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Hacker News (Jun 2019)

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

    276 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  2. Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May

    275 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  3. Observable’s Not JavaScript

    274 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  4. Glass discs that can store 360TB and remain intact for billions of years (2016)

    274 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  5. AdTech Sucks

    273 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  6. Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China

    272 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  7. We tried to publish a replication of a Science paper in Science

    272 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  8. Apple Is Listening

    272 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  9. Fixing a Small Calc.exe Bug

    272 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  10. AMP for email is bad

    272 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  11. Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps

    272 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  12. Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ramp Up

    271 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  13. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench

    270 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  14. Simple techniques to optimise Go programs

    269 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  15. D is being used for autonomous driving research – Audi and Mercedes

    269 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  16. Hundreds of thousands take to Hong Kong streets against controversial bill

    268 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  17. Tiananmen 30 years on – China's great act of 'forgettance'

    268 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  18. Mary Meeker’s 2019 internet trends report [pdf]

    268 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  19. Hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street

    267 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  20. Berlin approves 5-year rent freeze

    267 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  21. Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted

    267 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  22. NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media

    266 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  23. Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989?

    265 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  24. “New home page seems like Stack Overflow doesn't allow free use any more”

    265 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  25. Facebook reportedly argues there's no 'expectation of privacy' on social media

    265 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  26. I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014)

    264 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  27. Fertilizer plants emit 100 times more methane than reported

    264 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  28. You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes

    264 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  29. SymPy makes math fun again

    264 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  30. Inventors killed by their own inventions

    264 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  31. Feynman’s Breakthrough, Disregard Others (2017)

    264 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  32. Math.Round opens the browser print dialog

    264 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  33. Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra

    264 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  34. Google to Reimplement Curl in Libcrurl

    263 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  35. I got asked LeetCode questions for a dev-ops systems engineering job today

    262 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  36. The difference a dad can make

    262 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  37. Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster

    261 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  38. On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality

    261 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  39. Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone

    261 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  40. America’s Monopoly Crisis Hits the Military

    260 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  41. STM32 Open Source Multimeter

    259 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  42. Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices found ineffective in study

    259 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  43. Matlab–Python–Julia Cheatsheet

    258 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  44. Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users

    258 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  45. Google refunded $200 because I missed 5 lines of Code

    258 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  46. Uber data reveals motoring slower than walking in many cities

    258 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  47. Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive

    258 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  48. SoftBank could bring down the house?

    258 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  49. Avoid Indirection in Code

    257 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  50. How Nike sold its first shoes

    256 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  51. Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses

    256 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  52. What happens behind the scenes when we type www.google.com in a browser? (2015)

    255 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  53. The internet is increasingly a low-trust society

    254 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  54. Smoltcp: A small TCP/IP stack in Rust

    254 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  55. Introduction to Genetic Algorithms

    254 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  56. Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug possession

    254 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  57. Voilà turns Jupyter notebooks to standalone web applications

    253 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  58. Mozilla patches Firefox zero-day abused in the wild

    253 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  59. U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid

    253 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  60. Non-English-based programming languages

    253 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  61. Barnes & Noble Set To Be Sold To Elliott Management For About $683M

    253 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  62. New Radiotracer Can Identify Nearly 30 Types of Cancer

    252 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  63. Regulatory Capture at ICANN

    252 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  64. Soviet Arcade Games from the 70s and 80s

    252 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  65. For Men Who Hate Talking on the Phone, Games Keep Friendships Alive

    251 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  66. Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (2014)

    250 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  67. Why I don't use web components

    250 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  68. Eva – A distributed entity-attribute-value database in Clojure

    249 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  69. When to use web workers

    249 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  70. Getting 2FA Right in 2019

    249 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  71. Canada Plans to Ban Single-Use Plastics, Joining Growing Global Movement

    248 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  72. Haskell Fan Site

    248 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  73. FPGAs Have the Wrong Abstraction for Computing

    248 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  74. Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S.

    248 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  75. India to order taxi aggregators like Uber, Ola to go electric

    247 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  76. US Senate report on Equifax breach [pdf]

    247 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  77. Capstone, a Tablet for Thinking

    247 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  78. Facebook plans cryptocurrency debut

    247 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  79. Slack – Degraded service affecting multiple features

    246 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  80. Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience

    246 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  81. Arima Model – Guide to Time Series Forecasting in Python

    246 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  82. A restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews

    245 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  83. Vim tricks

    245 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  84. I’ve spent five years writing a JavaScript framework

    244 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  85. Self-Supervised Learning [pdf]

    243 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  86. Magnesium and major depression (2011)

    243 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  87. Performance Speed Limits

    243 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  88. An ‘extraordinarily severe’ emergency: the radioactive leak at Harborview

    243 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  89. YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views

    243 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  90. Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them

    243 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  91. Nasa to Open International Space Station to Tourists

    243 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  92. I’ve Picked My Job over My Kids

    242 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  93. Lyrics Site Genius.com Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content

    241 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  94. Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices

    241 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  95. Without a GUI: How to Live Entirely in a Terminal

    241 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  96. Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning

    241 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  97. On Dat

    241 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  98. Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge

    241 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  99. The New Wilderness

    241 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  100. Awk by Example

    240 points • comment • jun 28, 2019