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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company

    280 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  2. The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Algebra (1963)

    279 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  3. I quit my job today to make video games full time

    278 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  4. Rice University researchers propose a way to boost solar efficiency

    277 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  5. The Door Problem of Combat Design

    277 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  6. The Many Possibilities of iMessage File Vulnerability

    277 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  7. Health insurance companies are useless

    276 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  8. Lisp is not based on the Lambda Calculus

    275 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  9. Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading

    274 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  10. Secretly Public Domain: Most books published in the US before 1964

    274 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  11. Kubernetes Academy, a free product-agnostic education platform

    274 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  12. The design of littlefs: A fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers

    273 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  13. Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher

    273 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  14. Cooling a house without air conditioning

    272 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  15. Killing a process and all of its descendants

    270 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  16. What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and Elsevier

    270 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  17. The worst sales promotion in history: Hoover's free flight fiasco

    270 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  18. My Sudden Trip to Hell

    270 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  19. John Carmack on Parallel Implementations (2018)

    269 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  20. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

    269 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  21. Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome

    269 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  22. Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor

    267 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  23. Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder

    267 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  24. Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun

    266 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  25. A Year Ago I Put Saltwater in a Jar [video]

    266 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  26. Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web

    265 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  27. Syslog: Complete System Administrator Guide

    265 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  28. Why does all life use the same 20 amino acids?

    265 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  29. Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox

    264 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  30. Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging [pdf]

    264 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  31. Using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare Workers for free image hosting

    263 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  32. Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature

    263 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  33. Ask HN: What book to read to get a footing in CS theory?

    263 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  34. The GitHub registry public beta is live

    262 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  35. GNU Radio 3.8

    262 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  36. Rabbit Holes: The Secret to Technical Expertise

    261 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  37. Python rounds float values by converting them to string and then back

    261 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  38. Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn

    261 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  39. Minify Your SVGs

    261 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  40. Pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

    261 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  41. Memory Management in Python

    260 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  42. 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)

    260 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  43. U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss

    260 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  44. Big Pharma is using faux generics to keep drug prices high, critics say

    259 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  45. Now Bigger Than eBay, Shopify Sets Its Sights on Amazon

    257 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  46. A practical guide to CSS transitions and animations

    257 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  47. Opioid crisis: Johnson and Johnson hit by landmark ruling

    256 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  48. Singapore Says Musk's Electric Cars Are About 'Lifestyle,' Not Climate

    255 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  49. Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery

    255 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  50. Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?

    255 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  51. Yubico launches its dual USB-C and Lightning two-factor security key

    254 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  52. A Bloomberg reporter’s account of trying to get back his name and credit rating

    254 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  53. Let's Build a Video Card

    254 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  54. Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations

    254 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  55. Ask HN: What Neural Networks/Deep Learning Books Should I Read?

    253 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  56. Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation

    253 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  57. We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up (2015)

    253 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  58. Why doesn't mathematics collapse, though humans often make mistakes in proofs?

    253 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  59. Curl exercises

    252 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  60. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019

    252 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  61. Twitter locked my account for a nine year old tweet

    251 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  62. Pagemap: A mini map for your website

    250 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  63. Japan surpasses China as largest foreign holder of US Treasurys

    250 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  64. Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain

    250 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  65. Go Module Mirror and Checksum Database Launched

    250 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  66. Hackers ship their exploits directly to their target’s mailroom

    250 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  67. Google search takes 7 seconds on certain queries

    250 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  68. Metal shards from Boeing 787 taking off over Rome rain down on people below

    249 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  69. Spying on HTTPS

    249 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  70. Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature

    248 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  71. FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights

    248 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  72. The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America

    247 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  73. Alone in the Dark

    247 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  74. Kubernetes Security Assessment [pdf]

    246 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  75. Ask HN: How do you handle logging?

    246 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  76. Hacking the Sonos IKEA Symfonisk into a High Quality Speaker Amp

    246 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  77. Composing better emails

    246 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  78. Open-source firmware

    245 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  79. Norweigan oil fund

    245 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  80. High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism

    245 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  81. What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?

    245 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  82. A dream of an ultimate OS (1995)

    243 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  83. In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs

    243 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  84. Danish bank launches negative interest rate mortgage

    243 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  85. The “terrible” 3 cent MCU – a short survey of sub $0.10 microcontrollers

    243 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  86. Technical Vision for Qt 6

    242 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  87. Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video

    241 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  88. Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007

    241 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  89. “Culture fit” is a two way street (2018)

    241 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  90. Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your Git repos to GCP

    241 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  91. GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece of modern techno-insanity

    241 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  92. Transformers from Scratch

    241 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  93. Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change

    241 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  94. A bug I wish I hadn't caught

    240 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  95. Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again

    240 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  96. Monsanto Effort to Defund Cancer Researchers

    240 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  97. 8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now

    240 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  98. A Primer on Bézier Curves (2013)

    239 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  99. Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussions than MIPS

    239 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  100. Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More

    239 points • comment • aug 13, 2019