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Top of Month - Aug 2019

1. Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)
   (6 Aug 2019 | 1724 points | Comments)

2. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
   (8 Aug 2019 | 1663 points | Comments)

3. Introducing nushell
   (23 Aug 2019 | 1477 points | Comments)

4. Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
   (29 Aug 2019 | 1400 points | Comments)

5. Ebola Is Now Curable
   (12 Aug 2019 | 1232 points | Comments)

6. All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
   (5 Aug 2019 | 1230 points | Comments)

7. I Miss Microsoft Encarta
   (19 Aug 2019 | 1198 points | Comments)

8. Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’
   (9 Aug 2019 | 1181 points | Comments)

9. Information operations directed at Hong Kong
   (19 Aug 2019 | 1116 points | Comments)

10. Terminating Service for 8Chan
    (5 Aug 2019 | 1098 points | Comments)

11. What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?
    (25 Aug 2019 | 1041 points | Comments)

12. How to Build Good Software
    (19 Aug 2019 | 1016 points | Comments)

13. NULL license plate not such a bright idea
    (12 Aug 2019 | 999 points | Comments)

14. What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
    (10 Aug 2019 | 986 points | Comments)

15. Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut
    (6 Aug 2019 | 953 points | Comments)

16. Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender
    (16 Aug 2019 | 937 points | Comments)

17. Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
    (23 Aug 2019 | 918 points | Comments)

18. Cloudflare S-1
    (15 Aug 2019 | 915 points | Comments)

19. 8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
    (5 Aug 2019 | 910 points | Comments)

20. Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
    (27 Aug 2019 | 904 points | Comments)

21. No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers
    (27 Aug 2019 | 896 points | Comments)

22. Python Is Eating the World
    (12 Aug 2019 | 879 points | Comments)

23. Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic
    (12 Aug 2019 | 879 points | Comments)

24. Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%
    (16 Aug 2019 | 865 points | Comments)

25. Hy
    (4 Aug 2019 | 850 points | Comments)

26. Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer
    (25 Aug 2019 | 849 points | Comments)

27. WeWTF
    (17 Aug 2019 | 840 points | Comments)

28. Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye
    (8 Aug 2019 | 838 points | Comments)

29. AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip
    (8 Aug 2019 | 837 points | Comments)

30. US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers
    (11 Aug 2019 | 822 points | Comments)

31. Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
    (2 Aug 2019 | 820 points | Comments)

32. Why is modern web development so complicated?
    (7 Aug 2019 | 819 points | Comments)

33. A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)
    (28 Aug 2019 | 816 points | Comments)

34. OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation
    (19 Aug 2019 | 813 points | Comments)

35. A deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild
    (30 Aug 2019 | 804 points | Comments)

36. Software Architecture Guide
    (24 Aug 2019 | 803 points | Comments)

37. Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules
    (4 Aug 2019 | 802 points | Comments)

38. Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study
    (11 Aug 2019 | 797 points | Comments)

39. Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone
    (8 Aug 2019 | 773 points | Comments)

40. Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap
    (22 Aug 2019 | 762 points | Comments)

41. Tech Interview Handbook
    (17 Aug 2019 | 760 points | Comments)

42. Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
    (13 Aug 2019 | 755 points | Comments)

43. Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts
    (1 Aug 2019 | 750 points | Comments)

44. Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
    (12 Aug 2019 | 750 points | Comments)

45. A Walk in Hong Kong
    (16 Aug 2019 | 748 points | Comments)

46. John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]
    (29 Aug 2019 | 741 points | Comments)

47. The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70
    (30 Aug 2019 | 735 points | Comments)

48. Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore
    (23 Aug 2019 | 731 points | Comments)

49. Build Your Own Text Editor
    (4 Aug 2019 | 711 points | Comments)

50. I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market”
    (16 Aug 2019 | 701 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: How Do You Read?
    (31 Aug 2019 | 686 points | Comments)

52. How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night
    (22 Aug 2019 | 685 points | Comments)

53. Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality
    (5 Aug 2019 | 684 points | Comments)

54. New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
    (6 Aug 2019 | 683 points | Comments)

55. GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
    (8 Aug 2019 | 680 points | Comments)

56. Consume less, create more
    (23 Aug 2019 | 668 points | Comments)

57. Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing
    (2 Aug 2019 | 664 points | Comments)

58. Kerbal Space Program 2
    (19 Aug 2019 | 661 points | Comments)

59. MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
    (28 Aug 2019 | 655 points | Comments)

60. Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer
    (5 Aug 2019 | 651 points | Comments)

61. Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning
    (8 Aug 2019 | 650 points | Comments)

62. The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure
    (5 Aug 2019 | 647 points | Comments)

63. Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file
    (23 Aug 2019 | 640 points | Comments)

64. Start Your Own ISP
    (17 Aug 2019 | 635 points | Comments)

65. Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible
    (19 Aug 2019 | 634 points | Comments)

66. Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
    (22 Aug 2019 | 630 points | Comments)

67. Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours
    (13 Aug 2019 | 610 points | Comments)

68. Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers
    (23 Aug 2019 | 604 points | Comments)

69. Rails 6.0
    (16 Aug 2019 | 594 points | Comments)

70. Ha-ha wall
    (24 Aug 2019 | 592 points | Comments)

71. Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
    (11 Aug 2019 | 589 points | Comments)

72. IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set
    (20 Aug 2019 | 587 points | Comments)

73. Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses
    (29 Aug 2019 | 586 points | Comments)

74. Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming
    (11 Aug 2019 | 583 points | Comments)

75. Let's build houses for people, not cars
    (27 Aug 2019 | 577 points | Comments)

76. We Have Ruined Childhood
    (18 Aug 2019 | 571 points | Comments)

77. Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment
    (15 Aug 2019 | 569 points | Comments)

78. 16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
    (21 Aug 2019 | 567 points | Comments)

79. Home Chip Fab
    (9 Aug 2019 | 566 points | Comments)

80. Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers
    (1 Aug 2019 | 563 points | Comments)

81. A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers
    (10 Aug 2019 | 558 points | Comments)

82. There is no evil like reCAPTCHA
    (5 Aug 2019 | 557 points | Comments)

83. Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode
    (15 Aug 2019 | 552 points | Comments)

84. Who Owns Huawei?
    (9 Aug 2019 | 547 points | Comments)

85. The Horror of Microsoft Teams
    (12 Aug 2019 | 544 points | Comments)

86. Regex for Noobs – An Illustrated Guide
    (4 Aug 2019 | 541 points | Comments)

87. Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
    (20 Aug 2019 | 541 points | Comments)

88. Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability
    (18 Aug 2019 | 539 points | Comments)

89. The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist
    (15 Aug 2019 | 536 points | Comments)

90. Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)
    (5 Aug 2019 | 525 points | Comments)

91. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
    (7 Aug 2019 | 525 points | Comments)

92. Amazon Is a Monopoly
    (5 Aug 2019 | 524 points | Comments)

93. Time anxiety: is it too late?
    (27 Aug 2019 | 518 points | Comments)

94. WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal
    (28 Aug 2019 | 518 points | Comments)

95. Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator
    (13 Aug 2019 | 511 points | Comments)

96. Scientists Discover a Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis
    (14 Aug 2019 | 511 points | Comments)

97. Proteins That May Restore Damaged Sound-Detecting Cells in the Ear
    (13 Aug 2019 | 510 points | Comments)

98. 15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
    (21 Aug 2019 | 502 points | Comments)

99. Banned C standard library functions in Git source code
    (25 Aug 2019 | 502 points | Comments)

100. Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
     (26 Aug 2019 | 497 points | Comments)