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Hacker News (Jun 2019)

  1. Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch

    76 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  2. The Ruby Style Guide

    75 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  3. NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services on Legacy Windows

    75 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  4. Top search result for “Tiananmen Square” on China's top search engine Baidu

    75 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  5. The hard way to recover the IBM 5100 Non-executable ROS

    75 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  6. I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in The New York Times

    75 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  7. How Disney built and programmed an animatronic president (2014)

    75 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  8. Old systems can't cope with congested skies, vested interests block reform

    75 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  9. A Product Designer Who Made Mid-Century America Look Clean and Stylish

    75 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  10. What Went Down at WWDC 2019

    75 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  11. Computer Graphics Final Project 1989 Detailed

    75 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  12. Hotel Hackers Are Hiding in the Remote Control Curtains

    75 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  13. Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report

    75 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  14. WordPress VIP sites have been hit by outages

    75 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  15. Men's fertility irreversibly damaged by age of 18 thanks Western junk food diet

    75 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  16. Open Datasets for Autonomous Driving

    74 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  17. Zhaoxin KX-6000 CPUs Purportedly Match Intel's Core I5-7400 in Performance

    74 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  18. No More Shiny Tomorrows: Futurism Needs to Get Real

    74 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  19. Tenure-Based Ownership – A distributed equity model for worker ownership

    74 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  20. Creating a Collaborative Editor

    74 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  21. What Is a 'Nautical Mile'? (2011)

    74 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  22. Plot to steal cryptocurrency foiled by NPM

    74 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  23. Magical, Mystical JavaScript Transducers

    74 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  24. Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study says

    74 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  25. Show HN: Flowlingo – practice a foreign language with tech news

    74 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  26. Making Direct Messages Reliable and Fast

    74 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  27. Algorithms as Objects

    74 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  28. Publishing Simple Books with Jekyll

    74 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  29. Lucet – A Sandboxing WebAssembly Compiler

    74 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  30. Einstein, Symmetry and the Future of Physics

    74 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  31. Building hybrid blockchain/cloud applications

    73 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  32. DNS Cookies – Identify Related Network Flows

    73 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  33. The Hedonic Treadmill

    73 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  34. The Problem of the Aging Surgeon (2009)

    73 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  35. How and How Not to Write a Good Systems Paper (1983)

    73 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  36. Remember Rust with Anki

    73 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  37. XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding

    73 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  38. After 38,000 layoffs, Wall Street wakes up to 'peak car'

    73 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  39. Visual Studio IntelliCode

    73 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  40. Ask HN: How would you teach teens to code in 2019?

    73 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  41. Show HN: Spy Codes: free booklet for kids (2018)

    73 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  42. Jim Allison Won a Nobel Prize for His Cancer Immunotherapy Breakthrough (2018)

    73 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  43. The battle in Israel to create an unhackable phone

    72 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  44. Oakland’s Pothole Vigilantes address gaping problem, one road crater at a time

    72 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  45. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (June 2019)

    72 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  46. DriverKit

    72 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  47. Kedro: open-source library for production-ready machine learning code

    72 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  48. Who gets to own the West?

    72 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  49. Linux and FreeBSD: Multiple TCP-based remote denial of service vulnerabilities

    72 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  50. African Swine Fever Is Spreading and Eliminating It Will Take Decades

    72 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  51. Sarah Stewart Revealed the Missing Link Between Viruses and Cancer

    72 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  52. Show HN: A music delivery service built around the WebAudio API

    72 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  53. California Considering a Ban on Realtime Police Body Camera Facial Recognition

    71 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  54. Mozilla Server Side TLS – Recommended Configurations

    71 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  55. Ask HN: How to handle code reviews with a visually impaired coworker?

    71 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  56. Hyundai Motor Introduces Electric Double-Decker Bus

    71 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  57. Sharing Books with My Dad in Prison

    71 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  58. A Bridge Made of Grass

    71 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  59. Keras – Hyperparameter Tuning for Humans

    71 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  60. Ask HN: I want to get a Bachelor's in CS online. What are some good programs?

    71 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  61. Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle

    71 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  62. I Wrote This on a 30-Year-Old Computer

    71 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  63. Teslabot: A virtual assistant for Tesla cars – Locate, lock and other features

    71 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  64. Advertising may make people miserable, but it still has its uses

    71 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  65. Sensorimotor Mechanics of People with a Sixth Finger

    71 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  66. Alpine 3.10 Released

    71 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  67. Poverty leaves a mark on our genes

    71 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  68. Bone music: the Soviet bootleg records pressed on x-rays (2015)

    71 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  69. L.A. council members propose taxing landlords who leave homes vacant

    71 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  70. Universal Logic Gates (2015)

    70 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  71. The U.S. is still using many pesticides that are banned in other countries

    70 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  72. Social isolation and loneliness in Canada

    70 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  73. Intelligent Machinery (1948) [pdf]

    70 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  74. Show HN: A live map of sunlight on earth

    70 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  75. Three Thousand Years of Algorithmic Rituals

    70 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  76. The Helpful Bystander: Current Evidence from CCTV-Captured Public Conflicts

    70 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  77. Friends Like These: On Thoreau and Emerson

    70 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  78. Ravens parallel great apes in flexible planning for tool-use, bartering (2017)

    70 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  79. Radioactive water at Fukushima Daiichi: What should be done? (2018)

    70 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  80. ASCII fluid dynamics – A tiny fluid simulator that fits in 80x25 terminal

    70 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  81. Texas Is Latest State to Pump the Brakes on Red-Light Cameras

    70 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  82. Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 67.0.4 and Firefox ESR 60.7.2

    70 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  83. Deprecating Volatile in C++

    70 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  84. Plutocrat donors are shaping the agenda at elite universities

    70 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  85. A Mental Model for Video

    70 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  86. Study finds that a GPS outage would cost $1B per day

    70 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  87. KeePassXC 2.4.3

    70 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  88. “I’m sorry we’ve given the impression that we're dropping support for i386 apps”

    70 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  89. Analysis of whether IMDB ratings suffer recency bias

    70 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  90. Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat's plant-based burgers aren't healthier

    70 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  91. Researchers propose ways to avoid blackouts with renewable energy (2018)

    70 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  92. Buy Low-Tops, Sell High-Tops: StockX Sneaker Exchange Is Worth $1B

    69 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  93. Flying insects in hospitals carry 'superbug' germs

    69 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  94. U.S. Air Force Unveils Drone-Killing Microwave Weapon

    69 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  95. Who ordered memory fences on an x86? (2008)

    69 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  96. Three new FOSS umbrella organizations in Europe (2017)

    69 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  97. Ask HN: How does everyone handle mobile browser testing?

    69 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  98. Raspberry Pi 4 launch site runs on a Pi 4 cluster

    69 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  99. 'It's unfair': Chicago, where rich live 30 years longer than the poor

    69 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  100. Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers

    69 points • comment • jun 29, 2019