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Top of Month - Jul 2019

1. Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera
   (8 Jul 2019 | 1937 points | Comments)

2. YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
   (4 Jul 2019 | 1553 points | Comments)

3. YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
   (14 Jul 2019 | 1362 points | Comments)

4. Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
   (10 Jul 2019 | 1358 points | Comments)

5. Choose Boring Technology
   (1 Jul 2019 | 1357 points | Comments)

6. YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
   (3 Jul 2019 | 1355 points | Comments)

7. MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan
   (18 Jul 2019 | 1336 points | Comments)

8. Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
   (3 Jul 2019 | 1188 points | Comments)

9. Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
   (22 Jul 2019 | 1119 points | Comments)

10. How to assess the quality of garments (2014)
    (22 Jul 2019 | 991 points | Comments)

11. QuickJS JavaScript Engine
    (11 Jul 2019 | 948 points | Comments)

12. Developers don't understand CORS
    (10 Jul 2019 | 931 points | Comments)

13. Adblocking: How about Nah?
    (27 Jul 2019 | 918 points | Comments)

14. Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning [pdf]
    (30 Jul 2019 | 883 points | Comments)

15. Google employees are listening to Google Home conversations
    (10 Jul 2019 | 872 points | Comments)

16. To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
    (15 Jul 2019 | 859 points | Comments)

17. Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem
    (6 Jul 2019 | 845 points | Comments)

18. Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)
    (14 Jul 2019 | 836 points | Comments)

19. Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook
    (4 Jul 2019 | 802 points | Comments)

20. I Can’t Stop Winning
    (9 Jul 2019 | 786 points | Comments)

21. Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source
    (1 Jul 2019 | 777 points | Comments)

22. User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
    (3 Jul 2019 | 757 points | Comments)

23. Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages
    (26 Jul 2019 | 752 points | Comments)

24. How is it like to be a dev in Iran
    (21 Jul 2019 | 745 points | Comments)

25. Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
    (18 Jul 2019 | 740 points | Comments)

26. Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
    (15 Jul 2019 | 736 points | Comments)

27. A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
    (4 Jul 2019 | 734 points | Comments)

28. California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
    (5 Jul 2019 | 709 points | Comments)

29. HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide
    (18 Jul 2019 | 709 points | Comments)

30. RSA is a fragile cryptosystem
    (8 Jul 2019 | 708 points | Comments)

31. How the Dat Protocol Works
    (5 Jul 2019 | 707 points | Comments)

32. Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019
    (12 Jul 2019 | 698 points | Comments)

33. Twitter was down
    (11 Jul 2019 | 695 points | Comments)

34. No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers
    (23 Jul 2019 | 692 points | Comments)

35. Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
    (31 Jul 2019 | 692 points | Comments)

36. Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
    (15 Jul 2019 | 691 points | Comments)

37. Employee happiness and business success are linked
    (30 Jul 2019 | 690 points | Comments)

38. YouTube video has its own URL in it
    (16 Jul 2019 | 681 points | Comments)

39. YouTube was launched as a dating site
    (21 Jul 2019 | 680 points | Comments)

40. Blender 2.80
    (30 Jul 2019 | 674 points | Comments)

41. Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note
    (15 Jul 2019 | 664 points | Comments)

42. How to write idempotent Bash scripts
    (7 Jul 2019 | 655 points | Comments)

43. iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone
    (8 Jul 2019 | 652 points | Comments)

44. Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid
    (12 Jul 2019 | 652 points | Comments)

45. At what time of day do famous programmers work?
    (18 Jul 2019 | 651 points | Comments)

46. Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
    (9 Jul 2019 | 648 points | Comments)

47. Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation
    (22 Jul 2019 | 645 points | Comments)

48. A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign
    (31 Jul 2019 | 642 points | Comments)

49. LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light
    (31 Jul 2019 | 640 points | Comments)

50. Saving Lydia
    (25 Jul 2019 | 639 points | Comments)

51. What's Coming in Python 3.8
    (17 Jul 2019 | 638 points | Comments)

52. Photorealistic Path Tracer
    (21 Jul 2019 | 637 points | Comments)

53. Cloudflare Network Performance Issues
    (2 Jul 2019 | 631 points | Comments)

54. Argdown
    (19 Jul 2019 | 627 points | Comments)

55. Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
    (13 Jul 2019 | 626 points | Comments)

