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1.

In Defense of Richard Stallman (geoff.greer.fm)

413 points by ash 2019-09-30 | 234 comments

2.

Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong (blog.emojipedia.org)

317 points by pulisse 2019-10-07 | 78 comments

3.

uBlock Origin Update Rejected from the Chrome Web Store (github.com)

276 points by ismaildonmez 2019-10-12 | 66 comments

4.

Blizzard's Hong Kong Screw-Up Is Officially an International Incident (www.vice.com)

249 points by rahuldottech 2019-10-09 | 76 comments

5.

Richard M. Stallman resigns (www.fsf.org)

228 points by maxdeviant 2019-09-17 | 91 comments

6.

Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer (www.thedailybeast.com)

181 points by minimaxir 2019-10-09 | 29 comments

7.

Show HN: Bel (paulgraham.com)

178 points by pg 2019-10-12 | 47 comments

8.

The China Cultural Clash (stratechery.com)

176 points by hype7 2019-10-08 | 53 comments

9.

WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO (www.reuters.com)

159 points by pseudolus 2019-09-30 | 62 comments

10.

Nim 1.0 (nim-lang.org)

149 points by treeform 2019-09-23 | 25 comments

11.

Why Enterprise Software Sucks (twitter.com)

137 points by randomwalker 2019-10-11 | 66 comments

12.

Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO (www.forbes.com)

135 points by andygcook 2019-09-17 | 86 comments

13.

AG Barr Will Ask Zuckerberg to Halt Plans for E2E Encryption Across FB Apps (www.buzzfeednews.com)

129 points by minimaxir 2019-10-03 | 63 comments

14.

Stripe Joins Silicon Valley Elite with $35B Valuation (www.wsj.com)

124 points by tempsy 2019-09-19 | 62 comments

15.

ColorBox by Lyft Design (www.colorbox.io)

116 points by Brajeshwar 2019-09-20 | 13 comments

16.

Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession (krebsonsecurity.com)

115 points by snowy 2019-09-26 | 8 comments

17.

How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth – in pictures (www.nature.com)

110 points by headalgorithm 2019-09-26 | 48 comments

18.

Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline (cellio.dreamwidth.org)

108 points by SnarkAsh 2019-10-06 | 12 comments

19.

CA Governor Signs Bill Allowing College Athletes to Profit from Endorsements (www.npr.org)

98 points by DesaiAshu 2019-09-30 | 63 comments

20.

US and UK agree to force WhatsApp backdoor (www.bloomberg.com)

95 points by phissk 2019-09-28 | 32 comments

21.

Kickstarter employees fired for trying to unionize (twitter.com)

93 points by jacquesm 2019-09-14 | 18 comments

22.

Google Employees Explain How They Were Retaliated Against for Reporting Abuse (www.vice.com)

92 points by ForFreedom 2019-09-23 | 18 comments

23.

Reddit has been down for nearly two hours (reddit.statuspage.io)

90 points by bluedino 2019-09-18 | 53 comments

24.

Some WeWork Board Members Seek to Remove Adam Neumann as CEO (www.wsj.com)

88 points by moltensodium 2019-09-22 | 39 comments

25.

WeWork considers IPO valuation of as low as $10B (www.reuters.com)

87 points by aresant 2019-09-13 | 73 comments

26.

US Files Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden for Violation of CIA and NSA NDAs (www.justice.gov)

86 points by jonnybgood 2019-09-17 | 17 comments

27.

Mac software distributed outside the Mac App Store must be notarized by Apple (developer.apple.com)

85 points by draugadrotten 2019-10-07 | 87 comments

28.

Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone (www.theverge.com)

84 points by aminecodes 2019-10-02 | 50 comments

29.

Dyson has scrapped its £2.5bn electric car project (www.bbc.com)

84 points by hhs 2019-10-10 | 92 comments

30.

All the lonely people are men: a fifth have no friends (www.thetimes.co.uk)

83 points by laurex 2019-09-22 | 34 comments

31.

Pricing niche products: Why sell a mechanical keyboard kit for $1,668? (kevinlynagh.com)

83 points by speps 2019-10-04 | 28 comments

32.

Serverless: 15% slower and 8x more expensive (einaregilsson.com)

83 points by kiyanwang 2019-09-23 | 14 comments

33.

