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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. How to chain multiple functions in JavaScript properly with async/await

    59 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  2. WeWork Gave Founder Loans as It Paid Him Rent, IPO Filing Shows

    59 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  3. The Lost City of Heracleion

    59 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  4. Scaling NSQ to 750B Messages (2016)

    59 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  5. Drink Poison and Smile: How I Arrived at My Position of Pro-Democracy

    59 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  6. A mosque rebuilt once a year

    59 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  7. Marvin Minsky involved in the Jeffrey Epstein 'sex slave' scandal

    59 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  8. Launch HN: Lazy Lantern (YC S19) – Detect Meaningful Patterns in Your Analytics

    59 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  9. How to Break into a Crowded Market and Win

    59 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  10. Modern microprocessor built from complementary carbon nanotube transistors

    59 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  11. The Broomway

    59 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  12. ReadMe (YC W15) Raises 9M Series A from Accel and Y Combinator

    59 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  13. British Expedition to Abyssinia

    59 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  14. Major Update of Vector Class Library

    58 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  15. VMware Octant web-based platform to better understand Kubernetes clusters

    58 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  16. Hidden messages in Amiga games (2017)

    58 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  17. I Do Not Marry a Married Man

    58 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  18. Launch HN: Coursedog (YC W19) – Resource Planning Software for Higher Ed

    58 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  19. People with unusually high IQ, why are you still unsuccessful?

    58 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  20. Say No to the “Cashless Future” – and to Cashless Stores

    58 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  21. Cutting Through Conflict and Tough Conversations

    58 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  22. Xi’s Dilemma: Send Forces into Hong Kong, or Wait Out Protesters

    58 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  23. Ditaa: Diagrams Through ASCII Art

    58 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  24. Homemade Liquid Nitrogen with the Joule-Thompson Effect

    58 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  25. Functional Programming in Bash

    58 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  26. Show HN: A list of no-code software, by category, with real-world examples

    58 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  27. A pop of color and more: updates to Android’s brand

    58 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  28. Ask HN: What's the point of the TM and (R) symbols?

    58 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  29. In its struggle to subdue Kashmir, India is stripping it of liberties

    58 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  30. Palaeoenvironmental and archaeological evidence of total warfare among the Maya

    58 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  31. Survival of the Richest (2018)

    58 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  32. Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 °C target

    57 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  33. Show HN: Connective – Large-scale reactive programming in Javascript/Typescript

    57 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  34. Tesla Insurance

    57 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  35. Why is strlen so complex in C?

    57 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  36. Are Saskatraz bees an answer to colony collapse?

    57 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  37. A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires

    57 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  38. Speeding Up Our Build Pipelines

    57 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  39. Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us

    57 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  40. Light Seems to Pull Electrons Backward

    57 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  41. Show HN: Firestorm – An ORM for Firestore

    57 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  42. Snap’s Secret Weapon Speaks

    57 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  43. The End of Agile

    57 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  44. Cruise-line companies are building private Caribbean play zones

    57 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  45. Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Atari

    57 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  46. Maglev Heart Could Keep Cardiac Patients Alive

    57 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  47. Enabling a permanent revolution in internet architecture

    57 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  48. Uranium Contaminates Water Across California's Central Valley

    57 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  49. The race is on to develop new strategies for storing nuclear waste

    57 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  50. Uber imposes engineer hiring freeze as losses mount

    56 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  51. Easy Python CLI with Click

    56 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  52. Model-View Catharsis

    56 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  53. The Utopian Promise of Adorno’s ‘Open Thinking,’ Fifty Years On

    56 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  54. Programming shape using kirigami tessellations

    56 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  55. Chelsea Manning Can Remain in Jail for Another Year, Judge Rules

    56 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  56. Chasing the Whale: Examining the ethics of free-to-play games

    56 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  57. Show HN: An app to help overwhelmed PMs never miss an important request

    56 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  58. Tesla Model 3 Cost of Ownership Slightly Cheaper Than a Camry

    56 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  59. Desegregation Plan: Eliminate All Gifted Programs in New York

    56 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  60. Federal fraud indictment: KU professor secretly worked for Chinese university

    56 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  61. RSI as a Developer

    56 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  62. Package Management in OpenBSD

    56 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  63. In Brain’s Electrical Ripples, Markers for Memories Appear

    56 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  64. Ghost Taxis of Japan (2016)

    56 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  65. Study Finds No Single Genetic Cause of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior

    56 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  66. Apple’s Watch Is Smarter, but My Casio Keeps Getting the Job Done

    56 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  67. Catching bugs early with static analysis

    56 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  68. In Praise of Samuel R. Delany

    55 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  69. H-1B Visa Most Used for 'Software Engineer,' 'Software Developer' Roles

    55 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  70. South African bank advises against the use of password managers

    55 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  71. Choice Hotels Suffers Data Breach, Exposing 700k Customer Records

    55 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  72. Chess2vec: Learning Vector Representations for Chess (2018) [pdf]

    55 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  73. Consumer Trends That Destroyed Media’s Business Model

    55 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  74. MakerLisp Machine: An EZ80 CPU Card Running Bare-Metal Lisp [video]

    55 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  75. Google wants to reduce lifespan for HTTPS certificates to one year

    55 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  76. Bitcoin expert scams a scammer, donates the money to charity

    55 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  77. The Deadly Boredom of ‘A Meaningless Life’

    55 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  78. Prisoners Endure a Nightmare 'Gulag' in Lower Manhattan (2018)

    55 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  79. Western Academia Helps Build China’s Automated Racism

    55 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  80. Potosí: the mountain of silver that was the first global city

    55 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  81. National Certificate in Kazakhstan Is Canceled

    55 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  82. Let’s Build a Web Server, Part 3

    55 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  83. Geneva Freeport

    55 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  84. C-mera – Lisp syntax with C semantics

    55 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  85. Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge

    55 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  86. Host Protected Area

    55 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  87. Dividing Droplets Could Explain Origin of Life

    54 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  88. Exploring the Vastness of a Website

    54 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  89. Jobs and Woz (2011)

    54 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  90. Modern Artificial Intelligence for Ancient Games

    54 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  91. What is Haberman?

    54 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  92. Understanding GCC Builtins to Develop Better Tools [pdf]

    54 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  93. Europe's record heat melted Swiss glaciers

    54 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  94. HoloClean: Weakly Supervised Data Repairing

    54 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  95. Twitter's Jack Dorsey has own account hacked

    54 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  96. Four-in-one pill prevents third of heart problems: study

    54 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  97. Rediscovering rules for ancient board games

    54 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  98. Mac OS Adds Early Support for VirtIO, QEMU

    54 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  99. Schoolchildren in China work overnight to produce Amazon Alexa devices

    54 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  100. New Proof Settles How to Approximate Numbers Like Pi

    54 points • comment • aug 14, 2019