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Top of Month - Aug 2018

1. Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store
   (20 Aug 2018 | 1620 points | Comments)

2. Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs
   (6 Aug 2018 | 1532 points | Comments)

3. Thank you HN
   (12 Aug 2018 | 1370 points | Comments)

4. Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed
   (23 Aug 2018 | 1318 points | Comments)

5. Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available
   (12 Aug 2018 | 1082 points | Comments)

6. Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
   (29 Aug 2018 | 1072 points | Comments)

7. Pandoc
   (27 Aug 2018 | 1016 points | Comments)

8. Bullshit Jobs
   (30 Aug 2018 | 964 points | Comments)

9. Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate
   (8 Aug 2018 | 948 points | Comments)

10. Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
    (24 Aug 2018 | 948 points | Comments)

11. NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students
    (16 Aug 2018 | 931 points | Comments)

12. Julia 1.0
    (9 Aug 2018 | 915 points | Comments)

13. CLI: Improved
    (30 Aug 2018 | 913 points | Comments)

14. Go 2 Draft Designs
    (28 Aug 2018 | 909 points | Comments)

15. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
    (17 Aug 2018 | 878 points | Comments)

16. Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server
    (24 Aug 2018 | 877 points | Comments)

17. Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking
    (30 Aug 2018 | 858 points | Comments)

18. Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness
    (9 Aug 2018 | 851 points | Comments)

19. Bye bye BetterSlack
    (29 Aug 2018 | 839 points | Comments)

20. Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux
    (22 Aug 2018 | 819 points | Comments)

21. My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
    (18 Aug 2018 | 814 points | Comments)

22. Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
    (3 Aug 2018 | 785 points | Comments)

23. Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)
    (15 Aug 2018 | 779 points | Comments)

24. Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
    (13 Aug 2018 | 769 points | Comments)

25. How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites
    (23 Aug 2018 | 766 points | Comments)

26. DuckDuckGo Raises $10M
    (28 Aug 2018 | 762 points | Comments)

27. To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008)
    (7 Aug 2018 | 740 points | Comments)

28. Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy
    (18 Aug 2018 | 726 points | Comments)

29. Don’t Do This in Production
    (19 Aug 2018 | 696 points | Comments)

30. Learning Math for Machine Learning
    (1 Aug 2018 | 695 points | Comments)

31. LEGO built a life-size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces
    (30 Aug 2018 | 682 points | Comments)

32. You don’t need standups
    (2 Aug 2018 | 677 points | Comments)

33. Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
    (21 Aug 2018 | 675 points | Comments)

34. 1/0 = 0
    (10 Aug 2018 | 650 points | Comments)

35. Building a Kickass Portfolio
    (2 Aug 2018 | 648 points | Comments)

36. Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff
    (20 Aug 2018 | 647 points | Comments)

37. Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning
    (26 Aug 2018 | 636 points | Comments)

38. 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
    (17 Aug 2018 | 629 points | Comments)

39. John McCain has died
    (26 Aug 2018 | 628 points | Comments)

40. Show HN: Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding
    (8 Aug 2018 | 611 points | Comments)

41. I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
    (6 Aug 2018 | 604 points | Comments)

42. Exapunks
    (12 Aug 2018 | 603 points | Comments)

43. How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind
    (1 Aug 2018 | 602 points | Comments)

44. EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time
    (31 Aug 2018 | 602 points | Comments)

45. Filament: Physically-based rendering engine
    (3 Aug 2018 | 599 points | Comments)

46. Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers
    (6 Aug 2018 | 597 points | Comments)

47. Serverless Docker Beta
    (14 Aug 2018 | 595 points | Comments)

48. 4D toys
    (4 Aug 2018 | 592 points | Comments)

49. Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster
    (9 Aug 2018 | 592 points | Comments)

50. Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted
    (21 Aug 2018 | 585 points | Comments)

51. AWS icon quiz
    (6 Aug 2018 | 580 points | Comments)

52. Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool
    (7 Aug 2018 | 580 points | Comments)

53. Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders
    (23 Aug 2018 | 578 points | Comments)

