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Hacker News (Jul 2019)
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Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera
1929 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
1549 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
1355 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
1347 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Choose Boring Technology
1333 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan
1329 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
1326 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
1183 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
1117 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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How to assess the quality of garments (2014)
968 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Developers don't understand CORS
925 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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QuickJS JavaScript Engine
919 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Adblocking: How about Nah?
901 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning [pdf]
852 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
841 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
838 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem
832 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)
825 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook
790 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source
774 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
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I Can’t Stop Winning
750 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages
739 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
732 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
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Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
717 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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How is it like to be a dev in Iran
715 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
711 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
711 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
708 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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How the Dat Protocol Works
703 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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RSA is a fragile cryptosystem
703 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide
693 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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Twitter was down
691 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019
688 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
681 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Employee happiness and business success are linked
680 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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YouTube video has its own URL in it
669 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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YouTube was launched as a dating site
669 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Blender 2.80
661 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers
651 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone
647 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid
647 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light
637 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
636 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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At what time of day do famous programmers work?
633 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
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A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign
633 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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What's Coming in Python 3.8
633 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note
633 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation
630 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Cloudflare Network Performance Issues
630 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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How to write idempotent Bash scripts
629 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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Photorealistic Path Tracer
628 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
620 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Strong_password Rubygem hijacked
619 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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Saving Lydia
617 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Argdown
616 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
615 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
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Being Bored Is Good
614 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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PCI Express on the Raspberry Pi 4
612 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Why wasn't this page found?
612 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps
607 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
605 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage
599 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Space Engine
593 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
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Google Cloud networking issues in us-east1
584 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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History and Effective Use of Vim
581 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
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Browsers are pretty good at loading pages
579 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
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BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
579 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
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Want to hire the best programmers? Offer growth
578 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millions submitted claims
571 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program
568 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
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Debian 10 “Buster” Released
564 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
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How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?
564 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)
564 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
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The Raspberry Pi 4 needs a fan
563 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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Ten Years of Erlang
563 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
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Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns
562 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
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Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…
559 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
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Some items from my “reliability list”
558 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated
551 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Breaking max efficiency of solar cells by activating 2 electrons with 1 photon
543 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
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Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware
543 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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Project Vesta – Mitigating climate change with green sand beaches
542 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
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IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B
541 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Visual Information Theory (2015)
539 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
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Shopify and the Power of Platforms
534 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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What every computer science major should know (2011)
530 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
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A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”
522 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Is this Paypal experience customary?
521 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
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No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game
516 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
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Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer
514 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
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The UK authorities made illegal copies of the Schengen Information System
513 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
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You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (2000)
511 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
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Uber Lays Off 400
511 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
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Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer
504 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
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Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain
501 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
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Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502
492 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
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Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists
492 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
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Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew
490 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
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CERN migrates to open-source technologies
482 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
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Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers
477 points • comment • jul 25, 2019