The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2017

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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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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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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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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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Why We Terminated Daily Stormer blog.cloudflare.com · SamWhited · 16 Aug 2017

857 pts 1.5k comments

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“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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Feather: Open-source icons feathericons.com · mcone · 24 Aug 2017

844 pts 140 comments

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Essential Phone, available now essential.com · Garbage · 17 Aug 2017

818 pts 672 comments

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Headless mode in Firefox developer.mozilla.org · Vinnl · 30 Aug 2017

817 pts 182 comments

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Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash? isthestockmarketgoingtocrash.com · truffle_pig · 7 Aug 2017

813 pts 325 comments

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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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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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Android Oreo android.com · axg · 21 Aug 2017

778 pts 641 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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Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud washingtonpost.com · fmihaila · 4 Aug 2017

752 pts 587 comments

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Exa, a modern replacement for ls the.exa.website · r0muald · 3 Aug 2017

740 pts 403 comments

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Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode blog.ptsecurity.com · Severian · 28 Aug 2017

734 pts 218 comments

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Vue.js vs. React vuejs.org · fanf2 · 19 Aug 2017

732 pts 471 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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App sizes are out of control trevore.com · trevor-e · 1 Aug 2017

729 pts 442 comments

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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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Why PS4 downloads are so slow snellman.net · kryptiskt · 19 Aug 2017

713 pts 192 comments

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HTML5 Version of the Tron:Legacy Boardroom Scene robscanlon.com · PleaseHelpMe · 6 Aug 2017

701 pts 66 comments

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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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An Intro to Compilers nicoleorchard.com · luu · 13 Aug 2017

687 pts 104 comments

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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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Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t thecut.com · gkanai · 21 Aug 2017

682 pts 538 comments

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The world in which IPv6 was a good design apenwarr.ca · dbenamy · 11 Aug 2017

677 pts 191 comments

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YouTube AI deletes war crimes evidence as 'extremist material' middleeasteye.net · jacobr · 12 Aug 2017

674 pts 320 comments

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Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community thehill.com · rbanffy · 4 Aug 2017

664 pts 334 comments

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A Solution of the P versus NP Problem? arxiv.org · fahrbach · 14 Aug 2017

662 pts 286 comments

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Inside a fast CSS engine hacks.mozilla.org · rbanffy · 22 Aug 2017

660 pts 141 comments

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Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System joshondesign.com · daureg · 20 Aug 2017

656 pts 340 comments

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24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012) xiph.org · Ivoah · 29 Aug 2017

647 pts 428 comments

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SVG can do that? slides.com · funspectre · 15 Aug 2017

645 pts 197 comments

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Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock morepypy.blogspot.com · TiredOfLife · 14 Aug 2017

644 pts 315 comments

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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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A checklist of marketing ideas for side projects sideprojectchecklist.com · karlhughes · 6 Aug 2017

632 pts 66 comments

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Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI? chrisherd · 28 Aug 2017

628 pts 135 comments

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Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python hy.readthedocs.io · tosh · 2 Aug 2017

625 pts 215 comments

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Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery brendangregg.com · dmit · 8 Aug 2017

623 pts 86 comments

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Bitcoin Exchange Had Too Many Bitcoins bloomberg.com · dsri · 2 Aug 2017

620 pts 219 comments

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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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Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch seat31b.com · msh · 6 Aug 2017

604 pts 248 comments

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FizzleFade fabiensanglard.net · pietrofmaggi · 29 Aug 2017

604 pts 176 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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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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Disconnect. Offline only chris.bolin.co · danmeade · 23 Aug 2017

601 pts 199 comments

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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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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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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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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