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Hacker News (Jun 2019)

  1. Apple makes zsh default shell on macOS

    91 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  2. The Forecaster: The Man Who Decided D-Day

    91 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  3. Riichi Mahjong Strategy Books

    91 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  4. Student Journalists Expose High School’s Use of Prison Labor

    91 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  5. Mozilla files FTC comments calling for interoperability (2018)

    91 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  6. macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions

    91 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  7. It's the Effect Size, Stupid: What effect size is and why it is important (2002)

    90 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  8. Snap! 5 is here

    90 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  9. C++11 lock-free command buffers for multi-thread rendering

    90 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  10. Show HN: Gravitle – 2D soft-body engine built with Rust for the web

    90 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  11. US Steel is idling plants, despite tariffs designed to save them

    90 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  12. Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

    90 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  13. Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2016)

    90 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  14. First Amendment doesn’t apply to private operator running public-access channels

    90 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  15. Download WireGuard for Windows pre-alpha for testing

    90 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  16. Amazon Alexa Secretly Records Children, Lawsuits Allege

    90 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  17. A Message from the Billionaire’s Club: Tax Us

    89 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  18. The case of Chinese LinkedIn spy recruitment [pdf]

    89 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  19. All the balls are the same color: brown

    89 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  20. A Brutal Inheritance

    89 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  21. Cats, Rats, A.I., Oh My [video]

    89 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  22. To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created an Inedible Sandwich

    89 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  23. You are not Google. You are not Netflix

    89 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  24. Tim Cook: Technology companies need to take responsibility for chaos they create

    89 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  25. The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf]

    89 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  26. The Central Park Five

    88 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  27. Cross-national CCTV footage shows intervention is the norm in public conflicts

    88 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  28. Show HN: I wrote a maze traversal program in Clojure

    88 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  29. R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC Basic Is Now Open Source

    88 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  30. The New York couple donating millions to the anti-vax movement

    88 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  31. Stanislaw Lem’s Futurism (2014)

    88 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  32. Only 13% of UK adults trust big tech firms with handling anonymized NHS data

    88 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  33. Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission

    88 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  34. Writing a formally-verified image browser in Coq and Haskell (2017)

    88 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  35. To stop a virus, California has euthanized more than 1.2M birds

    88 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  36. Fuller House: Exposing high-end poker cheating devices (2016)

    88 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  37. 30 Minutes of Aerobic Exercise Supercharges Semantic Memory

    88 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  38. Boeing seeking to reduce scope, duration of physical tests for new aircraft

    88 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  39. IEEE Lifts Huawei Restrictions on Editorial and Peer Review Activities

    87 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  40. Luis Alvarez, Champion of 9/11 Responders, Dies at 53

    87 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  41. AI Habitat, an advanced simulation platform for embodied AI research

    87 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  42. Slack Wants to Replace Email. Is That What We Want?

    87 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  43. Deutsche Bank Faces Criminal Investigation for Potential Money-Laundering Lapses

    87 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  44. Attempt to plug a wasp nest sparked the biggest wildfire in California history

    87 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  45. Too Many People Want to Travel

    87 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  46. Google Made $4.7B from the News Industry in 2018, Study Says

    87 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  47. In defence of the wolf: this big bad animal is more prey than predator

    87 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  48. Great Pacific garbage patch: giant plastic trap put to sea again

    87 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  49. A Programming Language (1962) [pdf]

    87 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  50. Innovations in Graph Representation Learning

    87 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  51. Google’s Dominance Is No Longer a Sure Thing

    87 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  52. Soros, Charles Koch fund non-interventionist think tank

    86 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  53. Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight

    86 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  54. Why Dark Gray Is Brighter Than Gray in CSS

    86 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  55. Libra Core

    86 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  56. Bald Eagle Filmed Swimming

    86 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  57. Underwater Drones Nearly Triple Data from the Ocean Floor

    86 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  58. The prison inside: Japan's hikikomori lack relationships, not physical spaces

    86 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  59. Was this Google Executive deeply misinformed or lying in the New York Times?

    86 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  60. People who get goosebumps from music have different brains (2017)

    86 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  61. U.S. Military Is World’s Biggest Polluter

    86 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  62. Elastic SIEM – Security Information and Event Management

    86 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  63. Police push legal boundaries to get into cellphones

    86 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  64. 'Living drug' offers hope to terminal blood cancer patients

    86 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  65. The Dawn of Robot Surveillance

    86 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  66. How much are professors paid?

    86 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  67. Julia Summer of Einsum

    85 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  68. Jony Ive, iPhone designer, announces Apple departure

    85 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  69. Apple Still Eyes Intel's Modem Business

    85 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  70. Qt 5.13 Released

    85 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  71. Towards Multiverse Databases

    85 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  72. Boeing Knew the AOA Disagree Alert on the 737 Max Didn’t Work

    85 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  73. How will movies, as we know them, survive the next ten years?

    85 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  74. Announcing Timescale Cloud

    85 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  75. Do Brains Operate at a Tipping Point? New Clues and Complications

    85 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  76. GNU Linear Programming Kit

    85 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  77. Ancient Romans Used Molten Iron to Repair Streets Before Vesuvius Erupted

    85 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  78. The Cognitive Profile of People with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders

    85 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  79. Giving a name to my sales anxiety

    85 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  80. Most complex ASCII fluid – Honorable mention (2012)

    85 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  81. Cloudflare Workers

    84 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  82. The vintage 74181 ALU chip: how it works and why it’s so strange (2017)

    84 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  83. Mental illness: is there a global epidemic?

    84 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  84. RPM Packages Explained

    84 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  85. Glue traps are cruel, and retailers should be banned from selling them

    84 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  86. Proving security at scale with automated reasoning

    84 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  87. Fuck Hard Work

    84 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  88. Reset C by GE Light Bulbs [video]

    84 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  89. LoCal: A Language for Programs Operating on Serialized Data

    84 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  90. Walmart Grocery is now offering a $98 per year ‘Delivery Unlimited’ subscription

    84 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  91. Is the Immediate Playback of Events Changing Children’s Memories?

    84 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  92. No Brainer (2015)

    84 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  93. How to live forever: meet the extreme life-extensionists

    84 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  94. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab Toy (1950-1951)

    84 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  95. The Unequal Recovery: Measuring Financial Distress by Zip Code

    83 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  96. The cost of raising a child in America has soared (2018)

    83 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  97. A radio station that no one claims to run (2017)

    83 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  98. The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish

    83 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  99. Dan Ingalls PARC Talk on Sanskrit and OCR (1980) [video]

    83 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  100. A new census shows how a Brazilian favela works

    83 points • comment • jun 02, 2019