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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. I'm Wil Wheaton. I Live with Chronic Depression and Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed

    134 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  2. K-anonymity

    133 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  3. Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans

    133 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  4. The Real Deal About rel="me"

    133 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  5. How air-conditioning created the modern city

    133 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  6. Making $25k/month selling chocolate dicks

    133 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  7. Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google

    133 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  8. Microsoft Closes US Surface Factory, Moves Production to China

    133 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  9. Japan still has great influence on global financial markets

    132 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  10. How to deal with dirty side effects in your pure functional JavaScript

    132 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  11. Brazil sets new record for homicides

    132 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  12. Facebook to Remove Onavo App from Apple Store

    132 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  13. Aramco listing plan halted, oil giant disbands advisors – sources

    132 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  14. Some Bacteria Are Becoming 'More Tolerant' of Hand Sanitizers, Study Finds

    132 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  15. On Loneliness and Solitude

    132 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  16. Exploring Error Handling Patterns in Go

    132 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  17. Porting SBCL to the RISC-V

    132 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  18. Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, says Microsoft

    131 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  19. User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers

    131 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  20. Labor Board Backs Startup Engineers Fired for Unionizing

    131 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  21. Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar

    131 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  22. Sclack: The best CLI client for Slack, because everything is terrible

    131 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  23. 14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor

    131 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  24. Italy’s famous dome is cracking, and muon imaging may help

    131 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  25. Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS

    131 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  26. Uber Hit with Cap as New York City Takes Lead in Crackdown

    130 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  27. Reading the NSA’s codebase: LemonGraph review

    130 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  28. New Map Scale Is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind

    130 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  29. SurveyMonkey S-1

    130 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  30. Napoleon Was the Best General Ever

    130 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  31. Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompanies

    130 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  32. Julia v1.0 has been released

    129 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  33. Business writers, please stop comparing market value to GDP

    129 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  34. Nuclear Weapons Nerds

    129 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  35. Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape

    129 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  36. The NSA Continues to Violate Americans' Internet Privacy Rights

    129 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  37. When You’re Hot, You’re Hot: Career Successes Come in Clusters

    129 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  38. Companies shouldn't give candidates homework assignments

    129 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  39. End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy?

    129 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  40. Pop Songs Written by Native Speakers of Swedish

    128 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  41. Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley

    128 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  42. Dart 2.0 is now available

    128 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  43. Life as a bug bounty hunter

    127 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  44. The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server

    127 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  45. I Delivered Packages for Amazon and It Was a Nightmare

    127 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  46. What It’s Like Living As a Diagnosed Psychopath

    127 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  47. We Discovered Helium 150 Years Ago. Are We Running Out?

    127 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  48. Plastic Straws Aren’t the Problem

    127 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  49. A Visual, Intuitive Guide to Imaginary Numbers (2007)

    127 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  50. A plea for lean software (1995) [pdf]

    127 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  51. A new kernel polling interface

    126 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  52. Ai Wei Wei's Beijing Studio Destroyed by Chinese Authorities

    126 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  53. Beyond the pixel plane: sensing and learning in 3D

    126 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  54. Service Workers

    126 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  55. Very Good Security

    126 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  56. Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved

    126 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  57. Electricity Map – Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption

    125 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  58. Clothing Britain’s Spies During World War II

    125 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  59. Show HN: Umbrella JS, a 2.5kb jQuery alternative

    125 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  60. The Git project selects SHA-256 as the next-gen hash function to migrate to

    125 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  61. Theft: A History of Music

    125 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  62. VigNAT: A Formally Verified Performant NAT

    125 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  63. AMD Announces Dual-Vega Radeon Pro V340 Card with 32GB of ECC HBM Memory

    125 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  64. Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B

    125 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  65. Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery public dataset

    125 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  66. A Mathematical Theory for Why People Hallucinate

    125 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  67. Hyperpolyglot: Lisp

    125 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  68. Lenovo’s new Yoga Book replaces the keyboard with an E Ink screen

    125 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  69. Smoking around the world

    125 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  70. Suicidal Vet Calls MDMA Treatment ‘a Miracle'

    125 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  71. After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete

    124 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  72. Show HN: Map of Related Books for “Designing Data Intensive Apps”

    124 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  73. Uber’s Vision of Self-Driving Cars Begins to Blur

    124 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  74. An introduction to libuv (2016)

    124 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  75. TensorFlow 2.0 is coming

    124 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  76. Security Analysis of WireGuard [pdf]

    124 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  77. Russia tries more precise technology to block Telegram messenger

    124 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  78. Implementing a JIT-compiler with Rust

    124 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  79. How to Read 100s of Millions of Records per Second from a Single Disk

    123 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  80. Update on Taking Tesla Private

    123 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  81. The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) [pdf]

    123 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  82. Collaborate, but only intermittently, says new study

    123 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  83. Z80 computer wirewrapped on perfboard

    123 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  84. Apple Goes Vertical and Why It Matters

    122 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  85. A Sound Card Before Its Time

    122 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  86. Dear Academia, I loved you, but I’m leaving you (2014)

    122 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  87. Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs

    122 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  88. Puffins are in trouble

    122 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  89. S2 Geometry

    122 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  90. From laboratory in far west, China’s surveillance state spreads quietly

    122 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  91. Multi-Armed Bandits, Conjugate Models and Bayesian Reinforcement Learning

    122 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  92. Amazon is paying to tweet nice things about warehouse working conditions

    121 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  93. On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher

    121 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  94. What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your Indie App

    121 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  95. Cracking Litter Box DRM

    120 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  96. Issues relating to a bug in Intel cpus

    120 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  97. Deep Space Network Now: Status of communications with our deep space explorers

    120 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  98. Design errors Satoshi made

    120 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  99. A Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks the Life Out of Wasps

    120 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  100. My Own Private CDN

    120 points • comment • aug 30, 2018