top 50% 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

★ 1.4k C++ 0BSD
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

★ 3.1k
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

Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field

https://twitter.com/MikeBeas/status/1189416778104999937

6 years ago

239 upvotes – 112 comments

Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues

6 years ago

★ 27.8k C++
237 upvotes – 109 comments

ProtonMail iOS app goes open source

https://protonmail.com/blog/ios-open-source/

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 109 comments

Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 70 Years

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30499/the-truth-is-the-military-has-been-researching-anti-gravity-for-nearly-70-years

6 years ago

215 upvotes – 158 comments

Feeling stuck? Write a poem

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02912-x

6 years ago

201 upvotes – 107 comments

The best-kept secret of Dutch biking: the Dutch hardly bike at all

https://peopleforbikes.org/blog/best-kept-secret-dutch-biking-dutch-hardly-bike/

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 203 comments

Indian nuclear power plant’s network was hacked, officials confirm

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/indian-nuclear-power-company-confirms-north-korean-malware-attack/

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 48 comments

The crisis in physics is not only about physics

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-crisis-in-physics-is-not-only-about.html

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 172 comments

Simple Does Not Mean Ugly

https://uglyduck.ca/simple-does-not-mean-ugly/

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 127 comments

State of Health Report Shows Growing Despair Among American Men

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/state-health-among-american-men-040100395.html

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 182 comments

Let's discuss the source for the GPLed parts of Tesla cars

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/oct/30/calling-all-tesla-owners/

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 103 comments

Privileged Poor vs. Doubly Disadvantaged at Elite Schools

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/privileged-poor-vs-doubly-disadvantaged-at-elite-schools/

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 89 comments

Httpx: A Ruby HTTP library

https://gitlab.com/honeyryderchuck/httpx#httpx-a-ruby-http-library-for-tomorrow-and-beyond

6 years ago

★ 242 APACHE-2.0
157 upvotes – 58 comments

PG&E turning off power to protect against fire has created a new disaster

https://slate.com/business/2019/10/california-power-outage-pge-fires-new-kind-of-disaster.html

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 327 comments

New elevation data triple sea-level vulnerability rise estimates

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 2 comments

Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead: World Models Without Fwd Prediction

https://learningtopredict.github.io

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: I created an algorithm to help me achieve Product-Market Fit

https://www.karma.fm/p/edveCfb/an-algorithm-for-karmas-product-market-fit

6 years ago

151 upvotes – 42 comments

Cédric Villani: mathematician challenging to be Paris mayor

https://www.ft.com/content/73c7a6a6-ee57-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 115 comments

Apple Q4 Results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 57 comments

Show HN: Micro CRM, a CRM for People Who Hate CRMs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21403091

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 85 comments

Police blow up innocent man's home. No recompense, court rules

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/30/police-blew-up-an-innocent-mans-house-search-an-armed-shoplifter-too-bad-court-rules/

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 208 comments

BZFlag

https://www.bzflag.org/

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 68 comments

SiFive Announces First RISC-V OoO CPU Core

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15036/sifive-announces-first-riscv-ooo-cpu-core-the-u8series-processor-ip

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 51 comments

Can Computers Prove Theorems?

http://chalkdustmagazine.com/features/can-computers-prove-theorems/

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 58 comments

Machine and Deep Learning with OCaml Natively

https://ocaml.xyz/chapter/neural.html

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: How to remove voice from a music file?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21399838

6 years ago

121 upvotes – 46 comments

A military historian’s analysis of Spartan myth

https://acoup.blog/category/collections/this-isnt-sparta/

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 91 comments

Google Announces .new Domain Availability

https://whats.new/

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 159 comments

Show HN: A minimal Fortran TCP client and server

https://github.com/modern-fortran/tcp-client-server

6 years ago

★ 92 Fortran MIT
110 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21394349

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 95 comments

The Cloud and Open Source

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2019/09/21/AWS-Open-Source-People

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21397274

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 54 comments
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