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Hacker News (Jul 2019)

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

    186 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  2. Show HN: Hydra – Open-Source OAuth2 Server

    185 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  3. Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Arrow, and Kubernetes

    185 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  4. Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs

    185 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  5. How Ancient Rome’s Concrete Has Survived 2,000 Years (2017)

    185 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  6. Why We Can’t Figure Out Why Infrastructure Is So Expensive

    185 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  7. One man, eight years, nearly 20k cat videos, and not a single viral hit

    185 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  8. RISC Is Unscalable

    185 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  9. Dry Stone Walls – Principles of structurally sound construction (2018)

    184 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  10. The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction

    184 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  11. Better Portable Graphics

    184 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  12. OpenPDF 1.3.0

    184 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  13. Home is a small, engineless sailboat (2018)

    184 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  14. The Ethics of Web Performance

    184 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  15. Linux Observability with BPF

    183 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  16. Amazon Warns Customers: Those Supplements Might Be Fake

    183 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  17. Amazon as experiment

    183 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  18. From Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Containers [pdf]

    183 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  19. Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time

    182 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  20. Mac Open Web

    182 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  21. A2-class microSD cards offer no better performance for the Raspberry Pi

    182 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  22. Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas

    182 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  23. Florida couple wins the right to plant veggies in front yard

    181 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  24. ISP Association Nominates Mozilla as “Internet Villain”

    181 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  25. Mitchell Feigenbaum, physicist who pioneered chaos theory, has died

    181 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  26. Huawei cryptographic keys embedded in Cisco’s firmware

    181 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  27. Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos

    181 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  28. Rsync, GUIs, power, control, design, and decisions

    180 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  29. Rust compiler added to Android tree

    180 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  30. The Hottest Phones for the Next Billion Users Aren’t Smartphones

    180 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  31. Why is collapsing a Hacker News comment so slow?

    180 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  32. Data Science at The New York Times

    180 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  33. Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV, YouTube on Fire TV

    180 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  34. Are we happier when we spend more time with others?

    179 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  35. When it comes to composition and length, passwords mostly don't matter

    179 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  36. Apple’s Low Latency HLS differs from the community-developed solution

    178 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  37. Hasselblad: A Camera That Went to the Moon and Changed How We See It

    178 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  38. Craig Newmark: a survivor from the era of internet optimism

    178 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  39. In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t rent cars for driving

    178 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  40. 'Five Eyes' nations discuss backdoor access to WhatsApp

    178 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  41. Tesla Model 3 deliveries beat Wall Street targets, shares up 7%

    178 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  42. Comparisons in C++20

    177 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  43. Libra, 2 Weeks In

    177 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  44. The art of interrupting software engineers

    177 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  45. Inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of 5G wireless technology

    177 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  46. Radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017

    176 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  47. Employee activism in tech stops short of organizing unions

    176 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  48. Show HN: Turn your fzf into a live REPL

    176 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  49. Tech Due Diligence Calculator

    176 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  50. My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (2002)

    175 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  51. DoNotPay's new service auto-cancels free trials

    174 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  52. Lockheed's Skunk Works Building Bigger Fusion Reactor

    173 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  53. Cryptocurrency trading bot in ~40 lines of JavaScript

    173 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  54. What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018)

    173 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  55. Welcome to the K-12 Surveillance State

    173 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  56. Amazon stores Alexa transcripts indefinitely

    173 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  57. The M&A Process Is Broken

    172 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  58. Skills Poor Programmers Lack

    172 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  59. Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California

    172 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  60. The Washington Post is preparing for post-cookie ad targeting

    172 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  61. Github became the web's largest font piracy site (2017)

    172 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  62. Elsa: Emacs Lisp Static Analyzer

    172 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  63. TSMC Talks 7nm, 5nm, Yield, and Next-Gen 5G and HPC Packaging

    171 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  64. Cycling to work through cavernous limestone mines turned into a business park

    171 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  65. Google pays $11M to job-seekers who alleged age discrimination

    171 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  66. LoRaWAN distance world record broken twice: 766km using 25mW power

    171 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  67. React Server Side Rendering with GraalVM for Clojure

    171 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  68. In Praise of Walking

    171 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  69. On Costliest U.S. Warship Ever, Navy Can’t Get Munitions on Deck

    171 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  70. Don't donate canned goods to food banks (2017)

    170 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  71. Amazon Seeks Permission to Launch 3k Internet Satellites

    170 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  72. Photon Micro GUI

    170 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  73. How Google Pagespeed works

    170 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  74. GitHub Is Down: Incident on 2019-07-22 15:46 UTC

    170 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  75. You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder

    170 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  76. Catching use-after-move C++ bugs with Clang's consumed annotations

    170 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  77. C. Hoare and Co., a British banking dynasty in business for more than 300 years

    169 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  78. Biology is the New Tech: Letter from a conference on CRISPR

    169 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  79. Netlify Analytics

    169 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

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

    169 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  81. In the US, wells being drilled ever deeper as groundwater vanishes

    169 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  82. Amazon EventBridge: The biggest thing since AWS Lambda

    169 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  83. Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications

    168 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  84. My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford

    168 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  85. Stanford CS Education Library (2001)

    168 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  86. Adventures Building a Self-Driving RC Car

    168 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  87. Purescript-native can now target Golang

    168 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  88. We Need Insects More Than They Need Us

    168 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  89. English speakers should learn math instead of a second language

    168 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  90. ICANN lifts the price cap on .org domains

    167 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  91. Facebook Is Dying

    167 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  92. Hong Kong protesters occupy legislative chamber

    167 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  93. Database as Filesystem [video]

    167 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  94. Personal Kanban 101

    167 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  95. Payroll startup Gusto raises $200M

    166 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  96. AI Portraits

    166 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  97. Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator

    166 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  98. Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code

    166 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  99. Everything You Should Know About Sound (2016)

    166 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  100. Strongest earthquake in years rattles Southern California

    166 points • comment • jul 04, 2019