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Top of Month - Aug 2015

1. G is for Google
   (10 Aug 2015 | 2228 points | Comments)

2. “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
   (22 Aug 2015 | 1543 points | Comments)

3. OnHub
   (18 Aug 2015 | 984 points | Comments)

4. Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are
   (4 Aug 2015 | 836 points | Comments)

5. Phoenix 1.0
   (28 Aug 2015 | 792 points | Comments)

6. The Web We Have to Save
   (3 Aug 2015 | 760 points | Comments)

7. Pixar in a Box – Khan Academy
   (27 Aug 2015 | 753 points | Comments)

8. Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
   (15 Aug 2015 | 708 points | Comments)

9. Bootstrap 4 alpha
   (19 Aug 2015 | 655 points | Comments)

10. “It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”
    (12 Aug 2015 | 645 points | Comments)

11. “Stop reverse engineering our code”
    (11 Aug 2015 | 613 points | Comments)

12. Eve Version 0
    (17 Aug 2015 | 590 points | Comments)

13. Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay
    (10 Aug 2015 | 584 points | Comments)

14. Twitter Contest Winning as a Service
    (4 Aug 2015 | 578 points | Comments)

15. AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic
    (15 Aug 2015 | 568 points | Comments)

16. Go 1.5 is released
    (19 Aug 2015 | 559 points | Comments)

17. Hawaii Bans Non-Compete and Non-Solicit Clauses in High-Tech Employment
    (5 Aug 2015 | 533 points | Comments)

18. Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket
    (18 Aug 2015 | 533 points | Comments)

19. Hack: A typeface designed for source code
    (29 Aug 2015 | 521 points | Comments)

20. OS X Command Line Utilities
    (30 Aug 2015 | 517 points | Comments)

21. Show HN: Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data
    (10 Aug 2015 | 514 points | Comments)

22. The Unemployable Programmer
    (3 Aug 2015 | 513 points | Comments)

23. Presumption of stupidity
    (10 Aug 2015 | 510 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
    (3 Aug 2015 | 504 points | Comments)

25. Oliver Sacks has died
    (30 Aug 2015 | 495 points | Comments)

26. Unix Toolbox
    (7 Aug 2015 | 491 points | Comments)

27. I made a cell phone [video]
    (16 Aug 2015 | 487 points | Comments)

28. We are barely halfway done
    (18 Aug 2015 | 487 points | Comments)

29. The Hamburger Menu Doesn't Work
    (10 Aug 2015 | 484 points | Comments)

30. Relay Technical Preview
    (11 Aug 2015 | 474 points | Comments)

31. Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cover the plane
    (12 Aug 2015 | 472 points | Comments)

32. Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on September 1
    (28 Aug 2015 | 462 points | Comments)

33. Tufte CSS
    (5 Aug 2015 | 461 points | Comments)

34. “I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”
    (26 Aug 2015 | 458 points | Comments)

35. Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to Microsoft
    (13 Aug 2015 | 453 points | Comments)

36. Show HN: Image Processing for Everybody
    (5 Aug 2015 | 451 points | Comments)

37. Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president in an unconventional way
    (11 Aug 2015 | 446 points | Comments)

38. Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)
    (14 Aug 2015 | 445 points | Comments)

39. Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks
    (8 Aug 2015 | 443 points | Comments)

40. The magic of the Kalman filter, in pictures
    (11 Aug 2015 | 443 points | Comments)

41. Edward Snowden at IETF 93
    (14 Aug 2015 | 442 points | Comments)

42. Gotty – Share your terminal as a web application
    (17 Aug 2015 | 442 points | Comments)

43. LLVM for Grad Students
    (3 Aug 2015 | 439 points | Comments)

44. CS for All
    (10 Aug 2015 | 439 points | Comments)

45. Netflix Releases Falcor Developer Preview
    (17 Aug 2015 | 438 points | Comments)

46. From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth
    (6 Aug 2015 | 437 points | Comments)

47. My husband needed therapy after working for Amazon
    (19 Aug 2015 | 437 points | Comments)

48. Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled
    (10 Aug 2015 | 436 points | Comments)

49. How “oldschool” graphics worked [video]
    (18 Aug 2015 | 434 points | Comments)

50. Bernie Sanders' 404 page
    (26 Aug 2015 | 434 points | Comments)

51. Intel open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system
    (17 Aug 2015 | 432 points | Comments)

52. WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
    (25 Aug 2015 | 431 points | Comments)

53. Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture
    (1 Aug 2015 | 427 points | Comments)

