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Hacker News (Jun 2019)

  1. Welcome to the Old Internet Again

    354 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  2. Google Calendar Is Down

    354 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  3. Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice

    352 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  4. The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature

    352 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  5. Couple wins millions using lottery loophole

    352 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  6. Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

    352 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  7. Google to Acquire Looker

    351 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  8. Mimalloc – A compact general-purpose allocator

    351 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  9. Carnival Cruises emits ten times more sulphur oxide than all of Europe’s cars

    351 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  10. The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced

    347 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  11. Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

    345 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  12. Go Slices Are Fat Pointers

    345 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  13. Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby

    345 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  14. Day of the Tentacle

    343 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  15. Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number

    341 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  16. Differences between the word2vec paper and its implementation

    341 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  17. How Id built Wolfenstein 3D using Commander Keen tech

    341 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  18. Retail stores use Bluetooth beacons to track customers

    340 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  19. I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

    339 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  20. Stripe Chargeback Protection

    339 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  21. Thirty-three Miniatures: Applications of Linear Algebra (2012) [pdf]

    338 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  22. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Where Is It?

    337 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  23. Software Below the Poverty Line

    336 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  24. PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services

    336 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  25. Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011)

    335 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  26. Gmail confidential mode is not secure or private

    335 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  27. Why Hong Kong Is Still Marching

    333 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  28. How does Apple privately find offline devices?

    331 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  29. AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome

    331 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  30. Why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit

    330 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  31. I left the ad industry because of data tracking

    327 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  32. Next steps toward Go 2

    327 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  33. Lazydocker: a terminal GUI for Docker

    326 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  34. Which has more sales: a single long checkout form or a multi-step one?

    325 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  35. The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about

    323 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  36. $499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core I9-9980XE

    321 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  37. Python in the Windows 10 May update

    321 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  38. Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone

    320 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  39. Live coding a vi for CP/M from scratch

    319 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  40. Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996: study

    318 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  41. People Met in Hotel Lobbies (2017)

    316 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  42. Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters

    315 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  43. Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says

    315 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  44. Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South American region

    315 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  45. The Open Source Seed Initiative

    315 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  46. Powerless investors vote overwhelmingly to oust Mark Zuckerberg as chairman

    313 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  47. Joyent Public Cloud EOL

    313 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  48. The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL

    313 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  49. The XY Problem (2014)

    312 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  50. Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (2015)

    312 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  51. GnuCash: Open-source double-entry accounting software

    311 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  52. Route Leak Impacting Cloudflare

    309 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  53. Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game

    309 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  54. US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave threat to a free media

    308 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  55. Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World

    308 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  56. Kubernetes Failure Stories

    307 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  57. Clojerl – Clojure for the Erlang VM

    306 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  58. New Property of Light Discovered

    305 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  59. Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding

    305 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  60. Why Google+ Failed

    303 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  61. What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble

    302 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  62. Using AWK and R to parse 25TB

    302 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  63. Huawei Accused of Technology Theft

    302 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  64. This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips

    301 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  65. Valve has mutated from a game developer into a financial middleman

    301 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  66. Why the “Digital Ocean killed my company” incident scares the hell out of me

    300 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  67. GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

    299 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  68. The Simple Genius of Checklists

    297 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  69. New Raspberry Pi 4 Firmware Lowers Temperature by 3-5°C

    296 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  70. Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode Fairly Quickly”

    294 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  71. Micro Frontends

    294 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  72. Chinese Cash Is Suddenly Toxic in Silicon Valley, Following U.S. Pressure

    294 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  73. Tell HN: Social media strike proposed for July 4-5 by Wikipedia co-founder

    293 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  74. We tried to hustle our way into YC after we got rejected

    292 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  75. All Of Argentina, Uruguay Without Electricity After Massive Outage

    291 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  76. It's time to switch to a four-day working week, say two experts

    291 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  77. Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall

    290 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  78. My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames

    289 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  79. 150k Small Business Website Teardown 2019

    289 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  80. Tips for Writing a Technical Book

    288 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  81. Classes vs. Data Structures

    287 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  82. Get an Acme Klein Bottle

    287 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  83. Luna – A WYSIWYG language for data processing

    286 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  84. Everything everywhere is securities fraud

    286 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  85. Documentation to set up a simple macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM

    286 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  86. “I thought I'd share this Boris Johnson story with you”

    286 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  87. Go Creeping In

    285 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  88. Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)

    284 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  89. NASA Has Been Hacked

    283 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  90. Walmart Pleads Guilty After a Decade of Bribes

    282 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  91. Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour of LaTeX

    281 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  92. Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI

    281 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  93. India has the highest data usage per smartphone

    280 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  94. Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft grabs close-up thirty feet above asteroid

    280 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  95. NYC Mesh Begins Broadband Expansion in Brooklyn

    279 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  96. Remote working – Bringing sanity to mind and lessons worth learning

    279 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  97. Plotty Bird: flappy bird on the HP7440A pen plotter

    279 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  98. Show HN: Rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

    278 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  99. It’s Time for Some Queueing Theory

    277 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  100. Writing a game engine in pure C: The Graphic Initialization

    276 points • comment • jun 05, 2019