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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

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

    44 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

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

    44 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  3. The Importance of Insect Suffering

    44 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

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

    44 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  5. Crannogs: Neolithic-Era Artificial Islands

    44 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  6. Deep Representation Learning with Genetic Programming (2018) [pdf]

    44 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  7. Cyber Incident Exposes Potential Vulnerabilities Onboard Commercial Vessels [pdf]

    44 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  8. On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal

    44 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  9. LAN Manager Product Specification, 1987

    43 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  10. Emma Chamberlain dropped out of school and changed the world of online video

    43 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  11. World’s largest steam locomotive rolls through Chicago area

    43 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  12. UK’s ten warmest years all occurred since 2002

    43 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  13. UK CO₂ Emissions Are Lowest Since 1888 Due to Government Intervention

    43 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  14. Simone de Beauvoir, The Art of Fiction No. 35 (1965)

    43 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  15. College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Teens

    43 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  16. LiveJournal data breach impacts 33M users with plaintext passwords

    43 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  17. Scientists Debate the Origin of Cell Types in the First Animals

    43 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  18. Satellites threaten privacy

    43 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  19. On Inequality and Risk Capacity

    43 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  20. Blockstack’s token offering is historic, but its dance with the SEC is not over

    43 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  21. Einstein’s Entanglements

    43 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  22. Documenting every apple variety in North America

    43 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  23. The Role of Doubt in Design

    43 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  24. Education publisher Pearson to phase out print textbooks

    43 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  25. How to Save a Dying Language (2013)

    43 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  26. US Customs seized JPMorgan ship after authorities found 39,525 lbs of cocaine

    43 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  27. The Honey Trap on East 71st Street

    43 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  28. Don’t Regulate Facial Recognition. Ban It

    43 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  29. At Pike Place Market, seniors and kids work well together

    43 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  30. TLS Performance: Rustls versus OpenSSL

    43 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  31. Democracy Is for the Gods – Humans Cannot Sustain It

    43 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  32. Peter Thiel Calls Google 'Treasonous' and Says CIA Should Investigate

    43 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  33. Ask HN: Don't want to write CRUD apps for the rest of my career, what to do?

    43 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  34. The Unfinished History of U.S. Freeway Revolts

    42 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  35. Rust Is Leading Most of the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks (New Round 18)

    42 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  36. Starting with Semantics [video]

    42 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  37. The Glorious and Ruinous Life of Alcibiades

    42 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  38. Samsung in hot water over splashy Australian phone ads

    42 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  39. Ask HN: Any logic based software dev tool which helps building code gradually?

    42 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  40. What Spectre Means for Lanugage Implementers [video]

    42 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  41. Facebook is exploring brain control for AR wearables

    42 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  42. New World Drugs in Old World Mummies?

    42 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  43. Rising health insurance deductibles fuel middle-class anger and resentment

    42 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  44. The Sheldon Conjecture

    42 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  45. Jeffrey Epstein Pitched a New Narrative. These Sites Published It

    42 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  46. Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for upcoming 16" MBP

    42 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  47. Electric cars 'will not solve transport problem,' report warns

    42 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  48. Road-Tripping with the Amazon Nomads

    42 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  49. 2020 Honda E Has 148 HP and More Than 221 LB-FT

    42 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  50. A Practitioner’s Guide to Deep Learning with Ludwig

    42 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  51. The Business Executive's Guide to Kubernetes

    42 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  52. Windows no longer automatically backs up the system registry

    42 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  53. Cargo ships are emitting boatloads of carbon, and nobody wants to take the blame

    41 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  54. Video Games That Made People Question Their Beliefs

    41 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  55. What Disney+ Traffic Could Be Worth to CDNs

    41 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  56. Hong Kong Protests Show Dangers of a Cashless Society

    41 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  57. Microsoft Attempting to Destroy the Careers of Its Critics

    41 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  58. The Discovery of Sharklet

    41 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  59. The Creepy Anglerfish Comes to Light

    41 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  60. The L.A. Times’ disappointing digital numbers

    41 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  61. Japan PM Abe: See no need to raise sales tax beyond 10% for decade

    41 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  62. House Rules (2018)

    41 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  63. Artists getting evicted in Detroit

    41 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  64. Demystifying Containers, Docker, and Kubernetes

    41 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  65. U.S. Forces Failed to Conquer Canada 200 Years Ago (2012)

    41 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  66. Small horned dinosaur from China, a Triceratops relative, walked on two feet

    41 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  67. Dean and Deluca Is Closing Its Stores

    41 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  68. Girls’ advantage in reading can largely explain the gender gap in STEM

    41 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  69. Three large coronal holes 31st July – first August

    41 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  70. Bret Victor's Bookshelf (2015)

    41 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  71. The Weird Magic of Eiderdown

    41 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  72. In Turkey, a power play will leave ancient towns underwater

    40 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  73. Could the Apollo 11 moon landing be duplicated today? ‘Lots of luck with that’

    40 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  74. Security Things in Linux v5.2

    40 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  75. Urban heat island

    40 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  76. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (July 2019)

    40 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  77. Children’s Village Forever

    40 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  78. You probably won’t get $125 from the Equifax settlement

    40 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  79. aSMtris – Tetris in assembly language (2016)

    40 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  80. Apple Recalls 15-Inch MacBook Pro Laptop Computers Due to Fire Hazard

    40 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  81. Microsoft Teams is now officially bigger than Slack

    40 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  82. Tesla Roadster

    40 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  83. CO2 and Climate Task Force (AQ-9) (1980) [pdf]

    40 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  84. The terrible truth of climate change

    40 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  85. Secure email provider Tutanota launches free encrypted calendar

    39 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  86. Hawaii telescope protest shuts down 13 observatories on Mauna Kea

    39 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  87. New York state has banned cat declawing

    39 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  88. A Koch Executive’s Harassment in China Adds to Fears Among Visitors

    39 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  89. Why I Don't Think Craig Wright is Satoshi

    39 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  90. My humble tribute to Apollo 11 AGC

    39 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  91. Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux

    39 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  92. Helen Gurley Brown Only Wants to Help (1970)

    39 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  93. Why doesn't Linux apt use HTTPS?

    39 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  94. EFF warns people of the dangers of using Slack

    39 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  95. Twitter is down – “Something is technically wrong.”

    39 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  96. A Fan’s Notes: Unsolicited Praise for Sportswriter Jon Bois

    39 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  97. House passes bill to hike the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour

    39 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  98. 'Major distraction': school dumps iPads, returns to paper textbooks

    39 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  99. Xkcd: Trained a Neural Net

    39 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  100. Ask HN: What happened to https://whytheluckystiff.net/?

    39 points • comment • jul 26, 2019