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Top of Month - Aug 2017

1. Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
   (2 Aug 2017 | 1879 points | Comments)

2. Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
   (8 Aug 2017 | 1697 points | Comments)

3. A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it
   (30 Aug 2017 | 1480 points | Comments)

4. Ad blocking is under attack
   (11 Aug 2017 | 1111 points | Comments)

5. Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
   (15 Aug 2017 | 1080 points | Comments)

6. Criticizing Google got me fired
   (31 Aug 2017 | 1010 points | Comments)

7. Explaining React's license
   (19 Aug 2017 | 978 points | Comments)

8. I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
   (11 Aug 2017 | 937 points | Comments)

9. Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
   (16 Aug 2017 | 857 points | Comments)

10. “Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course on Coursera
    (24 Aug 2017 | 848 points | Comments)

11. Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine
    (15 Aug 2017 | 845 points | Comments)

12. Feather: Open-source icons
    (24 Aug 2017 | 844 points | Comments)

13. Essential Phone, available now
    (17 Aug 2017 | 818 points | Comments)

14. Headless mode in Firefox
    (30 Aug 2017 | 817 points | Comments)

15. Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash?
    (7 Aug 2017 | 813 points | Comments)

16. Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
    (24 Aug 2017 | 793 points | Comments)

17. Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant
    (30 Aug 2017 | 793 points | Comments)

18. I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity
    (14 Aug 2017 | 791 points | Comments)

19. U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data
    (14 Aug 2017 | 779 points | Comments)

20. Android Oreo
    (21 Aug 2017 | 778 points | Comments)

21. uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions
    (9 Aug 2017 | 776 points | Comments)

22. Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
    (4 Aug 2017 | 752 points | Comments)

23. Exa, a modern replacement for ls
    (3 Aug 2017 | 740 points | Comments)

24. Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode
    (28 Aug 2017 | 734 points | Comments)

25. Vue.js vs. React
    (19 Aug 2017 | 732 points | Comments)

26. Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content
    (8 Aug 2017 | 730 points | Comments)

27. App sizes are out of control
    (1 Aug 2017 | 729 points | Comments)

28. Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing
    (3 Aug 2017 | 728 points | Comments)

29. Why PS4 downloads are so slow
    (19 Aug 2017 | 713 points | Comments)

30. HTML5 Version of the Tron:Legacy Boardroom Scene
    (6 Aug 2017 | 701 points | Comments)

31. The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm Gramophone records
    (8 Aug 2017 | 699 points | Comments)

32. Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk
    (9 Aug 2017 | 698 points | Comments)

33. An Intro to Compilers
    (13 Aug 2017 | 687 points | Comments)

34. Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
    (18 Aug 2017 | 684 points | Comments)

35. Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t
    (21 Aug 2017 | 682 points | Comments)

36. The world in which IPv6 was a good design
    (11 Aug 2017 | 677 points | Comments)

37. YouTube AI deletes war crimes evidence as 'extremist material'
    (12 Aug 2017 | 674 points | Comments)

38. Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community
    (4 Aug 2017 | 664 points | Comments)

39. A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
    (14 Aug 2017 | 662 points | Comments)

40. Inside a fast CSS engine
    (22 Aug 2017 | 660 points | Comments)

41. Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System
    (20 Aug 2017 | 656 points | Comments)

42. 24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012)
    (29 Aug 2017 | 647 points | Comments)

43. SVG can do that?
    (15 Aug 2017 | 645 points | Comments)

44. Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock
    (14 Aug 2017 | 644 points | Comments)

45. Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star
    (10 Aug 2017 | 641 points | Comments)

46. A checklist of marketing ideas for side projects
    (6 Aug 2017 | 632 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?
    (28 Aug 2017 | 628 points | Comments)

48. Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python
    (2 Aug 2017 | 625 points | Comments)

49. Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
    (8 Aug 2017 | 623 points | Comments)

