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Hacker News (Jun 2019)

  1. Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive?

    108 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  2. Identity Is Dead

    108 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  3. I’ve Climbed Everest 21 Times. It’s Not the Mountain It Used to Be

    108 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  4. Ask HN: Server-side web apps – is the database still a bottleneck?

    108 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  5. Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10

    108 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  6. A photo history of Frog, the company that designed the original Mac

    108 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  7. Automagica: Open-Source Robotic Process Automation

    108 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  8. Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written in Python

    108 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  9. FreeDOS's Linux Roots

    107 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  10. Study: Tesla Autopilot misleading, overestimated more than similar technology

    107 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  11. Tokyo's suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the old

    107 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  12. Svalbard Global Seed Vault

    107 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  13. I “found” the database of a college app (2018)

    107 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  14. Migrating 300k LOC from Flow to TypeScript

    107 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  15. Pennsylvania Is First State to Use Automated System to Expunge Criminal Records

    107 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  16. France bans the publication of statistical information about judges’ decisions

    107 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  17. Sysop Chat

    107 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  18. Perl 6's given: switch on steroids

    107 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  19. Driving on the Autobahn

    107 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  20. Richard Baldwin on the “inhumanely fast” next phase of globalization

    106 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  21. Continuous Partial Attention

    106 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  22. BonziBuddy

    106 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  23. Burnout Is Now an Official Medical Condition

    106 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  24. Distributed Locks Are Dead; Long Live Distributed Locks

    106 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  25. Towards Reproducible Research with PyTorch Hub

    106 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  26. Web Single Sign-On, the SAML 2.0 perspective

    106 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  27. A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change

    106 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  28. The human body is a mosaic of different genomes

    106 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  29. Secure ShellFish – SSH and SFTP Storage for iOS

    106 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  30. An examination of Uber’s economics

    106 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  31. Question mark hangs over trendy tech startup domains

    105 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  32. A New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portuguese Island

    105 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  33. Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary

    105 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  34. Low cost, all electric, benchtop injection molding machine

    105 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  35. Shady Numbers and Bad Business: Inside the Esports Bubble

    105 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  36. Building Lyft’s Marketing Automation Platform

    105 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  37. GCC should warn about 2^16 and 2^32 and 2^64

    105 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  38. Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)

    105 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  39. Lessons learned from rewriting code

    105 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  40. Rethinking Files

    104 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  41. Fortune 500 company leaked 264GB in client, payment data

    104 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  42. From Python to Go to Rust: an opinionated journey (2018)

    104 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  43. Quantum transitions take time – the news is its experimental demonstration

    104 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  44. Baseline Grid

    104 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  45. Show HN: Ludigraphix, geometry-oriented vector drawing software for Mac

    104 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  46. Where Has the Magic Gone?

    104 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  47. Everest through the eyes of a Sherpa

    104 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  48. Should the police be able to investigate your genetic family tree for any crime?

    104 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  49. Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end

    104 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  50. Scientists are searching for a mirror universe

    104 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  51. Tensorflow 2.0 Beta 0

    104 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  52. Scientists have discovered a sea of fresh water under the ocean

    104 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  53. One Casualty of the Palm Oil Industry: An Orangutan Mother, Shot 74 Times

    103 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  54. The Thirty-Hour Week (1936)

    103 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  55. Ive’s Legacy, the Post-Ive Apple

    103 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  56. What does debugging a program look like?

    103 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  57. I don’t need The Onion, I have China Daily

    103 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  58. Airbnb likely removed 31,000 homes from Canada’s rental market, study finds

    103 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  59. How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use

    102 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  60. Google will no longer make its own tablet devices

    102 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  61. A Peer to Peer Voting Algorithm [pdf]

    102 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  62. The Golden Scale: A Collection of Norwegian Folktales

    102 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  63. The boring genius of how Atrium kills legal busy work

    102 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  64. Benefits of talking to strangers

    102 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  65. Google’s painful Gmail OAuth verification process

    101 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  66. Self-Driving Cars Have a Problem: Safer Human-Driven Ones

    101 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  67. JavaScript Is the CO2 of the Web [audio]

    101 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  68. Open-Sourcing Our Reactor Design, and the Future of Transatomic

    101 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  69. Snagging Parking Spaces with Mask R-CNN and Python

    101 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  70. This Marketing Blog Does Not Exist

    101 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  71. Facebook urged to pause Libra crypto-currency project

    101 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  72. Amazon Unveils New Alexa Dialog Modeling for Natural, Cross-Skill Conversations

    101 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  73. Go proposal: Leave “if err != nil” alone?

    101 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  74. How I Consume Books

    101 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  75. Why ['1', '7', '11'].map(parseInt) returns [1, NaN, 3] in JavaScript

    101 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  76. GraphQL Conf 2019 in a Nutshell – Some Takeaways

    101 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  77. C, Fortran, and single-character strings

    101 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  78. E3: Microsoft’s next Xbox: 8K graphics, SSD storage, and ray-tracing for 2020

    101 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  79. G20 agrees to push ahead with digital tax

    101 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  80. Imagining Life as a Stack of Mental States

    100 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  81. A Visual Introduction to Morse Theory

    100 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  82. Ask HN: Twitter account stolen by presumed vulnerability

    100 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  83. Helsinki's solution to homelessness

    100 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  84. Uber is a tinder box

    100 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  85. Historical Map of the Cognitive Sciences: An Attempt

    100 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  86. Tightening up Privacy in Matrix

    100 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  87. 3D engine on MS Excel without VBA (2018) [video]

    100 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  88. Electric cars: New vehicles to emit noise to aid safety

    100 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  89. Rethinking the Commodore 64 Memory Map (2018)

    100 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  90. The avocado is an evolutionary anachronism

    100 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  91. Al-Maʿarri

    100 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  92. 'Today, Hong Kong; Tomorrow, Taiwan:' Resistance to China Spreads

    99 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  93. Interns’ Job Prospects Constrained by Noncompete Agreements

    99 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  94. An entrepreneur wants to track the residents of a high-crime American community

    99 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  95. Implement with Types, Not Your Brain

    99 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  96. Tesla will soon downgrade software on the entry-level Model 3

    99 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  97. Many-valued logic

    99 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  98. 'Where was the Lord?': Slave testimonies

    99 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  99. A Gas Heist Gone Wrong

    99 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  100. 1872 Journalists Killed between 1992 and 2019

    99 points • comment • jun 13, 2019