top 10 hacker news stories for 2019-10-17

TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free

6 years ago

Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50048144

6 years ago

Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50080586

6 years ago

BrachioGraph – a cheap, simple pen plotter

https://brachiograph.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

6 years ago

Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook

https://digiday.com/marketing/after-mozilla-stopped-spending-on-facebook-the-company-increased-its-focus-on-offline-marketing/

6 years ago

Stupid Unix Tricks

https://sneak.berlin/20191011/stupid-unix-tricks/

6 years ago

Rejected from YC (Again)

https://veed.io/blog/rejected-from-yc#update

6 years ago

Python at Scale: Strict Modules

https://instagram-engineering.com/python-at-scale-strict-modules-c0bb9245c834

6 years ago

Aquameta: Web development platform built in PostgreSQL

https://github.com/aquametalabs/aquameta

6 years ago

★ 1.1k PLpgSQL GPL-3.0

Zappos 2012 data breach settlement

http://www.zapposdatasettlement.com/frequently-asked-questions.aspx#a10

6 years ago