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Top of Month - Aug 2016

1. “It's The Future”
   (17 Aug 2016 | 1323 points | Comments)

2. The Dropbox hack is real
   (31 Aug 2016 | 1313 points | Comments)

3. Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup
   (29 Aug 2016 | 1311 points | Comments)

4. Why we lost Uber as a user
   (1 Aug 2016 | 1234 points | Comments)

5. PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
   (18 Aug 2016 | 1217 points | Comments)

6. Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay
   (2 Aug 2016 | 1195 points | Comments)

7. Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
   (24 Aug 2016 | 1187 points | Comments)

8. NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender
   (25 Aug 2016 | 1055 points | Comments)

9. Show HN: Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration
   (10 Aug 2016 | 1004 points | Comments)

10. Indie Hackers: Learn how developers are making money
    (11 Aug 2016 | 971 points | Comments)

11. Japanese writing system basics
    (20 Aug 2016 | 961 points | Comments)

12. Zero-cost futures in Rust
    (11 Aug 2016 | 930 points | Comments)

13. Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons
    (18 Aug 2016 | 859 points | Comments)

14. Web Scraping in 2016
    (23 Aug 2016 | 852 points | Comments)

15. This JPEG is also a webpage
    (10 Aug 2016 | 833 points | Comments)

16. The Cuban CDN
    (19 Aug 2016 | 832 points | Comments)

17. Seymour Papert has died
    (1 Aug 2016 | 820 points | Comments)

18. Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
    (31 Aug 2016 | 819 points | Comments)

19. Nasa just made all its research available online for free
    (20 Aug 2016 | 776 points | Comments)

20. What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?
    (14 Aug 2016 | 758 points | Comments)

21. How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015)
    (29 Aug 2016 | 751 points | Comments)

22. Page Dewarping
    (18 Aug 2016 | 743 points | Comments)

23. Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large
    (19 Aug 2016 | 731 points | Comments)

24. Machine Learning and Ketosis
    (12 Aug 2016 | 706 points | Comments)

25. Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs
    (16 Aug 2016 | 701 points | Comments)

26. Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
    (8 Aug 2016 | 649 points | Comments)

27. Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?
    (13 Aug 2016 | 648 points | Comments)

28. Hello from Orkut
    (5 Aug 2016 | 643 points | Comments)

29. Show HN: Carbide – A New Programming Environment
    (24 Aug 2016 | 628 points | Comments)

30. What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone
    (3 Aug 2016 | 625 points | Comments)

31. “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
    (22 Aug 2016 | 624 points | Comments)

32. Optimism
    (16 Aug 2016 | 617 points | Comments)

33. Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
    (22 Aug 2016 | 615 points | Comments)

34. Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss
    (19 Aug 2016 | 605 points | Comments)

35. Everyone is quitting
    (10 Aug 2016 | 599 points | Comments)

36. Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service
    (30 Aug 2016 | 596 points | Comments)

37. The Myth of RAM (2014)
    (29 Aug 2016 | 593 points | Comments)

38. Writing Less Code
    (17 Aug 2016 | 583 points | Comments)

39. What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
    (11 Aug 2016 | 563 points | Comments)

40. Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets
    (29 Aug 2016 | 552 points | Comments)

41. Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe
    (30 Aug 2016 | 547 points | Comments)

42. Go 1.7 is released
    (15 Aug 2016 | 545 points | Comments)

43. Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby
    (4 Aug 2016 | 544 points | Comments)

44. “How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?”
    (25 Aug 2016 | 539 points | Comments)

45. “I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body”
    (8 Aug 2016 | 536 points | Comments)

46. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
    (1 Aug 2016 | 534 points | Comments)

47. Grokking Deep Learning
    (18 Aug 2016 | 530 points | Comments)

48. Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958)
    (29 Aug 2016 | 525 points | Comments)

49. What Great Listeners Actually Do
    (17 Aug 2016 | 521 points | Comments)

50. Machine Learning Exercises in Python, Part 1
    (12 Aug 2016 | 520 points | Comments)

51. Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS
    (1 Aug 2016 | 512 points | Comments)

52. Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git
    (2 Aug 2016 | 508 points | Comments)

