top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-10-09

Ken Thompson's Unix Password

https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2019/10/ken-thompson-s-unix-password.html

6 years ago

2101 upvotes – 637 comments

I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced

https://twitter.com/digitallawyer/status/1181348689756864513

6 years ago

781 upvotes – 353 comments

Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

https://www.thedailybeast.com/blizzard-employees-staged-a-walkout-to-protest-banned-pro-hong-kong-gamer

6 years ago

750 upvotes – 304 comments

What Happens to the Body on No Sleep

https://www.outsideonline.com/2292806/your-body-no-sleep

6 years ago

636 upvotes – 313 comments

Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjw535/blizzards-hong-kong-screw-up-is-officially-an-international-incident

6 years ago

605 upvotes – 382 comments

A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/the-dumb-reason-your-fancy-computer-vision-app-isnt-working-exif-orientation-73166c7d39da

6 years ago

599 upvotes – 167 comments

Pair Locking Your iPhone

https://arkadiyt.com/2019/10/07/pair-locking-your-iphone-with-configurator-2/

6 years ago

583 upvotes – 302 comments

Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1181946357759844352

6 years ago

446 upvotes – 107 comments

Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium Battery Innovators

https://www.quantamagazine.org/chemistry-nobel-goes-to-lithium-battery-innovators-20191009/

6 years ago

427 upvotes – 96 comments

Ex-World of Warcraft developer's thread about China and the gaming industry

https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1181736075775004672

6 years ago

408 upvotes – 150 comments

Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China

https://reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dfkmp1/blizzards_official_weibo_account_just_posted_an/

6 years ago

382 upvotes – 85 comments

Overwatch's Mei Is Becoming a Symbol of the Hong Kong Resistance

https://kotaku.com/overwatchs-mei-is-becoming-a-symbol-of-the-hong-kong-re-1838899963

6 years ago

375 upvotes – 72 comments

China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/china-attacks-apple-for-allowing-hong-kong-crowdsourced-police-activity-app/

6 years ago

372 upvotes – 206 comments

Critical Security Issue Identified in iTerm2

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical-issue-moss-audit/

6 years ago

339 upvotes – 127 comments

Schneier on Australia's encryption laws and CyberCon speaker bans

https://www.zdnet.com/article/schneier-slams-australias-encryption-laws-cybercon-speaker-bans/

6 years ago

339 upvotes – 86 comments

Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy

https://reason.com/2019/10/09/the-economy-keeps-growing-but-americans-are-using-less-steel-paper-fertilizer-and-energy/

6 years ago

318 upvotes – 308 comments

Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite

https://freedom.press/training/blog/newsrooms-lets-talk-about-gsuite/

6 years ago

302 upvotes – 122 comments

String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/string-theory-does-not-win-a-nobel-and-i-win-a-bet/

6 years ago

298 upvotes – 155 comments

Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by Half

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/

6 years ago

284 upvotes – 76 comments

The Future of Mathematics? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp-mQ3HxgDE

6 years ago

271 upvotes – 99 comments
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