top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-10-30

Twitter to ban political advertising

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952

6 years ago

2447 upvotes – 1004 comments

Thank You, Guido

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/thank-you--guido

6 years ago

1269 upvotes – 376 comments

Epstein's injuries look more like murder than suicide, noted pathologist says

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article236809668.html

6 years ago

697 upvotes – 397 comments

IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-tried-to-hide-emails-that-show-tax-industry-influence-over-free-file-program#169990

6 years ago

639 upvotes – 188 comments

Unfork()

https://github.com/whitequark/unfork/blob/master/README.md

6 years ago

568 upvotes – 114 comments

Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die

https://medium.com/young-coder/microsoft-access-the-zombie-database-software-that-wont-die-5b09e389c166

6 years ago

516 upvotes – 356 comments

Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study

https://www.studyfinds.org/if-you-rest-you-rust-study-finds-early-retirement-may-speed-up-cognitive-decline/

6 years ago

460 upvotes – 276 comments

Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository

https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/Spain/2019/2019-10-23-GuardiaCivil.md

6 years ago

439 upvotes – 516 comments

The SpaceX Starship is a big deal

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/the-spacex-starship-is-a-very-big-deal/

6 years ago

432 upvotes – 419 comments

I Miss the Old Internet

http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/miss-old-internet.html

6 years ago

383 upvotes – 306 comments

Close Encounter with a Gigantic Jet

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2019/10/25/close-encounter-with-a-gigantic-jet/

6 years ago

358 upvotes – 47 comments

Ebola Is Now a Disease We Can Treat

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ebola-is-now-a-disease-we-can-treat-how-a-cure-emerged-from-a-war-zone-11572446873?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

346 upvotes – 31 comments

Juul Shipped At Least 1M Contaminated Pods, New Lawsuit Says

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/juul-lawsuit-contaminated-pods

6 years ago

319 upvotes – 178 comments

DJI Mavic Mini

https://www.dji.com/mavic-mini

6 years ago

291 upvotes – 182 comments

Nautilus to be acquired by an investor group of fans

http://nautil.us/blog/nautilus-to-be-acquired-by-ownership-group-of-super_fans

6 years ago

266 upvotes – 60 comments

When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts

https://engineering.instawork.com/when-xml-beats-json-ui-layouts-53c7f1d3fdb7

6 years ago

261 upvotes – 266 comments

Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland

https://qz.com/1720214/how-nokias-collapse-turned-oulu-into-an-internet-wonderland/

6 years ago

260 upvotes – 204 comments

GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic

https://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2019-10-29/github-bloquea-tsunami-democratic-aplicacion_2305027/

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 56 comments

Is Stack Exchange in violation of NY labor law by using volunteer moderators?

https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/337117/16587

6 years ago

250 upvotes – 149 comments

Visualizing Music with GANs

https://twitter.com/xsteenbrugge/status/1188785427295195136

6 years ago

249 upvotes – 32 comments
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