top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-09-07

Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/07/a-dozen-popular-iphone-apps-caught-quietly-sending-user-locations-to-monetization-firms/

8 years ago

677 upvotes – 252 comments

Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole

https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/

8 years ago

510 upvotes – 222 comments

My Story as a Homeless Developer

https://medium.com/@jessehorne/my-story-as-a-homeless-developer-5874731c42ed

8 years ago

482 upvotes – 300 comments

Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/technology/alibaba-jack-ma-retiring.html

8 years ago

401 upvotes – 125 comments

YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politically extreme content

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/world/europe/youtube-far-right-extremism.html

8 years ago

395 upvotes – 242 comments

Firefox about:config privacy settings

https://gist.github.com/0XDE57/fbd302cef7693e62c769

8 years ago

362 upvotes – 147 comments

Try OCaml

https://try.ocamlpro.com/

8 years ago

341 upvotes – 227 comments

Intel can’t supply 14nm Xeons, HPE recommends AMD Epyc

https://www.semiaccurate.com/2018/09/07/intel-cant-supply-14nm-xeons-hpe-directly-recommends-amd-epyc/

8 years ago

328 upvotes – 125 comments

Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure

https://hbr.org/2018/09/why-google-fiber-is-high-speed-internets-most-successful-failure

8 years ago

281 upvotes – 157 comments

EU copyright reform: the facts

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2018/09/07/eu-copyright-reform-the-facts/

8 years ago

273 upvotes – 106 comments

Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/security/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wpa3

8 years ago

261 upvotes – 152 comments

Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phones

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/06/huawei-caught-cheating-performance-test-for-new-phones/

8 years ago

260 upvotes – 115 comments

Hospitals to launch their own drug company to fight high prices and shortages

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/06/644935958/hospitals-prepare-to-launch-their-own-drug-company-to-fight-high-prices-and-shor

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 138 comments

Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption

https://palant.de/2018/09/06/keybase-our-browser-extension-subverts-our-encryption-but-why-should-we-care

8 years ago

225 upvotes – 75 comments

'Mindful people' feel less pain

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-09-mindful-people-pain-mri-imaging.html

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 149 comments

Quaternions: the Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra-20180906/

8 years ago

205 upvotes – 79 comments

On the Road to Pure Go X11 GUIs

https://p.janouch.name/article-xgb.html

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 118 comments

AVX-512: when and how to use these new instructions

https://lemire.me/blog/2018/09/07/avx-512-when-and-how-to-use-these-new-instructions/

8 years ago

188 upvotes – 52 comments

Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That

https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-years-ago-india-lacked-fast-cheap-internetone-billionaire-changed-all-that-1536159916

8 years ago

186 upvotes – 138 comments

What went wrong at Social Capital

https://www.axios.com/social-capital-collapse-0c3257ab-b599-4047-b5cc-5d465419b373.html

8 years ago

185 upvotes – 89 comments
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