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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. Julia: Come for the Syntax, Stay for the Speed

    48 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  2. WeWork isn't close to being profitable

    48 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  3. The U.S. wants to dump 1.5 tons of rat poison pellets on the Farallon Islands

    48 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  4. A giant heat dome over Alaska is set to threaten all-time temperature records

    48 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  5. The White House Blocked My Report on Climate Change and National Security

    48 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  6. A comparison of Cell with OOP

    48 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  7. How Norway turns criminals into good neighbours

    48 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  8. Ask HN: Have you ever had an existential crisis?

    48 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  9. What makes a good excuse?

    48 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  10. Electrical Compartmentalization in Neurons

    48 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  11. Google Duplex might make my design job redundant

    48 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  12. US agriculture department suspends data collection on honeybees

    48 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  13. LGP-30 – A Drum Computer of Significance

    47 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  14. (Don’t) hold the phone: new features coming to Pixel 4

    47 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  15. Self Compiling Compilers [video]

    47 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  16. I Tried Emailing Like a CEO

    47 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  17. Headless CMS Is Killing the Buy vs. Build Decision

    47 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  18. The NASA Art Program

    47 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  19. Ikea designed its own Soffa font

    47 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  20. Protesters in Hong Kong are getting attacked by masked thugs

    47 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  21. PL/I as a Tool for System Programming (1969)

    47 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  22. What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015)

    47 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  23. Revec: Program Rejuvenation Through Revectorization

    47 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  24. A curated list of philosophy resources

    47 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  25. How the Fed Funds Rate Impacts the Wealthfront Cash Account

    47 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  26. The Future of Invention (1879)

    47 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  27. Show HN: Enlyte – A Computer Science and Tech Only Hacker News

    47 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  28. The Central Limit Theorem and Sampling

    47 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  29. World hunger not going down and obesity still growing – UN report

    47 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  30. Michigan Central and the Rebirth of Detroit

    47 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  31. Bitcoin Rally Fuels Market in Crypto Derivatives

    47 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  32. Almost Always Add Swap Space

    47 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  33. C++: Improve Multiplatform Code with __has_include and Feature Test Macros

    47 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  34. In the Defense of Spaghetti Code (2013)

    47 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  35. The floppy disk orphaned by Linux

    46 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  36. Donating 3% of revenues to open source, a six month review

    46 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  37. DoH Secure DNS Doesn't Make Us a Villain Mozilla Tells UK ISP's

    46 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  38. Denver Art Museum Digital Repository Project

    46 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  39. Sear: An always-encrypted tar-like file archive format

    46 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  40. China’s war chest of rare earth patents

    46 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  41. Ask HN: If your job was remote, which city would you choose to live in?

    46 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  42. Cast Handbook: How to Learn More from Incidents and Accidents [pdf]

    46 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  43. PostgreSQL Wins 2019 O'Reilly Lifetime Achievement Award

    46 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  44. Wikipedia founder calls for social media strike

    46 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  45. Stacked Capsule Autoencoders

    46 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  46. The World According to Mad Magazine

    46 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  47. Hell Breaks Loose

    46 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  48. Show HN: PISA – A text search engine able to run on large-scale collections

    46 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  49. More information about our processes to safeguard speech data

    46 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  50. Russian Hack of Elections System Was Far-Reaching, Report Finds

    46 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  51. Puma 4: Hammering Out H13s–A Debugging Story

    45 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  52. Big technology companies are doubling down on New York City

    45 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  53. The case against reality

    45 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  54. Librem 5 July Update

    45 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  55. Libgraal: GraalVM compiler as a precompiled GraalVM native image

    45 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  56. Six Degrees of Separation at Burning Man

    45 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  57. Securing Infrastructure at Scale with Cloudflare Access

    45 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  58. A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 2

    45 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  59. Idempotent consumer pattern – A piece of the eventual consistency puzzle

    45 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  60. Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for Unix

    45 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  61. Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 20% to $63.4B [pdf]

    45 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  62. Ask HN: How do you manage event tracking at your workplace

    45 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  63. Dimensions and Haskell: Singletons in Action

    45 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  64. What a street looks like 39 years after legalizing fourplexes

    45 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  65. The Vietnam War Was Already Lost, but I Had to Go Anyway

    45 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  66. The Graphics Chip Chronicles

    45 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  67. Self-destructing mosquitoes and sterilized rodents: the promise of gene drives

    45 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  68. It’s Official: This Is Now the Longest Economic Expansion in US History

    45 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  69. A Secret Weapon for Startups – Functional Programming?

    45 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  70. The Configuration Complexity Clock (2012)

    45 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  71. On the Homogenizing Dangers of Easily Translated Literature (2016)

    45 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  72. Stricken Russian Nuke Sub Crew Prevented ‘Planetary Catastrophe’

    45 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  73. Facebook’s $5B FTC fine is an embarrassing joke

    45 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  74. Linux on STM32 Microcontrollers

    45 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  75. Deep Dive: Nvidia Inference Research Chip Scales to 32 Chiplets

    45 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  76. Endangered Languages Project

    45 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  77. 3D model of slave ship brings harrowing history to life

    45 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  78. My experience upgrading Ruby on Rails from 3.2 to 4.2

    44 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  79. Zero to Startup in 10 weeks

    44 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  80. If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it would change global coastlines forever

    44 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  81. A Single Male Cat’s Reign of Terror

    44 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  82. Concern About Global Warming Among Americans Spikes, Report Says

    44 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  83. Asm-declaration – Embed assembly language code within a C++ program (2017)

    44 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  84. Britons abandon Facebook as usage plummets by more than a third

    44 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  85. Another wave of nootropic supplements is hitting the market

    44 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  86. ‘BioSolar Leaf’ to Tackle Air Pollution in White City

    44 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  87. Nestle finds new way to use cocoa leftovers to sweeten chocolate

    44 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  88. Steve Wozniak shuts down his Facebook account in protest (2018)

    44 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  89. The Importance of Insect Suffering

    44 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  90. Hot weather cuts French, German nuclear power output

    44 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  91. Transdep: Find single points of failure in DNS dependency graphs

    44 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  92. Airbnb host ordered to pay £100k of unlawful profits after letting council flat

    44 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  93. Alan Turing: WWII codebreaker revealed as new face of £50 note

    44 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  94. An Initial Look at the IBM POWER9 4c/16t CPU Performance on the Blackbird

    44 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  95. A Global Trash Glut Hurt a $25B Industry

    44 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  96. Parents Give Up Custody of Their Kids to Get Need-Based College Financial Aid

    44 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  97. Crannogs: Neolithic-Era Artificial Islands

    44 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  98. Women who win hundreds of sweepstakes per year

    44 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  99. The Story of Humans and Neanderthals in Europe Is Being Rewritten

    44 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  100. Ask HN: What is the best chair for developers?

    44 points • comment • jul 17, 2019