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1.

Async-await on stable Rust (blog.rust-lang.org)

478 points by pietroalbini 2019-11-07 | 153 comments

2.

Twitter to ban political advertising (twitter.com)

361 points by coloneltcb 2019-10-30 | 167 comments

3.

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

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

4.

TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (www.propublica.org)

228 points by danso 2019-10-17 | 75 comments

5.

Thousands of Facebook internal documents and emails published online (www.businessinsider.in)

219 points by rahuldottech 2019-11-07 | 40 comments

6.

How to Find Consulting Clients (chrisachard.com)

214 points by chrisa 2019-11-07 | 39 comments

7.

AMD Q4:16-core Ryzen 9 3950X, Threadripper Up To 32-Core 3970X (www.anandtech.com)

209 points by pella 2019-11-07 | 137 comments

8.

Rust 1.39 (blog.rust-lang.org)

196 points by bilalhusain 2019-11-07 | 10 comments

9.

Re-Licensing Sentry (blog.sentry.io)

184 points by troydavis 2019-11-06 | 115 comments

10.

Show HN: Bel (paulgraham.com)

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

11.

Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event (www.bloomberg.com)

175 points by dmitrygr 2019-10-15 | 66 comments

12.

Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B (twitter.com)

168 points by chdaniel 2019-11-01 | 76 comments

13.

The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790 (www.wsj.com)

166 points by simonebrunozzi 2019-11-09 | 74 comments

14.

Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’ (www.bloomberg.com)

159 points by galeos 2019-11-05 | 73 comments

15.

Epstein's injuries look more like murder than suicide, noted pathologist says (www.miamiherald.com)

151 points by AndrewBissell 2019-10-30 | 62 comments

16.

AirPods Pro (www.apple.com)

139 points by minimaxir 2019-10-28 | 103 comments

17.

Why Enterprise Software Sucks (twitter.com)

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

18.

Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM (hansdegoede.livejournal.com)

127 points by toma1k 2019-10-20 | 74 comments

19.

Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract (www.nytimes.com)

125 points by aaronbrethorst 2019-10-25 | 59 comments

20.

We have no reason to believe 5G is safe (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

117 points by bookofjoe 2019-10-21 | 56 comments

21.

Elm 0.19.1 Released (elm-lang.org)

112 points by roebk 2019-10-21 | 34 comments

22.

Firefox 70 – a bountiful release for all (hacks.mozilla.org)

108 points by feross 2019-10-22 | 19 comments

23.

Equifax protected its main database with user name “admin” and password “admin” [pdf] (securities.stanford.edu)

99 points by bookofjoe 2019-10-22 | 34 comments

24.

Tesla Q3 Financial Results (ir.tesla.com)

97 points by danhak 2019-10-23 | 37 comments

25.

Thank You, Guido (blog.dropbox.com)

96 points by pauloxnet 2019-10-30 | 11 comments

26.

Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet (rietta.com)

95 points by grepsedawk 2019-10-29 | 41 comments

27.

Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox and you should too (www.fastcompany.com)

94 points by commoner 2019-11-09 | 47 comments

28.

Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' (www.bbc.com)

94 points by tomohawk 2019-11-05 | 19 comments

29.

Microsoft Japan’s 3-Day Weekend Boosts Worker Productivity by 40% (soranews24.com)

93 points by nefitty 2019-11-03 | 7 comments

30.

Boeing Pilot Warned of ‘Egregious’ Issue with 737 Max in 2016 (www.nytimes.com)

93 points by jgwil2 2019-10-18 | 23 comments

31.

US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits (github.com)

93 points by styfle 2019-10-23 | 34 comments

32.

Visual6502 Remix (floooh.github.io)

93 points by ingve 2019-11-08 | 16 comments

33.

Coffee Is Hard (www.stilldrinking.org)

90 points by mrleiter 2019-10-18 | 9 comments

34.

Why Switzerland is better than Silicon Valley for Software Developers (swissdevjobs.ch)

89 points by Varqu 2019-10-15 | 88 comments

35.

