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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. The Californians forced to live in cars and RVs

    22 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  2. Unsealed Warrant and Forfeiture Complaint Seek Seizure of Oil Tanker “Grace 1”

    22 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  3. Stick ‘em up – A surprising history of collage

    22 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  4. D.A. Pennebaker, Pioneer of Cinéma Vérité in America, Dies at 94

    22 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  5. Picking Rust for Web

    22 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  6. Reasons Not to Buy from Amazon, According to Richard Stallman

    22 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  7. Ask HN: How relevant is The Mythical Man-Month outside the software industry?

    22 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  8. Digital Ocean Experiencing Issues

    22 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  9. Some People Pay $30 to Get a Referral for Google

    22 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  10. Palladian Facade Generator (2015)

    22 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  11. Media Observatory – Quantifying Media Bias

    22 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  12. Ask HN: As a freelance dev how do I get back on top after hitting rock bottom?

    22 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  13. ‘It's techno-racism’: Detroit is using facial recognition to make arrests

    22 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  14. One in five millennials are lonely and have 'no friends'

    22 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  15. Milton Friedman's "Shareholder" Theory Was Wrong

    22 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  16. The 737-Max Grounding Is So Bad That Airlines Are Leasing 30-Year-Old 737-200s

    22 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  17. Apple Contractors Allegedly Listened to 1,000 Siri Recordings a Day – Each

    22 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  18. Walter Benjamin: Fragments, Salvage and Detours

    22 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  19. Reddit, with wigs and ink

    22 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  20. Fakemyinbox – Free Temp Mail Generator

    22 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  21. Palantir CEO: Silicon Valley Shouldn't Dictate US Policy

    22 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  22. The Benefits of High-Tech Job Growth Don’t Trickle Down

    22 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  23. 2 Condos Were Illegally Converted into 18 Micro Apartments in NYC

    22 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  24. Greenland Lost 12.5B Tons of Ice in a Single Day

    22 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  25. Irish Teen Wins 2019 Google Science Fair for Removing Microplastics from Water

    22 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  26. Ask HN: How much time should I spend reviewing code?

    22 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  27. Free Open Source VPN – AES 256 – WireGuard and OpenVPN

    22 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  28. Sketches Revealed Underneath Leonardo's 'Virgin of the Rocks'

    21 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  29. CEOs Who Cheat on Spouse Twice as Likely to Cheat at Work, Study Shows

    21 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  30. Getting the First 100 Users

    21 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  31. Myths of Robust Systems

    21 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  32. Tridactyl has been delisted from AMO

    21 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  33. A Novelist Teaches Herself Physics

    21 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  34. Ask Andrew W.K.: My Dad Is a Right-Wing Asshole

    21 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  35. Free open source tool for labeling photos online

    21 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  36. The MeToo Backlash

    21 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  37. Google Sign-In Is Down?

    21 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  38. First human-monkey chimera raises concern among scientists

    21 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  39. The Endless, Invisible Persuasion Tactics of the Internet

    21 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  40. Nearly all mass shooters have four things in common

    21 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  41. Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) Surveillance Tools

    21 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  42. The Arctic is ablaze: Peat fires are the latest symptom of climate change

    21 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  43. Ask HN: Where to “hang out” online these days?

    21 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  44. US withdraws from nuclear treaty with Russia, prepares to test new missile

    21 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  45. What’s the Difference Between Copenhagen and Everett?

    21 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  46. A radical new idea erases quantum theory’s weird uncertainties

    21 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  47. Facebook is ordered to delete any Facial Recognition Templates within 90 days

    21 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  48. ADAC and HE Puzzles from GEB (2009)

    21 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  49. Underground line to heat up north London homes

    21 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  50. New medical procedure could delay menopause by 20 years

    21 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  51. The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is Terrifying

    21 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  52. Jay Leno loves his Tesla: ‘There’s almost no reason to have a gas car’

    21 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  53. Reading Gandhi Reading

    21 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  54. The Fortnite coach who helped create teenage millionaires

    21 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  55. Marty the grocery store robot is a glimpse into our hell-ish future

    21 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  56. Why our team cancelled our move to microservices

    21 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  57. President Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland

    21 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  58. The New Museum of the Dog

    21 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  59. An Actor Lost in the Background

    21 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  60. The Second Amendment solution to gun violence

    21 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  61. What Happens When Americans Don’t Pay a Hospital Bill

    21 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  62. Key yield curve inverts to worst level since 2007

    21 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  63. Strengthen Free Software by Telling Congress to Reject the Stronger Patents Act

    21 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  64. 8chan's new provider BitMitigate goes offline

    21 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  65. An Open Letter to Intel

    21 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  66. Gnome and KDE work together on the Linux desktop

    21 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  67. Old English Wikipedia (or at least I think it is)

    21 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  68. Who kicked them out? On St Patrick [audio]

    21 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  69. Predictably Random

    21 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  70. 150 Meter Starhopper Flight Test [video]

    21 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  71. Engineers build advanced microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes

    20 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  72. After 12 years in ‘vegetative state’: reveals ‘I was aware of everything’

    20 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  73. 'Brief radiation spike' after rocket engine blast in northern Russia

    20 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  74. The Internet Must Change – Start with the Data

    20 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  75. Show HN: Isonotes – Create notes in rich text format or markdown

    20 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  76. Dan Povey, Developer of Kaldi, Fired from JHU

    20 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  77. Taking History Personally

    20 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  78. Breakdown Palace: R.D. Laing’s radical asylum

    20 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  79. Encrypted Training with PyTorch and PySyft on MNIST

    20 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  80. Why Free Speech (Even Hate Speech) Is the Best Friend of the Oppressed

    20 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  81. Nushell – a modern shell written in Rust

    20 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  82. Palmerston Island, Population 35

    20 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  83. The Unsettling Rise of the Urban Narc App

    20 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  84. Volex TTX2000 S: Teletext Adapter for the ZX Spectrum

    20 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  85. Airbnb introduces new search tools for business travelers

    20 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  86. Europe’s flight-shame movement has travelers taking trains to save the planet

    20 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  87. Police can get your Ring doorbell footage without a warrant

    20 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  88. Invenia Blog: JuliaCon2019

    20 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  89. What We Know We Don't Know

    20 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  90. Intel’s first 10nm Ice Lake CPUs revealed: here’s your decoder ring

    20 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  91. Curiosity and the Cat: Quantum Theory and the Coen Brothers (2015)

    20 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  92. New Results: WPA3 vulnerable to a second class of side-channel leaks

    20 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  93. An Atomic Anniversary in the City the Bomb Spared

    20 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  94. American Prisons Owe Their Cruelty to Slavery

    20 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  95. The CEO of Whole Foods says eating plant-based 'meats' is unhealthy

    20 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  96. Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant

    20 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  97. Ask HN: Splunk Alternatives?

    20 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  98. Land of the Free: A brief history of early American nudists

    20 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  99. 1999: The Last Great Year in Movies

    20 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  100. Kazakhstan Attempts to MITM Its Citizens

    20 points • comment • aug 04, 2019