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1.

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches (techcrunch.com)

2968 points by mpweiher 2018-02-06 | 872 comments

2.

14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School (techcrunch.com)

1952 points by ahmad19526 2015-09-16 | 946 comments

3.

Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M (techcrunch.com)

1857 points by SwaroopH 2017-01-09 | 733 comments

4.

Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day (techcrunch.com)

1742 points by ericflo 2011-12-22 | 272 comments

5.

It’s time to give Firefox another chance (techcrunch.com)

1674 points by uladzislau 2017-09-29 | 712 comments

6.

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor (techcrunch.com)

1608 points by MikusR 2015-04-29 | 543 comments

7.

FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote (techcrunch.com)

1489 points by LukeB_UK 2015-02-26 | 711 comments

8.

Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN (techcrunch.com)

1438 points by randomacct3847 2019-01-29 | 441 comments

9.

Twitter ‘smytes’ customers (techcrunch.com)

1422 points by panarky 2018-06-22 | 551 comments

10.

Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook (techcrunch.com)

1390 points by middle1 2018-03-23 | 502 comments

11.

Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion (techcrunch.com)

1214 points by iamben 2011-08-15 | 369 comments

12.

Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit (techcrunch.com)

1188 points by dkasper 2014-03-16 | 1058 comments

13.

AMP for email is a terrible idea (techcrunch.com)

1151 points by coloneltcb 2018-02-14 | 465 comments

14.

Apple Sign In (techcrunch.com)

1141 points by ikarandeep 2019-06-03 | 525 comments

15.

Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs (techcrunch.com)

1129 points by vassvdm 2014-02-19 | 802 comments

16.

Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack (techcrunch.com)

1126 points by Varcht 2017-11-08 | 464 comments

17.

Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel (techcrunch.com)

1120 points by lemiant 2017-11-07 | 609 comments

18.

So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar… (techcrunch.com)

1098 points by icey 2010-09-21 | 232 comments

19.

Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent (techcrunch.com)

1072 points by pseudolus 2019-05-31 | 219 comments

20.

Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe (techcrunch.com)

1034 points by pdcerb 2018-03-05 | 379 comments

21.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral (techcrunch.com)

986 points by mariusz79 2016-09-01 | 535 comments

22.

A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data (techcrunch.com)

934 points by sahin-boydas 2018-09-08 | 276 comments

23.

Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users (techcrunch.com)

932 points by jmsflknr 2019-03-13 | 293 comments

24.

Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac (techcrunch.com)

915 points by Errorcod3 2015-04-29 | 237 comments

25.

All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate (techcrunch.com)

901 points by twinkletwinkle 2018-03-08 | 376 comments

26.

Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework (techcrunch.com)

851 points by apetresc 2017-04-18 | 406 comments

27.

#deletefacebook (techcrunch.com)

836 points by middle1 2018-03-19 | 398 comments

28.

Google is acquiring Kaggle (techcrunch.com)

810 points by Perados 2017-03-08 | 156 comments

29.

NHTSA’s full investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction (techcrunch.com)

808 points by fmihaila 2017-01-19 | 314 comments

30.

SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy (techcrunch.com)

798 points by vfc1 2018-09-13 | 528 comments

31.

Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google (techcrunch.com)

779 points by linuxnow 2011-05-12 | 142 comments

32.

Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21 (techcrunch.com)

764 points by brackin 2011-11-13 | 230 comments

33.

DigitalOcean launches its container service (techcrunch.com)

763 points by neom 2018-12-11 | 250 comments

34.

Subscription Hell (techcrunch.com)

745 points by Semirhage 2018-05-06 | 597 comments

35.

Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns (techcrunch.com)

744 points by pyprism 2017-06-13 | 442 comments

36.

Cloudflare’s fight with a “patent troll” could alter the game (techcrunch.com)

723 points by Stanleyc23 2017-07-11 | 274 comments

37.

Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World (techcrunch.com)

720 points by pearlsteinj 2016-02-01 | 419 comments

38.

Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up (techcrunch.com)

718 points by xuki 2018-06-29 | 569 comments

39.

Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash (techcrunch.com)

717 points by gspyrou 2010-12-08 | 198 comments

40.

Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation (techcrunch.com)

710 points by e1ven 2019-02-05 | 770 comments

41.

Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation (techcrunch.com)

710 points by CodeGenie 2016-11-10 | 614 comments

42.

A decentralized web would give power back to the people online (techcrunch.com)

710 points by endswapper 2016-10-09 | 348 comments

43.

Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company (techcrunch.com)

693 points by eklavyaa 2019-06-04 | 461 comments

44.

Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000 (techcrunch.com)

692 points by middle1 2018-01-15 | 190 comments

45.

Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B (techcrunch.com)

692 points by harshgupta 2018-04-03 | 453 comments

46.

Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex” (techcrunch.com)

687 points by laktak 2018-10-24 | 521 comments

47.

Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads (techcrunch.com)

683 points by zhuxuefeng1994 2015-09-01 | 302 comments

48.

SF’s Housing Crisis Explained (techcrunch.com)

683 points by minimaxir 2014-04-15 | 465 comments

49.

Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system (techcrunch.com)

680 points by rbanffy 2017-04-03 | 402 comments

50.

Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms (techcrunch.com)

677 points by tareqak 2018-09-07 | 253 comments

51.

Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality (techcrunch.com)

675 points by AhmadM91 2018-08-21 | 242 comments

52.

Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign (techcrunch.com)

675 points by sethbannon 2017-01-31 | 530 comments

53.

AngelList acquires Product Hunt (techcrunch.com)

656 points by gjenkin 2016-12-01 | 265 comments

54.

Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees (techcrunch.com)

652 points by mayneack 2019-02-21 | 278 comments

55.

Not OK, Google (techcrunch.com)

651 points by CapitalistCartr 2016-10-05 | 575 comments

56.

Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day (techcrunch.com)

646 points by koolba 2018-07-16 | 360 comments

57.

Apple Cancels AirPower Product (techcrunch.com)

637 points by gtCameron 2019-03-29 | 479 comments

58.

GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool (techcrunch.com)

636 points by moritzplassnig 2018-10-16 | 143 comments

59.

Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago (techcrunch.com)

635 points by martinoma 2013-01-14 | 469 comments

60.

LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members (techcrunch.com)

619 points by sidcool 2018-11-25 | 139 comments

61.

Tencent buys 5% of Tesla (techcrunch.com)

606 points by jhartmann 2017-03-28 | 356 comments

62.

WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference (techcrunch.com)

605 points by sophmonroe 2010-10-26 | 161 comments

63.

Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch (techcrunch.com)

602 points by Ours90 2018-07-18 | 195 comments

64.

Police complaints drop over 90% after deploying body cameras (techcrunch.com)

597 points by riqbal 2016-10-04 | 313 comments

65.

Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen (techcrunch.com)

595 points by ickler8 2016-11-16 | 332 comments

66.

Google Docs gets an API for task automation (techcrunch.com)

594 points by Manu1987 2019-02-11 | 191 comments

67.

Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting (techcrunch.com)

586 points by longdefeat 2019-03-04 | 243 comments

68.

Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum (techcrunch.com)

586 points by dko 2012-12-07 | 207 comments

69.

You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS (techcrunch.com)

585 points by willsinclair 2018-05-08 | 321 comments

70.

Password expiration is dead, long live passwords (techcrunch.com)

585 points by davidgh 2019-06-02 | 311 comments

71.

Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue (techcrunch.com)

581 points by pseudolus 2018-12-31 | 378 comments

72.

Uber Drivers Deemed Employees by California Labor Commission (techcrunch.com)

580 points by uptown 2015-06-17 | 593 comments

73.

Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U (techcrunch.com)

578 points by _nh_ 2017-10-13 | 114 comments

74.

Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft, Amazon to Develop Common Container Standard (techcrunch.com)

577 points by yurisagalov 2015-06-22 | 120 comments

75.

Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B (techcrunch.com)

576 points by dogichow 2018-06-28 | 318 comments

76.

Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI (techcrunch.com)

573 points by monsieurpng 2016-09-28 | 248 comments

77.

Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness (techcrunch.com)

572 points by bpierre 2016-09-06 | 337 comments

78.

Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger (techcrunch.com)

568 points by prostoalex 2016-06-04 | 496 comments

79.

Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code (techcrunch.com)

564 points by jbegley 2019-02-07 | 256 comments

80.

Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels (techcrunch.com)

558 points by ssclafani 2010-09-24 | 206 comments

81.

Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers (techcrunch.com)

554 points by sinstein 2019-02-08 | 725 comments

82.

SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside (techcrunch.com)

550 points by janober 2017-08-11 | 218 comments

83.

FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger rollbacks (techcrunch.com)

550 points by vivekmgeorge 2017-02-24 | 306 comments

84.

Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 (techcrunch.com)

545 points by mikece 2018-12-04 | 327 comments

85.

Google is releasing 20M bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno (techcrunch.com)

545 points by chriskanan 2017-07-14 | 215 comments

86.

Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election (techcrunch.com)

542 points by grdeken 2018-03-16 | 193 comments

87.

Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy (techcrunch.com)

538 points by janober 2017-06-21 | 316 comments

88.

Google Launches Android Studio 2.0 (techcrunch.com)

532 points by Garbage 2015-11-23 | 168 comments

89.

Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit (techcrunch.com)

529 points by tashoecraft 2017-07-18 | 341 comments

90.

Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones (techcrunch.com)

529 points by kevining 2015-12-08 | 322 comments

91.

Arduino in the size of a AA battery (techcrunch.com)

528 points by asimuvPR 2016-04-20 | 170 comments

92.

New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied on French Companies (techcrunch.com)

528 points by maelito 2015-06-29 | 248 comments

93.

Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO (techcrunch.com)

526 points by hashx 2014-04-10 | 350 comments

94.

Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari (techcrunch.com)

517 points by Allvitende 2017-06-05 | 286 comments

95.

Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions (techcrunch.com)

514 points by vthallam 2017-01-29 | 261 comments

96.

Google launches AMP for email (techcrunch.com)

512 points by napolux 2019-03-26 | 480 comments

97.

OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock (techcrunch.com)

512 points by tilt 2016-06-13 | 564 comments

98.

Uber finds one allegedly stolen Waymo file on an employee’s personal device (techcrunch.com)

512 points by folz 2017-04-05 | 339 comments

99.

Facebook buys Parse (techcrunch.com)

511 points by uptown 2013-04-25 | 268 comments

100.

Windows gets a new terminal (techcrunch.com)

509 points by MikusR 2019-05-06 | 422 comments

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