top 10 hacker news stories for 2019-01-17

Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over

https://newsroom.mastercard.com/2019/01/16/free-trials-without-the-hassle/

7 years ago

716 upvotes – 339 comments

Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals

https://github.com/schollz/howmanypeoplearearound

7 years ago

492 upvotes – 146 comments

Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool

https://dbeaver.io/

7 years ago

483 upvotes – 203 comments

Rust 1.32 released

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/01/17/Rust-1.32.0.html

7 years ago

430 upvotes – 161 comments

Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway

https://medium.com/s/story/nothing-can-stop-google-duckduckgo-is-trying-anyway-718eb7391423

7 years ago

388 upvotes – 244 comments

DNS Flag Day on February 1, 2019: check your domains

https://dnsflagday.net

7 years ago

375 upvotes – 93 comments

Microsoft pledges $500M for affordable housing in Seattle area

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/technology/microsoft-affordable-housing-seattle.html

7 years ago

338 upvotes – 178 comments

The creeping IT apocalypse

https://forrestbrazeal.com/2019/01/16/cloud-irregular-the-creeping-it-apocalypse/

7 years ago

324 upvotes – 277 comments

Let’s talk about open-source sustainability

https://github.blog/2019-01-17-lets-talk-about-open-source-sustainability

7 years ago

280 upvotes – 145 comments

Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email

https://blog.chaddickerson.com/2019/01/09/replacing-facebook/

7 years ago

269 upvotes – 145 comments
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