56. Strong_password Rubygem hijacked
    (7 Jul 2019 | 625 points | Comments)

57. Why wasn't this page found?
    (21 Jul 2019 | 622 points | Comments)

58. Being Bored Is Good
    (8 Jul 2019 | 621 points | Comments)

59. PCI Express on the Raspberry Pi 4
    (10 Jul 2019 | 619 points | Comments)

60. Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
    (10 Jul 2019 | 612 points | Comments)

61. DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps
    (16 Jul 2019 | 611 points | Comments)

62. Space Engine
    (22 Jul 2019 | 607 points | Comments)

63. Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage
    (29 Jul 2019 | 601 points | Comments)

64. Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millions submitted claims
    (31 Jul 2019 | 600 points | Comments)

65. Want to hire the best programmers? Offer growth
    (23 Jul 2019 | 599 points | Comments)

66. How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?
    (26 Jul 2019 | 594 points | Comments)

67. History and Effective Use of Vim
    (19 Jul 2019 | 593 points | Comments)

68. Browsers are pretty good at loading pages
    (21 Jul 2019 | 592 points | Comments)

69. I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)
    (12 Jul 2019 | 590 points | Comments)

70. BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
    (30 Jul 2019 | 588 points | Comments)

71. Google Cloud networking issues in us-east1
    (2 Jul 2019 | 586 points | Comments)

72. Debian 10 “Buster” Released
    (7 Jul 2019 | 584 points | Comments)

73. Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program
    (15 Jul 2019 | 574 points | Comments)

74. Ten Years of Erlang
    (8 Jul 2019 | 567 points | Comments)

75. Some items from my “reliability list”
    (25 Jul 2019 | 567 points | Comments)

76. The Raspberry Pi 4 needs a fan
    (17 Jul 2019 | 566 points | Comments)

77. Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns
    (2 Jul 2019 | 565 points | Comments)

78. Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated
    (14 Jul 2019 | 561 points | Comments)

79. Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…
    (23 Jul 2019 | 561 points | Comments)

80. Project Vesta – Mitigating climate change with green sand beaches
    (10 Jul 2019 | 553 points | Comments)

81. IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B
    (9 Jul 2019 | 552 points | Comments)

82. Shopify and the Power of Platforms
    (11 Jul 2019 | 549 points | Comments)

83. Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware
    (26 Jul 2019 | 549 points | Comments)

84. Breaking max efficiency of solar cells by activating 2 electrons with 1 photon
    (6 Jul 2019 | 543 points | Comments)

85. Visual Information Theory (2015)
    (24 Jul 2019 | 543 points | Comments)

86. What every computer science major should know (2011)
    (16 Jul 2019 | 540 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?
    (23 Jul 2019 | 539 points | Comments)

88. Is this Paypal experience customary?
    (5 Jul 2019 | 537 points | Comments)

89. A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”
    (3 Jul 2019 | 532 points | Comments)

90. The UK authorities made illegal copies of the Schengen Information System
    (26 Jul 2019 | 529 points | Comments)

91. No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game
    (11 Jul 2019 | 524 points | Comments)

92. You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (2000)
    (14 Jul 2019 | 523 points | Comments)

93. Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer
    (28 Jul 2019 | 521 points | Comments)

94. Uber Lays Off 400
    (29 Jul 2019 | 515 points | Comments)

95. Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download
    (13 Jul 2019 | 513 points | Comments)

96. Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer
    (27 Jul 2019 | 508 points | Comments)

97. Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502
    (9 Jul 2019 | 502 points | Comments)

98. Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain
    (31 Jul 2019 | 502 points | Comments)

99. CERN migrates to open-source technologies
    (25 Jul 2019 | 498 points | Comments)

100. Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists
     (3 Jul 2019 | 495 points | Comments)