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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download

    475 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  2. Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S

    473 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  3. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)

    473 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  4. A better zip bomb

    472 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  5. Firefox 68.0

    465 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  6. Cars took over because the legal system helped squeezed out alternatives

    465 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  7. Think in Math, Write in Code

    463 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  8. African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone

    460 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  9. Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

    460 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  10. Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?

    459 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  11. Declined Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, “try”

    458 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  12. The PGP Problem

    457 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  13. Florida DMV sells personal info to private companies, marketing firms

    454 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  14. Statistics with Julia [pdf]

    454 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  15. Users hate change

    450 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  16. Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax

    447 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  17. Fast Software, the Best Software

    446 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  18. The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions

    442 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  19. How can phone companies detect tethering?

    437 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  20. YouTube faces creator backlash

    437 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  21. What’s New in ES2019

    433 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  22. I thought I made a hard game and then speedrunners destroyed it

    430 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  23. Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition

    424 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  24. Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app

    424 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  25. Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

    423 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  26. Vital Wikipedia Articles

    421 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  27. A Secure Runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript Built with V8, Rust, and Tokio

    420 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  28. Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails

    419 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  29. Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

    418 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  30. Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website

    418 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  31. Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day

    417 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  32. John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with something better

    416 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  33. Intro Guide to Dockerfile Best Practices

    415 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  34. Monte Carlo methods – Why it's a bad idea to go to the casino

    415 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  35. Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful

    414 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  36. Show HN: I built a service to discover rapidly growing Google search topics

    414 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  37. Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

    413 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  38. GitHub is down

    407 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  39. Strava cuts off Relive

    407 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  40. Your nines are not my nines

    406 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  41. Ross Perot Has Died

    402 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  42. Game Source Code Collection

    398 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  43. About the “Security Issue” on VLC

    397 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  44. FTC Imposes $5B Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook

    396 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  45. How Diablo Was Reverse-Engineered Without Source Code [video]

    395 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  46. Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers

    394 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  47. Costa Rica has run on 100% renewable energy for 300 days

    394 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  48. Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died

    393 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  49. How many kinds of USB-C to USB-C cables are there?

    393 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  50. I'm writing a book about algorithms and Lisp

    392 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  51. Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?

    391 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  52. Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending (2018)

    390 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  53. A “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for ten bicycles

    390 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  54. Why we're ending support for MySQL

    389 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  55. Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete

    389 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  56. Renault's driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen

    388 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  57. Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

    388 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  58. 3D Wireframes Using SVG

    388 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  59. Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change

    387 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  60. My First Fifteen Compilers

    382 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  61. Google Photos is making photos semi-public

    380 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  62. The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising the Bar

    380 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  63. Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy

    379 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  64. Blender 2.80 release candidate

    379 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  65. VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies

    376 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  66. The Roots of Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight

    376 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  67. A Differentiable Programming System to Bridge ML and Scientific Computing

    374 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  68. Neuralink Live Stream [video]

    372 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  69. It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done

    371 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  70. 33 dead after arson attack at Kyoto Animation studio, dozens injured

    367 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  71. Firefox Reality

    366 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  72. Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every City Lot

    365 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  73. Operating a large distributed system in a reliable way: practices I learned

    365 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  74. “My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”

    364 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  75. Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft

    364 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  76. Amazon can be held liable for third-party seller products: U.S. appeals court

    362 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  77. Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext

    361 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  78. So you think you know C? (2016)

    360 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  79. Zelda Screen Transitions Are Undefined Behaviour

    359 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  80. India tiger census shows rapid population growth

    358 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  81. Stunnel and Airline Wi-Fi

    358 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  82. IRS sends warning letters to more than 10k cryptocurrency holders

    358 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  83. Data Engineering Cookbook

    357 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  84. Clear is better than clever

    355 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  85. Bladder cancer 'attacked and killed by common cold virus'

    355 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  86. Let's Build a Compiler

    353 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  87. One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online

    353 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  88. GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely

    353 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  89. Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design

    349 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  90. Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?

    347 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  91. Wringing

    345 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  92. Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners

    345 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  93. I work in an Amazon warehouse in West Sacramento

    344 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  94. Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy

    344 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  95. Public Domain Movies

    343 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  96. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

    343 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  97. Google Search is routinely gamed by private blog networks

    343 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  98. Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments

    342 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  99. Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project

    342 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  100. Ubisoft joins Blender Development Fund to support open-source animation

    342 points • comment • jul 22, 2019