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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. TurboTax to charge more lower-income customers

    136 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  2. Latest 737 Max Fault That Alarmed Test Pilots Rooted in Software

    136 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  3. Germany records hottest June temperature

    136 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  4. An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R language

    136 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  5. A Grimoire of Functions

    136 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  6. There’s more than one way to write an IP address

    136 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  7. Show HN: Bild – A collection of parallel image processing algorithms in Go

    135 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  8. When Pirates Studied Euclid

    135 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  9. Publishers blocking IPs for alleged sci-hub use

    135 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  10. Electric cars grab almost half of sales in Norway

    135 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  11. WikiWikiWeb

    134 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  12. Show HN: YouTube-DL GUI Powered by Electron

    134 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  13. How Sydney destroyed its trams for love of the car

    134 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  14. Clojure and Deps.edn: A basic guide

    134 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  15. Show HN: PCBs with Full-Color Graphics

    134 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  16. Espresso Machine Powered by Tcl/Tk

    134 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  17. Deeper well drilling an unsustainable stopgap to groundwater depletion

    134 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  18. Imba – Create complex web apps with ease

    134 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  19. Gorillas have developed humanlike social structure, controversial study suggests

    133 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  20. Simple Startup Cashflow Projections

    133 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  21. ARM Mali accelerators support in Linux 5.2

    133 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  22. Beijing says military could intervene in Hong Kong

    133 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  23. German prosecutors charge ex-Audi boss Stadler over emissions cheating

    133 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  24. An interview with Margaret Hamilton

    133 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  25. Open source all-iron battery for renewable energy storage

    132 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  26. Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1

    132 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  27. Art's sale value? Zero. The tax bill? $29M

    132 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  28. How I encrypt my data in the cloud

    132 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  29. Writing a Ph.D. thesis with Org Mode

    132 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  30. Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (1962) [pdf]

    132 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  31. OpenSSH taking minutes to become available, booting takes half an hour (2018)

    132 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  32. Bankrupt Maker Faire revives, reduced to Make Community

    132 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  33. Advanced Data Structures (2017)

    131 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  34. In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (2011)

    131 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  35. I thought I was being ‘blacklisted’, so I demanded to see colleagues’ emails

    131 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  36. British ISP Lobbyists Backtrack on Calling Mozilla a Villain for DNS-over-HTTPS

    131 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  37. Fresh Air Archive: 40 years of interviews with the voices that shape our world

    131 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  38. Pioneer manipulates scores to pick winners

    131 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  39. Valonia ventricosa

    130 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  40. Postgres tips for the average and power user

    130 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  41. The Day “/Proc” Died

    130 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  42. GNU Guix package definitions for Gov.uk software and systems

    130 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  43. Astronomers make history in a split second with localization of fast radio burst

    130 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  44. Amazon deforestation accelerating to unrecoverable 'tipping point'

    130 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  45. Arctic Summer Melt Shows Ice Is Disappearing Faster Than Normal

    130 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  46. Apollo 11 50th Anniversary

    130 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  47. Google shuts down its blog management tool just 10 months after launch

    130 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  48. Raspberry Pi microSD follow-up, SD Association fools me twice?

    130 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  49. Show HN: CLI forensics tool for tracking USB device artifacts on Linux

    129 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  50. Remove Moving Objects from Video

    129 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  51. Mental models

    129 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  52. The Zero-Sum Bias: When people think that everything is a competition

    129 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  53. Music Recommendations in Hyperbolic Space

    129 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  54. The Long, Slow Death of Venice

    129 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  55. Building Payments for an Insurance Startup

    129 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  56. M 7.1 SoCal Earthquake: What's Next?

    129 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  57. Race Condition vs. Data Race (2011)

    129 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  58. AIs Named by AIs

    129 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  59. Why airplane windows have round corners (2016)

    129 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  60. NASA’s Lunar Space Station Is a Great/Terrible Idea

    128 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  61. Rust async-await status report 2

    128 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  62. Amazon, Walmart, Ikea targeted in University of California light bulb lawsuits

    128 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  63. Sensitivity Conjecture Resolved

    128 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  64. When zebra mussels colonized Lake Erie, it began to recover

    128 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  65. Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides

    128 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  66. Powering a Mainframe

    128 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  67. A Government Guide to Keeping Insulin Unaffordable

    128 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  68. Russia’s permafrost is melting and it could have a devastating global effect

    128 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  69. Taleb is wrong about IQ

    128 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  70. Facebook and Google Algorithms Are Secret, but Australia Plans to Change That

    127 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  71. High-performance, exactly-once, failure-oblivious distributed programming (2018)

    127 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  72. Kern Microtechnik: Accurate CNC Machines [video]

    127 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  73. Could wooden building be a solution to climate change?

    127 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  74. Attunity Data Leak: Vendor for half the Fortune 100 exposed terabyte of backups

    127 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  75. Launch HN: Stacks (YC S14) – The first SEC-qualified crypto token offering

    127 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  76. Fed Chair Jerome Powell Has ‘Serious Concerns’ with Facebook Libra Proposal

    127 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  77. Microsoft Partner Network changes spark uproar

    127 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  78. Hong Kong mothers march in support of anti-extradition students

    127 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  79. Pete's QBASIC / QuickBasic Site

    127 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  80. Coinbase Incident Post Mortem: June 25–26, 2019

    126 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  81. It took a decade for the Declaration of Independence to matter in American life

    126 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  82. The Good Employee, a story about how you can explain companies with graph theory

    126 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  83. Constructive mathematics and computer programming (1979) [pdf]

    126 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  84. MIT AI tool can predict breast cancer up to 5 years early

    126 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  85. Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years

    126 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  86. Conflict at Walmart threatens its ecommerce battle with Amazon

    126 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  87. NPR's Guide to Hypothesis-Driven Design for Editorial Projects

    126 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  88. Lock-free multithreading with atomic operations

    126 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  89. Epstein Arrest Leaves Top Technology Figures Racing to Distance Themselves

    126 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  90. Tell HN: I came up with an interesting way to do decentralized account recovery

    126 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  91. Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from scientific literature

    126 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  92. There is no 'right' vs. 'left': it is the oligarchs against the rest

    126 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  93. Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from major tech companies

    125 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  94. Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2019 Results [pdf]

    125 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  95. The Scene: Pirates Ripping Content from Amazon and Netflix

    125 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  96. Hillbillies Need No Elegy

    125 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  97. How Weight Training Might Change the Brain

    125 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  98. How Complex Systems Fail (1998) [pdf]

    125 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  99. More Older Couples Stay Together Because They Live Apart

    125 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  100. An Open Letter to the Go Team About Try

    125 points • comment • jul 02, 2019