XML is almost always misused (www.devever.net)

89 points by mrzool 2019-10-29 | 50 comments

36.

Estonia has a new way to stop speeding motorists – The nick of time (www.economist.com)

88 points by pionerkotik 2019-11-09 | 73 comments

37.

Firefox is getting language translation (www.trustedreviews.com)

87 points by jeremiahlee 2019-10-22 | 24 comments

38.

World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency (academic.oup.com)

87 points by andyjohnson0 2019-11-05 | 54 comments

39.

Remember the Uber self-driving car that killed a woman crossing the street? (www.theregister.co.uk)

87 points by notlukesky 2019-11-06 | 110 comments

40.

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

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

41.

How Not to Rewrite It in Rust (adventures.michaelfbryan.com)

83 points by yarapavan 2019-10-23 | 37 comments

42.

Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because 'Cellphones Are Throwaways' (www.vice.com)

82 points by el_duderino 2019-10-25 | 48 comments

43.

Show HN: Collective.Energy – Crowdsource climate solutions as a community (collective.energy)

80 points by ericvanular 2019-11-07 | 22 comments

44.

My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe (github.com)

80 points by nuxdie 2019-10-14 | 31 comments

45.

Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews (testing.googleblog.com)

80 points by mooreds 2019-11-07 | 35 comments

46.

Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia (www.thehour.com)

79 points by kyleblarson 2019-11-06 | 19 comments

47.

Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait for the next recession (theweek.com)

79 points by howard941 2019-10-22 | 78 comments

48.

Broken (tyler.io)

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

49.

Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster (tokio.rs)

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

50.

Bhopal disaster (en.wikipedia.org)

78 points by williamchangnpu 2019-10-28 | 23 comments

51.

My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be? (medium.com)

78 points by rmason 2019-10-25 | 34 comments

52.

My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine (www.sullysullenberger.com)

77 points by kaboro 2019-10-14 | 9 comments

53.

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

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

54.

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

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

55.

Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house (www.amazon.com)

72 points by lisper 2019-10-16 | 46 comments

56.

50 years ago, I helped invent the internet. How did it go so wrong (www.latimes.com)

72 points by jonbaer 2019-10-29 | 30 comments

57.

Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan (www.cs.princeton.edu)

71 points by f2f 2019-10-28 | 12 comments

58.

Men hold more positive attitudes towards ex-partners than women do (sciencebeta.com)

71 points by Indirector 2019-10-25 | 40 comments

59.

Signal Technology Foundation is now open for donations (freedom.press)

70 points by Krasnol 2019-10-24 | 29 comments

60.

Being a good guy boss left me £1.2m in debt (www.bbc.co.uk)

70 points by dustinmoris 2019-11-07 | 62 comments

61.

U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take their data with them (www.reuters.com)

69 points by howard941 2019-10-23 | 32 comments

62.

How One Company Surveils Everything Kids Do and Say in School (www.buzzfeednews.com)

69 points by minimaxir 2019-11-01 | 15 comments

63.

Open Letter to the Linux Foundation (blog.cleancoder.com)

69 points by anujbahuguna 2019-11-08 | 33 comments

64.

US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site (www.coindesk.com)

67 points by srameshc 2019-10-16 | 79 comments

65.

We're Incentivizing Bad Science (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

67 points by slowhand09 2019-10-29 | 29 comments

66.

Dissent erupts at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads (www.nytimes.com)

67 points by mindgam3 2019-10-28 | 61 comments

67.

YouTube suspends Google accounts of Markiplier's viewers for minor emote spam (www.reddit.com)

66 points by bluefreeze 2019-11-09 | 29 comments

68.

Google are removing URLs entirely from the search results (www.reddit.com)

64 points by monort 2019-11-02 | 33 comments

69.

Pure CSS – Lace (diana-adrianne.com)

64 points by robin_reala 2019-11-04 | 16 comments

70.

