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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Flying cars

    48 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  2. A static wiki-like site via forms, email, and local scripts

    48 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  3. Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence

    48 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  4. Memory Footprint of GUI Toolkits

    48 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  5. A Penny for Your Books (2015)

    48 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  6. UK to end freedom of movement for EU citizens on day one of Brexit

    48 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  7. Scale AI Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Unicorn

    48 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  8. The Long Tail of Dog Names

    48 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  9. Using deep learning to analyze the ultrasonic vocalizations of rats

    48 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  10. Frosted Glass/Panel Effect, Cross Browser Solution, Vanilla JavaScript and CSS

    48 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  11. Battery-Powered Ships Next Up in Battle to Tackle Emissions

    48 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  12. Funko Pop became a $686M business

    48 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  13. Adding NetlifyCMS to Your VuePress Website

    48 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  14. CentOS 8.0 is almost ready

    48 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  15. Is Google evil? (2017)

    48 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  16. Can Chess Survive Artificial Intelligence?

    48 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

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

    48 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  18. Using WebThings Gateway notifications as a warning system for your home

    48 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  19. Sometimes, a Greener Grid Means a 40k% Spike in Power Prices

    48 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  20. Git-Revise

    48 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  21. Major Technological Changes Are Coming More Slowly Than They Once Did

    48 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  22. The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420 (2018)

    48 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  23. How to smear your enemies and silence critics, Chinese Communist Party style

    48 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  24. Indian Government Repeals Articles 370 and 35A, Bifurcates Kashmir

    47 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  25. Stronger Than Steel: Synthetic Spider Silk [video]

    47 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  26. A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits

    47 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  27. Babies display “Werewolf syndrome” after getting anti-baldness drug by mistake

    47 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  28. Minimum Times Tend to Mislead When Benchmarking

    47 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  29. Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires

    47 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  30. Making Web-Workers Async Iterables

    47 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  31. Silicon Valley Looks North as Tech Giants Expand in Toronto

    47 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  32. The lost Doves Press typeface and its revival (2015)

    47 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  33. Ann Nelson Took on the Biggest Problems in Physics

    47 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  34. Electric scooters aren't as green as you may think

    47 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  35. Fairy wrens teach familial ‘passwords’ to their unborn chicks (2012)

    47 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  36. Google Pays Its DeepMind Tech Professionals a Huge Salary

    47 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  37. Google’s top lawyer allegedly had affairs with multiple employees

    47 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  38. Experimental PlayStation 4 Emulator

    47 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  39. Show HN: SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor

    47 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  40. A*

    47 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  41. When the Public Feared That Library Books Could Spread Deadly Diseases

    47 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  42. The Amazon Cannot Be Recovered Once It’s Gone

    47 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  43. The Computer Maverick Who Modeled the Evolution of Life (2014)

    47 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  44. Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave from AI Lab

    46 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  45. Medium suspends account that investigates Chinese concentration camps

    46 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  46. Should You Get a Scary UV Photo of Your Skin Damage?

    46 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  47. Ask HN: Why are non-technical managers paid more than engineers?

    46 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  48. A static file server in x86 Assembly

    46 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  49. The Mizar proof system (2017)

    46 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  50. Giant Pumice Raft Floating Towards Australia Could Replenish Great Barrier Reef

    46 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  51. Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice

    46 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  52. You’re Not Lazy, Bored, or Unmotivated

    46 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  53. The Theory of Concatenative Combinators (2007)

    46 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  54. Enter the dragon on the road to a trade war

    46 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  55. Earth’s sixth mass extinction has begun, new study confirms

    46 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  56. Show HN: Parapet – A purely functional library to build distributed systems

    46 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  57. Reactive and Component Frameworks for “Old Fart” Programmers

    46 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  58. Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music From Low Quality Streaming

    46 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  59. The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks

    46 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  60. Environment and the programming language Self, part 4

    46 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  61. The New Nomads of VanLife Reflect an Enduring Divide

    46 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  62. China Acknowledges Holding an Employee of U.K.’s Hong Kong Consulate

    46 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  63. Demon Core: The Strange Death of Louis Slotin (2016)

    46 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  64. Do older people have a different smell?

    46 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  65. What If the Singularity Does Not Happen? (2007) [video]

    46 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  66. Ask HN: Hackable external wireless SSD storage?

    46 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  67. “Qutrit” Experiments Are a First in Quantum Teleportation

    46 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  68. Which California waters are listed as impaired for fish consumption?

    46 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  69. An Ode to Excel: 34 Years of Magic

    45 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  70. What If We Haven’t Met Aliens yet Because They’ve Messed Up Their Planets Too?

    45 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  71. Dog ownership is associated with better cardiovascular health

    45 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  72. Towards parallel kernel test runs

    45 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  73. QR Code Degenerators: Unmasking a Crypto Scam

    45 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  74. States to Move Forward with Antitrust Probe of Big Tech Firms

    45 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  75. Why is my processor consuming more power than its datasheet suggests?

    45 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  76. Pre-Sliced Bread Was Once Banned in the United States (2010)

    45 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  77. War and drugs: Together since forever

    45 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  78. Crowdsourced archaeology shows human influence on Earth for thousands of years

    45 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  79. Show HN: Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Word

    45 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  80. A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste (2012) [pdf]

    45 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  81. China successfully launches its largest reusable rocket

    45 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  82. Ask HN: Looking for an Alternative to Jira

    45 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  83. New advanced malware, possibly nation sponsored, is targeting US utilities

    45 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  84. Atchafalaya (1987)

    45 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  85. Hipster offended after mistaking himself for hipster

    45 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  86. Random walkers illuminate a math problem

    45 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  87. List of selfie-related injuries and deaths

    45 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  88. What's new in PostgreSQL 11: built-in web search

    44 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  89. The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals (2017)

    44 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  90. Crows love cheeseburgers and are getting high cholesterol

    44 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  91. How a fusion of at least four cuisines created crab rangoon

    44 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  92. Seymour Cray: An Appreciation (1997)

    44 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  93. Seattle Holy Rollers Killings: The End to an Oregon Love Cult (2003)

    44 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  94. Moving from macOS to Linux for Music Production: The Journey Begins

    44 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  95. Good sleep, good learning, good life

    44 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  96. Apple (Credit) Card

    44 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  97. Seeking the Magic Mushroom (1957)

    44 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  98. The Birth of the Semicolon

    44 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  99. FreeBSD's Executive Director Calls for Linux and BSD Devs to Work Together

    44 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  100. A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning (2015)

    44 points • comment • aug 10, 2019