Hacker News on 12 August 2018

• Thank you HN
• Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available
• Exapunks
• Dijkstra's in Disguise
• OpenStax – openly licensed textbooks
• Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt?
• Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer
• USA Temperature: can I sucker you?
• One man designed and built the ultimate bush plane
• Frink