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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. How to set up a perfect Python project

    71 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  2. History of Clarus the Dogcow

    71 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  3. Ask HN: Why are pay-walled articles allowed on Hacker News

    71 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  4. Censorship in China Allows Govt Criticism but Silences Collective Expression [pdf]

    71 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  5. Why spiky shapes seem angry and round sounds are calming

    71 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  6. Growing Web Template Studio

    71 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  7. Kardashev Scale

    71 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  8. New research on PTSD in elephants and other animals

    71 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  9. Red Hat Joins the RISC-V Foundation

    71 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  10. One-lined Python

    71 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  11. Plastic Free July

    71 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  12. Apple Targets Launch of Apple TV+ in November for $9.99

    71 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  13. Daydreams Shape Our Sense of Self

    71 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  14. “Awakenings” in Advanced Dementia Patients Hint at Untapped Brain Reserves

    71 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  15. Nintendo Switch consoles keep frying

    70 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  16. A Map That Made Los Angeles Make Sense

    70 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  17. Metaprogramming for madmen (2012)

    70 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  18. Show HN: Data-viz project for ray-tracing the Moon model

    70 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  19. ‘Key player’ identified in genetic link to psychiatric conditions

    70 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  20. Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 2: Networked Key-Value Store

    70 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  21. Ask HN: What are problems that enterprising college students could solve?

    70 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  22. Debug Adapter Protocol

    70 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  23. The Polar Star, the only U.S. ship capable of bludgeoning through heavy ice

    70 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  24. Switzerland Tried Negative Rates in the 1970s

    70 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  25. Scientists must rise above politics and restate their value to society

    70 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  26. Analog Spring Reverb: How it works

    70 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  27. Picking the FB50 smart lock

    70 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  28. Five new Real-Time detections of fast radio bursts with UTMOST

    70 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  29. The Modern Man Is Getting Stoicism All Wrong

    70 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  30. Microsoft Admits Humans Listen to Skype and Cortana in Privacy Policy Update

    69 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  31. Ask HN: A colleague is leaving. How to investigate what went wrong?

    69 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  32. Launch HN: Boost Biomes (YC S19) – Microbes for better crop yields, shelf life

    69 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  33. Major power failure affects homes and transport

    69 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  34. Container Networking with Vxlan, BGP and WireGuard

    69 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  35. Yacht fed their old music to the machine and got a killer new album

    69 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  36. Known packings of equal circles in a circle

    69 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  37. Moore’s Law is not Dead

    69 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  38. Fasty – A New CMS / App Builder Based on Openresty and ArangoDB

    69 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  39. Did John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA?

    69 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  40. Show HN: I built a site to compare fees and rates for sending money abroad

    69 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  41. Ask HN: What is the state-of-the-art environment for developing Erlang code?

    69 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  42. Fertility Fraud: Artificial insemination doctors who used their own sperm

    69 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  43. M44 (Cyanide Device)

    68 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  44. Penn Effect

    68 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  45. Taming OpenAPI using Racket to create a DSL

    68 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  46. It’s All Greek to You and Me, So What Is It to the Greeks?

    68 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  47. ‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says 8chan’s Creator

    68 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  48. Using the computer as a tool for thinking in discrete mathematics (2017)

    68 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  49. Future of Racket

    68 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  50. What Is a Logo-Like Language?

    68 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  51. Curving – Dog Body Language

    68 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  52. The New American Homeless

    68 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  53. The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product

    68 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  54. Global economy is probably in recession

    68 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  55. The Nightmare of Valve’s self-organizing “utopia” (2018)

    68 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  56. A Conversation with the Team That Made Bread with Ancient Egyptian Yeast

    68 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  57. Ask HN: Affordable, online university for getting a degree to quit programming?

    68 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  58. The Decline of College Newspapers

    67 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  59. Air Force Reveals Tests of Supposed Record-Setting Scramjet from N. Grumman

    67 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  60. HTTP Desync Attacks: Request Smuggling Reborn

    67 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  61. Kei – A small and expressive dependent language

    67 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  62. “That is either genius, or a seriously diseased mind.” – Linus Torvalds

    67 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  63. Welcome to Black Hat, where the attendees are the threat

    67 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  64. Private Equity Should Not Exist

    67 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  65. Show HN: Everything asked – organized recaps of 'ask me anything' interviews

    67 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  66. The Joys of Being a Late Tech Adopter

    67 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  67. Crypto CTF

    67 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  68. Domino’s launches e-bike delivery to compete with UberEats, DoorDash

    67 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  69. Imagining the Western Other in 19th-Century Japanese Prints

    67 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  70. America’s DIY Phone Farmers

    67 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  71. The FCC has no idea how many people don’t have broadband access

    67 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

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

    67 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  73. The World’s Smartest Chimp Has Died

    66 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  74. Asset minification with Elm (2018)

    66 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  75. Two illusions that tricked Arthur Conan Doyle

    66 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  76. Apple's operating systems mistreat or harm the user

    66 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  77. TCP Puzzlers (2016)

    66 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  78. Iceland grapples with the prospect of a future with no ice

    66 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  79. Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares [pdf]

    66 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  80. China Hits U.S. With Higher Tariffs on Soybeans, Cars, Oil

    66 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  81. Pwnie Award Nominations for 2019

    66 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  82. Where Did 'Jazz,' the Word, Come From? (2018)

    66 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  83. Oil Needs to Fall Below $20 to Compete With Green Alternatives

    66 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  84. The Dawn of the Age of Geoengineering

    66 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  85. Soon all the voting machines in U.S. will be powered by FreeBSD/RISC-V

    66 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  86. What are children dying from and what can we do about it?

    66 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  87. If the Tuition Doesn’t Get You, the Cost of Student Housing Will

    66 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  88. Albert Stevens

    66 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  89. Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your opinion on our solution

    66 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  90. Ask HN: Best Linux Laptop Replacing a Macbook Pro?

    66 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  91. The Methane Detectives: On the Trail of a Global Warming Mystery

    66 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  92. It's Gotten Too Hard to Strike It Rich in America

    65 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  93. Implementing a Photo Stylizer in Python Using a QuadTree Algorithm

    65 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  94. DoorDash still hasn’t changed its tipping policy

    65 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  95. Run .NET Core Apps Directly from a GitHub Gist

    65 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  96. ‘To Get Things More Real’: An Interview with Ira Glass

    65 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  97. Altruism Isn’t Always Attractive

    65 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  98. I am dyslexic

    65 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  99. Show HN: Tranquility Calendar

    65 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  100. A Radioactive Lens (2018)

    65 points • comment • aug 03, 2019