top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-02-20

U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/us/politics/civil-asset-forfeiture-supreme-court.html

7 years ago

1426 upvotes – 423 comments

Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/pee-chlorine-red-eyes-swimming-pools-cdc-1.3127865

7 years ago

674 upvotes – 330 comments

Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret

https://www.businessinsider.com/nest-microphone-was-never-supposed-to-be-a-secret-2019-2

7 years ago

490 upvotes – 268 comments

Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland and Italy Oppose EU Copyright Directive

https://www.permanentrepresentations.nl/permanent-representations/pr-eu-brussels/documents/policy-notes/2019/02/20/joint-statement-regarding-the-copyright-directive

7 years ago

439 upvotes – 155 comments

A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/master/README.md

7 years ago

★ 3.7k MIT
437 upvotes – 183 comments

This Cat Does Not Exist

https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/

7 years ago

428 upvotes – 180 comments

I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement

https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-i-hit-115k-mo-with-a-status-quo-improvement-c45d11ad17

7 years ago

407 upvotes – 274 comments

Y Combinator Resources for Developers

https://yc.dev

7 years ago

392 upvotes – 126 comments

WiFi Hides Inside a USB Cable

https://hackaday.com/2019/02/18/wifi-hides-inside-a-usb-cable/

7 years ago

384 upvotes – 153 comments

Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management

https://www.securityevaluators.com/casestudies/password-manager-hacking/

7 years ago

350 upvotes – 198 comments

Linux Kernel Through 4.20.10 Found Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution

https://coocoor.com/advisory/cve/CVE-2019-8912

7 years ago

312 upvotes – 146 comments

Trolls Are Real

https://www.eff.org/effector/32/3

7 years ago

306 upvotes – 93 comments

Show HN: Commento: a fast, privacy-focused alternative to Disqus

https://commento.io

7 years ago

271 upvotes – 85 comments

Cancer death rates are falling, five-year survival rates rising

https://ourworldindata.org/cancer-death-rates-are-falling-five-year-survival-rates-are-rising

7 years ago

269 upvotes – 113 comments

Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child Videos

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-20/disney-pulls-youtube-ads-amid-concerns-over-child-video-voyeurs

7 years ago

255 upvotes – 300 comments

Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/let-s-talkconcurrency-panel-discussion-with-sir-tony-hoare-joe-armstrong-and-carl-hewitt.html

7 years ago

250 upvotes – 113 comments

OnionShare 2 adds anonymous dropboxes

https://micahflee.com/2019/02/onionshare-2/

7 years ago

241 upvotes – 59 comments

Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia

https://kirkcenter.org/essays/would-you-recognize-a-dystopia-if-you-saw-one/

7 years ago

236 upvotes – 212 comments

US Cities Are Becoming More Dangerous for Cyclists and Pedestrians

https://theconversation.com/why-us-cities-are-becoming-more-dangerous-for-cyclists-and-pedestrians-111713

7 years ago

220 upvotes – 256 comments

UBS Is Fined $4.2B in French Tax-Evasion Case

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ubs-is-fined-4-2-billion-in-french-tax-evasion-case-11550668920

7 years ago

217 upvotes – 71 comments
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