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1.

California bans private prisons (www.theguardian.com)

244 points by anigbrowl 2019-09-12 | 77 comments

2.

94,504 BTC (1,018,147,922 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet (twitter.com)

243 points by jonkratz 2019-09-09 | 108 comments

3.

Cloudflare S-1 (www.sec.gov)

215 points by tpw212 2019-08-15 | 98 comments

4.

Please Add RSS Support to Your Site (kevq.uk)

194 points by kevq 2019-08-27 | 60 comments

5.

N Dakota Regulators Hid an Oil and Gas Industry Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez (www.desmogblog.com)

165 points by howard941 2019-08-21 | 12 comments

6.

It’s Official, No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers (sellercentral.amazon.com)

151 points by nkurz 2019-08-27 | 53 comments

7.

16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines (www.technologyreview.com)

130 points by rbanffy 2019-08-21 | 75 comments

8.

Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn (fair.org)

129 points by joeyespo 2019-08-18 | 48 comments

9.

Bring Back the SE (avc.com)

116 points by abhi3 2019-09-10 | 43 comments

10.

Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet (www.nationalgeographic.com)

115 points by Leace 2019-09-11 | 49 comments

11.

CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978 (www.epi.org)

103 points by howard941 2019-08-15 | 99 comments

12.

ESP8266 and ESP32 can be remotely crashed and hijacked (github.com)

103 points by gioscarab 2019-09-03 | 29 comments

13.

Netflix “13 Reasons Why” linked to 29% increase in teen suicides 1 month later (www.nimh.nih.gov)

100 points by newsreview1 2019-08-30 | 57 comments

14.

Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card (smartprivacy.io)

99 points by zxlk21e 2019-08-30 | 35 comments

15.

Uber lays off 435 people across engineering and product teams (techcrunch.com)

93 points by coloneltcb 2019-09-10 | 10 comments

16.

Stripe Capital (stripe.com)

91 points by jonknee 2019-09-05 | 31 comments

17.

Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets (techcrunch.com)

90 points by noarchy 2019-08-19 | 15 comments

18.

Running GitHub on Rails 6.0 (github.blog)

90 points by edmorley 2019-09-09 | 8 comments

19.

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

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

20.

And Now, the Big Coal Plants Begin to Close (www.scientificamerican.com)

86 points by artsandsci 2019-08-16 | 36 comments

21.

Stripe Corporate Card (stripe.com)

86 points by eloycoto 2019-09-10 | 29 comments

22.

㊷ is found to be the sum of three cubes (math.mit.edu)

82 points by techolic 2019-09-06 | 41 comments

23.

Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (localghost.dev)

82 points by gbugniot 2019-09-06 | 41 comments

24.

IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business (www.accountingtoday.com)

79 points by mars4rp 2019-08-20 | 79 comments

25.

Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negative Yields (www.wsj.com)

78 points by yasp 2019-08-21 | 99 comments

26.

Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second (www.sciencemag.org)

77 points by headalgorithm 2019-09-04 | 32 comments

27.

Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D (3dforreddit.com)

75 points by masterspy7 2019-09-10 | 31 comments

28.

ORMs Are Backwards (abe-winter.github.io)

72 points by awinter-py 2019-09-03 | 40 comments

29.

New bike helmet material claims to reduce concussion risk by 98% (pelotonmagazine.com)

72 points by Alex3917 2019-08-29 | 32 comments

30.

Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code (status.cloud.google.com)

71 points by adige01can 2019-08-19 | 18 comments

31.

My Apology Regarding Jeffrey Epstein (www.media.mit.edu)

70 points by Anon84 2019-08-21 | 58 comments

32.

WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things (hacks.mozilla.org)

69 points by skellertor 2019-08-21 | 13 comments

33.

Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests (www.latimes.com)

68 points by baylearn 2019-08-21 | 23 comments

34.

I thought I was about to die: Eyewitnesses describe brutal beatings by HK police (www.latimes.com)

68 points by baylearn 2019-09-09 | 14 comments

35.