Apple Removes Hong Kong Protest App. Tim Cook Buckled Under Chinese Pressure (www.theregister.co.uk)

80 points by ycombonator 2019-10-03 | 18 comments

34.

Programming Idioms (www.programming-idioms.org)

79 points by hazbo 2019-09-26 | 29 comments

35.

Broken (tyler.io)

78 points by bangonkeyboard 2019-10-10 | 14 comments

36.

The Rich Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You (www.nytimes.com)

77 points by denzil_correa 2019-10-07 | 33 comments

37.

Hams Must Remove Repeaters from CA Mountaintops or Pay Huge Fees [pdf] (www.shastadefense.com)

76 points by wrycoder 2019-10-10 | 21 comments

38.

Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store (twitter.com)

74 points by ewoodrich 2019-10-10 | 11 comments

39.

Soviet Officer Stanislav Petrov, 'Who Saved the World,' Dies at 77 (2017) (www.npr.org)

74 points by Anon84 2019-09-21 | 7 comments

40.

Project MKUltra (en.wikipedia.org)

74 points by rasengan 2019-10-05 | 13 comments

41.

Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices (techcrunch.com)

73 points by aminecodes 2019-10-02 | 35 comments

42.

Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari (github.com)

71 points by n1000 2019-09-20 | 38 comments

43.

DoorDash confirms data breach affected 4.9M customers, workers and merchants (techcrunch.com)

71 points by bonyt 2019-09-26 | 19 comments

44.

Working all night is not 'a badge of pride' (www.bbc.com)

71 points by hhs 2019-10-02 | 21 comments

45.

Zig 0.5.0 Release Notes (ziglang.org)

70 points by shritesh 2019-09-30 | 17 comments

46.

.NET Core 3.0 (devblogs.microsoft.com)

69 points by hmexx 2019-09-23 | 10 comments

47.

Richard Stallman Resigns from the FSF after Epstein Comments (lwn.net)

69 points by amaccuish 2019-09-17 | 8 comments

48.

How to Cold Email Investors (blog.ycombinator.com)

68 points by sahin-boydas 2019-09-24 | 21 comments

49.

Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project, effective immediately (stallman.org)

67 points by sigio 2019-09-28 | 28 comments

50.

Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast (www.techdirt.com)

67 points by CrankyBear 2019-09-18 | 15 comments

51.

How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance (longreads.com)

66 points by anarbadalov 2019-09-23 | 13 comments

52.

Why does 1.1.1.1 not resolve archive.is? (webapps.stackexchange.com)

66 points by stargrave 2019-10-04 | 8 comments

53.

MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library (github.com)

66 points by AlexeyBrin 2019-09-17 | 20 comments

54.

Federal Prosecutors Conducting Criminal Probe of Juul (www.wsj.com)

66 points by mises 2019-09-23 | 48 comments

55.

Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens (www.bloomberg.com)

65 points by ktln2 2019-10-09 | 16 comments

56.

Registering to vote can allow re-identification of your anonymized data (medium.com)

64 points by bingdig 2019-09-26 | 1 comments

57.

The Man in Seat Sixty-One (www.seat61.com)

64 points by thunderbong 2019-09-16 | 11 comments

58.

Facebook removed a fact-check on anti-abortion video after Ted Cruz complained (www.businessinsider.nl)

64 points by dubmax123 2019-09-13 | 15 comments

59.

Twitter misused phone numbers and e-mail to target advertising (help.twitter.com)

63 points by coloneltcb 2019-10-08 | 26 comments

60.

EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed (easydns.com)

62 points by StuntPope 2019-09-16 | 28 comments

61.

Stressed out: Americans making themselves sick over politics (news.unl.edu)

62 points by elorant 2019-09-27 | 96 comments

62.

Attorneys say Elizabeth Holmes isn’t paying them (www.mercurynews.com)

61 points by ilamont 2019-10-05 | 19 comments

63.

Why I don't love Light Rail Transit (danco.substack.com)

61 points by dweekly 2019-09-22 | 58 comments

64.

Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3 (ir.tesla.com)

61 points by danhak 2019-10-02 | 45 comments

65.

Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices (github.com)

60 points by theshrike79 2019-09-27 | 12 comments

66.

