top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-06-26

Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/386487/why-is-stack-overflow-trying-to-start-audio

6 years ago

909 upvotes – 402 comments

Calgary student has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since age nine

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-student-nora-keegan-hand-dyer-research-decibel-1.5185853

6 years ago

681 upvotes – 320 comments

Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/

6 years ago

669 upvotes – 359 comments

HTML is the Web

https://www.petelambert.com/journal/html-is-the-web

6 years ago

561 upvotes – 328 comments

FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-26/faa-finds-new-risk-on-737-max-and-orders-boeing-to-make-changes

6 years ago

507 upvotes – 341 comments

Hey advertisers, track this

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/hey-advertisers-track-this/

6 years ago

493 upvotes – 230 comments

Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai

https://www.axios.com/apple-buy-driveai-753da17d-60fe-44f9-84ff-1d2d82cd0b81.html

6 years ago

440 upvotes – 214 comments

I was seven words away from being spear-phished

https://robertheaton.com/2019/06/24/i-was-7-words-away-from-being-spear-phished/

6 years ago

436 upvotes – 180 comments

Real-world dynamic programming: seam carving

https://avikdas.com/2019/05/14/real-world-dynamic-programming-seam-carving.html

6 years ago

412 upvotes – 66 comments

HTTP Cats

https://http.cat/

6 years ago

408 upvotes – 74 comments

‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fake-news-vaccine-works-pre-bunk-game-reduces-susceptibility-to-disinformation

6 years ago

377 upvotes – 205 comments

Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20282397

6 years ago

374 upvotes – 373 comments

The Toyota Way

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toyota_Way

6 years ago

368 upvotes – 216 comments

A Visual Intro to NumPy and Data Representation

https://jalammar.github.io/visual-numpy/

6 years ago

366 upvotes – 21 comments

Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011)

https://idlewords.com/2011/08/why_arabic_is_terrific.htm

6 years ago

346 upvotes – 190 comments

Next steps toward Go 2

https://blog.golang.org/go2-next-steps

6 years ago

334 upvotes – 214 comments

150k Small Business Website Teardown 2019

https://freshchalk.com/blog/150k-small-business-website-teardown-2019

6 years ago

298 upvotes – 59 comments

“I thought I'd share this Boris Johnson story with you”

https://www.facebook.com/thejeremyvine/posts/since-he-is-probably-our-next-prime-minister-i-thought-id-share-this-boris-johns/2449074521979085/

6 years ago

293 upvotes – 183 comments

It’s Time for Some Queueing Theory

https://kottke.org/19/01/its-time-for-some-queueing-theory

6 years ago

282 upvotes – 62 comments

Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ramp Up

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-26/apple-hires-key-chip-designer-from-arm-as-own-efforts-ramp-up

6 years ago

272 upvotes – 195 comments

SymPy makes math fun again

https://wordsandbuttons.online/sympy_makes_math_fun_again.html

6 years ago

267 upvotes – 59 comments

Iceland tire of tourists trashing their nature

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48703462

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 240 comments

Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge

https://behavioralscientist.org/consumers-are-becoming-wise-to-your-nudge/

6 years ago

246 upvotes – 318 comments

VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard

https://vesa.org/press/vesa-publishes-displayport-2-0-video-standard-enabling-support-for-beyond-8k-resolutions-higher-refresh-rates-for-4k-hdr-and-virtual-reality-applications/

6 years ago

234 upvotes – 227 comments

Reddit has quarantined /r/The_Donald

https://old.reddit.com/r/the_donald

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 374 comments

A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices

https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-silex-malware-is-bricking-iot-devices-has-scary-plans/

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 160 comments

Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2019/06/24/building-standalone-python-applications-with-pyoxidizer/

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 59 comments

“Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself”

https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1143925272464506880

6 years ago

164 upvotes – 76 comments

Life is fractal, but markets are square

https://invertedpassion.com/life-is-fractal-markets-are-square/

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 123 comments

What is ergodicity? (2016)

https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2016/11/23/what-is-ergodicity-2/

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 54 comments

The West’s failed fight against China’s ‘Cloud Hopper’ hackers

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-cloudhopper-special-repor/special-report-inside-the-wests-failed-fight-against-chinas-cloud-hopper-hackers-idUSKCN1TR1DK

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 131 comments

Durable Design (2017)

http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2017/09/13/durable-design/

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 42 comments

YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-26/youtube-lets-users-override-recommendations-after-criticism

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 139 comments

Introducing people.kernel.org

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/introducing-people-kernel-org

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 18 comments

I will now charge my clients a fee to support open source projects

https://dev.to/manuelbieh/i-will-now-charge-my-clients-a-fee-to-support-open-source-projects-277

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 44 comments

The “backfire effect” is mostly a myth, a broad look at the research suggests

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/the-backfire-effect-is-mostly-a-myth-a-broad-look-at-the-research-suggests/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 98 comments

Mitch Kapor Introduces Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheet (1983) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g46m0vBC9fk

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 30 comments

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (2017)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 156 comments

Renewables Surpass Coal in U.S. Power Mix

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-25/for-first-time-ever-renewables-surpass-coal-in-u-s-power-mix

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 55 comments

A photo history of Frog, the company that designed the original Mac

https://www.theverge.com/design/2019/6/26/18758789/apple-mac-design-snow-white-frog-polk-photo-essay

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

Can Life Exist in 2 and 1 Dimensions?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05336

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 133 comments

3D engine on MS Excel without VBA (2018) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCeOEQVUWZ0

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 7 comments

A Gas Heist Gone Wrong

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-26/a-gas-heist-gone-wrong-an-explosion-and-137-deaths-in-mexico

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 50 comments

Fuck Hard Work

https://m.signalvnoise.com/fuck-hard-work/

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

Japan's washi paper torn by modern life

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2019/06/25/lifestyle/skin-deep-japans-washi-paper-torn-modern-life/

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 28 comments
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