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Hacker News (Aug 2019)

  1. Math in Data Science

    146 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  2. Manufacturers want to quit China for Vietnam, but find it impossible

    145 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  3. SharpScript

    145 points • comment • aug 19, 2019

  4. The lat/lon floating point delusion

    145 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  5. The Shady World of Repair Manuals: Copyrighting for Planned Obsolescence (2012)

    145 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  6. Subsurface – An open source scuba dive logging platform

    145 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  7. FCC closes telemarketing loophole used by scammers

    145 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  8. Colombia fines Uber more than $629k for obstructing regulatory visit

    145 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  9. Don't forget randomness is still just a hypothesis (2006)

    145 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  10. Climate change: Marine heatwaves kill coral instantly

    144 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  11. How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years

    144 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  12. Why do we need modules at all? (2011)

    144 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  13. Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chinese city

    143 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  14. Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal

    143 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  15. The Rule of 2

    143 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  16. Facebook Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Transcribe Users’ Audio

    143 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  17. The Last Working Olivetti Mainframe Sits In a Tuscan High School

    143 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  18. The Gig Economy (2018)

    143 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  19. An 'Exosuit' That Boosts Endurance on the Trail

    143 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  20. Open Source Hardware Hearing Aid Part 1

    143 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  21. Wine-dark sea

    143 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  22. Understanding modern UEFI-based platform boot

    143 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  23. GNU Parallel 2018

    142 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  24. Show HN: I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News

    142 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  25. DEF CON and Stack Overflow: What Our Traffic Says About Cybersecurity

    142 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  26. Vector – Open-source Rust utility for logs, metrics and events

    141 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  27. N-Shot Learning: Learning More with Less Data

    141 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  28. Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein or Hilbert?

    141 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  29. Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?

    141 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  30. Show HN: I built a poker site with Haskell

    141 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  31. Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances

    141 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  32. Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome

    141 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  33. Dwindling CPAN Releases

    141 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  34. GitHub Outage Currently Ongoing – Issues, PRs, Notifications

    140 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  35. You May Be Better Off Picking Stocks at Random, Study Finds

    140 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  36. Launch HN: Tandem (YC S19) – A Virtual Office for Remote Teams

    140 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  37. A Commercial Path to Fusion

    140 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  38. Capital One Cyber Staff Raised Concerns Before Hack

    140 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  39. Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett (Intel)

    140 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  40. What Germans Are Reading

    140 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  41. Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV

    139 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  42. StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data

    139 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  43. Casting Glass from 3D Printed Molds

    139 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  44. Waymo’s Backseat Drivers: Confidential Data Reveals Self-Driving Taxi Hurdles

    139 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  45. The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most Nations

    139 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  46. A Molecular Near Miss

    139 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  47. US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In

    139 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  48. Goals and Rewards Redraw the Brain’s Map of the World

    139 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  49. America’s social-media addiction is getting worse

    139 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  50. Documentation – Your Secret Weapon

    139 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  51. FBI: Delivery drivers involved in Amazon theft ring

    138 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  52. What we get wrong about meetings, and how to make them worth attending

    138 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  53. Show HN: Retool Templates – Custom internal tools with drag-and-drop components

    138 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  54. JuliaCon 2019 Videos

    138 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  55. The electric car as a talisman of false hope

    138 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  56. How we built a P2P file sharing network from scratch

    138 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  57. Western officials say Chinese agents contact foreign citizens using LinkedIn

    138 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  58. Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, police and defence firms

    138 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  59. Columnist asked researchers what they could find out from just his cell number

    138 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  60. Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more

    138 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  61. Why Finland leads the world in flexible work

    137 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  62. Show HN: Personal Management System

    137 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  63. Supercomputers will start building a 3D map of the world

    137 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  64. Tiny Toy TOTP Generator in 18 Lines of Python

    137 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  65. Analyzing the Facebook ads placed by the US presidential candidates

    137 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  66. “Bicycle of the Mind”

    137 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  67. Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs

    137 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  68. Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950 (2010)

    137 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  69. Ring has partnered with 400 police forces

    137 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  70. How Facebook Tracks You on Android (2018) [video]

    137 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  71. MoviePass reportedly changed passwords to prevent users from seeing films

    136 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  72. 28Gbps Microstrip with Pepper Jack Cheese as Substrate (2016)

    136 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  73. Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the current record of 16 MB

    136 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  74. Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Camera

    136 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  75. Extreme climate change has arrived in America

    136 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  76. Chemists discover water microdroplets spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide

    136 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  77. Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System

    136 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  78. What Companies Are For

    136 points • comment • aug 24, 2019

  79. Root: CERN's scientific data analysis framework for C++

    136 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  80. AdoptOpenJDK: Open-source, prebuilt OpenJDK binaries

    135 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  81. A Deep Dive into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture

    135 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  82. Write Fuzzable Code

    135 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  83. Launch HN: Compound (YC S19) – helping employees understand equity compensation

    135 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  84. Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out

    135 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  85. KIP-500: Replace ZooKeeper with a Self-Managed Metadata Quorum

    135 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  86. Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News into China

    134 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  87. An Afternoon in Tokyo with the Man Who Designs Casio G-Shock Watches (2017)

    134 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  88. Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by silent Windows update

    134 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  89. Economist Raj Chetty has found a surprising tool to fight housing segregation

    134 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

  90. The subversive messages hidden in The Wizard of Oz

    134 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  91. Glymphatic system clears toxins in the brain during sleep (2013)

    134 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  92. GlobalFoundries sues TSMC, wants U.S. import ban on some products

    134 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  93. Wikipedia contributions from IP address 127.0.0.1

    134 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  94. Show HN: Real world (Jupyter notebook embed) way to assess data scientists

    133 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  95. Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)

    133 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  96. Racket for E-Commerce

    133 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  97. Static Analysis at Scale: An Instagram Story

    133 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  98. Security flaws caused by compiler optimizations

    133 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  99. Launch HN: Memfault (YC W19) – Crashlytics for Firmware

    133 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  100. Mosquitoes Changed Everything

    133 points • comment • aug 04, 2019