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Hacker News (Oct 2019)
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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments
2492 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Twitter to ban political advertising
2420 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Ken Thompson's Unix Password
2082 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
1710 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Firefox 70
1586 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free
1496 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links
1434 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong
1423 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
1389 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
1373 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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NordVPN confirms it was hacked
1362 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption
1319 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Broken
1317 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
1300 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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My Favourite Git Commit
1294 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Why Enterprise Software Sucks
1288 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Show HN: Bel
1278 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Thank You, Guido
1222 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
1214 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Perfectly Cropped
1210 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
1193 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store
1172 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
1153 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project
1082 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]
1058 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
992 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
927 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
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Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
923 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
902 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
888 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
888 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
885 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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SQL queries don't start with SELECT
884 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up
875 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Text Editing Hates You Too
864 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology
862 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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The “Talk”
840 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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What’s New in Python 3.8
827 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing
824 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
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Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City
821 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication
819 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
814 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
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Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete="off"
810 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster
804 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Htop Explained
803 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Soli
799 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
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“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”
779 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
770 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror
761 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Coffee Is Hard
759 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced
749 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf]
748 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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The State of Machine Learning Frameworks
741 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Pricing niche products
741 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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Collapse OS
739 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible
738 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?
726 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
725 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer
719 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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Meetup.com alternatives
713 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier
712 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Four kinds of documentation
698 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Habits of Expert Software Designers
698 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Earth and Sun
694 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
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Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
691 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate
690 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
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Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
680 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
679 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
678 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
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Epstein's injuries look more like murder than suicide, noted pathologist says
667 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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Counterfeit books “shipped and sold by Amazon”?
666 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
663 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
662 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
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EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances
659 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Bullshit.js
653 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf]
647 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
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Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
645 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
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China's New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide
643 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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99% of the Git commands you'll need at work, demonstrated in a single script
641 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS
640 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protesters
640 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
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Lesser Known Coding Fonts
629 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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What Happens to the Body on No Sleep
629 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
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We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
627 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
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The China Cultural Clash
623 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
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The 2002 mandate for internal communication systems at Amazon
622 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?
621 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
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Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry
620 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
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Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier
618 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
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IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program
615 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
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OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites
615 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
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Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
605 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
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Making My Own Glasses
604 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
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The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender
602 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
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Apple: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, just IP addresses
595 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
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Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz [video]
594 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
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Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests
593 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
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My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
593 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
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Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com
591 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
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BrachioGraph – a cheap, simple pen plotter
590 points • comment • oct 17, 2019