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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. The Intelligence Myth – Why I cringe when someone tells me my child is smart

    94 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  2. How Banksy Authenticates His Work

    94 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  3. Equifax CEO pushed out after data hack getting nearly $20M in bonuses

    94 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  4. Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows

    94 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  5. The IndieWeb needs to believe in itself (2018)

    94 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  6. The Farm Automation Breakthrough

    94 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  7. The Undertakers of Silicon Valley (2018)

    94 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  8. How I automated my Instagram account using Machine Learning and Python

    94 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  9. How to Debug (2010)

    93 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  10. When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo

    93 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  11. U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State

    93 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  12. 28% of Europeans Can't Afford a 1 Week Annual Holiday

    93 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  13. American Suburbs Swell Again as a New Generation Escapes the City

    93 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  14. Notes on a Smaller Rust

    93 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  15. Launch HN: Cloosiv (YC S19) – Order ahead from local coffee shops

    93 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  16. Hard Drive of Hearing: Disks That Eavesdrop with a Synthesized Microphone [pdf]

    92 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  17. How Much Water Do You Need to Drink?

    92 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  18. EvilGnome: Rare Malware Spying on Linux Desktop Users

    92 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  19. How to survive an open office

    92 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  20. Why I'm Leaving Medium

    92 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  21. Researchers easily trick Cylance's AI Antivirus to think Malware is 'Goodware'

    92 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  22. Safely Rewriting Mixpanel’s Highest-Throughput Service

    92 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  23. Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System

    92 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  24. Picat – a logic-based multi-paradigm programming language

    92 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  25. Why I’m turning my son into a cyborg

    92 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  26. Anaxagoras Was Exiled for Claiming the Moon Was a Rock

    92 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  27. First Programmable Memristor Computer

    92 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  28. How Capitalism Changed American Literature

    91 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  29. Extending the Linux Kernel with Built-In Kernel Headers

    91 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  30. Docker 19.03: Rootless Mode (Experimental)

    91 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  31. The Challenges of Operating a Computing Cloud and Charging for Its Use (2017) [pdf]

    91 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  32. Logs vs. Metrics: A False Dichotomy

    91 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  33. TikTok being investigated in the U.K. for handling of children’s data and safety

    91 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  34. Setup VS Code for Efficient PHP Development

    91 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  35. Deepfake revenge porn distribution now a crime in Virginia

    91 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  36. MathFiction: Alex Recommends

    91 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  37. Banding in Games: A Noisy Rant [pdf]

    91 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  38. China Wrestles with the Toxic Aftermath of Rare Earth Mining

    91 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  39. Word2vec: Fish + Music = Bass

    91 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  40. Docker protects a programming paradigm that we should get rid of (2018)

    90 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  41. Engineers Don't Solve Problems (2018)

    90 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  42. MemGuard: Secure sensitive information in memory in Go

    90 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  43. Cat Colors

    90 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  44. The Semantics of Transactions and Weak Memory in x86, Power, ARM, and C++

    90 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  45. Blender 2.80

    90 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  46. Improved seam carving with forward energy

    90 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  47. The Durian King

    90 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  48. The Trouble with Many Worlds

    90 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  49. Deutsche Bank axes whole teams in Asia-Pacific as job cuts begin

    90 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  50. Alaska defunds scholarships for thousands of students ahead of fall semester

    90 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  51. Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or loss of signal

    90 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  52. Degraded performance on GitLab.com

    90 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  53. Model Checking a C++ Software Framework: A Case Study

    90 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  54. Abusing the PHP Query String Parser to Bypass IDS, IPS, and WAF

    90 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  55. Ask HN: Plant a Trillion Trees Campaign?

    90 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  56. What Is Gaussian Curvature?

    90 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  57. Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition

    90 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  58. The Forgotten Solution: Superdeterminism

    89 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  59. NASA Maps Surface Changes from California Quakes

    89 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  60. Google Acquires Elastifile

    89 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  61. CEO of Marriott Statements About Hotel Fees Customers Loathe

    89 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  62. The Biggest Abuser of Forced Arbitration Is Amazon

    89 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  63. The Aesthetic Beauty of Math

    89 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  64. Catlab.jl: Experimental framework for applied category theory

    89 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  65. Andy Rachleff on 35 years in Silicon Valley, Wealthfront and telling stories

    89 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  66. French Minerve submarine is found after disappearing in 1968

    89 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  67. World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Experiment Clears Milestone

    89 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  68. The coal mine that ate Hambacher forest

    89 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  69. Who’s Behind the GandCrab Ransomware?

    89 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  70. How to Bypass “Slider Captcha”

    89 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  71. Watch the Ridgecrest earthquake shatter desert floor in before-and-after images

    89 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  72. Albert Camus: Humanism and Tragedy

    89 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  73. Dockerless, part 3: Moving development environment to containers with Podman

    88 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  74. Gokrazy: a pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances

    88 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  75. A brief history and future of credit scores

    88 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  76. How fast can a BufferedReader read lines in Java?

    88 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  77. Time is running out for sand

    88 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  78. Expecting programmers to problem solve for 8 hours is stupid

    88 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  79. Beijing Presses Hong Kong Government to Quell Unrest

    88 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  80. FUSE performance improvements with eBPF [pdf]

    88 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  81. America needs to see Amazon’s tax returns

    88 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  82. The forgotten joy of soap

    88 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  83. Rent the Backyard (YC S19) wants to build a studio apartment in your yard

    88 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  84. Plot Maps of Star Wars

    88 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  85. Ancient History of Lyme Disease Revealed with Bacterial Genomes (2017)

    88 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  86. Giving Up TV for a Month Changed My Brain

    88 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  87. Baumol Effect

    87 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  88. The Tech Industry Is Building a Vast Digital Underclass

    87 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  89. The British Virgin Islands’ Struggle to Protect Its Dark Offshore Economy

    87 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  90. Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Serverless

    87 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  91. A Giant Asteroid of Gold Won’t Make Us Richer

    87 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  92. Amazon's Vanishing Cardboard Box

    87 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  93. Suffragetto: An early 1900s board game between suffragettes and police

    87 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  94. Polanyi’s Paradox

    87 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  95. Self Programming Language

    87 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  96. Raising the American Weakling (2017)

    87 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  97. Global Passport Power Rank 2019

    87 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  98. How over 25 People Got Scammed into Working at a Nonexistent Game Company

    87 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  99. The Clean Farming Revolution

    87 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  100. The Lyttle Lytton Contest

    87 points • comment • jul 15, 2019