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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

    2492 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  2. Twitter to ban political advertising

    2420 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  3. Ken Thompson's Unix Password

    2082 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  4. A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

    1710 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  5. Firefox 70

    1586 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  6. TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free

    1496 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  7. Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links

    1434 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  8. Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

    1423 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  9. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

    1389 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  10. I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

    1373 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  11. NordVPN confirms it was hacked

    1362 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  12. Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption

    1319 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  13. Broken

    1317 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  14. Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?

    1300 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  15. My Favourite Git Commit

    1294 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  16. Why Enterprise Software Sucks

    1288 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  17. Show HN: Bel

    1278 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  18. Thank You, Guido

    1222 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  19. I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb

    1214 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  20. Perfectly Cropped

    1210 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  21. US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits

    1193 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  22. Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store

    1172 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  23. Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work

    1153 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  24. Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project

    1082 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  25. Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]

    1058 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  26. Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts

    992 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  27. Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

    927 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  28. Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

    923 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  29. “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”

    902 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  30. Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era

    888 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  31. Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home

    888 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  32. Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?

    885 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  33. SQL queries don't start with SELECT

    884 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  34. Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up

    875 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  35. Text Editing Hates You Too

    864 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  36. 'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology

    862 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  37. The “Talk”

    840 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  38. What’s New in Python 3.8

    827 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  39. Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing

    824 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  40. Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City

    821 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  41. Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication

    819 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  42. Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store

    814 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  43. Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete="off"

    810 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  44. Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster

    804 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  45. Htop Explained

    803 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  46. Soli

    799 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  47. “My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”

    779 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  48. Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

    770 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  49. BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

    761 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  50. Coffee Is Hard

    759 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  51. I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced

    749 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  52. Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf]

    748 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  53. The State of Machine Learning Frameworks

    741 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  54. Pricing niche products

    741 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  55. Collapse OS

    739 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  56. Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible

    738 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  57. Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?

    726 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  58. Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?

    725 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  59. Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

    719 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  60. Meetup.com alternatives

    713 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  61. N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier

    712 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  62. Four kinds of documentation

    698 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  63. Habits of Expert Software Designers

    698 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  64. Earth and Sun

    694 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  65. Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor

    691 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  66. For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate

    690 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  67. Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People

    680 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  68. Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

    679 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  69. NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

    678 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  70. Epstein's injuries look more like murder than suicide, noted pathologist says

    667 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  71. Counterfeit books “shipped and sold by Amazon”?

    666 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  72. My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine

    663 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  73. Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone

    662 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  74. EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances

    659 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  75. Bullshit.js

    653 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  76. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf]

    647 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  77. Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

    645 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  78. China's New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide

    643 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  79. 99% of the Git commands you'll need at work, demonstrated in a single script

    641 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  80. Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS

    640 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  81. After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protesters

    640 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  82. Lesser Known Coding Fonts

    629 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  83. What Happens to the Body on No Sleep

    629 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  84. We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems

    627 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  85. The China Cultural Clash

    623 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  86. The 2002 mandate for internal communication systems at Amazon

    622 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  87. Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?

    621 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  88. Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry

    620 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  89. Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier

    618 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  90. IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program

    615 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  91. OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites

    615 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  92. Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku

    605 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  93. Making My Own Glasses

    604 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  94. The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender

    602 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  95. Apple: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, just IP addresses

    595 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  96. Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz [video]

    594 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  97. Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests

    593 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  98. My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?

    593 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  99. Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com

    591 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  100. BrachioGraph – a cheap, simple pen plotter

    590 points • comment • oct 17, 2019