1368
642
NordVPN confirms it was hacked
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/
6 years ago
925
586
“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no-reason-to-believe-5g-is-safe/
781
296
Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21310030
400
Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21318704
560
283
Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined
https://www.businessinsider.com/fast-fashion-environmental-impact-pollution-emissions-waste-water-2019-10
480
84
63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/63-cores-blocked-by-seven-instructions/
301
Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud
https://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-americas-350-million-internal-cloud-bet-striking-payoff-2019-10
474
192
Ask HN: What are the most fundamental books on computer science?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21311302
464
217
Amazon is shipping expired food, customers say
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/20/amazon-is-shipping-expired-baby-formula-and-other-out-of-date-foods.html
200
The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control
http://lab.cccb.org/en/renata-avila-the-internet-of-creation-disappeared-now-we-have-the-internet-of-surveillance-and-control/
421
238
AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/aws-customers-rack-up-hefty-bills-for-moving-data?pu=hackernews7d0vdx&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock
419
177
BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzcon-2019-protest-full-steam-ahead-say-organiz/1100-6470690/
396
212
Google attempted to shut down a unionization meeting in Zurich
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/21/20924697/google-unionization-switzerland-zurich-syndicom-zooglers
387
265
Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan
https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/17/20919539/blizzard-entertainment-world-of-warcraft-event-taiwan-hong-kong-protests
362
340
Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish engineer saw red
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/21/traffic_lights_changed/
357
41
GNOME files defense against patent troll
https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/
348
145
Elm 0.19.1
https://elm-lang.org/news/the-syntax-cliff
342
181
DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing
https://duckduckgo.com/traffic?2019
297
415
To hire neurodiverse workers, one firm got rid of job interviews
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191018-where-75-of-workers-are-on-the-autistic-spectrum
295
316
Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth
http://morrick.me/archives/8599
341
The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new computer model confirms
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/
278
47
Doctor T, don’t you get tired of only seeing older patients?
https://twitter.com/TheRealDoctorT/status/1171831596724477952
271
1
Apparently NordVPN Was Compromised
https://twitter.com/hexdefined/status/1185864801261477891
260
Saudi Aramco Is the WeWork of Energy with Pulled IPO
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-21/saudi-aramco-s-pulled-ipo-shows-it-s-the-wework-of-energy
234
178
SoftBank to take control of WeWork: Sources
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/21/softbank-to-take-control-of-wework-sources.html
213
94
The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal election – ranked
http://www.nikobell.ca/the-invented-chinese-names-of-the-2019-federal-election-ranked/
199
45
RLSL: a Rust to SPIR-V Compiler
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_cB-sxUusYVoCYdXnqwAg2u3-lrqBfgrUj205ytxYaw/edit?usp=drivesdk
194
163
The voice from our Nest camera threatened to steal our baby
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2019/10/18/the-voice-from-our-nest-camera-threatened-to-steal-our-baby/
193
33
The Name of the Rose Background Ambience Generator
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/customTheNameOfTheRose.php
191
198
The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)
https://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-out-looking-like-a-toy/
190
59
Australia Newspapers Redact Front Pages in Media-Freedom Protest
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-20/australia-newspapers-redact-front-pages-in-media-freedom-protest
182
90
The Internet and the Third Estate
https://stratechery.com/2019/the-internet-and-the-third-estate/
172
114
We Don't Want to Run This Ad but Forced To
https://www.seroundtable.com/basecamp-google-ad-28161.html
161
57
How to Make a Great Puzzle Game
https://thepuzzle.press/how-to-make-a-great-puzzle-game/
159
115
Samsung Kills 'Linux on DeX' with Android 10 Rollout
https://www.tfir.io/samsung-decides-to-shut-down-linux-on-dex-with-android-10-rollout/
156
27
Equifax used 'admin' as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/equifax-password-username-admin-lawsuit-201118316.html
154
39
Build your own dial up ISP in 2019
https://dogemicrosystems.ca/wiki/Dial_up_server
124
97
CRISPR therapy may reverse autism gene mutation effects in mice: study
https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/crispr-therapy-may-reverse-autism-mutations-effects-well-past-infancy/
123
22
Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1695978552
119
87
DNS over HTTPS–What Is It and Why Do People Care? [pdf]
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11182
113
Lyft No Longer Showing What Individual Passengers Pay on Trips
https://jalopnik.com/i-wonder-what-they-are-hiding-lyft-drivers-can-no-long-1839224300
112
50
Phantom – forward-thinking concept of OS that's not Linux-derived
http://phantomos.org/
106
9
Show HN: Eole, a Lévy-optimal lambda calculus evaluator written in Rust
https://github.com/HerrmannM/eole
105
126
Why Did ArchLinux Embrace Systemd? (2016)
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4lzxs3/why_did_archlinux_embrace_systemd/d3rhxlc/
104
13
An on-going conversion of Scoopex's Amiga Hardware coding tutorials into C
https://github.com/spec-chum/Amiga-Scoopex-C
103
201
Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted
http://news.mit.edu/2019/antarctic-ice-cliffs-not-contribute-sea-level-rise-1021
100
Show HN: I founded a company and a platform to fund open source developers
http://equalize.digital/immutable-coffee.html
99
5
TU Delft researchers design new material by using Artificial Intelligence only
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2019/tu-delft/tu-delft-researchers-design-new-material-by-using-artificial-intelligence-only/
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