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1.

You download the app and it doesn’t work (youdownloadtheappanditdoesntwork.com)

251 points by DVassallo 2020-06-19 | 68 comments

2.

Quit whining about Apple and just stop using them (rudism.com)

249 points by Rudism 2020-06-19 | 162 comments

3.

The End of the Redis Adventure (antirez.com)

233 points by kristoff_it 2020-06-30 | 42 comments

4.

Reddit shuts down r/The_Donald (www.washingtonpost.com)

226 points by catacombs 2020-06-29 | 150 comments

5.

Reuters killed their RSS feeds (www.reuters.com)

182 points by antpls 2020-06-19 | 72 comments

6.

Duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (www.sandimetz.com)

164 points by mkchoi212 2020-07-05 | 58 comments

7.

Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying (blog.zoom.us)

163 points by jmsflknr 2020-06-17 | 114 comments

8.

China Suppression of Uighur Minorities Meets U.N. Definition of Genocide (www.npr.org)

145 points by hkmaxpro 2020-07-05 | 53 comments

9.

Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages (lwn.net)

141 points by jonquark 2020-07-08 | 45 comments

10.

Searchable PPP Loan Data (pppreport.org)

134 points by lgats 2020-07-07 | 80 comments

11.

Google resumes senseless attack on URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 85 (www.androidpolice.com)

132 points by vezycash 2020-06-14 | 46 comments

12.

Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (observer.com)

123 points by apsec112 2020-07-05 | 21 comments

13.

Man says he was falsely arrested after facial recognition mistake (www.npr.org)

122 points by vermontdevil 2020-06-24 | 63 comments

14.

The Next Step for Generics (blog.golang.org)

121 points by ainar-g 2020-06-16 | 39 comments

15.

Uber CEO Wants to Shift More Engineering Jobs to India, Sparking Internal Debate (www.theinformation.com)

117 points by tim_sw 2020-07-02 | 101 comments

16.

Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies” (old.reddit.com)

114 points by s9w 2020-06-22 | 64 comments

17.

Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead (secondbreakfast.co)

113 points by secondbreakfast 2020-06-24 | 57 comments

18.

The TikTok app is no longer permitted on mobile devices that access Amazon email (twitter.com)

112 points by danso 2020-07-10 | 59 comments

19.

U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections (www.reuters.com)

110 points by singingwolfboy 2020-06-15 | 45 comments

20.

Earning $800 / Month with Spotify (www.stevebenjamins.com)

110 points by imartin2k 2020-06-26 | 65 comments

21.

Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century, study shows (www.reuters.com)

98 points by pseudolus 2020-06-12 | 62 comments

22.

Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing (www.reuters.com)

97 points by rbanffy 2020-06-26 | 54 comments

23.

MS Will Ban Forza Players Who Add the Confederate Flag to Their Digital Cars (www.theverge.com)

92 points by bdz 2020-07-02 | 157 comments

24.

Facebook-ios-sdk: App suddenly crashing on startup in production (github.com)

91 points by reubensutton 2020-07-10 | 49 comments

25.

Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing (www.nytimes.com)

88 points by megacorp 2020-06-24 | 42 comments

26.

WireGuard Merged into OpenBSD (marc.info)

86 points by axiomdata316 2020-06-21 | 5 comments

27.

Segway ends production (www.fastcompany.com)

84 points by bookofjoe 2020-06-23 | 57 comments

28.

Invite Rick to Rick Roll Your Zoom Calls (inviterick.com)

83 points by adnanaga 2020-07-07 | 17 comments

29.

Postbank to replace 12M bank cards after employees steal 'master key' (www.timeslive.co.za)

83 points by zdw 2020-06-17 | 40 comments

30.

Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media (www.newyorker.com)

83 points by hprotagonist 2020-07-09 | 23 comments

31.

Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes (bennettfeely.com)

82 points by bennettfeely 2020-07-04 | 12 comments

32.

'All lies': how the US military covered up gunning down two journalists in Iraq (www.theguardian.com)

81 points by throwaway888abc 2020-06-15 | 1 comments

33.

Don’t Fly During Ramadan (2013) (adityamukerjee.net)

80 points by luu 2020-06-24 | 27 comments

34.

On Redis master-slave terminology (antirez.com)

79 points by markdog12 2020-06-13 | 33 comments

35.

