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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. 'Mythbusters' star dies while attempting land-speed record

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  2. Extreme water stress affects a quarter of the world's population, say experts

    9 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  3. Fuck me: iOS’ Notes app censors handwritten swears

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  4. Ask HN: What have you automated that saved you a ton of time?

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  5. Cut my job? Say goodbye to millions of dollars

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  6. How Can AMD EPYC “Rome” 7002 Series Be Even Better? Open-Source BIOS / Coreboot

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  7. U.S. military carried out secret cyberstrike on Iran

    9 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  8. Amazon.com defeats IRS appeal in U.S. tax dispute

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  9. Recession Is Coming - How it'll affect tech companies and jobs

    9 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  10. Carl Sagan's 1994 “Lost” Lecture: The Age of Exploration

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  11. A Photographer Caught the Moment a Meteor Exploded onto Jupiter on Video

    9 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  12. WireGuard and Torrent on Linux

    9 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  13. NASA Rejected Me 14 Times Before Making Me an Astronaut

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  14. Basic Virtual Machine Implementation in C99

    9 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  15. Google Starts Selling Its Titan Security Key in Canada, Japan, the UK and France

    9 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  16. Someone Is Suing Companies for Using SMS Messages in 2019

    9 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  17. De Aetatibus Mundi Imagines: The Illustrated Ages of the World (2008)

    9 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  18. Swatting Is a Deadly Problem–Here's the Solution

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  19. Show HN: SVG Wave Generator

    9 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  20. The Family Affair

    9 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  21. PINE64: It's time to start giving back

    9 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  22. Tardigrades Were Already on the Moon

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  23. Virtual desktops finally come to Chrome OS

    9 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  24. Backup Your Entire GitHub and This Is How to Do It

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  25. Xfce 4.14 released after 4 years of work

    9 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  26. $100 bill surpasses $1 bill in circulation for first time in U.S. history

    9 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  27. Google denies blacklisting under oath, despite leaked docs showing otherwise

    9 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  28. Setup your own cryptocurrency exchange in less than an hour

    9 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  29. GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories

    9 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  30. The Death of SKS PGP Keyservers, and How First Look Media Is Handling It

    9 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  31. Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+

    9 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  32. A long-term historical population model for Ireland

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  33. Easy monitoring (free, open source) without Nagios

    9 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  34. Criminals are racing to cash out their Bitcoin

    9 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  35. Giffard Dirigible

    9 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  36. The Sparta Fetish Is a Cultural Cancer

    9 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  37. Big Tech, a Conservative Provocateur and the Fight over Disinformation

    9 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  38. US border are increasingly denying entry to travelers over others’ social media

    9 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  39. Anti-censorship Chrome extension removed for custom minification

    9 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  40. American cities need to phase out cars

    9 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  41. Announcing Etcd 3.4.0

    8 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  42. New ‘warshipping’ technique gives hackers access to enterprise offices

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  43. Show HN: sqltop – Find the most resource consuming SQL Server queries

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  44. The Complex Case of Rui Pinto

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  45. Google's jobs search draws antitrust complaints from rivals

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  46. What should we know about AWS Security? (Part 2)

    8 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  47. Serena versus the Drones

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  48. Ask HN: What is the best way to find people looking for a role?

    8 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  49. How Big Far Right Social Network Gab Has Gotten

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  50. Ask HN: Do you like HN's karma system?

    8 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  51. Can Low Interest Rates Hold Off Recession? (With Richard Wolff)

    8 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  52. Iframes are just terrible. Here’s how they could be better

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  53. The End of Agile

    8 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  54. IFTTT Cautions Nest Users Not to Migrate Their Accounts to Google

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  55. Church Committee

    8 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  56. Underground Pumped Hydroelectric Storage: A Feasibility Study

    8 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  57. Microcracks undermined San Francisco's new bus terminal

    8 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  58. Ask HN: Solving climate change idea, and question, high speed train

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  59. Uber And Lyft Take A Lot More From Drivers Than They Say

    8 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  60. Modern microprocessor build from carbon nanotube transistors

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  61. A complete docker tutorial for beginners with handy cheatsheet

    8 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  62. Walter Bagehot: the revered Victorian who got almost everything wrong

    8 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  63. Show HN: Tool for WebSocket benchmarks with Millions of concurrent connections

    8 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  64. Canon DSLR Camera Infected with Ransomware over the Air

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  65. The Making of an Expert (2007)

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  66. Facebook Isn’t Ready for 2020

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  67. TypeScript types should be moved to DefinitelyTyped

    8 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  68. The Technical Side of the Capital One AWS Security Breach

    8 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  69. Seeking Big A.I. Advances, a Startup Turns to a Huge Computer Chip

    8 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  70. How to Get in the Flow

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  71. The Long Hot Summer of Grammar

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  72. Are Jobs Dead? – TEDx

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  73. “Regarding What’s Been Happening”- Ooblets Response to Epic Games Store Backlash

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  74. Recession fears grow as UK economy shrinks on back of Brexit chaos

    8 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  75. Exercise for High Blood Pressure

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  76. Closing of Pacific Standard and Topic Shows Perils of Depending on a Rich Patron

    8 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  77. Why so many popular YouTube videos are secretly infomercials

    8 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  78. Chrome to Deprecate FTP Support

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  79. Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: Good for the environment, but not for yo

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  80. The New Firmware Manager: Updating Firmware Across Linux Distros

    8 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  81. Satellite images analyzed by neural networks to determine solar power potential

    8 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  82. Julia: Come for the Syntax, Stay for the Speed

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  83. Making a Windows 2000 Notepad Clone in C [video]

    8 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  84. Show HN: Triton, a scaleable media center

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  85. 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors Set New Standard for the Modern Datacenter

    8 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  86. What happens when you open new installs of each browser for the first time

    8 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  87. Email alert about keywords in Hacker News

    8 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  88. Moving to Ghana to 'escape US racism'

    8 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  89. Bulgur (Cooking wheat like rice)

    8 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  90. CNCF Completes Kubernetes Cybersecurity Audit

    8 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  91. The Adults In The Room

    8 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  92. Elon Musk: “Anyone relying on Lidar is doomed.” Experts: Maybe not

    8 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  93. Why is Windows search still so bad in 2019?

    8 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  94. An Underwater Exploration Toolkit for Boats (2018)

    8 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  95. Ask HN: Are there any low-stress computer jobs out there?

    8 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  96. Selfie2Anime – Web Application to Turn You into Anime

    8 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  97. Facebook AI Memory Layer Boosts Network Capacity by a Billion Parameters

    8 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  98. The great electric car race is just beginning

    8 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  99. Mountains, Transcending

    8 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  100. People policing the internet's most horrific content

    8 points • comment • aug 19, 2019