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Top stories from the past month

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1.

Cloudflare Network Performance Issues (www.cloudflarestatus.com)

445 points by drcongo 2019-07-02 | 226 comments

2.

Twitter is down (status.twitterstat.us)

318 points by idlewords 2019-07-11 | 208 comments

3.

I Got My $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit for $70 (medium.com)

213 points by danielfoster 2019-06-25 | 97 comments

4.

Google Cloud (us-east1) has been down for almost 4 hours (status.cloud.google.com)

171 points by decohen 2019-07-02 | 57 comments

5.

Worst Fears About China's Organ Transplants and Prisoners Were Just Confirmed (www.sciencealert.com)

161 points by Scotrix 2019-06-22 | 68 comments

6.

Firefox 68.0 (www.mozilla.org)

124 points by Spydar007 2019-07-09 | 29 comments

7.

IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B (www.redhat.com)

118 points by voxadam 2019-07-09 | 33 comments

8.

America Is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People (www.ineteconomics.org)

117 points by monsieurpng 2019-06-22 | 13 comments

9.

YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems” (twitter.com)

116 points by avolcano 2019-07-03 | 66 comments

10.

Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client (www.apple.com)

114 points by rdl 2019-06-27 | 7 comments

11.

U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (www.smithsonianmag.com)

108 points by EL_Loco 2019-07-03 | 31 comments

12.

Amazon Accidentally Sold $13,000 Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day (petapixel.com)

106 points by elijahparker 2019-07-18 | 37 comments

13.

Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator (soulver.app)

97 points by tosh 2019-07-10 | 49 comments

14.

Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers (www.bloomberg.com)

97 points by pseudolus 2019-06-28 | 43 comments

15.

Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust (brave.com)

95 points by teovoinea 2019-06-26 | 47 comments

16.

Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website (bradleytaunt.com)

94 points by bradley_taunt 2019-07-10 | 36 comments

17.

Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

94 points by folli 2019-07-03 | 9 comments

18.

Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client (www.apple.com)

93 points by briandear 2019-06-27 | 49 comments

19.

MITM on all HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

89 points by bzbarsky 2019-07-18 | 5 comments

20.

At what time of day does famous programmers work? (ivan.bessarabov.com)

88 points by lionix 2019-07-18 | 18 comments

21.

Shopify and the Power of Platforms (stratechery.com)

87 points by jonbaer 2019-07-11 | 21 comments

22.

Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first time since records began (www.euronews.com)

86 points by reddotX 2019-06-28 | 31 comments

23.

Jony Ive, iPhone designer, announces Apple departure (www.ft.com)

85 points by handedness 2019-06-27 | 27 comments

24.

7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California (www.latimes.com)

85 points by t23 2019-07-06 | 64 comments

25.

The Effect of Vitamin D on Cancer Incidence and Survival (www.orthomolecular.org)

82 points by howard941 2019-07-16 | 27 comments

26.

There is no 'right' vs. 'left': it is the oligarchs against the rest (www.theguardian.com)

81 points by surak 2019-07-07 | 12 comments

27.

A Message from the Billionaire’s Club: Tax Us (www.nytimes.com)

78 points by gilad 2019-06-24 | 77 comments

28.

All Zachtronics games are now free for public schools (www.zachtronics.com)

77 points by Reedx 2019-07-03 | 9 comments

29.

NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India (www.forbes.com)

76 points by sidcool 2019-07-16 | 20 comments

30.

Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say indies (www.bbc.com)

76 points by pseudolus 2019-07-09 | 45 comments

31.

OpenWrt 18.06.4 is out now (openwrt.org)

75 points by tapper82 2019-07-04 | 13 comments

32.

Nipping Libra in the Bud (mondaynote.com)

75 points by robin_reala 2019-06-30 | 44 comments

33.

Microsoft's Linux Kernel (github.com)

74 points by polyomino 2019-06-28 | 38 comments

34.

Stunnel and How to Get Free Airline Wi-Fi (potatofrom.space)

73 points by Pneumaticat 2019-07-20 | 23 comments

35.

Google's Robots.txt Parser Is Now Open Source (opensource.googleblog.com)

73 points by dankohn1 2019-07-01 | 9 comments

36.

I was wrong about spreadsheets, and I’m sorry (www.reifyworks.com)

72 points by mooreds 2019-07-12 | 27 comments

37.

Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak Says People Should Get Off Facebook Permanently (gizmodo.com)

70 points by realshadow 2019-07-08 | 29 comments

38.

Superhuman: Read Statuses (blog.superhuman.com)

69 points by DVassallo 2019-07-03 | 33 comments

39.

Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads (twitter.com)

69 points by luu 2019-07-12 | 33 comments

40.

From Python to Go to Rust: an opinionated journey (tech.allo-media.net)

68 points by snth 2019-06-24 | 22 comments

41.

Is this Paypal experience customary? (gist.github.com)

67 points by stratosgear 2019-07-05 | 27 comments

42.

Moving the World to a 4 Day Workweek – An Interview with Aidan Harper (blog.30hourjobs.com)

67 points by nbrempel 2019-07-10 | 25 comments

43.

I'm donating $150/month to the musl libc project (andrewkelley.me)

66 points by ryanworl 2019-06-24 | 4 comments

44.

U.S. has its wettest 12 months on record again (www.noaa.gov)

66 points by infodocket 2019-07-09 | 71 comments

45.

Hey advertisers, track this (blog.mozilla.org)

66 points by dantondwa 2019-06-26 | 16 comments

46.

WeWork Co-Founder Has Cashed Out at Least $700M Via Sales, Loans (www.wsj.com)

65 points by mkeeter 2019-07-18 | 43 comments

47.

YouTube should give users a way of knowing if a video has been altered (spencerdailey.com)

64 points by spenvo 2019-06-25 | 26 comments

48.

Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download (twitter.com)

64 points by meerita 2019-07-13 | 16 comments

49.

Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side (www.fastcompany.com)

61 points by ProAm 2019-06-27 | 25 comments

50.

Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design (onezero.medium.com)

61 points by mnm1 2019-07-14 | 33 comments

51.

Climate protesters storm Garzweiler coal mine in Germany (www.bbc.co.uk)

60 points by thg 2019-06-23 | 39 comments

52.

Absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature (drewdevault.com)

60 points by kragniz 2019-07-01 | 32 comments

53.

How Indian IT Workers Discriminate Against Non Indian Workers (www.brightworkresearch.com)

60 points by edandersen 2019-07-04 | 9 comments

54.

Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Electric Cars (www.nytimes.com)

59 points by adriand 2019-07-12 | 47 comments

55.

API Wars – Strava Cuts Off Relive: Here’s What Happened (www.dcrainmaker.com)

59 points by tomverhoeff 2019-07-12 | 5 comments

56.

We moved to Turkey from San Francisco to continue working on our startup (shafyy.com)

58 points by shafyy 2019-06-24 | 25 comments

57.

Jony Ive is departing Apple, but he started leaving years ago (www.wsj.com)

58 points by forgingahead 2019-07-01 | 52 comments

58.

Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook (tidbits.com)

57 points by mrzool 2019-07-09 | 32 comments

59.

Reddit quarantines its biggest headache (techcrunch.com)

57 points by ETHisso2017 2019-06-26 | 10 comments

60.

We tried to publish a replication of a science paper in Science. They refused. (slate.com)

56 points by hhs 2019-06-21 | 8 comments

61.

Developers don't understand CORS (fosterelli.co)

56 points by chrisfosterelli 2019-07-10 | 17 comments

62.

The poor can’t afford to follow public health advice (www.hsj.co.uk)

56 points by DanBC 2019-07-18 | 40 comments

63.

To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public (www.bloomberg.com)

55 points by JumpCrisscross 2019-07-15 | 58 comments

64.

Announcing Rust 1.36.0 (blog.rust-lang.org)

55 points by mark-simulacrum 2019-07-04 | 5 comments

65.

Bitcoin Climbs to $10k as Memories of the Crypto Bubble Fade (www.bloomberg.com)

55 points by pseudolus 2019-06-22 | 27 comments

66.

How to design a proper USB-C power sink (not the way Raspberry Pi 4 did it) (medium.com)

54 points by styx31 2019-07-05 | 10 comments

67.

The death watch for the X Window System has probably started (utcc.utoronto.ca)

54 points by _emacsomancer_ 2019-07-07 | 37 comments

68.

Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 (blog.mozilla.org)

53 points by johnnyRose 2019-07-09 | 5 comments

69.

