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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments

    342 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  2. Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and tracking on porn sites

    341 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  3. Announcing Rust 1.36.0

    340 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  4. How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

    339 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  5. How to Find Hidden Cameras in Your Airbnb

    336 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  6. Lambda School fined $75k by CA for operating without state approval [pdf]

    335 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  7. FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names

    333 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  8. I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport – It Wasn't Easy

    333 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  9. Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills

    332 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  10. The rise of remote working will continue

    332 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  11. Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

    331 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  12. Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passengers in self-driving cars

    331 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  13. Why plants don’t die from cancer

    330 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  14. Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox

    329 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  15. After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles were stolen in one day

    329 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  16. How I use the good parts of AWS

    327 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  17. 1Passwd: Standalone / Local Vault Option Gone?

    326 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  18. Show HN: Listmonk – Fast self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

    326 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  19. Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems

    325 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  20. Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee

    324 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  21. Why am I interested in Elixir?

    324 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  22. What Stress Does to the Brain

    323 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  23. Use plaintext email

    323 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  24. A History of Visa

    323 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  25. Zoom fixes major Mac webcam security flaw with emergency patch

    322 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  26. Justice Department to Open Broad, New Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies

    321 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  27. The Coming Boeing Bailout?

    321 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  28. DeepMind’s StarCraft II agent will play anonymously on battle.net

    320 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  29. Open-Source Slack Alternative Mattermost Gets $50M Funding

    319 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  30. Google’s 4k-Word Privacy Policy Is a History of the Internet

    318 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  31. What If Consciousness Comes First?

    317 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  32. France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by US

    316 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  33. Svelte is the most beautiful web framework I've seen

    314 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  34. A Look at Overnight Stays at US National Parks

    313 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  35. Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software

    313 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  36. How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow

    313 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  37. New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing

    313 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  38. Canonical Ltd source code repositories have been compromised

    312 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  39. Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust

    311 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  40. Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining

    310 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  41. Ask HN: How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?

    310 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  42. How much bandwidth does the spinal cord have?

    310 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  43. The death watch for the X Window System has probably started

    309 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  44. Hostyoself: Server in a browser – host from your computer, your phone, etc.

    308 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  45. Understanding Kafka with Factorio

    308 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  46. Slack was down

    306 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  47. Senescent cells stop producing nucleotides: new research

    306 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  48. Show HN: OctoSQL – Query and join multiple databases and files, written in Go

    305 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  49. A Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets

    304 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  50. Quiet Hacker News (2017)

    303 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  51. France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall

    301 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  52. Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning

    301 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  53. D as a C Replacement

    301 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  54. Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store credits

    300 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  55. What is Silverblue?

    299 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  56. The Rust compiler is still getting faster

    298 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  57. Lyft releases self-driving research dataset

    298 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  58. The First Sony Walkman Was Released 40 Years Ago

    297 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  59. What If Life Did Not Originate on Earth?

    297 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  60. Google AI Education Resources

    296 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  61. Firefox to Warn When Saved Logins Are Found in Data Breaches

    296 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  62. Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again

    296 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  63. Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

    295 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  64. Cargill: The Worst Company in the World

    294 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  65. Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro

    294 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  66. More than 1k Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions

    294 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  67. Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?

    294 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  68. Absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature

    293 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  69. VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports

    292 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  70. Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy?

    292 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  71. OpenBSD Is Now My Workstation

    289 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  72. The Loneliness Epidemic

    288 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  73. TinyGo: New Go Compiler Based on LLVM

    288 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  74. Kriegspiel

    288 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  75. Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory

    288 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  76. When Can I Reuse This Calendar?

    287 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  77. Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes second touchdown on distant asteroid

    287 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  78. Alibaba partner announces 16 core RISC-V chip

    286 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  79. Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say indies

    286 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  80. Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments

    285 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  81. Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?

    284 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  82. Ownership and Borrowing in D

    283 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  83. Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface

    282 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  84. Chinese authorities install app on phones of people entering Xinjiang

    282 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  85. Composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia

    282 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  86. Burnout and the Brain (2016)

    282 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  87. How I Became a Machine Learning Practitioner

    281 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  88. Submit Your Claim in the Equifax Breach Settlement

    281 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  89. Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along

    281 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  90. Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty

    280 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  91. Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing

    280 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  92. 81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognition technology innocent

    280 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  93. Show HN: Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database

    279 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  94. 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California

    278 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  95. Who Pays Writers?

    278 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  96. User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

    278 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  97. Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

    276 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  98. When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop

    276 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  99. Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way

    275 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  100. An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks

    274 points • comment • jul 25, 2019