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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Emails while commuting 'should count as work'

    221 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  2. Secure Secure Shell (2015)

    221 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  3. USA Temperature: can I sucker you?

    221 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  4. Two French rivers disappear underground in cracks and sinkholes

    220 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  5. The Tox project

    220 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  6. A spreadsheet of the businesses I've started over the past 15 years

    220 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  7. A Missing Link in Postgres 11: Fast Column Creation with Defaults

    219 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  8. The Planet Now Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago

    219 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  9. A Tiny, $25 Million Mistake (2014)

    219 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  10. AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

    219 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  11. Huawei Caught Faking Smartphone Photo with a DSLR

    218 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  12. America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price

    218 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  13. Introduction to OCaml

    217 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  14. Australians who won't unlock their phones could face ten years in jail

    216 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  15. China's Peer-To-Peer Lenders Are Falling Like Dominoes as Panic Spreads

    216 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  16. Microsoft Bug Testers Unionized, Then They Were Dismissed

    216 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  17. China is detaining a million Uighur muslims in a secret camp

    215 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  18. A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use

    215 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  19. Is serverless insecure? Let's find out

    215 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  20. Bitcoin's Use in Commerce Keeps Falling

    215 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  21. Mkcert: Tool for making locally-trusted development certificates

    215 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  22. I made my own WireGuard VPN server

    214 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  23. Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history

    213 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  24. How to Hire Your First Engineer

    213 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  25. OpenAI bots competing against Humans right now

    213 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  26. Intel firmware now unredistributable by OS vendors

    213 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  27. Salmon, a Python Mail Server

    212 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  28. Parallel Programming with Python

    212 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  29. Parents Break Teen Out of Mayo Clinic

    212 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  30. Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers

    212 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  31. Lego Axle Sorter [video]

    212 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  32. Apple Removes Infowars from Podcast Directory

    212 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  33. Computational Duplo train track layouts

    211 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  34. The Story of Why I Left Riot Games

    211 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  35. Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling

    210 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  36. As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume

    210 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  37. The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly

    210 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  38. Getting Alexa to Respond to Sign Language Using Your Webcam and TensorFlow.js

    210 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  39. Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc Is Female

    210 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  40. Heavy-handed security searches of hotel rooms at Defcon/Black Hat

    209 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  41. Being the editor of a newspaper in Eve Online

    209 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  42. A Web Design Crash Course: From Developer to Developer

    208 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  43. Ask HN: Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my content and ranking higher

    208 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  44. OpenAI Five at Dota 2 – The International [video]

    207 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  45. How to Architect a Query Compiler, Revisited [pdf]

    207 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  46. Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization

    207 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  47. Court has confirmed coordinated raids of Zwiebelfreunde in Germany were illegal

    206 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  48. Dev.to is now open source

    206 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  49. The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined

    205 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  50. Christopher Domas: Hardware Backdoors in X86 CPUs

    205 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  51. Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead

    205 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  52. Dugout Loop

    205 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  53. Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior

    205 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  54. On the Worst-Case Complexity of TimSort

    204 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  55. California governor signs overhaul of bail system

    203 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  56. WireGuarding the mainline

    203 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  57. New attack on WPA using PMKID

    203 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  58. Tokyo medical school admits changing results to exclude women

    202 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  59. Redis is not “open core”

    202 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  60. Need More Self-Control? Try a Simple Ritual

    201 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  61. Thunderbird 60.0 release

    201 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  62. IPOs are expensive and cumbersome – Try a direct listing, like we did at Spotify

    201 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  63. Redux vs. The React Context API

    200 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  64. Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

    199 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  65. Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown

    199 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  66. Faxploit: Sending Fax Back to the Dark Ages

    199 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  67. Very few owners of Alexa-powered devices use them for shopping

    199 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  68. Ask HN: Simple, beginner friendly ETL / Data Engineering project ideas?

    199 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  69. Another Expansion of Copyright

    199 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  70. Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-nuclear plants to market

    198 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  71. Chess over ActivityPub

    198 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  72. Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals

    197 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  73. Pilots who risk their lives flying tiny planes over the Atlantic

    197 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  74. Don’t Shoot Messenger

    196 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  75. China’s Mass Internment Camps Have No Clear End in Sight

    196 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  76. How much countries spend in R&D

    196 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  77. Tesla Second Quarter 2018 Update

    196 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  78. A dull, resilient stream processor in Go

    195 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  79. Show HN: How privacy-friendly is your site?

    195 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  80. Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

    195 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  81. Three Levels of Wealth

    194 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  82. Show HN: Windows 95 in an Electron App

    194 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  83. Mithril.js – A modern client-side Javascript framework

    194 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  84. Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road

    194 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  85. U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger

    194 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  86. A high bias low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists

    193 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  87. OpenAI Five: Goals and Progress

    192 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  88. Speech-to-Text Benchmark: Framework for benchmarking speech-to-text engines

    192 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  89. The tech industry's use of persuasive techniques on children

    192 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  90. Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

    192 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  91. Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract

    192 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  92. Endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure in US: disease burden and cost analysis

    191 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  93. Cost of a Join

    191 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  94. Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine

    191 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  95. Everything Is Booming Except for Wages

    191 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  96. Why U.S. Corporate Boards Don’t Include Workers

    191 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  97. John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings

    191 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  98. Memristor – The fictional circuit element

    191 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  99. San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft

    191 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  100. Show HN: A Rust macro that parses Java-like syntax and runs it as a Rust program

    190 points • comment • aug 10, 2018