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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. On a Story by Delmore Schwartz

    14 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  2. India has launched an ambitious mission to the Moon

    14 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  3. The fall 1989 NeXT Software and Peripherals catalog in glorious 600 DPI

    14 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  4. Hackathons are not a good way to bring the best out of engineers

    14 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  5. No one should be a billionaire

    14 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  6. Five Programming Languages That Are Probably Doomed

    14 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  7. We should be scared by the intrusive menace of facial recognition

    14 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  8. New face of the Bank of England's £50 note is revealed as Alan Turing

    14 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  9. Time to Measure the Pi (2016) [pdf]

    14 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  10. Google Tracks Emails to Maintain Permanent Record of Everything You Ever Bought

    14 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  11. We Need Insects More Than They Need Us

    14 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  12. Harpoon successfully captures space debris

    14 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  13. Amazon's Web of Businesses Shows Just How Large Its Ambitions Are

    14 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  14. Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting logic bomb in company spreadsheet

    14 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  15. Chinese border guards are putting a surveillance app on tourists’ phones

    14 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  16. The Most Influential Person in Modern History: No Creator, Thinker, or Leader

    14 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  17. Steven Pinker's Aid in Jeffrey Epstein's Legal Defense

    14 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  18. PC Shipments Rise After Several Quarters of Decline

    14 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  19. NSFW?

    14 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  20. D-Link agrees to 10 years of security audits

    14 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  21. Fixed It for You: Protocol Repair Using Lineage Graphs [pdf]

    14 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  22. Nestlé launches new blockchain platform, despite IBM Food Trust partnership

    14 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  23. The Bristol Brabazon Was a Pretty Piece of Useless Scrap

    14 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  24. Apple Kicks Off Free 2018 MacBook Air Repair Campaign for Faulty Logic Boards

    14 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  25. Australia's National Broadband Network proposes streaming video tax

    14 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  26. One of the Most Insane Flights in the World

    14 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  27. Practical Earley Parsing (2002) [pdf]

    14 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  28. Consider Renaming Gimp to a Less Offensive Name

    14 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  29. Show HN: robots.txt as a service, check web crawl rules through an API

    14 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  30. Collection of Machine Learning Papers with Code

    14 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  31. Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook (2018)

    14 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  32. Why America’s $1.5T student-loan crisis spiralled out of control

    14 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  33. Facebook says it’s ‘working’ to resolve outages across Instagram, WhatsApp

    14 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  34. Huawei's U.S. research arm sends workers packing

    14 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  35. Searching for the Sundays

    14 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  36. Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft (2013)

    13 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  37. Lidar Is So Cheap It Could Make Self-Driving a Reality

    13 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  38. The Hotel Hackers Are Hiding in the Remote Control Curtains

    13 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  39. You have a set amount of “weirdness points” (2014)

    13 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  40. Get ready for the 1.5 degree lifestyle

    13 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  41. Why are so many 8th-graders taking AP Calculus at this[Pasadena]school district?

    13 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  42. Are wind and solar and batteries the future for US electricity?

    13 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  43. Frink data file for non-changing units (2016)

    13 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  44. Searching for Keith

    13 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  45. Record-Breaking Temperatures for June

    13 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  46. Ask HN: Does anyone use monday.com? Is it better than the others?

    13 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  47. VideoLAN response to VLC “security issue”

    13 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  48. Web-scripts – creating NPM libraries in a snap at Spotify

    13 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  49. Circl Images Phishing Open Dataset – 460 Pictures

    13 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  50. A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud Hyperbole

    13 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  51. Hackers Infect Pale Moon Archive Server with a Malware Dropper

    13 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  52. Sick of cookie banners and popups? They’re all changing, again

    13 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  53. Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?

    13 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  54. Zoom – Conceptual Design and Analysis of Rockets and Their Missions

    13 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  55. Clear path ahead for Highway 17 animal corridor in California

    13 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  56. Why does Microsoft use onmicrosoft.com and microsoftonline.com?

    13 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  57. Watch SpaceX's StarHopper hop 20 meters untethered

    13 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  58. Show HN: Audio Repeater Pro – Low latency audio streaming tool

    13 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  59. Understanding Metrics in the Age of the TSDB (2016)

    13 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  60. The Internet of Things Is Creating 1984's National Camera Surveillance Network

    13 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  61. Memory Unsafety in Apple's Operating Systems

    13 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  62. A U.S. Recession Isn't Imminent If You Look at Google Trends

    13 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  63. 1TB of police body camera videos found in public databases

    13 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  64. Ask HN: Is it ok to make a list of female software devs available for hire?

    13 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  65. CBP Can’t Detain Domestic Flight Passengers for Refusing Suspicionless ID Checks

    13 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  66. Deconstruct Files, Talk Transcript

    13 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  67. CSS Basics (Part I, Animations)

    13 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  68. Under Trump 26% of Climate Change References Disappeared from .gov Sites

    13 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  69. Raj Chetty’s American Dream

    13 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  70. Jet-powered flyboard soars over Paris for Bastille Day parade

    13 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  71. China’s Overrated Technocrats

    13 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  72. Researchers Challenge Low Expectations In Treating Cancer In Poor Countries

    13 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  73. Infant Mortality Rates Higher in Areas with More Christian Fundamentalists

    13 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  74. Get Grass-Fed Beef for $3.60 per Pound

    13 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  75. From Fitbits to Rokus, Hedge Funds Mine Data for Consumer Habits

    13 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  76. When did “&” stop being taught alongside the alphabet?

    13 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  77. Multiprocessing for the Impoverished: a multi-6809 system (1993)

    13 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  78. There are over 80 Certified Kubernetes offerings

    13 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  79. Herman Melville at Home

    13 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  80. TensorFlow Lite Ported to Arduino by Adafruit

    13 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  81. Sun CEO: “You have zero privacy anyway, Get over it.” (1999)

    13 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  82. Tools for digital publishers built by The Washington Post

    13 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  83. Renewed efforts to merge exFAT into Linux kernel

    13 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  84. Origin of “Hello, World”

    13 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  85. Iran 'seizes British-flagged oil tanker'

    13 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  86. Lisp in a Startup: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    13 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  87. Microsoft Open Sourcing the Quantum Development Kit

    13 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  88. The (Surprisingly Funny) Code for the Apollo Moon Landings Is on GitHub

    13 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  89. Crucial Keys to Get into Y Combinator

    13 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  90. Category Theory for Programmers: The Preface

    13 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  91. Citizen Kubrick (2004)

    13 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  92. The Hardy-Ramanujan number 1729

    13 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  93. Road-Tripping with the Amazon Nomads

    12 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  94. Superconductivity at Room Temperature Pressure

    12 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  95. From Mask to Palette (2008)

    12 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  96. Huawei's latest TV ad is not going over well in Canada

    12 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  97. Show HN: Code search using Deep Learning (code with paper)

    12 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  98. Boris Johnson has an alarming track record of technology stunts

    12 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  99. How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State

    12 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  100. An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest

    12 points • comment • jul 07, 2019