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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. The Clean Farming Revolution

    87 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  2. The Lyttle Lytton Contest

    87 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  3. Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop

    87 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  4. Prenda Law porn-troll saga ends with prison for founder

    87 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  5. MEPs back EU ban on throwaway plastics by 2021

    86 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  6. Frontier: ORNL's 2021 exascale supercomputer will run on AMD CPUs and GPUs

    86 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  7. The Stranding of the MV Shokalskiy

    86 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  8. Gmail on NT 3.51 with IE 1.5 via WRP

    86 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  9. Trump’s Twitter blocks violate First Amendment rights, appeals court affirms

    86 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  10. The CUE Data Constraint Language

    86 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  11. FreeBSD 11.3

    86 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  12. Mithril.js 2.0 Released

    86 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  13. Marvin Minsky and the Ultimate Tinker Toy

    86 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  14. Sarin Possibly Discovered in Package at Facebook Mailing Facility

    86 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  15. Escape the scripter mentality if reliability matters (2011)

    86 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  16. Billions of Random Numbers in a Blink of an Eye

    86 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  17. We Changed YugaByte DB Licensing to Apache 2.0

    86 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  18. Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This Week

    85 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  19. The Mathematics of Text Structure

    85 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  20. How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012

    85 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  21. Pineapple Day: How I Started a Global Holiday

    85 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  22. BlueJeans also runs a webserver when installed on macOS

    85 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  23. Show HN: Minimal Twitter – drastically simplify and declutter the new Twitter UI

    85 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  24. Launch HN: FeaturePeek (YC S19) – Front-end review for the whole team

    85 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  25. Nobody talks about the real reason to use tabs over spaces

    85 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  26. Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-Antarctic island

    85 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  27. GraphQL Performance Monitoring Is Hard

    85 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  28. RaptorJIT + Studio: Analyzing the evolving C heap of a JIT compiler (2017)

    84 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  29. Vulnerabilities found in GE anesthesia machines

    84 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  30. American guy is surprised when he gets a realistic hospital bill in Croatia

    84 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  31. YouTube isn’t for kids, but kids videos are among its most popular

    84 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  32. Google’s Equiano Cable Will Extend to the Remote Island of Saint Helena

    84 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  33. More on DataSpii: How extensions hide their grabs and how they’re discovered

    84 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  34. Coreboot 4.10

    84 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  35. Black soldier fly maggots: high in protein with a small carbon footprint

    84 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  36. Are smartphones the new 'opium of the people'?

    84 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  37. All Chrome extensions can execute remote code in their own context

    84 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  38. Readable Lisp S-expressions Project (2013)

    84 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  39. Gin, Sex, Malaria, and the Hunt for Academic Prestige

    84 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  40. Elasticsearch for Offensive Security (2018)

    83 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  41. China's Vanishing Muslims: Undercover in World's Most Dystopian Place [video]

    83 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  42. Mystery of Chedworth's 1,800-year-old Roman glass shard solved

    83 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  43. ‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under Xi

    83 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  44. Neanderthals glued their tools together

    83 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  45. Zebrafish used to help save a dying boy

    83 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  46. What if you couldn’t program with loops?

    83 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  47. Bitcoin's energy consumption 'equals that of Switzerland'

    83 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  48. David Warren, inventor of the flight voice and data recorder

    83 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  49. Webvan

    83 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  50. Linux System Programming by Robert Love – Reading Notes

    83 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  51. Ask HN: How did you automate your day job?

    83 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  52. A once-classified anomaly nearly killed NASA's first moon astronauts

    83 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  53. Samba versus SMB: Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects

    83 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  54. Lessons from Hiring a Remote Team

    82 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  55. Doctors Slow to Adopt Tech Tools That Might Save Patients Money on Drugs

    82 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  56. Urinary tract infections are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics

    82 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  57. Why Our Postwar “Long Peace” Is Fragile (2018)

    82 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  58. A Wisconsin lawmaker who's paralyzed isn't allowed to participate in meetings

    82 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  59. Former top executives of France Télécom on trial for harassing employees

    82 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  60. The Dark Ages of AI (1985) [pdf]

    81 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  61. Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s road signs

    81 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  62. Illustrating Group Theory: A Coloring Book (2017)

    81 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  63. Moody’s Buys Climate Data Firm, Signaling New Scrutiny of Climate Risks

    81 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  64. Things to plan for when hiring remote employees

    81 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  65. Nvidia's DG-Net: Dress up people with different clothes/use as training data

    81 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  66. China Is Drafting Urgent Plan to Resolve Hong Kong Chaos, SCMP Says

    81 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  67. MT-DNN Achieves Human Performance in General Language Understanding Benchmark

    81 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  68. A history sheds light on venture capital’s ties to military-industrial complex

    81 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  69. Data Deduplication at Scale

    81 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  70. 'Football pitch' of Amazon forest lost every minute

    81 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  71. Cities Want 'Digital Twins' to Manage Traffic

    81 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  72. Dynamic Periodic Table (2017)

    81 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  73. FRT – A Godot “platform” targeting single-board computers

    81 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  74. 2019 redefinition of the SI base units

    81 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  75. Vimeo Disabled My Account for Submitting HTML

    81 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  76. Understanding IPFS in Depth(5/6): What Is Libp2p?

    80 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  77. An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (2006) [pdf]

    80 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  78. Law of Demeter

    80 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  79. The heritability of fertility makes world population stabilization unlikely

    80 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  80. The Fifth Generation Computing Project

    80 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  81. Show HN: Sanic – A Comprehensive CLI for Kubernetes

    80 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  82. You Say What You Eat

    80 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  83. Vickrey–Clarke–Groves Auction

    80 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  84. Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce

    80 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  85. Unprecedented North Pole Heat Wave in Progress

    80 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  86. The Bitter Truth About Olives (2016)

    80 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  87. Spurred by Amazon, Supermarkets Try Swapping Cashiers for Cameras

    80 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  88. Tekton Pipelines – K8s-style resources for declaring CI pipelines

    80 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  89. IBM's Acquisition of Red Hat Closes

    80 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  90. How I got my username on nearly every site

    80 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  91. China’s State Media Show Hong Kong Protest Images, Fanning Public Anger

    80 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  92. Symmetry Minute

    80 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  93. SMT Solvers in Software Security (2012)

    80 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  94. Various Things in MetaPost

    79 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  95. OOP Before OOP with Simula

    79 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  96. Disabling server-side logging of Siri requests

    79 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  97. Forests and climate change: pine trees dying in France

    79 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  98. Inequality is exacerbated by the assumption that everyone has a mobile phone

    79 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  99. Humans Will Never Colonize Mars

    79 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  100. Who Is This “Licklider” Guy? (2008)

    79 points • comment • jul 15, 2019