top 10 hacker news stories for 2019-08-11

US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/11/20800111/us-navy-uss-john-s-mccain-crash-ntsb-report-touchscreen-mechanical-controls

7 years ago

Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/insect-apocalypse-under-way-toxic-pesticides-agriculture/

7 years ago

Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser

https://aeon.co/ideas/why-speaking-to-yourself-in-the-third-person-makes-you-wiser

7 years ago

Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

https://pagedout.institute

7 years ago

Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-incognito-mode-can-still-be-detected-by-these-methods/

7 years ago

Await in Rust

https://docs.rs/dtolnay/0.0.3/dtolnay/macro._01__await_a_minute.html

7 years ago

Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/uber-freezes-engineering-hires-amid-mounting-losses/

7 years ago

The worst sales promotion in history: Hoover's free flight fiasco

https://thehustle.co/the-worst-sales-promotion-in-history/

7 years ago

Black Hat Talk About ‘Time AI’ Causes Uproar, Is Deleted by Conference

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xw9kp/black-hat-talk-about-time-ai-causes-uproar-is-deleted-by-conference

7 years ago

Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services exporters at all-time high

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigration/h-1b-visa-denials-at-all-time-high/articleshow/70613732.cms

7 years ago