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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. This improbable membrane can trap flies in a jar–and odor in a toilet

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  2. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Unveils Turing, Bringing Ray-Tracing to Real Time

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  3. Michael Cohen paid a tech company $50,000 'in connection with' Trump's campaign

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  4. (Deliberate) practice makes perfect: how to become an expert in anything

    9 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  5. GlobalEntry.gov has invalid SSL certificate

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  6. ROM sites are falling, but a legal loophole could save game emulation

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  7. Go checkout Andrew Moore's slides on statistics

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  8. General Magic: The Movie

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  9. Tesla 'to be probed by regulators' over privatisation plan

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  10. Pioneer: A home for ambitious outsiders

    9 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  11. An Android Spy App Left 1.7M Passwords and Nude Photos Exposed to Hackers

    9 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  12. Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 and Von Neuman

    9 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  13. The peppered moth and melanism: testing an iconic example of evolution in action

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  14. Android Sucks Ten Times More Private Data Than iPhone, Study Says

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  15. Bezos Parents May Be Worth Billions

    9 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  16. AR superhuman ability: displaying object trajectory

    9 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  17. Too Late to Protect the 2018 Elections. Here’s How the US Can Prepare for 2020

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  18. Monitoring and Observability in the .NET Runtime

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  19. Google One launches with cheaper cloud storage plans – The Verge

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  20. DIY medical kit that just needs water could help millions in remote communities

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  21. Democrats Must Reclaim the Center by Moving Hard Left

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  22. Pentagon Rolls Out Major Cyber, AI Strategies This Summer

    9 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  23. Ask HN: Anyone else have troubles with Facebook's app review process?

    9 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  24. Elon Musk Has Some Fun with Tesla

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  25. Securing web sites with HTTPS made them less accessible

    9 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  26. Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  27. USA Temperature: can I sucker you?

    9 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  28. SF “poop patrolers earn $71,760 a year; $184,678 with mandated benefits.”

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  29. Leonardo the Enigma

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  30. Instagram users are reporting the same bizarre hack

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  31. The 99% Is a Myth– How It Breaks Down

    9 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  32. The greedy ways Apple got to $1 trillion

    9 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  33. Microsoft Widens Lead Over Amazon in Cloud Revenue

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  34. Facebook will remove 5,000 ad targeting categories to limit discrimination

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  35. The terrible crisis of North America's murdered and missing women

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  36. Show HN: Create sketchy, hand-drawn version of image in browser with WebAssembly

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  37. Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”

    9 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  38. SQL Tip: JSONB_AGG in PostgreSQL for simple one-to-many joins

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  39. The freelance writer of Sing Sing

    9 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  40. Retraction Watch Leaderboard

    9 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  41. Reddit reinvents the chat room with subreddit chat

    9 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  42. Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  43. Ask HN: Downvotes on HN is killing me. How about you?

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  44. Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

    9 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  45. Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  46. Chrome Bug Lets Attackers Steal Web Secrets via Audio or Video HTML Tags

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  47. Why Can't European Startups Do Tech?

    9 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  48. Apple shuts App Store affiliate program, imperiling recommendation sites

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  49. Conneticut exhibition: see some of the world's earliest photographs [video]

    9 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  50. Ask HN: Pure mathematical route to intelligence?

    9 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  51. Davidson Desktop Doohickeys: Puzzle Cubes

    9 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  52. Apple Pushes Ads in Safari Web Browser

    8 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  53. These 5 tech myths need to die in a giant fire “Everyone is a designer”

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  54. Norm Kerth’s Safety Poll

    8 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  55. Components in Harsh Environments: Defining “Harsh”

    8 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  56. Independent consultant sued over Tesla Model 3 teardown

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  57. FireHOL Language (& a program to run it) which builds secure stateful firewalls

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  58. Extended Text Mode on the C64

    8 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  59. Bribes, Backdoor Deals, and Pay to Play: How Bad Rosé Took Over

    8 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  60. Google maps is now a sphere

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  61. Ask HN: Should I put my portfolio and blog under my real name, or a Psuedonym?

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  62. CSS single-file stylesheets that you can drop into an HTML5 document

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  63. Bees and the World-Wide Farming Web

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  64. Why it's not OK to hate men

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  65. Ask HN: What are you reading?

    8 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  66. Life expectancy declining in high-income countries

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  67. A Wild Alaskan Island That Inspired a Lost Classic

    8 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  68. Touring a county with 'special energy' using a 1939 guidebook

    8 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  69. On average, men pick up on visual motion significantly faster than women do

    8 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  70. A computer model could help save sharks and whales from extinction

    8 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  71. Machinery: an asynchronous task/job queue based on distributed message passing

    8 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  72. Types of Values – Crafting Interpreters

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  73. ‘I know the secret’: Men in affluent neighborhoods receive shakedown letters

    8 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  74. Despite Comey Assurances, Vast Bulk of Weiner Laptop Emails Were Never Examined

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  75. Dept of Veterans Affairs built most important medical computer system in history

    8 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  76. Audacious 3.10 released

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  77. Now the Trump administration wants to limit citizenship for legal immigrants

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  78. Show HN: Weekend Project – My first blockchain wallet. Comments welcome

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  79. Is this food keto? Does it raise my insulin?

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  80. Chrome now using native Windows 10 notifications, Action Center

    8 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  81. Codesigning certificate revokation can be a major hurdle

    8 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  82. HomeStarRunner

    8 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  83. Mozilla files arguments against the FCC – latest step to save net neutrality

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  84. Google Cloud Launches Tesla V100 GPUs

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  85. Tech Firms Surrender Their Crucial Billion-Dollar Tax Deductions

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  86. Show HN: View random tweets from the Russian “trolls”

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  87. Pioneer – A home for the ambitious outsiders of the world

    8 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  88. The MIT license (with personal exceptions)

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  89. Ask HN: Has Cold Contacting Investors Ever Worked for You?

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  90. Ternary Trouble in Perl

    8 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  91. Judge in AT&T Case Ignored ‘Economics and Common Sense,’ Government Says

    8 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  92. Ask HN: Help me find an online hangout for freelancers and remote people?

    8 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  93. This is Google’s Titan security key

    8 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  94. Tesla stock jumps on Musk's tweet that he is considering taking company private

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  95. Ask HN: Why do you like to tinker?

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  96. V.S. Naipaul, Poet of the Displaced

    8 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  97. Jack Ma wants to share users' social credit with Malaysian immigration body

    8 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  98. Austria’s far-right ordered a raid on its own intelligence service

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  99. AAPL hits $1T market cap according to Apple’s own Stocks app, but it is wrong

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  100. Google Cloud grants $9M in credits for the operation of the Kubernetes project

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2018