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1.

Google deletes “communist bandits” 共匪 comments on Youtube globally. (support.google.com)

545 points by zaggynl 2020-05-18 | 226 comments

2.

Zoom Acquires Keybase (blog.zoom.us)

270 points by vikram7 2020-05-07 | 101 comments

3.

Slack Is Down (status.slack.com)

229 points by wgjordan 2020-05-12 | 98 comments

4.

GitHub Codespaces (github.com)

207 points by CraftThatBlock 2020-05-06 | 46 comments

5.

Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce (techcrunch.com)

162 points by dancric 2020-05-05 | 103 comments

6.

Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus (www.wsj.com)

156 points by Bahamut 2020-05-21 | 92 comments

7.

macOS 10.15: Slow by Design (sigpipe.macromates.com)

151 points by jrk 2020-05-22 | 43 comments

8.

Uber Cuts 3000 More Jobs, Closes 45 Offices (www.wsj.com)

140 points by WFHRenaissance 2020-05-18 | 34 comments

9.

ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry (www.icann.org)

136 points by cjbprime 2020-05-01 | 22 comments

10.

Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M (www.axios.com)

130 points by coloneltcb 2020-05-15 | 65 comments

11.

EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3 (www.reddit.com)

128 points by haunter 2020-05-20 | 17 comments

12.

As of today, all UK citizens are organ donors unless they opt out (www.organdonation.nhs.uk)

127 points by new_guy 2020-05-20 | 109 comments

13.

New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data (www.axios.com)

124 points by jbegley 2020-05-19 | 49 comments

14.

Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More (github.com)

119 points by MCKapur 2020-05-06 | 47 comments

15.

CEO of Surveillance Firm Banjo Once Helped KKK Leader Shoot Up a Synagogue (onezero.medium.com)

117 points by jbegley 2020-04-28 | 50 comments

16.

Medium-hard SQL interview questions (gstudent.quip.com)

116 points by thomzi12 2020-05-02 | 21 comments

17.

Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry (github.com)

114 points by ccmcarey 2020-05-21 | 42 comments

18.

TimescaleDB is now distributed and free (blog.timescale.com)

113 points by manigandham 2020-05-22 | 32 comments

19.

No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body (techcrunch.com)

111 points by sohkamyung 2020-05-06 | 123 comments

20.

How Facebook rebuilt the tech stack for the new Facebook.com website (engineering.fb.com)

107 points by alexvoica 2020-05-08 | 39 comments

21.

Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them (rachelbythebay.com)

104 points by ciprian_craciun 2020-05-23 | 51 comments

22.

LA County stay-at-home orders will be extended for the next three months (www.latimes.com)

102 points by CPLX 2020-05-12 | 93 comments

23.

We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology (saagarjha.com)

100 points by gok 2020-05-11 | 14 comments

24.

Deno 1.0.0 (deno.land)

100 points by theBashShell 2020-05-13 | 20 comments

25.

Elon Musk: ‘Too many smart people go into finance and law’ (www.cnbc.com)

100 points by starpilot 2020-05-09 | 115 comments

26.

It’s Time to Get Back to RSS (danielmiessler.com)

99 points by danielrm26 2020-05-17 | 51 comments

27.

How Google, DoorDash, & GrubHub Conspire to Screw Local Restaurants (www.saddlebackbbq.com)

96 points by rmason 2020-05-15 | 40 comments

28.

Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid organizing efforts (arstechnica.com)

95 points by kevlar1818 2020-05-04 | 7 comments

29.

Uber Discusses Plan to Lay Off About 20% of Employees (www.theinformation.com)

93 points by ceohockey60 2020-04-28 | 31 comments

30.

Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default (matrix.org)

90 points by thanksforfish 2020-05-07 | 9 comments

31.

Tesla restarting production defying local order (www.wsj.com)

87 points by dmitriy_ko 2020-05-11 | 66 comments

32.

Zoom CEO sold all of his common shares (investors.zoom.us)

85 points by xoxoy 2020-05-14 | 49 comments

33.

Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley may face pay cuts (www.cnbc.com)

84 points by SREinSF 2020-05-21 | 103 comments

34.

Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU (blogs.nvidia.com)

80 points by bcaulfield 2020-05-14 | 27 comments

35.