53. A few HTML tips
    (24 Aug 2016 | 501 points | Comments)

54. Fighting Cancer
    (22 Aug 2016 | 497 points | Comments)

55. I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation
    (9 Aug 2016 | 494 points | Comments)

56. Docker not ready for primetime
    (28 Aug 2016 | 490 points | Comments)

57. How to listen when you disagree
    (4 Aug 2016 | 483 points | Comments)

58. Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum
    (8 Aug 2016 | 483 points | Comments)

59. This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley
    (16 Aug 2016 | 480 points | Comments)

60. Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
    (7 Aug 2016 | 479 points | Comments)

61. Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' aliases from PowerShell
    (19 Aug 2016 | 475 points | Comments)

62. Lake Nyos suffocated over 1,700 people in one night
    (12 Aug 2016 | 472 points | Comments)

63. Amazon Vehicles
    (25 Aug 2016 | 472 points | Comments)

64. TCP Puzzlers
    (18 Aug 2016 | 468 points | Comments)

65. Rclone: rsync for cloud storage
    (31 Aug 2016 | 467 points | Comments)

66. With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy
    (17 Aug 2016 | 465 points | Comments)

67. Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News
    (26 Aug 2016 | 463 points | Comments)

68. Let's Encrypt root certificate trusted by Mozilla
    (5 Aug 2016 | 459 points | Comments)

69. Introducing OpenStreetView
    (21 Aug 2016 | 455 points | Comments)

70. Not Saying Winter Is Coming, but Where’s Your Coat?
    (3 Aug 2016 | 454 points | Comments)

71. Rotoscoped Animation of Filmed Parkour
    (29 Aug 2016 | 452 points | Comments)

72. Types
    (24 Aug 2016 | 445 points | Comments)

73. How to Read a Book [pdf]
    (2 Aug 2016 | 444 points | Comments)

74. A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)
    (8 Aug 2016 | 444 points | Comments)

75. Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects
    (5 Aug 2016 | 441 points | Comments)

76. Introducing Webpack Dashboard
    (15 Aug 2016 | 441 points | Comments)

77. I'm a Judge and I Think Criminal Court Is Horrifying
    (13 Aug 2016 | 440 points | Comments)

78. University of Chicago: ‘We Do Not Support So-Called Trigger Warnings’
    (25 Aug 2016 | 439 points | Comments)

79. Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
    (6 Aug 2016 | 435 points | Comments)

80. “CPUs are optimized for video games”
    (10 Aug 2016 | 434 points | Comments)

81. Building fast.com
    (9 Aug 2016 | 432 points | Comments)

82. Inside font-rs, a font renderer written in Rust
    (2 Aug 2016 | 430 points | Comments)

83. Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash
    (8 Aug 2016 | 429 points | Comments)

84. Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer?
    (19 Aug 2016 | 427 points | Comments)

85. Shape of errors to come
    (10 Aug 2016 | 425 points | Comments)

86. Some news from LWN
    (4 Aug 2016 | 424 points | Comments)

87. How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow
    (31 Aug 2016 | 423 points | Comments)

88. “Our primary goal is to un-fork the Tor Browser”
    (7 Aug 2016 | 420 points | Comments)

89. Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
    (24 Aug 2016 | 417 points | Comments)

90. Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13B to Apple
    (30 Aug 2016 | 417 points | Comments)

91. Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address
    (10 Aug 2016 | 415 points | Comments)

92. Text Summarization with TensorFlow
    (24 Aug 2016 | 414 points | Comments)

93. React Server
    (11 Aug 2016 | 408 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
    (5 Aug 2016 | 406 points | Comments)

95. AWS S3 open source alternative written in Go
    (30 Aug 2016 | 405 points | Comments)

96. 4WD vs. AWD. What's the Difference?
    (27 Aug 2016 | 404 points | Comments)

97. Almost 80% of Private Day Traders Lose Money
    (22 Aug 2016 | 402 points | Comments)

98. USCIS Proposes Rule to Welcome International Entrepreneurs
    (26 Aug 2016 | 400 points | Comments)

99. Uber to Sell China Business to Rival Didi After Losing Billions
    (1 Aug 2016 | 396 points | Comments)

100. A minimal raytracer
     (18 Aug 2016 | 395 points | Comments)