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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Fandom under fire: how fanzines helped sci-fi survive the Blitz and beyond

    13 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  2. Donald Trump Wants to Purchase Greenland from Denmark

    13 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  3. Climate Grief [video]

    13 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  4. Juggling: Theory and Practice [pdf]

    12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  5. Kayfabe (Wikipedia)

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  6. Panera losing nearly all workers in fast-food turnover crisis

    12 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  7. The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism

    12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  8. Backdoor Found in Utility for Linux, Unix Servers

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  9. Ask HN: Beginner Programmer: Haskell Book or SICP?

    12 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  10. How much equity should I get as the first employee?

    12 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  11. Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires

    12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  12. Access to Millions of Free Books Added to the Public Domain

    12 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  13. How hospital lobby derailed legislation against surprise hospital bills in CA

    12 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  14. Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America (2017)

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  15. Napier's Bones

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  16. Hundreds of homeless board a bus out of SF every year. What happens to them?

    12 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  17. Russian Land of Permafrost and Mammoths Is Thawing

    12 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  18. 8chan: Ex-users of far-right site flock to new homes across internet

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  19. Dallas airport passengers silently salute the return of a fallen hero

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  20. Bill Nye: US taking 'extraordinary steps in the wrong direction' on climate

    12 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  21. AWS Tokyo Region – Major Connectivity Issues

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  22. VMware Workstation and Hyper-V – Working Together

    12 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  23. Solid in Java: Liskov Substitution Principle

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  24. Blue teams, what has had the most impact protecting against cyber attacks?

    12 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  25. Ask HN: Recommendations for full-blown polyglot web IDEs

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  26. Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM 1401 mainframe: 80 seconds per hash

    12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  27. Can the West Learn from Social Media in China?

    12 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  28. Certified Mess

    12 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  29. Ask HN: What ONE book would you recommend?

    12 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  30. US military purchased $32.8m worth of electronics with known security risks

    12 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  31. Finding the Brain’s Compass

    12 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  32. Functional Programming? Don’t Even Bother, It’s a Silly Toy

    12 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  33. China Tries to Teach Trump Economics

    12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  34. The Difference Between Chef's Knives

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  35. Britain’s wartime generation are almost as pro-EU as millennials

    12 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  36. Distilling Bert Models with SpaCy

    12 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  37. Ask HN: What slows you down most when starting new programming projects?

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  38. Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure

    12 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  39. Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence?

    12 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  40. The pitfall of using PostgreSQL advisory locks with Go's DB connection pool

    12 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  41. Show HN: McDonalds' outlets in the US represented by Burger emojis

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  42. Huawei Interested in Fuschia OS

    12 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  43. Oculus Co-Founder Doesn't Believe in VR Gaming Anymore

    12 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  44. A new species of leech is discovered

    12 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  45. Degate – Open-Source Chip Reverse Engineering Tool

    12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  46. r/HongKong removed from trending subreddits

    12 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  47. How to lose customers: Remove a feature you thought they weren't using

    12 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  48. Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony commit to disclose drop rates for loot boxes

    12 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  49. Aston Martin Is Getting into the 'Evil Lair' Business

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  50. Habits of Highly Effective Programmers – Inspired by an Ex-Google TechLead

    12 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  51. Microsoft Icecaps

    12 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  52. Neural Networks from Scratch

    12 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  53. Kant and the Contraption: A Thought Experiment

    12 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  54. Firefox users now invisible to webmasters that use Google Analytics

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  55. David Koch, Industrialist Who Fueled Right-Wing Movement, Dies at 79

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  56. Vodka Was Made Using Contaminated Grain from Chernobyl

    12 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  57. A Toy Company Now Owns Death Row Records

    12 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  58. Edward Snowden: Permanent Record

    12 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  59. Ask HN: Have your weekends evolved into “workends”?

    12 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  60. We just got our 10th paid user!

    12 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  61. Why does deep and cheap learning work so well? (2017)

    12 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  62. Ask HN: Show your own blog/vlog

    12 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  63. Overstock CEO Takes Aim at ‘Deep State’ After Romance with Russian Agent

    12 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  64. Architect 6.0: Ruby, Python, CDNs, and CloudFormation

    12 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  65. Unwanted emails dump 28,397 tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere every day

    12 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  66. P++ FAQ

    12 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  67. North Carolina Sues 8 More Vape Companies for Allegedly Marketing to Kids

    12 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  68. The Life of a Person Who Wakes Up Early

    12 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  69. Vernemq: A distributed MQTT message broker based on Erlang/OTP

    12 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  70. I Took 9 Different Commercial DNA Tests and Got 6 Different Results

    12 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  71. Class Central's Top MOOCs

    12 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  72. Disentangling Propagation and Generation for Video Prediction

    12 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  73. Is Twitter Aiding India’s Quest to Silence Kashmiris?

    12 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  74. Bolsonaro rejects 'Captain Chainsaw' label; data shows deforestation 'exploded'

    12 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  75. How are Tesla’s solar roof tiles now?

    12 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  76. A First Look at Disney+

    12 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  77. The Secret History of 'Easter Eggs'

    12 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  78. The Way to the Sea

    12 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  79. Lovecraft on the Tabletop

    12 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  80. AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy

    12 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  81. Letter from a Region in My Mind (1962)

    12 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  82. Show HN: Free Automated QA Testing: AI Finds, Creates, & Repairs Your UI Tests

    12 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  83. BMW unveils “blackest black” car sprayed with Vantablack

    12 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  84. RISC-V Bases and Extensions Explained

    12 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  85. The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront

    12 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  86. Older adults can boost longevity 'with just a little exercise'

    12 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  87. The chemistry behind a giant soap bubble

    12 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  88. From Zero to React

    11 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  89. A Quest for the Holy Grail: On D. W. Pasulka’s “American Cosmic”

    11 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  90. Amiga C Tutorial

    11 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  91. The New York Times Company tanks 20% after saying ad revenue will decline next Q

    11 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  92. It's time to end “trending” on Twitter

    11 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  93. What's Wrong with Buying a Dinosaur?

    11 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  94. A complete guide to outsourcing software development in 2019

    11 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  95. The Amazon Is Not Earth’s Lungs

    11 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  96. Helm adds a link to a YouTube video on all charts

    11 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  97. Tesla Model S Explodes After Crash, Injures 3 People

    11 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  98. It's time to forcibly reform big tech

    11 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  99. Elizabeth Warren proposes a public option for the Internet

    11 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  100. I used “deep fakes” to fix the Lion King

    11 points • comment • aug 09, 2019