Whale fall (en.wikipedia.org)

78 points by maze-le 2020-05-17 | 18 comments

36.

A first look at Unreal Engine 5 (www.unrealengine.com)

77 points by HammadB 2020-05-13 | 18 comments

37.

Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more (www.cnbc.com)

77 points by organicfigs 2020-04-29 | 14 comments

38.

University of California Will Stop Using Sat, Act (www.wsj.com)

76 points by big_chungus 2020-05-21 | 79 comments

39.

Uber Approaches GrubHub with Takeover Offer (www.bloomberg.com)

76 points by uptown 2020-05-12 | 67 comments

40.

WeChat spies on the content that all users send each other, including Americans (citizenlab.ca)

76 points by hardmaru 2020-05-08 | 25 comments

41.

Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies (asia.nikkei.com)

75 points by yoquan 2020-04-26 | 15 comments

42.

Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers (vistaserv.net)

73 points by hmhhcycbtsc557 2020-05-10 | 16 comments

43.

Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims (www.infoq.com)

72 points by anarchyrucks 2020-05-23 | 11 comments

44.

Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff (techcrunch.com)

71 points by dzonga 2020-04-29 | 18 comments

45.

Theo de Raadt on Rust (marc.info)

69 points by xnyt 2020-05-03 | 35 comments

46.

British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free (www.ianvisits.co.uk)

66 points by edward 2020-04-28 | 13 comments

47.

Things I hate about Rust (blog.yossarian.net)

66 points by woodruffw 2020-05-20 | 36 comments

48.

The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017 (dropbox.tech)

65 points by dgoldstein0 2020-05-15 | 20 comments

49.

Next.js 9.4 – Fast Refresh, Incremental Static Regeneration (nextjs.org)

64 points by STRiDEX 2020-05-11 | 20 comments

50.

Pop OS 20.04 LTS (pop.system76.com)

64 points by jamieweb 2020-04-30 | 27 comments

51.

Show HN: Trade stocks from the command line with no commission (gitlab.com)

62 points by anegri 2020-05-17 | 19 comments

52.

Notion for everyone – free personal plan launched (www.notion.so)

62 points by FireBeyond 2020-05-19 | 27 comments

53.

Congress to expand Patriot Act access to browsing/search history without warrant (www.privateinternetaccess.com)

62 points by save_ferris 2020-05-13 | 17 comments

54.

TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona (www.wsj.com)

61 points by JumpCrisscross 2020-05-14 | 28 comments

55.

Google bans Podcast Addict App for playing non-approved content (apple.news)

61 points by garyclarke27 2020-05-18 | 15 comments

56.

Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries (www.dansdeals.com)

60 points by ikarandeep 2020-04-27 | 35 comments

57.

DirectX on Linux (lkml.org)

60 points by modeless 2020-05-19 | 21 comments

58.

US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs (krebsonsecurity.com)

60 points by elsewhen 2020-05-17 | 8 comments

59.

Testosterone, a key hormone in the context of Covid-19 pandemic (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

59 points by sebastianconcpt 2020-05-15 | 34 comments

60.

Time is the only real currency we have (blog.theboringtech.io)

59 points by hackeryogi 2020-04-25 | 44 comments

61.

PIA Airbus 320 Crashes near Karachi (www.bbc.com)

59 points by billfruit 2020-05-22 | 15 comments

62.

Tesla Q1 2020 Update (ir.tesla.com)

59 points by vaibhavgandhi12 2020-04-29 | 20 comments

63.

Apple releases new MacBook Pro 13-Inch (www.apple.com)

59 points by gshakir 2020-05-04 | 48 comments

64.

China to Allow State-Security Agents to Police Hong Kong (www.wsj.com)

58 points by JumpCrisscross 2020-05-22 | 8 comments

65.

Inkscape 1.0 (inkscape.org)

58 points by Reventlov 2020-05-04 | 5 comments

66.

Elon: Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately (twitter.com)

58 points by edward 2020-05-09 | 36 comments

67.

Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think (secondbreakfast.co)

57 points by secondbreakfast 2020-05-13 | 8 comments

68.

Lite v1.03 – A small, fast text editor (github.com)

56 points by rxi 2020-05-09 | 13 comments

69.

Florida Scientist Fired for Refusing to Manipulate Covid-19 Data (www.floridatoday.com)

56 points by tmountain 2020-05-19 | 5 comments

70.

