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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Shipping logs show how quickly Arctic sea ice is melting

    4 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  2. The Iconic Image of the Global Warming Movement Is a Fraud

    4 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  3. Easy Filters – Beautiful image filters for your photos

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  4. How to Catch a Cat with TLA+

    4 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  5. Study finds US carriers aggressively throttle video streams

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

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

    4 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  7. Kentucky using 'shocking' boats to show just how bad its Asian carp problem is

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  8. Trump says Tim Cook made ‘good case’ that trade war helps Samsung over Apple

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  9. Plant-based diet can fight climate change

    4 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  10. Frameworks and Why (Clojure) Programmers Need Them

    4 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  11. Containerizing Apps with Jlink

    4 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  12. The mythical Dune board game, once lost to licensing hell, is coming back

    4 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  13. Next Up for Deepmind: Protein Folding

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  14. Slack Block Kit Builder

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  15. The Original Kindle Was Crazy

    4 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  16. Solar Delivers Far More Than Renewable Energy

    4 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  17. YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki: 'Where's the Line of Free Speech?'

    4 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  18. The Amazon Is on Fire and the Smoke Can Be Seen from Space

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  19. In Law Firms, 'Caste System' Persists Among Attorneys and Business Professionals

    4 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  20. PHP is the n***er of the programming world (2016)

    4 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  21. Mother of All Demos (1968)

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  22. Reddit adds live-streaming called RPAN

    4 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  23. Show HN: Research Lab Website Template

    4 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  24. Kotlin 1.3.50 Released

    4 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  25. The Crisis of American Loneliness

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  26. The decline and approaching demise of Christian Science

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  27. Goodbye, iTunes

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  28. Who’s to Blame When Algorithms Discriminate?

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  29. Why this 63-year-old teacher ditched the US to retire in the highlands of Panama

    3 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  30. Sampling Algorithms Every Data Scientist Needs to Know

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  31. Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy

    3 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  32. The Salton Sea is dying, threatening communities with clouds of toxic dust(2018)

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  33. How to Reduce Shootings (2017)

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  34. Extensible Extension Mechanisms

    3 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  35. Jordan Peterson speech synthesis using neural networks

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  36. Launch HN: Remote company culture book for the Slack generation

    3 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  37. We Found Archie Carter

    3 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  38. Trump, QAnon and an Impending Judgment Day: Behind the Rise of the Epoch Times

    3 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  39. What We Learned from Improving Diversity Rates at Pinterest

    3 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  40. Bounty Hunter Allegedly Conned Customer Data from Phone Giants with Suicide Hoax

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  41. Law and the Multiverse

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  42. Other cars are basically apps for Tesla systems via retrofit

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  43. When Elon Met Jack: Musings on AI, Mars and the End of Civilization

    3 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  44. Basic economics means Uber/Lyft can’t rely on driverless cars for profitability

    3 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  45. How to Listen to Classical Music: Motifs and Seeds [video]

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  46. Crytic: Continuous Assurance for Smart Contracts

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  47. Peter Thiel: “An Era of Stagnation and Universal Institutional Failure.”

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  48. Yes Silver Bullet

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  49. EV Price Parity Coming Soon, Claims VW Executive

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  50. NASA Mission Selects Final Four Site Candidates for Asteroid Sample Return

    3 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  51. VAIO’s tiny, port-heavy laptop is out now in the US

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  52. Gone – The California Sunday Magazine

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  53. Something Big Seems to Be Going Down Near Area 51 This Weekend

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  54. Atlassian stopped XML vulnerabilities from landing in production

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  55. Ask HN: Does Anyone Work at CERN?

    3 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  56. Biohacker Explains Why He Turned His Leg into a Hotspot

    3 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  57. WhatsApp vulnerabilities lets hackers take over conversations

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  58. The Strange Pain Hidden in Their Fantasy: Tolkien and CS Lewis

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  59. The JavaScript event loop illustrated

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  60. Scientists find huge world of hidden galaxies

    3 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  61. The Definitive Guide to Boosting Your Web Application Performance

    3 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  62. H-1B Secrecy Veil Torn Off as Trump Steps Up Targeting of Visas

    3 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  63. Builders Are Swapping Cement for Weed to Reduce Pollution

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  64. How to build an adjustable switching power supply using LM2576 [CC-CV]

    3 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  65. A heavyweight candidate for dark matter

    3 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  66. Cameroon's Lake Nyos Gas Burst: 30 Years Later

    3 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  67. Amazon to kill Dash button functions on August 31–you have a month to hack yours

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  68. The Myth of American Military Dominance

    3 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  69. Show HN: Compose tcpdump expressions using simple Pythonic syntax

    3 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  70. “Never Go on Reddit” by Neil Cicierega

    3 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  71. Show HN: Create an unbundled database with Crux and Confluent Kafka in 5 minutes

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  72. Best Business and Finance Books in 2019

    3 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  73. Show HN: Grateful Place, a community for growing resilience, peace, and joy

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  74. React v16.9.0 and the Roadmap Update – React Blog

    3 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  75. List of 235 apps incompatible with macOS Catalina 10.15 Raw

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  76. A simple terminal app for Google Authenticator

    3 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  77. Is it anything it is like to be a bat?

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  78. 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg says meeting Trump would be a waste

    3 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  79. Show HN: Birdcries, a pure-privacy tweet viewer

    3 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  80. Tape still medium of choice for high capacity storage

    3 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  81. HubHaus eviction underscores issues with corporate co-living

    3 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  82. Huawei Warns Trump: 'You Don't Want to Make Us Fight Google'

    3 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  83. Deduction Theorem: The Problematic Nature of Common Practice in Game Theory

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  84. I Wish I Could Tell You It’s Gotten Better. It Hasn’t

    3 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  85. Hitting the limits of APFS is both easy and confusing

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  86. Keyboard Acoustic Emanations Revisited (2005) [pdf]

    3 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  87. The Planet Needs a New Internet

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  88. Sweden's Klarna becomes biggest fintech firm in Europe

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  89. Neal Stephenson: “Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel” (Talks at Google)

    3 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  90. Epstein Suicide Conspiracies Show How Our Information System Is Poisoned

    3 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  91. Biochemists discover new insights into what go awry in brains Alzheimer's

    3 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  92. Julia Language: Multiple Dispatch vs. Function Overloading [video excerpt]

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  93. Intel reveals final details on Ice Lake mobile CPUs

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  94. 'Poop every other day' to protect the environment

    3 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  95. Trump, without evidence, accuses Google of 'illegal' action ahead of election

    3 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  96. HttpRepl: A command-line tool for interacting with RESTful HTTP services

    3 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  97. Plastic-Eating Bacteria That Can Break Down PET (2016)

    3 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  98. The state of advanced code injections

    3 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  99. Streets ahead – Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality

    3 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  100. Another study on the genetics of same-sex sexual behavior, with a lot of caveats

    3 points • comment • aug 30, 2019