top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-10-29

Text Editing Hates You Too

https://lord.io/blog/2019/text-editing-hates-you-too/

6 years ago

875 upvotes – 282 comments

Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/growth/product/issues/164

6 years ago

602 upvotes – 271 comments

Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet

https://rietta.com/blog/comcast-insecure-injection/

6 years ago

599 upvotes – 296 comments

WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/whatsapp-sues-israels-nso-for-allegedly-helping-spies-hack-phones-around-the-world-idUSKBN1X82BE

6 years ago

534 upvotes – 262 comments

How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/10/10/20897212/what-is-untitled-goose-game-explained-nintendo-switch-pc-mac

6 years ago

380 upvotes – 167 comments

Mass cellphone surveillance experiment in Spain

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/mass-cellphone-surveillance-experiment-in-spain.html

6 years ago

361 upvotes – 225 comments

Everything is amazing, but nothing is ours

https://alexdanco.com/2019/10/26/everything-is-amazing-but-nothing-is-ours/

6 years ago

344 upvotes – 210 comments

We're Incentivizing Bad Science

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/were-incentivizing-bad-science/

6 years ago

341 upvotes – 181 comments

Goodbye, Flash

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/10/goodbye-flash.html

6 years ago

331 upvotes – 333 comments

Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-29/internet-50th-anniversary-ucla-kleinrock

6 years ago

322 upvotes – 312 comments

Hellvetica.ttf – Kern in Hell

https://hellveticafont.com/

6 years ago

309 upvotes – 60 comments

Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2019/10/28/instagram-now-forces-people-to-sign-in-to-view-public-profiles/

6 years ago

307 upvotes – 232 comments

Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21389776

6 years ago

307 upvotes – 294 comments

JavaScript Is C

https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2018/javascript-is-c.html

6 years ago

244 upvotes – 263 comments

Remove default "terraform" partner_id

https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-azurerm/issues/4747

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 77 comments

35 Year-Old C64 Easter Egg Hidden on Vinyl [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_CZpFqvDQo

6 years ago

230 upvotes – 46 comments

A GUI framework for C# console applications

https://github.com/TomaszRewak/C-sharp-console-gui-framework

6 years ago

228 upvotes – 62 comments

The iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A Completely New Camera

https://blog.halide.cam/inside-the-iphone-11-camera-part-1-a-completely-new-camera-28ea5d091071

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 105 comments

DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

https://duckduckgo.com/tty/

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 80 comments

Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language

https://www.junglecoder.com/blog/nim-early-report

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 166 comments
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