  98. Fighting the vanilla thieves of Madagascar

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  99. Show HN: Lumie, an opinionated NPM module to create better apps and ship faster

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  100. A 16-year-old hacked Apple and stole 90GB of secure files

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2018