The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2016

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“It's The Future” circleci.com · knowbody · 17 Aug 2016

1.3k pts 521 comments

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The Dropbox hack is real troyhunt.com · joshschreuder · 31 Aug 2016

1.3k pts 539 comments

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Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup medium.com · davidkhess · 29 Aug 2016

1.3k pts 558 comments

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Why we lost Uber as a user postgresql.org · areski · 1 Aug 2016

1.2k pts 285 comments

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PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux azure.microsoft.com · platz · 18 Aug 2016

1.2k pts 760 comments

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Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay nytimes.com · OhHeyItsE · 2 Aug 2016

1.2k pts 760 comments

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Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star eso.org · Thorondor · 24 Aug 2016

1.2k pts 427 comments

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NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender citizenlab.org · dropalltables · 25 Aug 2016

1.1k pts 242 comments

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Show HN: Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration mewo2.com · mewo2 · 10 Aug 2016

1k pts 64 comments

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Indie Hackers: Learn how developers are making money indiehackers.com · csallen · 11 Aug 2016

971 pts 184 comments

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Japanese writing system basics candyjapan.com · bemmu · 20 Aug 2016

961 pts 338 comments

12

Zero-cost futures in Rust aturon.github.io · steveklabnik · 11 Aug 2016

930 pts 337 comments

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Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons washingtonpost.com · okket · 18 Aug 2016

859 pts 358 comments

14

Web Scraping in 2016 franciskim.co · franciskim · 23 Aug 2016

852 pts 387 comments

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This JPEG is also a webpage lcamtuf.coredump.cx · cocoflunchy · 10 Aug 2016

833 pts 226 comments

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The Cuban CDN blog.cloudflare.com · shdon · 19 Aug 2016

832 pts 136 comments

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Seymour Papert has died media.mit.edu · j4mie · 1 Aug 2016

820 pts 137 comments

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Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard code.facebook.com · jamesgpearce · 31 Aug 2016

819 pts 156 comments

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Nasa just made all its research available online for free independent.co.uk · signa11 · 20 Aug 2016

776 pts 49 comments

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What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? mcmansionhell.tumblr.com · jseliger · 14 Aug 2016

758 pts 519 comments

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How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015) syntheti.cc · pvsukale3 · 29 Aug 2016

751 pts 340 comments

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Page Dewarping mzucker.github.io · pietrofmaggi · 18 Aug 2016

743 pts 70 comments

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Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large megaprocessor.com · diymaker · 19 Aug 2016

731 pts 88 comments

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Machine Learning and Ketosis github.com · ddv · 12 Aug 2016

706 pts 295 comments

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Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs lkml.org · demiol · 16 Aug 2016

701 pts 127 comments

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Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail cpbotha.net · cpbotha · 8 Aug 2016

649 pts 365 comments

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Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use? jdmoreira · 13 Aug 2016

648 pts 299 comments

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Hello from Orkut orkut.com · shardul111 · 5 Aug 2016

643 pts 323 comments

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Show HN: Carbide – A New Programming Environment alpha.trycarbide.com · antimatter15 · 24 Aug 2016

628 pts 136 comments

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What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone medium.com · walterbell · 3 Aug 2016

625 pts 212 comments

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“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012) harmful.cat-v.org · behnamoh · 22 Aug 2016

624 pts 552 comments

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Optimism github.com · finnigja · 16 Aug 2016

617 pts 160 comments

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Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam medium.com · davezatch · 22 Aug 2016

615 pts 240 comments

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Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss codewithoutrules.com · itamarst · 19 Aug 2016

605 pts 296 comments

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Everyone is quitting sites.google.com · po1nter · 10 Aug 2016

599 pts 327 comments

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Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service wsj.com · coloneltcb · 30 Aug 2016

596 pts 461 comments

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The Myth of RAM (2014) ilikebigbits.com · ddlatham · 29 Aug 2016

593 pts 277 comments

38

Writing Less Code heydonworks.com · fiatjaf · 17 Aug 2016

583 pts 200 comments

39

What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists aeon.co · tbrownaw · 11 Aug 2016

563 pts 318 comments

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Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets academictorrents.com · iamjeff · 29 Aug 2016

552 pts 95 comments

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Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe juliareda.eu · jrepin · 30 Aug 2016

547 pts 174 comments

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Go 1.7 is released blog.golang.org · techietim · 15 Aug 2016

545 pts 133 comments

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Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby blog.codeship.com · yranadive · 4 Aug 2016

544 pts 429 comments

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“How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?” whatsapp.com · SnaKeZ · 25 Aug 2016

539 pts 308 comments

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“I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body” backchannel.com · warp · 8 Aug 2016

536 pts 211 comments

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016) whoishiring · 1 Aug 2016

534 pts 941 comments

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Grokking Deep Learning iamtrask.github.io · williamtrask · 18 Aug 2016

530 pts 112 comments

48

Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958) tranquilmonkey.com · zeeshanm · 29 Aug 2016

525 pts 257 comments

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What Great Listeners Actually Do hbr.org · wallflower · 17 Aug 2016

521 pts 198 comments

50

Machine Learning Exercises in Python, Part 1 johnwittenauer.net · jdwittenauer · 12 Aug 2016

520 pts 62 comments

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Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS prototypefund.de · haraball · 1 Aug 2016

512 pts 150 comments

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Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git medium.com · ahl · 2 Aug 2016

508 pts 167 comments

53

A few HTML tips hacks.mozilla.org · nachtigall · 24 Aug 2016

501 pts 174 comments

54

Fighting Cancer hintjens.com · egorst · 22 Aug 2016

497 pts 148 comments

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I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation hackernoon.com · signa11 · 9 Aug 2016

494 pts 307 comments

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Docker not ready for primetime blog.goodstuff.im · erlend_sh · 28 Aug 2016

490 pts 281 comments

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Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum okigiveup.net · keso · 8 Aug 2016

483 pts 380 comments

58

How to listen when you disagree urbanconfessional.org · taheris · 4 Aug 2016

483 pts 180 comments

59

This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley medium.com · jaytaylor · 16 Aug 2016

480 pts 173 comments

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Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers theverge.com · doener · 7 Aug 2016

479 pts 437 comments