top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-10-22

Firefox 70

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefox-70-a-bountiful-release-for-all/

6 years ago

1595 upvotes – 457 comments

Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21324768

6 years ago

1331 upvotes – 918 comments

Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/new-york-ranked-choice-voting.html

6 years ago

836 upvotes – 394 comments

Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf]

http://securities.stanford.edu/filings-documents/1063/EI00_15/2019128_r01x_17CV03463.pdf

6 years ago

757 upvotes – 219 comments

Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/10/22/latest-firefox-brings-privacy-protections-front-and-center-letting-you-track-the-trackers/

6 years ago

658 upvotes – 205 comments

Firefox is getting language translation

https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-get-page-translation-feature-like-chrome/

6 years ago

556 upvotes – 123 comments

Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS with Core Animation

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-reduced-power-usage-in-firefox-70-on-macos-with-core-animation/

6 years ago

526 upvotes – 78 comments

London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution by a third

https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/ulez-reduces-polluting-cars-by-13500-every-day

6 years ago

433 upvotes – 185 comments

Typography of Neon Genesis Evangelion

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion

6 years ago

415 upvotes – 111 comments

Don't Use VPN Services

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

6 years ago

408 upvotes – 257 comments

Estonia is running its country like a tech company

https://qz.com/1535549/living-on-the-blockchain-is-a-game-changer-for-estonian-citizens/

6 years ago

365 upvotes – 199 comments

Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325138

6 years ago

318 upvotes – 202 comments

Ghost 3.0

https://ghost.org/blog/3-0/

6 years ago

300 upvotes – 112 comments

Natural Language Processing (2018) [pdf]

https://github.com/jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class/blob/master/notes/eisenstein-nlp-notes.pdf

6 years ago

★ 5k TeX
290 upvotes – 12 comments

Cache Poisoned DoS Attack: Shutdown any CDN Website with One HTTP Request

https://cpdos.org/

6 years ago

283 upvotes – 88 comments

Assange in Court

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/assange-in-court/

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 165 comments

Unix Turns 50

https://www.bell-labs.com/unix50/

6 years ago

251 upvotes – 66 comments

Pizza Hut’s First Website

https://www.pizzahut.com/assets/pizzanet/home.html

6 years ago

246 upvotes – 151 comments

Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_otTrBTrjyohi

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 27 comments

Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition (2017)

http://www.shapeoperator.com/2017/02/28/geometry-algebra-intuition/

6 years ago

244 upvotes – 39 comments

McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/banks-must-act-now-or-risk-becoming-a-footnote-mckinsey-says

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 156 comments

No Maintenance Intended

http://unmaintained.tech/

6 years ago

236 upvotes – 49 comments

TechCrunch published Snap earnings before numbers went public

https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1186735799338860544

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 91 comments

New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Security Position

https://twitter.com/runasand/status/1186775481615605760

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 74 comments

Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time

https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/nist-time-frequently-asked-questions-faq#cut

6 years ago

200 upvotes – 155 comments

Faces of Open Source

http://www.facesofopensource.com/

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 122 comments

Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3800247

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 92 comments

Our Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with Andromeda in 4B Years

https://kottke.org/19/10/behold-our-dazzling-night-sky-when-the-milky-way-collides-with-andromeda-in-4-billion-years

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 120 comments

Rethinking Encryption

https://www.lawfareblog.com/rethinking-encryption

6 years ago

177 upvotes – 116 comments

Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

https://www.mailgun.com/blog/mailgun-acquires-european-competitor-mailjet/

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 112 comments

Slimbook collaborates with the PowerPC laptop

https://slimbook.es/en/noticias-notas-de-prensa-y-reviews/435-slimbook-collaborates-with-the-powerpc-laptop

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 104 comments

Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/22/school-student-surveillance-bark-gaggle

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 98 comments

Google clamps down on free storage

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 259 comments

FTC Brings First Case Against Developers of “Stalking” Apps

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/10/ftc-brings-first-case-against-developers-stalking-apps

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 125 comments

Oxford Professor Is Accused of Selling Ancient Texts

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/europe/oxford-professor-bible-hobby-lobby.html

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 97 comments

An Introduction to Real-Time Subsurface Scattering

https://therealmjp.github.io/posts/sss-intro/

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 4 comments

AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors

https://status.aws.amazon.com#r53

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 56 comments

Storing 50M events per second in Elasticsearch

https://datadome.co/store-50-million-event-per-second-in-elasticsearch/

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 44 comments

A Landmark Climate Trial Turns on Whether Exxon Cooked the Books

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-22/landmark-climate-trial-turns-on-whether-exxon-cooked-the-books

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 70 comments

Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait for the next recession

https://theweek.com/articles/871131/think-young-people-are-hostile-capitalism-now-just-wait-next-recession

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 285 comments

Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story [video]

https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 52 comments

An Intern's Experience with Rust

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/10/16/an-interns-experience-with-rust/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 126 comments

WeWork Needed a Bailout, But Adam Neumann Still Leaves a Billionaire

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/neumann-clings-to-billionaire-status-after-wework-gets-a-bailout

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 98 comments

I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900

https://www.reddit.com/r/juststart/comments/dkyq92/how_i_wasted_10_weeks_of_my_life_and_1900/

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 86 comments

Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/elon-musk-tweets-using-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 109 comments

Node.js 13.0

https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases/tag/v13.0.0

6 years ago

★ 116.9k JavaScript
115 upvotes – 47 comments

Infosys shares drop to 10-month low as whistle-blowers target CEO

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/infosys-whistleblowers-allege-unethical-practices-shares-fall

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 80 comments

Bipolar-Zener Combo Takes On CMOS

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1335216

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 55 comments

U.S. tech inventors are highly clustered because of idea spillover

https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/10/technology-inventions-where-work-patents-agglomeration-data/599089/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 48 comments

YARA – A pattern-matching Swiss knife for malware researchers

http://virustotal.github.io/yara/

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 12 comments

The Ever-Present Glow of LED Greenhouses

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/10/greenhouse-series/

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 69 comments

47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation

https://sociable.co/social-media/47-attorneys-general-support-facebook-antitrust-investigation/

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 22 comments

Blind auditions and gender discrimination

https://jsmp.dk/posts/2019-05-12-blindauditions/

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

The demise of Docker and the rise of Kubernetes

https://thehftguy.com/2019/10/22/the-demise-of-docker-and-the-rise-of-kubernetes/

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 96 comments

Firefox Lockwise – Encrypted Password Manager

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/lockwise/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21327217

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 127 comments
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