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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. A World Without Power (2013)

    206 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  2. Open Startups List

    206 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  3. A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017)

    206 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  4. Interviews with programming language creators (2010) [pdf]

    205 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  5. Making containers safer

    205 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  6. Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens

    205 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  7. Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks

    205 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  8. Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online?

    204 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  9. ‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the Town Bully

    204 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  10. Flutter looks good, but is painful

    203 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  11. Hedonometer

    203 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  12. Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code

    203 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  13. Twelve LaTeX packages to get your paper accepted (2017)

    203 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  14. Google Warns Developers That All New Android Apps Require 3 Days for Approval

    202 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  15. GitHub Supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for Security Keys

    202 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  16. Crispr pioneer among University of California researchers boycotting Elsevier

    202 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  17. What I Do as a DevOps Consultant

    201 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  18. How Does Esperanto Sound?

    201 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  19. The Case Against Octopus Farming

    201 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  20. Acute Effects of Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Inhalation on Vascular Function

    200 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  21. I Visited 49 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me

    200 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  22. Things to Know About GNU Readline

    200 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  23. Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers

    200 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  24. Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video [video]

    199 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  25. A Readable Specification of TLS 1.3

    199 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  26. How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be

    199 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  27. Rust GUI ecosystem overview

    199 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  28. Ruffle – An Adobe Flash Player Written in Rust Compiled to WebAssembly

    199 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  29. Unison File Synchronizer

    199 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  30. Ultra marathon runner earns awards for both first place woman and overall winner

    198 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  31. Michael Cicconetti

    198 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  32. Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech

    198 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  33. A Primer on Shooting in Manual Mode: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO [video]

    198 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  34. Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter

    198 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  35. NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded

    198 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  36. What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco

    197 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  37. Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers

    197 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  38. What Makes a Good Conversation?

    197 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  39. Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year

    197 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  40. Typed Properties in PHP 7.4

    197 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  41. Recognizing the signs of disruption in our urban habitat

    197 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  42. Why we're saying no to Google

    196 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  43. Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, and FCC Bullying

    196 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  44. OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too

    196 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  45. Sunsetting Hire

    196 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  46. MoviePass database exposes 161M records

    196 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  47. Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery

    196 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  48. How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the computers of the day [video]

    196 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  49. Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do

    196 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  50. Netflix “13 Reasons Why” linked to 29% increase in teen suicides 1 month later

    195 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  51. California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up

    195 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  52. How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness

    195 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  53. Facebook emails show internal concerns being raised about Cambridge Analytica

    195 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  54. The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925

    195 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  55. Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account

    195 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  56. Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study

    194 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  57. Software Engineering Grads Lack the Skills Startups Need

    194 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  58. A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption

    193 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  59. AMD EPYC processors come to Google, and to Google Cloud

    193 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  60. How do black holes destroy information and why is that a problem?

    193 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  61. Microsoft Is Killing ePub Support in Edge Classic

    192 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  62. Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades

    192 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  63. Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored by Chinese students'

    192 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  64. JavaScript: The Modern Parts

    192 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  65. Waypipe: GSoC Project Complete

    192 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  66. YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations

    191 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  67. Why did Turbo Pascal apps fail with a division-by-zero on faster systems?

    191 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  68. One of the greatest science fiction magazines is now available online (2017)

    190 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  69. On-disk format robustness requirements for new filesystems

    190 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  70. Bad Times in Tech? Not If You’re a Startup Serving Other Startups

    190 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  71. Apple contractors listened to 1k Siri recordings per shift: former employee

    189 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  72. Boeing's Crashes Expose Systemic Failings

    189 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  73. From 30 to 230 Docker containers per host

    189 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  74. Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix

    188 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  75. Douglas Adams was right–knowledge without understanding is meaningless

    188 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  76. Practical Tips for Facelifting a Tech Resume

    188 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  77. Intel and Rust: The Future of Systems Programming [video]

    187 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  78. The physical Apple Card is a case of form over function

    187 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  79. Where do interrupts happen?

    187 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  80. Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

    187 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  81. Big Money Starts to Dump Stocks That Pose Climate Risks

    187 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  82. China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters

    187 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  83. Giving up on Julia (2016)

    186 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  84. Ask HN: Configuration Management for Personal Computer?

    186 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  85. A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises

    185 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  86. Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don't Talk about It

    185 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  87. Oracle directors give blessing to shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison

    185 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  88. Possible detection of a black hole with a mass that was thought to be impossible

    185 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  89. What’s the difference between statistics and machine learning?

    184 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  90. HTTP/2 Denial of Service Advisory

    184 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  91. Keeping Tesla Roadsters Alive Is Serious Work

    184 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  92. PacVim – PacVim is a game that teaches you vim commands

    184 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  93. Home 3D metal printing: first results

    184 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  94. Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing

    183 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  95. Show HN: StoryTime – Create stories about your code instead of documentation

    183 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  96. Xfce 4.14 released

    183 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  97. A Buddhist monk confronts Japan's suicide culture (2013)

    182 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  98. Show HN: I wrote a book on Python regular expressions

    182 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  99. Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]

    182 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  100. A parrot has a question for humans

    182 points • comment • aug 19, 2019