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Hacker News (Jun 2019)

  1. Awk by Example

    240 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  2. Buying into the Emacs Platform (2018)

    240 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  3. New Hampshire installs historical marker to honor the creation of BASIC

    240 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  4. Google CTF 2019

    240 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  5. The student loan crisis is really an underemployment catastrophe

    240 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  6. Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

    239 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  7. Chrome, the perfect antitrust villain?

    239 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  8. Write HTML Like It's 1999

    238 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  9. Iceland tire of tourists trashing their nature

    238 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  10. The NYC subway system runs on OS/2

    237 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  11. Ex-chair of FCC broadband committee gets five years in prison for fraud

    237 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  12. Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

    236 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  13. Why GitHub used Haskell for Semantic

    236 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  14. San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass an E-Cigarette Ban

    235 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  15. Announcing Startup School 2019

    235 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  16. When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved

    235 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  17. Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15

    234 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  18. Terence Tao's Raw Notes After His Princeton Comprehensive Exams (1999)

    234 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  19. A Field Guide to Power Transmission Lines

    234 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  20. Oberlin College case shows how universities are losing their way

    234 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  21. Economists Are Obsessed with Job Creation – How About Less Work? (2017)

    234 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  22. Support for U2F security keys

    233 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  23. G20 nations triple coal power subsidies despite climate crisis

    233 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  24. VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard

    233 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  25. The SaaS Opportunity of Unbundling Excel

    232 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  26. NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alternative

    232 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  27. So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebrite Touch”

    231 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  28. TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces

    231 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  29. The Anti-College Is on the Rise

    230 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  30. CS Unplugged: Teaching material for CS using cards, string and crayons

    230 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  31. Gryphon: An open-source framework for algorithmic trading in cryptocurrency

    229 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  32. How AMD Gave China the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’

    228 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  33. What does it mean when a product is “Amazon’s Choice”?

    228 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  34. Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores

    228 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  35. The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap

    228 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  36. A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference

    228 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  37. “Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World” (2012)

    227 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  38. Calculators for Contractors, Builders, Remodelers, Carpenters, Woodworkers

    227 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  39. Is it time to treat sugar like smoking?

    227 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  40. Moons of all the planets in our solar system

    227 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  41. BTrDB: Berkeley Tree Database

    227 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  42. The End of Political Cartoons at The New York Times

    227 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  43. Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers

    226 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  44. DIY Amps: A Roadmap for Beginners (2017)

    226 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  45. Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers

    226 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  46. REST and GraphQL framework to build API-driven projects

    226 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  47. Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad

    226 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  48. How Bad Are Things? (2015)

    225 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  49. Microsoft's eBook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM

    224 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  50. Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL

    223 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  51. Introduction to Nintendo 64 Programming (1999)

    223 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  52. Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming (2016)

    223 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  53. Show HN: Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform

    223 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  54. Hackers are stealing years of call records from hacked cell networks

    223 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  55. Japanese Company Charges Its Staff $100 an Hour to Use Conference Rooms

    222 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  56. Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt): Taking back control using open software

    221 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  57. The Man Behind “Fortnite”

    221 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  58. Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites

    221 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  59. When Pepsi Had a Navy

    221 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  60. Medicine needs to embrace open source

    221 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  61. Confessions of a Reddit Karma Whore

    221 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  62. Only 37 dogs of each breed can have the same name

    221 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  63. Australia’s surprising disregard for free speech

    220 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  64. Climate protesters storm Garzweiler coal mine in Germany

    220 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  65. Privacy Policies Are an Incomprehensible Disaster

    220 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  66. Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee

    220 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  67. Moscow Publishes Photocopies of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Secret Protocols

    219 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  68. Behavioral Ad Targeting Not Paying Off for Publishers, Study Suggests

    218 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  69. Compiling C to WebAssembly Without Emscripten

    218 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  70. Pika CDN – A CDN for Modern JavaScript

    218 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  71. Show HN: Learn anything by creating something everyday

    218 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  72. Use Coq in Your Browser: The Js Coq Theorem Prover Online

    217 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  73. Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course Using R and Stan

    217 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  74. Roads with protected bike lanes make both cycling and driving safer: study

    217 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  75. Envoy Mobile

    216 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  76. HK's extradition law: Not just HK people have reason to fear Chinese “justice”

    216 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  77. How Fast can A Single Instance of Redis be?

    216 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  78. Drivers followed a Google Maps detour and ended up stuck in an empty field

    216 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  79. The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone

    215 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  80. Canada becomes first G20 country to ban trade in shark fins

    215 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  81. Wood Joint Strength Testing

    215 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  82. Fast.ai Part 2: Deep Learning from the Foundations

    215 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  83. White House weighs encryption crackdown

    214 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  84. Vim/Neovim Arbitrary Code Execution via Modelines

    214 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  85. Ivan Golunov, an investigative reporter at Meduza, has been arrested in Moscow

    214 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  86. Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video]

    214 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  87. Firefox: The Evolution of a Brand

    213 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  88. Tokyo mechanical keyboard meetup photos

    213 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  89. DigitalJs: Digital circuit simulator in browser

    213 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  90. IBM and the Holocaust (2017)

    213 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  91. Writers Are More Prolific When They Cluster

    213 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  92. FedEx sues U.S. government over 'impossible' task of policing exports to China

    213 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  93. Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time

    213 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  94. Researchers use Rowhammer bit flips to steal 2048-bit crypto key

    213 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  95. Candida auris: A fungus hospitals don’t want to talk about

    212 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  96. Ask HN: Why do new(ish) programming languages eschew OOP features?

    212 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  97. Languages of India

    212 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  98. Longest-running oil spill in history releasing more than 4,500 gallons per day

    212 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  99. Ireland to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030

    211 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  100. NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model

    211 points • comment • jun 13, 2019