top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-19

Argdown

https://argdown.org

7 years ago

627 upvotes – 174 comments

History and Effective Use of Vim

https://begriffs.com/posts/2019-07-19-history-use-vim.html

7 years ago

593 upvotes – 218 comments

Show HN: I built a service to discover rapidly growing Google search topics

https://trennd.co/

7 years ago

446 upvotes – 116 comments

Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

https://github.com/DanielDe/org-web

7 years ago

★ 1.4k JavaScript Unlicense
438 upvotes – 104 comments

Patrick Winston has died

http://news.mit.edu/2019/patrick-winston-professor-obituary-0719

7 years ago

400 upvotes – 81 comments

A Differentiable Programming System to Bridge ML and Scientific Computing

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07587

7 years ago

381 upvotes – 71 comments

Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/dropbox-silently-installs-new-file-manager-app-on-users-systems/

7 years ago

342 upvotes – 257 comments

Slack Security Incident

https://keybase.io/blog/slack-incident

7 years ago

308 upvotes – 104 comments

A personal story about 10× development

http://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2019/07/a-personal-story-about-10-development.html

7 years ago

289 upvotes – 225 comments

Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20477949

7 years ago

275 upvotes – 219 comments

QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/quickbooks-cloud-hosting-firm-insynq-hit-in-ransomware-attack/

7 years ago

254 upvotes – 134 comments

Dungeon Generation in Diablo 1

https://www.boristhebrave.com/2019/07/14/dungeon-generation-in-diablo-1/

7 years ago

253 upvotes – 30 comments

Bypassing anti-incognito detection in Google Chrome

http://mishravikas.com/articles/2019-07/bypassing-anti-incognito-detection-google-chrome.html

7 years ago

245 upvotes – 109 comments

Understand the JavaScript SEO basics

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/javascript-seo-basics

7 years ago

228 upvotes – 60 comments

XSS attacks on Googlebot allow search index manipulation

https://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/xss-attacks-googlebot-index-manipulation/

7 years ago

224 upvotes – 40 comments

Detecting Chrome headless, the game goes on

https://antoinevastel.com/bot%20detection/2019/07/19/detecting-chrome-headless-v3.html

7 years ago

222 upvotes – 129 comments

A Rust-based TLS library outperformed OpenSSL in almost every category

https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-rust-based-tls-library-outperformed-openssl-in-almost-every-category/

7 years ago

214 upvotes – 80 comments

Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-July/102103.html

7 years ago

211 upvotes – 97 comments

Authentication and the Have I Been Pwned API

https://www.troyhunt.com/authentication-and-the-have-i-been-pwned-api/

7 years ago

209 upvotes – 123 comments

Netflix CEO may have missed the real reason why US subscriber numbers plunged

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-too-much-content-could-be-hurting-netflixs-subscriber-numbers-2019-07-19

7 years ago

196 upvotes – 403 comments

How Ancient Rome’s Concrete Has Survived 2,000 Years (2017)

https://time.com/4846153/ancient-rome-concrete-cement-seawater/

7 years ago

190 upvotes – 81 comments

Rust compiler added to Android tree

https://android.googlesource.com/toolchain/rustc/

7 years ago

185 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20477104

7 years ago

181 upvotes – 227 comments

The JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8620

7 years ago

160 upvotes – 96 comments

Three people play a Tetris-like game using a brain-to-brain interface

https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/07/01/play-a-video-game-using-only-your-mind/

7 years ago

159 upvotes – 27 comments

Cosmic Crisp Apple Launch

https://story.californiasunday.com/cosmic-crisp-apple-launch

7 years ago

145 upvotes – 97 comments

From South Korea to Malaysia, ‘smart cities’ turn to ghost towns

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3019142/south-korea-malaysia-smart-cities-hailed-answer

7 years ago

140 upvotes – 86 comments

Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/18/google-chrome-is-ditching-its-xss-detection-tool/

7 years ago

140 upvotes – 27 comments

Arctic Summer Melt Shows Ice Is Disappearing Faster Than Normal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-19/arctic-summer-melt-shows-ice-is-disappearing-faster-than-normal

7 years ago

135 upvotes – 105 comments

CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly

https://skia.org/user/modules/canvaskit

7 years ago

127 upvotes – 70 comments

PHP 5 and 7.0 end of life

https://hackertarget.com/php-end-of-life

7 years ago

125 upvotes – 120 comments

Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions

https://www.propublica.org/article/health-insurers-make-it-easy-for-scammers-to-steal-millions-who-pays-you

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 88 comments

Employers are mining the data their workers generate

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-ways-your-boss-is-spying-on-you-11563528604?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

122 upvotes – 112 comments

Opmsg – A GPG Alternative

https://github.com/stealth/opmsg

7 years ago

★ 756 C++
121 upvotes – 97 comments

Alaska’s Engineering Colleges Prepare to Slash Programs, Lay Off Faculty

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/education/alaskas-engineering-colleges-prepare-to-slash-programs-lay-off-faculty

7 years ago

112 upvotes – 122 comments

Meta-learning neural Bloom filters

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/07/19/meta-learning-neural-bloom-filters/

7 years ago

98 upvotes – 6 comments

Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations

https://windowsreport.com/microsofts-q4-earnings/

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 212 comments

Alert issued for stolen car with nuclear substance in Chile

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-crime/alert-issued-for-stolen-car-with-nuclear-substance-in-chile-idUSKCN1UE25E

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 13 comments

Setup VS Code for Efficient PHP Development

https://blog.theodo.com/2019/07/vscode-php-development/

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 63 comments

Researchers easily trick Cylance's AI Antivirus to think Malware is 'Goodware'

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kxp83/researchers-easily-trick-cylances-ai-based-antivirus-into-thinking-malware-is-goodware

7 years ago

93 upvotes – 50 comments

Albert Camus: Humanism and Tragedy

https://hopkinsreview.jhu.edu/current-issue/albert-camus-humanism-and-tragedy/

7 years ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Why is programming editing text?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20476919

7 years ago

89 upvotes – 77 comments

Black soldier fly maggots: high in protein with a small carbon footprint

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3018276/maggots-future-food-high-protein-small-carbon

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 129 comments

David Warren, inventor of the flight voice and data recorder

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49012771

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 60 comments

Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner–so the police punished him

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18253848/eric-garner-footage-ramsey-orta-police-brutality-killing-safety

7 years ago

85 upvotes – 14 comments

Samba versus SMB: Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/18/kill-zones-r-us.html

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 30 comments

Cities Want 'Digital Twins' to Manage Traffic

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/07/digital-twin-mobility-data-standard-city-real-time-traffic/593914/

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments

Data Deduplication at Scale

https://engineering.mixpanel.com/2019/07/18/petabyte-scale-data-deduplication?referrer=hn

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 11 comments

Zebrafish used to help save a dying boy

https://www.statnews.com/2019/07/01/precision-medicine-zebrafish-helped-save-boys-life/

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 6 comments

FRT – A Godot “platform” targeting single-board computers

https://github.com/efornara/frt

7 years ago

★ 321 C++ MIT
81 upvotes – 14 comments
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