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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. A Primer on Bézier Curves (2013)

    239 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  2. Amazon wants to control third-party sellers’ product pricing

    238 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  3. The WeWork IPO

    238 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  4. CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978

    237 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  5. A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]

    237 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  6. Unusual, evidence-based ways to get better at a new language

    236 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  7. Why Clojure?

    236 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  8. Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels

    236 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  9. It’s worth spending weeks on research before wasting years on a hopeless project

    236 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  10. Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Black at Google’

    235 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  11. What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge Analytica

    234 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  12. PartiQL: One query language for all your data

    234 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  13. WiringPi – deprecated

    233 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  14. Building ages in the Netherlands

    233 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  15. GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addressed VM instances

    233 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  16. How to Start with Machine Learning

    233 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  17. Thank you, Chris

    232 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  18. The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction

    232 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  19. YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims

    232 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  20. Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips

    232 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  21. Cybersecurity Pros Name Their Price as Hacker Attacks Swell

    231 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  22. GCC null pointer check removed

    231 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  23. China’s assault on Cathay Pacific

    230 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  24. The Cloud

    230 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  25. Emacs 26.3

    230 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  26. Focus on the high-expectation customer

    229 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  27. Websites have been quietly hacking iPhones for years, says Google

    229 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  28. My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory

    229 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  29. Artichoke – A Ruby made with Rust

    228 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  30. Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?

    228 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  31. Apollo Guidance Computer switching power supply works after 50 years

    228 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  32. Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

    228 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  33. In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels

    227 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  34. Black Hat Talk About ‘Time AI’ Causes Uproar, Is Deleted by Conference

    227 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  35. Poetry: Dependency Management for Python

    227 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  36. Why I like Clojure

    227 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  37. New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity (2016)

    227 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  38. The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look

    226 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  39. Starbucks, monetary superpower

    226 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  40. Show HN: Zero-Config Documentation Websites for Python

    224 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  41. Monads as a Programming Pattern

    224 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  42. Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services exporters at all-time high

    224 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  43. Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow?

    224 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  44. Credit cards have a privacy problem

    223 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  45. Cerebras Systems unveils a 1.2T transistor chip for AI

    223 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  46. Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per acre

    223 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  47. We shouldn’t take peer review as the ‘gold standard’

    223 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  48. Man and man's best friend have both been experiencing declines in sperm quality

    223 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  49. Show HN: Lunch Money, a personal budgeting tool with multi-currency support

    222 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  50. Using TypeScript with React

    222 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  51. FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon

    221 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  52. Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters

    221 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  53. Fasting Cure Is No Fad

    221 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  54. The wisdom of never leaving your hotel room

    220 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  55. Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn

    220 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  56. XLOOKUP for Excel

    219 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  57. Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its own silicon at scale

    219 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  58. Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Women in Viral Memo

    219 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  59. The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security

    219 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  60. Racket: Lisp for Learning

    218 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  61. Software architects should be involved in earliest system engineering activities

    218 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  62. Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics

    218 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  63. Show HN: Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

    218 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  64. Launch HN: SannTek (YC S19) – Breathalyzer for Cannabis

    217 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  65. Lumen: An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly

    217 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  66. Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops to Investigate Their Own Customers

    215 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  67. Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymous threats

    214 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  68. She Wanted a Man with a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals

    214 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  69. BMW unveils car sprayed with Vantablack

    214 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  70. Chandrayaan-2 Update: Lunar Orbit Insertion

    213 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  71. Levenshtein Distance

    213 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  72. Show HN: A clean and minimalist theme for Jekyll

    213 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  73. 150 Meter SpaceX Starhopper Test [video]

    212 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  74. Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negative Yields

    212 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  75. Punpedia – The Online Encyclopedia of Puns

    211 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  76. Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer

    211 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  77. China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter (2017)

    211 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  78. Creeping normality

    210 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  79. Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine

    210 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  80. NASA said to be investigating first allegation of a crime in space

    210 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  81. Stand Out as a Speaker

    210 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  82. Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity

    210 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  83. Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B

    209 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  84. What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space

    209 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  85. Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns

    209 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  86. Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic

    209 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  87. The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure

    209 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  88. How to get 30k Hacker News visitors to your website

    208 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  89. Experimental USAF space plane breaks record for orbital spaceflight

    208 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  90. America’s elderly seem more screen-obsessed than the young

    207 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  91. Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing

    207 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  92. AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1

    207 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  93. Seashells – Pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real time

    207 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  94. Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn?

    207 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  95. A World Without Power (2013)

    206 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  96. Burnout is real – how to avoid it

    206 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  97. Swap, swap, swap, and bad places to work

    206 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  98. Open Startups List

    206 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  99. The Tragedy of UCS-2

    206 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  100. WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn

    206 points • comment • aug 14, 2019