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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

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

    85 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  2. A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check

    85 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

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

    85 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  4. US Air Force pauses flights for over a hundred C-130s over ‘atypical’ cracking

    85 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  5. Interest Rates: Naturally Negative?

    85 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  6. Diagnostics with Tracing, a Unified Instrumentation System for Rust

    85 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  7. Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions of macOS

    85 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  8. The brain avoids looking at glassy skyscrapers

    85 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  9. Duty, Democracy and the Threat of Tribalism

    85 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  10. Low on water, California farmers turn to solar farming

    84 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  11. Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler (2013)

    84 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  12. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (August 2019)

    84 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  13. British Airways passengers facing delays after IT failures

    84 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  14. Don't Say “Homoiconic” (2018)

    84 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  15. Craig Wright ordered to hand over half of his alleged Bitcoin holdings

    84 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  16. What If Silicon Valley’s ‘Brilliant Jerks’ Are Just Jerks?

    84 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  17. Crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics

    84 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  18. German cartel office to take Facebook case to High Court

    84 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  19. SmartyKit Apple I replica

    83 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  20. Good for Google, Bad for America

    83 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  21. Gerbil – A meta-dialect of Scheme

    83 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  22. I Built a $7K/Month WordPress Plugin Because I Needed the Product

    83 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  23. Dosing time matters

    83 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  24. Maybe Warren Buffett Is Warning Us About Something

    83 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  25. Using AR to help build a complex brick wall

    83 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  26. A Topographic Map of the Moon

    83 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  27. Q-Learning

    83 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  28. Are We Making Much Progress? Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches

    83 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  29. Compasses to point true north for first time in 360 years in UK

    83 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  30. GitHub Open-Source Code for Hand Gesture Recognition – Sign Language Translation

    83 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  31. Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform

    83 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  32. Show HN: Featmap – a user story mapping tool built with Go, React and TypeScript

    83 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  33. The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Space Propulsion

    83 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  34. Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption”

    83 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  35. Architecting Containers: Understanding User Space vs. Kernel Space (2015)

    83 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  36. A New Algorithm for Controlled Randomness

    83 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  37. The Suicides in South Korea, and the Suicide of South Korea

    83 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  38. I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one

    82 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  39. “Wealth work” is one of America’s fastest-growing industries

    82 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  40. The phpCE 2019 conference in Dresden has been cancelled and won't be continued

    82 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  41. Launch HN: Shift Health (YC S19) – Understand Your Healthcare Costs Pre-Visit

    82 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  42. Alaska’s scientists despair over plan to shrink state universities

    82 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  43. The Y Combinator

    82 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  44. Drinking fluoridated water during pregnancy may lower IQ in sons

    82 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  45. Crokage: A New Way to Search Stack Overflow

    82 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  46. The Moderators Who Keep Hacker News Focused on Intellectual Curiosity

    82 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  47. Bernie Sanders unveils $16T 'Green new deal' plan

    82 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  48. Ask HN: Is Google Secretly Undermining Firefox?

    81 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  49. Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change

    81 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  50. Ask HN: Do senior engineers have a mental model before coding?

    81 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  51. The Risk of Weak Online Banking Passwords

    81 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  52. India Develops the World's First Iron-Ion Battery

    81 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  53. Installing Debian Linux 2.0 (1998)

    81 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  54. Threading Macros Guide

    81 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  55. What Fruits and Vegetables Looked Like Before We Domesticated Them

    81 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  56. Browsers Take a Stand Against Kazakhstan’s Invasive Internet Surveillance

    81 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  57. A Chunk of Trinitite Reminds Us of the Power of the Atomic Bomb

    81 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  58. House Homeland Security Committee Subpoenas 8chan Owner

    81 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  59. Cathay Pacific faces crackdown as Hong Kong protests hit business

    81 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  60. The $18B Electric-Car Bubble at Risk of Bursting in China

    81 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  61. Prolog Control in Six Slides

    81 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  62. Fearing data privacy issues, Google cuts some Android phone data for carriers

    81 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  63. Entropic: A federated package registry for anything

    80 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  64. Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain's blood vessels

    80 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  65. EPYC SAP-SD 2-tier benchmark results

    80 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  66. How we reduced deployment times by 95%

    80 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  67. Blocking Untrusted USB Devices

    80 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  68. Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superconductivity

    80 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  69. America’s DIY Phone Farmers

    80 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  70. Opinion piece on GHC back ends

    80 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  71. Kazakhstan's National HTTPS Certificate Is Cancelled

    80 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  72. How four packets broke CenturyLink's network

    80 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  73. Review: Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    80 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  74. Jeffrey Epstein's Death Was on 4Chan Before Officials Announced It

    80 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  75. The Pirate Party on Copyright Reform (2010)

    80 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  76. Show HN: Wagyu – Rust library for generating cryptocurrency wallets

    79 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  77. CBOR – Concise Binary Object Representation

    79 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  78. Climate crisis, shown directly on power plant, in guerrilla projection

    79 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  79. K2pdfopt

    79 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  80. A Bid to Maintain One of the World’s Oldest Culinary Traditions

    79 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  81. Show HN: MeSpeak.js 2.0 – Text-to-Speech in JavaScript

    79 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  82. AR will be startup dominated, VR will not

    79 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  83. If You Lose Your iPhone, You Can’t Pay Your Apple Card Bill on the Web

    79 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  84. Serverless Components

    79 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  85. New saltwater electrical generation could power submarines or medical devices

    79 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  86. Universal algorithm set to boost microscopes

    79 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  87. Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]

    79 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  88. GM Is Now Detroit’s Smallest Auto-Making Employer

    79 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  89. Doc Martens’s vegan boot business is thriving

    79 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  90. It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too

    79 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  91. Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants

    79 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  92. A Commuting Principle That Shaped Urban History

    79 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  93. Why doesn't Britain make things any more? (2011)

    79 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  94. The Economics of Kenneth Arrow

    79 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  95. Making Cloud.typography Faster

    79 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  96. Is Ebola Evolving into a Deadlier Virus?

    79 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  97. Google is ramping up its efforts to replace SMS with RCS

    78 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  98. 404 Found

    78 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  99. Exploring Zork (2012)

    78 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  100. Uber made nearly $500M from a 'safe rides fee' – money went to company

    78 points • comment • aug 27, 2019