IBM's Acquisition of Red Hat Closes (newsroom.ibm.com)

53 points by jwildeboer 2019-07-09 | 9 comments

70.

SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack (gist.github.com)

52 points by Spellman 2019-06-29 | 9 comments

71.

Hit by Big Loss, Bird Seeks $300M in New Funds (www.theinformation.com)

52 points by prostoalex 2019-07-12 | 54 comments

72.

Sanders to propose canceling entire $1.6T in US student loan debt (m.stamfordadvocate.com)

52 points by spking 2019-06-24 | 36 comments

73.

The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising the Bar (www.anandtech.com)

52 points by neogodless 2019-07-07 | 10 comments

74.

MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member (www.mpaa.org)

51 points by nonbel 2019-07-13 | 29 comments

75.

China Is Forcing Tourists to Install Text-Stealing Malware at Its Border (www.vice.com)

51 points by el_duderino 2019-07-02 | 11 comments

76.

The internet is an SEO landfill (docs.sendwithses.com)

51 points by itom 2019-06-23 | 7 comments

77.

Netflix drops 10% after missing on global paid subscribers (www.cnbc.com)

51 points by jbredeche 2019-07-17 | 60 comments

78.

Florida couple wins the right to plant veggies in front yard (www.npr.org)

50 points by onemoresoop 2019-07-04 | 14 comments

79.

Google shuts down its blog management tool just 10 months after launch (www.androidpolice.com)

50 points by Boulth 2019-07-14 | 12 comments

80.

Ad-Free Internet by Firefox (firstlook.firefox.com)

49 points by jrwiegand 2019-07-04 | 16 comments

81.

India’s Going to the Moon, and the Country Is Pumped (www.nytimes.com)

49 points by JamilD 2019-07-14 | 4 comments

82.

Two Billion Records Exposed in 'Smart Home' Breach (secalerts.co)

49 points by louisstow 2019-07-04 | 10 comments

83.

Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a spear tool to fish (primatology.net)

48 points by DanBC 2019-07-06 | 8 comments

84.

FTC Approves Roughly $5B Facebook Settlement (www.wsj.com)

48 points by CaliforniaKarl 2019-07-12 | 30 comments

85.

I have found an excellent programmer named Steve Wozniac (tinyletter.com)

48 points by jamesbowman 2019-07-09 | 10 comments

86.

Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces (reddit.com)

48 points by pagade 2019-07-08 | 10 comments

87.

What Is Fedora Silverblue? (fedoramagazine.org)

47 points by anuragsoni 2019-07-14 | 4 comments

88.

Do you have a yawning Perception Gap, or are you in sync with American public? (perceptiongap.us)

47 points by ozdave 2019-06-24 | 35 comments

89.

UN Reports Mass Murder by Venezuela's Special Action Forces (www.nytimes.com)

47 points by maxharris 2019-07-09 | 6 comments

90.

A moonlit tribute to a moon landing icon (blog.google)

47 points by ChrisArchitect 2019-07-18 | 12 comments

91.

Next steps toward Go 2 (blog.golang.org)

47 points by rom16384 2019-06-26 | 4 comments

92.

Boeing 737 Max Grounding Could Stretch into 2020 (www.wsj.com)

46 points by JumpCrisscross 2019-07-14 | 19 comments

93.

Alan Turing: WWII codebreaker revealed as new face of £50 note (news.sky.com)

46 points by philliphaydon 2019-07-15 | 1 comments

94.

India is now producing the world’s cheapest solar power (www.weforum.org)

46 points by ljf 2019-06-30 | 17 comments

95.

Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction (news.mit.edu)

46 points by howard941 2019-07-10 | 17 comments

96.

Electric cars grab almost half of sales in Norway (www.reuters.com)

46 points by RmDen 2019-07-01 | 22 comments

97.

Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL that cannot be taken down (github.com)

46 points by jstrieb 2019-06-30 | 13 comments

98.

Cloudflare Outage (www.cloudflarestatus.com)

45 points by xPaw 2019-06-24 | 13 comments

99.

New face of the Bank of England's £50 note is revealed (www.bbc.co.uk)

45 points by hanoz 2019-07-15 | 10 comments

100.

The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive (prospect.org)

44 points by wallace_f 2019-06-25 | 6 comments

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