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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Neil Young Archives

    35 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  2. German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn’t exist

    35 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  3. Datadog S1

    35 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  4. Burnout – All-in-one workspace for startups

    35 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  5. A new clothing line confuses automated license plate readers

    35 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  6. Afghanistan Loses 42k Troops in Crackdown on 'Ghost Soldiers'

    35 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  7. Ask HN: Where do the real hackers hangout?

    35 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  8. Why We Hate Taxes, and Why Some People Want Us To

    35 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  9. My First Aragon App: Voting Supercharged with DAOstack’s Holographic Consensus

    35 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  10. The big little lie of the TV kitchen island

    35 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  11. In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’

    35 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  12. Heroku Is Down

    35 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  13. Studies in Power: An Interview with Robert Caro (2018)

    35 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  14. Local Routing in a new Indefinitely Scalable Architecture [pdf]

    35 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  15. Tim Cook Sells Millions in Apple Stock

    35 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  16. Claude Lévi-Strauss: Science, myths and the mystical

    35 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  17. Dark Corners and Pitfalls of C++

    35 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  18. A Boom Time for the Bunker Business and Doomsday Capitalists

    35 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  19. The Evolutionary Roots of Human Decision Making

    35 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  20. Safecracking for the computer scientist (2004) [pdf]

    35 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  21. Alaska records its warmest month ever; future records likely

    34 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  22. Ask HN: How to Make Money from Machine Learning?

    34 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  23. Regicides on the Run

    34 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  24. Cargill: The Worst Company in the World

    34 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  25. The Lonely Death of George Bell (2015)

    34 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  26. Domino’s asks SCOTUS to shut down a lawsuit requiring its website be accessible

    34 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  27. Tardigrades may now be living on Moon

    34 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  28. Bad Language: a Lisp-looking language with interpreter, compiles to JavaScript

    34 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  29. Wi-Fi router could be used to watch you breathe and monitor your heartbeat

    34 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  30. Hofstadter – On Number Numbness (1982) [pdf]

    34 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  31. Warning signs: Global semiconductor sales drop 14.5% in 1H19

    34 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  32. The Life and Death of an American Indie Press

    34 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  33. The Cedar Choppers

    34 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  34. Rap Music Ditches Dollars for the Cash App Mobile Payment System

    34 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  35. Chrome 69 Is a Full-Fledged Assault on User Privacy

    34 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  36. 8chan: The far-right website linked to the rise in hate crimes

    34 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  37. Marquee HTML Element

    34 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  38. Show HN: Apprise – A lightweight all-in-one notification solution (update)

    34 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  39. fd: A simple, fast, user-friendly alternative to 'find'

    34 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  40. The ultra-rich are illegally buying cheetahs as pets, leading to extinction

    34 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  41. A Week with No Tear Gas

    34 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  42. Statistical foundations of virtual democracy

    34 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  43. Cork-based Apple contractors 'who heard chat on Siri' lose jobs

    34 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  44. Ask HN: Looking back, what have you wasted lots of time on?

    34 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  45. A brief tour of differential privacy [pdf]

    34 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  46. Chromebooks Have an “Auto Update Expiration”

    34 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  47. Show HN: Render abstract syntax trees using React

    34 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  48. Economists’ Faith in Markets Broke America

    34 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  49. Applegate’s Aproximada (2017)

    33 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  50. CS Alert (1890)

    33 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  51. 'Don't vape. Don't use Juul': Juul CEO issues stark warning to non-smokers

    33 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  52. In Praise of Pretty Books

    33 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  53. Transporting a portable operating system: UNIX to an IBM minicomputer (1983) [pdf]

    33 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  54. In China, Apple Isn’t the Privacy Advocate It Claims to Be

    33 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  55. In Santa Barbara Channel, underwater sound system keeps whales and ships apart

    33 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  56. Foods Linked to Better Brainpower

    33 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  57. The Incremental Machine

    33 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  58. Airbnb quietly shut down a top host amid scathing reviews but guest were to stay

    33 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  59. Greenland could become China's Arctic base (2018)

    33 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  60. Faster AMP on the Origin: AMP and SSR

    33 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  61. Casablanca’s Gift to Marrakech and the Birth of Morocco’s Modern Art Movement

    33 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  62. Aging Shapes Narrative Identity

    33 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  63. Simulating Futures in Extended Common Lisp (1988) [pdf]

    33 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  64. Facebook quietly ditched 'It’s free and always will be' slogan from its homepage

    33 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  65. Senators demand Google make contractors full-time employees after 6 months

    33 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  66. Nuclear Reactor for Mars Outpost Could Be Ready to Fly by 2022

    33 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  67. Intermittent Fasting (Alternate Day Fasting) in Healthy, Non-Obese Adults

    33 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  68. A gentle introduction to Linux Kernel fuzzing

    33 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  69. Pai’s FCC orders cities and towns to stop regulating cable broadband

    33 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  70. Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty

    33 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  71. Top accounting firms urged to fire pro-riot staff

    33 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  72. Make a Factory Quality 9mm Rifled Barrel Using Salt Water and Electricity

    33 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  73. Should Rivers Have Same Legal Rights as Humans? Growing Number of Voices Say Yes

    33 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  74. Literature-Based Discovery

    32 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  75. You Know You're in a Big Company When...

    32 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  76. Electric scooters aren't as eco-friendly as they seem, study finds

    32 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  77. From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how a prison's internal economy works

    32 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  78. Google Employees Should Be “Pissed Off” Their Leadership Is Misleading Congress

    32 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  79. Eight Views of Ōmi

    32 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  80. Ornate netsuke were practical status symbols

    32 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  81. Macron says France and U.S. reached digital tax deal

    32 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  82. Found: A Stash of Mystical Charms and Amulets in Pompeii

    32 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  83. Baffled student tells Twitter: 'I'm not a Chinese agent'

    32 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  84. Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked

    32 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  85. The World Has a Germany Problem: Debt Obsession Ate the Economy

    32 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  86. 22% of Millennials say they have no friends

    32 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  87. Hacker News is partially blocked in China now

    32 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  88. 440 year-old maps filled with footprints

    32 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  89. Clean Go Code

    32 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  90. Private Space Race Targets Greenhouse Gas Emitters

    32 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  91. Google: We'll give you better malware protection in Chrome, only if you sign in

    32 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  92. From Hong Kong to Moscow, Protests Are Changing

    32 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  93. Why Arabs Lose Wars (1999)

    32 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  94. David Foster Wallace’s Pen Pal

    32 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  95. The underground farm growing salad crops in a disused air raid shelter [video]

    32 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  96. Brazil’s leading payment processor begins accepting Bitcoin

    32 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  97. Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code

    32 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  98. Apple's New WebKit Policy Takes a Hard Line for User Privacy

    32 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  99. Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for $60 a month

    32 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  100. Drones replace patrol ships on Mediterranean

    32 points • comment • aug 06, 2019