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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. Insect Apocalypse German Bug Watchers Sound Alarm

    274 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  2. An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks

    274 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  3. GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea

    273 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  4. A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners (2017)

    273 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  5. Slack Security Incident

    273 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  6. Let's talk about peeing in space

    272 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  7. “Why was Rust chosen for Libra?” in congressional hearing [video]

    272 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  8. Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth

    272 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  9. Sia – Decentralized cloud storage network

    271 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  10. Learning Golang – From Zero to Hero

    271 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  11. Elements of Programming (2009)

    270 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  12. “10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research

    270 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  13. How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account

    270 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  14. New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data

    269 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  15. U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018)

    268 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  16. How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox

    268 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  17. Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryptFS on Linux

    267 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  18. Tips for reviewing code you don’t like

    267 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  19. How to Use User Mode Linux

    266 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  20. Racket Is an Acceptable Python

    266 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  21. Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted

    266 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  22. Is Ham Radio a Hobby, a Utility or Both? A Battle over Spectrum Heats Up

    266 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  23. Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors

    265 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  24. It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy

    264 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  25. How iOS 13 redraws your eyes so you're looking at the camera

    264 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  26. Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?

    264 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  27. How not to sign a JSON object

    264 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  28. For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes

    264 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  29. Toilets of the World

    262 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  30. Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time

    261 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  31. AT&T to Face EFF Class Action for Selling Customers’ Location to Bounty Hunters

    260 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  32. Radiotrophic fungus

    260 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  33. Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China

    260 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  34. Super Mario 64 has been decompiled

    260 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  35. Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 Released

    260 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  36. How Dark Deploys Code in 50ms

    259 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  37. India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try

    259 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  38. Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft

    259 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  39. If Sapiens were a blog post

    258 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  40. Facebook's fake account problem

    257 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  41. Tokyo's audiophile venues (2016)

    257 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  42. BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability

    257 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  43. New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model

    257 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  44. Writing a small ray tracer in Rust and Zig

    256 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  45. Teenager can walk again thanks to Dutch 3D printed spinal implant

    256 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  46. Google Protest Leader Leaves

    255 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  47. H3: Uber’s Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index (2018)

    255 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  48. The helicopter team that films the Tour de France

    255 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  49. Drones will fly for days with new photovoltaic engine

    255 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  50. MQTT: A Conceptual Deep-Dive

    254 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  51. Nodes – JavaScript-based 2D canvas for computational thinking

    254 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  52. Launch HN: Hatchways (YC S19) – Internships Instead of Interviews

    253 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  53. Winnti: Hackers attacking the heart of German industry

    253 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  54. A Brief Guide to a Few Algebraic Structures

    253 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  55. Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?

    251 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  56. Decoded: GNU Coreutils

    251 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  57. Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smith' malware

    251 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  58. A new study uses camera footage to track the frequency of bystander intervention

    250 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  59. Data-Oriented Design (2018)

    250 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  60. Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 1: Non-Networked Key-Value Store

    250 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  61. Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy

    250 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  62. Let's build a circuit that displays an image on a VGA monitor [video]

    250 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  63. McKinsey Advised Johnson and Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales

    250 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  64. Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly anonymized databases

    250 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  65. Siri records fights, doctor’s appointments, and sex, and contractors hear it

    249 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  66. Fighting Complexity in Software Development

    249 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  67. QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack

    249 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  68. How to run a small social network site for your friends

    248 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  69. Puffer – Stream live TV in the browser

    248 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  70. Show HN: Sauron-native – A native cross-platform GUI for Rust

    248 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  71. Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients

    248 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  72. Run Your Own Website

    248 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  73. Dungeon Generation in Diablo 1

    248 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  74. The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket

    247 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  75. Go Contracts – Draft Design

    247 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  76. Claiming your $125 from Equifax is a “moral duty”

    247 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  77. A $5,600 Electric Makeover for Old Diesel Cars

    247 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  78. Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4

    246 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  79. King – Man + Woman = King?

    245 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  80. Python consumes a lot of memory – how to reduce the size of objects?

    245 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  81. Why Three Prongs? (1996)

    245 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  82. Senate passes bill to decrease grid digitization, move toward manual control

    245 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  83. The most effective way to tackle climate change? Plant a trillion trees

    245 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  84. Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting

    244 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  85. Seattle Faces Backlash After Easing on Crimes Involving Mental Illness

    244 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  86. Implement mechanism to wait on any of several futexes

    244 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  87. AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking

    243 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  88. Fighting climate change may be cheaper and more beneficial than we think

    243 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  89. Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads

    243 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  90. Going Quiet: More States Are Hiding 911 Recordings

    243 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  91. Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC

    243 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  92. Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (2010)

    243 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  93. Jony Ive is departing Apple, but he started leaving years ago

    242 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  94. Boeing 737 Max ordered by Ryanair undergoes name change

    241 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  95. Australia's anti-encryption laws used to bypass journalist protections: expert

    241 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  96. Mistakes we made adopting event sourcing and how we recovered

    241 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  97. Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals with a synthesizer

    241 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  98. Apple Factory Thefts: Secret Tunnels, Hidden Crawl Spaces

    240 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  99. Mr. Darcy’s Ten Thousand a Year

    240 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  100. Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU

    239 points • comment • jul 02, 2019