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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence (2016)

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  2. Courage Is the Cure for Political Correctness

    14 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  3. Visual Studio Code July 2019 Update

    14 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  4. Ethan Zuckerman: On Me, and (Leaving) the Media Lab

    14 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  5. 8Chan Refugees Blow Their Anonymity

    14 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  6. Ask HN: What tools do you use for good habits/performance?

    14 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  7. Google Chrome Is Losing the 'Close Other Tabs' Option

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  8. Module Mirror and Checksum Database Launched

    14 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  9. Pierre Lamond On Cerebas' New Deep Learning Chip

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  10. How to Respond to Ageism in a Job Interview

    14 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  11. Apple Is Copying Mozilla’s Anti-Tracking Policy

    14 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  12. Verizon demands $880 from rural library for just 0.44GB of roaming data

    14 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  13. The Hong Kong Way

    14 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  14. Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks

    14 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  15. How to Become a Good Manager Using OKRs Methodology

    14 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  16. The Postman Always Rings Twice

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  17. First vaper reported dead after mysterious lung disease

    14 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  18. California: Bees drop dead around 5G towers

    14 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  19. Former Uber Self-Driving Car Executive Indicted – Alleged Theft of Trade Secrets

    14 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  20. Jeffrey Epstein, My Sick Pal

    14 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  21. Why is AWS documentation so poor?

    14 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  22. Automating capture of airplane pics with Raspberry Pis, ADS-B and IoT software

    14 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  23. July 2019 Was Not the Warmest on Record

    14 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  24. Why the Emoji Was Inevitable (2017)

    14 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  25. Cisco to pay $8.6M fine for selling hackable technology to government

    14 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  26. Insiders are selling stock like it's 2007

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  27. A Giant Volcano Could End Human Life on Earth as We Know It

    14 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  28. IT’S Time to Get Rid of the Lottery

    14 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  29. Fraudsters Used AI to Mimic CEO’s Voice in Unusual Cybercrime Case

    14 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  30. Homeless People Don’t Need an App, They Need a Fucking House

    14 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  31. Scabby the giant inflatable protest rat may be banned from picket lines

    14 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  32. Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests

    14 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  33. Tracing the path of the Crusades as it traveled through European history

    14 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  34. As Phoenix Heats Up, the Night Comes Alive

    14 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  35. Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in

    14 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  36. Pan-Africanism – Infrastructure must be the first priority

    14 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  37. The art of sharpening pencils (2007)

    14 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  38. A conversation with Popehat about a billboard, free speech, and the Constitution

    14 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  39. Ask HN: Where can I learn about Nikola Tesla?

    13 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  40. Why I translate all of Trump's tweets into Chinese

    13 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  41. Netflix's the Great Hack Brings Our Data Nightmare to Life

    13 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  42. 'Gods of the Upper Air' Traces the Birth of Cultural Anthropology

    13 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  43. Klaus Fuchs: a spy for the atomic age

    13 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  44. History of Balloons and Ballooning (2017)

    13 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  45. AMP Adds Support for Server-Side Rendering

    13 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  46. American Wealth Is Broken

    13 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  47. Announcing React/NodeGUI – Build Native Desktop Apps with JavaScript and CSS

    13 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  48. Jeff Bezos is letting his charities do something radical – whatever they want

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  49. The cost of next-day delivery

    13 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  50. Introducing Coil: a Kotlin-first image loading library on Android

    13 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  51. Spybot Anti-Beacon: Disable Tracking/Telemetry in Windows

    13 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  52. 'Dockerfiles' for LXD

    13 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  53. Why can’t we stop climate change? We don’t empathize with our descendants

    13 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  54. Opinion: Speeding Up Baseball to Save It

    13 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  55. IPCC Special Report – Climate Change and Land

    13 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  56. Ask HN: What languages / frameworks to learn now to become more employable

    13 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  57. Why Alibaba Will Be Bigger Than Amazon

    13 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  58. 1957 German Grand Prix

    13 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  59. Ireland can stop a no-deal Brexit. Here’s how

    13 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  60. The Great Debate

    13 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  61. Entropy and Symmetry

    13 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  62. Cloudflare terminates service for 8chan after El Paso shooting

    13 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  63. Nine killed in Dayton, the second US mass shooting in 24 hours

    13 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  64. Are developers honestly happy working 60-hour weeks?

    13 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  65. Show HN: Mead – how I'm pushing back against Medium

    13 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  66. How Wordsworth and Coleridge shaped each other

    13 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  67. Mathematician's 'Mysterious' New Method Just Solved a 30-Year-Old Problem

    13 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  68. iPhones RF emissions above safe levels?

    13 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  69. Peter Thiel's Religion

    13 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  70. Apple is locking iPhone battery replacement

    13 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  71. Was Email a Mistake?

    13 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  72. To understand the brutality of American capitalism, start on the plantation

    13 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  73. Angering China Can Now Get You Fired

    13 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  74. Here's the Memo About the Burden of Being Black at Google

    13 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  75. Sputnik virophage

    13 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  76. Crown Sterling sues over being booed at Blackhat

    13 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  77. A Reminder That Video Games Are a Force for Good

    13 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  78. Is Britain Becoming a Failed State?

    13 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  79. Jeffrey Epstein is dead from alleged suicide

    13 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  80. Algeria blocks YouTube and Google services after publication of political video

    13 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  81. The Haiku Operating System

    13 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  82. 20 years later, and still nobody's even come close to PHP's ease of deployment

    13 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  83. Bruce Schneier: you can secure America's e-voting systems tomorrow, use paper

    13 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  84. A Long List of Data Broker Sites and How to Opt-Out of Them (2018)

    13 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  85. Collect Your Company Knowledge on Autopilot with OneBar

    13 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  86. Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates – Official Trailer – Netflix

    13 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  87. Architecting a Roles and Permissions System Using Rails, GraphQL and React

    13 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  88. Popular JavaScript library starts showing ads in its terminal

    13 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  89. The Man Who Thinks the U.S. Is Better Off as a Bunch of Separate Countries

    13 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  90. The Expanding News Desert (2018) [pdf]

    13 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  91. From the Depths of Counterfeit Smartphones

    13 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  92. MSDN Magazine will publish its last issue in November

    13 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  93. Amazon Facial Recognition Misidentified 1 in 5 California Lawmakers as Criminals

    13 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  94. Facebook Is Getting Rid of “Secret” or “Closed” Groups

    13 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  95. Amazon Prime Day 2019 – AWS Metrics

    13 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  96. Indian child dies of rabies; denied vaccine due of lack of biometric Aadhaar ID

    13 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  97. Version 27 of Java evolutionary computation library ECJ released

    13 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  98. The Emacs Problem (2005)

    13 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  99. Brotli vs. Gzip Compression. How we improved our latency by 37%

    13 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  100. Ask HN: What does your ideal “read it later” service look like?

    13 points • comment • aug 27, 2019