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Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales 424 by petethomas | 270 comments on Hacker News.

Linux Kernel Developer Criticizes Intel for Meltdown, Spectre Response 438 by CrankyBear | 139 comments on Hacker News.

EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time 493 by bkfh | 313 comments on Hacker News.

CLI: Improved 455 by Bootvis | 144 comments on Hacker News.

California Moves to Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045 380 by dsr12 | 336 comments on Hacker News.

Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking 460 by ronjouch | 208 comments on Hacker News.

LEGO built a life size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces 429 by cududa | 99 comments on Hacker News.

Bullshit Jobs (Part 1 of ∞) 374 by wyclif | 267 comments on Hacker News.

We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It 379 by Sujan | 159 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node 433 by liamilan | 153 comments on Hacker News.

Bye bye BetterSlack 426 by g3rv4 | 243 comments on Hacker News.

How the Dutch created a casual biking culture 356 by jseliger | 347 comments on Hacker News.

Write – A word processor for handwriting 398 by krupan | 87 comments on Hacker News.

Teens who refuse to use social media 373 by pmoriarty | 298 comments on Hacker News.

NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection 323 by tonyztan | 97 comments on Hacker News.

DuckDuckGo Raises $10M 290 by exotree | 86 comments on Hacker News.

Go 2 Draft Designs 342 by conroy | 162 comments on Hacker News.

Sen. Wyden Confirms Cell-Site Simulators Disrupt Emergency Calls 259 by DiabloD3 | 64 comments on Hacker News.

GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development 339 by jasondavies | 137 comments on Hacker News.

How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap 316 by ephesee | 123 comments on Hacker News.

Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact 252 by smaili | 150 comments on Hacker News.

Pandoc 345 by otp124 | 77 comments on Hacker News.

Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf] 379 by russtrpkovski | 95 comments on Hacker News.

WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages 331 by alexkavon | 149 comments on Hacker News.

Set Theory and Algebra in CS: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling (2013) [pdf] 306 by lainon | 48 comments on Hacker News.

The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon 344 by wcrichton | 151 comments on Hacker News.

Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning 539 by tarboreus | 161 comments on Hacker News.

Supreme Court Should Say No to Patents That Take Old Ideas Away from the Public 299 by otp124 | 68 comments on Hacker News.

Traveler sues US Customs and Border Protection over iPhone search and seizure 356 by dewiz | 189 comments on Hacker News.

How an International Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100M 353 by sus_007 | 64 comments on Hacker News.

IRC turns thirty 340 by worez | 208 comments on Hacker News.

The Bitter Regrets of a Useless Chinese Daughter 477 by bitcurious | 295 comments on Hacker News.

John McCain has died 417 by aaronbrethorst | 97 comments on Hacker News.

What is this Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work? 418 by pinewurst | 180 comments on Hacker News.

Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store 373 by gbaygon | 460 comments on Hacker News.

Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3 520 by fanf2 | 194 comments on Hacker News.

Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server 706 by phwd | 157 comments on Hacker News.

Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System 596 by swalsh | 363 comments on Hacker News.

Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders 478 by sbjs | 138 comments on Hacker News.

How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites 557 by lukestevens | 250 comments on Hacker News.

Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed 480 by jeswin | 136 comments on Hacker News.

Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’ 382 by tareqak | 373 comments on Hacker News.

Redis will remain BSD licensed 424 by antirez | 183 comments on Hacker News.

Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A 464 by ayanai | 272 comments on Hacker News.

Minecraft Global Warming 515 by nsporillo | 125 comments on Hacker News.

Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere 459 by francisofascii | 296 comments on Hacker News.

UNODC Monitoring Survey reports a slight increase of coca bush cultivation in Bolivia during 2017 Published August 22, 2018 at 11:34PM Read more at unodc.org

Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux 514 by kbumsik | 209 comments on Hacker News.

Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire 388 by jamroom | 221 comments on Hacker News.

National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions 386 by eplanit | 237 comments on Hacker News.

Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality 362 by AhmadM91 | 139 comments on Hacker News.

Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted 491 by runesoerensen | 222 comments on Hacker News.

Statement of the UNODC Executive Director on International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism Published August 22, 2018 at 03:32AM Read more at unodc.org

Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing 401 by albertzeyer | 321 comments on Hacker News.

Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store 598 by dhuramas | 159 comments on Hacker News.

Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never Be Illegal 326 by severine | 69 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff 484 by quickthrower2 | 122 comments on Hacker News.

Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time 338 by jabo | 158 comments on Hacker News.

Don't Do This in Production 476 by pattrn | 227 comments on Hacker News.

HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook 359 by google_censors | 422 comments on Hacker News.

Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy 408 by nabla9 | 248 comments on Hacker News.

Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch 328 by codesections | 217 comments on Hacker News.

Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research 360 by JeffCyr | 72 comments on Hacker News.

My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 410 by ilaksh | 214 comments on Hacker News.

Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? 392 by zdw | 65 comments on Hacker News.

Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops 303 by redial | 233 comments on Hacker News.

24-core CPU and I can’t type an email 438 by ghuntley | 206 comments on Hacker News.

Who Left Open The Cookie Jar? 336 by pmoriarty | 107 comments on Hacker News.

FDA approves first generic version of EpiPen 284 by MBCook | 62 comments on Hacker News.

China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone 299 by dexterpe | 155 comments on Hacker News.

The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do 317 by melling | 104 comments on Hacker News.

NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students 284 by mudil | 131 comments on Hacker News.

Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans 253 by panarky | 127 comments on Hacker News.

Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online for Less Than $10k 330 by electriclove | 218 comments on Hacker News.

Katie's New Face 384 by danso | 216 comments on Hacker News.

The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text 296 by efunction | 222 comments on Hacker News.

SQLite Release 3.25.0 adds support for window functions 308 by MarkusWinand | 103 comments on Hacker News.

Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014) 285 by aogl | 35 comments on Hacker News.

Software development requires servant leaders 324 by mooreds | 153 comments on Hacker News.

Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous 345 by dustinupdyke | 526 comments on Hacker News.

Serverless Docker Beta 426 by Rauchg | 165 comments on Hacker News.

The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI 354 by stesch | 38 comments on Hacker News.

Nvidia Unveils Quadro RTX, a Raytracing GPU 288 by tntn | 170 comments on Hacker News.

Google tracks users who turn off location history 323 by oinkgrr | 39 comments on Hacker News.

Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets 393 by tptacek | 123 comments on Hacker News.

Original Source code for the Furby [pdf] 362 by rahimiali | 102 comments on Hacker News.

The 10:1 rule of writing and programming 330 by ScottWRobinson | 85 comments on Hacker News.

OpenStax – openly licensed textbooks 312 by pome | 49 comments on Hacker News.

Dear customers of Cloudflare: an appeal regarding Tor 289 by IngoBlechschmid | 90 comments on Hacker News.

Google tracks your movements, like it or not 270 by tombrossman | 150 comments on Hacker News.

Exapunks 512 by yumaikas | 115 comments on Hacker News.

Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017) 292 by dangom | 110 comments on Hacker News.

Monsanto ordered to pay $289M damages in Roundup cancer trial 234 by dtien | 140 comments on Hacker News.

The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3 249 by dochtman | 65 comments on Hacker News.

Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems 382 by ronjouch | 410 comments on Hacker News.

Thank you HN 1201 by throwAwayXYZ69 | 108 comments on Hacker News. About a couple of years ago, I submitted a thread here called "Ask HN: I'm depressed, what should I do?" [0]. I was in a very dark place personally and professionally. I had turned to my family and friends without success, and posted here looking for a moral boost. I would like to thank all the people that have responded with kindness. I just wanted to say that your words helped, that I think about this thread often, and that your effort did actually help someone from a tough spot. Update on my situation: By the time that I got an offer I could live with, I had sent over 250 applications and done around 20 interviews. I started with 33k€ a year (translates to a little less than 2000€ per month), now I'm at 38k€. I rented a place downtown, and started working out (lost 18kg and counting), I'm going to run a marathon in 3 months!!! Overall, I'm not exactly where I want to be, but -for once- I ...

Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available 372 by jacquesm | 62 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster 569 by dvdhsu | 106 comments on Hacker News.

1/0 = 0 434 by ingve | 403 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Renderer for C++ 329 by adamjs | 123 comments on Hacker News.

Bash Infinity: Standard library and boilerplate framework for Bash 384 by jpatokal | 71 comments on Hacker News.

A Dutch first: Ingenious BMW theft attempt 482 by rapnie | 274 comments on Hacker News.

I don't trust Signal 494 by Bl4ckb0ne | 434 comments on Hacker News.

New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers 342 by aaronbrethorst | 323 comments on Hacker News.

Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021 310 by ngngngng | 175 comments on Hacker News.

GLB: GitHub's open source load balancer 464 by csteinbe | 61 comments on Hacker News.

Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of guilt or threat 292 by dsr12 | 180 comments on Hacker News.

Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness 472 by maxwell | 221 comments on Hacker News.

Julia 1.0 542 by montalbano | 176 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding 481 by wmnn | 56 comments on Hacker News.

Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate 377 by nate | 136 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series 514 by tosh | 62 comments on Hacker News.

To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008) 524 by colinprince | 161 comments on Hacker News.

Introducing Android 9 Pie 474 by nsriv | 352 comments on Hacker News.

What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016) 551 by dlazar | 184 comments on Hacker News.

Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid 357 by bumholio | 294 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool 457 by uptown | 141 comments on Hacker News.

EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing 378 by okket | 221 comments on Hacker News.

FCC admits it was never actually hacked 377 by placatedmayhem | 101 comments on Hacker News.