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Hacker News (Jun 2019)

  1. The average person’s reading speed is slower than commonly thought

    50 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  2. Linux from Scratch

    50 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  3. Pigeon – Crowdsourced transit app for New Yorkers

    49 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  4. Show HN: ParrotSnoop – Android TCP/UDP Packet Capture for IPv4/IPv6

    49 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  5. Brazil wins legal fight over 100M-year-old fossil bounty

    49 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  6. Cracks in nuclear reactor could lead to the evacuation of Edinburgh and Glasgow

    49 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  7. The Coming Ice Age (1958)

    49 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  8. Texas Is Latest State to Attack Surprise Medical Bills

    49 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  9. Plaid co-founder William Hockey is leaving

    49 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  10. One power law to rule them all?

    49 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  11. Apple is still trying to sue the owner of an independent iPhone repair shop

    49 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  12. What’s this xfinitywifi network and why do I keep connecting? (2016)

    49 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  13. Elizabeth Holmes to Face Trial Next Year on Fraud Charges

    49 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  14. Lego Struggles to Find a Plant-Based Plastic That Clicks

    49 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  15. The USDA just descheduled tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)

    49 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  16. Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets

    49 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  17. V3VEE – Open-Source Virtual Machine Monitor Framework for Modern Architectures

    49 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  18. Interactive time-lapse map of the transfer of Native land between 1776 and 1887

    49 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  19. Top UCLA Doctor Denounces HBO's “Chernobyl” as Wrong and “Dangerous”

    49 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  20. Origins of Cannabis Smoking

    49 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  21. Games and Graphics in Popup URL Bars

    49 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  22. Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay hit with penalty for not allowing public beach access

    48 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  23. Ajit Pai tries to kill San Francisco’s attempt to spur broadband competition

    48 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  24. Rebuilding our Support Tech architecture

    48 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  25. Explain Yourself Leveraging Language Models for Commonsense Reasoning

    48 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  26. What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.3

    48 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  27. Hawk guidance system tuned for close pursuit of erratically maneuvering targets

    48 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  28. Magic mushrooms should be decriminalised

    48 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  29. DDoS Protection With IPtables

    48 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  30. Apple strips clips of devs booing $999 monitor stand using copyright claims

    48 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  31. Beyond data and model parallelism for deep neural networks

    48 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  32. The worst waiter in history (2014)

    48 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  33. ZFS on Linux 0.8.1 Released

    48 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  34. Ask HN: How to Publish on Your Own?

    48 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  35. Cycling commissioners say painted bike lanes don’t make cyclists feel safer

    48 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  36. Mastodon 2.9: Introducing the single-column layout

    48 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  37. Show HN: BlackHole – Fast, free and encrypted file transfer for Windows and Mac

    48 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  38. The Iocaine Powder Strategy in RoShamBo

    48 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  39. A history of the Crusades, as told by crusaders' DNA

    48 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  40. Frantz Fanon and the CIA Man

    48 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  41. A tale of lost WW2 uranium cubes shows why Germany’s nuclear program failed

    48 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  42. Libra is targeted at developing countries

    47 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  43. Matias RGB Backlit Wired Aluminum Keyboard for Mac

    47 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  44. Dear Bureaucrat, how can I work with agency’s useless computer system?

    47 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  45. US State Department begins social media screening for nearly all visa applicants

    47 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  46. The useful character that is none

    47 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  47. Verified Compilation on a Verified Processor [pdf]

    47 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  48. Some extinct species of crocodile were herbivores

    47 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  49. Oregon prisons ban many technology and programming books

    47 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  50. We’re Updating Our Terms of Service to Better Explain How Facebook Works

    47 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  51. Portable Simula Revisited

    47 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  52. Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Ethics

    47 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  53. Ask HN: How much do you work at your job?

    47 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  54. Why “the Metaverse” needs gameplay and gameplay mechanics

    47 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  55. Comcast broke law 445,000 times in scheme to inflate bills, judge finds

    47 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  56. Why we can't have privacy on the internet (2018)

    46 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  57. The desperate patient causes the desperate clinician to do desperate things

    46 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  58. James Lovelock at 100: the Gaia saga continues

    46 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  59. Genius hid a Morse code message in song lyrics to prove Google was copying them

    46 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  60. Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions

    46 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  61. Clair Patterson's Battle Against Lead Pollution (2006) [pdf]

    46 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  62. Apple, Google, and Facebook Are Raiding Animal Research Labs

    46 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  63. Fast.ai – Deep Learning from the Foundations

    46 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  64. Gen: Probabilistic programming system with programmable inference

    46 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  65. Our Fate Is in the Stars

    46 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  66. Sustainable Web Manifesto

    46 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  67. The ABCs of Personal Finance (2014)

    46 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  68. Video Upload Latency Improvements at Instagram

    46 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  69. Ask HN: More tech-oriented HN alternative?

    45 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  70. Operating Environment: essential industry background for open software licenses

    45 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  71. Having a non-typical tech stack helped us get better candidates

    45 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  72. Japan's commercial whaling to restart July 1 after 3-decade hiatus

    45 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  73. Kris Kristofferson's Lyme Disease Misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's (2016)

    45 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  74. Update on Steam, Ubuntu, and 32-bit support

    45 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  75. Hong Kong protests: Footage shows tear gas being fired into the crowd

    45 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  76. Renaming OpenSUSE

    45 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  77. Dijkstra Archive (1930-2002)

    45 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  78. Gmail Experiencing Issues

    45 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  79. The T1 Programming Language [pdf]

    45 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  80. In Picasso’s Studio

    45 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  81. How to Increase Your Page Size by 1,500% with Webpack and Vue

    45 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  82. An Asteroid Could Destroy the World Before Impact

    45 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  83. Getting root with benign AppStore apps

    45 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  84. Minimum Wage Still Can’t Pay For A Two-Bedroom Apartment Anywhere

    45 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  85. OSGi After 20 Years

    45 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  86. Agatha Christie’s 1926 Disappearance

    44 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  87. Uber’s IPO means higher fares for rides

    44 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  88. Oscar Wilde’s talk inspired his rise and led to his downfall

    44 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  89. Logic – Deductive and Inductive (1898)

    44 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  90. Bauhaus: A Failed Utopia?

    44 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  91. Cycles of Optimism and Pessimism

    44 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  92. A Summer of Julia 2019

    44 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  93. Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily?

    44 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  94. Astronomy group calls for urgent action on SpaceX Starlink satellites

    44 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  95. The day I became a millionaire (2015)

    44 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  96. Whirlpool told to recall dryers in 'unprecedented' government move

    44 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  97. Ask HN: “Contact us for pricing” nonsense

    44 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  98. Compromising online accounts by cracking voicemail systems

    44 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  99. Exthouse – Analyze the impact of a browser extension on web performance

    44 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  100. Nearly Divisionless Random Integer Generation on Various Systems

    44 points • comment • jun 07, 2019