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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Show HN: Curated Toolkit for Remote Work

    99 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  2. Suburb in the sky: how Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall

    99 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  3. QualPwn – Exploiting Qualcomm WLAN and Modem over the Air

    99 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  4. Japanese architects who treated buildings like living organisms

    99 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  5. BPF port-based firewall for systemd services

    99 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  6. U.S. Weighs Selling 50- and 100-Year Bonds After Yields Plummet

    99 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  7. Bad Customer Service Is Profitable

    99 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  8. USB-C Easy Bake Oven (2017)

    99 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  9. Commodore 900

    99 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  10. Police arrest student leader over laser pointers in Hong Kong

    99 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  11. The Perfect French Baguette

    98 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  12. Ask HN: Germans, how to work legally remote?

    98 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  13. The land that no country wants (2016)

    98 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  14. First, Do No Harm: A Hippocratic Oath for Software Developers (2004)

    98 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  15. Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models

    98 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  16. Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go

    98 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  17. Uber And Lyft take more from drivers than they say: survey

    98 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  18. Presidio: Customizable data protection and PII data anonymization service

    98 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  19. Show HN: A few simple games not only for kids

    98 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  20. Show HN: A little web app for playing around with colors

    98 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  21. How Uber Got Lost

    98 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  22. Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws

    97 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  23. YouTube’s LGBTQ Problem Is a Business-Model Problem

    97 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  24. The FCC Fined 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' 'The Walking Dead' for Use of Emergency Tones

    97 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  25. Shipping wind turbines is not a breeze

    97 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  26. Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers

    97 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  27. Victims are often criminals, and that is a paradox American policing can’t solve

    97 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  28. Privacy by Design Foundation

    97 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  29. A Guide to Magnetorquers for Satellites

    97 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  30. Association of dairy intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality

    97 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  31. Google Transparency Report

    97 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  32. SpaCy PyTorch Transformers

    97 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  33. The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History's Great Unsolved Mysteries

    97 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  34. Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure

    97 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  35. Ear Speakers – Research, Design, and Evolution

    96 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  36. Iron Age Celtic Woman Was Buried in a Hollowed-Out Tree Trunk

    96 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  37. Leaked Brexit Document Predicts 'Catastrophic Collapse' of U.K. Infrastructure

    96 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  38. Facebook Transcription Opt-In Says Nothing About Human Listeners

    96 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  39. Japanese Play-by-Postcard RPGs: Net Games (2017)

    96 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  40. NEC shows ‘flying car’ hovering steadily for minute

    96 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  41. Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time

    96 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  42. I love my paper dictionary (2017)

    96 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  43. Show HN: Beatboxing for Kids – Teach Your Child to Beatbox Using Everyday Words

    96 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  44. Why Developers Hate Coding Skills Tests and What Hiring Managers Can Do

    96 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  45. Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017

    96 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  46. Incrementing vectors

    96 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  47. Show HN: I'm building a robot that cuts hair, starting with beard trims [video]

    96 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  48. Circulating in China’s Financial System: More Than $200B in I.O.U.s

    96 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  49. Visible Lisp Computer

    96 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  50. Border agents are checking social media, but we still don’t know how closely

    96 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  51. Boeing changing Max software to use two computers

    96 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  52. Rachmaninoff – Little Red Riding Hood [video]

    95 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  53. Google Discontinues Hangouts on Air

    95 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  54. Wasm vs. PNaCl Performance Benchmark

    95 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  55. In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite

    95 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  56. Anyone who looks at this code instantly becomes insane

    95 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  57. Ask HN: Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp?

    95 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  58. Ninth Circuit Goes a Step Further to Protect Privacy in Border Device Searches

    95 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  59. Recap of the `funding` experiment

    95 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  60. Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem

    95 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  61. MPEG1 Single file C library

    95 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  62. The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2015)

    94 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  63. Lawsuit filed against GitHub in wake of Capital One data breach

    94 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  64. Mobile NixOS: The Present and the Future

    94 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  65. Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

    94 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  66. Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons

    94 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  67. Chorded keyboard

    94 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  68. The lunar laser ranging experiment is still going 50 years later

    94 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  69. Kasper-Spy: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Puts Users at Risk

    94 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  70. Shepard Tone

    94 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  71. Across the Universe, a star exploded so violently that it annihilated itself

    94 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  72. Empty trains on the modern Silk Road: when Belt and Road interests don’t align

    94 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  73. Jaguar and Audi SUVs Fail to Dent Tesla’s Electric-Car Dominance

    94 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  74. Who Did the Maya Sacrifice?

    94 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  75. Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity

    94 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  76. Ceramic-bearing bicycle drive shaft (2018)

    94 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  77. The Population Bust

    94 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  78. Woman Finds Yellow Diamond While Watching YouTube Video on How to Find Diamonds

    94 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  79. Wavelets (1994) [pdf]

    94 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  80. The coming automation of propaganda

    94 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  81. Death of the Neighborhood Bar

    93 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  82. Swift on Raspberry Pi

    93 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  83. A new book asserts that rich countries grow with lighter environmental impacts

    93 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  84. Show HN: Bashfs – Run commands as your filesystem

    93 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  85. The Invincible – 1964 novel

    93 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  86. Translating and Interpreting Chinese Philosophy

    93 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  87. Kentucky Miners Blocking a Coal Train, Demanding Their Stolen Wages

    93 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  88. Animal movies promote awareness, not harm, say researchers

    93 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  89. Inside a Poundland computer mouse [video]

    93 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  90. Quantum radar has been demonstrated for the first time

    93 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  91. Evolving Lindenmayer Systems

    93 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  92. Fake-branded bars slip dirty gold into world markets

    93 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  93. A Transparent Display with Per-Pixel Color and Opacity Control

    93 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  94. Loops in Python – Comparison and Performance

    93 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  95. Why Everyone Hates Customer Service

    93 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  96. WTF Happened in 1971?

    93 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  97. The Fed is getting into the Real-Time payments business

    93 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  98. Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try

    93 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  99. Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 (2018)

    93 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  100. Why we lie about being retired

    92 points • comment • aug 20, 2019