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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

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

    109 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  2. A Simulated Enigma Machine

    109 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  3. Learning SIMD with Rust by Finding Planets (2018)

    108 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  4. The Broken Chain Problem

    108 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  5. Portugal Tax Authority: Bitcoin Trading and Payments Are Tax-Free

    108 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  6. The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (1960)

    108 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  7. Detailed 3D map of Milky Way shows 'warped' shape

    108 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  8. Capturing PAL video with an SDR, and a few dead ends

    108 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  9. All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox on Aug 21

    108 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  10. Computer Stupidities (2013)

    108 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  11. TV networks vowed to cut back on commercials but stuffed in more

    108 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  12. Lesson Learned from Queries over 1.3T Rows of Data

    108 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  13. Sipeed Longan Nano – RISC-V Development Board

    108 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  14. Building a State of the Art Bacterial Classifier with Fast.ai and Paperspace

    108 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  15. The Dysfunctional Trillion-Dollar U.S. Fighter-Jet Program

    108 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  16. 42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller might be just the vision we need

    108 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  17. SoftBank plans to lend $20B to its CEO and employees amid volatile markets

    107 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  18. Show HN: Crawlab: Open-Source Web Crawler Admin Platform That Runs Any Language

    107 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  19. LA getting serious about lifting parking requirements in downtown

    107 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  20. Apple Card launches today for all US customers

    107 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  21. Trauma Counselors Pressured to Divulge Confidential Info About Facebook Mods

    107 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  22. No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf]

    107 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  23. Tesla received a cease-and-desist letter from NHTSA over Model 3 safety claims

    106 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  24. California’s Biggest Cities Confront a ‘Defecation Crisis’

    106 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  25. It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains

    106 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  26. Map Design – a guide to good looking maps (2008) [pdf]

    106 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  27. Palantir forced out of job fair after outcry over ICE contracts

    106 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  28. Kaspersky in the Middle – what could possibly go wrong?

    106 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  29. Curve fitting A: Linear Least Squares

    106 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  30. The High Price of Multitasking

    106 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  31. Karel Čapek's play "R.U.R." premiered in January 1921

    105 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  32. The difference between isolation levels and consistency levels

    105 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  33. The Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition

    105 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  34. Dating: A Research Journal, Part 1 (2016)

    105 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  35. Contrary to Musk's claim, Lidar has some advantages in Self Driving technology

    105 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  36. Linguistics Using Category Theory (2018)

    105 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  37. Russia, after protests, tells Google not to advertise “illegal” events

    105 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  38. Armoured Commander: The WWII Tank Commander Roguelike

    105 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  39. How the brain 'approximates' without counting

    105 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  40. Portugal’s Marmelada Tastes Nothing Like Marmalade (2018)

    105 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  41. Life of Brian: The most blasphemous film ever?

    105 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  42. Apple Card restrictions include no jailbreaking or cryptocurrency purchases

    104 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  43. Show HN: Homer – A Text Analyzer in Python

    104 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  44. DDSketch: A fast, fully-mergeable quantile sketch with relative-error guarantees

    104 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  45. How to get consistent results when benchmarking on Linux?

    104 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  46. New Electric Motor Could Boost Efficiency of EVs, Scooters, and Wind Turbines

    104 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  47. Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead (2017)

    104 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  48. FBI Says QAnon, Internet Conspiracy Theorists Are National Security Threats

    104 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  49. Effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide on soil ecosystem

    104 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  50. Modern Text Rendering with Linux

    104 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  51. Help Advance the World with Advanced Linear Algebra

    104 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  52. The market figured out Gitlab’s secret

    103 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  53. How to stop Apple from listening to your Siri recordings

    103 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  54. New Species May Evolve from Cancers

    103 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  55. A profile of Geoffrey Hinton (2018)

    103 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  56. Real world location virtually recreated to scale in minutes [video]

    103 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  57. Katy Perry's Dark Horse Lawsuit Makes Waves in Music Industry

    103 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  58. Turkmenistan on the brink of collapse?

    103 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  59. Selfie-seeking Instagrammers are ruining the world’s beautiful places

    103 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  60. Apple's petition against RED

    103 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  61. A recent paper proposes to bring zeppelins back

    103 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  62. Building a vacuum tube computer

    103 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  63. 100 Years Ago, a Telephone Tower in Stockholm Connected 5000 Phone Lines (2014)

    103 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  64. The D-Day rehearsal that cost 800 lives (2014)

    102 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  65. How to Teach an Iris Scanner That the Eye It’s Looking at Is Dead

    102 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  66. Scientists reverse aging process in rat brain stem cells

    102 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  67. Cold War spy technology we all use

    102 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  68. Finland urges EU to consider banning Brazilian beef over Amazon fires

    102 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  69. Dollar vans, NYC’s other transit system

    102 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  70. Marree Man

    102 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  71. General Electric: A Bigger Fraud Than Enron

    102 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  72. Show HN: JSON Pizza – Beautify your JSON quickly

    102 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  73. Gardens with a 12,000-person waiting list

    102 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  74. Show HN: Dat-keyserver: a distributed PGP keyserver based on the Dat protocol

    102 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  75. Pay a visit to Cambridge’s computer museum

    102 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  76. How to Build a Pyramid

    102 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  77. Idaho artifacts show humans came to North America via a water route, not land

    102 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  78. Counterintuitive physics property found to be widespread in living organisms

    101 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  79. The Survival of Iggy Pop

    101 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  80. Pakistan to ban single-use plastic bags

    101 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  81. You Are Not Your Code (2012)

    101 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  82. Scala Native

    101 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  83. Reporting on the State of the Climate in 2018

    101 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  84. Embodied energy of digital technology

    101 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  85. J-Core Open Processor

    101 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  86. The Web We Want

    101 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  87. A 127-year-old physics riddle regarding the Kelvinangle in boat wakes solved

    101 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  88. Indigenous Women Are Publishing the First Maya Works in over 400 Years

    101 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  89. The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Principle of Least Action (1963)

    101 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  90. Hostile Architecture

    101 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  91. Homomorphic encryption

    100 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  92. GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer

    100 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  93. OWASP Cheat Sheet Series

    100 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  94. The 'microworkers' making digital life possible

    100 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  95. Mc.js: A Minecraft clone built entirely with JavaScript

    100 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  96. Saharan Village Is Home to Thousands of Ancient Texts

    100 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  97. July Matched, and Maybe Broke, Record for the Hottest Month Since Analysis Began

    100 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  98. Keyringless GnuPG

    100 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  99. Stun Belts in Court

    100 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  100. With friends like these

    99 points • comment • aug 17, 2019