Samsung launching key value SSD (www.anandtech.com)

67 points by nikhizzle 2019-09-05 | 6 comments

36.

Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

67 points by JPLeRouzic 2019-09-02 | 21 comments

37.

Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants (www.latimes.com)

67 points by ____Sash---701_ 2019-08-16 | 37 comments

38.

Jack Dorsey has account hacked (www.bbc.co.uk)

66 points by stuartmemo 2019-08-30 | 34 comments

39.

The WeWork IPO (stratechery.com)

66 points by denzil_correa 2019-08-20 | 27 comments

40.

In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default (www.wired.co.uk)

66 points by whalabi 2019-09-04 | 12 comments

41.

Joichi Ito Resigns After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties (www.nytimes.com)

64 points by Anon84 2019-09-07 | 11 comments

42.

What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person? (www.moderntreasury.com)

64 points by saarons 2019-08-28 | 32 comments

43.

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

44.

Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees (sourcehut.org)

63 points by Sir_Cmpwn 2019-08-23 | 0 comments

45.

Introducing nushell (www.jonathanturner.org)

63 points by bradleybuda 2019-08-23 | 11 comments

46.

USA planned to stage airplane terrorist attack with painted drone (en.wikipedia.org)

63 points by jbverschoor 2019-09-01 | 17 comments

47.

Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore (www.bloomberg.com)

62 points by mancerayder 2019-08-23 | 39 comments

48.

Google's software mistreats or harms the user (www.gnu.org)

62 points by eddyg 2019-08-20 | 13 comments

49.

Researcher banned on Valve's bug bounty program publishes 2nd Steam 0-day (www.zdnet.com)

61 points by tareqak 2019-08-21 | 11 comments

50.

Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced to Death in Secret Trial (u.osu.edu)

60 points by baylearn 2019-09-11 | 1 comments

51.

iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max: the most powerful and advanced smartphones (www.apple.com)

60 points by Zaheer 2019-09-10 | 50 comments

52.

Go 1.13 Release Notes (golang.org)

59 points by 0xmohit 2019-09-03 | 15 comments

53.

The Surprising Number of Programmers Who Can’t Program (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)

59 points by mooreds 2019-08-23 | 109 comments

54.

Woman wins 50K ultra outright and gets the 'Male' trophy too (www.runnersworld.com)

58 points by he0001 2019-08-20 | 22 comments

55.

Measles: Four European nations lose eradication status (www.bbc.com)

58 points by pseudolus 2019-08-30 | 44 comments

56.

GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece of modern tech-insanity (www.theregister.co.uk)

57 points by gitgud 2019-08-15 | 18 comments

57.

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

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

58.

Why ElementaryOS Left Medium (blog.elementary.io)

57 points by amaccuish 2019-08-20 | 10 comments

59.

Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability (thenextweb.com)

56 points by praveenscience 2019-08-18 | 11 comments

60.

'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

61.

Goodreads Is Broken (onezero.medium.com)

55 points by prostoalex 2019-09-07 | 16 comments

62.

Americans' fear of losing their jobs grows (www.axios.com)

54 points by hhs 2019-09-10 | 59 comments

63.

Mast Brothers: $10 a bar for crappy hipster chocolate (qz.com)

54 points by simonebrunozzi 2019-08-19 | 14 comments

64.

U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the Developing Brain (www.hhs.gov)

53 points by mudil 2019-08-29 | 67 comments

65.

Study blames glyphosate for gluten intolerance and celiac disease epidemic (www.getholistichealth.com)

53 points by rzamen 2019-09-10 | 23 comments

66.

CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads (techcrunch.com)

53 points by tinyduck428 2019-09-09 | 20 comments

67.

No-deal Brexit opponents defeat government (www.bbc.co.uk)

53 points by petewailes 2019-09-03 | 8 comments

68.

