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1.

Cloudflare was down (www.cloudflarestatus.com)

650 points by dewey 2020-07-17 | 304 comments

2.

Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills (news.ncsu.edu)

237 points by sizzle 2020-07-15 | 131 comments

3.

Grant Imahara, ‘Mythbusters’ Host, Dies at 49 (variety.com)

172 points by iamflimflam1 2020-07-14 | 18 comments

4.

62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share (www.cato.org)

146 points by admiralspoo 2020-07-23 | 96 comments

5.

GitHub Is Down (status.github.com)

141 points by nanddalal 2020-07-13 | 86 comments

6.

Orthodox Privilege (paulgraham.com)

133 points by razin 2020-07-15 | 84 comments

7.

When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple doesn’t refund the 30% cut (twitter.com)

130 points by tomduncalf 2020-07-29 | 100 comments

8.

Scammers hack prominent cryptocurrency Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack (www.coindesk.com)

124 points by megadeth 2020-07-15 | 78 comments

9.

Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment (www.buzzfeednews.com)

118 points by RaitoBezarius 2020-08-07 | 38 comments

10.

GitHub Is Down (www.githubstatus.com)

114 points by benbruscella 2020-07-13 | 57 comments

11.

Del.icio.us (del.icio.us)

112 points by kome 2020-07-29 | 28 comments

12.

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

13.

ThereTube – How do the recommended videos look on their Youtube home page? (www.their.tube)

108 points by reimertz 2020-07-29 | 64 comments

14.

Grant Imahara, host of MythBusters, dies at 49 (www.wlwt.com)

107 points by Alupis 2020-07-14 | 18 comments

15.

Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias (www.buzzfeednews.com)

105 points by erentz 2020-08-07 | 55 comments

16.

Cognitect Joins Nubank (cognitect.com)

105 points by zrkrlc 2020-07-23 | 20 comments

17.

Twitter: Our investigation is still ongoing but here’s what we know so far (twitter.com)

104 points by jc_811 2020-07-16 | 56 comments

18.

Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects (www.msn.com)

101 points by Shivetya 2020-08-06 | 33 comments

19.

Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space (www.reuters.com)

96 points by onetimemanytime 2020-07-23 | 57 comments

20.

The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate” (annoying.technology)

93 points by dewey 2020-07-13 | 73 comments

21.

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

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

22.

Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group after delays (www.reuters.com)

91 points by myrandomcomment 2020-07-28 | 48 comments

23.

The NBA bans you from putting freehongkong on customized league jerseys (mobile.twitter.com)

90 points by andrenth 2020-07-19 | 14 comments

24.

Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator (primo.af)

89 points by mmmateo 2020-07-13 | 28 comments

25.

Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org (domainnamewire.com)

89 points by feross 2020-07-18 | 9 comments

26.

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

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

27.

Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027 (www.bbc.com)

82 points by doener 2020-07-14 | 75 comments

28.

20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions (twitter.com)

80 points by phoe-krk 2020-08-06 | 16 comments

29.

Oregon, Journalists Sue U.S. over Portland Arrests, Violence (www.bloomberg.com)

80 points by laurex 2020-07-18 | 26 comments

30.

There will be pain – With oil cheap, Arab states cannot balance their books (www.economist.com)

80 points by lowmemcpu 2020-07-21 | 36 comments

31.

Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force (www.newyorker.com)

79 points by jbegley 2020-07-25 | 14 comments

32.

Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies (www.gsmarena.com)

79 points by oblio 2020-08-07 | 45 comments

33.

Unit Testing Is Overrated (tyrrrz.me)

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

34.

Do not remain nameless to yourself – Richard Feynman (1966) (lettersofnote.com)

77 points by andrewnc 2020-07-12 | 4 comments

35.

An update on our security incident (blog.twitter.com)

77 points by psanford 2020-07-18 | 62 comments

36.

July 11, 2020 RIP my darling boy (twitter.com)

75 points by constantinum 2020-07-12 | 6 comments

37.

