top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-07-13

Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-uc-elsevier-20190711-story.html

6 years ago

626 upvotes – 297 comments

Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download

https://twitter.com/oasace/status/1149181539000864769

6 years ago

513 upvotes – 155 comments

Google Photos is making photos semi-public

https://medium.com/@robertwiblin/google-photo-is-making-your-photos-semi-public-and-you-probably-dont-realise-6fcc74e40ac6

6 years ago

386 upvotes – 139 comments

One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online

https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/2/18286977/eve-online-explorer-10-year-journey-katia-sae

6 years ago

360 upvotes – 288 comments

Show HN: Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database

https://steinhq.com/

6 years ago

296 upvotes – 65 comments

Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range

https://git.kernel.org/linus/96125bf9985a

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 124 comments

Why the C++ standard ships every three years

https://herbsutter.com/2019/07/13/draft-faq-why-does-the-c-standard-ship-every-three-years/

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 220 comments

Petrichor: why does rain smell so good?

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44904298

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 34 comments

Eastgate Centre, Harare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastgate_Centre,_Harare

6 years ago

201 upvotes – 60 comments

Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008)

https://clojure.org/about/state

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 62 comments

Amazon EventBridge: The biggest thing since AWS Lambda

https://www.trek10.com/blog/amazon-eventbridge/

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 56 comments

Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a Proxy

https://boredhacking.com/tor-webscraping-proxy/

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 90 comments

Imaging Bell-type nonlocal behavior

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaaw2563

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 23 comments

Anatomy of a Mechanical Keyboard (2018)

https://drop.com/talk/10016/anatomy-of-a-mechanical-keyboard

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 107 comments

Let’s Build a Web Server, Part 1 (2015)

https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbaws-part1/

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 6 comments

Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (2001)

http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 38 comments

A man who became a hermit at 20

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48968502

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 103 comments

MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member

https://www.mpaa.org/press/mpaa-welcomes-netflix-as-new-member/

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 129 comments

Eve Online’s communications blackout explained

https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/12/20692205/eve-online-nullsec-blackout-chat

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 40 comments

VW invests $2.6B in self-driving startup Argo AI as part of Ford alliance

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/12/vw-invests-2-6-billion-in-self-driving-startup-argo-ai-as-part-of-ford-alliance/

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 115 comments
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