top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-02-19

Explorabl.es

https://explorabl.es

6 years ago

894 upvotes – 36 comments

Bert Sutherland Has Died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Sutherland

6 years ago

680 upvotes – 33 comments

Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/927593460642615296

6 years ago

602 upvotes – 374 comments

Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)

https://changelog.com/podcast/201

6 years ago

589 upvotes – 281 comments

Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/hackers-were-inside-citrix-for-five-months/

6 years ago

520 upvotes – 232 comments

Stop Using Encrypted Email

https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted.html

6 years ago

475 upvotes – 547 comments

Let's Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v1-v2-validating-challenges-from-multiple-network-vantage-points/112253

6 years ago

469 upvotes – 137 comments

How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/why-is-ethernet-mtu-1500

6 years ago

433 upvotes – 162 comments

Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own advisory council

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/19/internet_society_org_sale/

6 years ago

412 upvotes – 111 comments

IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/facebook-faces-tax-court-trial-over-ireland-offshore-deal

6 years ago

409 upvotes – 3 comments

Lambda School’s Misleading Promises

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-placement-rate-is-lower-than-claimed.html

6 years ago

406 upvotes – 240 comments

Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not returned

https://stripe.com/docs/refunds

6 years ago

356 upvotes – 255 comments

Teardown of a $1.25 LED Lightbulb

https://electronupdate.blogspot.com/2019/12/dollar-store-led-bulb.html?m=1

6 years ago

324 upvotes – 287 comments

Google users in UK to lose EU data protection – sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-privacy-eu-exclusive-idUSKBN20D2M3

6 years ago

279 upvotes – 203 comments

The Problem with Palm Oil

https://ethical.net/ethical/the-problem-with-palm-oil/

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 207 comments

How to Collaborate with People You Don’t Like (2018)

https://hbr.org/2018/12/how-to-collaborate-with-people-you-dont-like

6 years ago

239 upvotes – 86 comments

Wearable Microphone Jamming

http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/jammer/

6 years ago

236 upvotes – 67 comments

Google Fonts Analytics

https://fonts.google.com/analytics

6 years ago

228 upvotes – 185 comments

Ask HN: How do I learn JavaScript?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22364212

6 years ago

223 upvotes – 123 comments

Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bloomberg-bankrolls-a-social-media-army-to-push-message-11582127768

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 515 comments
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