top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-09-25

Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

https://twitter.com/ctavan/status/1044282084020441088

8 years ago

2364 upvotes – 810 comments

Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking

https://twitter.com/jonathanmayer/status/1044300922149588993

8 years ago

996 upvotes – 355 comments

Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

https://nr.apple.com/dE4i2T4q4O

8 years ago

614 upvotes – 316 comments

Instagram’s CEO

https://stratechery.com/2018/instagrams-ceo/

8 years ago

566 upvotes – 123 comments

Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI server, and makes them pass

https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen

8 years ago

★ 15.4k JavaScript MIT
538 upvotes – 119 comments

Introducing Firefox Monitor, Helping People Take Control After a Data Breach

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/09/25/introducing-firefox-monitor-helping-people-take-control-after-a-data-breach/

8 years ago

515 upvotes – 84 comments

PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018

https://build-system.fman.io/pyqt5-tutorial

8 years ago

505 upvotes – 196 comments

Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/technology/instagram-cofounders-resign.html

8 years ago

467 upvotes – 219 comments

'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 world record

https://mashable.com/article/super-mario-bros-world-record/

8 years ago

445 upvotes – 121 comments

Building your own deep learning computer is 10x cheaper than AWS

https://medium.com/the-mission/why-building-your-own-deep-learning-computer-is-10x-cheaper-than-aws-b1c91b55ce8c

8 years ago

437 upvotes – 264 comments

AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/use-yubikey-security-key-sign-into-aws-management-console/

8 years ago

357 upvotes – 127 comments

Amazon donates $1M to Wikimedia

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/25/amazon-donates-1m-to-wikimedia/

8 years ago

337 upvotes – 84 comments

Evidence that addictive behaviors have links with ancient retroviral infection

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180924174503.htm

8 years ago

315 upvotes – 221 comments

Street View of 1980s New York

http://80s.nyc/#show/40.6218/-73.9900

8 years ago

304 upvotes – 93 comments

Manyverse – A social network off the grid

https://www.manyver.se/

8 years ago

298 upvotes – 117 comments

How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/09/how-we-rolled-out-one-of-the-largest-python-3-migrations-ever/

8 years ago

286 upvotes – 131 comments

Qualcomm accuses Apple of giving its chip secrets to Intel

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/25/qualcomm-accuses-apple-of-giving-its-chip-secrets-to-intel.html

8 years ago

274 upvotes – 83 comments

Java 11 released

https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/09/java11-released

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 165 comments

Wasmjit: Kernel Mode WebAssembly Runtime for Linux

https://github.com/rianhunter/wasmjit

8 years ago

214 upvotes – 133 comments

Old Concept Cars

http://oldconceptcars.com

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 51 comments

Qutebrowser – A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser based on PyQt5

https://www.qutebrowser.org/

8 years ago

202 upvotes – 107 comments

Tidelift wants open-source developers to get paid

https://www.wired.com/story/netflix-open-source-wants-developers-get-paid/

8 years ago

189 upvotes – 104 comments

What I Learned from a Taipei Alley

http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2018/5/11/taipei-alley

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 52 comments

Meshbird – distributed private networking

http://meshbird.com/

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 42 comments

Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet

https://www.bloombergquint.com/pursuits/2018/09/25/millennials-are-causing-the-u-s-divorce-rate-to-plummet

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 253 comments

Denmark doubles capital buffer to contain wider Danske Bank risks

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-danske-bank-moneylaundering/denmark-doubles-capital-buffer-to-contain-wider-danske-bank-risks-idUSKCN1M5162

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 83 comments

Tech Giants Spend $80B to Make Sure No One Else Can Compete

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-24/tech-companies-spend-80-billion-building-a-competitive-edge

8 years ago

140 upvotes – 83 comments

No class action for unhappy Uber drivers: U.S. appeals court

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-lawsuits/uber-can-force-drivers-into-arbitration-u-s-appeals-court-idUSKCN1M526F?il=0

8 years ago

129 upvotes – 219 comments

Telltale Autopsy

https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=44111

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 86 comments

Dust storms on Titan spotted by Cassini for the first time

https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huygens/Dust_storms_on_Titan_spotted_by_Cassini_for_the_first_time

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 10 comments

BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-To-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration

https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08632v1

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 37 comments

WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I'd never heard of Enigma until after the war

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/25/bletchley_bombe_operator_interview/

8 years ago

117 upvotes – 59 comments

Startup Nation? Entrepreneurs Still Toil in Macron's France

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-25/startup-nation-entrepreneurs-still-struggle-in-macron-s-france

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 120 comments

Google CEO Sundar Pichai to Meet with Top GOP Lawmakers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-to-meet-with-top-gop-lawmakers-1537829900

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 294 comments

Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Ups

https://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: Trolley lets you take payments from your static site

https://trolley.link

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 54 comments

Swift 5.0 release process

https://swift.org/blog/5-0-release-process/

8 years ago

95 upvotes – 79 comments

Treating the Bay Area as like working in the mines

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/09/24/the-mines/

8 years ago

90 upvotes – 75 comments

Go West

https://florentcrivello.com/index.php/2018/09/25/go-west-young-man/

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 123 comments

Tell HN: Legacy WebAudio content will break in Chrome 70

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18066474

8 years ago

88 upvotes – 27 comments
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