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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. Babel 7.5

    79 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  2. Humans Will Never Colonize Mars

    79 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  3. Ubisoft joins blender development fund

    79 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  4. Antikythera Mechanism

    79 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  5. The Enduring Mystery of ‘Jawn,’ Philadelphia’s All-Purpose Noun (2016)

    79 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  6. American kids would much rather be YouTubers than astronauts

    79 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  7. Spaceman Diff: Diffing Images on the Command Line

    79 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  8. Investigating sources of PII used in Facebook’s targeted advertising [pdf]

    79 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  9. Trump signals scrutiny of Google's ties with China after Thiel comments

    79 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  10. The wrong kind of trees: Ireland's afforestation meets resistance

    78 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  11. A Trump-era purge of military scientists at a legendary think tank

    78 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  12. ASCII Art in .NET Code

    78 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  13. Wall Street’s Trading Desks Endure Worst First Half in a Decade

    78 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  14. Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Has Died

    78 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  15. Lager: Unidirectional data-flow for C++ inspired by Redux and Elm

    78 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  16. Show HN: Comntr – a widget that adds comments to your page

    78 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  17. In a Life-or-Death Crisis, Humility Is Everything

    78 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  18. Ask HN: Has anyone dissolved a Stripe Atlas company?

    78 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  19. Rutger Hauer: Blade Runner actor dies aged 75

    78 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  20. The Poisonous ABCs: From Aconitine to Zetekitoxin

    78 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  21. The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea

    78 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  22. The Secret Seat of the Knights Templar

    77 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  23. The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery (2018)

    77 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  24. Returning Due Process to Campus

    77 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  25. Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?

    77 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  26. China scrambles to stem manufacturing exodus as companies leave

    77 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  27. Tesla drops cheapest Model X, S variants, cuts prices to simplify lineup

    77 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  28. Must-Read Books About the Moon

    77 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  29. The Near Impossible 20-Year Journey to Translate 'Fire Emblem: Thracia 776'

    77 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  30. Emacs Users Are Like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (2013)

    77 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  31. Out-of-Place Artifact

    77 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  32. Alan Perlis: Epigrams on Programming (1982) [pdf]

    77 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  33. Innocent woman arrested in false-positive in facial recognition system in Brazil

    77 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  34. Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation (1979)

    77 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  35. Before Silicon Valley got nasty the Pirates of Analog Alley fought it out (2014)

    76 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  36. Sending 1.2M Tweets

    76 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  37. Ask HN: Why is programming editing text?

    76 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  38. Film of Inside the Ilford Factory to See How B&W Film Is Made

    76 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  39. I Used Google Ads for Social Engineering

    76 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  40. RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source (2016)

    76 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  41. Max Planck Society conducts bullying survey

    76 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  42. What a bad day at work taught me about building Stack Overflow’s community

    76 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  43. Introduction to Decentralisation

    76 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  44. Why we are withdrawing the NHS Common User Interface

    76 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  45. Tobacco out, hemp in for Tennessee farmers

    75 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  46. Book Review: Impro by Keith Johnstone

    75 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  47. Coroutine Theory (2017)

    75 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  48. Reddit AMA: I'm a Former Amazon Fulfillment Center Employee

    75 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  49. My Last Macbook Pro

    75 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  50. The Structure and Interpretation of the Computer Science Curriculum (2004)

    75 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  51. Microsoft Restores Deleted Technet and MSDN Blogs

    75 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  52. Raytracer.jl: A Differentiable Renderer That Supports Parameter Optimization [pdf]

    75 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  53. Programming as a medium for poorly understood, sloppily-formulated ideas (1967) [pdf]

    75 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  54. Visualize team email network with new MIT tool

    75 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  55. The Mutable Web

    75 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  56. Deadly Cargo Still Rides the Rails

    75 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  57. The Structure of a Programming Language Revolution (2012) [pdf]

    75 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  58. The Law Isn't Ready for Psychedelic Medicine

    75 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  59. How to Build Minesweeper with JavaScript

    75 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  60. Ring has enormous control over the ways police partners can portray its products

    75 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  61. The Psychology of Prediction

    74 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  62. Ex-Joyeur

    74 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  63. Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever

    74 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  64. Volkswagen boss criticizes Germany’s decision to privilege coal over nuclear

    74 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  65. Neural Decipherment via Minimum-Cost Flow: from Ugaritic to Linear B

    74 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  66. Grindr has faced a federal investigation, layoffs, mismanagement, and turmoil

    74 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  67. No One Is Safe: How Saudi Arabia Makes Dissidents Disappear

    74 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  68. My Journey from Free Market Ideologue, Part 5: Commercial Development

    73 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  69. Arpanet, Part 3: The Subnet

    73 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  70. C++20 Is Feature Complete; Here’s What Changes Are Coming

    73 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  71. Espresso-hole – EspressoBin-based personal router with ad blocking

    73 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  72. The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes

    73 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  73. Where the Bodies Are Buried

    73 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  74. FTC: Equifax might run out of cash, so please take the credit monitoring

    73 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  75. The Internet Is Run by an Unaccountable Private Company (2015)

    73 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  76. Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force

    73 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  77. Dell E7440 and E7240 Hackintosh

    73 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  78. Kernel analysis with bpftrace

    73 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  79. What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life (2018)

    73 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  80. The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics (1939)

    73 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  81. Blockchain takes us back to medieval times

    73 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  82. Artists Should Be Allowed to Fail

    73 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  83. Sweet.js – Hygienic Macros for JavaScript

    73 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  84. Toxorhynchites – Mosquito Eater

    73 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  85. Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards

    73 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  86. U.S. government staff told to treat Huawei as blacklisted

    73 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  87. Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile

    73 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  88. CSS Houdini Interactive Introduction

    73 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  89. MetaCall: Inter-language foreign function interface calls

    73 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  90. We Really Don't Know How to Compute (2011) [video]

    73 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  91. As Climate Changes, Taxpayers Will Shoulder Larger U.S. Payouts to Farmers

    72 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  92. Visualizing and exploring sorting algorithms in two dimensions

    72 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  93. Planning to Start, Planning to Finish

    72 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  94. Interstellar Probe, a Mission Concept for NASA

    72 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  95. Coroutines: A Million Stacks (2017)

    72 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  96. China’s State-Driven Growth Model Is Running Out of Gas

    72 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  97. Tree of Forty Fruit

    72 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  98. Amazon: Carbon emissions from our Australian bit barns aren't for public viewing

    72 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  99. Temperature Conversion: Mental Calculation (2014)

    72 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  100. Building a Reflow Oven

    72 points • comment • jul 22, 2019