1325
558
Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/bill-barr-facebook-letter-halt-encryption
6 years ago
905
253
SQL queries don't start with SELECT
https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/03/sql-queries-don-t-start-with-select/
841
505
Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/02/apple_hong_kong/
603
322
Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within the Linux Kernel
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-KCSAN-Sanitizer
534
114
Apple Successfully Implements OpenID Connect with Sign in with Apple
https://openid.net/2019/09/30/apple-successfully-implements-openid-connect-with-sign-in-with-apple/
530
218
Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out Attack on Encryption
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/open-letter-governments-us-uk-and-australia-facebook-all-out-attack-encryption
518
66
EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study Law Enforcement Use
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/victory-eff-wins-access-license-plate-reader-data-study-how-law-enforcement-uses
434
351
Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21144228
373
83
PostgreSQL 12
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/release-12.html
365
180
Samsung ends mobile phone production in China
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-china/samsung-ends-mobile-phone-production-in-china-idUSKBN1WH0LR
340
Crontab.guru – cron schedule expression editor
https://crontab.guru/
308
384
An Update to Our Community and an Apology
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334248/an-update-to-our-community-and-an-apology
305
35
A Gentle Introduction to Bayes’ Theorem for Machine Learning
https://machinelearningmastery.com/bayes-theorem-for-machine-learning/
300
229
Auto-Antonyms
http://www.fun-with-words.com/nym_autoantonyms.html
295
139
Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors embrace Saudi Arabia again
https://www.fastcompany.com/90412231/year-after-khashoggi-murder-investors-embrace-saudi-arabia
294
111
Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21153175
286
421
What Is Good About Haskell?
https://doisinkidney.com/posts/2019-10-02-what-is-good-about-haskell.html
276
261
A rise in vegetarian options leads customers to embrace meat-free meals
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02934-5
265
469
China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains
https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/10/article/china-laying-tracks-for-1000km-h-maglev-trains/
254
268
Report: Young adults more likely to live with parents than spouses
https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/reconfiguring-the-american-household/
231
61
Show HN: Scale Heaven – Browse and play any scale/chord, chord progression
https://scale-heaven.com/
214
74
How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
https://numinous.productions/ttft/
208
125
Hong Kong protests: Authorities to announce face mask ban
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49918889
206
What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?
https://80000hours.org/2019/10/anonymous-advice-careers/
203
158
United Kingdom Budget Visualization
https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2016
201
10
Statistics for Engineers: Applying statistical techniques to operations (2016)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2903468
198
94
France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/french-liberte-tested-by-nationwide-facial-recognition-id-plan
196
227
Why some software developers hate Agile
https://www.objectstyle.com/agile/why-developers-hate-agile
185
147
Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for facial recognition
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20896181/google-contractor-reportedly-targeted-homeless-people-for-pixel-4-facial-recognition
172
138
Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out
https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/update-approaching-ipv4-run-out
146
Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?
https://moultano.wordpress.com/2019/10/02/why-do-companies-with-huge-resources-still-have-terrible-moderation/
171
Kitty Hawk reveals its secret project, Heaviside
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/03/kitty-hawk-reveals-its-secret-project-heaviside/
170
27
Karatsuba Algorithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsuba_algorithm
31
UK Government Selects OpenAPI v3
https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2019/10/02/improve-csvs-and-api-descriptions-with-these-open-standards-board-recommendations/
142
101
Lua 5.4.0 beta
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2019-10/msg00003.html
141
36
An Update on Plugin Security
https://www.figma.com/blog/an-update-on-plugin-security/
137
131
After discovering he has at least 17 kids, man sues fertility clinic
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/father-of-at-least-17-kids-sues-fertility-clinic-says-he-agreed-to-only-5/
136
Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
https://www.zdnet.com/article/dutch-police-take-down-hornets-nest-of-ddos-botnets/
132
19
Show HN: 8086/8088 assembler that runs over 8088 hardware with modern syntax
https://github.com/nanochess/tinyasm/
130
64
Monica Cellio's account of losing her moderator status on Stack Exchange
https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5193/stack-overflow-inc-sinat-chinam-and-the-goat-for-azazel
149
Cryptocurrency Startup School
https://events.a16z.com/cryptostartupschool/
120
38
Fall Foliage Map and Nationwide Peak Leaf Forecast
https://smokymountains.com/fall-foliage-map/
119
248
New Cars’ Pedestrian-Safety Features Fail in Deadliest Situations
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-cars-pedestrian-safety-features-fail-in-deadliest-situations-study-finds-11570075260?mod=rsswn
85
A Virtual Museum of Soviet Everyday Life
http://kommunalka.colgate.edu/index.cfm
118
41
Picolibc – Libc for Embedded Systems
https://keithp.com/blogs/picolibc/
116
34
Show HN: I am a high school student and I did research on 3D adversarial attacks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06062
106
33
Less than 6 hours of sleep a night linked to increased risk of early death
https://www.nhs.uk/news/lifestyle-and-exercise/less-6-hours-sleep-night-linked-increased-risk-early-death/
105
5
New ‘infrared vision’ technique can help with cancer immunotherapy
https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2019/10/03/infrared-vision-immunotherapy/
102
My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)
https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html
100
52
Getting started with NodeGUI, a Qt-based library for desktop applications
https://hibbard.eu/node-gui/
91
28
Show HN: CyberWeb – Building a Web Browser from Scratch on Windows 2000 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RhW4njFimw
49
Amazon Plans $800M Data Center in Argentina
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/amazon-web-services-poised-to-build-a-data-center-in-argentina
Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors embrace Saudi Arabia again