The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2017
We track 1,153 stories from August 2017, averaging 236 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 63 stories. Together they drew 147,822 comments, 128 per story on average.
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Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
RBBronson123 · 2 Aug 2017
1.9k pts
506 comments
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Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
bloomberg.com · _vvdf · 8 Aug 2017
1.7k pts
2.4k comments
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3
A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it
imgur.com · wyldfire · 30 Aug 2017
1.5k pts
296 comments
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4
Ad blocking is under attack
blog.adguard.com · tiagobraw · 11 Aug 2017
1.1k pts
559 comments
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Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
blog.ycombinator.com · cbcowans · 15 Aug 2017
1.1k pts
1.5k comments
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6
Criticizing Google got me fired
washingtonpost.com · pyrophane · 31 Aug 2017
1k pts
440 comments
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Explaining React's license
code.facebook.com · y4m4b4 · 19 Aug 2017
978 pts
595 comments
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I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
petapixel.com · _vvdf · 11 Aug 2017
937 pts
428 comments
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9
Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
blog.cloudflare.com · SamWhited · 16 Aug 2017
857 pts
1.5k comments
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10
“Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course on Coursera
nytimes.com · hvo · 24 Aug 2017
848 pts
183 comments
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Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine
howacarworks.com · AlexMuir · 15 Aug 2017
845 pts
188 comments
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12
Feather: Open-source icons
feathericons.com · mcone · 24 Aug 2017
844 pts
140 comments
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13
Essential Phone, available now
essential.com · Garbage · 17 Aug 2017
818 pts
672 comments
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14
Headless mode in Firefox
developer.mozilla.org · Vinnl · 30 Aug 2017
817 pts
182 comments
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15
Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash?
isthestockmarketgoingtocrash.com · truffle_pig · 7 Aug 2017
813 pts
325 comments
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16
Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant
nytimes.com · runesoerensen · 30 Aug 2017
793 pts
448 comments
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I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity
medium.com · 317070 · 14 Aug 2017
791 pts
420 comments
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18
U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data
reuters.com · techrush · 14 Aug 2017
779 pts
288 comments
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uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
discourse.mozilla.org · nachtigall · 9 Aug 2017
776 pts
324 comments
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21
Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
washingtonpost.com · fmihaila · 4 Aug 2017
752 pts
587 comments
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22
Exa, a modern replacement for ls
the.exa.website · r0muald · 3 Aug 2017
740 pts
403 comments
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23
Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode
blog.ptsecurity.com · Severian · 28 Aug 2017
734 pts
218 comments
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Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content
thewaltdisneycompany.com · anigbrowl · 8 Aug 2017
730 pts
764 comments
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26
App sizes are out of control
trevore.com · trevor-e · 1 Aug 2017
729 pts
442 comments
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27
Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing
defaultnamehere.tumblr.com · adamch · 3 Aug 2017
728 pts
162 comments
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28
Why PS4 downloads are so slow
snellman.net · kryptiskt · 19 Aug 2017
713 pts
192 comments
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29
HTML5 Version of the Tron:Legacy Boardroom Scene
robscanlon.com · PleaseHelpMe · 6 Aug 2017
701 pts
66 comments
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30
The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm Gramophone records
archive.org · yurisagalov · 8 Aug 2017
699 pts
97 comments
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Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk
zdnet.com · stevekillian · 9 Aug 2017
698 pts
290 comments
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33
Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
blog.mozilla.org · happy-go-lucky · 18 Aug 2017
684 pts
335 comments
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34
Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t
thecut.com · gkanai · 21 Aug 2017
682 pts
538 comments
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35
The world in which IPv6 was a good design
apenwarr.ca · dbenamy · 11 Aug 2017
677 pts
191 comments
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36
YouTube AI deletes war crimes evidence as 'extremist material'
middleeasteye.net · jacobr · 12 Aug 2017
674 pts
320 comments
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37
Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community
thehill.com · rbanffy · 4 Aug 2017
664 pts
334 comments
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38
A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
arxiv.org · fahrbach · 14 Aug 2017
662 pts
286 comments
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39
Inside a fast CSS engine
hacks.mozilla.org · rbanffy · 22 Aug 2017
660 pts
141 comments
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40
Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System
joshondesign.com · daureg · 20 Aug 2017
656 pts
340 comments
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41
24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012)
xiph.org · Ivoah · 29 Aug 2017
647 pts
428 comments
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43
Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock
morepypy.blogspot.com · TiredOfLife · 14 Aug 2017
644 pts
315 comments
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44
Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star
news.ucsc.edu · mrfusion · 10 Aug 2017
641 pts
295 comments
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45
A checklist of marketing ideas for side projects
sideprojectchecklist.com · karlhughes · 6 Aug 2017
632 pts
66 comments
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46
Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?
chrisherd · 28 Aug 2017
628 pts
135 comments
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47
Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python
hy.readthedocs.io · tosh · 2 Aug 2017
625 pts
215 comments
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48
Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
brendangregg.com · dmit · 8 Aug 2017
623 pts
86 comments
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49
Bitcoin Exchange Had Too Many Bitcoins
bloomberg.com · dsri · 2 Aug 2017
620 pts
219 comments
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50
Show HN: Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists
github.com · paulgb · 12 Aug 2017
614 pts
155 comments
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51
Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch
seat31b.com · msh · 6 Aug 2017
604 pts
248 comments
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DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research Environment
deepmind.com · nijynot · 9 Aug 2017
603 pts
270 comments
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54
E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent
thirtybees.com · themaveness · 18 Aug 2017
602 pts
223 comments
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55
Disconnect. Offline only
chris.bolin.co · danmeade · 23 Aug 2017
601 pts
199 comments
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56
Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another
theverge.com · Tomte · 3 Aug 2017
598 pts
318 comments
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57
Annual note to self: most of the world exists outside the tech bubble
steveblank.com · chmaynard · 12 Aug 2017
596 pts
354 comments
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58
How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
bloomberg.com · coloneltcb · 1 Aug 2017
594 pts
182 comments
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59
Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost
tools.ietf.org · beyang · 7 Aug 2017
594 pts
167 comments
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The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science
theglobeandmail.com · 20100thibault · 9 Aug 2017
592 pts
637 comments
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