Car tires biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters (www.latimes.com)

60 points by lnguyen 2019-10-02 | 23 comments

67.

Birds Are Vanishing from North America (www.nytimes.com)

59 points by wiggles_md 2019-09-19 | 29 comments

68.

After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protesters (www.npr.org)

59 points by evo_9 2019-10-10 | 10 comments

69.

D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched (threatpost.com)

58 points by LinuxBender 2019-10-08 | 16 comments

70.

Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50-year run (www.japantimes.co.jp)

58 points by ytch 2019-10-01 | 18 comments

71.

Blizzard has removed HK player from Hearthstone, rescinded all his prize money (www.invenglobal.com)

58 points by wei_jok 2019-10-08 | 16 comments

72.

If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire (sideprojectplaybook.com)

57 points by sixtypoundhound 2019-10-01 | 15 comments

73.

Harvard admits to receiving $9M from Jeffrey Epstein (thehill.com)

57 points by msghacq 2019-09-13 | 19 comments

74.

Linode Shut Down a Newspaper (mg.co.za)

57 points by Ap0c 2019-09-19 | 14 comments

75.

PostgreSQL 12 – Generated Columns (pgdash.io)

56 points by craigkerstiens 2019-10-02 | 10 comments

76.

Boris Johnson uses SEO keywords in interviews to hide negative articles (twitter.com)

56 points by pflenker 2019-10-01 | 18 comments

77.

Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contractor's vote to unionize (m.pghcitypaper.com)

55 points by claudeganon 2019-09-21 | 21 comments

78.

'If I Happen to Fall Out of a Window, You Can Be Sure I Was Pushed' (www.spiegel.de)

55 points by bjoko 2019-09-13 | 7 comments

79.

Blizzard has blocked the possibility to remove account (twitter.com)

55 points by modinfo 2019-10-09 | 10 comments

80.

V8 adds support for top-level await (chromium.googlesource.com)

54 points by hayd 2019-09-24 | 15 comments

81.

Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project (lists.gnu.org)

53 points by rurban 2019-09-27 | 19 comments

82.

MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud (krebsonsecurity.com)

53 points by headalgorithm 2019-09-27 | 14 comments

83.

The One Man MMO Project (onemanmmo.com)

53 points by larksimian 2019-09-27 | 14 comments

84.

I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

52 points by simulate 2019-10-11 | 7 comments

85.

Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament was unlawful, judges rule (www.bbc.co.uk)

52 points by hanoz 2019-09-24 | 18 comments

86.

The Untold Story About the Founding of Google Maps (medium.com)

52 points by ycombonator 2019-10-06 | 15 comments

87.

If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot (skyclerk.com)

51 points by cloudmanic 2019-09-25 | 70 comments

88.

Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by sudden mystery illness, killing dozens (www.mattilsynet.no)

51 points by kristofferR 2019-09-13 | 10 comments

89.

Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction (openai.com)

51 points by gdb 2019-09-17 | 4 comments

90.

The We Company reportedly will put its public offering on hold (techcrunch.com)

51 points by smallgovt 2019-09-17 | 3 comments

91.

Samsung ends mobile phone production in China (www.reuters.com)

51 points by gok 2019-10-03 | 8 comments

92.

Unveiling Dark (medium.com)

51 points by pseudonamed 2019-09-16 | 15 comments

93.

Creating the Go Programming Language (changelog.com)

50 points by wwarner 2019-09-29 | 10 comments

94.

Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships (www.afp.com)

50 points by elorant 2019-10-02 | 12 comments

95.

Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law. Good (techcrunch.com)

50 points by ssklash 2019-09-19 | 17 comments

96.

What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole? (arxiv.org)

50 points by anpat 2019-09-26 | 22 comments

97.

Open offices are a dead end (www.nytimes.com)

49 points by zeveb 2019-09-26 | 14 comments

98.

24% of Cable TV Bills are Bogus Fees, Study Says (www.vice.com)

49 points by elorant 2019-10-05 | 24 comments

99.

Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem (www.jacquescorbytuech.com)

49 points by iamacyborg 2019-09-20 | 49 comments

100.

OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma Files for Bankruptcy to Wipe Out 2k Lawsuits (www.bloomberg.com)

49 points by dingdongding 2019-09-16 | 30 comments

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