top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-01-29

Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)

https://parsers.me/us-court-fully-legalized-website-scraping-and-technically-prohibited-it/

6 years ago

1057 upvotes – 388 comments

Off-Facebook activity

https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/

6 years ago

710 upvotes – 379 comments

Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/react-native-future-mobile-shopify

6 years ago

666 upvotes – 571 comments

Being a Noob

http://paulgraham.com/noob.html

6 years ago

602 upvotes – 220 comments

Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server

https://snikt.net/blog/2020/01/29/building-a-simple-vpn-with-wireguard-with-a-raspberry-pi-as-server/

6 years ago

575 upvotes – 122 comments

Pandas 1.0

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew/v1.0.0.html

6 years ago

510 upvotes – 76 comments

Some Useful Probability Facts for Systems Programming

https://theartofmachinery.com/2020/01/27/systems_programming_probability.html

6 years ago

473 upvotes – 76 comments

Typesense: Open-Source Alternative to Algolia

https://github.com/typesense/typesense

6 years ago

447 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178292

6 years ago

422 upvotes – 804 comments

A Graph of Related Subreddits

https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=programming

6 years ago

377 upvotes – 81 comments

Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms

https://abcnews.go.com/US/santa-cruz-decriminalizes-psychedelic-mushrooms/story?id=68611065

6 years ago

373 upvotes – 176 comments

Godot 3.2

https://godotengine.org/article/here-comes-godot-3-2

6 years ago

366 upvotes – 138 comments

Russia blocks ProtonMail

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-protonmail/russia-blocks-encrypted-email-service-protonmail-idUSKBN1ZS1K8

6 years ago

359 upvotes – 178 comments

Starlink Is a Big Deal

https://sneak.berlin/20200129/starlink/

6 years ago

345 upvotes – 345 comments

Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100 per month

https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Illinois-governor-signs-law-capping-insulin-costs-at-100-per-month-567282431.html

6 years ago

328 upvotes – 406 comments

RStudio becomes a public benefit corporation

https://blog.rstudio.com/2020/01/29/rstudio-pbc/

6 years ago

312 upvotes – 49 comments

Alpine makes Python Docker builds slower, and images larger

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/

6 years ago

306 upvotes – 149 comments

iOS 13's Music App Sucks

https://samuelstevens.me/writing/ios-13s-music-app-sucks

6 years ago

284 upvotes – 256 comments

A Tour of Standard ML

https://saityi.github.io/sml-tour/tour/00-00-welcome.html

6 years ago

279 upvotes – 133 comments

Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Facial Recognition Suit

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/technology/facebook-privacy-lawsuit-earnings.html

6 years ago

277 upvotes – 100 comments
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