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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization

    489 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  2. Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases

    474 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  3. From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love

    473 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  4. Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US

    470 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  5. Useless Windows 10 Features

    469 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  6. Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound

    468 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  7. Some Obscure C Features

    466 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  8. TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files

    458 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  9. I feel like im talking to the borg

    457 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  10. Planet: Imaging the entire Earth every day

    457 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  11. Dqlite – High-Availability SQLite

    456 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  12. CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet

    455 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  13. Knuth on Huang's Sensitivity Proof: “I've got the proof down to one page” [pdf]

    455 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  14. Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates

    454 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  15. Researcher banned on Valve's bug bounty program publishes second Steam 0-day

    453 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  16. I find journaling indispensable

    453 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  17. Software made me loathe my car

    450 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  18. Ask HN: How can we destroy AMP?

    450 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  19. exFAT in the Linux kernel

    448 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  20. Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets

    445 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  21. I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code

    439 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  22. Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)

    436 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  23. Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card

    435 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  24. Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected

    435 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  25. YAML: Probably not so great after all

    435 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  26. A Guide to Recording 660FPS Video on a $6 Raspberry Pi Camera

    434 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  27. Information Theory for Intelligent People (2018) [pdf]

    433 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  28. Thoughts on Rust bloat

    433 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  29. Super Mario 64 has been decompiled

    431 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  30. Psytrance Guide

    431 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  31. Tell HN: Danny Cohen Has Died

    430 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  32. iTerm2 3.3

    429 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  33. Rules for Intuitive UX

    428 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  34. Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet

    428 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  35. Rust Language Cheat Sheet

    426 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  36. Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016)

    426 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  37. Datadog S-1

    425 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  38. Down the Rabbit-Hole

    419 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  39. The Fully Remote Attack Surface of the iPhone

    418 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  40. Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights

    417 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  41. Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library

    415 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  42. Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt

    413 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  43. Berlin’s Popular Shopping Streets Will Go Car-Free

    412 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  44. NPM Bans Terminal Ads

    412 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  45. Toni Morrison Has Died

    411 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  46. Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)

    411 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  47. Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate

    411 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  48. The not so hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android

    407 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  49. Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

    404 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  50. Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?

    404 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  51. The Architecture of Open Source Applications

    402 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  52. Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server

    401 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  53. VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B

    399 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  54. Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day

    399 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  55. I wasn’t getting hired as a data scientist, so I sought data on who is

    398 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  56. Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

    397 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  57. Performance Matters

    397 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  58. Write your own Excel in F# (2018)

    396 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  59. AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans

    395 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  60. WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy

    395 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  61. Hong Kong ISP Association’s Statement on Selective Blocking of Internet Services

    394 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  62. Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data

    394 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  63. Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids

    394 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  64. People love working remotely

    391 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  65. GitHub stars won’t pay your rent

    390 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  66. Amazon offered ‘Amazon’s Choice’ to vendors who bought ads and lowered prices

    390 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  67. Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China

    390 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  68. People Simply Empty Out (1986)

    390 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  69. Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are double that of Intel

    388 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  70. Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan

    386 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  71. A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787's Guts

    385 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  72. Yield Curves Invert in U.S., U.K

    385 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  73. Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon

    384 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  74. Rust 1.37.0

    383 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  75. Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me

    382 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  76. Ask HN: Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory?

    381 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  77. CyberChef – Cyber Swiss Army Knife

    381 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  78. Calculus For The People

    379 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  79. Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL

    378 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  80. Anime4K: Real time high quality video upscaling

    377 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  81. Wine on Windows 10

    376 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  82. Anxiety Looks Different in Men

    375 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  83. 9th Circuit says users can sue Facebook over unlawful use of facial recognition

    372 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  84. Show HN: Wave-based non-line-of-sight computational imaging in Julia

    371 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  85. Linux kernel drivers in Rust might become an option in the future

    368 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  86. Lessons from Stripe

    367 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  87. Await in Rust

    367 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  88. Most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs

    365 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  89. Xfce 4.14

    364 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  90. MoviePass Worked Out Great

    364 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  91. Show HN: Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript

    362 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  92. A Beginner’s Introduction to Python Web Frameworks (2018)

    361 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  93. Group sex app leaks locations, pics and personal details

    356 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  94. Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong

    354 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  95. U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator

    353 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  96. ‘They Get Fired All the Time. And They Have No Idea Why’

    353 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  97. Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair

    352 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  98. Fracking in North America could be partly to blame for methane spike – study

    350 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  99. Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition

    350 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  100. Cool but obscure X11 tools

    350 points • comment • aug 16, 2019