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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

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

    65 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  2. DoorDash still hasn’t changed its tipping policy

    65 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  3. Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global recycling crisis

    65 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  4. Which Is the Best John Le Carré Novel? (2014)

    65 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  5. Wework loses $5200/customer, lost $1.3B in H1/2019

    65 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  6. China manufactures a ballpoint pen all by itself (2017)

    65 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  7. Sun’s Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a Laboratory

    65 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  8. U.S. Holds Off on Huawei Licenses as China Halts Crop-Buying

    65 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  9. Volcanoes on the Moon May Have Erupted During the Dinosaur Age (2014)

    65 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  10. Code Is Not Literature (2014)

    65 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  11. Parts of America may already be facing recession

    64 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  12. Why Shame Stifles Creativity and How to Unwrap the Gift of Curiosity

    64 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  13. Long time nuclear waste warning messages

    64 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  14. Why Japan’s ‘shūkatsu’ job-seeking system is changing

    64 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  15. GDPR is an identity thief's dream ticket to Europeans' data

    64 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  16. Putting an end to Retadup: A malicious worm that infected hundreds of thousands

    64 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  17. A Framework for Moderation

    64 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  18. DNS-on-Blockchain is the next step after DNS-over-HTTPS

    64 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  19. The world is running out of sand and there’s a violent black market (2018)

    64 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  20. Watch a Drone Take Over a Nearby Smart TV

    64 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  21. Using ‘switch’ to match arbitrary logic instead of string or number literals

    64 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  22. Malaysia files charges against 17 current and ex-Goldman Sachs bosses

    64 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  23. Dart nullability syntax decision: a?[b] or a?.[b]

    64 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  24. Show HN: Prophecy.io – Cloud Native Data Engineering

    64 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  25. LucidScience – Electronic Projects and Tutorials

    64 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  26. The modern law firm: not all partners are created equal, data and billings rule

    64 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  27. Quantum Air buys Bye's electric airplanes

    64 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  28. The Hydrogen Hoax (2007)

    64 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  29. Disneyland’s Disastrous Opening Day (2015)

    64 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  30. Dreaming about Better Sleep: Dreem, Oura and the Rest

    64 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  31. Show HN: Procrastinating? Take a 5min break without leaving your computer

    64 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  32. Secret Memos Show the Government Has Been Lying About Backpage All Along

    64 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  33. Melting Greenland Is Awash in Sand

    64 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  34. 20-Year Mortgages Hit Zero for First Time in Danish Rate History

    64 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  35. China’s liberalization and structural reform drives growth

    63 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  36. Spin found in clinical trial abstracts in top psychology and psychiatry journals

    63 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  37. Engineers build advanced microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes

    63 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  38. The “Myths List” is a communication antipattern

    63 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  39. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)

    63 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  40. Freshermeat – Open-Source Security Software

    63 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  41. Why does putting a dot after the URL remove login information?

    63 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  42. Loss of Arctic’s reflective sea ice could advance global warming by 25 years

    63 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  43. The Real Dark Web

    63 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  44. Bringing Serverless to a Web Page Near You with Hugo and Kubernetes

    63 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  45. A Z-Machine in OCaml (2016)

    63 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  46. Barr says the US needs encryption backdoors to prevent “going dark.” Um, what?

    63 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  47. China's version of GPS now has more satellites than US original

    63 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  48. Hall’s Law: The Nineteenth Century Prequel to Moore’s Law (2012)

    63 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  49. Engineers develop bone-like metal foam that can be 'healed' at room temperature

    63 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  50. Psychology vs. the Graphics Pipeline (2017)

    63 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  51. Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Travel Without a Male Guardian's Permission

    63 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  52. GPUDirect Storage: A Direct Path Between Storage and GPU Memory

    63 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  53. An underground Facebook market for rare meat

    63 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  54. Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings (2015)

    63 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  55. JPG vs. PNG vs. GIF vs. SVG

    63 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  56. Viewing Cute Images Narrows Attentional Focus (2012)

    63 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  57. Causal Analytics

    63 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  58. Our Quest for Faster Boot Times and Offline Support

    63 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  59. Baking bread from a 4,500-year-old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery

    63 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  60. From automatic differentiation to message passing [video]

    63 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  61. Princeton theoretical physicist Steven Gubser has died

    63 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  62. Long Live Microbiomes

    62 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  63. Show HN: Hello

    62 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  64. Baltic Way

    62 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  65. Using the Golden Research Engine to Query the Y Combinator S19 Batch

    62 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  66. Why the CIA Doesn't Spy on the UAE

    62 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  67. Judge claims mobile phone is not a computer

    62 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  68. Practice does not always make perfect, finds study of violinists

    62 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  69. Visualizing Transformer Language Models: Illustrated GPT-2

    62 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  70. Become a nurse or physicians assistant instead of a doctor (2012)

    62 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  71. BiVector: Community for Geometric Algebra for CGI, Vision and Engineering

    61 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  72. Marshal Zhukov's Pocket Knife

    61 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  73. Woman survives fall from plane after parachute fails

    61 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  74. No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health

    61 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  75. The Scheme Shell (2006)

    61 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  76. A.I. Is Learning from Many Humans

    61 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  77. The Surprising Number of Programmers Who Can’t Program

    61 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  78. Cephaloponderings

    61 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  79. Pesticide 'contaminating' Prairie wetlands: scientist (2014)

    61 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  80. Albert Einstein’s Sci-Fi Stories (2015)

    61 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  81. Summer camps use facial recognition so parents can watch from home

    61 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  82. The Oral History of the Super Soaker

    61 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  83. Native lazy loading has landed in Chrome

    61 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  84. Flying with Miniature Horses

    61 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  85. What Linux Journal's Resurrection Taught Me about the FOSS Community

    61 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  86. Validating SSL Certificates in Non-Browser Software (2012) [pdf]

    61 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  87. Famous Graphics Chips: Microsoft’s Talisman

    60 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  88. The Compositional Nature of Vim (2014)

    60 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  89. Rashomon of Disclosure

    60 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  90. Packrat Parsing (2002)

    60 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  91. How Fentanyl Ingredients From China End Up in the U.S.

    60 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  92. Python Oberon v0.1.0

    60 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  93. Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It

    60 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  94. What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble

    60 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  95. China’s options for retaliating against tariffs are limited by its own economy

    60 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  96. World's largest urban farm to open on a Paris rooftop

    60 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  97. Corporate America's 'Elite Charade'

    60 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  98. Machine learning primitives in rustc (2018)

    60 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  99. The Strange Blissfulness of Storms

    60 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  100. Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

    60 points • comment • aug 17, 2019