Peter Thiel on Progress and Stagnation (docs.google.com)

75 points by apsec112 2020-07-20 | 34 comments

38.

Large explosion in Beirut (twitter.com)

75 points by bharatsb 2020-08-04 | 15 comments

39.

Satellite images of the Beirut explosion site – before and after (cdn.knightlab.com)

74 points by huhtenberg 2020-08-05 | 42 comments

40.

How objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion (www.economist.com)

74 points by pseudolus 2020-07-16 | 45 comments

41.

GitHub Public Roadmap (github.com)

73 points by nicolas_ 2020-07-28 | 10 comments

42.

EU Launches Full-Scale Probe into Google-Fitbit Takeover (www.bbc.co.uk)

72 points by g_p 2020-08-04 | 17 comments

43.

Hackers post fake stories on real news sites 'to discredit Nato' (www.bbc.co.uk)

72 points by elorant 2020-07-31 | 51 comments

44.

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

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

45.

Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown (news.yahoo.com)

71 points by MBCook 2020-07-22 | 39 comments

46.

Rust 1.45 (blog.rust-lang.org)

71 points by pietroalbini 2020-07-16 | 13 comments

47.

Epic workers aren’t just mad, they’re organizing (www.tonemadison.com)

71 points by mgerdts 2020-08-06 | 20 comments

48.

Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack? (krebsonsecurity.com)

68 points by MindGods 2020-07-16 | 17 comments

49.

New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

68 points by based2 2020-07-26 | 39 comments

50.

Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack (www.wfla.com)

68 points by Firebrand 2020-07-31 | 72 comments

51.

John Lewis, civil rights icon and longtime US congressman, dies (www.politico.com)

68 points by enraged_camel 2020-07-18 | 7 comments

52.

Tesla Worst for Reliability in American Driver Survey (www.driving.co.uk)

68 points by TekMol 2020-07-15 | 45 comments

53.

U.S. Economy Contracts by Record 32.9% (www.wsj.com)

67 points by nickles 2020-07-30 | 27 comments

54.

Public Asked to Report Receipt of Any Unsolicited Packages of Seeds (www.vdacs.virginia.gov)

67 points by gscott 2020-07-26 | 21 comments

55.

US rescinds order requiring in person classes for foreign students (www.bloomberg.com)

67 points by OminousWeapons 2020-07-14 | 18 comments

56.

SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down in the Gulf of Mexico (www.nytimes.com)

66 points by JumpCrisscross 2020-08-02 | 4 comments

57.

Zoom Security Exploit – Cracking private meeting passwords (www.tomanthony.co.uk)

65 points by TomAnthony 2020-07-29 | 19 comments

58.

Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out (www.businessinsider.com)

64 points by djsumdog 2020-07-15 | 6 comments

59.

I Have Cancer. Now My Facebook Feed Is Full of ‘Alternative Care’ Ads (www.nytimes.com)

63 points by cma 2020-07-13 | 16 comments

60.

Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case (www.economist.com)

63 points by martincmartin 2020-07-30 | 13 comments

61.

I Know What You Download on BitTorrent (iknowwhatyoudownload.com)

63 points by easterncalculus 2020-07-13 | 33 comments

62.

20 laws of UX (lawsofux.com)

62 points by seesawtron 2020-08-02 | 18 comments

63.

Google AMP Can Go To Hell (2018) (www.polemicdigital.com)

62 points by franze 2020-07-17 | 4 comments

64.

SpaceX hop Starship SN-5 (www.youtube.com)

62 points by lpellis 2020-08-04 | 16 comments

65.

Obese politicians signal corruption, study finds (eurasianet.org)

61 points by ktln2 2020-07-27 | 21 comments

66.

Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores (www.reuters.com)

61 points by callwaiting 2020-07-28 | 32 comments

67.

Trump to ban transactions with ByteDance and Tencent in 45 days (asia.nikkei.com)

61 points by baylearn 2020-08-07 | 19 comments

68.

Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign (dex.hu)

60 points by pabo 2020-07-24 | 4 comments

69.

Georgia School Reopening Photo Even Worse Than It Appears (www.buzzfeednews.com)

59 points by laurex 2020-08-06 | 79 comments

70.

Thomas Sowell, the Nonconformist (www.city-journal.org)

58 points by RickJWagner 2020-08-03 | 2 comments

71.

EFF’s new database reveals what tech local police are using to spy on you (www.zdnet.com)

58 points by wobbly_bush 2020-07-16 | 6 comments

72.

Bari Weiss Resignation Letter (www.bariweiss.com)

58 points by kirillzubovsky 2020-07-14 | 5 comments

73.

The Four Quadrants of Conformism (paulgraham.com)

58 points by razin 2020-07-24 | 55 comments

74.

Calgary doctor says 40% drop in preterm births during lockdown is global trend (www.cbc.ca)

57 points by breitling 2020-07-28 | 20 comments

75.

Q2 2020 Update (ir.tesla.com)

57 points by marc__1 2020-07-22 | 49 comments

76.

Doing Stupid Stuff with GitHub Actions (devopsdirective.com)

57 points by spalas 2020-07-25 | 8 comments

77.

Coca-Cola paid scientists to downplay how sweet drinks fueled the obesity crisis (www.dailymail.co.uk)

57 points by alkhidr 2020-08-04 | 28 comments

78.

Trump fires CEO of TVA over replacing US tech workers with H1B workers (fox17.com)

57 points by rsj_hn 2020-08-03 | 1 comments

79.

Apple Is Killing a Billion-Dollar Ad Industry with One Popup (medium.com)

57 points by remotists 2020-07-17 | 41 comments

80.

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

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

81.

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

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

82.

ICE Confirms New Foreign Students Can't Take Online-Only Course Loads in the US (www.npr.org)

55 points by pseudolus 2020-07-25 | 40 comments

83.

I lost my boyfriend to cancer 'conspiracy theories’ (www.bbc.co.uk)

55 points by DanBC 2020-07-18 | 36 comments

84.

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

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

85.

Apple reports Q3 results – Revenue up 11%, EPS up 18% (www.apple.com)

54 points by danceparty 2020-07-30 | 25 comments

86.

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

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

87.

Medium is not the home for your ideas (hulry.com)

53 points by rahulchowdhury 2020-07-22 | 18 comments

88.

My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive (blog.archive.org)

53 points by edward 2020-07-23 | 15 comments

89.

Hand sanitizer recall: FDA list of “toxic” sanitizers expands to 94 (www.fda.gov)

52 points by bookofjoe 2020-08-02 | 24 comments

90.

The TikTok War (stratechery.com)

52 points by migueldemoura 2020-07-14 | 33 comments

91.

Writing a file system from scratch in Rust (blog.carlosgaldino.com)

52 points by carlosgaldino 2020-07-27 | 5 comments

92.

Julia 1.5 (julialang.org)

52 points by tosh 2020-08-03 | 10 comments

93.

How to effectively evade the GDPR and the reach of the DPA (blog.zoller.lu)

52 points by thierryzoller 2020-07-26 | 25 comments

94.

Sailor pictured with laser rifle on board USS Minnesota nuclear sub (www.thedrive.com)

51 points by samizdis 2020-07-27 | 42 comments

95.

OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI (www.reddit.com)

50 points by gitgud 2020-07-20 | 3 comments

96.

Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources (twitter.com)

50 points by rydre 2020-07-31 | 27 comments

97.

Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing magic instructions and fix problems (www.pcgamer.com)

50 points by rsecora 2020-07-13 | 4 comments

98.

You shouldn't use ENV variables for secret data (2017) (diogomonica.com)

50 points by cimnine 2020-07-13 | 42 comments

99.

On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services (www.bunniestudios.com)

50 points by zdw 2020-07-24 | 14 comments

100.

The greatest privilege we never talk about: beauty (medium.com)

49 points by ipeefreely 2020-07-13 | 14 comments

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