top 20 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

HeidiSQL – GUI client for MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL

https://www.heidisql.com/

7 years ago

250 upvotes – 92 comments

Professional programming resources

https://github.com/charlax/professional-programming

7 years ago

247 upvotes – 23 comments

Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/google-is-buying-fossils-smartwatch-tech-for-40-million/

7 years ago

246 upvotes – 173 comments

Federal HTTPS domains that'll expire soon because of US government shutdown

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/federal-https-domains-expire-government-shutdown/

7 years ago

240 upvotes – 213 comments

Lego collecting delivers huge and uncorrelated market returns

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/lego-collecting-delivers-huge-and-uncorrelated-market-returns

7 years ago

229 upvotes – 207 comments

ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0

https://www.scylladb.com/2019/01/17/scylla-open-source-3-0-overview/

7 years ago

210 upvotes – 68 comments

Screen time: how much is too much?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00137-6

7 years ago

190 upvotes – 266 comments

Hiring Is Broken

https://medium.com/@evnowandforever/f-you-i-quit-hiring-is-broken-bb8f3a48d324

7 years ago

163 upvotes – 307 comments

Adding new DNA letters makes novel proteins possible

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/01/19/adding-new-dna-letters-make-novel-proteins-possible

7 years ago

161 upvotes – 35 comments

Preparing for Prison (2016)

https://prisonuk.blogspot.com/2016/03/preparing-for-prison.html

7 years ago

160 upvotes – 94 comments
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