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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident

    587 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  2. Restic – Backups Done Right

    586 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  3. A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation

    584 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  4. An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools

    581 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  5. Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet

    579 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  6. After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web

    575 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  7. Pair Locking Your iPhone

    573 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  8. Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within the Linux Kernel

    570 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  9. NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts

    565 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  10. Unfork()

    564 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  11. System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open-Source Firmware

    564 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  12. Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?

    562 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  13. LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles

    562 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  14. Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit

    557 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  15. Firefox is getting language translation

    547 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  16. Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet

    546 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  17. The vultures of Spain skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy

    540 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  18. Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky

    539 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  19. Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined

    538 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  20. قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic

    536 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  21. Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011)

    529 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  22. Calibre 4.0

    529 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  23. Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy

    528 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  24. WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world

    528 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  25. Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency

    528 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  26. The benefits of a more asynchronous workplace

    527 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  27. Apple Successfully Implements OpenID Connect with Sign in with Apple

    526 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  28. Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out Attack on Encryption

    525 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  29. Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?

    523 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  30. Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS with Core Animation

    517 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  31. D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched

    513 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  32. New In Postgres 12: Generated Columns

    512 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  33. Writing Is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence

    511 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  34. EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study Law Enforcement Use

    506 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  35. California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am

    498 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  36. Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die

    497 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  37. Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline

    495 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  38. Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

    494 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  39. My application ran away and called home from Redmond

    490 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  40. Comcast Is Lobbying Against DNS Encryption

    487 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  41. The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing

    485 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  42. FPGA Design for Software Engineers

    484 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  43. The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (2012)

    484 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  44. Dark mode in a website with CSS

    482 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  45. Ask HN: What do you self-host?

    479 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  46. 63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions

    478 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  47. macOS Catalina

    475 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  48. Artificial blood developed for patients of any blood type, researchers say

    472 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  49. Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

    470 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  50. New pathfinding algorithm

    467 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  51. Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him

    467 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  52. Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained

    466 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  53. Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud

    465 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  54. Gmail marking email from me as spam

    462 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  55. Personal information and ads on Twitter

    461 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  56. 38 People are looking at this post right now

    460 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  57. I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s

    459 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  58. My Time at Snap

    459 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  59. Amazon is shipping expired food, customers say

    458 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  60. Streamlit: Turn a Python script into an interactive data analysis tool

    453 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  61. Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger

    453 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  62. Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study

    451 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  63. How to not rewrite it in Rust

    451 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  64. Build Your Own Thrust Vectored Rockets for Vertical Landings Like SpaceX

    447 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  65. A multithreaded fork of Redis that is faster

    447 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  66. The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control

    447 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  67. Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?

    445 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  68. YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

    444 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  69. Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event

    440 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  70. Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project

    437 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  71. Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook

    435 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  72. Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository

    434 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  73. Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China

    433 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  74. We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes

    432 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  75. macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address

    430 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  76. London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution by a third

    429 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  77. Costco gained a cult following by breaking every rule of retail

    427 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  78. Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

    424 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  79. Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

    423 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  80. Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium Battery Innovators

    422 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  81. React Concurrent Mode

    421 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  82. No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy

    419 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  83. AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data

    418 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  84. Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing the Oil Giant of Fraud

    417 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  85. U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups

    416 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  86. Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM

    416 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  87. Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook

    416 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  88. Dear Stack Exchange, Inc.

    415 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  89. Ask HN: What are the most fundamental books on computer science?

    415 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  90. How a double-free bug in WhatsApp turns to remote code execution

    413 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  91. BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers

    413 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  92. An electric crate motor you can drop into your car

    412 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  93. More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive

    411 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  94. The SpaceX Starship is a big deal

    408 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  95. IBM casts doubt on Google's claims of quantum supremacy

    408 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  96. An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect

    408 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  97. Stupid Unix Tricks

    406 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  98. Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime

    405 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  99. Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

    405 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  100. Apple Has Removed a Mapping App That Let Protesters in Hong Kong Track Police

    405 points • comment • oct 10, 2019