Please help apple threatening terminate apple developer account (www.andyibanez.com)

79 points by bpg_92 2020-06-18 | 28 comments

36.

AWS Snowcone (aws.amazon.com)

79 points by jeffbarr 2020-06-17 | 33 comments

37.

Unit Testing Is Overrated (tyrrrz.me)

78 points by ingve 2020-07-09 | 58 comments

38.

Announcing Perl 7 (www.perl.com)

77 points by datanut 2020-06-24 | 15 comments

39.

EFF and Heavyweight Legal Team Will Defend Internet Archive Against Publishers (torrentfreak.com)

76 points by toomuchtodo 2020-06-30 | 6 comments

40.

A $35 Keyboard for Children Transformed Me Into a Novelist (onezero.medium.com)

76 points by danso 2020-06-24 | 55 comments

41.

Norwegian Air Cancels Order for 97 Boeing Aircraft, Sues Boeing (airlinegeeks.com)

76 points by cockpitherald 2020-07-01 | 34 comments

42.

Wireless Is a Trap (www.benkuhn.net)

75 points by zdw 2020-06-21 | 6 comments

43.

Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code (aws.amazon.com)

75 points by bscanlan 2020-06-24 | 23 comments

44.

Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser (cs-online.club)

75 points by m0ck 2020-06-12 | 15 comments

45.

Why does Safari redirect exact domain entries to what they think you want? (m.facebook.com)

74 points by shiftpgdn 2020-06-25 | 37 comments

46.

Update on IT Security Incident at UCSF (www.ucsf.edu)

74 points by 1024core 2020-06-27 | 34 comments

47.

Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents (www.bbc.co.uk)

73 points by sjcsjc 2020-07-01 | 24 comments

48.

Not new news, but tbh if you have tiktiok, just get rid of it – videos (www.reddit.com)

73 points by mrfusion 2020-06-27 | 17 comments

49.

Autodesk and Coal Mining (autodesk.earth)

73 points by wcerfgba 2020-07-06 | 44 comments

50.

John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare (2016) (www.youtube.com)

72 points by xyzal 2020-07-10 | 53 comments

51.

Bootstrap 5 alpha (blog.getbootstrap.com)

72 points by mkurz 2020-06-16 | 12 comments

52.

Olympus quits camera business after 84 years (www.bbc.com)

72 points by Element_ 2020-06-25 | 19 comments

53.

The Silence Is Deafening (devonzuegel.com)

72 points by pagade 2020-07-03 | 28 comments

54.

The End of OS X (stratechery.com)

71 points by Amorymeltzer 2020-06-23 | 37 comments

55.

Against Cop Shit (jeffreymoro.com)

71 points by smacktoward 2020-06-16 | 47 comments

56.

San Francisco apartment rent prices are dropping fast (www.cnbc.com)

69 points by Reedx 2020-07-01 | 52 comments

57.

UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple model (www.bbc.co.uk)

65 points by csmattryder 2020-06-18 | 47 comments

58.

John Stuart Mill “On Liberty” full text [pdf] (socialsciences.mcmaster.ca)

65 points by mrfusion 2020-06-25 | 8 comments

59.

Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves (www.theguardian.com)

65 points by baylearn 2020-07-05 | 14 comments

60.

Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, CHAZ (www.seattletimes.com)

65 points by erentz 2020-06-13 | 10 comments

61.

macOS Big Sur Preview (www.apple.com)

64 points by tambourine_man 2020-06-22 | 0 comments

62.

Rents are dropping across the US (edition.cnn.com)

64 points by xbmcuser 2020-06-17 | 51 comments

63.

Apple WWDC Keynote (youtu.be)

64 points by ProZsolt 2020-06-22 | 52 comments

64.

Spreadsheet Documents 400 Police Brutality Videos Re: George Floyd Protests (docs.google.com)

64 points by mimixco 2020-06-15 | 21 comments

65.

FreeBSD 11.4 (www.freebsd.org)

63 points by tosh 2020-06-16 | 6 comments

66.

Never Have I Seen So Much Fake Unemployment and Jobs Data by the Bureau of Labor (wolfstreet.com)

63 points by jollofricepeas 2020-07-08 | 1 comments

67.

Apple, Hey, and the Path Forward (hey.com)

63 points by braythwayt 2020-06-22 | 41 comments

68.

