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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Why we lie about being retired

    92 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  2. Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work?

    92 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  3. Warning as 4G Hotspots Are Hacked

    92 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  4. DEA agents conduct surprise searches of Amtrak passengers

    92 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  5. The Biggest Mistakes First-Time Founders Make [video]

    92 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  6. Thoughts on Racket2

    92 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  7. GNU C Library 2.30

    92 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  8. Disney Research Makes Dynamic Robots Less Wiggly, More Lifelike

    92 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  9. “Angels” that aren’t actually angels, and the problems that poses

    91 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  10. Compact TLS 1.3

    91 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  11. The World's Largest Submarine: The Soviet Union's Pr. 941 Typhoon SSBN (2014)

    91 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  12. Bill Hader Channels Tom Cruise – DeepFake [video]

    91 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  13. You're paying too much for business software

    91 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  14. The death of a weather satellite as seen by SDR

    91 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  15. The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems (2002)

    91 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  16. College Board Drops Plans for SAT Student Adversity Score

    91 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  17. Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal

    91 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  18. Carla – Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research

    91 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  19. Google Voice is killing SMS voicemail transcripts and Chrome Extension texting

    91 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  20. Windows 95 Web UI Kit

    91 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  21. Sacklers Would Give Up Ownership of Purdue Pharma Under Settlement Proposal

    91 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  22. The North Atlantic ocean current may be slowing

    91 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  23. Launch HN: Vendr (YC S19) – Buying software so you don’t have to

    91 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  24. 2019 Hyundai Kona EV Explodes When Parked

    91 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  25. Don't bury or cremate – soon you may compost your corpse

    90 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  26. Announcing New AMD EPYC-based Azure Virtual Machines

    90 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  27. A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision

    90 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  28. July was world's hottest month on record, WMO says

    90 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  29. The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders

    90 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  30. Scaling Static Analyses at Facebook

    90 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  31. On Language and Humanity: In Conversation with Noam Chomsky

    90 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  32. If we burn, you burn with us

    90 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  33. Holidays are good for workers and companies alike

    90 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  34. Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought

    90 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  35. Outlaw Country

    90 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  36. Researchers create personalised sound projector with $12 webcam

    90 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  37. Fabric – A simple triplestore written in Go

    90 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  38. Could Removing Social Media Metrics Reduce Polarization?

    89 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  39. Russia Says Small Nuclear Reactor Blew Up in Deadly Accident

    89 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  40. Marium, the Dugong Who Charmed Thailand, Dies After Ingesting Plastic

    89 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  41. Umberto Eco: Texts, sign systems and the risks of over-interpretation

    89 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  42. Homemade Electric Motorcycle Stopped on M25 in Hertfordshire

    89 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  43. Richard Sorge: The Soviet Union’s Master Spy

    89 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  44. Continuous 3D Printing Possible With Transparent Polygon Scanning?

    89 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  45. Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787

    89 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  46. The League of Entropy Is Making Randomness Truly Random

    89 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  47. Show HN: distri: a Linux distribution to research fast package management

    89 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  48. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Account Hacked

    89 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  49. The New Treasures of Pompeii

    89 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  50. Advances in NLP to better connect people

    89 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  51. DEF CON 2019 – CTF Retrospective

    89 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  52. 20th anniversary of José Bové’s 'attack' on a McDonald's in rural France

    88 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  53. Improving Siri's Privacy Protection

    88 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  54. Show HN: Lagukan, a highly personalized music service

    88 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  55. The “Terrascope”: On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens

    88 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  56. India school-leaving exam: A controversy that cost 23 lives

    88 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  57. GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach

    88 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  58. Every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system (1970) [pdf]

    88 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  59. Brazil's President Blames NGOs for Amazon Fires

    88 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  60. The Robot economy and the future of work

    88 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  61. China has started a grand experiment in AI education

    88 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  62. Mast Brothers: $10 a bar for crappy hipster chocolate (2015)

    88 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  63. His mission: Meet 10k people, one at a time, for an hour at a time

    88 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  64. We may not be running out of helium after all (2015)

    87 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  65. Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment [pdf]

    87 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  66. Show HN: Repository of open source space-related software and hardware

    87 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  67. Simple Python Package to Extract Deep Learning Features

    87 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  68. Rocket Lab - Reusability Plans for Electron Rocket via Helicopter Catching

    87 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  69. I am a horse in the land of booleans

    87 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  70. A journalist discovered and reunited identical twins

    87 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  71. 'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish

    87 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  72. The OpenBSD Ada Library

    87 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  73. A chemical clue to how life started on Earth

    87 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  74. Ask HN: The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?

    87 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  75. Blame Economists for the Mess We’re In

    86 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  76. Fuzzification: Anti-Fuzzing Techniques [pdf]

    86 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  77. Google Launches ‘Live View’ AR Walking Directions for Google Maps

    86 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  78. Typical U.S. households don’t use most of their bandwidth

    86 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  79. The Amazon in Brazil is on fire – how bad is it?

    86 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  80. Launch HN: Embrace (YC S19) – Spot and fix bugs in mobile apps

    86 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  81. What Is Zoned Storage and the Zoned Storage Initiative?

    86 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  82. Webmin 1.890 Exploit – What Happened?

    86 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  83. Massive ‘ocean’ discovered towards Earth’s core (2014)

    86 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  84. Roaring glacial melt under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland

    86 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  85. Kevinism

    86 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  86. YouTube should stop recommending garbage videos to users

    86 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  87. SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp

    86 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  88. Unison – A statically-typed purely functional language

    86 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  89. The foodoo economics of meal delivery

    86 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  90. What We Can and Can’t Learn from Copenhagen

    86 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  91. Simple, pure, and total functional language that generalizes Datalog

    86 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  92. Etcd 3.4

    86 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  93. Kdevops: Framework for setting up and testing the Linux kernel for any project

    86 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  94. Growing up in post-communist Romania – thoughts on learning English

    85 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  95. Apple’s US job footprint grows to 2.4M

    85 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  96. Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut Costs

    85 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  97. Boeing 737 Unpaved Strip Kit

    85 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  98. Hawaii Extends Thirty Meter Telescope Permit Amid Protests

    85 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  99. The brain avoids looking at glassy skyscrapers

    85 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  100. Version Museum

    85 points • comment • aug 18, 2019