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August 2016 Archive
1.
“It's The Future” (circleci.com)
1323 points by knowbody on Aug 17, 2016 | 521 comments
2.
The Dropbox hack is real (troyhunt.com)
1313 points by joshschreuder on Aug 31, 2016 | 539 comments
3.
Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup (medium.com)
1311 points by davidkhess on Aug 29, 2016 | 558 comments
4.
Why we lost Uber as a user (postgresql.org)
1234 points by areski on Aug 1, 2016 | 285 comments
5.
PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux (azure.microsoft.com)
1217 points by platz on Aug 18, 2016 | 760 comments
6.
Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay (nytimes.com)
1195 points by OhHeyItsE on Aug 2, 2016 | 760 comments
7.
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star (eso.org)
1187 points by Thorondor on Aug 24, 2016 | 427 comments
8.
NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender (citizenlab.org)
1055 points by dropalltables on Aug 25, 2016 | 242 comments
9.
Show HN: Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration (mewo2.com)
1004 points by mewo2 on Aug 10, 2016 | 64 comments
10.
Indie Hackers: Learn how developers are making money (indiehackers.com)
971 points by csallen on Aug 11, 2016 | 184 comments
11.
Japanese writing system basics (candyjapan.com)
961 points by bemmu on Aug 20, 2016 | 338 comments
12.
Zero-cost futures in Rust (aturon.github.io)
930 points by steveklabnik on Aug 11, 2016 | 337 comments
13.
Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons (washingtonpost.com)
859 points by okket on Aug 18, 2016 | 358 comments
14.
Web Scraping in 2016 (franciskim.co)
852 points by franciskim on Aug 23, 2016 | 387 comments
15.
This JPEG is also a webpage (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
833 points by cocoflunchy on Aug 10, 2016 | 226 comments
16.
The Cuban CDN (blog.cloudflare.com)
832 points by shdon on Aug 19, 2016 | 136 comments
17.
Seymour Papert has died (media.mit.edu)
820 points by j4mie on Aug 1, 2016 | 137 comments
18.
Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard (code.facebook.com)
819 points by jamesgpearce on Aug 31, 2016 | 156 comments
19.
Nasa just made all its research available online for free (independent.co.uk)
776 points by signa11 on Aug 20, 2016 | 49 comments
20.
What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (mcmansionhell.tumblr.com)
758 points by jseliger on Aug 14, 2016 | 519 comments
21.
How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015) (syntheti.cc)
751 points by pvsukale3 on Aug 29, 2016 | 340 comments
22.
Page Dewarping (mzucker.github.io)
743 points by pietrofmaggi on Aug 18, 2016 | 70 comments
23.
Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (megaprocessor.com)
731 points by diymaker on Aug 19, 2016 | 88 comments
24.
Machine Learning and Ketosis (github.com)
706 points by ddv on Aug 12, 2016 | 295 comments
25.
Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs (lkml.org)
701 points by demiol on Aug 16, 2016 | 127 comments
26.
Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail (cpbotha.net)
649 points by cpbotha on Aug 8, 2016 | 365 comments
27.
Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?
648 points by jdmoreira on Aug 13, 2016 | 299 comments
28.
Hello from Orkut (orkut.com)
643 points by shardul111 on Aug 5, 2016 | 323 comments
29.
Show HN: Carbide – A New Programming Environment (alpha.trycarbide.com)
628 points by antimatter15 on Aug 24, 2016 | 136 comments
30.
What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone (medium.com)
625 points by walterbell on Aug 3, 2016 | 212 comments