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Hacker News (26 Jun 2020)

  1. Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first

    836 points • 599 comments • jun 26, 2020

  2. Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks

    810 points • 527 comments • jun 26, 2020

  3. The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers

    551 points • 234 comments • jun 26, 2020

  4. Boston bans use of facial recognition technology

    541 points • 157 comments • jun 26, 2020

  5. Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores

    478 points • 268 comments • jun 26, 2020

  6. There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff

    450 points • 183 comments • jun 26, 2020

  7. Dynamic linking

    399 points • 233 comments • jun 26, 2020

  8. Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

    381 points • 267 comments • jun 26, 2020

  9. Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections

    373 points • 623 comments • jun 26, 2020

  10. Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters

    366 points • 269 comments • jun 26, 2020