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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. How to Thwart Facial Recognition

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  2. Tech Companies Say It's Too Hard to Hire High-Skilled Immigrants in the U.S.

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  3. JMAP Specification

    10 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  4. Women Are Not Better at Multitasking. They Just Do More Work

    10 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  5. Ask HN: Thoughts on journalists blaming cloudflare for the el paso shooting?

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  6. How to Build Good Software

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  7. New Models Point to More Global Warming Than Expected

    10 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  8. Cultural Etiquette Around the World

    10 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  9. Seattle home prices lower than a year ago, for second month in a row

    10 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  10. Google bans political discussion on internal mailing lists

    10 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  11. The Anthropocene Is a Joke

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  12. Facebook's 'clear history' tool doesn't 'clear' anything

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  13. Why do synthetic chemicals seem more toxic than natural ones?

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  14. Perpetual Stew

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  15. Why Do Chinese People Like Their Government?

    10 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  16. My wife left me - thoughts on how financial success affects a relationship

    10 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  17. Apple sues Corellium, which lets users run iOS firmware in a web browser

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  18. Angering China Can Now Get You Fired

    10 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  19. From 30 to 230 docker container per host

    10 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  20. Bezos and Musk’s satellite internet could save Americans $30B a year

    10 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  21. Tradeoffs of Dependent Types

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  22. Google’s Call Screen is a new way to thwart telemarketers (2018)

    10 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  23. Lime and soda? No thanks, say non-drinkers

    10 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  24. Telltale Games is being revived

    10 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  25. Why Cloudflare shut down 8chan

    10 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  26. An 8-minute introduction to Kubernetes

    10 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  27. Authors of critical open source software you use everyday need help

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  28. Anyone interested in weekly interview problems and detailed solutions newsletter

    10 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  29. The War Against Immigrants: Trumps Tech Tools Powered By Palantir [pdf]

    10 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  30. Make XfCE 4 look like a SGI O2 workstation

    10 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  31. New Warning Issued over Google's Chrome Ad-Blocking Plans

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  32. World’s biggest chip created to meet demands of AI

    10 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  33. Turn your Tesla into a CIA-like counter-surveillance tool with this hack

    10 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  34. EFF: ICANN Expands Role with Speech Regulation

    10 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  35. Russian rocket engine explosion; radiation spikes

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  36. Windows Terminal Preview v0.3 Release

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  37. Why Everything They're Saying About the Amazon Is Wrong

    10 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  38. The ‘balance of nature’ is an enduring concept. But it’s wrong

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  39. From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how the prison economy works

    10 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  40. Inside Bill's Brain

    10 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  41. The Anthropocene Is a Joke

    10 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  42. VMware VSphere Goes Kubernetes Native

    10 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  43. YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki: 'Where's the Line of Free Speech... '

    10 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  44. Walmart slams Tesla with a lawsuit claiming solar panels caught fire at 7 stores

    10 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  45. Imperva Security Update

    10 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  46. Reporting on the State of the Climate in 2018

    10 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  47. FCC finally orders ISPs to say where they offer broadband

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  48. Sartre’s Bad Trip

    10 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  49. ''Al Jazeera'' Reports on Latvia's Rapid Deforestation. IKEA?

    10 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  50. Meritocracy Is Killing High-School Sports

    10 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  51. The Inevitable Crash Is Coming

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  52. GO2P, a simple but full configurable P2P framework

    10 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  53. We Built Collaborative Editing for Our Newsroom’s CMS. Here’s How

    10 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  54. UPS has been quietly delivering cargo using self-driving trucks

    10 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  55. US government warns of Iranian threats to commercial shipping

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  56. The Argument Against Quantum Computers by Gil Kalai [pdf]

    10 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  57. Bioinformatics.jl – Helper Functions for Bioinformatics

    10 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  58. Seattle-area provider becomes haven for online extremism after El Paso shooting

    10 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  59. China is reportedly using LinkedIn to recruit spies overseas

    10 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  60. How the NSA's Firmware Hacking Works and Why It's So Unsettling

    10 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  61. Trump administration reportedly wants to extend NSA phone surveillance program

    10 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  62. Google Chrome for Android Is Dropping Support for Android 4.1-4.3 Jelly Bean

    10 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  63. The Growing Partisan Divide in Views of Higher Education

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  64. Building an infinitely scalable cloud host for less than $5/mo

    9 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  65. Lyme Disease Is Baffling, Even to Experts

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  66. Why Working on Monoliths Is Bad for Your Career

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  67. Twitter's 2FA implementation is atrocious and dangerous

    9 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  68. Splunk Acquires Cloud Monitoring Leader SignalFx For $1.05B

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  69. Fifth Generation Computer

    9 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  70. The ISS Now Has Better Internet Than Most of Us After Its Latest Upgrade

    9 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  71. The Book of Soyga, Now Translated and Online (2015)

    9 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  72. Collaborative Data Journalism Guide

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  73. A Natural History of the Sign

    9 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  74. New long-term support version of Linux Mint desktop released

    9 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  75. A.I. Is Learning from Humans. Many Humans

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  76. Ask HN: Useful civil disobedience measures a developer can partake in?

    9 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  77. Barr says the US needs encryption backdoors to prevent “going dark.” Um, what?

    9 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  78. Ask HN: Should I learn C++ in 2019?

    9 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  79. Huawei Open Source Platform and the HarmonyOS OpenArkCompiler Project

    9 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  80. Hong Kong democrat says emergency legislation would be akin to martial law

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  81. Say Hello to Simple, Secure Login on iOS with the YubiKey 5Ci

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  82. What's Wrong with E=MC^2?

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  83. Google is facing another EU antitrust probe over its jobs search tool

    9 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  84. Show HN: Figma-like measurement tool on any web page (Chrome extension)

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  85. Who Killed Tumblr? We All Did

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  86. Meet the Macaronis

    9 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  87. Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild

    9 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  88. Darpa needs private tunnels in a hurry

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  89. A Magnetically-Actuated Untethered Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Milliswimmer [pdf]

    9 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  90. The end of capitalism has begun

    9 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  91. The Moralist (2016)

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  92. Can Britain’s Top Bookseller Save Barnes and Noble?

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  93. Tell HN: Hackerrank is the worst way to recruit

    9 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  94. A Horror Story for Programmers (2017)

    9 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  95. New Chinese chip for hybrid AI thousands times more efficient than GPU

    9 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  96. The Impact of Anti-Network Effects on Companies

    9 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  97. Ask HN: How do you test your Machine Learning models?

    9 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  98. Study Suggests Link Between Air Pollution and Psychiatric Disorders

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  99. Snap launches Spectacles 3 with dual HD cameras for 3D capture

    9 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  100. The Double Crossed Life of David Karr

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2019