Thank you, Chris (blog.mozilla.org)

52 points by lasr21 2019-08-29 | 7 comments

69.

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

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

70.

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) (www.bbc.com)

51 points by Tomte 2019-09-05 | 9 comments

71.

Hong Kong Police shamed into retreat by everyday citizens (www.reddit.com)

51 points by typeformer 2019-09-02 | 10 comments

72.

Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Climate Strike (docs.google.com)

51 points by jbegley 2019-09-09 | 12 comments

73.

Door blows off Boeing 777X during stress test (komonews.com)

51 points by ephesee 2019-09-07 | 38 comments

74.

50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google (www.washingtonpost.com)

51 points by ihuman 2019-09-09 | 21 comments

75.

Facebook uploads all system libraries on your Android (mobile.twitter.com)

50 points by Browun 2019-08-31 | 15 comments

76.

Daytripper (github.com)

50 points by omarchowdhury 2019-09-09 | 7 comments

77.

XLOOKUP for Excel (techcommunity.microsoft.com)

50 points by kbumsik 2019-08-31 | 10 comments

78.

MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy (ryanbigg.com)

50 points by ryanbigg 2019-08-28 | 27 comments

79.

Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note (www.bankofengland.co.uk)

50 points by SimplyUseless 2019-09-01 | 5 comments

80.

Most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs (shafyy.com)

49 points by shafyy 2019-08-20 | 18 comments

81.

Sunsetting Python 2 (www.python.org)

49 points by azizsaya 2019-09-09 | 3 comments

82.

Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack (knobattack.com)

49 points by Daviey 2019-08-16 | 10 comments

83.

Joe Rogan Experience #1342 – John Carmack (www.youtube.com)

49 points by sexy_seedbox 2019-08-29 | 0 comments

84.

MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14 (www.cnbc.com)

48 points by jameslk 2019-09-13 | 10 comments

85.

Elastic Sues Search Guard Developers (www.elastic.co)

48 points by praseodym 2019-09-04 | 6 comments

86.

The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most Nations of Europe (www.justfacts.com)

48 points by andrenth 2019-08-26 | 0 comments

87.

Another US visa holder was denied entry over someone else’s messages (techcrunch.com)

48 points by jbegley 2019-09-02 | 19 comments

88.

Yes, I’m Feeling Bad About Climate Change. Let’s Discuss (sloanreview.mit.edu)

47 points by sarapeyton 2019-08-22 | 9 comments

89.

Cerebras Systems unveils a record 1.2T transistor chip for AI (venturebeat.com)

47 points by modeless 2019-08-19 | 23 comments

90.

OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation (github.com)

47 points by vsurabhi 2019-08-19 | 6 comments

91.

How to return to the flow faster (codejamming.org)

47 points by ribtoks 2019-08-23 | 6 comments

92.

Hong Kong police spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark for arrest (www.insider.com)

47 points by tosh 2019-08-31 | 23 comments

93.

MoviePass database exposes 161M records (www.scmagazine.com)

47 points by LinuxBender 2019-08-22 | 23 comments

94.

Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers (www.google.com)

46 points by SanchoPanda 2019-09-04 | 17 comments

95.

HK protesters use “unblockable” messaging via a bluetooth mesh (www.bbc.com)

46 points by gumby 2019-09-07 | 18 comments

96.

Ethan Zuckerman Leaving MIT Media Lab Due to Joi Ito, Jeffrey Epstein Connection (medium.com)

46 points by msghacq 2019-08-21 | 11 comments

97.

Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour (techcrunch.com)

46 points by docker_up 2019-08-29 | 29 comments

98.

Trump Administration Weighs Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes (www.nytimes.com)

46 points by jbegley 2019-09-11 | 48 comments

99.

Spam in Your Calendar? Here’s What to Do (krebsonsecurity.com)

46 points by feross 2019-09-03 | 12 comments

100.

VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B (techcrunch.com)

45 points by frostmatthew 2019-08-22 | 6 comments

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