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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. Border Patrol Chief Was Member of Secret Facebook Group

    35 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  2. America’s Highest Minimum Wage Sparks Fight in Small California City

    35 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  3. Ford knew Focus, Fiesta models had flawed transmission, sold them anyway

    35 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  4. Robots.txt as a Security Measure?

    35 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  5. Warren unveils detailed plan to stop PE ‘looting’ U.S. companies

    35 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  6. Folmura: Randomly generated visual with randomly generated formula

    35 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  7. Siwa Oasis

    35 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  8. Show HN: Oui – A web interface for OpenWrt implemented in Vue.js and Element-UI

    35 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  9. Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption

    35 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  10. Battery-powered buses could have killed off the internal combustion engine

    35 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  11. The Rise and Fall of Object Oriented Programming

    35 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  12. Macintosh Forks

    35 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  13. The Fight for the Future of YouTube

    35 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  14. Transparent aluminum–from Star Trek to (almost) reality

    35 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  15. Barricelli showed that organisms evolved by symbiosis and cooperation (2014)

    35 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  16. Hong Kong’s ‘death fighters’: young protesters with nothing to lose

    35 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  17. Fake Slack that helps you test bots without using real slack servers

    35 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  18. How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2019

    35 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  19. Windows 7’s July 2019 Security Patch Includes Telemetry

    35 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  20. James Bamford exposed the NSA using the NSA's own company newsletter (2017)

    35 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  21. The Great CEO Within (Formerly: Founder to CEO)

    35 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  22. Europe Built a System to Fight Russian Meddling. It’s Struggling

    35 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  23. Trello Desktop Application Stores Authentication Token in Plain Text

    34 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  24. DeluxePaint/DPaint original Amiga source code (1986)

    34 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  25. Debugging Pathologically Performing Systems (2018) [video]

    34 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  26. Wigner's Friend

    34 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  27. Inverting back the inversion of control (2003) [pdf]

    34 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  28. Efficiency of Our Healthcare Systems

    34 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  29. $15 Minimum Wage Would Leave 1.3M Jobless, Lift as Many Out of Poverty

    34 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  30. Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

    34 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  31. Out of Africa and into an archaic human melting pot

    34 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  32. ‘Fingerprinting’ to Track Us Online Is on the Rise

    34 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  33. Turquoise Siberian lake loved by Instagrammers turns out to be toxic waste dump

    34 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  34. Automated scanners looking for vulnerabilities in Huawei firmware

    34 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  35. A 390FT rock will scrape past Earth closer than the Moon tomorrow

    34 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  36. What Is RISC? (1993)

    34 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  37. Rust Solved Dependency Hell

    34 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  38. Van Allen radiation belt

    34 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  39. Aussie ISP gets eye-watering IPv4 bill, shifts to IPv6

    34 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  40. Soul Machines

    34 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  41. Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech from Company Linked to IBM and Google

    34 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  42. Shape Up: Product Development at Basecamp

    34 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  43. Logitech keyboards and mice vulnerable to extensive cyber attacks

    34 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  44. Is it better to avoid washing your clothes?

    34 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  45. XSM: State management for Angular, React, and Vue

    34 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  46. Fat vs. carbs: What’s worse for your health? [pdf]

    33 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  47. Social media use has only minor effects on wellbeing: study

    33 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  48. I served in the Air Force and Congress. People still tell me ‘go back’ to China

    33 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  49. There’s no such thing as a query timeout (2005)

    33 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  50. The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1935) [pdf]

    33 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  51. Samurai Duke and the Legend of OpenJDK

    33 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  52. Project Loon balloons over Peru

    33 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  53. We Need a Safer Systems Programming Language

    33 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  54. Former NSA Contractor Sentenced to 9 Years for Heist of U.S. Secrets

    33 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  55. It’s time to get serious about recycling lithium-ion batteries

    33 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  56. Climate change can fuel wars

    33 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  57. Will Bitcoin Make a Good Investment?

    33 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  58. The “greased sled” theory of Stonehenge

    33 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  59. Centenarian Radio Amateur’s Efforts Helped Pave the Way to the Moon

    33 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  60. Science Fiction Sent Man to the Moon

    33 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  61. Forest 1.0: A Language and Toolkit for Programming with Filestores (2011)

    33 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  62. Russian nuclear submarine: Norway finds big radiation leak

    33 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  63. Rutger Hauer, star of Blade Runner, dies aged 75

    33 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  64. Why Kubernetes Will Disappear

    33 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  65. ‘Trojan horse’ anticancer drug disguises itself as fat

    33 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  66. A plane makes an autonomous landing

    33 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  67. Open Infrastructure Map

    33 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  68. Why we disagree about human nature

    33 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  69. Detailed analysis of a star’s orbit near supermassive black hole

    33 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  70. Rnp: An OpenPGP Library in C++

    33 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  71. The Ball-Bearing Electric Motor (2003)

    33 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  72. Judge Blocks Rule Requiring Drug Companies to List Prices in TV Ads

    33 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  73. Words That Are Their Own Opposites (2015)

    33 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  74. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

    32 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  75. Microsoft Office 365: Banned in German schools over privacy fears

    32 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  76. Intel Core I9 9980XE vs. Ryzen 9 3900X Benchmark

    32 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  77. Ask HN: Pinterest for Text?

    32 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  78. New and different ways schools innovate with time

    32 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  79. A static file server in x86 Assembly

    32 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  80. Another Person Has Died After Rationing Insulin

    32 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  81. Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in data-sharing project

    32 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  82. Orwell’s Last Neighborhood

    32 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  83. Linus Torvalds: floppy driver marked as orphaned

    32 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  84. VSCode June 2019 (v1.36)

    32 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  85. Project Habbakuk: Britain's attempt to build an ice warship

    32 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  86. Some recession indicators

    32 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  87. Long-Form Question Answering

    32 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  88. Unlicensed “health coach” claims health advice is free speech–court disagrees

    32 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  89. A “FaceApp” to enlarge breasts? It’s here, and there’s more to it than [ ]

    32 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  90. Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost

    32 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  91. Sonic Devices Play High-Pitched Noises to Repel Teens

    32 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  92. School Daze

    32 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  93. The Most Reliable Recession Indicator of the Past 50 Years Has Started Blaring

    32 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  94. Another Cloudflare Shortage?

    32 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  95. Gophercises – Coding exercises for budding gophers

    32 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  96. How to Dress for Space

    32 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  97. Public Highly Critical of State of Political Discourse in the U.S.

    32 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  98. “This is crazy”: FCC kills part of San Francisco’s broadband-competition law

    32 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  99. Google whistleblower launches project to keep tech ethical

    32 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  100. Almost a Third of World's Top VPNs Are Secretly Owned by Chinese Firms

    32 points • comment • jul 07, 2019