54. National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions
    (21 Aug 2018 | 573 points | Comments)

55. Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A
    (22 Aug 2018 | 570 points | Comments)

56. Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire
    (21 Aug 2018 | 567 points | Comments)

57. Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful
    (4 Aug 2018 | 566 points | Comments)

58. What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
    (6 Aug 2018 | 566 points | Comments)

59. EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing
    (7 Aug 2018 | 560 points | Comments)

60. Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series
    (7 Aug 2018 | 552 points | Comments)

61. Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git
    (5 Aug 2018 | 551 points | Comments)

62. NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
    (28 Aug 2018 | 550 points | Comments)

63. Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python
    (2 Aug 2018 | 549 points | Comments)

64. The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext
    (3 Aug 2018 | 545 points | Comments)

65. Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself
    (3 Aug 2018 | 543 points | Comments)

66. Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
    (23 Aug 2018 | 540 points | Comments)

67. Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid
    (7 Aug 2018 | 537 points | Comments)

68. A Dutch first: Ingenious BMW theft attempt
    (9 Aug 2018 | 537 points | Comments)

69. G Suite Horror Story
    (5 Aug 2018 | 534 points | Comments)

70. Original Source code for the Furby [pdf]
    (13 Aug 2018 | 533 points | Comments)

71. Can Beethoven send takedown requests?
    (31 Aug 2018 | 530 points | Comments)

72. After 24 years, Doom II's final secret has been found
    (31 Aug 2018 | 529 points | Comments)

73. Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Renderer for C++
    (10 Aug 2018 | 527 points | Comments)

74. Minecraft Global Warming
    (20 Aug 2018 | 524 points | Comments)

75. I don't trust Signal
    (9 Aug 2018 | 523 points | Comments)

76. Sen. Wyden Confirms Cell-Site Simulators Disrupt Emergency Calls
    (28 Aug 2018 | 518 points | Comments)

77. Google tracks your movements, like it or not
    (13 Aug 2018 | 515 points | Comments)

78. Bash Infinity: Standard library and boilerplate framework for Bash
    (10 Aug 2018 | 507 points | Comments)

79. FCC admits it was never actually hacked
    (6 Aug 2018 | 494 points | Comments)

80. Periodic fasting starves cisplatin‐resistant cancers to death
    (3 Aug 2018 | 493 points | Comments)

81. Katie's New Face
    (15 Aug 2018 | 493 points | Comments)

82. Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
    (1 Aug 2018 | 492 points | Comments)

83. Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time
    (19 Aug 2018 | 488 points | Comments)

84. The Bitter Regrets of a Useless Chinese Daughter
    (24 Aug 2018 | 487 points | Comments)

85. PyPy.js: Python in the web browser
    (22 Aug 2018 | 483 points | Comments)

86. Introducing Android 9 Pie
    (6 Aug 2018 | 481 points | Comments)

87. Dear customers of Cloudflare: an appeal regarding Tor
    (13 Aug 2018 | 481 points | Comments)

88. GLB: GitHub's open source load balancer
    (8 Aug 2018 | 478 points | Comments)

89. Procrastination is more about managing emotions than time: study
    (30 Aug 2018 | 478 points | Comments)

90. The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI
    (13 Aug 2018 | 477 points | Comments)

91. Software development requires servant leaders
    (15 Aug 2018 | 475 points | Comments)

92. Commons Clause
    (21 Aug 2018 | 472 points | Comments)

93. A time in 1994 when Steve Jobs got to use a device like an iPhone
    (1 Aug 2018 | 470 points | Comments)

94. HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
    (18 Aug 2018 | 469 points | Comments)

95. Google tracks users who turn off location history
    (14 Aug 2018 | 467 points | Comments)

96. Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch
    (18 Aug 2018 | 467 points | Comments)

97. Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere
    (20 Aug 2018 | 466 points | Comments)

98. Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’
    (22 Aug 2018 | 457 points | Comments)

99. Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
    (3 Aug 2018 | 455 points | Comments)

100. Linux Kernel Developer Criticizes Intel for Meltdown, Spectre Response
     (30 Aug 2018 | 454 points | Comments)