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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. ‘I don’t smell ’ Meet the people who have stopped washing

    54 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  2. Exploring the Vastness of a Website

    54 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  3. Hasbro to Buy Peppa Pig Owner for $4B

    54 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  4. Rental firm walks away from Tesla order after quality dispute

    54 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  5. HoloClean: Weakly Supervised Data Repairing

    54 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  6. The Sinister Brutalism of Shipping Container Architecture

    54 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  7. ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming) 2019 Proceedings

    54 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  8. YouTube bans 14 year old for violating hate speech guidelines

    54 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  9. Photographing the Most Radioactive Places in Chernobyl

    53 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  10. VDSO, 32-bit time, and seccomp

    53 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  11. YouTube Blacklist Censors Content Containing Certain Keywords

    53 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  12. The ‘circle of trust’ behind the world’s first gene-edited babies

    53 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  13. Quantum Interference Between Light Sources Separated by 150M Kilometers

    53 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  14. Europe’s heat wave moves north

    53 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  15. Vegetarians Who Turned into Butchers

    53 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  16. The Usefulness of Reinforcement Learning in Finance (2018) [pdf]

    53 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  17. Shared e-scooters aren’t always as green as other transport options

    53 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  18. Writing Boot Sector Code (2007)

    53 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  19. Greek Artist Takis, Who Used Magnets to Create Pioneering Kinetic Art, Has Died

    53 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  20. Device vanishes on command after military missions

    53 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  21. General Balanced Trees (1999) [pdf]

    53 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  22. Moloch – Open-Source Large Scale Indexed Packet Capture and Search System

    53 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  23. Apple Card can be damaged by wallets and jeans

    53 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  24. P99: Preprocessor Macros and Functions for C99 and C11 (2012)

    53 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  25. Uber and Lyft Investors Are Looking for Signs of a Détente

    52 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  26. When light and light collide

    52 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  27. The Rule of Seven: how to overload the brain of a programmer for no good reason

    52 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  28. A clear-eyed view of open software funding, impediments, and possibilities

    52 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  29. PostgreSQL WASM Extension

    52 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  30. A Potential Privacy Model for the Web

    52 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  31. A teen’s visual diary of the early-90s rave scene

    52 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  32. A Scheme syntax-rules primer (2008)

    52 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  33. Study shows e-bike riders get more exercise than cyclists

    52 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  34. UK Government to Ask Queen to Suspend Parliament

    52 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  35. Exploring the Visible Spectrum in Python

    52 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  36. Ray tracing in Excel

    52 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  37. List of BBC Web Pages Removed from Google's Search Results During July 2019

    52 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  38. Electoral College Members Can Defy Voters’ Wishes, Court Rules

    52 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  39. Beyond reason: the mathematical equation for unconditional love

    52 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  40. Humans Migrated to Mongolia Much Earlier Than Previously Believed

    52 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  41. Dark matter may be older than the Big Bang

    52 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  42. How close are we to 3D printing the human heart?

    52 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  43. Sushi Roll: A CPU kernel for cycle-by-cycle micro-architectural introspection

    52 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  44. Anyone else thinks that Whiteboard interview is just covered ageism?

    52 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  45. Dan Bunten and M.U.L.E. (2013)

    51 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  46. Pesticides Could Be Making People Fat

    51 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  47. Evidence suggests microplastics in water pose ‘minimal health risk’

    51 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  48. “Carpe Diem” Got Lost in Translation

    51 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  49. Coursera acquires Rhyme Softworks, an online platform for hands-on projects

    51 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  50. Why the Amazon Is on Fire

    51 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  51. 'Matrix 4' officially a go with Keanu Reeves

    51 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  52. Australia's high-speed rail dream leaves a bitter taste

    51 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  53. I lost my job for keeping Charlottesville police accountable. I'd do it again

    51 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  54. Small business VoIP phone system setup tutorial

    51 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  55. Beijing Internet Court launches online litigation service center

    51 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  56. San Francisco Bans Cashless Stores

    51 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  57. On the Road in 1980

    51 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  58. Left-Recursive Peg Grammars

    51 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  59. The Best Financial Advice I Ever Got

    51 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  60. Unhappy customer asked to sign legal agreement not to write a bad review

    51 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  61. I'm Not Returning to Google After Maternity Leave, and Here Is Why [pdf]

    51 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  62. The world’s most-surveilled cities

    51 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  63. Why Don’t People Talk About Breaking Up Microsoft?

    50 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  64. Claude: Common Lisp Library Audience Expansion Toolkit (2014) [pdf]

    50 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  65. A rich and joyous book about pigeons

    50 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  66. Fire One, Fire Ten: Implications of the Torpedo Scandal of World War II (2018)

    50 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  67. The Software Arts

    50 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  68. Loot boxes a matter of “life or death,” says researcher

    50 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  69. France Is Still Cleaning Up Marie Curie’s Nuclear Waste

    50 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  70. US Rules Airlines Must Allow Miniature Horses to Fly as Service Animals

    50 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  71. How Hot Was July? Hotter Than Ever, Global Data Shows

    50 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  72. It may be possible to extract electricity directly from damp air

    50 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  73. Names do not transmit meaning

    50 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  74. Google refused to call out China over disinformation about Hong Kong

    50 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  75. Fires in Brazil

    50 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  76. Uno Platform – Cross Platform .NET UI

    50 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  77. Hong Kong police spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark for arrest

    50 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  78. How ‘Am I the Asshole?’ became the internet’s most profound query

    50 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  79. Using Wall Street secrets to reduce the cost of cloud infrastructure

    50 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  80. Thousands of tardigrades crash-land on the moon. Did they survive?

    50 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  81. Bang Bros Bought a Porn Doxing Forum and Set Fire to It

    49 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  82. JavaScript Is Bad

    49 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  83. High-Tech Solution to Disaster Response May Be Too Good to Be True

    49 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  84. The Mystery of Why Gas Pump Interface Design Sucks So Badly

    49 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  85. Climate Winners and Losers

    49 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  86. Quantum Computing Through Quaternions (2008) [pdf]

    49 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  87. Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135 (1993)

    49 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  88. Binary Symbolic Execution with KLEE-Native

    49 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  89. Stock trading strategies using machine learning

    49 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  90. President Trump Tweets Sensitive Surveillance Image of Iran

    49 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  91. Try Micromastery

    49 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  92. Our bumpy (but worth it) road to a co-created culture

    49 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  93. Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic

    49 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  94. The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)

    49 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  95. Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is an Economic Indicator

    48 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  96. KiloGrams: Large N-Grams for Malware Classification

    48 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  97. Funko Pop became a $686M business

    48 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  98. Why Is Lyme Disease So Hard to Understand?

    48 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  99. Ring’s Ukraine arm appears to be working on facial recognition technology

    48 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  100. NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air – and it could feed billions

    48 points • comment • aug 07, 2019