The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2018

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Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store github.com · dhuramas · 20 Aug 2018

1.6k pts 421 comments

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Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs letsencrypt.org · okket · 6 Aug 2018

1.5k pts 144 comments

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Thank you HN throwAwayXYZ69 · 12 Aug 2018

1.4k pts 137 comments

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Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed perens.com · jeswin · 23 Aug 2018

1.3k pts 484 comments

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Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available academictorrents.com · jacquesm · 12 Aug 2018

1.1k pts 140 comments

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Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node bitbucket.org · liamilan · 29 Aug 2018

1.1k pts 283 comments

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Pandoc pandoc.org · otp124 · 27 Aug 2018

1k pts 204 comments

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Bullshit Jobs slatestarcodex.com · wyclif · 30 Aug 2018

964 pts 556 comments

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Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System twitter.com · swalsh · 24 Aug 2018

948 pts 555 comments

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Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate medium.com · nate · 8 Aug 2018

948 pts 386 comments

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NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students wsj.com · mudil · 16 Aug 2018

931 pts 507 comments

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Julia 1.0 julialang.org · montalbano · 9 Aug 2018

915 pts 434 comments

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CLI: Improved remysharp.com · Bootvis · 30 Aug 2018

913 pts 272 comments

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Go 2 Draft Designs go.googlesource.com · conroy · 28 Aug 2018

909 pts 473 comments

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Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? usenix.org · zdw · 17 Aug 2018

878 pts 171 comments

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Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server blog.scrt.ch · phwd · 24 Aug 2018

877 pts 192 comments

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Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking blog.mozilla.org · ronjouch · 30 Aug 2018

858 pts 371 comments

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Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness phys.org · maxwell · 9 Aug 2018

851 pts 332 comments

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Bye bye BetterSlack g3rv4.com · g3rv4 · 29 Aug 2018

839 pts 383 comments

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Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux phoronix.com · kbumsik · 22 Aug 2018

819 pts 322 comments

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My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 github.com · ilaksh · 18 Aug 2018

814 pts 397 comments

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Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces brandur.org · juancampa · 3 Aug 2018

785 pts 370 comments

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Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014) setosa.io · aogl · 15 Aug 2018

779 pts 68 comments

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Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets mchap.io · tptacek · 13 Aug 2018

769 pts 237 comments

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How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites dejanseo.com.au · lukestevens · 23 Aug 2018

766 pts 309 comments

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DuckDuckGo Raises $10M news.crunchbase.com · exotree · 28 Aug 2018

762 pts 249 comments

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To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008) wired.com · colinprince · 7 Aug 2018

740 pts 208 comments

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Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy qz.com · nabla9 · 18 Aug 2018

726 pts 382 comments

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Don’t Do This in Production stephenmann.io · pattrn · 19 Aug 2018

696 pts 284 comments

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Learning Math for Machine Learning blog.ycombinator.com · vincentschen · 1 Aug 2018

695 pts 117 comments

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LEGO built a life-size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces lego.com · cududa · 30 Aug 2018

682 pts 151 comments

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You don’t need standups medium.com · jxub · 2 Aug 2018

677 pts 333 comments

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Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality techcrunch.com · AhmadM91 · 21 Aug 2018

675 pts 242 comments

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1/0 = 0 hillelwayne.com · ingve · 10 Aug 2018

650 pts 570 comments

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Building a Kickass Portfolio zen-of-programming.com · aspit · 2 Aug 2018

648 pts 280 comments

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Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff github.com · quickthrower2 · 20 Aug 2018

647 pts 165 comments

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Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning apps.ankiweb.net · tarboreus · 26 Aug 2018

636 pts 172 comments

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24-core CPU and I can’t type an email randomascii.wordpress.com · ghuntley · 17 Aug 2018

629 pts 310 comments

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John McCain has died nytimes.com · aaronbrethorst · 26 Aug 2018

628 pts 210 comments

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Show HN: Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding ptsjs.org · wmnn · 8 Aug 2018

611 pts 71 comments

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I’m a very slow thinker (2016) sivers.org · gary__ · 6 Aug 2018

604 pts 224 comments

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Exapunks zachtronics.com · yumaikas · 12 Aug 2018

603 pts 137 comments

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How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind sbnation.com · Tomte · 1 Aug 2018

602 pts 454 comments

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EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time theguardian.com · bkfh · 31 Aug 2018

602 pts 362 comments

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Filament: Physically-based rendering engine google.github.io · corysama · 3 Aug 2018

599 pts 125 comments

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Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers wsj.com · tysone · 6 Aug 2018

597 pts 213 comments

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Serverless Docker Beta zeit.co · Rauchg · 14 Aug 2018

595 pts 228 comments

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4D toys 4dtoys.com · wenderen · 4 Aug 2018

592 pts 110 comments

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Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster tryretool.com · dvdhsu · 9 Aug 2018

592 pts 109 comments

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Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted blog.ycombinator.com · runesoerensen · 21 Aug 2018

585 pts 292 comments

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AWS icon quiz docs.google.com · elfakyn · 6 Aug 2018

580 pts 185 comments

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Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool gizmodo.com · uptown · 7 Aug 2018

580 pts 167 comments

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Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders github.com · sbjs · 23 Aug 2018

578 pts 154 comments

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National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions slate.com · eplanit · 21 Aug 2018

573 pts 369 comments

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Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A medium.com · ayanai · 22 Aug 2018

570 pts 379 comments

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Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire arstechnica.com · jamroom · 21 Aug 2018

567 pts 339 comments

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What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016) gianlucagimini.it · dlazar · 6 Aug 2018

566 pts 187 comments

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Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful torrentfreak.com · okket · 4 Aug 2018

566 pts 170 comments

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EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing archpaper.com · okket · 7 Aug 2018

560 pts 338 comments

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Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series research.fb.com · tosh · 7 Aug 2018

552 pts 63 comments