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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. One byte used to cost a dollar

    18 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  2. Vineyard of Silicon Valley VC hit with $4m in penalties after bulldozing wetland

    18 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  3. Do any of you tech folk ever think about just quitting tech altogether?

    18 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  4. Terms of the Dune universe; excerpts from a reading by Frank Herbert

    18 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  5. Google Chrome Hides WWW and HTTPS:// In the Address Bar Again

    17 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  6. Ask HN: What keyboard do you use?

    17 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  7. Revealed: Johnson ally’s firm secretly ran Facebook propaganda network

    17 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  8. Looking for Abstraction in Medieval Art

    17 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  9. 15 Years of Data Shows IoT Security Is Regressing

    17 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  10. Envoy Proxy in 2019: Security, Caching, Wasm, HTTP/3, and More

    17 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  11. Did Donald Trump tweet classified military imagery?

    17 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  12. Steven Sinofsky Reflects on Steve Jobs' “Bicycle for the Mind”

    17 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  13. Boris Johnson’s Parliament Suspension Approved by Queen

    17 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  14. The Noah's Ark Problem (1998) [pdf]

    17 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  15. Show HN: HashPlane Attack Map

    17 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  16. Internet Videoconferencing with CU-SeeMe: History, Culture, and Usage (1995)

    17 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  17. Revisiting Sutton Hoo, Britain’s Mythical Ship Burial

    17 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  18. Apple warns against storing the Apple Card in leather and denim

    17 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  19. Stephen Wolfram's 60th Birthday AMA IRL

    17 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  20. Cherry Picking: When People Ignore Evidence That They Dislike

    17 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  21. Ups has been quietly delivering cargo using self-driving trucks

    17 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  22. Neoliberalism: Political Success, Economic Failure

    17 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  23. Panera is losing nearly 100% of workers yearly amidst fast-food turnover crisis

    17 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  24. YouTube has removed videos of robots fighting, citing “animal cruelty”

    17 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  25. Interview with Jeremy Howard (Fast.ai) on Future of AI

    17 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  26. China’s thin-skinned online nationalists want to be loved and feared by the West

    17 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  27. Octant: A tool to help devs understand what's going on in a Kubernetes cluster

    17 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  28. FIDO2 can now be used for Google on Android Chrome

    17 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  29. The First Car to Bear the Porsche Name

    17 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  30. China’s Credibility Problem

    17 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  31. Show HN: TabNine Local – deep code completion on your laptop

    17 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  32. Facebook Is Working Towards Germany's End-to-End Encryption Backdoor Vision

    17 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  33. Mexican physicist’s solution to 2,000-yo problem could lead to improved lenses

    17 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  34. Ad Creep

    17 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  35. Fine-Tuned Constants

    17 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  36. Full Wikipedia Hosted on a Raspberry Pi Zero W

    17 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  37. Magic Transit: Network Functions at Cloudflare Scale

    17 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  38. Plsdr. Python-based software-defined radio (SDR)

    17 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  39. Toronto tech is growing but relying on outside talent

    17 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  40. Harvard Just Discovered That PowerPoint Is Worse Than Useless

    17 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  41. Reports say White House has drafted an order for FCC to monitor social media

    17 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  42. ““The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson“

    17 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  43. The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People

    17 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  44. Hannah Fry: “ Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath”

    17 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  45. Epic 81-megapixel moon photo was stacked from 50k images – DIY Photography

    17 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  46. Turning the Nintendo Switch into Android’s Best Gaming Hardware

    17 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  47. Keyringless GnuPG

    17 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  48. A virtual reality website from the time before Oculus

    17 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  49. China's hackers are ransacking databases for your health data

    17 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  50. Locked Tesla stolen in 30 seconds in London with fob relay trick

    17 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  51. A super-thin slice of wood can be used to turn saltwater drinkable

    17 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  52. The Ghosts of Our Lives

    17 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  53. Mayan-EDMS: Free Open Source Document Management System

    17 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  54. Walmart Fire Sale: After 7 roof fires, Walmart sues Tesla over solar panel flaws

    17 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  55. Too much fun with implantable brain electrodes

    17 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  56. Physicists Aim to Classify All Possible Phases of Matter

    17 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  57. Edward Snowden memoir to reveal whistleblower’s secrets

    17 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  58. Ask HN: Alexa left me a creepy message for somebody else. Anybody else had this?

    17 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  59. Burning Man: Death at US Festival Treated as ‘Suspicious’

    17 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  60. Large-Scale-Exploit of GitHub Repository Metadata and Preventive Measures

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  61. A Guide to Exiles, Expatriates, and Internal Emigrés (1972)

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  62. Opinion – Stop Mocking Vegans

    16 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  63. Bolsonaro has blessed ‘brutal' assault on Amazon, sacked scientist warns

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  64. Bedbugs are giving Airbnb users headaches and itchy bites

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  65. Facebook collected and transcribed users’ audio without permission

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  66. The Art of Pirated Software

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  67. How to build – and manage – a self-improving team

    16 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  68. Windows or Chromebook? A Best Buy salesman told me it isn't even close

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  69. CCleaner Installer Overrides Default Browser with Chromium Clone

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  70. Cashify – a lightweight currency conversion library and Money.js alternative

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  71. Commentaries on Criticisms of Magnetic Fusion [pdf]

    16 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  72. Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy urban planners (2018)

    16 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  73. Migrant Children Are Entitled to Toothbrushes and Soap, Federal Court Rules

    16 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  74. Tell HN: Learn about the state-of-the-art in Program Synthesis

    16 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  75. The Secret Life of Kudzu

    16 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  76. Scott Adams: The Day You Became a Better Writer

    16 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  77. Show HN: Soliloquy – Note-taking for power users

    16 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  78. The Rat Spill

    16 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  79. Software Architecture Guide

    16 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  80. The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials

    16 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  81. FAA tests spur a fundamental software redesign of Boeing 737 MAX flight controls

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  82. Gilder's Law

    16 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  83. Ask HN: Best technologies for indoor position tracking?

    16 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  84. Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns

    16 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  85. On the Hunt for National Treasures with America’s Archive Detective

    16 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  86. Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox

    16 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  87. Oakland on course to create more new housing units than SF in 2019

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  88. Feds told Tesla to stop making “misleading statements” on Model 3 safety

    16 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  89. Athens on the Colorado

    16 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  90. Ask HN: Alternatives to MVC

    16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  91. Cisco Is Making It More Difficult to Use Pre-Owned Hardware

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  92. Welsh Wikipedia gives me hope

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  93. Dismantling Free Markets Won't Solve Biodiversity Threat

    16 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  94. Schoolchildren in China work overnight to produce Amazon Alexa devices

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  95. You can now practice firing someone in virtual reality

    16 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  96. Eduard Pernkopf: The Nazi book of anatomy still used by surgeons

    16 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  97. Scheele’s Green, the Color of Fake Foliage and Death (2018)

    16 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  98. Leonsans

    16 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  99. U.S. forest firefighting icon Smokey Bear turns 75

    16 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  100. Ask HN: Modern day web development for someone who last did it 15 years ago

    16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019