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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)

    1708 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  2. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

    1639 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  3. Introducing nushell

    1430 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  4. Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app

    1378 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  5. Ebola Is Now Curable

    1221 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  6. All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people

    1195 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  7. I Miss Microsoft Encarta

    1187 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  8. Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’

    1140 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  9. Information operations directed at Hong Kong

    1100 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  10. Terminating Service for 8Chan

    1074 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  11. What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?

    1025 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  12. How to Build Good Software

    989 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  13. NULL license plate not such a bright idea

    985 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  14. What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?

    968 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  15. Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut

    939 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  16. Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender

    929 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  17. Cloudflare S-1

    913 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  18. Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection

    908 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  19. 8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service

    898 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  20. Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

    875 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  21. Python Is Eating the World

    872 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  22. Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

    869 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  23. No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers

    867 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  24. Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%

    856 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  25. Hy

    846 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  26. AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip

    835 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  27. Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye

    834 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  28. Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer

    826 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  29. US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers

    820 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  30. A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

    808 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  31. OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation

    803 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  32. WeWTF

    801 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  33. Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules

    798 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  34. A deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild

    794 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  35. Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study

    794 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  36. Why is modern web development so complicated?

    790 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  37. Software Architecture Guide

    785 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  38. Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced

    775 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  39. Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone

    770 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  40. Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

    749 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  41. Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click

    748 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  42. Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?

    738 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  43. Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts

    731 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  44. Tech Interview Handbook

    728 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  45. The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70

    728 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  46. A Walk in Hong Kong

    716 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  47. John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]

    711 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  48. Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore

    699 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  49. Build Your Own Text Editor

    697 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  50. I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market”

    679 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  51. New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web

    678 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  52. Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality

    675 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  53. How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night

    669 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  54. GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories

    655 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  55. Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing

    654 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  56. Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning

    646 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  57. Kerbal Space Program 2

    642 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  58. Consume less, create more

    635 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  59. The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure

    631 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  60. MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy

    631 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  61. Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer

    629 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  62. Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file

    628 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  63. Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)

    624 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  64. Start Your Own ISP

    624 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  65. Ask HN: How Do You Read?

    620 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  66. Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours

    603 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  67. Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses

    584 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  68. Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers

    584 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  69. Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible

    576 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  70. IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set

    576 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  71. Ha-ha wall

    573 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  72. Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser

    572 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  73. Let's build houses for people, not cars

    565 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  74. Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment

    562 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  75. Rails 6.0

    557 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  76. Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

    557 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  77. A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers

    552 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  78. We Have Ruined Childhood

    552 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  79. Home Chip Fab

    552 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  80. Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers

    551 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  81. 16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines

    549 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  82. There is no evil like reCAPTCHA

    542 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  83. Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode

    540 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  84. Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database

    539 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  85. Who Owns Huawei?

    536 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  86. The Horror of Microsoft Teams

    534 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  87. The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist

    529 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  88. Regex for Noobs – An Illustrated Guide

    524 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  89. Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)

    522 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  90. Amazon Is a Monopoly

    518 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  91. Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability

    516 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  92. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked

    514 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  93. Scientists Discover a Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis

    510 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  94. Proteins That May Restore Damaged Sound-Detecting Cells in the Ear

    502 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  95. WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

    499 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  96. Time anxiety: is it too late?

    498 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  97. Banned C standard library functions in Git source code

    497 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  98. 15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete

    495 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  99. Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator

    493 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  100. Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)

    492 points • comment • aug 26, 2019