My name causes an issue with any booking (travel.stackexchange.com)

63 points by signa11 2019-11-09 | 20 comments

71.

Factual Inaccuracies of “Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound” (tonyarcieri.com)

63 points by dochtman 2019-11-05 | 9 comments

72.

Hashicorp injects their Azure Partner ID into your terraform deployments (github.com)

63 points by ZikkZakk 2019-10-29 | 10 comments

73.

Milan Airport WiFi sends your MAC address to advertisers and trackers (mobile.twitter.com)

63 points by vjvj 2019-11-06 | 17 comments

74.

Biometric YubiKey (www.yubico.com)

62 points by JoachimS 2019-11-06 | 34 comments

75.

Airbnb Plans to Verify Every Listing (www.nytimes.com)

62 points by ilamont 2019-11-06 | 30 comments

76.

ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria (www.reddit.com)

61 points by slowhand09 2019-10-15 | 16 comments

77.

Uber Sinks to New Record Low as IPO Share Lockup Expires (www.bloomberg.com)

60 points by JumpCrisscross 2019-11-06 | 36 comments

78.

Gitlab blocks current employees and stops future hires in China and Russia (gitlab.com)

60 points by capableweb 2019-11-03 | 19 comments

79.

A Study of Meditation Under the Influence of Psilocybin (www.nature.com)

60 points by say_it_as_it_is 2019-11-06 | 19 comments

80.

University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100k/yr (hechingerreport.org)

59 points by Reedx 2019-11-04 | 94 comments

81.

Blizzard Removes Mei Statue from Gear Shop as Hong Kong Embraces Her as Mascot (www.oneangrygamer.net)

59 points by tomp 2019-10-13 | 5 comments

82.

T-Mobile demand Lemonade to stop using the color magenta (thehustle.co)

59 points by Yuval_Halevi 2019-11-05 | 19 comments

83.

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

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

84.

Equifax used 'admin' as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit (finance.yahoo.com)

58 points by toomuchtodo 2019-10-21 | 8 comments

85.

Wait, Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent? (twitter.com)

58 points by mathieutd 2019-10-13 | 4 comments

86.

Goodbye, Flash (webmasters.googleblog.com)

57 points by tech234a 2019-10-29 | 49 comments

87.

Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90% (netmarketshare.com)

56 points by gator-io 2019-11-01 | 13 comments

88.

Tesla’s Autopilot Could Save Millions, but It Will Kill Some People First (www.bloomberg.com)

56 points by NN88 2019-10-14 | 68 comments

89.

Parallel Commits: A New Atomic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transactions (www.cockroachlabs.com)

56 points by dilloc 2019-11-08 | 3 comments

90.

Today is Aaron Swartz Day. 2019-11-09 (www.aaronswartzday.org)

56 points by crisnoble 2019-11-09 | 0 comments

91.

Google Announces Pixel 4 (store.google.com)

55 points by exacube 2019-10-15 | 97 comments

92.

OpenBSD 6.6 release, Oct 17, 2019 (www.openbsd.org)

55 points by liv-io 2019-10-17 | 4 comments

93.

Nothing Matters (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

54 points by tosh 2019-11-08 | 70 comments

94.

On the way to being the most downvoted post ever on StackOverflow:Meta (meta.stackexchange.com)

54 points by scardine 2019-10-14 | 23 comments

95.

Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia (www.nytimes.com)

53 points by unpythonic 2019-11-06 | 4 comments

96.

Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz (pytorch.org)

53 points by vyuh 2019-10-13 | 5 comments

97.

Boeing Pilots Detected 737 Max Flight Control Glitch 2 Years Before Deadly Crash (www.npr.org)

53 points by elorant 2019-10-20 | 4 comments

98.

Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters (github.com)

52 points by shp0ngle 2019-10-30 | 24 comments

99.

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

100.

Joe Rogan Experience #1368 – Edward Snowden (www.youtube.com)

52 points by juandazapata 2019-10-23 | 1 comments

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