hackerNews

7

Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)

746 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082512 536 comments

17

16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines (www.technologyreview.com)

544 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082303 476 comments

5

15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete (www.nytimes.com)

494 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082406 872 comments

14

Researcher banned on Valve's bug bounty program publishes 2nd Steam 0-day (www.zdnet.com)

453 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082306 194 comments

1

Pre-Industrial Workers Had Shorter Workweeks Than Us (groups.csail.mit.edu)

433 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2021110103 382 comments

9

Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan (blog.mozilla.org)

383 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082321 172 comments

2

Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL (blog.timescale.com)

376 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082403 97 comments

50

Whistle-blower reveals N Dakota leak of 11M gallons of gas condensate in 2015 (www.desmogblog.com)

336 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082212 108 comments

6

Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash – and Why (apps.npr.org)

325 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082403 212 comments

2

WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things (hacks.mozilla.org)

316 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082309 113 comments

9

How Men’s Bodies Change When They Become Fathers (parenting.nytimes.com)

310 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082315 250 comments

4

The Most Dangerous Writing App (maebert.github.io)

301 points first seen 2019082218 last seen 2019082315 174 comments

23

Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests (www.latimes.com)

289 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082315 323 comments

11

WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company (hbr.org)

286 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082321 215 comments

10

Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your Git repos to GCP (cloud.google.com)

240 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082306 81 comments

13

How to Start with Machine Learning (www.blog.duomly.com)

226 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082309 28 comments

9

Using TypeScript with React (simonknott.de)

221 points first seen 2019082218 last seen 2019082406 187 comments

14

Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negative Yields (www.wsj.com)

209 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082300 285 comments

3

Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B (techcrunch.com)

208 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082312 110 comments

8

GitHub Supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for Security Keys (github.blog)

202 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082312 59 comments

2

Making Containers Safer (lwn.net)

202 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082318 49 comments

6

Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers (www.wsj.com)

199 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082309 139 comments

8

Acute Effects of E-Cig on Vascular Function Detected at Quantitative MRI (pubs.rsna.org)

199 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082309 226 comments

20

The Browser Monopoly (blairreeves.me)

160 points first seen 2019082200 last seen 2019082303 187 comments

4

CTVT – A contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog (www.theatlantic.com)

148 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082306 61 comments

15

For manufacturers in China, breaking up is hard to do (www.wsj.com)

145 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082306 82 comments

10

No Son of Mine Is Going to Be a Benthamite (www.mcsweeneys.net)

141 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082300 68 comments

56

Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular? (www.theatlantic.com)

136 points first seen 2019082200 last seen 2019082206 230 comments

16

Why Finland leads the world in flexible work (www.bbc.com)

136 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082321 123 comments

11

Security flaws caused by compiler optimizations (www.redhat.com)

131 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082303 47 comments

16

Shutting down YouTube messaging feature next month (support.google.com)

129 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082315 71 comments

38

My Apology Regarding Jeffrey Epstein (www.media.mit.edu)

119 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082212 182 comments

14

Trails of Wind: Data Visualization of the Architecture of Airport Runways (trailsofwind.figures.cc)

117 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082300 33 comments

1

Thoughts on Rust Bloat (raphlinus.github.io)

113 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2021033100 45 comments

31

The State of Transfer Learning in NLP (ruder.io)

111 points first seen 2019082200 last seen 2019082218 10 comments

29

Lesson Learned from Queries over 1.3T Rows of Data Within Milliseconds (pingcap.com)

106 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082221 13 comments

15

Map Design – a guide to good looking maps (2008) [pdf] (orienteering.asn.au)

106 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082412 13 comments

39

Help Advance the World with Advanced Linear Algebra (hornraiser.utexas.edu)

104 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082303 29 comments

20

Dating: A Research Journal, Part 1 (2016) (putanumonit.com)

103 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082300 48 comments

11

A recent paper proposes to bring zeppelins back (www.nbcnews.com)

103 points first seen 2019082218 last seen 2019082412 101 comments

4

Apple's petition against RED could have serious consequences for Hollywood (www.digitalcameraworld.com)

102 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082309 86 comments

14

What Albert Einstein Owes to David Hume’s Notion of Time (aeon.co)

96 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2021011912 34 comments

19

Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide (iavisa.com)

94 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082218 96 comments

45

A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision (www.quantamagazine.org)

87 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082215 20 comments

10

New saltwater electrical generation could power submarines or medical devices (spectrum.ieee.org)

77 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082221 38 comments

10

A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station (www.ianvisits.co.uk)

77 points first seen 2019082218 last seen 2019082406 121 comments

55

US has 501,000 fewer jobs than first reported (apnews.com)