Germany Announces Ban on Single-Use Plastics Starting in 2021 (mymodernmet.com)

63 points by yboris 2020-07-07 | 16 comments

69.

Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott (www.reuters.com)

61 points by hhs 2020-06-25 | 28 comments

70.

Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request (www.npr.org)

60 points by dehrmann 2020-06-13 | 6 comments

71.

Researchers and Founders (blog.samaltman.com)

60 points by dmnd 2020-06-19 | 10 comments

72.

The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without increasing consumer bills (gspp.berkeley.edu)

60 points by MilnerRoute 2020-06-20 | 24 comments

73.

Bill Proposed to Outlaw End to End Encryption (www.judiciary.senate.gov)

60 points by WA9ACE 2020-06-24 | 9 comments

74.

A $43,859.00 Refurbished Mac Pro (www.apple.com)

59 points by OMGCable 2020-06-30 | 73 comments

75.

Apple forcing app developers to implement auto-billing after free trial (old.reddit.com)

59 points by benologist 2020-07-01 | 20 comments

76.

Markets, Rent and WFH (macrocrunch.substack.com)

58 points by macrocrunch 2020-07-02 | 46 comments

77.

Palantir Has Filed for IPO (www.businesswire.com)

58 points by xoxoy 2020-07-07 | 15 comments

78.

Wirecard – The “German Enron”, and a personal history (valueandopportunity.com)

58 points by joydeepdg 2020-06-22 | 12 comments

79.

Show HN: Automatically Rename HEY's 'Imbox' to 'Inbox' (chrome.google.com)

57 points by Mnlfrgr 2020-06-19 | 39 comments

80.

Justice Department Charges Julian Assange in Superseding Indictment (www.justice.gov)

57 points by DyslexicAtheist 2020-06-25 | 12 comments

81.

Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled (blog.withprimer.com)

57 points by mksm 2020-06-25 | 56 comments

82.

Craig Federighi confirms Apple Silicon Macs will not support booting other OS (www.reddit.com)

57 points by ytch 2020-06-25 | 37 comments

83.

Around 293 intermediate CAs to be revoked within 7 days (www.mail-archive.com)

57 points by mbrinkers 2020-07-06 | 7 comments

84.

Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut (support.apple.com)

56 points by rydre 2020-06-18 | 32 comments

85.

ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online courses in Fall 2020 (www.ice.gov)

56 points by kediz 2020-07-06 | 17 comments

86.

Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera (support.apple.com)

55 points by ra7 2020-07-10 | 90 comments

87.

US Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American Reservation (www.reuters.com)

55 points by threatofrain 2020-07-09 | 8 comments

88.

Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly (nicolodavis.com)

55 points by nicolodavis 2020-07-09 | 21 comments

89.

Six arrested after 'Dutch torture chambers' found (www.bbc.com)

54 points by tomcooks 2020-07-09 | 17 comments

90.

Robinhood 20yo trader with no income loses 700k on options, takes life (twitter.com)

54 points by arkadiyt 2020-06-15 | 29 comments

91.

Google faces $5B lawsuit for tracking people in incognito mode (www.cnet.com)

53 points by petercooper 2020-06-17 | 19 comments

92.

About the Rosetta Translation Environment (developer.apple.com)

53 points by loun 2020-06-23 | 23 comments

93.

Chromium and Mozilla to enforce 1yr validity for TLS certificates (chromium.googlesource.com)

52 points by vld 2020-06-28 | 29 comments

94.

Flow – a new, clean-sheet browser — just passed ACID3 test (www.ekioh.com)

51 points by methyl 2020-06-13 | 10 comments

95.

The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age (www.theatlantic.com)

51 points by pbui 2020-06-22 | 29 comments

96.

'We've bought the wrong satellites': UK tech gamble baffles experts (www.theguardian.com)

51 points by DanBC 2020-06-29 | 37 comments

97.

Senate Republicans propose law to outlaw end-to-end encryption (daringfireball.net)

50 points by tobr 2020-06-24 | 3 comments

98.

Fifty-four scientists have lost their jobs after NIH probe into foreign ties (www.sciencemag.org)

50 points by elsewhen 2020-06-14 | 16 comments

99.

Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State (www.reuters.com)

50 points by vanusa 2020-07-07 | 21 comments

100.

Deconstructing Pinterest’s reverse-image-search SEO growth hack (www.rankscience.com)

50 points by jenny8lee 2020-07-01 | 26 comments

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