top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-11-01

Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/01/google-to-acquire-fitbit-valuing-the-smartwatch-maker-at-about-2point1-billion.html

6 years ago

946 upvotes – 742 comments

Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%

https://netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Custom%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22secure%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22https%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222019-10%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222019-10%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D

6 years ago

802 upvotes – 295 comments

Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linus-torvalds-git-proved-i-could-be-more-than-a-one-hit-wonder/

6 years ago

783 upvotes – 508 comments

Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard

https://mikkel.hoegh.org/2019/11/01/home-vpn-server-wireguard

6 years ago

616 upvotes – 198 comments

The Fantasy of Opting Out

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fantasy-of-opting-out/

6 years ago

611 upvotes – 195 comments

Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/31/firefox-to-discontinue-sideloaded-extensions/

6 years ago

432 upvotes – 207 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419536

6 years ago

402 upvotes – 734 comments

U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-cfius-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-opens-national-security-investigation-into-tiktok-sources-idUSKBN1XB4IL

6 years ago

393 upvotes – 368 comments

Gaggle monitors the work and communications of almost 5M students in the US

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/gaggle-school-surveillance-technology-education

6 years ago

333 upvotes – 155 comments

Show HN: Turn any website into an API (for those who miss Kimono)

https://simplescraper.io/

6 years ago

332 upvotes – 74 comments

Quiet.js – Transmit and receive data in the browser at 44.1kHz

https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js/

6 years ago

315 upvotes – 91 comments

Bayard: a full-text search and indexing server written in Rust

https://github.com/mosuka/bayard

6 years ago

283 upvotes – 107 comments

The war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds

http://theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/31/were-cosseting-our-kids-the-war-against-todays-dangerously-dull-playgrounds-wellcome

6 years ago

247 upvotes – 142 comments

Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think

https://a16z.com/2019/10/30/the-power-of-qr-codes/

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 196 comments

The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system and ACLU is suing

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/31/aclu_facial_recognition/

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 71 comments

Lack of cdnjs activity

https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/issues/13524

6 years ago

236 upvotes – 100 comments

Python adopts a 12-month release cycle

https://lwn.net/Articles/803679/

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 169 comments

Twelve-factor app development on Google Cloud

https://cloud.google.com/solutions/twelve-factor-app-development-on-gcp

6 years ago

228 upvotes – 63 comments

Homebrew Cray-1A

https://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/

6 years ago

228 upvotes – 51 comments

I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2014)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 54 comments
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