73 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082215 28 comments

18

Show HN: pgcmd – An alternative to psql with JSON output (github.com)

73 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082306 35 comments

37

Modern JavaScript tooling is too complicated. Yep? Nope? (changelog.com)

71 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082321 82 comments

23

One-lined Python (http://www.onelinerizer.com)

69 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082309 16 comments

15

Why Japan’s ‘shūkatsu’ job-seeking system is changing (www.bbc.com)

64 points first seen 2019082218 last seen 2019082306 55 comments

22

DNS-on-Blockchain is the next step after DNS-over-HTTPS (diode.io)

63 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082303 49 comments

7

404 Found (flak.tedunangst.com)

54 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082300 21 comments

25

Ray tracing in Excel (www.pcgamer.com)

52 points first seen 2019082218 last seen 2019082306 16 comments

37

Which California waters are listed as impaired for fish consumption? (mywaterquality.ca.gov)

46 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082218 24 comments

52

China Acknowledges Holding an Employee of U.K.’s Hong Kong Consulate (www.nytimes.com)

46 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082212 2 comments

67

Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave from AI Lab (www.bloomberg.com)

45 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082209 16 comments

41

A static file server in x86 Assembly (github.com)

45 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082306 2 comments

27

Demon Core: The Strange Death of Louis Slotin (2016) (www.newyorker.com)

44 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082300 17 comments

68

Sexism in the Academy: Women's narrowing path to tenure (nplusonemag.com)

41 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082212 61 comments

25

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (formareview.substack.com)

40 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082312 3 comments

59

T-Mobile Put My Life in Danger, Says Woman Stalked with Illegal Location Data (www.vice.com)

38 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082212 0 comments

51

Face Aging using Conditional GANs with Keras implementation (iq.opengenus.org)

36 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082209 0 comments

24

Neil Young Archives (neilyoungarchives.com)

35 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082300 6 comments

28

Are Men Singing Higher in Pop Music? (pudding.cool)

34 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082215 28 comments

46

Lyft Has Been Flooded with Sexual Assault Lawsuits (www.vice.com)

34 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082300 14 comments

31

My First Aragon App: Voting Supercharged with DAOstack’s Holographic Consensus (blog.aragon.one)

33 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082303 7 comments

34

The underground farm growing salad crops in a disused air raid shelter [video] (www.bbc.co.uk)

32 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082300 30 comments

13

Building a better trivia game with a Jeopardy master and Magic’s creator (arstechnica.com)

31 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2022020709 15 comments

78

Google is killing another chat service (support.google.com)

30 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082209 6 comments

76

Purism Librem 5 August Update (puri.sm)

30 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082212 6 comments

26

List comprehensions across languages (2007) (langexplr.blogspot.com)

30 points first seen 2019082218 last seen 2019082303 21 comments

0

Dell Unveils Updated XPS 13 with Intel’s 10th Gen Core CPUs and 4K Panel (www.anandtech.com)

29 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082206 46 comments

49

The U.S. Bought 3 Virgin Islands from Denmark. The Deal Took 50 Years (www.history.com)

29 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082300 12 comments

45

Chromebooks Have an “Auto Update Expiration” (www.theregister.co.uk)

28 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082303 12 comments

32

A Case for Universal and Simplified Journal Systems (scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org)

26 points first seen 2019082200 last seen 2019082218 0 comments

25

Rezolus: A high-resolution systems performance telemetry agent (blog.twitter.com)

26 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082300 5 comments

59

Soft skills are as important, if not more important, than technical skills (medium.com)

26 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082221 7 comments

43

Dengue fever cases have surged in the Americas this year, says health agency (latinamericareports.com)

25 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082212 6 comments

51

SoftBank Will Let People Invest in IPOs with Less Than $10 (www.bloomberg.com)

25 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082221 6 comments

53

Things that helped me move into engineering management (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

25 points first seen 2019082218 last seen 2019082309 0 comments

47

Jair Bolsonaro accuses NGOs of setting fires in Amazon rainforest (www.theguardian.com)

24 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082215 2 comments

44

Free Open Source VPN – AES 256 – WireGuard and OpenVPN (openinternetaccess.com)

21 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082303 13 comments

87

Ask HN: As a freelance dev how do I get back on top after hitting rock bottom? (item?id=20759920)

20 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082212 9 comments

63

The A-10 Warthog Is Sticking Around for at Least Another Decade (www.defenseone.com)

19 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082218 5 comments

61

Using Native JavaScript Modules in Production Today (philipwalton.com)

