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Hacker News (Jun 2019)

  1. Files UWP: An enthusiast’s take on what Windows File Explorer explorer should be

    145 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  2. YouTube under federal investigation over allegations it violates kids' privacy

    145 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  3. Many Swiss farmers use honor system to sell their products

    145 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  4. Writing Hello World in Web Assembly (2017)

    145 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  5. The Perpetual Diamond: Contrast Reversal Along Edges Create Appearance of Motion

    145 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  6. OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution

    145 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  7. Common Lisp: Numbers

    145 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  8. “Origins of the Apple human interface” lecture – an annotated transcription

    145 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  9. AI Models Predict Breast Cancer with Radiologist-Level Accuracy

    145 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  10. Annotated Hacker News traffic since the beginning

    144 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  11. Global recession fears grow as factory activity shrinks

    144 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  12. What is a coder's worst nightmare?

    144 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  13. A Tiling Desktop Environment

    144 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  14. Pylon – Declarative layout primitives for CSS and HTML

    144 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  15. With greater longevity, the quest to avoid infirmities of aging is more urgent

    144 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  16. Writing a book, still the same pain 15 years later

    144 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  17. What Makes a Graphics Systems Paper Beautiful

    144 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  18. Bird Acquires Scoot

    144 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  19. Ramroot – Run Arch Linux Entirely from RAM (2017)

    143 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  20. Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling Soil Once Meant Shame

    143 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  21. Google reportedly arguing cutting Huawei off from Android threatens US security

    142 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  22. Uber/Lyft drivers say they were misled into petitioning against workers rights

    142 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  23. An Infinitely Large Napkin

    141 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  24. People care more about privacy than they think

    141 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  25. Book subtitles are getting longer because of SEO

    141 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  26. Large number of Twitter accounts critical of China suspended

    141 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  27. Lyft Takes over Ford GoBike

    141 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  28. Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway

    141 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  29. The Euthanasia That Wasn’t

    141 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  30. Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2013)

    140 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  31. Study finds that mindfulness is associated with reduced procrastination

    140 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  32. Why can't computers boot instantly? (2013)

    140 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  33. Learning to Love the AI Bubble

    140 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  34. Pictures show cracks in Ayrshire nuclear reactor

    140 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  35. Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org

    140 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  36. Show HN: DICOM Medical Image Parser in Go

    140 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  37. U.S. and U.K. F-35 Jets Include 'Core' Circuit Boards from Chinese-Owned Company

    140 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  38. Emulator basics: a stack and register machine

    139 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  39. '1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell

    139 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  40. Corsica's 'fox cat': On the trail of what may be a new species

    139 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  41. Solving the heat equation: Differential equations, chapter 3 [video]

    139 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  42. Hit by Ransomware Attack, Florida City Agrees to Pay Hackers $600k

    139 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  43. Level Design and Shaping a Roguelike Experience

    138 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  44. Significant Pattern Mining for Time Series

    138 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  45. Navy Got 'UFO' Patent Granted by Warning of Similar Chinese Tech Advances

    138 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  46. Generate new repositories with repository templates

    138 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  47. Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH

    138 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  48. Love It or Hate It, Java Continues to Evolve

    138 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  49. Let's make them pay for using our personal data

    138 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  50. Google Research Football: A Novel Reinforcement Learning Environment

    138 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  51. History Will Not Be Kind to Jony Ive

    138 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  52. Making Containers More Isolated: An Overview of Sandboxed Container Technologies

    138 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  53. Wikipedia pageviews this year for each line of ‘We Didn't Start the Fire’

    138 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  54. AWS Control Tower

    137 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  55. How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It

    137 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  56. Let's Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 14: Nested Scopes (2017)

    137 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  57. An Open Letter to Google and Apple: Stop Hindering Iranian Entrepreneurs

    137 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  58. Invaders game in 512 bytes

    137 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  59. Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light

    137 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  60. During World War II, Steinway Produced Special Pianos for American Troops

    137 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  61. I rode all the e-scooters, and most of them are awful except two

    137 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  62. Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020

    137 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  63. Floppycasts – 1.44MB Podcasts

    137 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  64. Ray Tracing with Metal [video]

    136 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  65. Apple Pro Display XDR

    136 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  66. Show HN: A star map creation tool with Common Lisp

    136 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  67. Two-thirds of American employees regret their college degrees

    136 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  68. Ask HN: US government funds a lot of tech research, why don't startups use it?

    136 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  69. Skiptracing: Reversing Spotify.app

    136 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  70. San Francisco school board votes to destroy murals by Victor Arnautoff

    136 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  71. Productivity brought by Clojure [slides]

    136 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  72. Ask HN: What can I do to accelerate scientific research?

    136 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  73. Plastics recycling with microbes and worms is further away than we think (2018)

    136 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  74. How Anne Wojcicki’s 23andMe Will Mine Its Giant DNA Database

    136 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  75. Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time AV1 Codec

    135 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  76. Procedural content generation: creating a universe (2015)

    135 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  77. Earnings Ceiling for Tech Professionals over 40

    135 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  78. ECMO pumps blood out of the body, oxygenates it and returns it to the body

    135 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  79. Robots 'to replace up to 20M factory jobs' by 2030

    135 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  80. Unwalled.Garden: souped-up RSS for P2P social apps

    135 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  81. Earbuds are bad for your hearing

    134 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  82. WWDC 2019 Keynote Livestream

    134 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  83. JSON Resume – 5th Birthday and New Features

    134 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  84. How to use array reduce for more than just numbers

    134 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  85. HN: The Good Parts (2017)

    133 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  86. Show HN: Nullboard – Simple, light, locally-stored to-do lists

    133 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  87. Philly Wisper

    133 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  88. The Z3 Theorem Prover

    133 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  89. Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability concerns

    133 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  90. Engineers boost output of solar desalination system by 50%

    133 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  91. Andreessen invests $22M in PlanetScale’s database-as-a-service

    133 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  92. Y Combinator invests in Monzo through its Continuity Fund

    133 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  93. Earliest known signs of cannabis smoking unearthed in China

    133 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  94. Trinity: PSP Emulator Escape

    133 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  95. Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try

    133 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  96. Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist

    132 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  97. Equiano, a subsea cable from Portugal to South Africa

    132 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  98. Taiwan bucks world trend to be No. 1 in semiconductor equipment spending

    132 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  99. Why It Is Important That Software Projects Fail (2008)

    132 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  100. Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, 2000-2017

    132 points • comment • jun 24, 2019