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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. “Why I'm not at CCCamp 2019”

    16 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  2. The Koch-Fueled Anti-Transit Crusade Hits Phoenix, Is Seattle Next?

    16 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  3. Was Jeffrey Epstein under suicide watch when he died?

    16 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  4. WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy

    16 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  5. Xkcd #2185: Disappearing Sunday Update

    16 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  6. VMware says it’s in talks to acquire Pivotal Software

    16 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  7. Sucking carbon out of the air is no magic fix for the climate emergency

    16 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  8. The Data Center Reimagined: GPUDirect Enables Petabyte Scale Analytics

    16 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  9. Project BillVision (1995)

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  10. Big Tech Controls Many Major Open-Source Projects. Is That a Problem?

    16 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  11. Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack: Breaking Bluetooth Security

    16 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  12. Why Conspiracy Theorists Will Never Believe the ‘Official’ Epstein Story

    16 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  13. Tesla Has Failed Massively as a Public Company

    16 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  14. Facebook scans system libs from Android app and uploads them

    16 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  15. “Old age” is made up–and this concept is hurting everyone

    16 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  16. PragerU vs. YouTube

    16 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  17. Ask HN: Why am I stuck on 51 HN karma points?

    16 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  18. Pipe: How the System Call That Ties Unix Together Came About

    16 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  19. Thought Experiment – Summer Camp for All Rather Than Universal Basic Income

    16 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  20. Brownian Motion in Financial Markets

    15 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  21. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) [pdf]

    15 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  22. Rudyard Kipling’s American years

    15 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  23. Authorities Investigating 4chan Post on Epstein's Death

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  24. UPS Has Been Delivering Cargo in Self-Driving Trucks for Months

    15 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  25. Transporting a portable system: Unix to an IBM minicomputer (1983) [pdf]

    15 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  26. Cross platform remote GUI for Python

    15 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  27. Why all the Jira hate? I’ll tell you why

    15 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  28. Amazon rainforest fires: The truth behind the 'record-breaking' headlines

    15 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  29. Ask HN: Which Open Source projects are looking for maintainers?

    15 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  30. PCMag: The VPN Industry Is on the Cusp of a Major Breakthrough

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  31. San Francisco airport bans sale of plastic bottles

    15 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  32. A Small City with Big Delusions

    15 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  33. Making of the Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants

    15 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  34. Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates

    15 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  35. Top publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement

    15 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  36. Weaving two arrays, keeping relative order

    15 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  37. What3words divides the world into squares, each with a unique three-word address

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  38. ExFAT in the Linux Kernel? Yes

    15 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  39. What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi?

    15 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  40. Missouri council member chooses Dr.Seuss over the bible for swearing-in ceremony

    15 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  41. Wreeto – a fast, cluttered-free knowledge organisation toolset

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  42. “Tesla Is Going to Win Level 5.” – George Hotz

    15 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  43. Amazon won't spin off AWS. That's too bad for AWS

    15 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  44. Reddit Now Lets You Livestream. What Could Go Wrong?

    15 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  45. California approves solar-powered EV charging network and electric school buses

    15 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  46. An HIV Genome from Two Decades Before Its Discovery

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  47. Facebook to put client-side backdoors into end-to-end encryption clients

    15 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  48. Critical U.S. Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Denials

    15 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  49. It took a century to create the weekend–and only a decade to undo it

    15 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  50. As Phoenix Heats Up, the Night Comes Alive

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  51. The “OSI Model”: There's no such thing. What they taught you is a lie

    15 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

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

    15 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  53. Russian 'Sully' lands plane on corn field after bird strike

    15 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  54. Why I left Google

    15 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  55. Tsar Bomba

    15 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  56. Tunnel of Eupalinos

    15 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  57. Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer

    15 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  58. PLA's Hong Kong Chief says troops are ready to protect China's sovereignty

    15 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  59. Ask HN: What is your goto stack when building a MVP and why?

    15 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  60. The Mother of All Demos (1968)

    15 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  61. IBM Fired 100k Employees to Make Way for Millennials: Report

    15 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  62. What happens when you are under constant surveillance?

    15 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  63. Modern American Capitalism Was Invented on Cotton Plantations

    15 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  64. Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia

    15 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  65. Google Document Dump

    15 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  66. The most-shared images of Amazon fires are old or not of the Amazon

    15 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  67. Cloudflare ending DDoS protection for 8chan

    15 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  68. Startup says they've made an electric motor with 3x more torque

    14 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  69. Inequality driving 'deaths of despair'

    14 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  70. Masterpiece Theater

    14 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  71. Show HN: Code Line Daily

    14 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  72. A font made from gerrymandered districts

    14 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  73. Sartre’s Bad Trip

    14 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  74. Show HN: Realtime Replication Between GraphQL and the Client-Side Database

    14 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  75. Being Empathetic Is Not Always Helpful – Why the Greatest Strength Is Weakness

    14 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  76. Growth mindset study finds no impact on student performance (n=5018)

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  77. US Senator says wireless carriers are helping Trump build 'surveillance state'

    14 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  78. Explosive Novels of the Cold War

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  79. Flame retardants from plants

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  80. Ask HN: Why Are Conditionals Important?

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  81. Colossal crabs may hold clue to Amelia Earhart fate

    14 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  82. China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  83. Renowned Yale Computer Science Prof Leaves Darwinism

    14 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  84. When a Mob Attacked Protesters in Hong Kong, the Police Walked Away

    14 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  85. Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  86. How to Read 2 Books a Week

    14 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  87. Food Shipment Destined for Venezuela Seized Due to US Blockade

    14 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  88. Bad mouse took down a network, and almost got us banned

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  89. Archive.org Faces Permanent ISP Blocking Following Audiobook Lawsuits

    14 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  90. Astronomers Have Detected a Whopping 8 New Repeating Signals from Deep Space

    14 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  91. At MIT, more fallout from the university’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  92. The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is ablaze

    14 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  93. U.S.-based experts suspect Russia blast involved nuclear-powered missile

    14 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  94. On Me, and the Media Lab

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  95. Apple Card launches today for all US customers

    14 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  96. Why Chandrayaan-2 is taking 48 days to reach Moon when Apollo-11 took just 4

    14 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  97. Microsoft Contractors Listened to Xbox Owners in Their Homes

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  98. Learning Day

    14 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  99. China Says Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong No Longer Binding (2017)

    14 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  100. Satoshi Nakamoto: “My Reveal” -Part 1

    14 points • comment • aug 18, 2019