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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]

    182 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  2. Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech

    182 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  3. Civilizational Collapse, Part 4

    182 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  4. Updating our advertising policies on state media

    182 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  5. At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors

    182 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

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

    182 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  7. You've heard of “yes men”. Now learn about “no men” (2011)

    181 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  8. São Paulo’s Outdoor Advertising Ban (2016)

    181 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  9. On me, and the Media Lab

    180 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  10. Suicide Prevention Hotline Number Should Be 3 Digits, 988, Agency Says

    180 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  11. Why Does Infrastructure Cost So Much?

    179 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  12. Removing One Maine Dam 20 Years Ago Changed Everything

    179 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  13. The interviewer skills ladder for high growth companies

    179 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  14. Introduction to Svelte

    179 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  15. Computer Science Illustrated (2014)

    179 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  16. U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the Developing Brain

    179 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  17. Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch

    178 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  18. Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses

    178 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  19. Nonplanar Printing

    178 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  20. Launch HN: Quirk (YC S19) – Open-Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    178 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  21. DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M

    177 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  22. Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children

    177 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  23. Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On

    177 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  24. The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis

    177 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  25. How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models

    176 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  26. Hiring Is Broken?

    176 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  27. The Principia Discordia (1963)

    176 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  28. Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)

    176 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  29. I found an easter egg from 1977

    176 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  30. Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls

    175 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  31. 'It's crazy': Chase forgiving all debt owed by its Canada credit card customers

    175 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  32. Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon

    175 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  33. Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike

    175 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  34. Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks

    175 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  35. Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)

    175 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  36. What to do once you admit that decentralization never seems to work (2018)

    175 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  37. Dyson Tree

    175 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  38. Franky Zapata: Flyboarding Frenchman crosses English Channel

    174 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  39. Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of the Fact-Check (2018)

    174 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  40. Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data

    174 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  41. Cathay CEO lists self instead of giving names to CCP

    174 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  42. Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup

    173 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  43. Tumblr

    173 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  44. Show HN: Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS

    173 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  45. Dignity

    172 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  46. Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders

    172 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  47. Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath the waves (2016)

    172 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  48. Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘anti-competitive’

    172 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  49. Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics?

    172 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  50. Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends them through the mail

    172 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  51. Cisco is making it more difficult to use used hardware

    172 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  52. HarmonyOS is Huawei’s Android alternative for smartphones and smart home devices

    171 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  53. YouTube blocks recording of public domain Schubert/Liszt composition

    171 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  54. FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone

    171 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  55. China lets yuan break 7-per-dollar level for first time in over a decade

    170 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  56. CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study

    170 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  57. Bulk Data Structures C++

    170 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  58. Seattle's 'microtransit' experiment drives people to light rail

    169 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  59. A new AMP update shows how it can infiltrate every corner of the internet

    169 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  60. IBM Stops Buybacks to Pay for Red Hat

    169 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  61. Teen Hacker Finds Bugs in School Software That Exposed Millions of Records

    168 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  62. How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting

    168 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  63. Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Run 20 Times Faster

    168 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  64. More Fires Now Burning in Angola, Congo Than Amazon

    167 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  65. A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]

    167 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  66. Bill Gates Resume (1974)

    167 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  67. Peloton S-1

    167 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  68. Parallelism in PostgreSQL

    166 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  69. Show HN: TeXnique – A LaTeX Typesetting Game

    166 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  70. Show HN: Scarf – Platform to help open-source developers monetize their work

    166 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  71. Paternity Leave Was Crucial After the Birth of My Child

    166 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  72. Somehow I Became Respectable

    166 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  73. Machine Learning and Data Science Applications in Industry

    166 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  74. SpaceX Smallsat Rideshare Program

    166 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  75. HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts to shut out trolls

    166 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  76. I wanted to punish my daughter with a no-frills phone but it didn't go to plan

    166 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  77. Helsinki Central Library chosen as the best new public library

    166 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  78. Spacebook: AGI's near Real-Time satellite viewer

    166 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  79. House Prices Drop Again in San Francisco and Silicon Valley

    165 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  80. Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram, and Sometimes Even Tinder

    165 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  81. Mapped: The world’s coal power plants

    165 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  82. Norwegian F-35 Sending Sensitive Data Back to Lockheed Martin (2018)

    165 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  83. Basic Electron Framework Exploitation

    165 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  84. Why a mock doesn’t work

    164 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  85. Big O Notation – Using not-boring math to measure code’s efficiency

    164 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  86. Brazil has the power to save the Amazon rainforest, or destroy it

    164 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  87. Tech backlash has come to Stanford

    164 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  88. Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher carbon dioxide

    164 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  89. Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 10 years ago

    164 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  90. Escape rooms are big business

    164 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  91. I Took a Pay Cut for a More Meaningful Job

    163 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  92. Patterns on goods designed to trigger Automated License Plate Readers

    163 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  93. Dependent Haskell Is the Future (2018)

    163 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  94. Disassembling the Sony FE 135mm F/1.8 GM

    163 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  95. Social share buttons that don't allow the social sites to track your users

    163 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  96. The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013)

    163 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  97. Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group

    162 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  98. North American versus European distribution systems (2011)

    162 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  99. US Appeals Court Voids Google Cookie Privacy Settlement That Paid Users Nothing

    162 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  100. Off-Facebook Activity

    162 points • comment • aug 20, 2019