top 50% 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

★ 1.8k Rust MIT
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

★ 10.7k MIT
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

Neonicotinoids disrupt aquatic food webs and decrease fishery yields

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6465/620

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 68 comments

Leaving Apple

http://belkadan.com/blog/2019/11/Leaving-Apple/

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 110 comments

DKIM Demystified

https://www.20i.com/blog/dkim-demystified/

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 32 comments

Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015)

https://drewdevault.com/2015/11/01/Please-stop-using-slack.html

6 years ago

176 upvotes – 132 comments

The Smartphone vs. the Camera Industry

https://photographylife.com/smartphone-vs-camera-industry

6 years ago

174 upvotes – 193 comments

Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50228549

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 124 comments

Opensourcing the Universal Package Manager

https://repl.it/blog/upm

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 40 comments

Surviving Software Dependencies

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3344149

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 37 comments

Amazon will stop sales of used first-party Nintendo products starting November 1

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/amazon-no-more-third-party-sales-of-nintendo-products-without-approval/

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 122 comments

Over a Third of Americans Battle Job Burnout Every Single Week

https://www.studyfinds.org/the-new-normal-over-a-third-of-americans-battle-job-burnout-every-week/

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 214 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419534

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 245 comments

Data Dictatorships: The Arms Race to Hack Humankind

https://borjamoya.com/DataDictatorships/

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: HR code – Designed to be recognized by humans and OCR

https://github.com/hantuzun/hr-code

6 years ago

★ 228 C
124 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Own your Kubernetes: installation, addons, best practices – as code

https://github.com/ReSearchITEng/kubeadm-playbook/

6 years ago

★ 597 Shell Unlicense
122 upvotes – 31 comments

We Will Call It Pala: A Story for the Psychedelic Movement

http://aurynfund.org/pala

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 47 comments

Ask HN: What to do after the workday?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419258

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 109 comments

Is Anyone Going to Get Rich Off of Email Newsletters?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/10/substack-revue-email-newsletter-startups-tinyletter/599557/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 66 comments

European Cloud Project Draws Backlash from U.S. Tech Giants

https://www.wsj.com/articles/european-cloud-project-draws-backlash-from-u-s-tech-giants-11572600600?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 96 comments

Million Short

https://millionshort.com/about

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 33 comments

The Story of Tunnel 29

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/Od4dL9Lip2/tunnel_29

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 3 comments

Texas Instruments’ Speak and Spell

https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/the-consumer-electronics-hall-of-fame-texas-instruments-speak-spell

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 36 comments

Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/life-expectancy-for-american-men-drops-for-a-third-year/

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 178 comments

Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism: study

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-funded-study-suggests-acetaminophen-exposure-pregnancy-linked-higher-risk-adhd-autism

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 39 comments

YouTube autoplay gave a lost Japanese classic new life (2017)

https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/35465/1/midori-takada-through-the-looking-glass-interview

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 64 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (November 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419535

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 169 comments

2019 Python Developer Survey

http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-2019-python-developer-survey-is.html

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 32 comments

The Lure of Luxury

https://bostonreview.net/forum/paul-bloom-lure-luxury

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 87 comments

Meadow F7 micro board on pre-sale (bare metal .NET Standard 2.0)

https://store.wildernesslabs.co/

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: Simple command line note taking tool

https://github.com/tomlockwood/dn

6 years ago

★ 248
84 upvotes – 24 comments

Start a Paid Newsletter

https://indiemailer.com/read/why-you-should-start-a-paid-newsletter/

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

Asterisk 17

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00745.html

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

Scikit-Learn’s Defaults Are Wrong

https://ryxcommar.com/2019/08/30/scikit-learns-defaults-are-wrong

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 38 comments

Some Employees Chafe as Google’s New Internal Rules Take Hold

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-01/some-employees-chafe-as-google-s-new-internal-rules-take-hold

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 70 comments

Can You Overdose on Happiness?

http://nautil.us/issue/60/searches/can-you-overdose-on-happiness

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 62 comments

Fitbit to Be Aquired by Google

https://investor.fitbit.com/press/press-releases/press-release-details/2019/Fitbit-to-Be-Acquired-by-Google/default.aspx

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 2 comments

The largest methane fountain so far discovered in the Arctic Ocean

https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/first-pictures-and-video-of-the-largest-methane-fountain-so-far-discovered-in-the-arctic-ocean/

6 years ago

70 upvotes – 30 comments

Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191031-hilda-geiringer-mathematician-who-fled-the-nazis

6 years ago

70 upvotes – 54 comments

U2F Support in OpenSSH Head

https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=157259802529972&w=2

6 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments
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