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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Congress asks 8chan’s owner to testify following recent mass shootings

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  2. Pingtung plant shelter: the 'Noah's Ark' of our age

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  3. Trump reportedly held call with bank CEOs as the stock market plunged

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  4. Apple apologizes for listening to Siri recordings, promises changes

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  5. Google Maps AR Walking Directions Arrive on iOS and Android

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  6. Microsoft wants to bring exFAT to the Linux kernel

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  7. Building a better trivia game with a Jeopardy master and Magic’s creator

    4 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  8. Cisco pays $8.6M for selling surveillance system it knew was vulnerable

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  9. Advantage Flywheels

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  10. Why people keep falling for viral hoaxes

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  11. Ask HN: Programmer abroad, how can I help fight climate change?

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  12. Show HN: Integrate and Automate Your Apps with Easy to Customize Bots

    4 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  13. Google employees ‘refuse to be complicit’ in border agency cloud contract

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  14. Japanese researchers build robotic tail

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  15. Vespa – BM25 Rank Feature, Searchable Parent References, Tensor Summary Features

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  16. Ask HN: What software do you pay for personally?

    4 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  17. I’m a Black Feminist. I Think Call-Out Culture Is Toxic

    4 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  18. Apple’s AirDrop and password sharing features can leak iPhone numbers

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  19. Fix Bugs as Soon as You Find Them

    4 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  20. How Facebook failed to break into hardware: The untold story of Building 8

    4 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  21. A 19th-Century Catfishing Scheme

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  22. A Review of Google's Colab and CoCalc for Collaborative Data Science

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  23. Apple Is Giving Out Hacker-Friendly iPhones, Plots Mac Bug Bounty

    4 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  24. White women were colonisers too. We have to stop letting them off the hook

    4 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  25. Beto O'Rourke Joins the Silly Parade of Confused Politicians Looking to Destroy

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  26. Computer for Apollo Program Used Rope Memory Woven by Little Old Ladies (2012)

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  27. Man dies after competing in California taco-eating contest

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  28. What Albert Einstein Owes to David Hume’s Notion of Time

    4 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  29. “This is “how I tricked my co-workers” into using Racket.”

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  30. Why Software Is Not Like Soybeans

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  31. The Insider’s Choice: Is psychological science headed for a split?

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  32. Automatically Indexing Millions of Databases in Microsoft Azure SQL Database

    4 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  33. Physicists now have even better models for blood spatter from gunshot wounds

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  34. The final test to become a Shaolin Master [video]

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  35. Navy Reverting Destroyers to Physical Throttles, Rejecting Touchscreen Controls

    4 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  36. Drawbacks of Functional Programming – Plus Reasons to Use It

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  37. Royal Dutch Shell, Amazon, Postmates, and the Rise of the Ventriloquist Employer

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  38. Engineering Roles Defined

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  39. Reducing the metabolic rate of walking and running with a portable exosuit

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  40. We need more data centers in Africa

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  41. Show HN: The worst voicemail transcription ever

    4 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  42. GameStop Lays Off 120

    4 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  43. Liquid Ass – How Two Guys Got Rich by Making Things Smell Like Crap

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  44. I got fired from Facebook for having a YouTube channel

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  45. Praeco – FOSS Alerting GUI for Elasticsearch

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  46. Transacting $10k or more in cash could make you a criminal under proposed law

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  47. Show HN: k3sup 0.2.4 (ketchup) – get KUBECONFIG in

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  48. Formal Reasoning About Programs

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  49. A trend toward softness, by Bill Gates (1984)

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  50. Pete Buttigieg, Silicon Valley and Socialist Construction

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  51. How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  52. Istio v1.2.3 Released

    4 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  53. Cancer researcher becomes first woman to win 4,000km cycling race

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  54. I summarized all 150 Paul Graham essays into 3 blog posts (1/3)

    4 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  55. Color Illusion

    4 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  56. Raising Venture Capital Guide

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  57. Innocence lost: What did you do before the internet?

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  58. Using Satellite TV to Send Any Digital Content Anywhere Encoded in Video Stream

    4 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  59. Disney+ Will Release Episodes Weekly, Saying No to 'Binge' Release

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  60. Amazon creating a for-profit national surveilance system

    4 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  61. More Russian Nuclear Monitoring Stations Went Silent Days After Blast

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  62. A protein in your brain behaves like a virus, infecting your cells with memories

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  63. California Supreme Court Blocks Sweeping Search of Minors’ Electronic Devices

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  64. Sonic Black Holes

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  65. Usage statistics of HTTP/2 for websites

    4 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  66. Gophercon 2019 Videos

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  67. LibreOffice emits 6.3 with new features, loading and UI boosts

    4 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  68. The Vegetarians Who Turned into Butchers

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  69. Supporting Open Source Maintainers

    4 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  70. Free Speech Matters, Even When It’s Not Protected by the First Amendment

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  71. Armageddon Computer?

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  72. Show HN: Flat Color Generator

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  73. Snopes: Enough Is Enough

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  74. Google: Proposal for Giving users more transparency, choice and control [pdf]

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  75. Starbucks vs. Dunkin': How Capitalism Gives the Illusion of Choice

    4 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  76. Literature and Economics

    4 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  77. Hacker Claims He Can ‘Turn Off 25,000 Cars’ at the Push of a Button

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  78. Let's Build a Simple Interpreter

    4 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  79. Peter Shor (inventor of quantum factoring) et al. answer questions from public

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  80. Most people would rather lose their job to a robot than another human

    4 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  81. View Hacker News top stories for the last week/month/year (via Algolia search)

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  82. Twitter 2FA: removing phone number disables all 2FA methods

    4 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  83. What Is a Pure Function?

    4 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  84. ICE Revealed How Much Its New Contract with Peter Thiel’s Palantir Is Worth

    4 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  85. SaaS Sales with User Onboarding

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  86. Plastic water bottles banned from SFO

    4 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  87. Reclassifying Semi-Automatic Rifles Under the National Firearms Act

    4 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  88. What RuneScape Taught Me About Social Media

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  89. US intelligence: Russia was recovering missile from the sea when it exploded

    4 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  90. Xkcd #2187: Geologic Time

    4 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  91. Ask HN: How do I learn how/what to invest?

    4 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  92. Everything you thought you knew about gravity is wrong

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  93. Non-Blocking Lazy Schema Changes in Multi-Version Database Management Systems [pdf]

    4 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  94. The slower Gulf Stream is raising sea levels and causing a hotter Florida

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  95. Taiwan can win a war with China (2018)

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  96. What3words: The app that can save your life

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  97. What Is a Blockchain Explorer and How to Use It

    4 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  98. Twitter users are escaping online hate by switching profiles to Germany

    4 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  99. Node v12.8.1 (Current)

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  100. Redditor Finds First Edition Copy of the Fellowship of the Ring in a Doritos Box

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2019