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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

A 310-Mile Coral Reef Corridor in the Gulf of Mexico
23 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Cop who famously murdered unarmed man in hotel has been awarded $2,500/mo
23 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
A Conversation with Arthur Whitney (2009)
23 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Barr's crypto backdoor claim is a fallacy, which I'll show with math
23 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Greenland is melting in a heatwave. That's everyone's problem
23 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
119 Years Old and Winning Marathons–Or Not?
23 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
Cutter 1.8.3 – open source GUI for reverse engineering
23 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
I was owed $5k. I tried to hold them accountable
23 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’?
23 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
The Economic Roots of Hong Kong’s Protests
23 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Consent Matters: When Tech Takes Remote Control Without Your Permission
23 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Reforestation effort could capture 205 gigatons of CO2 in 40-100 years
23 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard Sues Google for $50M
23 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Microsoft Discovers Fileless Astaroth Trojan Campaign
23 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Nightshade: Near Protocol Sharding Design [pdf]
23 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Heron: Realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine
23 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
The rise of the indelibly-illustrated everyman
23 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Why's it so hard to find “your clothing size”?
23 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Historically Hollow: The Cries of Populism
23 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
The Rise of Coffee Shaming
23 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Lessons from the past, present, and future of animation
22 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Scientists reverse damage of Alzheimer’s disease in human brain cells (2018)
22 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Rice University carbon nanotube device channels heat into light
22 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Announcing React Native 0.60
22 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Learn Like an Athlete
22 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition
22 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
Virtual Linux Remote Desktop
22 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?
22 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Huawei’s HQ Campus in Shenzhen
22 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Apple is updating Macs again to remove insecure software from Zoom’s partners
22 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
National Self-Sufficiency (1933)
22 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
AT&T Will Now Filter Robocall Spam, If You Pay Them Extra
22 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Updating our rules against hateful conduct
22 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Redwood: The Future of the FoundationDB Storage Engine
22 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Rudyard Kipling in Vermont
22 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
For 20 Years the Nuclear Launch Code at US Minuteman Silos Was 00000000
22 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
The Nanosheet Transistor Is the Next (and Maybe Last) Step in Moore’s Law
22 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
The World's Shortcut: How the Panama Canal Works [video]
22 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Meta-Analysis of Relation of Skipping Breakfast with Heart Disease
22 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
NASA seeks to break the “tyranny of launch” with in-space manufacturing
22 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Hitsuzendō
22 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
‘At this rate the African elephant will be extinct in 11 years’: tech lab
22 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Ask HN: Which Laptop to Switch to from Macbook?
22 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Building a Stratospheric Balloon Launch Company with Zero 2 Infinity
22 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Frequency responses of half-pel filters – The ryg blog
22 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Vim themes with almost no colors
22 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Making Resistive Magnets (2009)
22 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
George Jedenoff: A 101-Year-Old TidBITS Reader
22 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
US Federal government to resume capital punishment after nearly 20 year hiatus
22 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Chandrayan 2 – India's second moon spacecraft launched successfully
22 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Greenhouse-gas emissions are increasing the frequency of heatwaves
22 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Forest Restoration Could Greatly Slow Global Warming
22 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
The Most Modern of Modern Sports
22 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Reducing printf call overhead with variadic templates
22 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Supreme Court Refusal to Hear Investpic Signals Death for Most Software Patents
22 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Show HN: Deploy an API in 30 Seconds to AWS API Gateway
22 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Silicon Valley is falling short on climate change
22 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Emmy-winning actor Rip Torn has died at the age of 88
22 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Demonstration of Picasso canvas fingerprinting
22 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Show HN: PyDist – Private Python Package Hosting
22 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Protesters expose a fractured Hong Kong, but China’s grip only tightens
22 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
Ask HN: What are some good books/resources about sales?
22 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Some South Korean gas stations are refusing to refuel Japanese-made cars
22 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Floating solar farms could make fuel and help solve the climate crisis
22 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Hong Kong protestors using lasers to avoid facial recognition cameras
22 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
New Report/Dataset: Just 10% of Workers Receive Nearly Half of Global Pay
22 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
3D kinematics using dual quaternions: applications in neuroscience (2013)
22 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
A Life Far Less Ordinary
22 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup
22 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Overton Window
22 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Alan Turing is the face of UK’s new £50 note
22 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Watch SpaceX hop StarHopper, untethered 20 meters [video]
22 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Announcing Fedora CoreOS Preview
22 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Tesla reveals revolutionary new wiring architecture to help robots build cars
22 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Isn't it Byronic? Don Juan at 200
21 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Windows Kernel Debugging and Exploitation: Setting up the lab
21 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
I’m Stopping the Fan-Supported Podcast Experiment
21 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Facebook Issues Policy Saying It’s Acceptable to Post Death Threats Against Me
21 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
The Mueller Report – With Linked Footnotes and Accessible
21 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Apple Just Gutted Its Laptop Lineup
21 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
The Frick Revives 18th-Century Frescoes Destroyed During World War II
21 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’ and a robot to insert them
21 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Planting a trillion trees could be our best strategy to tackle climate change
21 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
The Many Lives of Lafcadio Hearn
21 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
Slack Is Down Again
21 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Magnetically Accelerated Plasmoid (MAP) Thruster (2007) [pdf]
21 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Context Coloring
21 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Never Trust a Corporation to Do a Library's Job (2015)
21 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
MixNet: Mixed Depthwise Convolutional Kernels
21 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
A border patrol agents reveals what it's like to guard migrant children
21 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
In Praise of Halvings: Hidden Histories of Japan Excavated by Dr D. Fenberger
21 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Update: In-Flight Abort Static Fire Anomaly Investigation
21 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Why Paul Graham Is Still So Wrong
21 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Brains scale better than CPUs. So Intel is building brains
21 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
The Key to Safety Online Is User Empowerment, Not Censorship
21 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Adding 1B hectares of forest could help check global warming
21 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for Your SaaS Applications
21 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Photos of a Hail Storm in Guadalajara
21 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
How trashy TV made children dumber and enabled a wave of populist leaders
21 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
It’s Time for Caps Lock to Die
21 points • comment • jul 09, 2019