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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera

    1929 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  2. YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

    1549 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  3. Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server

    1355 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  4. YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

    1347 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  5. Choose Boring Technology

    1333 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  6. MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

    1329 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  7. YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

    1326 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  8. Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?

    1183 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  9. Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

    1117 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  10. How to assess the quality of garments (2014)

    968 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  11. Developers don't understand CORS

    925 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  12. QuickJS JavaScript Engine

    919 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  13. Adblocking: How about Nah?

    901 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  14. Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning [pdf]

    852 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  15. Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations

    841 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  16. To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public

    838 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  17. Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem

    832 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  18. Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)

    825 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  19. Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook

    790 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  20. Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source

    774 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  21. I Can’t Stop Winning

    750 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  22. Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages

    739 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  23. A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy

    732 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  24. Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day

    717 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  25. How is it like to be a dev in Iran

    715 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  26. Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M

    711 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  27. User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

    711 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  28. California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure

    708 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  29. How the Dat Protocol Works

    703 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  30. RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

    703 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  31. HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide

    693 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  32. Twitter was down

    691 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  33. Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019

    688 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  34. Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

    681 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  35. Employee happiness and business success are linked

    680 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  36. YouTube video has its own URL in it

    669 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  37. YouTube was launched as a dating site

    669 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  38. Blender 2.80

    661 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  39. No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers

    651 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  40. iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone

    647 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  41. Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid

    647 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  42. LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light

    637 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  43. Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68

    636 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  44. At what time of day do famous programmers work?

    633 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  45. A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign

    633 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  46. What's Coming in Python 3.8

    633 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  47. Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note

    633 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  48. Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation

    630 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  49. Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

    630 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  50. How to write idempotent Bash scripts

    629 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  51. Photorealistic Path Tracer

    628 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  52. Advertising Is a Cancer on Society

    620 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  53. Strong_password Rubygem hijacked

    619 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  54. Saving Lydia

    617 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  55. Argdown

    616 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  56. Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals

    615 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  57. Being Bored Is Good

    614 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  58. PCI Express on the Raspberry Pi 4

    612 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  59. Why wasn't this page found?

    612 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  60. DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps

    607 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  61. Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks

    605 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  62. Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage

    599 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  63. Space Engine

    593 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  64. Google Cloud networking issues in us-east1

    584 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  65. History and Effective Use of Vim

    581 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  66. Browsers are pretty good at loading pages

    579 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  67. BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code

    579 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  68. Want to hire the best programmers? Offer growth

    578 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  69. Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millions submitted claims

    571 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  70. Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program

    568 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  71. Debian 10 “Buster” Released

    564 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  72. How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?

    564 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  73. I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)

    564 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  74. The Raspberry Pi 4 needs a fan

    563 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  75. Ten Years of Erlang

    563 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  76. Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns

    562 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  77. Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…

    559 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  78. Some items from my “reliability list”

    558 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  79. Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated

    551 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  80. Breaking max efficiency of solar cells by activating 2 electrons with 1 photon

    543 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  81. Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware

    543 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  82. Project Vesta – Mitigating climate change with green sand beaches

    542 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  83. IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B

    541 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  84. Visual Information Theory (2015)

    539 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  85. Shopify and the Power of Platforms

    534 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  86. What every computer science major should know (2011)

    530 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  87. A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”

    522 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  88. Is this Paypal experience customary?

    521 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  89. No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game

    516 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  90. Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer

    514 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  91. The UK authorities made illegal copies of the Schengen Information System

    513 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  92. You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (2000)

    511 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  93. Uber Lays Off 400

    511 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  94. Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer

    504 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  95. Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain

    501 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  96. Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502

    492 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  97. Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

    492 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  98. Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew

    490 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  99. CERN migrates to open-source technologies

    482 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  100. Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers

    477 points • comment • jul 25, 2019