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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Ask HN: What type of restrictions does your employer have on side gigs?

    78 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  2. Algorithms book, by Jeff Erickson

    78 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  3. 404 Found

    78 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  4. On Mathematical Beauty in Physics

    78 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  5. World of Warcraft Classic Relase

    78 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  6. Where did all the cod go? Fishing crisis in the North Sea

    78 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  7. Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses

    77 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  8. Android 10: Google Confirms 193 Security Vulnerabilities Need Fixing

    77 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  9. Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II

    77 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  10. Redditor works out which generation of satellite took surveillance image of Iran

    77 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  11. OpenBSD -stable binary packages

    77 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  12. Detroit’s Indigent Defense System Fails Poor Defendants

    77 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  13. Guess I'm Done with Discord

    77 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  14. Cybersecurity Visuals Challenge

    77 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  15. Georgia Southern QB: roadside drug test wrongly showed bird droppings as cocaine

    77 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  16. LogicENN: A Neural Based Knowledge Graphs Embedding Model with Logical Rules

    77 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  17. Libgphoto2 Controls Digital Cameras

    77 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  18. A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station

    77 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  19. A New Clue to How Life Originated

    77 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  20. SEC Freezes $8M in Assets in Alleged Fraudulent Token Offering Scheme

    77 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  21. How Judy arrays work and why they are so fast (2002)

    77 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  22. Hong Kong protest: What is mainland China hearing?

    76 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  23. A scientist must go where the evidence leads

    76 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  24. Launch HN: Lofty AI (YC S19) – Real estate investment with alternative data

    76 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  25. Show HN: Consider Groups – Like Slack Channels for Email

    76 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  26. Russia Says Five Died in Blast Where Radiation Spike Reported

    76 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  27. During the Renaissance, the beard was the defining feature of a man

    76 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  28. Jesse Combs (of Mythbusters) Killed in Land-Speed Record Crash

    76 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  29. Keanu Reeves will return as Neo in new ‘Matrix’ film

    76 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  30. Spatial Interfaces

    76 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  31. Solitude and Leadership (2010)

    76 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  32. YouTube lets biggest stars off the hook for breaking rules, moderators say

    76 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  33. C preprocessor tricks, tips, and idioms (2015)

    76 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  34. Show HN: Historical order book reconstruction API for crypto markets

    76 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  35. Japanese addressing system

    75 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  36. Habitat (video game)

    75 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  37. Motion smoothing is ruining cinema

    75 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  38. Unearthing a masterpiece: a rare Minoan sealstone (2017)

    75 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  39. US has 501,000 fewer jobs than first reported

    75 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  40. Reviving an HP 660LX in 2019

    75 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  41. Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

    75 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  42. CS50 IDE – Online IDE for Students and Teachers

    75 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  43. In praise of xlogo

    75 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  44. Almost half of Europe’s soil is dryer than normal

    75 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  45. Uber and Lyft don't have a right to exist

    75 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  46. It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change

    74 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  47. The Hydrocarbon Era’s Spectacular End

    74 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  48. Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you control

    74 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  49. Modern JavaScript tooling is too complicated?

    74 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  50. Japan's Women Opt Out of Marriage

    74 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  51. The Past, Present and Future of Competitive Magic The Gathering

    74 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  52. Implementing Poincaré Embeddings (2017)

    74 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  53. Burgundy wine investors have beaten the stock market

    74 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  54. Launch HN: Together (YC S19) – App to facilitate employee-employee mentoring

    74 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  55. The Long Game of Research

    74 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  56. Paul Dirac: The Mozart of Science (2008)

    74 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  57. FAA Considers Relaxing Licensing Requirements for Rockets

    74 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  58. E3 accidentally leaks personal details of journalists, YouTubers and analysts

    74 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  59. Golden Ratio

    74 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  60. Arcs of Seniority

    74 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  61. HK police fires rubber bullet at protesters and civilians at point blank range

    74 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  62. Show HN: pgcmd – An alternative to psql with JSON output

    73 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  63. A Fine Map from Alexander von Humboldt (1851)

    73 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  64. A predicted superconductor might work at a record-breaking 200° Celsius

    73 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  65. Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law

    73 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  66. UK Politicians Disapprove of DNS over HTTPS (DoH)

    73 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  67. Deep Reinforcement Learning

    73 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  68. Smartphone Sales Are in Freefall, and That’s Okay

    73 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  69. HN is blocked in China now?

    73 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  70. ‘Deepfakes’ Trigger a Race to Fight Manipulated Photos and Videos

    73 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  71. Mailpile: Email that protects your privacy

    73 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  72. To rein in global warming, healthy forests and sustainable diets are key, U.N

    73 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  73. Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music

    73 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  74. SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt

    73 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  75. Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping (1997)

    73 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  76. Our team's troubles writing automated UI tests

    73 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  77. What was it like to be an executioner in the Middle Ages?

    73 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  78. How to Provide Great Feedback When You're Not in Charge (2016)

    73 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  79. China’s Soft-Power Fail: Condemning Hong Kong’s Protests

    72 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  80. Extending OCaml Programs with Lua

    72 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  81. Ask HN: Just found out that I’m gonna be a dad

    72 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  82. Eleven Ordinary Twenty-Somethings With $250B Riding on Their Lives

    72 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  83. India is easing sourcing norms for single-brand retailers like Apple

    72 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  84. U.S. CBP and Israeli Elbit to Persistently Surveil Native American Reservation

    72 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  85. Sushi Roll: A CPU research kernel with minimal noise for microarch introspection

    72 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  86. Tetris LED Tie (2013)

    72 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  87. Microwatt: A Tiny Open Power ISA Softcore Written in VHDL 2008

    72 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  88. Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?

    72 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  89. Leaked Draft of Trump Executive Order to 'Censor the Internet' Denounced

    72 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  90. Go Scan 3D – Handheld 3D Scanner

    72 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  91. Jeff Bezos sells $1.8bn of Amazon stock

    72 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  92. Libraries are fighting to preserve your right to borrow e-books

    72 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  93. More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp

    72 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  94. Bitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer

    72 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  95. YouTube shuts down 210 Chinese channels posting about Hong Kong

    72 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  96. Show HN: Dashboard – self-hosted accounts, orgs and subscriptions for web apps

    72 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  97. The Min Programming Language

    71 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  98. Cryptographic key used to sign one of Facebook's Android apps compromised

    71 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  99. A week with Hy

    71 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  100. Recycling of plastics enabled by dynamic covalent diketoenamine bonds (2018) [pdf]

    71 points • comment • aug 14, 2019