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Hacker News (11 Aug 2019)

  1. US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers

    820 points • 438 comments • aug 11, 2019

  2. Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study

    794 points • 319 comments • aug 11, 2019

  3. Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser

    572 points • 202 comments • aug 11, 2019

  4. Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

    557 points • 81 comments • aug 11, 2019

  5. Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected

    435 points • 189 comments • aug 11, 2019

  6. Await in Rust

    367 points • 239 comments • aug 11, 2019

  7. Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires

    312 points • 254 comments • aug 11, 2019

  8. The worst sales promotion in history: Hoover's free flight fiasco

    270 points • 168 comments • aug 11, 2019

  9. Black Hat Talk About ‘Time AI’ Causes Uproar, Is Deleted by Conference

    227 points • 180 comments • aug 11, 2019

  10. Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services exporters at all-time high

    224 points • 333 comments • aug 11, 2019