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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (2013)
124 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly
124 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Elementary Algebra (1971) [pdf]
124 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
What If All Your Slack Chats Were Leaked?
124 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Ask HN: Best Office Chair for Remote (Home Office) Work
124 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 20%
124 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
A proactive approach to more secure code
124 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Stripe's API was down again
124 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Senior Citizens Struggle with Suicide as Loneliness and Isolation Set In
124 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Address Conference on Cyber Security
123 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Ask HN: When does it make sense to roll your own X?
123 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
The Mystery of Florida’s Cannonball-Eating Spanish Fort
123 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
Hakuna Cloud – Stop cloud servers when they are not in use
123 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
In 1919, an Army convoy drove cross-country from Washington to San Francisco
123 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
Cicada: A Bash-like Unix shell written in Rust
123 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
The forgotten ruthlessness of Canada’s Great War soldiers (2018)
123 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Americans Shocked to Find Their Rights Literally Vanish at U.S. Airports
123 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
What Were CGI Scripts?
123 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
A Permanently Magnetic Liquid
123 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
The state of switching to Windows from Mac in 2019
123 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Autocompletion with Deep Learning
123 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest area in 40 years
123 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for 16-inch MacBook Pro
123 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Metaphors We Believe By
123 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
High-Density Housing Near Public Transit Is Aim of San Diego Code Change
122 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
Add-Ons Outage Post-Mortem Result
122 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
The Internet Loves a Rest Stop in Breezewood, Pennsylvania
122 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Boeing 737 Max Grounding Could Stretch into 2020
122 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Show HN: Old School Graphics Algorithms
122 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
Tesla Enters “Whistleblower Hell”
122 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
Plant trees while you search the web
122 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
A material way to make Mars habitable
122 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Office 365 declared illegal in German schools due to privacy risks
121 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
SkySails
121 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
Replacing a silently failing disk in a ZFS pool
121 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Companies outside the tech industry are spinning off internal software
121 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Mad Magazine to mostly stop publishing new material
121 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
Two Years With Emacs as a CEO and now CTO (2018)
121 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
121 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Gödel's Ontological Proof
121 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Ventilen, a Danish organization to address loneliness in young people
121 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
Carp 0.3
121 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Scaling Static Analyses at Facebook
121 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
After man says dog dewormer cured his cancer, researchers look into treatment
121 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Ohio passes energy bill that bails out nuclear and coal plants, guts renewables
120 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing music in random order?
120 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Electric Cars
120 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions
120 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Cedarwood: Efficiently-Updatable Double Array Trie in Rust
120 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Migrating to GraphQL: A Practical Assessment
120 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
The Moon is older than previously believed
120 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2
120 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
A Chapter from the FBI's History with OpenBSD and an OpenSSH Vuln
119 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (2001)
119 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős
119 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
In Denmark's Train Dream, the Next Big City Is Only an Hour Away
119 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
A moonlit tribute to a moon landing icon
119 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
The New HAProxy Data Plane API: Two Examples of Programmatic Configuration
119 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (1992)
119 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
The arm’s-length flats of Tokyo [video]
119 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
On Writing a C++ Book
119 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison
119 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Chinese are big customers for schemes selling foreign residency
119 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Let’s Build a Web Server, Part 1 (2015)
119 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Rust, a Raspberry Pi and Addressable LEDs
118 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says
118 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
A simulation of the insurance industry: The problem of risk model homogeneity
118 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
Facebook revenue beats estimates; discloses antitrust probe
118 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Thiel Urges U.S. Probe of Google's 'Seemingly Treasonous' Acts
118 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Olive: Professional open-source non-linear video editor
118 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Tether loaned USDT to investors and illegally traded in New York, says NYAG
118 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Show HN: Graph Processing with Python and GraphBLAS
118 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Chinese Money in the U.S. Dries Up as Trade War Drags On
118 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
“What the Hardware Does” Is Not What Your Program Does: Uninitialized Memory
118 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Engineer found guilty of trying to sell military chips to China
117 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
June was hottest month ever recorded on Earth
117 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
Why Lisp Failed (2010)
117 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
HyperFoods: Machine intelligent mapping of cancer-beating molecules in foods
117 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Internet group brands Mozilla “internet villain” for supporting DNS privacy
117 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Tesla Q2 2019 Letter
117 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Survival in chessland [pdf]
117 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Lightning video adapters feature Apple Secure Boot, run Darwin kernel
117 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Shortcuts JS – Create Apple Shortcuts Using JavaScript
117 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Cargo ships that ‘liquefy’ (2018)
116 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Jeison – An Emacs library for declarative JSON parsing
116 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
BU researchers develop 'acoustic metamaterial' that cancels sound
116 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
Employers are mining the data their workers generate
116 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Image to LaTeX
116 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
What if we could see all concurrency bugs in the debugger?
116 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless
116 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
PHP 5 and 7.0 end of life
116 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Every Cancer Patient Is One in a Billion
116 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Ask HN: Best way to relearn basic math?
116 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Show HN: Cloud Maker – Rapidly create cloud architecture diagrams
116 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Small Seasons
116 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
In Hong Kong, one protester pulls off his mask and defines a movement
116 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
US Visa Forms DS-160, 260 Has Social Media Questions Now – Samples
116 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Paul Graham's Keynote at Pycon 2003: The Hundred-Year Language
115 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
Math Invented for Moon Landing Helps Your Flight Arrive on Time
115 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
The Origin of Banking (2016)
115 points • comment • jul 02, 2019