top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-07-17

What's Coming in Python 3.8

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/793818/0c6f9dd271021cd4/

6 years ago

638 upvotes – 536 comments

The Raspberry Pi 4 needs a fan

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/raspberry-pi-4-needs-fan-heres-why-and-how-you-can-add-one

6 years ago

566 upvotes – 277 comments

Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/16/world/europe/notre-dame.html

6 years ago

494 upvotes – 239 comments

The PGP Problem

https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html

6 years ago

483 upvotes – 368 comments

How can phone companies detect tethering?

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/47819/how-can-phone-companies-detect-tethering-incl-wifi-hotspot

6 years ago

458 upvotes – 223 comments

Neuralink Live Stream [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vbh3t7WVI

6 years ago

390 upvotes – 287 comments

Operating a large distributed system in a reliable way: practices I learned

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/operating-a-high-scale-distributed-system/

6 years ago

378 upvotes – 61 comments

Zelda Screen Transitions Are Undefined Behaviour

https://gridbugs.org/zelda-screen-transitions-are-undefined-behaviour/

6 years ago

366 upvotes – 100 comments

How to Find Hidden Cameras in Your Airbnb

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/How+to+Find+Hidden+Cameras+in+your+AirBNB/24834

6 years ago

361 upvotes – 313 comments

Google Search is routinely gamed by private blog networks

https://unlikekinds.com/article/google-pbns

6 years ago

354 upvotes – 153 comments

Firefox to Warn When Saved Logins Are Found in Data Breaches

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/firefox-to-warn-when-saved-logins-are-found-in-data-breaches/

6 years ago

312 upvotes – 111 comments

“Why was Rust chosen for Libra?” in congressional hearing [video]

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4808083/rust-language-chosen

6 years ago

285 upvotes – 77 comments

Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49015516

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 280 comments

EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/17/20696214/amazon-european-union-antitrust-investigation-third-party-seller-marketplace

6 years ago

244 upvotes – 86 comments

Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/business/self-driving-autonomous-cars.html

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 433 comments

You thought OpenStreetMap data uses the WGS84 datum? No it doesn't

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/StephaneP/diary/390290

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 39 comments

Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Arrow, and Kubernetes

https://andygrove.io/2019/07/announcing-ballista/

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: Turn your fzf into a live REPL

https://paweldu.dev/posts/fzf-live-repl/

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 27 comments

Dry Stone Walls – Principles of structurally sound construction (2018)

https://www.masonrymagazine.com/blog/2018/11/01/dry-stone-walls-principles-of-structurally-sound-construction/

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 58 comments

Github became the web's largest font piracy site (2017)

https://pixelambacht.nl/2017/github-font-piracy/

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 138 comments
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