woid

top stories

Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. The Golden Girls Would Violate Zoning Laws

    103 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  2. Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously thought

    103 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  3. Alice and Bob: A History of the World’s Most Famous Cryptographic Couple (2017)

    103 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  4. Google Cloud's run rate is now over $8B

    103 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  5. Eve Online’s communications blackout explained

    102 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  6. Show HN: Osgood – A secure, fast, and simple JavaScript server platform

    102 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  7. Lefthook: Knock your team’s code back into shape

    102 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  8. Notifica – an app for if you're at risk of being detained by ICE agents

    102 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  9. Fax machines can be hacked to breach a network, using only its number (2018)

    102 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  10. H-1B: Federal judge backs government’s narrower view of ‘specialty occupation’

    102 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  11. Swedish ISP Blocks Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub

    102 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  12. A Comscore Company Distributes a MITM Proxy Spyware Compromising Users Security

    102 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  13. Facebook are frantically trying to find out who leaked thousands of documents

    102 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  14. SVG Jigsaw Generation in Clojure

    102 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  15. Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life

    101 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  16. The poor can’t afford to follow public health advice

    101 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  17. Renters may get access to rogue landlord database

    101 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  18. Stripe subsidiary plans to open office in Baltimore

    101 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  19. Why Kids Invent Imaginary Friends

    101 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  20. Show HN: Autocomplete Python with Deep Learning

    101 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  21. The Vision for Decentralized Web

    101 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  22. Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator (2014)

    101 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  23. Azolla Event

    101 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  24. Never-Googlers: Web users take the ultimate step to guard their data

    101 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  25. Make meaning your vocational goal

    101 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  26. Show HN: Drag and drop page building for any site

    101 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  27. Tagsistant: A Semantic Filesystem for Linux

    101 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  28. Value Is Dead, Long Live Value

    100 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  29. MIT Fellow Says Facebook ‘Lifted’ His Ideas for Libra Cryptocurrency

    100 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  30. The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf]

    100 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  31. Qualified Small-Business Stock rule helps Silicon Valley workers save millions

    100 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  32. A Navy veteran refused to accept a ‘no’ to his battery invention

    100 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  33. OpenBGPD: The OpenBSD BGP internet routing daemon

    100 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  34. Substack

    100 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  35. Wittgenstein’s Legacy: The Principles of the Private Language Arguments (2018)

    100 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  36. Linux 5.2 released: list of changes

    100 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  37. Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there

    99 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  38. Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting logic bomb in company spreadsheets

    99 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  39. TetrisRant (1999)

    99 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  40. “Only five people maintain Python-pip”

    99 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  41. How developers use API documentation: an observation study [pdf]

    99 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  42. ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size

    99 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  43. U.S. has its wettest 12 months on record again

    99 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  44. “Roman Biro”, complete with joke, found at London building site

    99 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  45. Running the numbers on an insane scheme to save Antarctic ice

    99 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  46. How Microsoft made it harder to create Windows 10 local accounts

    99 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  47. Why Has Language Changed So Much So Fast? ‘Because Internet’

    99 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  48. x86 API Hooking Demystified (2012)

    98 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  49. Google Gmail purchase history can't be deleted

    98 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  50. Remembering Chris Kraft

    98 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  51. Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer

    98 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  52. Servants Without Masters

    98 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  53. South African teens fly from Cape to Cairo in plane they assembled from kit

    98 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  54. Math versus Dirty Data

    98 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  55. GM Cruise to delay commercial launch of self-driving cars to beyond 2019

    98 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  56. Show HN: LessPhone – A minimal Android launcher to reduce phone use

    98 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  57. 'The Restaurant of Order Mistakes' Employs Waiters With Dementia (2017)

    98 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  58. Boeing May Halt 737 Max Production

    98 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  59. The Legion Parallel Programming System

    97 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  60. Two drugs that block cell division synergize to kill tumor cells

    97 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  61. The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t All That Healthy

    97 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  62. The Great Stink

    97 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  63. Software design is also about relationships

    97 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  64. US mayors adopt resolution to not pay hackers over ransomware attacks

    97 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  65. Sony's mini air conditioner can fit in your pocket

    97 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  66. Being multilingual alters your experience of time (2018)

    97 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  67. Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat

    97 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  68. The Art of Metaprogramming (2005)

    97 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  69. Ratification of the RISC-V Base ISA and Privileged Architecture Specifications

    97 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  70. Rebuilding Racket on Chez Scheme Experience Report [pdf]

    96 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  71. Spaced Repetition

    96 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  72. Where we see shapes, AI sees textures

    96 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  73. Apple to include new keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air and 2020 MacBook Pro

    96 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  74. Recreate Secret Doors from Movies

    96 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  75. Google Sheets Formula Clock

    96 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  76. Hypothetical Indexes in PostgreSQL

    96 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  77. Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations

    96 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  78. Ants give away the secrets of human brain processes

    96 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  79. Teenage hackers are offered a second chance under European experiment

    96 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  80. Wikipedia's robots.txt

    96 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  81. Animals living alongside humans produce amylase, enzyme that breaks down starch

    96 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  82. If this type of dark matter existed, people would be dying of unexplained wounds

    96 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  83. Ask HN: How do you read and understand an open-source project?

    95 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  84. Man Who Built the Retweet: “We Handed a Loaded Weapon to 4-Year-Olds”

    95 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  85. Efficiently Generating Python Hash Collisions

    95 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  86. Teaching Tech Together

    95 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  87. Dark emerges with ‘deployless’ software model

    95 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  88. When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right

    95 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  89. Show HN: Play rock paper and scissors against a untrained neural network

    95 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  90. Show HN: A Demo IDE for Scheme

    95 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  91. Ray tracing with uLisp

    95 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  92. In Brazil, Amazon Protections Are Slashed and Forests Fall

    95 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  93. First Moon landing was nearly a US–Soviet mission

    95 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  94. Mistakes we make using JavaScript Promises

    94 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  95. How Banksy Authenticates His Work

    94 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  96. The Undertakers of Silicon Valley (2018)

    94 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  97. Raspberry Pi 4 Review

    94 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  98. Alert issued for stolen car with nuclear substance in Chile

    94 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  99. The Farm Automation Breakthrough

    94 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  100. Judge Gives E-Cigarette Makers 10 Months to Seek FDA Review

    94 points • comment • jul 12, 2019