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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

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

    120 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  2. Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?

    119 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  3. Cartoons in Tektronix Schematics

    119 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  4. Fast Tensors in Clojure – A Sneak Peek

    119 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  5. Launch HN: Gold Fig (YC S19) – Version Control for Settings Pages

    119 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  6. Traits of Serverless Architecture

    119 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  7. Ask HN: Is there a project based book or course on Go for writing web APIs?

    119 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  8. Privacy Fundamentalism

    119 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  9. Meeting online has become the most popular way U.S. couples connect: study

    119 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  10. G.E. Is Accused of $38B Fraud

    118 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  11. Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat

    118 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  12. How to Get into Farming with No Money (1980)

    118 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  13. Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression

    118 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  14. How do we cut down on emissions from steel, cement, and plastic?

    118 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  15. Intel 10nm Chip Gets Mixed Reviews

    118 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  16. Yuan falls to 11-year low

    117 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  17. MesaPy: A Memory-Safe Python Implementation based on PyPy (2018)

    117 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  18. Trails of Wind: Data Visualization of the Architecture of Airport Runways

    117 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  19. Mainlanders don't all view Hong Kong the same way

    117 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  20. Duckling: a Clojure library that parses text into structured data

    117 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  21. Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    117 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  22. Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp

    117 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  23. List of military tactics

    117 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  24. Advances in Conversational AI

    116 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  25. N. Korea Took in $2B in Cyberattacks to Fund Weapons Program: U.N. Report

    116 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  26. An oral history of the AIM away message

    116 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  27. Google Calendar Event Injection with MailSniper (2017)

    116 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  28. What Is Zig's Comptime?

    116 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  29. Recursive language and modern imagination acquired 70k years ago: hypothesis

    116 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  30. Switching from Common Lisp to Julia (2017)

    116 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  31. Mitre Systems Engineering Guide (2014) [pdf]

    116 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  32. What Is Null? (2010)

    116 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  33. Dow plunges more than 950 points after China devalues its currency

    116 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  34. Amazon's Plan to Conquer the World of Publishing

    116 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  35. Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a MicroSD Card (2018)

    116 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  36. Are spies more trouble than they're worth?

    116 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  37. Show HN: ShapeForm – Schema Driven Forms for React

    116 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  38. 30 years ago: Voyager 2's historic Neptune flyby

    115 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  39. Toptal sues co-founder Breanden Beneschott for fraud

    115 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  40. Brazilian Butchers Who Took over the World

    115 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  41. Trump’s paid Thiel’s Palantir $1.5B so far to build ICE’s surveillance network

    115 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  42. If you want developers to adopt your software, make it less risky (2017)

    115 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  43. Show HN: Zepel, a Jira alternative for product teams

    114 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  44. ZipCPU – A small, lightweight, RISC soft core in Verilog

    114 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  45. A DMZ 'gardening job' that almost sparked a war

    114 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  46. How Far Out Is AWS Fargate?

    114 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  47. Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard

    114 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  48. How Slack Harms Projects

    114 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  49. Finding Amelia Earhart’s Plane Seemed Impossible – Then Came a Startling Clue

    114 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  50. Apple is regressing to their 1990s identity

    114 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  51. Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Oriented Programming?

    114 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  52. Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs

    114 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  53. Tooltips: Secret weapon for improving feature discovery

    114 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  54. As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead Pile Up

    114 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  55. Germany Turns to Hydrogen in Quest for Clean Energy Economy

    114 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  56. California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Databases to ID Suspects

    114 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  57. Does “www.” Mean Better Transport Layer Security?

    113 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  58. Game of Trees: A Version Control System for OpenBSD

    113 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  59. Instagram influencers: Have we stopped believing?

    113 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  60. Lifehacker: Tarek Loubani on 3D-Printing in Gaza

    113 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  61. API Gateway Identity Crisis – are they replaced by service mesh?

    113 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  62. Why the U.S. Army Owns So Many Fossils

    113 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  63. Cancer patients are being denied drugs, even with prescriptions and insurance

    113 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  64. Exploring DNA with Deep Learning

    113 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  65. The State of Transfer Learning in NLP

    113 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  66. Hundreds of people died over a millennium at “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas

    113 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  67. Enhancing our ZFS support on Ubuntu 19.10

    112 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  68. Getting Started with Lisp in 2019

    112 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  69. Why we ground electrical systems (2015)

    112 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  70. Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects

    112 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  71. Should lawyers learn to code? Arguments for and against

    112 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  72. Jupiter: RISC-V Assembler and Runtime Simulator

    111 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  73. U.S. tech companies are building a Chinese-style social credit system

    111 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  74. A Telegram bug that disclose phone numbers of any users in public groups

    111 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  75. Cure53 Audit of Chinese ‘Police App’

    111 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  76. Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]

    111 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  77. Tumblr the Day After

    111 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  78. Simple RPC framework in 300 lines of Go

    111 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  79. Divers Find Remains of Ancient Temple in Sunken Egyptian City

    110 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  80. Do we need to worry about artificial stupidity?

    110 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  81. I started an online subscription business from Malaysia

    110 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  82. Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+

    110 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  83. Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes (2011)

    110 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  84. Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live (2013)

    110 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  85. Leaked documents show Brazil’s Bolsonaro has grave plans for Amazon rainforest

    110 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  86. A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard (2017)

    110 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  87. Free and open-source tools for analog filmmaking

    110 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  88. Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain

    110 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  89. Show HN: I made online community for unusual people

    110 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  90. The Financialization of the American Elite

    110 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  91. On Building My Own Artificial Pancreas

    110 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  92. How annoying is too annoying?

    110 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  93. Machine Learning That’s Light Enough for an Arduino

    109 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  94. Michael Crichton: Why Speculate? (2005)

    109 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  95. A Simulated Enigma Machine

    109 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  96. Student hacks high school software and finds “SQL injections galore”

    109 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  97. How the Pentagon Comes Up with Code Words and Secret Project Nicknames

    109 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  98. Project Mu – A modular UEFI environment for building modern devices

    109 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  99. Much fridge food ‘goes there to die’

    109 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  100. A Codebase Is an Organism (2014)

    109 points • comment • aug 24, 2019