The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2019
We track 1,283 stories from July 2019, averaging 241 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 56 stories. Together they drew 161,475 comments, 126 per story on average.
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Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera
medium.com · mplanchard · 8 Jul 2019
1.9k pts
456 comments
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YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
boingboing.net · KirinDave · 4 Jul 2019
1.6k pts
429 comments
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3
YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
astronaut.io · monort · 14 Jul 2019
1.4k pts
232 comments
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4
Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
techcrunch.com · coloneltcb · 10 Jul 2019
1.4k pts
532 comments
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5
Choose Boring Technology
boringtechnology.club · luu · 1 Jul 2019
1.4k pts
344 comments
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6
YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
twitter.com · avolcano · 3 Jul 2019
1.4k pts
668 comments
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7
MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan
bugzilla.mozilla.org · bzbarsky · 18 Jul 2019
1.3k pts
453 comments
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8
Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com · folli · 3 Jul 2019
1.2k pts
196 comments
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Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
openai.com · gdb · 22 Jul 2019
1.1k pts
592 comments
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10
How to assess the quality of garments (2014)
anuschkarees.com · bookofjoe · 22 Jul 2019
991 pts
287 comments
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11
QuickJS JavaScript Engine
bellard.org · apaprocki · 11 Jul 2019
948 pts
261 comments
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12
Developers don't understand CORS
fosterelli.co · chrisfosterelli · 10 Jul 2019
931 pts
355 comments
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14
Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning [pdf]
cis.upenn.edu · oldgun · 30 Jul 2019
883 pts
118 comments
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15
Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
translate.google.com · bartkappenburg · 10 Jul 2019
872 pts
441 comments
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To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
bloomberg.com · JumpCrisscross · 15 Jul 2019
859 pts
597 comments
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17
Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem
petapixel.com · zafka · 6 Jul 2019
845 pts
207 comments
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18
Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)
www-math.mit.edu · lewisjoe · 14 Jul 2019
836 pts
104 comments
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19
Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook
9to5mac.com · jeremylevy · 4 Jul 2019
802 pts
647 comments
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Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source
opensource.googleblog.com · dankohn1 · 1 Jul 2019
777 pts
194 comments
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22
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
userinyerface.com · maxime_ · 3 Jul 2019
757 pts
255 comments
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23
Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages
quantamagazine.org · parsimo2010 · 26 Jul 2019
752 pts
70 comments
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24
How is it like to be a dev in Iran
shahinsorkh.ir · daanavitch · 21 Jul 2019
745 pts
417 comments
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25
Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
petapixel.com · elijahparker · 18 Jul 2019
740 pts
503 comments
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26
Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
blender.org · brachi · 15 Jul 2019
736 pts
250 comments
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27
A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
theguardian.com · mattkevan · 4 Jul 2019
734 pts
106 comments
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28
California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
newyorker.com · woodgrainz · 5 Jul 2019
709 pts
264 comments
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29
HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide
nullsweep.com · BCharlie · 18 Jul 2019
709 pts
78 comments
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30
RSA is a fragile cryptosystem
blog.trailofbits.com · ingve · 8 Jul 2019
708 pts
341 comments
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31
How the Dat Protocol Works
datprotocol.github.io · nanomonkey · 5 Jul 2019
707 pts
75 comments
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32
Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019
blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 12 Jul 2019
698 pts
149 comments
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33
Twitter was down
status.twitterstat.us · idlewords · 11 Jul 2019
695 pts
485 comments
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34
Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
jacek.zlydach.pl · TeMPOraL · 31 Jul 2019
692 pts
640 comments
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35
No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers
nocsdegree.com · Pete-Codes · 23 Jul 2019
692 pts
462 comments
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36
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
rootsofprogress.org · exolymph · 15 Jul 2019
691 pts
492 comments
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37
Employee happiness and business success are linked
economist.com · benryon · 30 Jul 2019
690 pts
221 comments
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38
YouTube video has its own URL in it
youtube.com · ignaloidas · 16 Jul 2019
681 pts
147 comments
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39
YouTube was launched as a dating site
web.archive.org · ElectronShak · 21 Jul 2019
680 pts
243 comments
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41
Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note
bbc.co.uk · hanoz · 15 Jul 2019
664 pts
298 comments
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42
How to write idempotent Bash scripts
arslan.io · kiyanwang · 7 Jul 2019
655 pts
189 comments
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43
Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid
sciencemag.org · rchaudhary · 12 Jul 2019
652 pts
417 comments
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44
iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone
bugs.chromium.org · appwiz · 8 Jul 2019
652 pts
270 comments
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45
At what time of day do famous programmers work?
ivan.bessarabov.com · lionix · 18 Jul 2019
651 pts
206 comments
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46
Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
blog.mozilla.org · johnnyRose · 9 Jul 2019
648 pts
197 comments
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47
Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation
blog.danslimmon.com · thameera · 22 Jul 2019
645 pts
124 comments
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48
A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign
balena.io · chrisys · 31 Jul 2019
642 pts
141 comments
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49
LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light
planetary.org · spazz · 31 Jul 2019
640 pts
144 comments
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53
Cloudflare Network Performance Issues
cloudflarestatus.com · drcongo · 2 Jul 2019
631 pts
310 comments
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55
Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
latimes.com · bookofjoe · 13 Jul 2019
626 pts
297 comments
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56
Strong_password Rubygem hijacked
withatwist.dev · jrochkind1 · 7 Jul 2019
625 pts
128 comments
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PCI Express on the Raspberry Pi 4
mloduchowski.com · trollied · 10 Jul 2019
619 pts
163 comments
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Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
grh.am · graystevens · 10 Jul 2019
612 pts
334 comments
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