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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Off-Facebook Activity

    162 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  2. North American versus European distribution systems (2011)

    162 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  3. U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act

    161 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  4. Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party

    161 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  5. No Son of Mine Is Going to Be a Benthamite

    161 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  6. Ted Chiang: Realist of a Larger Reality

    161 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  7. Alcohol Belts of Europe

    161 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  8. Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

    160 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  9. Static Type Checking in Common Lisp

    160 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  10. Running Lisp in Production (2015)

    160 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  11. The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines (2017)

    160 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  12. Ransomware-ing a DSLR Camera

    160 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  13. Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1

    160 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  14. Old Paris Is No More

    160 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  15. Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code

    160 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  16. The Browser Monopoly

    160 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  17. Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years

    160 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  18. N.Y.P.D. Adds Children as Young as 11 to Facial Recognition Database

    160 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  19. Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures with RabbitMQ

    159 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  20. P++ idea: FAQ

    159 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  21. O Oberlin, My Oberlin

    159 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  22. The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions

    159 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  23. Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years

    159 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  24. Standard JS: npm install funding

    159 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  25. Credit Karma glitch exposed users to other people’s accounts

    159 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  26. Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2

    158 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  27. Electric motor design claims remarkable improvements

    158 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  28. How to become a great impostor

    158 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  29. Kegan's Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness

    158 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  30. Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning

    158 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  31. Highlights from Git 2.23

    157 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  32. Crossword Panic of 1944

    157 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  33. Extended Validation Certificates Are Really Dead

    157 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  34. ‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list

    157 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  35. Small towns in much of the country are dependent on punitive fines and fees

    157 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  36. Datacenter Locations Driven by 19th Century Politics

    157 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  37. Interslavic Language

    156 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  38. Announcing Notqmail

    156 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  39. We Created a Planning Diary Making $160K in 6 Months

    156 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  40. Libspng – C library for reading and writing PNG files

    156 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  41. Court Rules That “Patent Troll” Is Opinion, Not Defamation

    156 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  42. Understanding SAT by Implementing a Simple SAT Solver in Python (2014)

    155 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  43. Theories of Error Back-Propagation in the Brain

    155 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  44. Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots into Bee Farms (2018)

    155 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  45. Harvard Student Says He Was Barred From U.S. Over Friends’ Social Media Posts

    155 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  46. China warns India of 'reverse sanctions' if Huawei is blocked

    155 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  47. GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up

    155 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  48. Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis

    154 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  49. Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem

    154 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  50. Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon

    154 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  51. Why the French love to say no

    154 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  52. Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets

    154 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  53. Why Does Developing on Kubernetes Suck?

    154 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  54. Germany in Uproar as Negative Rates Threaten Saving Obsession

    154 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  55. The Essential Tools of Scientific Machine Learning

    153 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  56. Website Builder Webflow (YC S13) Went from Near Bankruptcy to $72M Series A

    153 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  57. A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 4

    152 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  58. Filthy surgical instruments: a threat in America's operating rooms (2014)

    152 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  59. Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns

    152 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  60. How to Pay Programmers Less (2016)

    152 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  61. Swiss Post Suspends Drone Delivery Service After Second Crash

    152 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  62. Do-It-Yourself OpenJDK Garbage Collector

    151 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  63. Facebook uploads all system libraries on your Android

    151 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  64. J can look like APL or English

    151 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  65. Vibration-minimizing motion retargeting for robotic characters

    151 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  66. Exploring Mathematics with Matplotlib and Python

    151 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  67. Being basic as a virtue

    151 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  68. Living Off the Land in Linux

    151 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  69. Julia v1.2

    151 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  70. Julia's Release Process

    151 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  71. The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Speeding Up Traffic

    151 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  72. Analysis of the Nahid-1/Safir launch failure satellite image

    151 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  73. Food is free if you know where to look

    150 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  74. Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?

    150 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  75. If you must run Windows 10

    150 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  76. Patagonia's Philosopher King (2016)

    150 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  77. Using bacteria to make self-healing cement

    150 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  78. Getting Real About Distributed System Reliability (2012)

    149 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  79. 10 Years SeL4: Still the Best, Still Getting Better

    149 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  80. Better Encrypted Group Chat

    149 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  81. Photos taken by the EPA reveal America before pollution was regulated

    149 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  82. Finnair Flight 915

    148 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  83. Where will ‘garage orphans’ charge electric cars?

    148 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  84. Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf]

    148 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  85. Lorem Picsum, death by a million pixel-gigabits

    148 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  86. CTVT – A contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog

    148 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  87. Hong Kong Airport shuts down as protesters take over

    148 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  88. EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud

    148 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  89. Chicken Hypnotism

    148 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  90. History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of |

    148 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  91. TV detector van

    147 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  92. Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked

    147 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  93. AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is such a hit it almost outsold Intel’s entire CPU range

    147 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  94. In the beginning was the command line (1999) [pdf]

    146 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  95. Ceramics enter a new era with laser-welded joints

    146 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  96. Geocities Archive

    146 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  97. Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde

    146 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  98. Crispr now cuts and splices whole chromosomes

    146 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  99. When to Shut Down a Startup [video]

    146 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  100. Moravec's Paradox

    146 points • comment • aug 15, 2019