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1.

EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V (forums.lutris.net)

177 points by WoodenKatana 2020-01-03 | 64 comments

2.

Khan Academy switching server software to Go (engineering.khanacademy.org)

113 points by yawn 2019-12-21 | 40 comments

3.

Vvvvvv (Distractionware, 2010) is open source (distractionware.com)

112 points by ciroduran 2020-01-10 | 21 comments

4.

Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision (discourse.mozilla.org)

112 points by gsnedders 2019-12-19 | 27 comments

5.

Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition (www.samsung.com)

111 points by aritmo 2019-12-28 | 67 comments

6.

“no evidence” that tax incentives given to companies increased economic growth (www.nber.org)

107 points by plickdixon 2020-01-07 | 31 comments

7.

Switching from Chrome to Firefox (support.mozilla.org)

102 points by nachtigall 2019-12-30 | 38 comments

8.

I opened a link some random person sent me and I got raided (2015) (blog.haschek.at)

102 points by geek_at 2020-01-08 | 42 comments

9.

Magic mushroom compound psilocybin found safe in largest ever controlled study (www.independent.co.uk)

100 points by pmoriarty 2020-01-02 | 27 comments

10.

Welcoming Mozilla to Matrix (matrix.org)

97 points by Arathorn 2019-12-19 | 9 comments

11.

Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (threadreaderapp.com)

95 points by zdw 2019-12-19 | 49 comments

12.

Hipmunk Says Goodbye (www.hipmunk.com)

92 points by ienjoythebeach 2020-01-14 | 39 comments

13.

Firefox 72.0 (www.mozilla.org)

90 points by Shinkirou 2020-01-07 | 43 comments

14.

Bubble talk (2015) (blog.samaltman.com)

87 points by Miraries 2020-01-01 | 44 comments

15.

AirPods revenue does not exceed Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify revenue (twitter.com)

85 points by coloneltcb 2020-01-08 | 7 comments

16.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need (scoop.me)

83 points by astigsen 2020-01-08 | 37 comments

17.

Glia – High-quality low-cost open source medical hardware (glia.org)

82 points by robtherobber 2020-01-15 | 3 comments

18.

Let me give you a list of the top scams coding bootcamps use to steal your money (twitter.com)

81 points by ZeljkoS 2020-01-06 | 19 comments

19.

NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (2002) (www.cypherspace.org)

79 points by Lammy 2019-12-22 | 8 comments

20.

Airpods make more money than Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify combined (www.kevinrooke.com)

78 points by 123six 2020-01-07 | 17 comments

21.

Colorado bank robber gifts money to passers-by and yells Merry Christmas (www.bbc.co.uk)

78 points by rvz 2019-12-25 | 10 comments

22.

_NSAKEY (en.wikipedia.org)

76 points by basicplus2 2020-01-14 | 11 comments

23.

Boeing CEO ousted as 737 MAX crisis deepens (www.reuters.com)

73 points by pseudolus 2019-12-23 | 15 comments

24.

Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware (ww.9to5google.com)

73 points by pjmlp 2020-01-13 | 36 comments

25.

We've Just Had the Best Decade in Human History (www.spectator.co.uk)

71 points by jandrewrogers 2019-12-22 | 57 comments

26.

Microsoft Windows CryptoAPI fails to properly validate ECC certificate chains (www.kb.cert.org)

70 points by Moral_ 2020-01-14 | 18 comments

27.

13.3" full color ePaper display (shopkits.eink.com)

69 points by bufbupa 2020-01-08 | 64 comments

28.

Marijuana laws appear to significantly reduce prescription opioid use (doi.org)

68 points by hckr_nj 2019-12-31 | 27 comments

29.

Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 (www.axios.com)

68 points by Deimorz 2020-01-09 | 45 comments

30.

Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising and life satisfaction (hbr.org)

67 points by jrepinc 2020-01-15 | 15 comments

31.

Glacier National Park to remove all 'glaciers will be gone by 2020' signs (www.kpax.com)

67 points by aazaa 2020-01-09 | 95 comments

32.

The MTA Is Going After an Etsy Artist over a New York Subway Map It Didn’t Make (www.vice.com)

67 points by danso 2020-01-09 | 19 comments

33.

Boeing-737 crashes after takeoff in Iran (www.bbc.co.uk)

67 points by ComputerGuru 2020-01-08 | 53 comments

34.

