top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-01

Choose Boring Technology

http://boringtechnology.club/

6 years ago

1357 upvotes – 344 comments

Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/07/googles-robotstxt-parser-is-now-open.html

6 years ago

777 upvotes – 194 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325925

6 years ago

485 upvotes – 893 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20330818

6 years ago

474 upvotes – 265 comments

I thought I made a hard game and then speedrunners destroyed it

https://imgur.com/t/speedrunning/OUtDA5J

6 years ago

448 upvotes – 167 comments

Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-developer-reveals-linux-is-now-more-used-on-azure-than-windows-server/

6 years ago

426 upvotes – 176 comments

Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending (2018)

https://medium.com/columbus-egg/dear-agile-im-tired-of-pretending-d39ab6a12003

6 years ago

400 upvotes – 400 comments

Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every City Lot

https://www.sightline.org/2019/06/30/oregon-just-voted-to-legalize-duplexes-on-almost-every-city-lot

6 years ago

376 upvotes – 323 comments

The rise of remote working will continue

https://www.fastcompany.com/90318974/the-rise-of-remote-working-will-continue

6 years ago

342 upvotes – 206 comments

Why plants don’t die from cancer

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/why-plants-dont-die-from-cancer

6 years ago

338 upvotes – 120 comments

D as a C Replacement

https://theartofmachinery.com/2019/04/05/d_as_c_replacement.html

6 years ago

304 upvotes – 187 comments

Absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature

https://drewdevault.com/2019/07/01/Absence-of-features-in-IRC.html

6 years ago

298 upvotes – 216 comments

Writing a small ray tracer in Rust and Zig

https://nelari.us/post/raytracer_with_rust_and_zig/

6 years ago

260 upvotes – 96 comments

Decoded: GNU Coreutils

https://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/index.html

6 years ago

256 upvotes – 55 comments

Senate passes bill to decrease grid digitization, move toward manual control

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/senate-passes-cybersecurity-bill-to-decrease-grid-digitization-move-toward/557959/

6 years ago

246 upvotes – 179 comments

Mistakes we made adopting event sourcing and how we recovered

http://natpryce.com/articles/000819.html

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 40 comments

Jony Ive is departing Apple, but he started leaving years ago

https://www.wsj.com/articles/jony-ive-is-departing-apple-but-he-started-leaving-years-ago-11561943376?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 348 comments

The New Austrian Railways' Intercity and Nightjet Sleeper Train Interior Design

https://www.priestmangoode.com/project/new-intercity-and-nightjet/

6 years ago

235 upvotes – 205 comments

Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]

https://lexfridman.com/jeff-hawkins/

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 94 comments

Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft

https://jeffwilcox.blog/2019/06/scaling-25k/

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325923

6 years ago

219 upvotes – 436 comments

Scientists 'speechless' at Arctic fox's epic trek

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-48824181

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 95 comments

Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz Restores Mission Control in Houston

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/30/737327895/former-nasa-flight-director-gene-kranz-restores-mission-control-in-houston

6 years ago

207 upvotes – 78 comments

How to support open-source software and stay sane

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02046-0

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 70 comments

How and why CPUs do “branch prediction” (2017)

https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Hydra – Open-Source OAuth2 Server

https://gethydra.sh/hydra-1.0-stable-release

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 51 comments

Hong Kong protesters occupy legislative chamber

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/07/01/breaking-hong-kong-protesters-storm-legislature-breaking-glass-doors-prying-gates-open/

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 106 comments

Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator

https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 8 comments

ICANN lifts the price cap on .org domains

https://domainnamewire.com/2019/06/30/domain-overseer-lifts-all-price-caps-on-org-domain-names/

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 114 comments

U.S. Wind Turbine Database Viewer

https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 59 comments

As a system programming language, C still deserves learning today

https://nanxiao.me/en/as-a-system-programming-language-c-still-deserves-learning-today/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 161 comments

Advanced Data Structures (2017)

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 23 comments

Germany records hottest June temperature

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-records-all-time-hottest-june-temperature/a-49420773

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 98 comments

Scientists capture MRI scans of single atoms

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/science/microscope-atom-magnetic-mri.html

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 44 comments

Electric cars grab almost half of sales in Norway

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-electric-norway/electric-cars-grab-almost-half-of-sales-in-oil-producing-norway-idUSKCN1TW2WO

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 146 comments

The Long, Slow Death of Venice

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-30/venice-is-dying-a-long-slow-death

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 148 comments

AIs Named by AIs

https://aiweirdness.com/post/185883998702/ais-named-by-ais

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 22 comments

Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48821797

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 100 comments

What If All Your Slack Chats Were Leaked?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/slack-chat-hackers-encryption.html

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 119 comments

GNU Guix package definitions for Gov.uk software and systems

https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-guix

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 42 comments

The New HAProxy Data Plane API: Two Examples of Programmatic Configuration

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/new-haproxy-data-plane-api/

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: What do you do on an Android phone that cannot be done on an iPhone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20321455

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 226 comments

China has a new casino: the Philippines

https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-philippines-china-gambling-20190701-story.html

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 77 comments

Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/indias-water-crisis-bengaluru-delhi-chennai-hyderabad-among-21-cities-to-run-out-of-groundwater-by-2020-4590221.html

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 70 comments

What I Want from a Type System (2016)

https://gist.github.com/halgari/f431b2d1094e4ec1e933969969489854

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 103 comments

Hospitalized in Split – Intoxication

https://www.reddit.com/r/croatia/comments/c7eooa/hospitalized_in_split_intoxication/

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 54 comments

America needs to see Amazon’s tax returns

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/1/19102713/amazon-tax-returns-federal-2020-election-warren-biden-sanders

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 149 comments

Deepfake revenge porn distribution now a crime in Virginia

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/deepfake-revenge-porn-distribution-now-a-crime-in-virginia/

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 84 comments

Degraded performance on GitLab.com

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/issues/928

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 45 comments

Sarin Possibly Discovered in Package at Facebook Mailing Facility

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Possible-Sarin-Exposure-Facebook-Mailing-Facility-512068541.html

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 51 comments

'We all suffer': why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/01/san-francisco-big-tech-workers-industry

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 125 comments

A once-classified anomaly nearly killed NASA's first moon astronauts

https://www.insider.com/classified-apollo-11-anomaly-threatened-to-crash-first-moon-astronauts-2019-6

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 23 comments

2019 redefinition of the SI base units

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_base_units

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 92 comments
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