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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. Microsoft open-sources natural language processing tool for survey data

    65 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  2. The new dynamic arrays in Excel with Python and xlwings

    64 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  3. America’s packaged food supply is ultra-processed

    64 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  4. Gitlab: 2019 Developer Report

    64 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  5. The Convoy Phenomenon

    64 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  6. The Cheapest Way to Save the Planet Grows Like a Weed

    64 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  7. Eon Switches All U.K. Customers to Renewable Power

    64 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  8. Neil Armstrong’s Death, and a Stormy, Secret $6M Settlement

    64 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  9. Apple to Pay £3.8m Tax on £1.2bn UK Sales

    64 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  10. Chrome 76 prevents NYT and other news sites from detecting Incognito Mode

    64 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  11. Guidelines for low-level cryptography software

    64 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  12. Milkman: An Extensible Alternative to Postman in JavaFX

    64 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  13. Let us open 100 tabs of pure madness to fool trackers

    64 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  14. ShadowFox – Dark Theme for Firefox

    64 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  15. Kenya launches largest wind power plant in Africa

    63 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  16. Washington Can’t Solve a Housing Crisis That Doesn’t Exist

    63 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  17. ConstExprPreter – Clang Constexpr Interpreter

    63 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  18. Why Rust for safe systems programming

    63 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  19. Tensorflow 2.0 Inference on Google Cloud Functions

    63 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  20. Walking Britain’s ‘deadliest path’

    63 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  21. If You're Poor in America, You Can Be Both Overweight and Hungry

    63 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  22. A giant whiteboard for $14 plus nails

    63 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  23. Fuzz rising

    63 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  24. ‎The Portal: Peter Thiel (Eric Weinstein Podcast)

    63 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  25. List of Places to Promote Your New App or Website

    63 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  26. Bellingcat journalists targeted by failed phishing attempt

    63 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  27. The Pike Programming Language

    63 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  28. Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call

    63 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  29. German submarine U-1206

    63 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  30. Actalis: Insufficient Serial Number Entropy

    63 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  31. DuckDuckGo Tests How Much People Care About Privacy

    62 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  32. Show HN: Library for a Travel Service to Optimize Time During Trip to a City

    62 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  33. Fast, Offline, Reverse Geocoding; Or, in Which Polygon Am I? (2015)

    62 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  34. Polyscope: a C++ viewer and UI for the rapid prototyping of geometric algorithms

    62 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  35. Bobby Bonilla's 25-Year Contract with The New York Mets (2011)

    62 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  36. Upgrading my home server

    62 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  37. Models of Generics and Metaprogramming: Go, Rust, Swift, D and More

    62 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  38. Arrow of time and its reversal on the IBM quantum computer

    62 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  39. Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail

    62 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  40. Maybe It’s Lyme

    62 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  41. Quick start guide to research on human factors of software engineering

    62 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  42. The Invasion of Giant Pythons Threatening Florida

    62 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  43. Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance: Study

    62 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  44. Microsoft backtracks on Partner Network changes that sparked uproar

    62 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  45. Study reveals how bacteria beat immune systems

    62 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  46. Microsoft Word for Android has been installed more than 1B times

    62 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  47. Carthago delenda est

    62 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  48. The Last Days of John Allen Chau

    62 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  49. FreeBSD Turns 26

    62 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  50. Database of police who shoot citizens reveals who’s most likely to shoot

    62 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  51. "Version" include wreaks havoc on case-insensitive filesystems

    62 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  52. The Ice Cream: A Recipe from 1687

    61 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  53. The Grothendieck I Knew: Telling, Not Hiding, Not Judging [pdf]

    61 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  54. ZMap: Single packet network scanner designed for Internet-wide network surveys

    61 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  55. How Artifact became Valve's biggest failure

    61 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  56. I Cancelled My Amazon Prime

    61 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  57. China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families

    61 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  58. Koji – App Development Platform

    61 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  59. Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language

    61 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  60. ‘No Way to Prevent This’ Says Development Community Where This Regularly Happens

    61 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  61. Great Oxidation Event

    61 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  62. Someone is still maintaining the Space Jam website

    61 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  63. Show HN: Sqlkit – Golang SQL package with nested transactions

    61 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  64. Using component-based design helps us build faster

    61 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  65. AT&T loses nearly 1M TV customers after raising DirecTV prices

    61 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  66. Show HN: Ferrum.js – Rust features in JS: traits and advanced iteration

    61 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  67. Monday: Manage your development environment when working with microservices

    61 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  68. The Wright Brothers Conquered the Skies with Data

    61 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  69. One-Bit Computing at 60 Hertz

    61 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  70. Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner–so the police punished him

    60 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  71. How to download and use the DEA pain pills database

    60 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  72. Tales from the spam filter of an Android app developer

    60 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  73. A Cell Tower in the Swiss Alps Is Struck by Lightning More Than 100 Times a Year

    60 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  74. Cross-Browser Fingerprinting via OS and Hardware Level Features (2017) [pdf]

    60 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  75. A short soft skills course

    60 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  76. 'Anonymised' data can never be totally anonymous, says study

    60 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  77. Fooling Production-Grade Classification Systems with Adversarial Traffic Signs [pdf]

    60 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  78. Rechargeable vs. Alkaline Batteries

    60 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  79. Tamgu, a functional, imperative, logical programming language

    60 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  80. The Rise and Fall of French Cuisine

    60 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  81. CES will allow sex tech on a one-year trial basis, and finally bans booth babes

    60 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  82. ColorForth (2009)

    60 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  83. First fine for the application of GDPR Article 25 in Romania

    60 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  84. Google internet balloon spinoff Loon still looking for its wings

    60 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  85. Gubernator: Cloud-Native Distributed Rate Limiting for Microservices

    60 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  86. The Great Hack: A film that goes behind the scenes of the Facebook data scandal

    60 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  87. A German Financier Wants to Turn Magic Mushrooms into Modern Medicine

    60 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  88. How Tmux Starts Up: An Adventure with Linux Tools (2014)

    59 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  89. Phones Made the World an Office, Like It or Not

    59 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  90. Netflix drops 10% after missing on global paid subscribers

    59 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  91. The day Volkswagen briefly conquered the world (2018)

    59 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  92. To plot my next murder, I went to the Body Farm

    59 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  93. Crossing Lake Michigan in a Bathtub

    59 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  94. Some progress on CO2 sequestration technologies

    59 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  95. Tech recommendations for transit systems (2018)

    59 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  96. Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor

    59 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  97. I replicated an $86M project using open-source libraries (2017)

    59 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  98. Is a Boeing Bailout Taking Shape?

    59 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  99. Aceto: A programming language based on a 2D Hilbert curve grid

    59 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  100. Oracle on why it thinks AWS winning the Pentagon's $10bn Jedi contract stinks

    59 points • comment • jul 02, 2019