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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. The Stock Market Is Shrinking

    317 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  2. JPL Open-Source Rover Project Based on the Rovers on Mars

    316 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  3. The Book “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach” is now open source

    316 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  4. A friendly guide to colours in data visualisation

    316 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  5. What to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number

    315 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  6. A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler

    315 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  7. FDA approves first generic version of EpiPen

    314 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  8. This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways

    313 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  9. Nvidia Unveils Quadro RTX, a Raytracing GPU

    313 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  10. Facebook has removed all cross-posted tweets

    312 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  11. Apple becomes the first $1T company

    312 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  12. Jason's Machine Learning 101

    312 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  13. Introducing Ghost 2.0

    311 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  14. Facebook addiction linked to staking your self-worth on social acceptance

    311 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  15. Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021

    311 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  16. A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges

    310 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  17. Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming

    309 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  18. Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact

    309 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  19. Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (2015)

    308 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  20. China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone

    307 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  21. A $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes

    306 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  22. Six Months at Riot Games

    306 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  23. Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack

    306 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  24. Announcing Rust 1.28

    306 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  25. What Was the Microsoft Network?

    306 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  26. Set Theory and Algebra in CS: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling (2013) [pdf]

    306 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  27. Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak

    305 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  28. Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely

    305 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  29. Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders

    305 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  30. What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power Lines (2017) [video]

    305 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  31. Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt?

    305 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  32. More Americans report near-constant cannabis use

    303 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  33. Magic Leap One Teardown

    302 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  34. The Apocalyptic Architecture of One 1970s Retail Chain

    302 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  35. Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust

    301 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  36. WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion

    301 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  37. Learn You a Haskell for Great Good

    301 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  38. New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment

    300 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  39. Why you should, and shouldn’t, join a startup

    300 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  40. Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22

    299 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  41. Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

    298 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  42. Musk mulls taking Tesla private, Saudi sovereign fund builds $2B stake

    298 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  43. The Making of Prince of Persia (2011) [pdf]

    297 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  44. The Hacker News Habit

    297 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  45. Is Rails still relevant in 2018?

    296 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  46. Twitter's Secret “Guest Mode”

    296 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  47. Osx-kvm: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM

    295 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  48. Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017)

    294 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  49. Tomu, a tiny ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port

    293 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  50. Django 2.1 released

    293 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  51. Ask HN: How to get web development career on track from being homeless?

    293 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  52. Reddit Security Incident

    292 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  53. Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer

    292 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  54. How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours

    291 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  55. Taking Tesla Private

    291 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  56. Google Boots Open-Source Anti-Censorship Tool "Ahoy" from Chrome Store

    290 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  57. Supreme Court Should Say No to Patents That Take Old Ideas Away from the Public

    290 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  58. Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of guilt or threat

    288 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  59. JupyterCon: I don't like Notebooks [slides]

    288 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  60. DoD: Turn Off Your Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch GPS

    287 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  61. Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)

    285 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  62. Programming in the Adult Entertainment Industry Is Broken

    283 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  63. A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos

    282 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  64. My Own Car System, Rear Camera, Offline Maps and Routing with Go

    282 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  65. Myth Debugging: Is the Wii More Demanding to Emulate Than the GameCube?

    281 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  66. Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs

    280 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  67. Unix Syscalls

    279 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  68. Cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies

    279 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  69. Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence: study

    277 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  70. Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture

    277 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  71. OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results

    277 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  72. React Fire: Modernizing React DOM

    275 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  73. If you’re unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should

    275 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  74. Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU?

    274 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  75. U.S. states reconsider confidential deals in workplace harassment

    273 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  76. Backyourstack: discover and sponsor your open-source dependencies

    272 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  77. Introducing the Dweb

    272 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  78. x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu

    271 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  79. Eerie Skyglow Called 'Steve' Isn't an Aurora, Is 'Completely Unknown' to Science

    271 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  80. Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable

    271 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  81. Financial Modeling for Startups: An Introduction

    271 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

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

    270 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  83. BYTE Magazine

    270 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  84. What Data Scientists Really Do, According to Data Scientists

    270 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  85. Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce need for added fertilizer

    269 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  86. Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment

    268 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  87. What the f*** is the edge?

    268 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  88. Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost

    268 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  89. Open source RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night

    267 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  90. Elm 0.19 Broke Us

    267 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  91. Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig

    267 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  92. Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year

    266 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  93. Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

    266 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  94. Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism

    264 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  95. 3M Knew About the Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago, Internal Documents Show

    264 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  96. Lubuntu is taking a new direction

    264 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  97. VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing

    264 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  98. Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses

    263 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  99. My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream (2016)

    263 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  100. Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found

    262 points • comment • aug 13, 2018