top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-07-29

Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage

https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-megapack-utility-scale-energy-storage

6 years ago

601 upvotes – 262 comments

Uber Lays Off 400

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/technology/uber-job-cuts.html

6 years ago

515 upvotes – 298 comments

Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/capital-one-data-systems-breached-by-seattle-woman-u-s-says

6 years ago

491 upvotes – 285 comments

The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions

https://theconversation.com/heatwave-think-its-hot-in-europe-the-human-body-is-already-close-to-thermal-limits-elsewhere-121003

6 years ago

462 upvotes – 485 comments

YouTube faces creator backlash

https://www.axios.com/youtube-faces-creator-backlash-30b7e425-ec93-4f02-aec3-6f418e009b56.html

6 years ago

441 upvotes – 466 comments

Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-smartphone-final-specs-announced/

6 years ago

419 upvotes – 269 comments

Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20556336

6 years ago

392 upvotes – 269 comments

Data Engineering Cookbook

https://github.com/andkret/Cookbook

6 years ago

382 upvotes – 56 comments

India tiger census shows rapid population growth

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49148174

6 years ago

359 upvotes – 117 comments

Lambda School fined $75k by CA for operating without state approval [pdf]

https://www.bppe.ca.gov/enforcement/actions/lambdainc_ord.pdf

6 years ago

338 upvotes – 337 comments

Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2019/07/29/browser-extensions.html

6 years ago

320 upvotes – 186 comments

Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining

https://www.privacycompany.eu/en/new-dpia-on-microsoft-office-and-windows-software-still-privacy-risks-remaining-short-blog/

6 years ago

318 upvotes – 112 comments

Slack was down

https://status.slack.com/2019-07/b31a6510b8caabcc

6 years ago

308 upvotes – 232 comments

GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/github-ban-sanctioned-countries/

6 years ago

284 upvotes – 300 comments

Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-lie-detector-tests-cant-be-trusted-180972724/

6 years ago

272 upvotes – 190 comments

Go Contracts – Draft Design

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draft-contracts.md

6 years ago

249 upvotes – 199 comments

Work on production line of Boeing 737 Max ‘not adequately funded’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49142761

6 years ago

243 upvotes – 136 comments

How SAML 2.0 Authentication Works

https://gravitational.com/blog/how-saml-authentication-works/

6 years ago

214 upvotes – 36 comments

The Internet's Old Guard

https://reading.supply/post/432f6903-c7cd-4cb0-a894-c09155a8ca8b

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 63 comments

The Invention of Money

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/the-invention-of-money

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 113 comments
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