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August 2019 Archive
841.
Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, police and defence firms (theguardian.com)
146 points by Hard_Space on Aug 14, 2019 | 54 comments
842.
The Gig Economy (2018) (zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com)
146 points by ZhuanXia on Aug 25, 2019 | 20 comments
843.
Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV (nytimes.com)
145 points by jmsflknr on Aug 22, 2019 | 212 comments
844.
How we built a P2P file sharing network from scratch (xorro-p2p.github.io)
145 points by grailed on Aug 6, 2019 | 19 comments
845.
Vector – Open-source Rust utility for logs, metrics and events (vector.dev)
145 points by weitzj on Aug 31, 2019 | 17 comments
846.
Goals and Rewards Redraw the Brain’s Map of the World (quantamagazine.org)
145 points by Osiris30 on Aug 4, 2019 | 8 comments
847.
Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
145 points by samaysharma on Aug 28, 2019 | 2 comments
848.
US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In (twitter.com)
144 points by seapunk on Aug 16, 2019 | 242 comments
849.
Rich Families Are Legally Separating from Their Kids to Pay Less for College (vice.com)
144 points by HillaryBriss on Aug 28, 2019 | 241 comments
850.
Show HN: Retool Templates – Custom internal tools with drag-and-drop components (retool.com)
144 points by syogi on Aug 8, 2019 | 27 comments
851.
JuliaCon 2019 Videos (youtube.com)
144 points by FranzFerdiNaN on Aug 1, 2019 | 25 comments
852.
Airframe – Open-Source Dashboard Template (github.com)
144 points by metamet on Aug 20, 2019 | 18 comments
853.
America’s social-media addiction is getting worse (economist.com)
143 points by seagullz on Aug 9, 2019 | 179 comments
854.
Mosquitoes Changed Everything (newyorker.com)
143 points by sasvari on Aug 4, 2019 | 140 comments
855.
FBI: Delivery drivers involved in Amazon theft ring (wthr.com)
143 points by georgecmu on Aug 3, 2019 | 114 comments
856.
Columnist asked researchers what they could find out from just his cell number (nytimes.com)
143 points by sneeze-slayer on Aug 15, 2019 | 111 comments
857.
Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Camera (kaspars.net)
143 points by ingve on Aug 9, 2019 | 68 comments
858.
Waymo’s Backseat Drivers: Confidential Data Reveals Self-Driving Taxi Hurdles (theinformation.com)
142 points by ballmers_peak on Aug 26, 2019 | 194 comments
859.
What Germans Are Reading (the-american-interest.com)
142 points by objections on Aug 14, 2019 | 126 comments
860.
A Commercial Path to Fusion (physicsworld.com)
142 points by theothermkn on Aug 6, 2019 | 105 comments
861.
StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data (techcrunch.com)
142 points by rmason on Aug 4, 2019 | 102 comments
862.
“Bicycle of the Mind” (medium.learningbyshipping.com)
142 points by jensgk on Aug 16, 2019 | 45 comments
863.
Tiny Toy TOTP Generator in 18 Lines of Python (github.com)
142 points by susam on Aug 11, 2019 | 44 comments
864.
MoviePass reportedly changed passwords to prevent users from seeing films (theverge.com)
142 points by nwrk on Aug 11, 2019 | 41 comments
865.
Documentation – Your Secret Weapon (anup.io)
142 points by anupj on Aug 6, 2019 | 37 comments
866.
A Molecular Near Miss (isohedral.ca)
142 points by adenadel on Aug 29, 2019 | 11 comments
867.
Dwindling CPAN Releases (perlancar.wordpress.com)
141 points by perlancar3 on Aug 1, 2019 | 170 comments
868.
What Companies Are For (economist.com)
141 points by prostoalex on Aug 24, 2019 | 168 comments
869.
Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the current record of 16 MB (hutter1.net)
141 points by tosh on Aug 11, 2019 | 101 comments
870.
AdoptOpenJDK: Open-source, prebuilt OpenJDK binaries (adoptopenjdk.net)
141 points by nnnmnten on Aug 21, 2019 | 86 comments