top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-07-26

Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-solves-computer-science-conjecture-in-two-pages-20190725/

7 years ago

752 upvotes – 70 comments

How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?

https://www.quora.com/How-is-China-able-to-provide-enough-food-to-feed-its-population-of-over-1-billion-people-Do-they-import-food-or-are-they-self-sustainable?share=1

7 years ago

594 upvotes – 330 comments

Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware

https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/25/mozilla-debuts-webthings-gateway-open-source-router-firmware-for-turris-omnia/

7 years ago

549 upvotes – 163 comments

The UK authorities made illegal copies of the Schengen Information System

https://twitter.com/SophieintVeld/status/1154689216170926080

7 years ago

529 upvotes – 225 comments

Users hate change

https://gist.github.com/sleepyfox/a4d311ffcdc4fd908ec97d1c245e57dc

7 years ago

465 upvotes – 311 comments

Firefox Reality

https://mixedreality.mozilla.org/firefox-reality/

7 years ago

372 upvotes – 157 comments

IRS sends warning letters to more than 10k cryptocurrency holders

https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-sending-warning-letters-to-more-than-10-000-cryptocurrency-holders-11564159523?mod=rsswn

7 years ago

367 upvotes – 389 comments

What Stress Does to the Brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-stress-14580/

7 years ago

331 upvotes – 125 comments

Senescent cells stop producing nucleotides: new research

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190725151018.htm

7 years ago

309 upvotes – 97 comments

Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02275-3

7 years ago

296 upvotes – 160 comments

A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners (2017)

https://internetingishard.com/

7 years ago

288 upvotes – 54 comments

Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/tabular-type-foundry/comic-code?tab=glyphs

7 years ago

284 upvotes – 137 comments

Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/scientists-stunned-by-city-killer-asteroid-that-just-missed-earth/

7 years ago

275 upvotes – 152 comments

Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/25/us/texas-wind-energy-trnd/index.html

7 years ago

270 upvotes – 141 comments

Show HN: Sauron-native – A native cross-platform GUI for Rust

https://github.com/ivanceras/sauron-native

7 years ago

★ 629 Rust Apache-2.0
255 upvotes – 97 comments

SFTPGo: A Full Featured SFTP Server in Go

https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo

7 years ago

★ 11.9k Go AGPL-3.0
242 upvotes – 57 comments

A "cure" for baldness could be around the corner

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/07/hair-for-all/594826/

7 years ago

234 upvotes – 289 comments

The Problem of Mindfulness

https://aeon.co/essays/mindfulness-is-loaded-with-troubling-metaphysical-assumptions

7 years ago

226 upvotes – 152 comments

Unity, now valued at $6B, raising up to $525M

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/25/unity-now-valued-at-6b-raising-up-to-525m/

7 years ago

200 upvotes – 108 comments

The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous Companies in the U.S.

https://gfintegrity.org/report/the-library-card-project/

7 years ago

198 upvotes – 240 comments

More money than anyone imagined: an explanation for why the bubble never burst

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/whatever-happened-tech-bubble/594856/

7 years ago

193 upvotes – 225 comments

Stanford CS Education Library (2001)

http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/

7 years ago

172 upvotes – 13 comments

Pine64 Unleashes $200 Rockchip-Powered Pinebook Pro Linux Laptop

https://hothardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-rival-pine64-unleashes-200-pinebook-pro-linux-laptop#V7YJkhDrjbkSpcum.02

7 years ago

150 upvotes – 78 comments

A Pixel Is Not A Little Square (1995) [pdf]

http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf

7 years ago

143 upvotes – 78 comments

Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49127569

7 years ago

140 upvotes – 65 comments

Tree stumps that should be dead can be kept alive by nearby trees

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2211209-tree-stumps-that-should-be-dead-can-be-kept-alive-by-nearby-trees/

7 years ago

138 upvotes – 19 comments

Pioneer manipulates scores to pick winners

https://medium.com/@anton_87731/how-silicon-valley-vc-tournament-manipulates-the-scores-to-pick-winners-1608e8c0ff22

7 years ago

136 upvotes – 62 comments

Metaphors We Believe By

https://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2019/07/25/metaphors-we-believe-by/

7 years ago

129 upvotes – 5 comments

Hakuna Cloud – Stop cloud servers when they are not in use

https://hakuna.cloud/

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 61 comments

Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for 16-inch MacBook Pro

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/25/kuo-16-inch-macbook-pro-scissor-keyboard/

7 years ago

124 upvotes – 215 comments

A software engineering manager guide to measuring an engineer’s performance

https://www.jmoses.co/2019/07/08/software-engineering-manager-guide-measuring-performance.html

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 108 comments

Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-greeland-europe-ice-heat-record-1.5225980

7 years ago

111 upvotes – 132 comments

US government approves T-Mobile/Sprint merger

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/its-official-us-government-approves-t-mobilesprint-merger/

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 52 comments

Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator (2014)

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/12/21/rooms-and-mazes/

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 15 comments

SVG Jigsaw Generation in Clojure

https://blog.bonnieeisenman.com/projects/clojure-puzzles/

7 years ago

107 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: Play rock paper and scissors against a untrained neural network

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/jokenpo

7 years ago

★ 120 JavaScript MIT
101 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: A Demo IDE for Scheme

https://kennethfriedman.org/projects/toski/

7 years ago

97 upvotes – 17 comments

The Aesthetic Beauty of Math

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/22/the-aesthetic-beauty-of-math/

7 years ago

96 upvotes – 17 comments

Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System

https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/pang

7 years ago

95 upvotes – 1 comments

Safely Rewriting Mixpanel’s Highest-Throughput Service

https://engineering.mixpanel.com/2019/07/24/safely-rewriting-mixpanels-highest-throughput-service-in-golang/

7 years ago

94 upvotes – 17 comments

MemGuard: Secure sensitive information in memory in Go

https://github.com/awnumar/memguard

7 years ago

★ 2.7k Go Apache-2.0
90 upvotes – 23 comments

GraphQL Performance Monitoring Is Hard

https://medium.com/@__xuorig__/why-graphql-performance-monitoring-is-hard-41381bc7c44d

7 years ago

88 upvotes – 79 comments

Escape the scripter mentality if reliability matters (2011)

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/12/31/scripting/

7 years ago

87 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: I built a spreadsheet app with Python to make data science easier

https://hackernoon.com/introducing-grid-studio-a-spreadsheet-app-with-python-to-make-data-science-easier-tdup38f7

7 years ago

84 upvotes – 15 comments

OOP Before OOP with Simula

https://twobithistory.org/2019/01/31/simula.html

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 19 comments

Planning to Start, Planning to Finish

https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/planning-to-start-planning-to-finish

7 years ago

78 upvotes – 2 comments

Visualizing and exploring sorting algorithms in two dimensions

https://dotink.co/posts/visualizing-sorting-algorithms/

7 years ago

74 upvotes – 19 comments
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