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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Bots Are Playing a Bigger Role in the Election Than People Realize (2016)

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  2. I don't want to learn your garbage query language

    16 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  3. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2018)

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  4. Don’t do what you love for a career–do what makes you money

    16 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  5. Secret message board drives 'pizzagate'-style harassment of small businesses

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  6. Audiobook publishers and retailers are trying to go DRM-Free

    16 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  7. Today's the last day to apply to Startup School

    16 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  8. The Case of the Mysterious Date-Nut Bars (2007)

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  9. Ask HN: Has anyone built a recommendation engine in-house?

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  10. Martian atmosphere behaves as one

    16 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  11. DARPA wants to speed up computers by over 1000 times while using less power

    16 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  12. A Bot Panic Hits Amazon Mechanical Turk

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  13. The Toadmen, Masters of Equine Magic

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  14. Ask HN: Do you think HN should notify us when someone replies to our thread?

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  15. Using the Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) in IKEv2

    16 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

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

    15 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  17. This is ‘iPhone XS’

    15 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  18. Show HN: GoUmbral – ECC arithmetic layer, and soon-to-be proxy re-encryption lib

    15 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  19. Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments (2008)

    15 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  20. What's new in PHP 7.3

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  21. South Africa begins seizing white-owned farms

    15 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  22. QEMU as a snap package with GTK, SDL2 and Virgil 3D enabled

    15 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  23. Show HN: ResponsiveDevices.css – responsive device frames for your demo page

    15 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  24. A Harvard Scientist's Test for Heart Attack Risk, Wants to Give It Away Free

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  25. Nvidia GEFORCE RTX 20 SERIES

    15 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  26. Solar Power: Lots of Jobs per KWH Is Bad, Not Good

    15 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  27. Ask HN: What are some APIs you wish existed?

    15 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  28. Coffee and Your Health

    15 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  29. Y Combinator invests in HappiLabs to help scientists shop smarter

    15 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  30. A costume fit for a centaur

    15 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  31. How FiveThirtyEight’s House Model Works

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  32. The state of the news media in 2017

    15 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  33. Lego-Like Architecture: $5,000 Homes from Recycled Plastic Blocks

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  34. A $100B Train: The Future of California or a Boondoggle?

    15 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  35. Formal Abstracts: Express Results of Math Publications in Computer-Readable Form

    15 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  36. Crypto-Kidnapping and How to Lose $3B of Bitcoin in India

    15 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  37. Tabs vs. spaces and other holy wars

    15 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  38. Securing HKDF – backdoor resistance using salts

    15 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  39. World's most prestigious maths medal is stolen minutes after professor wins it

    15 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  40. Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  41. Ask HN: Do you care about the product you are building?

    15 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  42. The Four Points Puzzle

    15 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  43. Chrome 69 Beta: CSS tricks, and more

    15 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  44. SpaceX reveals the controls of its Dragon spacecraft for the first time

    15 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  45. Sacha Baron Cohen Humiliated the Tech Bro Founder of Rap Genius

    15 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  46. The Meme as Meme (2013)

    15 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  47. Reddit is offline, 500 internal server error

    15 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  48. Historical collections reveal patterns of diffusion of sweet potato in Oceania

    15 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  49. Ask HN: Can a contractor earn as much or more than a full-time employee?

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  50. Why Pussy Riot Crashed the World Cup Final Dressed as Russian Police [video]

    15 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  51. Reddit is down; tells me to disable adblock

    15 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  52. Our Pungent History: Sweat, Perfume, and the Scent of Death (2016)

    15 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  53. Inequality is Everywhere in Tech. And Tech is ok with it

    15 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  54. Google Drops Plan for Speck Encryption in Android

    15 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  55. Elon Musk is broken, and we have broken him

    15 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  56. Stripe suspends payments to BitCute

    15 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  57. X-37B Military Space Plane Nears 1 Year in Orbit

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  58. Ask HN: If Bitcoin is so great, why doesn’t it help the people in Turkey?

    15 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  59. The Story Behind DOOM's Cheat Codes [video]

    15 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  60. Jack Dorsey on deleting tweets

    15 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  61. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  62. Every Generation Gets the Beach Villain It Deserves

    14 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  63. Elon Musk’s 3 Step First Principles Thinking to Solve Problems Like a Genius

    14 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  64. Art of debugging with Chrome DevTools

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  65. The Pundit (1980)

    14 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  66. We (reddit) had a security incident. what you need to know

    14 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  67. Chinese intellectual fears China will be cast back to terrifying days of Mao

    14 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  68. The Surface Go reviews are in, and… they’re a bit all over the place

    14 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  69. Serbian University Opens the First Hyperledger Blockchain Course in Europe

    14 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  70. 9to5Mac Obtained Product Marketing Photos of iPhone XS and Series 4 Apple Watch

    14 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  71. To Fix That Pain in Your Back, You Might Have to Change the Way You Sit

    14 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  72. Protecting against the new “L1TF” speculative vulnerabilities

    14 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  73. To Persuade Someone, Look Emotional

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  74. JPMorgan unveils free trading

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  75. Ancient Chaco Canyon population likely relied on imported food

    14 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  76. Do People Really Think Earth Might Be Flat?

    14 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  77. Fulfill: Safer, more cosmopolitan string interpolation

    14 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

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

    14 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  79. Xenko game engine 3.0 is now free and open-source

    14 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  80. The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming

    14 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  81. Nobody Trusts Facebook. Twitter Is a Hot Mess. What Is Snapchat Doing?

    14 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  82. The Self-Made Beauty of the Centriole

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  83. Oracle stops Java SE for commercial use starting January 2019

    14 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  84. Trust Us, We’re Secretly Working for a Foreign Government

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  85. Poplar study shows trees can be genetically engineered not to spread

    14 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  86. Police in Germany rescue man being chased by baby squirrel

    14 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  87. Ask HN: Actively looking for co-founders for my growing startup

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  88. Ammonia, a renewable fuel, could power the globe without carbon

    14 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  89. NSA OSS Technologies

    14 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  90. AVX Clock Spectre

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  91. A Minimal ZZStructure Navigator Using a ZigZag-Style Interface (2013) [pdf]

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  92. Tesla board to meet about going private, may ask Musk to recuse himself

    14 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  93. Hardware Multithreaded Transactions [pdf]

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  94. Oh Dear Elon Has Found Another Con

    14 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  95. A Way off the Ranch (2011)

    14 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  96. Data exploration in evolutionary reconstruction of PET images

    14 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  97. It will take Intel years to fix its chipmaking process, analyst says

    14 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  98. Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO

    14 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  99. Bank of Amer freezing accounts of customers suspected of not being US citizens

    14 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  100. Apple could be used as a 'bargaining chip' in the trade war, China warns

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2018