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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B

    149 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  2. Norway's Plan for a Fleet of Electric Planes

    149 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  3. UN says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps

    149 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  4. Google donates money to help run the Kubernetes infrastructure

    149 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  5. Vert.x native: how to run a JVM app in 10Mb of RAM

    148 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  6. How well does population density predict U.S. voting outcomes?

    148 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  7. Liftoff: a new baseline compiler for WebAssembly in V8

    147 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  8. Why Sitting May Be Bad for Your Brain

    147 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  9. FCC can define markets with only one ISP as “competitive,” court rules

    147 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  10. How Netflix outsmarted everyone else in TV

    147 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  11. On Apple's Love Affair with Swift

    147 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  12. Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

    146 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  13. Rackjure

    146 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  14. Why Westerners Fear Robots and the Japanese Do Not

    146 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  15. Unit testing anti-patterns: Structural Inspection

    146 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  16. How the Brain Experiences Time

    146 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  17. Intangible investment behaves differently

    146 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  18. Are diesel’s days numbered? A view from a trip to BYD’s electric bus factory

    146 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  19. The next ten years of Instapaper

    146 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  20. Show HN: Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles

    146 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  21. Maria Konnikova Shows Her Cards

    145 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  22. Bayesian analysis suggests that John Lennon wrote the music for 'In My Life'

    145 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  23. Bethesda blocks resale of used game

    145 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  24. The Bell System Technical Journal

    145 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  25. How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (1999)

    145 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  26. Create a simple cross-platform desktop game with Go

    145 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  27. A little bump in the wire that makes the Internet faster

    145 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  28. The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and Bunks

    145 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  29. Bleak New Estimates in Drug Epidemic: A Record 72,000 Overdose Deaths in 2017

    145 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  30. How Amsterdam’s Airport Is Fighting Noise Pollution with Land Art

    145 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  31. Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused – part 2

    144 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  32. How to Recover from Romantic Heartbreak?

    144 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  33. Arduino command line interface

    144 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  34. We Wanted Safer Banks, We Got More Inequality

    144 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  35. Staying Public

    144 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  36. Growers Are Beaming Over the Success of Lasers to Stave Off Birds

    143 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  37. The Performance Cost Of Spectre/Meltdown/Foreshadow Mitigations On Linux

    143 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  38. MIT 6.886 – Graph Analytics – Spring 2018

    143 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  39. Wanted: ‘Lost Einsteins.’ Please Apply

    143 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  40. Venezuela devalues the bolivar by 95% and pegs it to ‘oil-linked’ cryptocurrency

    143 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  41. Stop Payment: A homeowner’s revolt against the banks (2012)

    143 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  42. Researchers have observed the Lyman-alpha transition in the antihydrogen atom

    143 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  43. Age of Invisible Disasters (2017)

    143 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  44. Australia bans Huawei and ZTE from supplying technology for its 5G network

    143 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  45. Show HN: Permafrost Engine – OpenGL 3.3 Real Time Strategy Engine in C

    143 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  46. XKCD: Voting software

    142 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  47. Approaching Access Control on the Web (Part I)

    142 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  48. OpenStreetMap for the dyslexic

    142 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  49. Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win Justice Dept. Support

    142 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  50. The Paradox of Karl Popper

    141 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  51. Designing Solo, a new U2F/FIDO2 Token

    141 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  52. Organized Resources for Deep Learning Researchers and Developers

    141 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  53. The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America

    141 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  54. What else is in Go 1.11?

    140 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  55. Tcpdump101 – Build packet capture syntax online

    140 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  56. Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It

    140 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  57. Apple Is Planning a New Low-Cost MacBook, Pro-Focused Mac Mini

    139 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  58. The short history of the “about:” URL (2013)

    139 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  59. F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development

    139 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  60. Greyston Bakery hires on a first-come, first-served basis, no questions asked

    139 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  61. China Built the World’s Largest Telescope, Then Came the Tourists

    138 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  62. Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing

    138 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  63. Redshift – A better flux program for Linux (2014)

    138 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  64. How Does FreeConferenceCall.com Make Money? (2012)

    138 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  65. Some Techies Are Shunning Silicon Valley for the Japanese Dream

    138 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  66. Netflix will now interrupt series binges with video ads for its other series

    138 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  67. Man sues over Google’s “Location History” fiasco, case could affect millions

    138 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  68. It’s Amazon’s Swamp Now

    138 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  69. Why There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America

    138 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  70. Bringing Vulkan everywhere

    137 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  71. How Companies Make Millions Charging Prisoners to Send an Email

    137 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  72. Stockholm’s deepest subway station is also an ecological wonder

    137 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  73. Practical Web Cache Poisoning

    137 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  74. Atom 1.29

    137 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  75. Massachusetts gives workers new protections against noncompete clauses

    137 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  76. Game Programming Patterns: Double Buffer (2014)

    137 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  77. Google Data Collection research

    137 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  78. What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons?

    137 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  79. Why startups need to approach SEO differently than established companies

    136 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  80. Two CMU Computer Science Professors Resign, Citing “sexist management”

    136 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  81. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences

    136 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  82. Blind: an anonymous, corporate social network

    135 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  83. A timesyncd failure and systemd's lack of debugability

    135 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  84. Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2

    135 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  85. Georgia defends voting system despite 243-percent turnout in one precinct

    135 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  86. PolarFS: Alibaba Distributed File System for Shared Storage Cloud Database [pdf]

    135 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  87. Limits on Matrix Multiplication

    135 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  88. A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011)

    135 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  89. L.A. County gets state approval of new open-source vote-counting system

    135 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  90. $100M Was Once Big Money for a Startup. Now, It’s Common

    134 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  91. Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor

    134 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  92. Building a Treasury Bond Ladder

    134 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  93. Swift: When Unused Code Is a Bug

    134 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  94. Eventbrite S-1

    134 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  95. Relation between alcohol consumption in midlife and dementia in late life

    134 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  96. Two player Karateka using a 42 byte patch

    134 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  97. Children learn best when engaged in the living world, not on screens

    134 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  98. M3: Uber's Open Source Large-Scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus

    134 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  99. Wells Fargo says hundreds of customers lost homes after computer glitch

    134 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  100. A Couple of Meta-Interpreters in Prolog

    134 points • comment • aug 06, 2018