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August 2016 Archive
571.
Why There Are So Many Ties in Swimming (regressing.deadspin.com)
156 points by azylman on Aug 13, 2016 | 54 comments
572.
A Sneak Peek Comparison of x264, x265, and libvpx (techblog.netflix.com)
156 points by babak_ap on Aug 29, 2016 | 54 comments
573.
How to allocate memory (geocar.sdf1.org)
156 points by ksherlock on Aug 26, 2016 | 45 comments
574.
Kung Fu, Once Central to Hong Kong Life, Is Waning (nytimes.com)
155 points by fuzzythinker on Aug 24, 2016 | 173 comments
575.
LibreOffice 5.2 “fresh” Released, for Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux (blog.documentfoundation.org)
155 points by okket on Aug 3, 2016 | 148 comments
576.
Startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 1 (techcrunch.com)
155 points by runesoerensen on Aug 23, 2016 | 125 comments
577.
Offer HN: Free logo design for an open source project
154 points by fairpx on Aug 27, 2016 | 59 comments
578.
Born to Rest (harvardmagazine.com)
153 points by paulpauper on Aug 30, 2016 | 149 comments
579.
The NSA Is Hoarding Vulnerabilities (schneier.com)
153 points by gexos on Aug 26, 2016 | 82 comments
580.
Firefox’s latest Test Pilot: No More 404s (ghacks.net)
153 points by onion2k on Aug 4, 2016 | 81 comments
581.
DEA regularly mines Americans' travel records to seize millions in cash (usatoday.com)
153 points by tantalor on Aug 11, 2016 | 73 comments
582.
The Relation of Toxoplasma Infection and Sexual Attraction to Fear, Danger, Pain (evp.sagepub.com)
153 points by omnibrain on Aug 22, 2016 | 49 comments
583.
IPv6 Support for Amazon S3 (aws.amazon.com)
153 points by agwa on Aug 11, 2016 | 48 comments
584.
Solid – A set of conventions and tools for decentralized social applications (solid.mit.edu)
153 points by edwinjm on Aug 13, 2016 | 46 comments
585.
iOS 10 to Feature Stronger “Limit Ad Tracking” Control (fpf.org)
153 points by cpeterso on Aug 2, 2016 | 43 comments
586.
DDoSCoin: Cryptocurrency with malicious proof of work (usenix.org)
153 points by kwantam on Aug 11, 2016 | 37 comments
587.
The story of how WoSign gave me an SSL certificate for GitHub (schrauger.com)
153 points by schrauger on Aug 31, 2016 | 25 comments
588.
Text to Image Synthesis Using Thought Vectors (github.com)
153 points by piyush8311 on Aug 26, 2016 | 21 comments
589.
Ecological Wealth of Nations (footprintnetwork.org)
152 points by schallertd on Aug 8, 2016 | 131 comments
590.
Motivational Incongruence and Well-Being at the Workplace (journal.frontiersin.org)
152 points by rjdevereux on Aug 14, 2016 | 86 comments
591.
Why Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction (slate.com)
152 points by yurisagalov on Aug 27, 2016 | 83 comments
592.
90% of software developers in the US work outside Silicon Valley (qz.com)
152 points by cpeterso on Aug 29, 2016 | 79 comments
593.
How foreign governments spy using PowerPoint and Twitter (washingtonpost.com)
152 points by peter_tonoli on Aug 2, 2016 | 76 comments
594.
SVG 2 new features (github.com)
152 points by okket on Aug 14, 2016 | 72 comments
595.
A Container Is a Function Call (glyph.twistedmatrix.com)
152 points by ingve on Aug 15, 2016 | 67 comments
596.
Sad Trombone Exoplanet Reality Check (antipope.org)
151 points by cstross on Aug 20, 2016 | 195 comments
597.
The War on Cash (thelongandshort.org)
151 points by Gigamouse on Aug 20, 2016 | 152 comments
598.
Decommissioning Otto (hashicorp.com)
151 points by zhenjl on Aug 20, 2016 | 96 comments
599.
Ask HN: Did some of you try the digital nomad lifestyle and not like it?
151 points by maxencecornet on Aug 12, 2016 | 86 comments
600.
Greenland shark found to be at least 272 years old (nature.com)
151 points by okket on Aug 11, 2016 | 25 comments