The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2019
We track 1,261 stories from August 2019, averaging 246 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 54 stories. Together they drew 167,451 comments, 133 per story on average.
1
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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2
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
newyorker.com · lordnacho · 8 Aug 2019
1.7k pts
777 comments
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3
Introducing nushell
jonathanturner.org · bradleybuda · 23 Aug 2019
1.5k pts
369 comments
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4
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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6
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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8
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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9
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
blog.twitter.com · whatok · 19 Aug 2019
1.1k pts
441 comments
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10
Terminating Service for 8Chan
new.blog.cloudflare.com · sandmansandine · 5 Aug 2019
1.1k pts
1.4k comments
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11
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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13
NULL license plate not such a bright idea
knrs.iheart.com · dublin · 12 Aug 2019
999 pts
467 comments
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14
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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15
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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16
Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender
blender.org · robin_reala · 16 Aug 2019
937 pts
225 comments
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17
Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
freedom-to-tinker.com · randomwalker · 23 Aug 2019
918 pts
256 comments
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19
8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
theverge.com · gregmac · 5 Aug 2019
910 pts
1.6k comments
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20
Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
kevq.uk · kevq · 27 Aug 2019
904 pts
296 comments
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21
No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers
sellercentral.amazon.com · nkurz · 27 Aug 2019
896 pts
483 comments
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23
Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic
wsj.com · minimaxir · 12 Aug 2019
879 pts
449 comments
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24
Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%
goodnewsnetwork.org · RickJWagner · 16 Aug 2019
865 pts
393 comments
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26
Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer
neilkakkar.com · neilkakkar · 25 Aug 2019
849 pts
294 comments
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28
Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye
linuxjournal.com · akulbe · 8 Aug 2019
838 pts
356 comments
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29
AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip
reuters.com · jonbaer · 8 Aug 2019
837 pts
255 comments
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30
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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31
Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
standardebooks.org · BerislavLopac · 2 Aug 2019
820 pts
129 comments
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32
Why is modern web development so complicated?
vrk.dev · bibyte · 7 Aug 2019
819 pts
711 comments
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33
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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34
OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation
github.com · vsurabhi · 19 Aug 2019
813 pts
222 comments
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35
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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36
Software Architecture Guide
martinfowler.com · rspivak · 24 Aug 2019
803 pts
288 comments
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37
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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38
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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39
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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40
Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap
jeff-vogel.blogspot.com · Fr0styMatt88 · 22 Aug 2019
762 pts
540 comments
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41
Tech Interview Handbook
yangshun.github.io · yangshun · 17 Aug 2019
760 pts
324 comments
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42
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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43
Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
examine.com · cyrusshepard · 12 Aug 2019
750 pts
353 comments
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44
Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts
uglygerry.com · rgardaphe · 1 Aug 2019
750 pts
190 comments
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46
John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]
youtube.com · sexy_seedbox · 29 Aug 2019
741 pts
275 comments
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47
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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48
Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore
bloomberg.com · mancerayder · 23 Aug 2019
731 pts
1k comments
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49
Build Your Own Text Editor
viewsourcecode.org · tosh · 4 Aug 2019
711 pts
103 comments
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50
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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52
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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53
Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality
economist.com · tosh · 5 Aug 2019
684 pts
605 comments
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54
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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55
GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
github.blog · dstaheli · 8 Aug 2019
680 pts
231 comments
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56
Consume less, create more
tjcx.me · tomjcleveland · 23 Aug 2019
668 pts
182 comments
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57
Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing
citylab.com · Osiris30 · 2 Aug 2019
664 pts
202 comments
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58
Kerbal Space Program 2
kerbalspaceprogram.com · xucheng · 19 Aug 2019
661 pts
228 comments
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59
MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
ryanbigg.com · ryanbigg · 28 Aug 2019
655 pts
575 comments
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60
Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer
lastweekinaws.com · mjulian · 5 Aug 2019
651 pts
349 comments
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