The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2019

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Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018) anishathalye.com · soegaard · 6 Aug 2019

1.7k pts 214 comments

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The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News newyorker.com · lordnacho · 8 Aug 2019

1.7k pts 777 comments

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Introducing nushell jonathanturner.org · bradleybuda · 23 Aug 2019

1.5k pts 369 comments

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Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app medium.com · lladnar · 29 Aug 2019

1.4k pts 581 comments

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Ebola Is Now Curable wired.com · NoRagrets · 12 Aug 2019

1.2k pts 154 comments

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All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people medium.com · mbellotti · 5 Aug 2019

1.2k pts 266 comments

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I Miss Microsoft Encarta hanselman.com · zdw · 19 Aug 2019

1.2k pts 406 comments

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Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’ quora.com · enkiv2 · 9 Aug 2019

1.2k pts 260 comments

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Information operations directed at Hong Kong blog.twitter.com · whatok · 19 Aug 2019

1.1k pts 441 comments

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Terminating Service for 8Chan new.blog.cloudflare.com · sandmansandine · 5 Aug 2019

1.1k pts 1.4k comments

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What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time? twitter.com · ingve · 25 Aug 2019

1k pts 320 comments

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How to Build Good Software csc.gov.sg · jingwen · 19 Aug 2019

1k pts 239 comments

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NULL license plate not such a bright idea knrs.iheart.com · dublin · 12 Aug 2019

999 pts 467 comments

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What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type? nsaphra.github.io · panic · 10 Aug 2019

986 pts 385 comments

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Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut vice.com · pulisse · 6 Aug 2019

953 pts 449 comments

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Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender blender.org · robin_reala · 16 Aug 2019

937 pts 225 comments

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Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection freedom-to-tinker.com · randomwalker · 23 Aug 2019

918 pts 256 comments

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Cloudflare S-1 sec.gov · tpw212 · 15 Aug 2019

915 pts 351 comments

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8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service theverge.com · gregmac · 5 Aug 2019

910 pts 1.6k comments

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Please Add RSS Support to Your Site kevq.uk · kevq · 27 Aug 2019

904 pts 296 comments

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No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers sellercentral.amazon.com · nkurz · 27 Aug 2019

896 pts 483 comments

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Python Is Eating the World zdnet.com · gilad · 12 Aug 2019

879 pts 957 comments

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Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic wsj.com · minimaxir · 12 Aug 2019

879 pts 449 comments

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Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% goodnewsnetwork.org · RickJWagner · 16 Aug 2019

865 pts 393 comments

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Hy en.wikipedia.org · tosh · 4 Aug 2019

850 pts 141 comments

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Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer neilkakkar.com · neilkakkar · 25 Aug 2019

849 pts 294 comments

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WeWTF profgalloway.com · braythwayt · 17 Aug 2019

840 pts 278 comments

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Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye linuxjournal.com · akulbe · 8 Aug 2019

838 pts 356 comments

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AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip reuters.com · jonbaer · 8 Aug 2019

837 pts 255 comments

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US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers theverge.com · Grazester · 11 Aug 2019

822 pts 442 comments

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Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced standardebooks.org · BerislavLopac · 2 Aug 2019

820 pts 129 comments

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Why is modern web development so complicated? vrk.dev · bibyte · 7 Aug 2019

819 pts 711 comments

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A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018) thehustle.co · dragontamer · 28 Aug 2019

816 pts 478 comments

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OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation github.com · vsurabhi · 19 Aug 2019

813 pts 222 comments

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A deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild googleprojectzero.blogspot.com · troydavis · 30 Aug 2019

804 pts 182 comments

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Software Architecture Guide martinfowler.com · rspivak · 24 Aug 2019

803 pts 288 comments

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Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules euractiv.com · abbe98 · 4 Aug 2019

802 pts 264 comments

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Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study nationalgeographic.com · whatami · 11 Aug 2019

797 pts 323 comments

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Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone forbes.com · tareqak · 8 Aug 2019

773 pts 282 comments

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Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap jeff-vogel.blogspot.com · Fr0styMatt88 · 22 Aug 2019

762 pts 540 comments

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Tech Interview Handbook yangshun.github.io · yangshun · 17 Aug 2019

760 pts 324 comments

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Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click sparktoro.com · adamcarson · 13 Aug 2019

755 pts 513 comments

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Why has examine.com disappeared from search results? examine.com · cyrusshepard · 12 Aug 2019

750 pts 353 comments

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Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts uglygerry.com · rgardaphe · 1 Aug 2019

750 pts 190 comments

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A Walk in Hong Kong idlewords.com · haasted · 16 Aug 2019

748 pts 371 comments

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John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] youtube.com · sexy_seedbox · 29 Aug 2019

741 pts 275 comments

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The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70 hacks.mozilla.org · edmorley · 30 Aug 2019

735 pts 267 comments

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Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore bloomberg.com · mancerayder · 23 Aug 2019

731 pts 1k comments

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Build Your Own Text Editor viewsourcecode.org · tosh · 4 Aug 2019

711 pts 103 comments

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I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market” reddit.com · starpilot · 16 Aug 2019

701 pts 204 comments

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Ask HN: How Do You Read? vilvadot · 31 Aug 2019

686 pts 247 comments

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How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night figma.com · rudi-c · 22 Aug 2019

685 pts 86 comments

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Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality economist.com · tosh · 5 Aug 2019

684 pts 605 comments

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New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web wsj.com · psim1 · 6 Aug 2019

683 pts 202 comments

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GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories github.blog · dstaheli · 8 Aug 2019

680 pts 231 comments

56

Consume less, create more tjcx.me · tomjcleveland · 23 Aug 2019

668 pts 182 comments

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Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing citylab.com · Osiris30 · 2 Aug 2019

664 pts 202 comments

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Kerbal Space Program 2 kerbalspaceprogram.com · xucheng · 19 Aug 2019

661 pts 228 comments

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MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy ryanbigg.com · ryanbigg · 28 Aug 2019

655 pts 575 comments

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Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer lastweekinaws.com · mjulian · 5 Aug 2019

651 pts 349 comments