18 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082218 0 comments

87

Police can get your Ring doorbell footage without a warrant (arstechnica.com)

18 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082215 4 comments

47

Code Size Optimization: GCC Compiler Flags (interrupt.memfault.com)

17 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082218 0 comments

72

Apple warns against storing the Apple Card in leather and denim (techcrunch.com)

17 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082218 4 comments

67

Mayan-EDMS: Free Open Source Document Management System (github.com)

16 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082221 0 comments

71

Backdoor code found in 11 Ruby libraries (www.zdnet.com)

16 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082300 0 comments

81

Microsoft Contractors Listened to Xbox Owners in Their Homes (www.vice.com)

13 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082209 7 comments

77

YouTube has removed videos of robots fighting, citing “animal cruelty” (www.technologyreview.com)

13 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082209 8 comments

88

Show HN: Mead – how I'm pushing back against Medium (item?id=20757016)

13 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082209 9 comments

38

Collect Your Company Knowledge on Autopilot with OneBar (nohq.co)

13 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082306 5 comments

89

The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is ablaze (www.washingtonpost.com)

12 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082218 0 comments

0

Why Free Speech (Even Hate Speech) Is the Best Friend of the Oppressed (www.youtube.com)

12 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082221 0 comments

85

Ask HN: Recommendations for full-blown polyglot web IDEs (item?id=20759879)

11 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082209 9 comments

0

Tesla Has Failed Massively as a Public Company (www.forbes.com)

11 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082209 2 comments

76

Show HN: Figma-like measurement tool on any web page (Chrome extension) (chrome.google.com)

9 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082209 0 comments

0

Splunk Acquires Cloud Monitoring Leader SignalFx For $1.05B (www.streetinsider.com)

9 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082209 0 comments

0

9 points first seen 2019082215 last seen 2019082215 0 comments

0

Renowned Yale Computer Science Prof Leaves Darwinism (stream.org)

9 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082221 0 comments

0

What's Wrong with E=MC^2? (www.science20.com)

8 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082203 0 comments

78

The New Firmware Manager: Updating Firmware Across Linux Distros (blog.system76.com)

8 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082218 0 comments

82

Lake Elgygytgyn (en.wikipedia.org)

8 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082218 0 comments

85

Older adults can boost longevity 'with just a little exercise' (www.theguardian.com)

8 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082300 0 comments

0

How to Get in the Flow (nesslabs.com)

8 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082221 0 comments

58

Walter Bagehot: the revered Victorian who got almost everything wrong (www.spectator.co.uk)

7 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082209 7 comments

79

Survival of the Richest (2018) (onezero.medium.com)

6 points first seen 2019082200 last seen 2022082112 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Burnout App Feedback (item?id=20757820)

6 points first seen 2019082206 last seen 2019082206 14 comments

0

Bad mouse took down a network, and almost got us banned (www.reddit.com)

6 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082212 0 comments

0

Backdoor Found in Utility for Linux, Unix Servers (threatpost.com)

6 points first seen 2019082218 last seen 2019082218 0 comments

6

The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines (sinapticas.com)

6 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2020080715 0 comments

62

In the Studio: Marie Bashkirtseff at the Académie Julian (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

5 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082215 0 comments

0

Anyone else still using RSS? (jetgirl.art)

5 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082209 2 comments

0

The Art of Electronics: The X Chapters (www.cambridge.org)

5 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082212 0 comments

0

Heat waves and droughts will get longer even if warming is limited: scientists (www.ctvnews.ca)

5 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082212 0 comments

0

Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure (phys.org)

5 points first seen 2019082221 last seen 2019082221 0 comments

0

First half 2019 sees 4k data breaches exposing 4B records (www.scmagazine.com)

4 points first seen 2019082203 last seen 2019082203 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Let's make an open source/free SaaS platform to tackle school forms (item?id=20762088)

4 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082209 7 comments

84

Polsim – a case study for small-scale scientific computing in Rust (tinkering.xyz)

4 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082212 0 comments

0

Show HN: Integrate and Automate Your Apps with Easy to Customize Bots (www.zzbots.com)

4 points first seen 2019082209 last seen 2019082209 0 comments

0

Prominent MIT professor resigns in protest over lab's links to Epstein (www.theguardian.com)

4 points first seen 2019082218 last seen 2019082218 0 comments

0

SwiftUI's ViewModifier – A guide to creating your custom modifier (sarunw.com)

3 points first seen 2019082200 last seen 2019082200 0 comments

39

Human Interest (YC S15) is data analysts who love SQL to help small biz (boards.greenhouse.io)

0 points first seen 2019082212 last seen 2019082215 0 comments