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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Cue – A language for defining, generating, and validating data

    349 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  2. 35 Over 35

    349 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  3. Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?

    348 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  4. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)

    348 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  5. “I would like to maintain the floppy driver”

    346 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  6. Elsevier threatens others for linking to Sci-Hub but does so itself

    346 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  7. One City Saved $5M by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm

    345 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  8. Async-std: an async port of the Rust standard library

    343 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  9. Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team

    342 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  10. Productivity and the Workweek (2000)

    341 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  11. WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera

    340 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  12. Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator

    339 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  13. Whistle-blower reveals N Dakota leak of 11M gallons of gas condensate in 2015

    338 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  14. How Rust optimizes async/await

    337 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  15. The Art of Warez [video]

    337 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  16. Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket

    336 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  17. The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kanji in the wild

    335 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  18. Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays

    335 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  19. Nigerian Teens Are Making Sci-Fi Shorts with Slick Visual Effects

    333 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  20. Silk

    331 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  21. The Lost Art of Lacing Cable (2018)

    331 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  22. Get your work recognized: write a brag document

    331 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  23. IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business

    330 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  24. Contributing to the Mozilla code base

    329 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  25. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp?

    329 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  26. Rest-client gem is hijacked

    329 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  27. Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash and Why

    328 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  28. RegExr

    327 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  29. One job, many roles: The different skills needed to be a successful CTO

    326 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  30. The We Company S-1

    325 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  31. IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linux Foundation

    324 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  32. Calculus Is Deeply Irrational

    324 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  33. AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network

    323 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  34. Every Noise at Once

    323 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  35. Attorney General Barr and Encryption

    322 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  36. The Paxos Algorithm, or How to Win a Turing Award

    322 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  37. Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’

    321 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  38. Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft

    319 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  39. Words that do Handstands

    318 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  40. The Problem at Yale Is Not Free Speech

    317 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  41. How to return to the flow faster

    316 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  42. WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things

    316 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  43. WeWork Gets Tax Rebate Meant for Its Small-Business Tenants

    316 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  44. Misconfigured Jira instances exposed data of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies

    316 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  45. Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest

    315 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  46. How Men’s Bodies Change When They Become Fathers

    314 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  47. FFmpeg 4.2

    313 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  48. NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors

    313 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  49. Making email more modern with JMAP

    313 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  50. Telegram moves to protect identity of Hong Kong protesters

    313 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  51. The Impact of Meditating Every Day

    312 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  52. New React DevTools

    312 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  53. Google's software mistreats or harms the user

    312 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  54. Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires

    312 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  55. Administration Using the Full Power of the Surveillance State on Whistleblowers

    312 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  56. A book from Alan Turing and a mysterious piece of paper

    311 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  57. Why ElementaryOS Left Medium

    308 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  58. BlazingSQL is Now Open Source

    306 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  59. Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything

    306 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  60. How to get your first ten customers (2013)

    305 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  61. On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe

    303 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  62. Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use

    303 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  63. The Most Dangerous Writing App

    303 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  64. Can ads on a page read my password?

    302 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  65. Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour

    301 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  66. Does the Amazon provide 20% of our oxygen?

    301 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  67. Arend: Theorem Prover Based on Homotopy Type Theory by JetBrains

    301 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  68. Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet

    301 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  69. Moscow's blockchain voting system cracked a month before election

    298 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  70. QEMU VM Escape

    297 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  71. Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests

    297 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  72. Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack

    297 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  73. Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

    296 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  74. Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld

    296 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  75. 3.8M-year-old skull of an early ape-like human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia

    294 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  76. Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. They’re Back

    294 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  77. Medieval people bathed regularly

    293 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  78. Why Did China Just Devalue the Yuan? How Trade Works with Free-Floating Currency

    293 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  79. CamScanner, a malicious Android app with more than 100M downloads in Google Play

    293 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  80. Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York

    292 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  81. Insured price $2,758, cash price $521

    291 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  82. WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company

    288 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  83. Social exclusion fuels extremism in young men

    287 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  84. Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster

    287 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  85. Verified by Twilio

    286 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  86. Thunderbird 68.0

    285 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  87. Aussie ISV buys ads to wake up Google support

    285 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  88. Devilution – A web port of the original Diablo game

    284 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  89. The answer to “Will you mentor me?” is no (2010)

    283 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  90. Big Coal Plants Begin to Close

    283 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  91. Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents

    283 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  92. Mental Models Box – A collection of models useful in everyday life

    283 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  93. Gamedev Tutorial: Trigonometry Basics – Sine and Cosine

    282 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  94. Coinbase: Responding to Firefox 0-days in the wild

    282 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  95. Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos calls GE a ‘bigger fraud than Enron’

    282 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  96. Anna Karenina Principle

    281 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  97. Python vs. Rust for Neural Networks

    281 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  98. How to Measure Indoor Air Quality with a Raspberry Pi, RuuviTags and PMS7003

    281 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  99. I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games

    280 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  100. TypeScript 3.6

    280 points • comment • aug 28, 2019