top 50% 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

6 years ago

822 upvotes – 442 comments

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/

6 years ago

797 upvotes – 323 comments

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

6 years ago

589 upvotes – 204 comments

Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

https://pagedout.institute

6 years ago

583 upvotes – 82 comments

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/

6 years ago

440 upvotes – 193 comments

Await in Rust

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

6 years ago

368 upvotes – 243 comments

Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires

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

6 years ago

335 upvotes – 262 comments

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

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

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 169 comments

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

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 190 comments

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

6 years ago

233 upvotes – 343 comments

Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evj4qw/these-iphone-lightning-cables-will-hack-your-computer

6 years ago

215 upvotes – 150 comments

Open Startups List

https://open-startups.xyz/

6 years ago

215 upvotes – 35 comments

What I Do as a DevOps Consultant

https://ilhicas.com/2019/08/11/What-you-as-a-Devops.html

6 years ago

211 upvotes – 78 comments

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don't Talk about It

https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/private-government-how-employers-rule-our-lives-and-why-we-dont-talk-about-it/

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 96 comments

Ask HN: Configuration Management for Personal Computer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20670235

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 139 comments

Theories of Error Back-Propagation in the Brain

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(19)30012-9

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 33 comments

Vibration-minimizing motion retargeting for robotic characters

https://la.disneyresearch.com/publication/publication-process-vibration-minimizing-motion-retargeting-for-robotic-characters/

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 29 comments

Math in Data Science

https://www.dataquest.io/blog/math-in-data-science/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Personal Management System

https://github.com/Volmarg/personal-management-system

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 69 comments

Don't forget randomness is still just a hypothesis (2006)

https://www.nature.com/articles/439392d

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 129 comments

When to Shut Down a Startup [video]

https://blog.ycombinator.com/when-to-shut-down-a-startup/

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 77 comments

Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/opinion/sunday/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation-lets-not-find-out.html

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 258 comments

MoviePass reportedly changed passwords to prevent users from seeing films

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20799145/moviepass-subscriber-passwords-accounts-limit-change-films-tactics

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 41 comments

Tiny Toy TOTP Generator in 18 Lines of Python

https://github.com/susam/toytotp

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 44 comments

Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the current record of 16 MB

http://www.hutter1.net/prize/index.htm

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 101 comments

Economist Raj Chetty has found a surprising tool to fight housing segregation

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/4/20726427/raj-chetty-segregation-moving-opportunity-seattle-experiment

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 115 comments

Which Categories of Seed Startups Are Thriving? Which Aren't?

https://tomtunguz.com/which-categories-of-seed-startups-are-thriving-which-aren-t/

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 55 comments

Amazon's Plan to Conquer the World of Publishing

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/08/amazons-plan-take-over-world-publishing/595630/

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 63 comments

The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (1960)

https://gizmodo.com/the-hp-way-how-bill-hewlett-and-i-built-our-company-5634378

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

Russia, after protests, tells Google not to advertise “illegal” events

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-protests-google/russia-after-protests-tells-google-not-to-advertise-illegal-events-idUSKCN1V10BY

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 84 comments

Turkmenistan on the brink of collapse?

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/10/asia/turkmenistan-caspian-sea-intl-hnk/index.html

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 102 comments

Show HN: Curated Toolkit for Remote Work

https://nohq.co/tools/

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go

https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 62 comments

Dollar vans, NYC’s other transit system

https://queenseagle.com/all/dollar-van-transit-system

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 53 comments

Death of the Neighborhood Bar

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/2019/08/06/plough-stars-neighborhood-bars/

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 154 comments

Commodore 900

http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/900.html

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 41 comments

Shepard Tone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 34 comments

Warning as 4G Hotspots Are Hacked

https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/reverse-engineering-4g-hotspots-for-fun-bugs-and-net-financial-loss/

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems (2002)

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/cs/0206022/

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 14 comments

A new book asserts that rich countries grow with lighter environmental impacts

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613845/the-planet-has-a-fever-and-the-cure-is-more-capitalism-a-prominent-economist-argues/

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 65 comments

2019 Hyundai Kona EV Explodes When Parked

https://www.thedrive.com/news/29219/2019-hyundai-kona-ev-explodes-when-parked-sends-garage-door-flying-across-street

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 70 comments

Architecting Containers: Understanding User Space vs. Kernel Space (2015)

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/architecting-containers-part-1-why-understanding-user-space-vs-kernel-space-matters

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 4 comments

The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Space Propulsion

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-1122

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 67 comments
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