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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. New Harvard Research Says It's Time to Let Employees Work from Anywhere

    6 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  2. Moscow's blockchain voting system cracked a month before election

    6 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  3. Polsim – a case study for small-scale scientific computing in Rust

    6 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  4. Someone leaked 15 years' worth of data from London's shell-company factory

    6 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  5. Vintage Computer Festival West This Weekend

    6 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  6. Hacker Made Clothes That Can Confuse Automatic License Plate Readers

    6 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  7. Jobs at Google for Startups

    6 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  8. Understanding Einstein's paper on the Photoelectric Effect

    6 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  9. July confirmed as hottest month recorded

    6 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  10. Trade war could split the technology ‘stack’

    6 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  11. Roaring 20s Superhets

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  12. Who’s Afraid of Joe Rogan?

    6 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  13. What's Really Happening on Hong Kong

    6 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  14. The Nazi book of anatomy still used by surgeons

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  15. We’re Eating This Planet to Death

    6 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  16. How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Need?

    6 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  17. Why is the result of ('b'+'a'+ + 'a' +'a').toLowerCase() 'banana'?

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  18. Jeff Bezos Sells $2B of Amazon Stock After 4% Stake Transfer

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  19. Simple Good Code Design from Linux Source Code

    6 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  20. 13-Year-Old Encryption Bugs Still Haunt Apps and IoT

    6 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  21. Ask HN: Where do you find unknown knowledge?

    6 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  22. A Meteor Just Exploded on Jupiter, and a Photographer Caught It on Video

    6 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  23. Show HN: Include_bytes () with compile-time zip and runtime lazy unzip

    6 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  24. White House proposal would have FCC, FTC police alleged social media censorship

    6 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  25. print(4 // 0.4) == 9.0

    6 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  26. World health officials take a hard line on screen time for kids

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  27. GraalVM

    6 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  28. Don't Use These Free Speech Arguments Ever Again

    6 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  29. In 1973, an MIT computer predicted when civilization will end (2018 about 1973)

    6 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  30. YouTube Should Stop Recommending Video

    6 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  31. Just Enough Erlang

    6 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  32. DeOldify by citnaj passed off without attribution at CVPR by IIT Jodhpur student

    6 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  33. Junior high school kills scientific curiosity

    6 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  34. Report Blasts Palantir for ICE Work, Trump Ties

    6 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  35. How to Create JDBC Driver over Rest APIs

    6 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  36. Show HN: Use Julia Functions as PyTorch Operators

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  37. From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  38. Show HN: A GUI for OpenAI's GPT-2 774M model

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  39. How to build a climate-proof home that never floods

    5 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  40. The Visible Lisp Computer Runs on Adafruit ItsyBitsy M0 Board

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  41. Crash Course in Drawing Icons for Developers

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  42. One chip to rule them all: It natively runs all types of AI software

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  43. Uber’s $1-per-ride ‘safe rides fee’ had nothing to do with safety

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  44. Moscow Passenger Plane Makes 'Miraculous' Crash-Landing in Cornfield

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  45. In the Studio: Marie Bashkirtseff at the Académie Julian

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  46. Fan who threw 96 MPH at in-stadium radar booth signs contract with A's

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  47. Cloudflare again rejects ending support for 8chan after El Paso mass murder

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  48. We Need to Teach Silicon Valley to Be Ethical

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  49. Are the Kids Al(t)right?

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  50. Of Course Citizens Should Be Allowed to Kick Robots

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  51. Medical privacy is fucked by the payments model

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  52. FLOSS tools to create a forum or community

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  53. Elon Musk and Jack Ma Debate

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  54. Running Amok an Ancient Phenomenon That Oddly Relates to Mass Shooting?

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  55. Sarcasm is easy-as-pie, modern, blazingly fast JavaScript library

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  56. Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Programming

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  57. Show HN: Magic Spellbook” Raspberry Pi Kiosk for Total Home Control

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  58. Show HN: Husky for Slack – Increase cross team knowledge

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  59. Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher on AI

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  60. China nationalists hijack pro-Hong Kong protest T-shirt listings on Amazon

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  61. How will you be recruited as a Data Scientist?

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  62. How to Add If-Else Logic to SQL Queries

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  63. How one man is killing the Amazon

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  64. Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in 10 Programming Languages

    5 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  65. The Fleshly Frontier

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  66. San Francisco board rebrands 'convicted felon' as 'justice-involved person'

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  67. Cisco fined $8.6M for selling vulnerable surveillance technology

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  68. Acres of saltwater pools in the desert are growing an algae food revolution

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  69. GitHub Repo: Google Open-sources Live Transcribe’s Speech Engine

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  70. Why did IBM make the PC BIOS source code public?

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  71. Amazon's doorbell camera Ring working with police and controlling what they say

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  72. Create a facial recognition attendance app in React Native

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  73. Microsoft and Samsung partner to bridge Android and Windows closer together

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  74. An attempted heist at Coinbase was scary good, even though it failed

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  75. VMware All Set to Acquire Pivotal

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  76. Ask HN: What is broken with job hiring processes?

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  77. How I Met My Chinese Husband

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  78. Grace Hopper Celebration Drops Palantir as a Sponsor

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  79. Browsers, input events, and frame throttling

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  80. The dog is one of the world’s most destructive mammals. Brazil proves it

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  81. The harrowing story of the Nagasaki bombing mission

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  82. Icelandic Names

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  83. Apple to provide iPhones with ssh, root shell & debugger to security researchers

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  84. The Best VPN Service

    5 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  85. Cray Makes Ethernet Suited for HPC and AI with Slingshot

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  86. Ask HN: Why is decentralized internet more secure?

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  87. Explaining how React manages the DOM and state underneath the hood

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  88. Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  89. Earth's inner core is doing something weird

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  90. Brittany Kaiser’s Work with Cambridge Analytica Helped Elect Donald Trump

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  91. NASA Detects Planet-Killer Asteroid That Might Hit Earth Next Year

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  92. Galaxy Note 10+ to cost $1100

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  93. Protests Pop Up Across Russia

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  94. For $26,000, you can buy a home on Amazon complete with a kitchen and bath

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  95. Common Systems Programming Optimizations and Tricks

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  96. California is burning 26 times less than it did in 2018. Why?

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  97. Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  98. MIT CSAIL's Minerva video protocol reduces buffering and pixelation

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  99. The physics professor who says online extremists act like curdled milk

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  100. Seabirds that eat just a little plastic have major health problems

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2019