First Release of Rust-Analyzer (rust-analyzer.github.io)

56 points by steveklabnik 2020-04-27 | 6 comments

71.

Age Reduction Breakthrough (joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com)

56 points by James_Henry 2020-05-11 | 4 comments

72.

An Amazon programmer's perspective on working at Amazon (gist.github.com)

55 points by neofrommatrix 2020-05-21 | 12 comments

73.

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI free until May 28th (www.epicgames.com)

55 points by tosh 2020-05-21 | 21 comments

74.

Enigma: Erlang VM Implementation in Rust (github.com)

55 points by adamnemecek 2020-04-30 | 6 comments

75.

Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms (leeoniya.github.io)

54 points by leeoniya 2020-05-01 | 12 comments

76.

Write Libraries, Not Frameworks (www.brandonsmith.ninja)

54 points by brundolf 2020-05-09 | 14 comments

77.

Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics (buttplug.io)

53 points by vopi 2020-05-06 | 17 comments

78.

Over 275 Days Since Equifax’s Data Breach Settlement and No One Has Been Paid (www.interest.com)

53 points by ProAm 2020-04-30 | 5 comments

79.

Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better (blog.mozilla.org)

53 points by joeyespo 2020-05-21 | 18 comments

80.

China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong (www.greenwichtime.com)

52 points by onetimemanytime 2020-05-21 | 33 comments

81.

AWS EC2 General Price Cut (aws.amazon.com)

52 points by makeshifthoop 2020-05-10 | 19 comments

82.

Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories Will Devastate Your Kids and Make You Want to Die (lareviewofbooks.org)

52 points by smiljo 2020-04-27 | 10 comments

83.

Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results (bill.harding.blog)

52 points by wbharding 2020-05-19 | 5 comments

84.

Walmart says it will discontinue Jet, which it acquired for $3B in 2016 (techcrunch.com)

52 points by rbanffy 2020-05-19 | 41 comments

85.

Racket is 25 years old (blog.racket-lang.org)

51 points by azhenley 2020-05-10 | 14 comments

86.

Iyashikei: Japan’s Genre of “Healing Games” (2018) (screentherapyblog.wordpress.com)

51 points by Tomte 2020-05-12 | 6 comments

87.

Inkscape 1.0 – Built with the power of a team of volunteers (wiki.inkscape.org)

51 points by dragonsh 2020-05-06 | 5 comments

88.

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (medium.com)

51 points by primroot 2020-05-07 | 37 comments

89.

For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection (www.reuters.com)

51 points by leephillips 2020-05-08 | 14 comments

90.

Sidewalk Labs no longer pursuing the Toronto Quayside project (medium.com)

50 points by DyslexicAtheist 2020-05-07 | 14 comments

91.

Researchers accuse Xiaomi browsers of collecting data, even in Incognito mode (www.xda-developers.com)

50 points by DyslexicAtheist 2020-05-01 | 4 comments

92.

Economic Growth Is Incompatible with Biodiversity Conservation (wildthingsinitiative.com)

50 points by bananaboat55 2020-04-29 | 21 comments

93.

Debian 10.4 (www.debian.org)

49 points by laqq3 2020-05-10 | 4 comments

94.

Quick-Thinking Cop Downloads Mating Call App to Phone, Captures Runaway Peacock (bpdnews.com)

49 points by RickJWagner 2020-05-20 | 11 comments

95.

Surveillance plane starts flying over Baltimore, recording everyone's movements (www.wbaltv.com)

49 points by jbegley 2020-05-05 | 24 comments

96.

Disney is claiming anyone who uses a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to a Disney TOS (twitter.com)

49 points by slg 2020-04-27 | 12 comments

97.

Air Travel Is Going to Be Very Bad, for a Very Long Time (www.theatlantic.com)

48 points by smacktoward 2020-05-11 | 71 comments

98.

Colleges at the Breaking Point, Forcing ‘Hard Choices’ about Education (www.wsj.com)

48 points by PretzelFisch 2020-04-30 | 61 comments

99.

Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government (old.reddit.com)

48 points by nbrempel 2020-05-13 | 8 comments

100.

Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever (www.buzzfeednews.com)

47 points by minimaxir 2020-05-12 | 15 comments

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