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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Launch HN: Prolific (YC S19) – Quickly find high-quality survey participants

    44 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

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

    44 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  3. A literary prank that ‘Hansel and Gretel’ was based on a real story

    44 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  4. How can List be faster than native arrays? (2018)

    44 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  5. A California Type Foundry Is Keeping Vintage Printing Alive

    44 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  6. Finland producing food protein from CO2, water, and electricity

    44 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  7. The Birth of the Semicolon

    44 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  8. Epigrams in Programming (1982)

    44 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  9. The Anthony Levandowski Indictment Helps Big Tech Stifle Innovation

    44 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

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

    44 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  11. Tesla gets stolen with keyfob hack on camera in seconds

    44 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  12. H. G. Wells and the Uncertainties of Progress

    44 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  13. When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America

    44 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  14. The Overview Effect

    44 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  15. Epstein’s Links to Scientists Are Even More Extensive Than We Thought

    44 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  16. Impossible choices: Gregory Bateson saw the creative potential of paradox

    44 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  17. Scientists cook up new recipes for taking salt out of seawater

    43 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  18. Tim Berners-Lee's new decentralisation project: Social Linked data(Solid)

    43 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  19. Segway-Ninebot unveils scooters that drive themselves to charging stations

    43 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  20. Quantum microphone counts particles of sound

    43 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  21. Trump to Impose Additional 10% Tariff on Chinese Goods

    43 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  22. Build Highly Available MySQL Applications Using Amazon Aurora Multi-Master

    43 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  23. Thomas Mann's War Against Hitler

    43 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  24. Valve says turning away researcher reporting Steam vulnerability was a mistake

    43 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  25. Our Graham Greene in Havana

    43 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  26. Maternal fluoride exposure during pregnancy and IQ scores in offspring

    43 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  27. We must change food production to save the world, says leaked report

    43 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  28. Early Years of Computer Gaming: Steve Russell and Nolan Bushnell (2002) [video]

    43 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  29. I got fired from Facebook (for having a YouTube channel)

    43 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  30. American with No Medical Training Ran Center for Malnourished Kids. 105 Died

    43 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  31. That's Interesting (1971) [pdf]

    43 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  32. Show HN: Quark-IDE and a JavaScript runtime to build cross-platform desktop apps

    43 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  33. Psyche: A domain specific language designed for creating WebAssembly modules

    43 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  34. Have Disneyland fans finally reached their limit?

    43 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  35. Nvidia Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation to Help Open-Source Drivers

    42 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  36. Dark Matter from Scalar Field Fluctuations

    42 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  37. Linux package managers are slow

    42 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  38. Serious Money Is Warming to Bitcoin

    42 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  39. JWTs suck (for web auth and basically everything else)

    42 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  40. Google Warns Against Blocking Cookies Entirely, Triggering Criticism

    42 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  41. Salvator Mundi and the unreality of the art market

    42 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  42. U.S. Treasury Department Labels China a Currency Manipulator

    42 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  43. The Trouble with Fusion (1983) [pdf]

    42 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  44. The Unum Pattern

    42 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  45. Trump orders U.S. firms out of China after Beijing sets new tariffs

    42 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  46. Swadesh List

    42 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  47. When Worse Is Better (2011)

    42 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  48. 11B tons of ice melted in Greenland – in just one day

    42 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  49. There have been three times more wildfires in the EU so far this year

    42 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  50. Researchers speak about life in troubled ancient-DNA lab

    42 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  51. Hong Kong Protesters Find New Momentum with Largest Rally in Weeks

    42 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  52. When Battlefield Surveillance Comes to Your Town

    42 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  53. Free and open source alternative to Uber/Lyft

    42 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  54. From Two Guys Building Their own Browser

    42 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  55. Flat Earthers Nearly Derailed a Space Photo Book

    42 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  56. Apple will add 5G to 2020 iPhones to compete with Android, analyst says

    42 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  57. DM48 Digital Chromatic Harmonica

    41 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  58. Experiment, Simplify, Ship

    41 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  59. Non-line-of-sight imaging using phasor-field virtual wave optics

    41 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  60. The quest to conquer Earth’s space junk problem (2018)

    41 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  61. Ask HN: What still sucks about remote work?

    41 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  62. Scholars Discover Original Locke Manuscript in Greenfield Library

    41 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  63. Sexism in the Academy: Women's narrowing path to tenure

    41 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  64. Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash 'could pay for green transition'

    41 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  65. Paranoid and Madcap, the Manchurian Candidate Is Our Timeliest Novel

    41 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  66. Harvard Mark I

    41 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  67. Keybase SSH CA

    41 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  68. Windows 10 Urgent Update

    41 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  69. Microsoft Publishes ExFAT Spec, hopes for Linux adoption

    41 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  70. T-Mobile Put My Life in Danger, Says Woman Stalked with Illegal Location Data

    41 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  71. Why Does Developing on Kubernetes Suck?

    41 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  72. Running the Arctic’s Alt-Weekly Newspaper

    41 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  73. Tiny lensless endoscope captures 3-D images of objects smaller than a cell

    41 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  74. Useful Linux Commands

    41 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  75. A movie changed one man's vision (2012)

    41 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  76. Submarine escape and rescue: a brief history

    41 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  77. Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

    41 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  78. Socialite Cordelia Scaife May Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out

    41 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  79. A Guide to Climate Change

    41 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  80. Google says hackers have put 'monitoring implants' in iPhones for years

    41 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  81. Chinese forces prepare to use 'giant fork' on Hong Kong protesters

    41 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  82. Nipkow disk

    40 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  83. Hacking Image Interpolation for Fun and Profit

    40 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  84. Another ex-JP Morgan precious metals trader pleads guilty to ‘spoofing’

    40 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  85. Saudi Arabia implements end to travel restrictions for Saudi women

    40 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  86. Removing Image Artifacts in C# with OpenCV

    40 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  87. Ask HN: What are your favorite educational non-tech podcasts?

    40 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  88. Build Your Idea for Free

    40 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  89. Loss of cultural song diversity in a declining Hawaiian forest bird community

    40 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  90. Show HN: NextStep – Product to help SaaS companies improve conversion rates

    40 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  91. David Koch, billionaire industrialist and Republican mega donor, dies aged 79

    40 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  92. The Next Recession Will Be About Sovereign Debt

    40 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  93. The Rise of Peer Review Bots

    40 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  94. Make science PhDs more than just a training path for academia

    40 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  95. Tesla motors make classic Ferraris go faster

    40 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  96. WeWork IPO filing shows it's losing nearly $5,200 per customer

    40 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  97. Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real time

    40 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  98. OpenStreetMap PBF Perfomance Tricks

    40 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  99. A Hacker Talks Security, Consent, and Why He Hacked a Buttplug

    40 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  100. 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs

    40 points • comment • aug 29, 2019