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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. Apple: No Macintosh Forks. But the iPad...

    115 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  2. Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk–they come from families with money

    115 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  3. Old Car Brochures

    115 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  4. Court rules against Oracle in Pentagon 'war cloud' litigation

    115 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  5. The Story of Metal Gear Solid’s English Translation

    115 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  6. FTC Approves Roughly $5B Facebook Settlement

    115 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  7. Equifax Is Said to Be Near $650M Settlement for Data Breach

    115 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  8. Math Invented for Moon Landing Helps Your Flight Arrive on Time

    115 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  9. Dataset of classified screenshots from Tor hidden services

    115 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  10. The Apollo 11 Moon Landing: Spacecraft Design Then and Now

    114 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  11. Opmsg – A GPG Alternative

    114 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  12. Crispr is less like molecular scissors and more like molecular malware

    114 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  13. Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style (1993) [pdf]

    114 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  14. The Death of the Mom and Pop E-Store

    114 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  15. Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit

    113 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  16. How I Side Project

    113 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  17. How we send 22k emails every hour

    113 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  18. Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

    113 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  19. PyPy JIT for 64-bit ARM

    113 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  20. Alpha Compositing

    113 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  21. Agent 355

    112 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  22. Code Annotations for SourceHut

    112 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  23. The challenges of teaching software engineering

    112 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  24. Managing a Secure JSON Web Token Implementation

    112 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  25. Nintendo Switch Lite: a smaller, cheaper Switch built for handheld play

    112 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  26. Why Didn’t Denmark Sell Greenland?

    112 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  27. Alaska’s Engineering Colleges Prepare to Slash Programs, Lay Off Faculty

    112 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  28. Study suggests surgery alternative for rotator cuff pain: push-ups, pull-ups

    111 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  29. A plan to mine the world’s research papers

    111 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  30. Streaming Cassandra at WePay

    111 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  31. Highlights from Facebook’s Libra Senate hearing

    111 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  32. ZRNA – Software-defined analog circuits

    111 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  33. Solving differential equations on a 6502 with Woz's floating point code

    111 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  34. Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects

    111 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  35. Howto: Block Amazon and any site using Amazon Web Services

    111 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  36. FE-Schrift

    110 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  37. Forest kindergarten

    110 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  38. Jeremy, I think you'll wan't this job

    110 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  39. Ask HN: What do you do on an Android phone that cannot be done on an iPhone?

    110 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  40. The human impact of having too few nurses

    110 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  41. Amazon to Uber: From the lens of a software engineer

    110 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  42. US government approves T-Mobile/Sprint merger

    109 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  43. A man who became a hermit at 20

    109 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  44. Australians making music with computer code

    109 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  45. A software engineering manager guide to measuring an engineer’s performance

    109 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  46. China has a new casino: the Philippines

    109 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  47. I Used to Be a Human Being (2016)

    108 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  48. Ask HN: Who Here Is Working to Fix the Environment?

    108 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  49. Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write (2018)

    108 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  50. Why Google Poses a Serious Threat to Democracy, and How to End That Threat [pdf]

    108 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  51. Ask HN: Anyone Using CockroachDB in Production?

    108 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  52. How we built a serverless architecture with AWS

    108 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  53. Effect of High-Dose Vitamin D3 Supplementation on Colorectal Cancer

    108 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  54. My low cost provider of GPUs has run out of capacity. Good alternatives?

    108 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  55. Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020

    108 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  56. Firefox Local Files Theft – Not Patched Yet

    108 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  57. Launch HN: Wren (YC S19) – Offset Your Carbon Footprint

    107 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  58. Bulgaria tax hacking: An entire nation was hit

    107 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  59. Show HN: I made an interactive hex calculator in ncurses

    107 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  60. Egyptian ‘bent’ pyramid dating back 4,600 years opens to public

    107 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  61. Building a hackable editor in the browser

    107 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  62. Genetically modified microbes alert the immune system to cancer in mice

    107 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  63. The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning

    107 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  64. AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome

    107 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  65. The Mortgaging of Sierra Online

    107 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  66. Alan Cooper on the “10x” Programmer

    107 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  67. The perfect language and why Go still isn't it

    107 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  68. The Origin of Most Coal on Earth (2016)

    107 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  69. I'm a College Professor Who Faked Dissertation Data on the Side

    107 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  70. The case against plant consciousness

    106 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  71. Aging is associated with a systemic length-driven transcriptome imbalance

    106 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  72. Pony 0.29

    106 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  73. Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction

    106 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  74. MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member

    106 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  75. Abscissa: Security-oriented Rust application framework

    106 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  76. Our Brain Uses a Not-So-Instant Replay to Make Decisions

    106 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  77. A Ring of Controversy Around a Black Hole Photo

    105 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  78. Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland

    105 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  79. Common Lisp Style Guide

    105 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  80. Why do you host offensive content?

    105 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  81. What Hokusai’s Great Wave tells us about museums, copyright, online collections

    105 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  82. Many Americans who live paycheck to paycheck blame debt

    105 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  83. VW invests $2.6B in self-driving startup Argo AI as part of Ford alliance

    105 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  84. Researchers Develop ‘Trojan Horse’ Drug That Tricks, Then Kills Cancer Cells

    105 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  85. Christopher Kraft, NASA’s Face and Voice of Mission Control, Dies at 95

    105 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  86. Scientists use camera with human-like vision to capture 5,400 FPS video

    105 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  87. Launch HN: Dataform (YC W18) – Build Reliable SQL Data Pipelines as a Team

    104 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  88. 33 Beautiful Open-Source Icon Sets

    104 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  89. Hell Is Other Internet People

    104 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  90. Racket2 Possibilities

    104 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  91. New CSS Features in Firefox 68

    104 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  92. Fujifilm’s first surveillance camera can read a license plate from 1km away

    104 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  93. Amazon Transcribe Streaming Now Supports WebSockets

    104 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  94. Raspberry Pi Model Railway Automation

    104 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  95. What I Want from a Type System (2016)

    104 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  96. Bullet Time

    104 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  97. Crazy LORA ranges today

    104 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  98. A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit

    104 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  99. Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force

    104 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  100. Has the Time Come for City-Run Public Banks?

    104 points • comment • jul 27, 2019