A list of places to post about your startup/launch (sizle.io)

67 points by jeremysizle 2020-01-13 | 6 comments

35.

Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on very rich: poll (www.reuters.com)

66 points by elsewhen 2020-01-10 | 127 comments

36.

Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time (medium.com)

65 points by lelf 2020-01-16 | 16 comments

37.

curl receives $10K USD donation (daniel.haxx.se)

65 points by danso 2020-01-03 | 5 comments

38.

Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups (status.gandi.net)

65 points by webrobots 2020-01-09 | 40 comments

39.

YouTube no longer supporting targeted ads or comments on children's content (youtube.googleblog.com)

65 points by geddy 2020-01-06 | 53 comments

40.

The Wall [video] (www.samsung.com)

64 points by ecesena 2020-01-07 | 53 comments

41.

U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices (www.reuters.com)

64 points by swat535 2019-12-21 | 24 comments

42.

All DMCA Notices Filed Against TorrentFreak in 2019 Were Bogus (torrentfreak.com)

64 points by MikusR 2019-12-31 | 9 comments

43.

Why Windows 10 sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows (itvision.altervista.org)

63 points by dadt 2019-12-31 | 92 comments

44.

IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax (www.propublica.org)

62 points by danso 2019-12-31 | 3 comments

45.

Tesla Q4 2019 Vehicle Production and Deliveries (ir.tesla.com)

62 points by reddotX 2020-01-03 | 35 comments

46.

Show HN: Eschersket.ch – a symmetry drawing app to design custom wrapping paper (eschersket.ch)

61 points by alevskaya 2019-12-26 | 2 comments

47.

I made a “Best of 2019” website with Svelte. Here's a write-up of how I made it (johanronsse.be)

61 points by Wolfr_ 2019-12-28 | 5 comments

48.

Booking.com agrees to EU demands to change travel offers (www.reuters.com)

60 points by deng 2019-12-22 | 21 comments

49.

Microsoft Japan’s 4-day workweek experiment sees productivity jump 40% (www.cnbc.com)

59 points by known 2019-12-31 | 27 comments

50.

Rush Drummer Neil Peart Dead at 67 (www.rollingstone.com)

59 points by coloneltcb 2020-01-10 | 5 comments

51.

The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago (todos.tickgit.com)

58 points by patrickdevivo 2019-12-30 | 37 comments

52.

Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs (news.mit.edu)

57 points by danso 2020-01-10 | 27 comments

53.

This Page is Designed to Last (jeffhuang.com)

57 points by tannhaeuser 2019-12-19 | 9 comments

54.

IncludeOS – Run your application with zero overhead (www.includeos.org)

57 points by lelf 2019-12-29 | 18 comments

55.

Please make your stuff work with URLs (anderspitman.net)

57 points by anderspitman 2020-01-13 | 37 comments

56.

Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data (www.chicagotribune.com)

56 points by nkurz 2020-01-09 | 26 comments

57.

You're not getting your $125 Equifax claim, because attorneys just got $80M (www.cnbc.com)

56 points by rahuldottech 2019-12-20 | 28 comments

58.

Dropbox Transfer (www.dropbox.com)

55 points by sbolt 2019-12-26 | 27 comments

59.

Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free? (thehill.com)

54 points by ycnews 2020-01-13 | 19 comments

60.

Actix-web maintainer quits open source (github.com)

54 points by dabj 2020-01-17 | 12 comments

61.

Does Consciousness Pervade the Universe? (www.scientificamerican.com)

53 points by plastic_teeth 2020-01-14 | 55 comments

62.

US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 (electrek.co)

53 points by prostoalex 2020-01-08 | 42 comments

63.

Vermont’s DMV has been selling personal data to private companies since 2004 (vtdigger.org)

53 points by Keverw 2020-01-10 | 20 comments

64.

California Sues Vinod Khosla over Martins Beach Public Access (www.latimes.com)

52 points by ilamont 2020-01-06 | 20 comments

65.

267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online (www.comparitech.com)

52 points by JeanMarcS 2019-12-20 | 15 comments

66.

24 people arrested and charged with arson causing Australian wildfires (www.newsweek.com)

51 points by bookofjoe 2020-01-07 | 34 comments

67.

Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info–your HR gonna hate this (www.fellowage.io)

51 points by waterlink 2019-12-20 | 33 comments

68.

Building a more private web: A path towards making third party cookies obsolete (blog.chromium.org)

51 points by eh78ssxv2f 2020-01-14 | 28 comments

69.

