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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. OpenSpiel: A Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Games

    20 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  2. China’s fan-girl culture is mobilizing against the Hong Kong protests

    20 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  3. Wolpertinger

    20 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  4. Measuring the ionisation fraction in a jet from a protostar

    20 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  5. The London Restaurant: 1840-1914

    20 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  6. What We Learned from 100 Presentations of Startups

    20 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  7. Ask HN: What are the best bioinformatics books you've read?

    20 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  8. Museum of Ice Cream Valued at $200M

    20 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  9. Ethically Aligned Design [pdf]

    20 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  10. Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition

    20 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  11. A Book in My Parole Office Taught Me How to Rob Banks Better

    20 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  12. Amazon’s Creepy Twitter PR Army Is Growing

    20 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  13. Ask HN: Given that I am a Software Engineer, how could I help humanity the most?

    20 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  14. Who Is Rey?

    20 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  15. Google moves closer to letting Chrome web apps edit your files

    19 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  16. We're Whole Foods / Amazon Employees: Amazon's Collaboration with ICE Must Stop

    19 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  17. Minimizing Defection Might Be the Solution to the Tragedy of the Commons

    19 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  18. Archaeologists discover 'sorcerer's treasure trove' trunk at Pompeii

    19 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  19. Ask HN: What are the biggest obstacles to vertical farms?

    19 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  20. Khan Academy 2018 Annual Report: 8B Minutes

    19 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  21. The sense and essence of smell

    19 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  22. The Toynbee Tiles

    19 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  23. Lunar crash may have seeded indestructible ‘water bears’ on the moon

    19 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  24. The Amazon Is Not the 'Lungs of the World'

    19 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  25. Why Does the U.S. Army Own So Many Fossils?

    19 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  26. Google Warning: Millions of Android Phones Come Preloaded with Malware

    19 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  27. Anatomy of a Posit Number

    19 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  28. It Is Criminal That We Aren’t Borrowing Trillions to Fix the Country Right Now

    19 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  29. Why Atlassian uses an internal PaaS to regulate AWS access

    19 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  30. Ask HN: How to deal with negative "tell me about a time" interview questions?

    19 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  31. Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone

    19 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  32. Managing Developers: Understanding Work Styles and Individual Needs

    19 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  33. Fairphone 3 is now available

    19 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  34. Greenland's ice is melting at the rate thought as worst-case scenario in 2070

    19 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  35. Inflammation's Hidden Role in Weight Loss

    19 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  36. The Nut CPU (HP Calculator CPU) [pdf]

    19 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  37. Canadian resident returns after 11 years in notorious prison in Tehran

    19 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  38. Blender 2.8: New features and improvements [video]

    19 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  39. Creatures of the Deep Karst

    19 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  40. 8chan: Owner of extremist site lashes out as scrutiny intensifies

    19 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  41. Midget submarine

    19 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  42. Preserves: An Expressive Data Language

    19 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  43. Kotlin 1.3.50 Released

    19 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  44. Launching Fairphone 3

    19 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  45. Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history

    19 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  46. A hiker in Canada was approached by a cougar. She blasted Metallica to scare it

    19 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  47. Apple Special Event – September 10

    19 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  48. Interactive coin offerings (2017)

    19 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  49. The A-10 Warthog Is Sticking Around for at Least Another Decade

    19 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  50. PhpCE gets cancelled after complaints about low number of female speakers

    19 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  51. Cathay Pacific, Icon of Hong Kong’s Rise, Now Reflects China’s Grip

    19 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  52. He's 26 years old but still sees a pediatrician: Why some adults don't move on

    19 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  53. Facebook gets closer to letting you type with your mind

    19 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  54. Elizabeth Warren proposes plan to build rural broadband networks

    18 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  55. China is paying Twitter to publish propaganda against Hong Kong protesters

    18 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  56. Britain’s Reichstag Fire Moment

    18 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  57. Show HN: Generate a graph of any data from your terminal

    18 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  58. Why Are We All Paying a Tax to Credit Card Companies?

    18 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  59. Milton Friedman Was Wrong

    18 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  60. Testing Robustness Against Unforeseen Adversaries

    18 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  61. iPhone charging cable, looks normal, offers terminal access to victim's mac

    18 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  62. For non-trivial coordination, meetings might be better than email

    18 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  63. The History of Polish Photography (2002)

    18 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  64. Coca-Cola, PepsiCo finally cut ties with prominent plastic lobbying group

    18 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  65. We bought a successful app, loaded it with extras and watched it fail

    18 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  66. Augmented Reality with OpenCV and OpenGL: The Tricky Projection Matrix

    18 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  67. Abusing WebViews to Steal Files via Email

    18 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  68. Netflix-like pirate sites offered more video than the real Netflix, feds say

    18 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  69. NASA Worldview: Satellite Detections of Fire

    18 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  70. Using Native JavaScript Modules in Production Today

    18 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  71. Tesla launches solar rental service – solar panel system for $50 per month

    18 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  72. Jeffrey Epstein’s Death, Critical Thinking, and the Decline of Reporting

    18 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  73. Humble Book Bundle: Python Programming by No Starch Press

    18 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  74. Overstock Loses a Spycatcher CEO

    18 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  75. Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store: An Exploratory Analysis of Extensions

    18 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  76. People Are Starting to Realize How Voice Assistants Work

    18 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  77. Show HN: Understand the Internet by Building It in a VM (MOOC)

    18 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  78. The Women of ‘LIFE’ Magazine

    18 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  79. Radiation Is Said to Be Released in Russian Military Accident

    18 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  80. Code Size Optimization: GCC Compiler Flags

    18 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  81. Errudite: Scalable, Reproducible, and Testable Error Analysis

    18 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  82. A scientific study has established that there is no “gay gene”

    18 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  83. Show HN: Rget verify GitHub releases against a public recorded cryptographic log

    18 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  84. China sends fresh troops into Hong Kong

    18 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  85. Tupelo as it relates to IPLD and IPFS

    18 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  86. Fighting forest crime in Guatemala

    18 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  87. Dear Tech Workers, U.S. Service Members Need Your Help

    18 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  88. Apple Maps in iOS 13: Sights Set on Google

    18 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  89. Greenland Is Melting Away Before Our Eyes

    18 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  90. Google Scholar reveals its most influential papers for 2019

    18 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  91. Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic

    18 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  92. My Points on Flutter as a React Native Developer

    18 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  93. World’s Largest Forest Has Been on Fire for Months

    18 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  94. The History of ‘Easter Eggs’

    18 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  95. Mummia

    18 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  96. The battle cry of the politically homeless

    18 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  97. Daily Mail Article Generator

    18 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  98. Microsoft Flow

    18 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  99. Making the Moon Camera

    18 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  100. Quantum Gravity's Tangled Time

    18 points • comment • aug 22, 2019