Top 20 Hacker News Stories for 2020-06-03

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Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement

https://twitter.com/nicoagrant/status/1268020841054269440

5 years ago

1094 upvotes – 458 comments

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ACLU sues Minnesota for police violence against the press

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/police-are-attacking-journalists-at-protests-were-suing/

5 years ago

758 upvotes – 247 comments

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SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Seattle Internet Exchange

https://www.peeringdb.com/net/18747

5 years ago

715 upvotes – 291 comments

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In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed

https://gothamist.com/news/mount-vernon-police-tapes-innocent-people-were-framed

5 years ago

598 upvotes – 293 comments

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Software Engineering Within SpaceX

https://yasoob.me/posts/software_engineering_within_spacex_launch/

5 years ago

591 upvotes – 313 comments

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GitHub Classroom

https://classroom.github.com/

5 years ago

559 upvotes – 166 comments

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Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/867856602/millions-of-americans-skipping-payments-as-tidal-wave-of-defaults-and-evictions-

5 years ago

416 upvotes – 575 comments

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Declining worker power vs. rising monopoly power: explaining recent macro trends

https://voxeu.org/article/declining-worker-power-versus-rising-monopoly-power

5 years ago

409 upvotes – 454 comments

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OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera

https://github.com/johnboiles/obs-mac-virtualcam

5 years ago

395 upvotes – 155 comments

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Weirdos in the depression

https://blog.plover.com/book/weirdos.html

5 years ago

389 upvotes – 308 comments

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Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-02/google-sued-for-secretly-amassing-vast-trove-of-user-web-data

5 years ago

383 upvotes – 189 comments

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Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux

https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-brings-linux-certification-to-thinkpad-and-thinkstation-workstation-portfolio-easing-deployment-for-developers-data-scientists/

5 years ago

379 upvotes – 200 comments

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A photo is crashing some Android phones

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52891650

5 years ago

377 upvotes – 226 comments

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Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bce-5g-ericsson-1.5594601

5 years ago

330 upvotes – 191 comments

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A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/mysterious-company-s-coronavirus-papers-top-medical-journals-may-be-unraveling

5 years ago

325 upvotes – 360 comments

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Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-iran-probe-exclusive/exclusive-huawei-hid-business-operation-in-iran-after-reuters-reported-links-to-cfo-idUSKBN23A19B

5 years ago

319 upvotes – 173 comments

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Kerbal Space Program 2 release disrupted by corporate strife

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-03/kerbal-space-program-2-release-disrupted-by-corporate-strife

5 years ago

312 upvotes – 143 comments

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Zoom transforms hype into huge jump in sales, customers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-02/zoom-transforms-hype-into-huge-jump-in-sales-customers