Deep learning approach improves accuracy of screening mammography (arxiv.org)

51 points by rusht 2019-12-30 | 20 comments

70.

How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster (www.latimes.com)

50 points by DyslexicAtheist 2019-12-24 | 13 comments

71.

PayPal blocks donations to The Grayzone that mention Iran (thegrayzone.com)

50 points by oska 2020-01-10 | 41 comments

72.

I Love Coding in C (lord-left.github.io)

49 points by lordleft 2019-12-26 | 16 comments

73.

Blink intents to deprecate and freeze user agent strings (groups.google.com)

49 points by jasonvorhe 2020-01-14 | 25 comments

74.

Finnish PM Marin calls for 4-day-week and 6-hours working day in the country (www.neweurope.eu)

49 points by joeyespo 2020-01-02 | 34 comments

75.

Education and Men without Work (www.nationalaffairs.com)

48 points by mighty-fine 2020-01-13 | 21 comments

76.

HyperbolaBSD Roadmap: hard fork of the OpenBSD kernel and userspace (www.hyperbola.info)

47 points by beefhash 2019-12-23 | 27 comments

77.

Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels quickly with just SQL (github.com)

47 points by mattatkeyboard 2020-01-17 | 9 comments

78.

Our Tesla Model 3 Suffered a Failure While Parked (www.caranddriver.com)

47 points by t3f 2019-12-30 | 68 comments

79.

Good times create weak men (tonsky.me)

47 points by gonational 2020-01-02 | 14 comments

80.

Announcing Rust 1.40.0 (blog.rust-lang.org)

47 points by mark-simulacrum 2019-12-19 | 8 comments

81.

Finland’s Prime Minister Calls for Debate on 4-Day Work Week (www.bloomberg.com)

47 points by dsgerard 2020-01-08 | 19 comments

82.

Godot Engine – A decade in retrospective and future (godotengine.org)

47 points by perakojotgenije 2020-01-01 | 2 comments

83.

GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of personal data (www.goatcounter.com)

46 points by WinonaRyder 2020-01-14 | 2 comments

84.

DuckDuckGo Lite (duckduckgo.com)

46 points by pncnmnp 2020-01-17 | 13 comments

85.

I Was Google’s Head of International Relations (medium.com)

46 points by sleepyshift 2020-01-02 | 11 comments

86.

ACM signed letter opposing open access (newsroom.publishers.org)

46 points by beefhash 2019-12-21 | 27 comments

87.

Leaving Pittsburgh because of industrial air pollution (www.publicsource.org)

45 points by tantalor 2020-01-09 | 23 comments

88.

Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos (www.vice.com)

45 points by rahuldottech 2020-01-09 | 13 comments

89.

Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Importance of Tongue Fat (www.atsjournals.org)

44 points by bookofjoe 2020-01-10 | 19 comments

90.

Iran general Qassem Suleimani killed in Baghdad drone strike (www.theguardian.com)

44 points by dmagee 2020-01-03 | 14 comments

91.

Apple Officially Announces Bug Bounty Program Covering All of Its Software (www.macrumors.com)

44 points by alwillis 2019-12-20 | 7 comments

92.

Germany Calls for European Firewall Against U.S. Sanctions (www.wsj.com)

43 points by jtangelder 2019-12-28 | 30 comments

93.

U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software (www.reuters.com)

42 points by ckcheng 2020-01-04 | 18 comments

94.

Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay (www.brookings.edu)

42 points by weare138 2020-01-12 | 13 comments

95.

Media.ccc.de in Roku Channel Store (channelstore.roku.com)

42 points by unwiredben 2020-01-06 | 9 comments

96.

Sonos bricks devices to make 2nd hand reuse impossible (twitter.com)

42 points by gyger 2019-12-27 | 3 comments

97.

Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay (www.jefftk.com)

41 points by luu 2019-12-29 | 28 comments

98.

Greenwald: IG's Report on FBI Spying Reveals Scandal of Historic Magnitude (theintercept.com)

41 points by beefman 2019-12-19 | 31 comments

99.

Linus: Don't Use ZFS (www.realworldtech.com)

41 points by rbanffy 2020-01-09 | 21 comments

100.

Mazda made its first EV artificially slower 'to feel more like a gas car' (electrek.co)

41 points by prostoalex 2020-01-10 | 29 comments

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