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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Ask HN: How to get developers to care less about edge cases?

    32 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  2. Ask HN: Why do maintainers optimize for small binaries?

    32 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  3. Don’t Cheat on Interviews. It’s Obvious When You Do

    32 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  4. How to make a flat lens

    32 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  5. Google’s File on You Is 10 Times Bigger Than Facebook’s

    32 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  6. Brain food: a nutrient vegans lack

    32 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  7. Ask HN: Why do such strong opinions exist in our industry?

    32 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  8. America’s DIY Phone Farmers

    31 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  9. The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials

    31 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  10. Facebook’s Ad Network Keeps Crashing, and Clients Are Fuming

    31 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  11. Riding in Cars with Jacques Lacan

    31 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  12. Where does it all go?

    31 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  13. Ask HN: Does dang read every HN comment?

    31 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  14. Animator Richard Williams has died

    31 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  15. Croup and ipecac in Anne of Green Gables

    31 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  16. Show HN: BlobCity DB

    31 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  17. How to clean your Apple Card

    31 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  18. Show HN: I miss Google Inbox and built a replacement

    31 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  19. Ask HN: Anybody running serious Rust web application in production?

    31 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  20. NetNewsWire 5.0: Open-Source RSS Reader for Mac

    31 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  21. The Streets of New York

    31 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  22. Coke Putting Dasani Water in Cans Amid Backlash Against Plastic

    31 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  23. NetNewsWire 5.0 RSS Reader Rebuilt from Scratch, Now Free and Open Source

    31 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  24. Characterizing the Performance Impact of AMP

    31 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  25. Google is killing another chat service

    31 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  26. Is involuntary treatment for mental illness allowed under CRPD?

    31 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  27. Learn Vim for the Last Time: A Tutorial and Primer

    31 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  28. New publisher Modern Wolf declare commitment to “ethical game development”

    31 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  29. The U.S. Bought 3 Virgin Islands from Denmark. The Deal Took 50 Years

    31 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  30. Facebook Loses Facial Recognition Appeal, Must Face Privacy Class Action

    31 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  31. Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open (1994)

    31 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  32. TSA's Scanners Can't Figure Out Afros or Turbans, Guess Who's Getting Searched

    31 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  33. Fish Cannon (2016)

    31 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  34. The Last Pirate of New York

    31 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  35. List comprehensions across languages (2007)

    31 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  36. Apple warns its new credit card shouldn't go in your wallet, pocket, or purse

    31 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  37. Can we survive extreme heat?

    31 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  38. A Look at the Evolution of the Dial Telephone (2004)

    31 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  39. Purism Librem 5 August Update

    31 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  40. Pre-rendering static websites with the 23 year-old wget command

    31 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  41. We Have the Touch

    31 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  42. The Use of Sub-Routines in Programmes (1951) [pdf]

    31 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  43. How I got 7000 beta customers in less than 2 weeks with a $0 marketing budget

    30 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  44. Soon only the rich will be able to escape the heat. In Iraq, it’s already so

    30 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  45. The Cops Who Abused Photoshop

    30 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  46. Video + canvas = magic (2010)

    30 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  47. China to the Rescue of Nuclear Power?

    30 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  48. Backdoor Found in Webmin

    30 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  49. Glittering loneliness – Philip Larkin and his parents

    30 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  50. College Daily brings Chinese students in U.S. news with nationalistic undertones

    30 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  51. Using Pop Science to Build the Perfect Workforce

    30 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  52. Notes on “Camp” (1964)

    30 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  53. Ask HN: What game(s) are you working on?

    30 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  54. Amazon under fire for new packaging that cannot be recycled

    30 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  55. Nest Cam status lights can no longer be turned off for privacy; customers pissed

    30 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  56. Show HN: A Mood Tracker on the Web

    30 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  57. Texas Might Have Accidentally Decriminalized Marijuana

    30 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  58. Walmart Is Trying to Patent Its Own ‘Libra’ Like Digital Currency

    30 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  59. Government asks Queen to suspend Parliament

    30 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  60. This porn star philosopher is challenging us to see the world differently

    30 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  61. My Time at Google and After

    30 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  62. The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere: a surprising statistical illusion

    30 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  63. The Fourth Horseman of the Next Recession Approaches

    30 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  64. Bernie Sanders Promises to Tell Us About Aliens If He's Elected President

    29 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  65. Tardigrades are now on the moon thanks to a crashed Israeli spacecraft?

    29 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  66. Microsoft Admits Humans Listen to Skype and Cortana in Privacy Policy Update

    29 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  67. Butt Plug Hacking: Real Penetration Testing - DEFCON 27

    29 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  68. Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in

    29 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  69. Millions of unhashed fingerprints discovered on unsecured Elasticsearch DB

    29 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  70. List: Attending Burning Man or Parenting a Toddler?

    29 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  71. Three Letters from Switzerland

    29 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  72. [2019] Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye

    29 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  73. The water is so hot in Alaska it's killing large numbers of salmon

    29 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  74. A second whistleblower working at Google comes forward to warn of search bias

    29 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  75. Is the Political Novel Dead?

    29 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  76. Sealab II: Porpoise Post and Life Beneath the Waves

    29 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  77. FBI says “extremists” motivated by Pizzagate, QAnon are threats

    29 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  78. How to Rescue an Underperforming Employee

    29 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  79. Dell Unveils Updated XPS 13 with Intel’s 10th Gen Core CPUs and 4K Panel

    29 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  80. Organoids Are Not Brains. How Are They Making Brain Waves?

    29 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  81. Chrome 76 Has Given Billions of Google Users an Incentive to Use Firefox Instead

    29 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  82. Laws of Locality: Where in your UI you should put certain controls

    29 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  83. Families go deep in debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle

    29 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  84. Google wants to make you feel like you're on a crowded train to up ad engagement

    29 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  85. Russia tells Google not to advertise 'illegal' events after election protests

    29 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  86. Bamboolib – A GUI for Pandas

    29 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  87. The Power of Subscripts in Swift

    29 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  88. Ask HN: I am looking for a C and Assembly mentor

    29 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  89. Kostroma Moose Farm

    29 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  90. USDC payment processing in Coinbase Commerce

    29 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  91. I released my own Visual Studio Code Extension Pack and here is how you can too

    29 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  92. German Ham Radio Operator Takes Picture of Solar Eclipse – From the Moon

    29 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  93. Big Tech’s ‘Innovations’ That Aren’t

    29 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  94. Where did the melody go? (2017)

    29 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  95. We tested popular cellphones for RF radiation. Now the FCC is investigating

    29 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  96. Show HN: ortFolio, a minimal website template for image-based portfolios

    29 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  97. How to Prove That a Turing Machine Is Universal

    29 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  98. Why don't we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them?

    29 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  99. Two Narratives of Creation

    28 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  100. Why Is Hollywood So Scared of Climate Change?

    28 points • comment • aug 15, 2019