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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First

    261 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  2. Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml

    261 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  3. Just Read the Book Already

    258 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  4. The terrible 'what if': how OCD makes every day a matter of life or death

    257 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  5. Engineers teach a drone to herd birds away from airports autonomously

    257 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  6. Show HN: A side project in medical devices

    257 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  7. Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

    256 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  8. A2Z: A computer designed and built from scratch. Custom CPU on FPGA (2017)

    255 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  9. Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout

    255 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  10. Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans

    255 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  11. Firefox removes RSS support

    254 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  12. Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed

    253 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  13. Babel 7 Released

    253 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  14. Generating random points inside a sphere

    252 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  15. Leo Editor

    252 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  16. Money Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life

    252 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  17. How to Hire

    252 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  18. Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18

    249 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  19. One man designed and built the ultimate bush plane

    249 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  20. Introduction to Go Modules

    248 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  21. The new MacBook Pros with T2 chips do indeed kernel panic randomly

    248 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  22. The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3

    247 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  23. FCC sides with Google Fiber over Comcast with new pro-competition rule

    247 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  24. How I slashed a SQL query's runtime with two Unix commands

    246 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  25. Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences?

    246 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  26. You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation

    245 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  27. WideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games

    245 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  28. Photography Composition

    245 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  29. Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

    245 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  30. Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time

    245 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  31. A million-dollar brownstone that no one owned

    244 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  32. A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Personal Information

    244 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  33. Notes Nearing Ninety: Learning to Write Less

    243 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  34. Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform

    243 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  35. Loss aversion is not supported by the evidence

    243 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  36. GitLab is now running on GCP

    243 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  37. 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email – part two

    242 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  38. Pixelblaze V2 – An advanced LED pattern development engine and controller

    242 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  39. Show HN: Curl for GraphQL with autocomplete, subscriptions and GraphiQL

    242 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  40. Elusive mitochondrial connection to inflammation uncovered

    241 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  41. Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed at CERN

    241 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  42. Python Fire – Generates CLIs from any Python object

    241 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  43. OpenPGPjs has passed an independent security audit

    241 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  44. Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing every interaction

    240 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  45. The Orange Juice Test (1985)

    239 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  46. Why Love Generative Art?

    239 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  47. Frink

    238 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  48. Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers

    237 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  49. TinyEditor: A functional HTML/CSS/JS editor in less than 400 bytes

    237 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  50. Amazon's electricity rate discounts have pushed up utility costs

    237 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  51. The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995

    237 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  52. C compiler with support for structs written in Assembly

    236 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  53. Internet Archive, decentralized

    236 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  54. Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver DNS feature is dangerous

    236 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  55. Introduction to Computer Organization with X86-64 Assembly Language and Linux

    236 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  56. Go 1.11 released

    235 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  57. Tinder founders sue parent companies Match and IAC for at least $2B

    235 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  58. Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

    234 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  59. Researcher at center of epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him

    234 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  60. ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation

    234 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  61. Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money

    234 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  62. Battery breakthrough: Double performance lithium battery that doesn’t catch fire

    232 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  63. Ask HN: Best way to publish papers as a non-scholar?

    232 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  64. AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chinese Consoles

    231 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  65. Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network

    231 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  66. Google Refuses to Remove the Pirate Bay's Homepage

    231 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  67. Introduction to Data Mining – Second Edition

    230 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  68. The Xi Text Engine CRDT

    230 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  69. Prediction Markets: When Do They Work?

    230 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  70. Black Design – Design tools for early stage startup founders

    229 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  71. GitLab is working on a tool just for data teams

    228 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  72. Freeing the Web from the Browser

    228 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  73. Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Threadripper 2990WX

    228 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  74. Show HN: NES Party – Online Multiplayer NES Emulator Using WebRTC

    228 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  75. FxSolver – A solver for engineering and scientific equations

    228 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  76. SQLite – The “server-process-edition” branch

    228 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  77. IncludeOS – A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services

    228 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  78. RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

    227 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  79. The world is losing the war against climate change

    227 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  80. Slow leak detected aboard Space Station

    227 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  81. Potato paradox

    226 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  82. GE Engineer Linked to China Stole Power Plant Technology, FBI Says

    226 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  83. Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 with Rich Hickey

    226 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  84. CodeSandbox

    225 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  85. When Security Compromises Security – The Caesars/Defcon debacle

    225 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  86. Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All at Risk

    225 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  87. What they don’t tell you about event sourcing

    224 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  88. Mistakes we made in our company’s first 8 years

    224 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  89. Show HN: Rb – Turns Ruby into a command line utility

    224 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  90. What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?

    224 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  91. Inside the die of Intel's 8087 coprocessor chip, root of modern floating point

    224 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  92. Bumper Sticker Computer Science (1985) [pdf]

    224 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  93. SpiderOak removes its warrant canary

    224 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  94. France bans smartphone use in schools

    223 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  95. Xinu – A small, elegant operating system

    223 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  96. Monsanto ordered to pay $289M damages in Roundup cancer trial

    223 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  97. Blackened Buildings of Manchester Before the Clean Air Act

    223 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  98. Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine for China

    222 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  99. People start hating their jobs at 35

    222 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  100. A study of musical scales (2017)

    222 points • comment • aug 22, 2018