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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. US generates more electricity from renewables than coal for first time ever

    28 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  2. A short history of Bigfoot sightings and lore

    28 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  3. ICANN removes .org price caps despite 98% public opposition

    28 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  4. Hardware cost evaluation of the posit number system

    28 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  5. South Korean parents hire thugs to stop school bullies

    28 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  6. Random Surfaces Hide an Intricate Order

    28 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  7. Iron particles are falling into the seas in greater quantities than thought

    28 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  8. Faster Fractals with Multi-Threaded WebAssembly

    28 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  9. India's super-rich peak tax rate, at 42.7%, now higher than USA

    28 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  10. Some Traits of Bismarck (1882)

    28 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  11. Possible link between sugary drinks and cancer

    28 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  12. The Agile process of software development is often perverted by politics (2016)

    28 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  13. IKEA releases free ‘Soffa Sans’ font made of couches

    28 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  14. Human species-specific genetic mutation enhances atherosclerosis

    28 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  15. Gene Kranz Describes His Instrumental Role in the Apollo 11 Mission

    28 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  16. Heard More Than Heard: An Audio Steganography Method Based on GAN

    28 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  17. F-Droids statement on their ban of Gab

    28 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  18. Auden’s Grumpy Moon Landing Poem

    28 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  19. Philosophers should not be sanctioned for their positions on sex and gender

    28 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  20. GitHub Is Down

    28 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  21. Boar wars: how wild hogs are trashing European cities

    28 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  22. Science of Science

    28 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  23. It’s not that we’ve failed to rein in Facebook and Google. We’ve not even tried

    28 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  24. When Mesmerism Came to America

    28 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  25. European Net Neutrality Is Under Attack

    27 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  26. Former Google exec, Android founder accused of having a 'sex ring' in complaint

    27 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  27. Why California Cities Already Lost Local Control

    27 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  28. Introducing ROMchip – What Could the History of Games Be?

    27 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  29. First image of particle entanglement

    27 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  30. Doom 1/2 on Nintendo Switch requires Bethesda account login on first-play

    27 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  31. Habits vs. Goals: Benefits of a Systematic Approach to Life

    27 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  32. Alternative theory of gravity makes a nearly testable prediction

    27 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  33. 4M people have Web browser extensions that sell their every click

    27 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  34. BRIN Index for PostgreSQL: Don’t Forget the Benefits

    27 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  35. Scientists in Florida have detected the largest seaweed bloom in the world

    27 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  36. We’ve already built too many power plants and cars to prevent 1.5 ˚C of warming

    27 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  37. The Spectacular P. T. Barnum

    27 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  38. Healthy lifestyle may cut risk of dementia regardless of genes

    27 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  39. Capital One Announces Data Security Incident

    27 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  40. Intel Builds a Neuromorphic System with 64 to 768 Loihi Chips: 8-100M Neurons

    27 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  41. Couple Plants an Entire Forest over the Past 20 Years – Growing 2M Trees

    27 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  42. Use Vue.js with Pure Python

    27 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  43. How trashy TV made Italian children dumber, enabled a wave of populist leaders

    27 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  44. Why are there so many JavaScript frameworks?

    27 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  45. Scientific AI: Domain Models with Integrated Machine Learning

    27 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  46. Microsoft Introduced NeuronBlocks – Modulized NLP DNN Toolkit

    27 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  47. The Myth of Blubber Town, an Arctic Metropolis

    27 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  48. Chrome's on-by-default ad blocker – the one that doesn't block 99% of ads

    27 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  49. The disappearing physicist, Ettore Majorana, and his elusive particle (2014)

    27 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  50. US cop fired over deadly shooting 'rehired to get pension'

    27 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  51. Chinese air pollution dimmed sunlight enough to impact solar panels

    27 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  52. Navigating the tension between work and relationships

    27 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  53. “Tree planting will make the rest of your life feel easier.”

    27 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  54. AlexNet hallucination quiz: can you find which image matches the stated class?

    27 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  55. Doctoring the Ladies

    27 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  56. The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

    27 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  57. Predicting Patient Deterioration

    27 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  58. DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think

    27 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  59. Zahada: The Most Challenging Riddles Online

    27 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  60. Ask HN: How to freelance with niche programming languages?

    27 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  61. Ask HN: How do we fight the existential threat of climate change?

    27 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  62. “Amazon’s choice” recommends fraudulent listing

    27 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  63. The Lingering of Loss

    27 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  64. What I Do When It Feels Like My Work Isn’t Good Enough

    26 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  65. Powers of Two in Lexicographic Order

    26 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  66. Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013)

    26 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  67. Disney heiress ‘livid’ after going to one of her family’s theme parks undercover

    26 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  68. “How Couples Meet” Chart

    26 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  69. China is building a floating train that could be faster than air travel

    26 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  70. The Paradox of Toil (2010)

    26 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  71. You probably don't need a single page app

    26 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  72. First 3D Nanotube and RRAM ICs Come Out of Foundry

    26 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  73. Forget Silicon Valley, It Still Pays More to Be a Doctor in America

    26 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  74. Apple’s Heir Apparent Is More Like Tim Cook Than Steve Jobs

    26 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  75. Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect

    26 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  76. China's capital orders Arabic, Muslim symbols taken down

    26 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  77. Did Boeing Secretly “Bet the Company” yet Again on an Airline Project?

    26 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  78. Satellite data for June shows 88% year-on-year increase in Amazon deforestation

    26 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  79. Adobe shambles – Why subscription software should be illegal

    26 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  80. Launch HN: Simmer (YC W19) – Reviews for Delivery Dishes

    26 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  81. The Politics of Space Junk

    26 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  82. Banks can accidentally lose safe deposit boxes

    26 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  83. What Is Posix? Richard Stallman Explains

    26 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  84. Peter Thiel Reportedly Says the FBI and CIA Should Investigate Google

    26 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  85. Fixing Random, part 40 of 40

    26 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  86. Learning World Graphs to Accelerate Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    26 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  87. Atlassian ditches ‘brilliant jerks’ in performance review overhaul

    26 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  88. IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat

    26 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  89. Earth had a near-miss with 'city-killer' asteroid this morning

    26 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  90. DNA sequencing progress has stagnated

    26 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  91. Are people who make $200k middle-class?

    26 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  92. Automatic Index Recommendations in PostgreSQL using pg_qualstats and hypopg

    26 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  93. A Production Outage Was Caused Using Kubernetes Pod Priorities

    26 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  94. The Calorie Paradox of Raw Veganism (1999)

    26 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  95. Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age

    26 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  96. The bounty hunters of Fallout 76 will kill anyone you want, for a price

    26 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  97. Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture

    25 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  98. An American Treatment for the 'American Nervousness' (1980)

    25 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  99. Japan Just Landed a Spacecraft on an Asteroid, and the Photos Are Nuts

    25 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  100. Was Bitcoin Created by This International Drug Dealer?

    25 points • comment • jul 16, 2019