top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-07-24

Visual Information Theory (2015)

https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-Visual-Information/

6 years ago

543 upvotes – 45 comments

Fast Software, the Best Software

https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/

6 years ago

470 upvotes – 283 comments

FTC Imposes $5B Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-imposes-5-billion-penalty-sweeping-new-privacy-restrictions

6 years ago

414 upvotes – 210 comments

About the “Security Issue” on VLC

https://twitter.com/videolan/status/1153963312981389312

6 years ago

405 upvotes – 165 comments

Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20519281

6 years ago

383 upvotes – 167 comments

Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

https://onezero.medium.com/dont-put-your-work-email-on-your-personal-phone-ef7fef956c2f

6 years ago

350 upvotes – 266 comments

Use plaintext email

https://useplaintext.email/

6 years ago

337 upvotes – 334 comments

What If Consciousness Comes First?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mysteries-consciousness/201907/what-if-consciousness-comes-first?

6 years ago

328 upvotes – 548 comments

Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

https://fork.dev

6 years ago

286 upvotes – 170 comments

How not to sign a JSON object

https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/24/how-not-to.html

6 years ago

268 upvotes – 151 comments

Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 1: Non-Networked Key-Value Store

https://arveknudsen.com/posts/practical-networked-applications-in-rust/module-1/

6 years ago

266 upvotes – 41 comments

Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly anonymized databases

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/health/data-privacy-protection.html

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 92 comments

Teenager can walk again thanks to Dutch 3D printed spinal implant

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/07/teenager-can-walk-again-thanks-to-dutch-3d-printed-spinal-implant/

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 33 comments

How we built the Waifu Vending Machine

https://waifulabs.com/blog/ax

6 years ago

257 upvotes – 154 comments

Winnti: Hackers attacking the heart of German industry

http://br24.de/winnti/english

6 years ago

257 upvotes – 148 comments

Mr. Darcy’s Ten Thousand a Year

https://notesonliberty.com/2019/04/16/mr-darcys-ten-thousand-a-year/

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 119 comments

Yaegi – Yet Another Go Interpreter

https://blog.containo.us/announcing-yaegi-263a1e2d070a

6 years ago

220 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: Recommendations for AI generated music software?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20514446

6 years ago

205 upvotes – 83 comments

How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/magazine/the-era-of-people-like-you-is-over-how-turkey-purged-its-intellectuals.html

6 years ago

203 upvotes – 202 comments

DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/nyregion/doordash-tip-policy.html

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 318 comments
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