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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Show HN: Real world (Jupyter notebook embed) way to assess data scientists

    133 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  2. SuperSQLite: SQLite library for Python (2018)

    133 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  3. Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)

    133 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  4. Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-Aged

    132 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  5. The Art of PostgreSQL

    132 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  6. Camera vs. Lidar

    132 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  7. ‘Product engineers’ vs ‘Software engineers’ in startups

    132 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  8. Yes, I’m Feeling Bad About Climate Change. Let’s Discuss

    132 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  9. After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube

    131 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  10. WeWork’s 17th employee: I was not offered options

    131 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  11. Caviar was a free bar snack

    131 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  12. Airframe – Open-Source Dashboard Template

    131 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  13. Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020

    131 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  14. Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally

    131 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  15. The thoughts running through our heads are more varied than we might suppose

    131 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  16. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)

    131 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  17. How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage

    131 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  18. Portugal trials use of goats to clear vegetation for reduction of wild fire risk

    131 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  19. Programming Algorithms: A Crash Course in Lisp

    131 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  20. BGP super-blunder: How Verizon sparked a ‘cascading catastrophic failure’

    130 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  21. Rendering on the Web

    130 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  22. Show HN: SponsorBlock – Skip sponsorship segments of YouTube videos

    130 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  23. Most software companies ignore user behavior

    130 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  24. How the Stock Market Works

    129 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  25. Tufts Ph.D. ‘Punished’ for Reporting Adviser’s Fabricated Research: Lawsuit

    129 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  26. A 2019 Guide to Speech Synthesis with Deep Learning

    129 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  27. Rich Families Are Legally Separating from Their Kids to Pay Less for College

    129 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  28. Monsanto built a step-by-step strategy to destroy my reputation

    129 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  29. The New Lion King trailer style transformed to resemble the animated version

    129 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  30. Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph

    129 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  31. Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to New iOS 12.4 Jailbreak

    129 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  32. Porsche Taycan [video]

    129 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  33. Math That Takes Newton into the Quantum World

    129 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  34. America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge

    129 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  35. Clever Functional Design

    128 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  36. Reducing pollution from boats by switching to electric motors

    128 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  37. Min Chiu Li

    128 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  38. Yoda conditions

    128 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  39. A person has died from a vaping-related condition

    128 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  40. Siri, Privacy, and Trust

    128 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  41. How We Manage a Million Push Notifications an Hour

    128 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  42. 16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes

    128 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  43. Sentient: Classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence

    127 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  44. Show HN: A time tracker that asks you every 10 min what you're doing

    127 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  45. Wells Fargo Closed Their Accounts, but the Fees Continued to Mount

    127 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  46. Osquery: SQL-powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics

    127 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  47. The Cherokee want a representative in Congress, taking up a 200-year-old promise

    127 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  48. The 1619 Project

    126 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  49. Wisconsin Officials Urge People to Stop Vaping After Sudden Rise in Lung Disease

    126 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  50. Fairphone 3 Launch [video]

    126 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  51. Processor Design: An Introduction (1998)

    126 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  52. Launch HN: Lang (YC S19) – Internationalization Built for Devs

    126 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  53. Measles: Four European nations lose eradication status

    126 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  54. Linux Pressure Stall Information (PSI) by Example

    126 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  55. First modern coreboot server platform

    126 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  56. How to Write a Lisp Interpreter In Python (2010)

    126 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  57. Google begins penalising domain leasing

    125 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  58. Energy Storage Investments Boom as Battery Costs Halve in the Next Decade

    125 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  59. CERN Open Data Portal: Explore more than 2 PB of open data from particle physics

    124 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  60. The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm ties to ICE under attack by employees

    124 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  61. Best books to learn about manufacturing

    124 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  62. Cowrie: a medium-interaction SSH and Telnet honeypot

    124 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  63. QEMU 4.1 released

    124 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  64. Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constrained modern day game maker

    124 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  65. GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles

    124 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  66. Hydrophilic disc uses solar power to separate salt from water

    124 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  67. Pokemonsay: Pokemon Version of Cowsay

    124 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  68. Scale (YC S16) Raises $100M from Accel and Founders Fund at $1B Valuation

    123 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  69. Most Canadians Are Now Better Off Than Most Americans

    123 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  70. Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation

    123 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  71. IBM Fired as Many as 100k in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows

    123 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  72. Building a Programming Language Pt. 3 – Interpreting

    123 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  73. How Digital Advertising Markets Really Work

    123 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  74. India’s Messy Electric Vehicle Revolution

    123 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  75. Reasons Not to Use Google (2015)

    123 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  76. Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To Combat Robocalls

    123 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  77. Dolphin Progress Report for June and July

    123 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  78. Live Avatars with face-api.js

    122 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  79. How the Great Truth Dawned

    122 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  80. Sergey Brin’s Resume (1996)

    122 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  81. Learning to prove theorems via interacting with proof assistants

    122 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  82. Show HN: Purely Functional Scripting

    122 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  83. Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)

    122 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  84. Urgent/11 – Zero Day Vulnerabilities Impacting VxWorks

    122 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  85. A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts a Space to Socialize

    122 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  86. In Pentagon Contract Fight, Amazon Has Foes in High Places

    122 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  87. Rome Is the Fulcrum of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot

    121 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  88. Open list of GDPR fines so far

    121 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  89. Tell HN: Oracle now requires you to login when you try to download JRE

    121 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  90. Misinterpreting hurricane forecasts

    121 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  91. Programming Algorithms in Lisp: Data Structures

    121 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  92. My Apology Regarding Jeffrey Epstein

    121 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  93. Effortless Elixir Releases and Deployment

    121 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  94. Arrived – a new model of home ownership

    120 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  95. OpenCensus Web: A tool to trace and monitor user-perceived performance

    120 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  96. I Tried Hiding from Big Tech in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets

    120 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  97. Amazon allegedly scammed out of $370K by 22-year-old's return shipments of dirt

    120 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  98. Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, scans license plates

    120 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  99. FileKit: An open source end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service in JavaScript

    120 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  100. Which Categories of Seed Startups Are Thriving? Which Aren't?

    120 points • comment • aug 11, 2019