54. Shutdownify is shutting down
    (19 Aug 2015 | 423 points | Comments)

55. Real Life First Person Shooter, Chatroulette Version [video]
    (21 Aug 2015 | 423 points | Comments)

56. Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec
    (11 Aug 2015 | 422 points | Comments)

57. Windows Bridge for iOS
    (6 Aug 2015 | 417 points | Comments)

58. Firefox exploit found in the wild
    (7 Aug 2015 | 415 points | Comments)

59. Who Hacked Ashley Madison?
    (26 Aug 2015 | 410 points | Comments)

60. John Carmack's son's game in Racket
    (24 Aug 2015 | 402 points | Comments)

61. Tesla unveils new car-charging robo-snake
    (6 Aug 2015 | 401 points | Comments)

62. Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
    (28 Aug 2015 | 400 points | Comments)

63. Windows Certificate Manager does not display the complete trust list
    (29 Aug 2015 | 390 points | Comments)

64. Project Sunroof
    (17 Aug 2015 | 389 points | Comments)

65. A Plan to Turn Engineers into Managers
    (4 Aug 2015 | 388 points | Comments)

66. Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
    (7 Aug 2015 | 386 points | Comments)

67. Announcing Rust 1.2
    (7 Aug 2015 | 385 points | Comments)

68. Bcachefs – A general purpose COW filesystem
    (21 Aug 2015 | 385 points | Comments)

69. Things to commit just before leaving your job
    (19 Aug 2015 | 379 points | Comments)

70. How does a relational database work?
    (19 Aug 2015 | 377 points | Comments)

71. Unity Comes to Linux: Experimental Build Now Available
    (26 Aug 2015 | 377 points | Comments)

72. Ember.js 2.0 Released
    (13 Aug 2015 | 376 points | Comments)

73. Linux workstation security checklist
    (28 Aug 2015 | 376 points | Comments)

74. Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack
    (4 Aug 2015 | 375 points | Comments)

75. China Stock Market Drops 8.5%
    (24 Aug 2015 | 373 points | Comments)

76. Rust in 2016
    (14 Aug 2015 | 371 points | Comments)

77. Designing and Building Stockfighter, Our Programming Game
    (20 Aug 2015 | 365 points | Comments)

78. The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
    (19 Aug 2015 | 363 points | Comments)

79. Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
    (24 Aug 2015 | 363 points | Comments)

80. Postgres Guide
    (3 Aug 2015 | 362 points | Comments)

81. Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10
    (24 Aug 2015 | 362 points | Comments)

82. The Teflon Toxin
    (11 Aug 2015 | 357 points | Comments)

83. Ferrolic
    (13 Aug 2015 | 356 points | Comments)

84. Change Your Name
    (9 Aug 2015 | 355 points | Comments)

85. Amazon Underground
    (26 Aug 2015 | 350 points | Comments)

86. Oracle’s license agreement as it pertains to reverse engineering
    (11 Aug 2015 | 349 points | Comments)

87. Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems
    (7 Aug 2015 | 348 points | Comments)

88. FCC Fines Smart City $750K for Blocking Wi-Fi
    (18 Aug 2015 | 345 points | Comments)

89. Show HN: Tonic – A data visualizing REPL for Node.js
    (18 Aug 2015 | 342 points | Comments)

90. Blinking Commits
    (14 Aug 2015 | 340 points | Comments)

91. Intermediate Python
    (17 Aug 2015 | 335 points | Comments)

92. On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPITBOL (2012)
    (22 Aug 2015 | 334 points | Comments)

93. BMW: All Models Electric Within Decade
    (30 Aug 2015 | 332 points | Comments)

94. It Is Done
    (21 Aug 2015 | 329 points | Comments)

95. The Post-YC Slump
    (20 Aug 2015 | 328 points | Comments)

96. How to get gmail.com banned (2011)
    (4 Aug 2015 | 327 points | Comments)

97. The US digital service
    (14 Aug 2015 | 326 points | Comments)

98. M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger
    (26 Aug 2015 | 324 points | Comments)

99. Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers
    (6 Aug 2015 | 322 points | Comments)

100. Using a single AWS account is a serious risk
     (7 Aug 2015 | 322 points | Comments)