top 20 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

1519 upvotes – 447 comments

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

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

6 years ago

903 upvotes – 546 comments

Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone

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

6 years ago

668 upvotes – 309 comments

BrachioGraph – a cheap, simple pen plotter

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

6 years ago

596 upvotes – 104 comments

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

436 upvotes – 185 comments

Stupid Unix Tricks

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

6 years ago

427 upvotes – 157 comments

Rejected from YC (Again)

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

6 years ago

403 upvotes – 258 comments

Python at Scale: Strict Modules

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

6 years ago

388 upvotes – 251 comments

Aquameta: Web development platform built in PostgreSQL

https://github.com/aquametalabs/aquameta

6 years ago

355 upvotes – 91 comments

Zappos 2012 data breach settlement

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

6 years ago

341 upvotes – 113 comments

An Interview with Jose Valim, Creator of Elixir

https://www.welcometothejungle.co/en/articles/btc-elixir-jose-valim

6 years ago

320 upvotes – 171 comments

Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJZzq0v7Z4

6 years ago

296 upvotes – 404 comments

New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/new-universe-miniproteins-upending-cell-biology-and-genetics?rss=1

6 years ago

296 upvotes – 115 comments

Fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medical history (2018)

https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/how-fake-docs-carnival-sideshow-brought-baby-incubators-to-main-stage

6 years ago

272 upvotes – 78 comments

DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/dns-domain-name-servers

6 years ago

250 upvotes – 38 comments

OpenBSD 6.6

https://www.openbsd.org/66.html

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 90 comments

Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/16/microsoft-launches-new-open-source-projects-around-kubernetes-and-microservices/

6 years ago

223 upvotes – 124 comments

Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key to Spycraft

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/16/770368584/eat-drink-and-be-wary-ex-cia-officer-reveals-how-eateries-are-key-to-spycraft

6 years ago

219 upvotes – 148 comments

Haskell in Production

http://felixmulder.com/writing/2019/10/05/Haskell-in-Production.html

6 years ago

200 upvotes – 237 comments

Loopless Programming

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Loopless

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 122 comments
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