woid

top stories

Hacker News (Jul 2019)

  1. Abandoned America

    149 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  2. Molten Salt Reactors

    149 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  3. Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Fast File Replicator for Windows

    149 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  4. Writing a lunar lander game for an actual lunar lander

    149 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  5. Why did Intel kill off their modem program?

    149 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  6. Report on the technical vulnerabilities found in Huawei 5G [pdf]

    148 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  7. The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom

    148 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  8. Google Legally Profits from Fraud on Its Platform

    148 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  9. Show HN: A tiny JS library for real-time localization of eye pupils

    148 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  10. As a system programming language, C still deserves learning today

    147 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  11. Programming and Programming Languages (2018)

    147 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  12. How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?

    147 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  13. Mango leaves: Indian scientists' solution to a $2.5T global shipping problem

    147 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  14. Show HN: A tool to create printable UI mockups and wireframes templates

    147 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  15. Lunar Eclipse: An Email to a Daughter and Son-in-Law

    147 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  16. Show HN: A tool to convert Jupyter notebooks to beautiful blogs

    147 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  17. How to Write a Thesis (1977)

    147 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  18. Pi-Top 4

    147 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  19. Anatomy of a Mechanical Keyboard (2018)

    147 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  20. Myths about Perl 6

    147 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  21. Investigating the Galileo Satellite Navigation System Outage with a LimeSDR

    147 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  22. Show HN: An ad-free news website with crowdsourced summaries

    146 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  23. Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down

    146 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  24. Lahja – A generic event bus implementation written in Python

    146 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  25. Liftbridge: Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams

    146 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  26. Virtual Kubernetes

    146 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  27. NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India

    146 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  28. Talk: An open-source commenting platform focused on better conversation

    146 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  29. Anyone made the jump from MySQL to PostreSQL? It is worth it?

    146 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  30. Pine64 Unleashes $200 Rockchip-Powered Pinebook Pro Linux Laptop

    146 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  31. Ale – A Lisp Environment Written in Go

    146 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  32. Guix Workflow Language

    145 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  33. Fighting persistent Lyme disease symptoms

    145 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  34. Vugu – Modern UI Library for Go and WebAssembly

    145 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  35. George Wilson, The Man Who Walked His Life Away

    145 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  36. ‘No girls born’ for past three months in area of India covering 132 villages

    145 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  37. The reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework [pdf]

    145 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  38. QCSuper: A tool for capturing 2G/3G/4G air traffic on Qualcomm-based phones

    145 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  39. Inside Coinbase’s Executive Turmoil: Conflicting Visions

    145 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  40. Data Still Dominates

    144 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  41. The Tyranny of Trendy Ideas in Academia

    144 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  42. Cookieless cookies (2013)

    144 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  43. KKR has acquired Corel, reportedly for $1B

    144 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  44. Tiles to Curves: Fun with Voronoi Graphs

    144 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  45. Lee Iacocca Has Died

    144 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  46. New partnership changes everything for the DIY diabetes community

    144 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  47. Cosmic Crisp Apple Launch

    143 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  48. Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a spear tool to fish (2008)

    143 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  49. Microsoft stirs suspicions by adding telemetry files to security-only update

    143 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  50. Saudi airline cancels $6B Boeing order in favor of Airbus

    143 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  51. Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook

    143 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  52. The Story of the Ping Program (1997)

    143 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  53. Tesla loses three vice presidents in a week

    143 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  54. The Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry?

    142 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  55. Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China

    142 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  56. Boeing loses big order for 737 Max aircraft

    142 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  57. AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains/Losses

    142 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  58. Evolutionary gene loss may explain why only humans are prone to heart attack

    142 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  59. Pen Refills Guide

    142 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  60. China's rising tech scene threatens US brain drain as ‘sea turtles’ return home

    142 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  61. Scientists capture MRI scans of single atoms

    142 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  62. Kyoto Animation artworks go on display nationwide in remembrance of arson attack

    142 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  63. House lawmakers ask Facebook to put Libra cryptocurrency project on hold

    142 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  64. A new book critiques medicine

    142 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  65. New antibiotics effective against resistant bacteria in mice

    142 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  66. Palantir’s User Manual for Cops

    141 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  67. Suicide Attempters’ Long-Term Survival

    141 points • comment • jul 28, 2019

  68. A little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station (2014)

    141 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  69. Matlab vs. Julia vs. Python

    141 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  70. EASA demands additional changes for the 737 Max

    141 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  71. Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?

    141 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  72. Dead Simple VPN

    140 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  73. Space station mold survives 200 times the radiation dose that would kill a human

    140 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  74. Netflix launches Rs 199 ($2.80) mobile-only monthly plan in India

    140 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  75. A Pixel Is Not A Little Square (1995) [pdf]

    140 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  76. The Gap Between Rich and Poor Americans' Health Is Widening

    140 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  77. Steam Labs

    140 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  78. UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS'

    140 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  79. PEG Parsers

    140 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  80. Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges

    139 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  81. FreeBSD – A lesson in poor defaults

    139 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  82. Let’s Make: Dangerous Dave

    139 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  83. Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users

    139 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  84. Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings

    139 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  85. Tuna are spawning in marine protected areas

    139 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  86. The Wood Database

    138 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  87. Faster, cheaper, and better: A story of breaking a monolith

    138 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  88. Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

    138 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  89. Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic

    138 points • comment • jul 20, 2019

  90. Patrick Collison's Bookshelf

    138 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  91. Nuclear material worth $72M seized in a car in Turkey

    138 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  92. Craig Wright faces tough questions over forged documents in court

    138 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  93. From South Korea to Malaysia, ‘smart cities’ turn to ghost towns

    137 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  94. Tesla employees say they took shortcuts, worked through harsh conditions

    137 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  95. Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests

    137 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  96. Retro 5″ Black and White TV as a computer monitor – A tale of pointlessness

    137 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  97. Oregon’s Tsunami Risk

    137 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  98. Saving the World from Spreadsheets [video]

    137 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  99. TurboTax to charge more lower-income customers

    136 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  100. Tree stumps that should be dead can be kept alive by nearby trees

    136 points • comment • jul 26, 2019