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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. Apple iCloud Experiencing Issues

    206 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  2. How I Taught My Kid to Read

    206 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  3. Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz Restores Mission Control in Houston

    206 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  4. Canada’s Forgotten Rainforest

    206 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  5. Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability

    206 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  6. Assholes: A Probing Examination

    205 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  7. A Rust-based TLS library outperformed OpenSSL in almost every category

    205 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  8. A Look at the AMD Zen 2 Core

    205 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  9. Thaddeus Kosciusko

    205 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  10. SBCL – Past, Present, Future [pdf]

    205 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  11. WeWork Co-Founder Has Cashed Out at Least $700M Via Sales, Loans

    204 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  12. The Invention of Money

    204 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  13. CNLabelContactRelation​YoungerCousin​MothersSiblingsDaughter​OrFathersSistersDaughter

    204 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  14. Moving the World to a 4 Day Workweek – An Interview with Aidan Harper

    203 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  15. Why Generics?

    203 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  16. Apple's service program for butterfly keyboard MacBooks, even out of warranty

    203 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  17. Front-end design, React, and a bridge over the great divide

    202 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  18. Capital One attacker may have breached other major corporations

    202 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  19. Backing Up My Kindle Ebooks (2018)

    202 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  20. Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain

    202 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  21. Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch

    202 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  22. Study: Immigrants and their kids founded 45% of U.S. Fortune 500 companies

    201 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  23. List of Cognitive Biases

    201 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  24. The Internet's Old Guard

    201 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  25. Why Hypercard Had to Die (2011)

    200 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  26. How to Accomplish Big Things, Even When You Feel Small

    199 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  27. Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10

    199 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  28. Building the New Twitter.com

    199 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  29. 210k-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern humans in Europe, Asia

    199 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  30. How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals

    199 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  31. How we built a GDPR-compliant website analytics platform without using cookies

    199 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  32. Ask HN: Recommendations for AI generated music software?

    199 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  33. Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software

    199 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  34. Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’

    198 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  35. Spiders Use Earth's Electric Field to Fly Hundreds of Miles (2018)

    198 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  36. Hacking Digital Calipers

    198 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  37. Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intelligence agencies

    197 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  38. Living without the modern browser

    197 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  39. The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous Companies in the U.S.

    196 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  40. Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Government to Break It Up

    196 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  41. Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces

    196 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  42. Petrichor: why does rain smell so good?

    196 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  43. OpenBitTorrent – An Open Tracker Project

    195 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  44. The AI of GoldenEye 007

    195 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  45. Eastgate Centre, Harare

    195 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  46. Understanding Docker Container Escapes

    194 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  47. How to Remove Bixby from Samsung Phones

    194 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  48. America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births

    194 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  49. DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar

    194 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  50. Perils of Constructors

    194 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  51. Cannabidiol in Anxiety and Sleep: A Large Case Series

    194 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

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

    194 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  53. Sand won't save you this time (2008)

    193 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  54. As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (2017)

    193 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  55. Hermes – A small JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native on Android

    193 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  56. Unity, now valued at $6B, raising up to $525M

    193 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  57. Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? (2017)

    192 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  58. An F-22 Raptor’s Crumbling Radar Absorbent Skin

    192 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  59. Open-Sourcing Inform 7

    192 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  60. Meli email client, pre-alpha release

    192 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  61. Attorney general: Americans should accept security risks of encryption backdoors

    192 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  62. Most internet service providers are gone – Sonic has survived and thrived

    191 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  63. Sqlite to Rest

    191 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  64. Why Continuations Are Coming to Java

    191 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  65. Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at F-Droid

    191 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  66. LF: Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store

    190 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  67. Robinhood raises $323M at a $7.6B valuation

    190 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  68. Facebook Research Warned of ‘Tipping Point’ Threat to Core App

    190 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  69. Maps Reveal the Difference in How Cities Are Perceived by Tourists and Locals

    190 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  70. Link’s Awakening disassembly progress report – week 5

    190 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  71. How to support open-source software and stay sane

    190 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  72. Netflix CEO may have missed the real reason why US subscriber numbers plunged

    190 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  73. Older Americans are alone half their waking hours, on average

    190 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  74. Two Billion Records Exposed in 'Smart Home' Breach

    189 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  75. Border Collie Trained to Recognize 1,022 Nouns Dies

    189 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  76. Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Research Finds

    189 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  77. Owl – OCaml Scientific Computing

    189 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  78. You thought OpenStreetMap data uses the WGS84 datum? No it doesn't

    189 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  79. Wikipedia co-founder slams the ‘appalling’ internet

    189 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  80. Ask HN: What did you do when you suddenly got rich?

    188 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  81. What senior engineers do: fix knowledge holes

    188 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  82. Everything I Know – 1975 Lectures by Buckminster Fuller

    188 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  83. German state of Hesse bans cloud services from schools due to privacy risks

    188 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  84. The video game industry can't go on like this

    188 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  85. Electron 6.0

    188 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  86. Interpretable Machine Learning

    187 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  87. Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML

    187 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  88. How and why CPUs do “branch prediction” (2017)

    187 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  89. In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything

    187 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  90. Exploring alternative funding models for the web

    187 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  91. Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008)

    187 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  92. What an attacker gets from Apple devices if they sniff Bluetooth traffic

    186 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  93. DSVPN – VPN using TCP at port 80 and 443

    186 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  94. More money than anyone imagined: an explanation for why the bubble never burst

    186 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  95. Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms

    186 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  96. Inferno Operating System

    186 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  97. Ask HN: What are some fun projects to try out on a spare Linux file server?

    186 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  98. Tulsi Gabbard Sues Google for Suspending Ad Account

    186 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  99. I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads

    186 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  100. Manual Work is a Bug – Always be automating (2018)

    186 points • comment • jul 23, 2019