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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Kofi Annan has died

    167 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  2. The 1970s calculator race

    167 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  3. Malaysia Resists China’s Investments, Fearing ‘Colonialism’

    167 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  4. Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent researchers

    166 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  5. America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed? (2017)

    166 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  6. Solo – Open-source FIDO2 security key

    166 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  7. Apple buys startup focused on lenses for AR glasses

    166 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  8. Aretha Franklin has died

    165 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  9. Housing market has hit a ‘significant slowdown’ in recent weeks, Redfin CEO says

    165 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  10. Visual Cheatsheet for CSS Grid Layout

    165 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  11. Reversing the effects of long programming sessions

    165 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  12. Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)

    165 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  13. Always-on Alibaba office app fuels backlash among Chinese workers

    165 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  14. Total Recall: LeBron's mighty mind (2014)

    164 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  15. Jorge Luis Borges Interview (1977)

    164 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  16. Fraud in superconductor physics

    164 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  17. Convincing engineers to join your team

    164 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  18. How to print an electric motor

    164 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  19. The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed [pdf]

    163 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  20. Gear Review: Wahoo Elemnt Bolt

    163 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  21. People Hacks for Technical Leads

    163 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  22. Why JWTs Suck as Session Tokens (2017)

    163 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  23. Alcubierre drive

    162 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  24. Pseudo-bandlimited pixel art filtering in 3D: A mathematical derivation

    162 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  25. The magic of asyncio explained

    162 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  26. Introducing Electron Fiddle

    162 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  27. Mutiny at the big five is part of the future of work

    162 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  28. Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its Website

    161 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  29. Ask HN: Which types of tech jobs are best for people that can't handle stress?

    161 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  30. MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery

    161 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  31. Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’

    161 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  32. PgModeler – PostgreSQL Database Modeler

    160 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  33. Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt

    160 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  34. LibreOffice 6.1 released

    160 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  35. Ask HN: How can I prepare for a coding interview in a week?

    160 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  36. The Ugly Truth of Ugly Produce

    160 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  37. Mod and remainder are not the same

    160 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  38. Go Memory Management

    160 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  39. The Billionaires and The Guru: How an Indian Family Burned Through $2B

    160 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  40. The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man

    160 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  41. Never patterns, exhaustive matching, and uninhabited types in Rust

    159 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  42. Agner Fog

    159 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  43. What happens if you mistakenly apply for British citizenship?

    159 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  44. TLS 1.3 Is an Opportunity for Amazon, Google and Microsoft to End Censorship

    159 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  45. Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of LED Lighting

    159 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  46. Oops, I Wrote a C++ Compiler

    158 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  47. Show HN: BuzzFeed open source SSO

    158 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  48. Public by Default: Venmo Stories of 2017

    158 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  49. The Chinese were solving 14th degree polynomials in 1303. Why?

    157 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  50. Consumer startups that said no to investor money

    157 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  51. Meteor showers from space

    157 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  52. Cryptocurrency investor robbed via his cellphone account sues AT&T for $224M

    157 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  53. Basic Income caused crime to drop by 40% and strengthened workforce?

    157 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  54. Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time

    156 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  55. In horrific detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches

    156 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  56. Upwork Freelancers Who Want Guaranteed Pay Have to Opt in to Tracking Software

    156 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  57. Crying in H Mart

    156 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  58. Dropbear SSH, a lightweight alternative to OpenSSH

    155 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  59. Transmuting Low-Value Programmer Cred into High-Value Status Illegibility

    155 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  60. Warner Music Group Sells Entire Stake in Spotify

    155 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  61. AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027

    155 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  62. Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study

    155 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  63. Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up in four days

    155 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  64. Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M

    155 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  65. vTaiwan: An experiment in participatory governance

    155 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  66. Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

    154 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  67. Show HN: SVG 3D Builder – Build 3D Models with SVG

    154 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  68. For progress to be by accumulation and not random walk, read great books (2010)

    154 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  69. Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring US citizens’: report

    154 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  70. From Google to the world: the Kubernetes origin story

    154 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  71. Farmers in Niger are nurturing gao trees to drive environmental change in Africa

    154 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  72. Bulma – Flexbox CSS framework

    153 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  73. Zero-copy deserialization in Julia

    153 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  74. Show HN: Trackerjacker – Map and track wifi networks you're not connected to

    153 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  75. How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility

    153 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  76. My Experience and Advice for Using GPUs in Deep Learning: Which GPU to get

    153 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  77. Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization (2013)

    153 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  78. G Suite Happy Ending

    153 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  79. A map of publicly available fruit trees, mostly in Slovakia

    153 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  80. Instructions from Facebook not to touch the posts of the cabinet minister

    153 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  81. CivJS: A JavaScript 4X Game (2015)

    153 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  82. Absolute Hot

    153 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  83. US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage

    153 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  84. Starting your own bank is laborious but profitable (2009)

    153 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  85. UBC researchers may have found a way to make donated blood universal

    153 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  86. How to use LEDs to detect light

    152 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  87. Whiteboards used after Gatwick flight information screens fail

    151 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  88. Programming Language Foundations in Agda

    151 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  89. Microsoft will require suppliers to offer paid parental leave

    151 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  90. Krypton: phone-based U2F Authenticator

    151 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  91. Windows Calculator invalid input with 10^x function

    151 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  92. Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1

    151 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  93. Organic solar cells set 'remarkable' energy record

    151 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  94. Google's AutoML: Cutting Through the Hype

    151 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  95. The Berklee College of Music Sampling Archive

    150 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  96. Can you use the terminal for everything? [video]

    150 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  97. NLP’s generalization problem, and how researchers are tackling it

    150 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  98. Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning

    150 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  99. What Can Small Tech Companies Do About Patent Trolls?

    150 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  100. Goodbye Python, Hello Go

    150 points • comment • aug 03, 2018