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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.

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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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YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views astronaut.io · monort · 14 Jul 2019
1.4k pts 232 comments
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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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Choose Boring Technology boringtechnology.club · luu · 1 Jul 2019
1.4k pts 344 comments
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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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MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan bugzilla.mozilla.org · bzbarsky · 18 Jul 2019
1.3k pts 453 comments
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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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How to assess the quality of garments (2014) anuschkarees.com · bookofjoe · 22 Jul 2019
991 pts 287 comments
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QuickJS JavaScript Engine bellard.org · apaprocki · 11 Jul 2019
948 pts 261 comments
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Developers don't understand CORS fosterelli.co · chrisfosterelli · 10 Jul 2019
931 pts 355 comments
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Adblocking: How about Nah? eff.org · dredmorbius · 27 Jul 2019
918 pts 534 comments
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Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning [pdf] cis.upenn.edu · oldgun · 30 Jul 2019
883 pts 118 comments
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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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Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem petapixel.com · zafka · 6 Jul 2019
845 pts 207 comments
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Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003) www-math.mit.edu · lewisjoe · 14 Jul 2019
836 pts 104 comments
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Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook 9to5mac.com · jeremylevy · 4 Jul 2019
802 pts 647 comments
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I Can’t Stop Winning blog.pinboard.in · jashkenas · 9 Jul 2019
786 pts 214 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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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment userinyerface.com · maxime_ · 3 Jul 2019
757 pts 255 comments
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Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages quantamagazine.org · parsimo2010 · 26 Jul 2019
752 pts 70 comments
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How is it like to be a dev in Iran shahinsorkh.ir · daanavitch · 21 Jul 2019
745 pts 417 comments
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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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Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M blender.org · brachi · 15 Jul 2019
736 pts 250 comments
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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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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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HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide nullsweep.com · BCharlie · 18 Jul 2019
709 pts 78 comments
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RSA is a fragile cryptosystem blog.trailofbits.com · ingve · 8 Jul 2019
708 pts 341 comments
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How the Dat Protocol Works datprotocol.github.io · nanomonkey · 5 Jul 2019
707 pts 75 comments
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Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019 blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 12 Jul 2019
698 pts 149 comments
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Twitter was down status.twitterstat.us · idlewords · 11 Jul 2019
695 pts 485 comments
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Advertising Is a Cancer on Society jacek.zlydach.pl · TeMPOraL · 31 Jul 2019
692 pts 640 comments
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No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers nocsdegree.com · Pete-Codes · 23 Jul 2019
692 pts 462 comments
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Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? rootsofprogress.org · exolymph · 15 Jul 2019
691 pts 492 comments
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Employee happiness and business success are linked economist.com · benryon · 30 Jul 2019
690 pts 221 comments
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YouTube video has its own URL in it youtube.com · ignaloidas · 16 Jul 2019
681 pts 147 comments
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YouTube was launched as a dating site web.archive.org · ElectronShak · 21 Jul 2019
680 pts 243 comments
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Blender 2.80 blender.org · harperlee · 30 Jul 2019
674 pts 216 comments
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Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note bbc.co.uk · hanoz · 15 Jul 2019
664 pts 298 comments
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How to write idempotent Bash scripts arslan.io · kiyanwang · 7 Jul 2019
655 pts 189 comments
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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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iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone bugs.chromium.org · appwiz · 8 Jul 2019
652 pts 270 comments
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At what time of day do famous programmers work? ivan.bessarabov.com · lionix · 18 Jul 2019
651 pts 206 comments
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Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 blog.mozilla.org · johnnyRose · 9 Jul 2019
648 pts 197 comments
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Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation blog.danslimmon.com · thameera · 22 Jul 2019
645 pts 124 comments
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A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign balena.io · chrisys · 31 Jul 2019
642 pts 141 comments
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LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light planetary.org · spazz · 31 Jul 2019
640 pts 144 comments
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Saving Lydia medium.com · dsr12 · 25 Jul 2019
639 pts 111 comments
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What's Coming in Python 3.8 lwn.net · superwayne · 17 Jul 2019
638 pts 536 comments
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Photorealistic Path Tracer thume.ca · azhenley · 21 Jul 2019
637 pts 89 comments
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Cloudflare Network Performance Issues cloudflarestatus.com · drcongo · 2 Jul 2019
631 pts 310 comments
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Argdown argdown.org · Qaphqa · 19 Jul 2019
627 pts 174 comments
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Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals latimes.com · bookofjoe · 13 Jul 2019
626 pts 297 comments
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Strong_password Rubygem hijacked withatwist.dev · jrochkind1 · 7 Jul 2019
625 pts 128 comments
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Why wasn't this page found? ft.com · johnny313 · 21 Jul 2019
622 pts 115 comments
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Being Bored Is Good thewalrus.ca · apollinaire · 8 Jul 2019
621 pts 217 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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