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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Mackenzie “Mac” Book

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  2. Use a Go Module Proxy

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  3. London Blackout Blamed on Drop in Wind and Natural-Gas Power

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  4. Employers Can’t Retrain the U.S. by Themselves

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  5. Government Taste Testers Who Reshaped America’s Diet

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  6. How to Be a Great Data Scientist

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  7. Hong Kong medical professionals join protests at several hospitals

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  8. A Scientist Must Go Where the Evidence Leads

    5 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  9. Combining two great companies: DoorDash to acquire Caviar

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  10. 1508: The Trial of the Autun Rats

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  11. The spy in your wallet: Credit cards have a privacy problem

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  12. Show HN: Is Yield Curve Inverted?

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  13. The strange and surprisingly intense world of Wii Sports speedrunners

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  14. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  15. Whole Foods CEO on plant-meat boom: Good for the environment not for your health

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  16. U.S. designates China as currency manipulator

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  17. The Corporatization of the Web Has Thinned Out Our Culture

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  18. Jeffrey Epstein takes own life instead of working with Justice system

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  19. Surrounded by Tragedy, Venezuelans Are Laughing Like Crazy

    5 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  20. Nutrition for Cancer Prevention

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  21. The Open-Source / Linux Highlights from OSTS 2019

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  22. Wind-down of stem-cell institute leaves a void

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  23. Programming Languages Ranked by Expressiveness

    5 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  24. Pacific islands will survive climate crisis because they 'pick our fruit'

    5 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  25. IndieWeb Link Sharing

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  26. How do smart people make smart decisions? (2017) [video]

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  27. Alzheimer’s test predicts onset up to 20 years in advance

    5 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  28. Akaunting: A web-based accounting system

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  29. DeepMind: Douglas Adams was right–knowledge without understanding is meaningless

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  30. Is it autism? The line is getting increasingly blurry

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  31. Automation in One Chart

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  32. CSS Units Explained

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  33. Scientists routinely cure brain disorders in mice but not humans

    5 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  34. A New Internet Is on the Horizon

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  35. Stephanie Kwolek, the woman who gave us bulletproof vests and yoga pants

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  36. End War or Mosquitoes?

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  37. A critique of pure learning and what ANNs can learn from animal brains

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  38. Fanta Was Created for Nazi Germany

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  39. Johnson and Johnson ordered to pay $572M for role in Oklahoma opioid crisis

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  40. The Flawed History of Graphical User Interfaces – Featured Stories – Medium

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  41. Microsoft catches Russian state hackers using IoT devices to breach networks

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  42. American Factory, the Netflix Documentary about US/China Working Culture

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  43. The Bomb I Took on 30 Flights

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  44. Study Suggests Link Between Air Pollution and Psychiatric Disorders

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  45. Show HN: Convert Data into Documents

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  46. Climate change likely to increase human exposure to toxic methylmercury

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  47. Alan Kay on “the single most amazing thing that computers have made possible?”

    5 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  48. Here’s the data the administration refused to give Congress

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  49. Accessibility and web performance are not features, they’re the baseline

    5 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  50. How to Deal with Incompetent People Who Lack Self-Awareness

    5 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  51. Engineered Heart-on-a-Chip Replicates Drug Responses Found in Adult Humans

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  52. What Is Haberman?

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  53. Job Hunting in Academia

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  54. Guide to the Python Print Function

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  55. Serverless Functions with WebAssembly Modules

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  56. Over 1M South Korean payment cards put up for sale on Dark Web

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  57. Open-Sourced Blueprints for Civilization

    5 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  58. For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  59. The Tricky Problem with Other Minds

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  60. Got: An alternative Git-compatible version control system

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  61. Show HN: Launching GoatCounter; or: let's try and make a living from Open Source

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  62. Was Email a Mistake?

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  63. Software Defined Network and the OpenFlow Protocol a Pratical Setup with Python

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  64. Employees Who Say vs. Employees Who Show

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  65. The sunk cost fallacy (2011)

    5 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  66. Life Is Too Short to RTFM (2014)

    5 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  67. Texas Startup Claims Biggest Advance in Electric Motor Designs in over 100 Years

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  68. Ask HN: What's your ideal social network?

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  69. Restaurants in India Getting Zinged by Delivery App Zomato

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  70. Show HN: Best Keyboard for Programming

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  71. Not Jordan Peterson

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  72. Clojure Is Simple (2017)

    5 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  73. Apples Hands Hackers Secret iPhones in a Bid to Boost Security, Sources Say

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  74. Using Google Translation API with Dotnet Core – Blog of Pi

    5 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  75. Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  76. BitPay blocks $ 100k Bitcoin donation to Amazon rainforest fire charity

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

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

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  78. Iran Owns the Persian Gulf Now

    5 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  79. Timeline to remove GCC 4.2.1 from FreeBSD

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  80. Google defends tracking cookies–some experts aren’t buying it

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  81. ActivityPub as it has been understood

    5 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  82. The lifecycle of Linux kernel testing

    5 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  83. A Tissue Sample from 1966 Held Traces of Early HIV

    5 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  84. Ray Tracing in One Weekend in Futhark

    5 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  85. Fulton Gap (Radius Valley)

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  86. Show HN: Basic Randomized Decision Forest (C++) that reaches 96.5% on MNIST

    5 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  87. I Backtested 17 Advanced and 15 Neural Net Trading Strategies with Top30 Coins

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  88. Windows Users Warned to Update Now as 'Complete Control' Hack Attack Confirmed

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  89. What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password lengths?

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  90. Google, Apple, Microsoft reportedly ignoring pleas to add rail crossings to maps

    5 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  91. Microplastics in water not harmful to humans, says WHO report

    5 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  92. The electric car revolution will require us to build better batteries

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  93. Username (and password) free login with security keys

    5 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  94. Wright loses big to Kleiman: judge rules Kleiman estate owns half Satoshi stash

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  95. Olric: Versatile Groupcache Alternative

    5 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  96. EFF and Mozilla Release Public Letter to Venmo

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  97. How I Wrote Shape Up

    5 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  98. Innocence lost: what did you do before the internet?

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  99. The Making of Neutron (C64 Game)

    5 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  100. Is 'social credit' coming to the US?

    5 points • comment • aug 28, 2019