top 10 hacker news stories for 2019-07-06

Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem

https://petapixel.com/2019/07/05/goodbye-aberration-physicist-solves-2000-year-old-optical-problem/

6 years ago

845 upvotes – 207 comments

Breaking max efficiency of solar cells by activating 2 electrons with 1 photon

http://news.mit.edu/2019/increase-solar-cell-output-photon-2-electron-0703

6 years ago

543 upvotes – 133 comments

VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies

https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-23-companies/

6 years ago

382 upvotes – 227 comments

So you think you know C? (2016)

https://wordsandbuttons.online/so_you_think_you_know_c.html

6 years ago

378 upvotes – 322 comments

Canonical Ltd source code repositories have been compromised

https://github.com/CanonicalLtd

6 years ago

316 upvotes – 74 comments

7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-major-earthquake-southern-california20190705-story.html

6 years ago

288 upvotes – 167 comments

How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-enable-dns-over-https-doh-in-firefox/

6 years ago

269 upvotes – 197 comments

Speedy Desktop Apps with GTK and Rust

https://nora.codes/tutorial/speedy-desktop-apps-with-gtk-and-rust/

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 154 comments

Finally an image of X-37B/OTV-5, US Air Force's secretive space plane, in orbit

http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=154946

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 50 comments

A Look at the AMD Zen 2 Core

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2458/a-look-at-the-amd-zen-2-core/

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 88 comments
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