50. Bitcoin Exchange Had Too Many Bitcoins
    (2 Aug 2017 | 620 points | Comments)

51. Show HN: Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists
    (12 Aug 2017 | 614 points | Comments)

52. Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch
    (6 Aug 2017 | 604 points | Comments)

53. FizzleFade
    (29 Aug 2017 | 604 points | Comments)

54. DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research Environment
    (9 Aug 2017 | 603 points | Comments)

55. E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent
    (18 Aug 2017 | 602 points | Comments)

56. Disconnect. Offline only
    (23 Aug 2017 | 601 points | Comments)

57. Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another
    (3 Aug 2017 | 598 points | Comments)

58. Annual note to self: most of the world exists outside the tech bubble
    (12 Aug 2017 | 596 points | Comments)

59. How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
    (1 Aug 2017 | 594 points | Comments)

60. Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost
    (7 Aug 2017 | 594 points | Comments)

61. The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science
    (9 Aug 2017 | 592 points | Comments)

62. Windy.com
    (24 Aug 2017 | 580 points | Comments)

63. Malicious crossenv package on npm
    (1 Aug 2017 | 578 points | Comments)

64. Let Consumers Sue Companies
    (22 Aug 2017 | 576 points | Comments)

65. Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
    (27 Aug 2017 | 575 points | Comments)

66. Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
    (10 Aug 2017 | 571 points | Comments)

67. Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
    (3 Aug 2017 | 567 points | Comments)

68. Time.gif
    (12 Aug 2017 | 563 points | Comments)

69. SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside
    (11 Aug 2017 | 550 points | Comments)

70. The Kolmogorov option
    (9 Aug 2017 | 537 points | Comments)

71. iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from shared URLs
    (23 Aug 2017 | 534 points | Comments)

72. Krita Foundation in Trouble
    (1 Aug 2017 | 529 points | Comments)

73. Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court
    (24 Aug 2017 | 527 points | Comments)

74. OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships
    (11 Aug 2017 | 510 points | Comments)

75. Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook
    (12 Aug 2017 | 504 points | Comments)

76. A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its promises
    (10 Aug 2017 | 503 points | Comments)

77. Afraid of Makefiles? Don't be
    (17 Aug 2017 | 502 points | Comments)

78. When it comes to internet privacy, be afraid, analyst suggests
    (29 Aug 2017 | 500 points | Comments)

79. APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning
    (15 Aug 2017 | 498 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It?
    (15 Aug 2017 | 489 points | Comments)

81. Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
    (10 Aug 2017 | 488 points | Comments)

82. “Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work
    (6 Aug 2017 | 487 points | Comments)

83. Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009)
    (6 Aug 2017 | 482 points | Comments)

84. How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine
    (21 Aug 2017 | 481 points | Comments)

85. Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial
    (17 Aug 2017 | 479 points | Comments)

86. Water Found Deep Inside the Moon
    (24 Aug 2017 | 477 points | Comments)

87. A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four Decades
    (23 Aug 2017 | 475 points | Comments)

88. German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier
    (14 Aug 2017 | 473 points | Comments)

89. Summer Reading List
    (3 Aug 2017 | 470 points | Comments)

90. Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund
    (16 Aug 2017 | 470 points | Comments)

91. Epistle 3
    (25 Aug 2017 | 470 points | Comments)

92. Announcing Rust 1.20
    (31 Aug 2017 | 468 points | Comments)

93. Benchmark Capital Sues Travis Kalanick for Fraud
    (10 Aug 2017 | 467 points | Comments)

94. Examining a vintage RAM chip, I find a counterfeit with a different die inside
    (21 Aug 2017 | 462 points | Comments)

95. “What next?”
    (19 Aug 2017 | 461 points | Comments)

96. I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
    (15 Aug 2017 | 460 points | Comments)

97. NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand
    (1 Aug 2017 | 455 points | Comments)

98. Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet
    (25 Aug 2017 | 455 points | Comments)

99. Python Data Science Handbook
    (29 Aug 2017 | 455 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?
     (17 Aug 2017 | 451 points | Comments)