HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018) (broadcast.listennotes.com)

2010 points by mxschumacher on Sep 16, 2019 | 451 comments

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California bans private prisons (theguardian.com)

1952 points by anigbrowl on Sep 12, 2019 | 597 comments

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Google’s GDPR Workaround (brave.com)

1868 points by donohoe on Sep 4, 2019 | 588 comments

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Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

1831 points by ramphastidae on Sep 1, 2019 | 390 comments

5.

Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows (reddit.com)

1793 points by rahuldottech on Sep 28, 2019 | 766 comments

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Serverless: slower and more expensive (einaregilsson.com)

1787 points by kiyanwang on Sep 23, 2019 | 712 comments

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Richard M. Stallman resigns (fsf.org)

1747 points by maxdeviant on Sep 17, 2019 | 2180 comments

8.

Sunsetting Python 2 (python.org)

1616 points by azizsaya on Sep 9, 2019 | 704 comments

9.

Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast (techdirt.com)

1606 points by CrankyBear on Sep 18, 2019 | 498 comments

10.

How to do a code review (google.github.io)

1471 points by iamaelephant on Sep 5, 2019 | 367 comments

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94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet (twitter.com)

1430 points by jonkratz on Sep 9, 2019 | 680 comments

12.

Questions to ask a company during a job interview (github.com)

1388 points by viraptor on Sep 9, 2019 | 455 comments

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France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra (reuters.com)

1255 points by superhumanuser on Sep 14, 2019 | 783 comments

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Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? (bloomberg.com)

1179 points by phissk on Sep 28, 2019 | 556 comments

15.

WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism (mattstoller.substack.com)

1158 points by cjbest on Sep 25, 2019 | 414 comments

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9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not violate the CFAA [pdf] (cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov)

1136 points by donohoe on Sep 9, 2019 | 275 comments

17.

Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911 (seattletimes.com)

1105 points by throwaway413 on Sep 24, 2019 | 659 comments

18.

Get Started Making Music (learningmusic.ableton.com)

1085 points by capableweb on Sep 13, 2019 | 184 comments

19.

Uber lays off 435 people (techcrunch.com)

976 points by coloneltcb on Sep 10, 2019 | 579 comments

20.

Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas (apple.com)

946 points by infodocket on Sep 23, 2019 | 433 comments

21.

It's later than you think (linkedin.com)

914 points by cloudytoday on Sep 10, 2019 | 136 comments

22.

ColorBox by Lyft Design (colorbox.io)

907 points by Brajeshwar on Sep 20, 2019 | 85 comments

23.

How to learn D3.js (wattenberger.com)

895 points by slowhand09 on Sep 5, 2019 | 106 comments

24.

Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required (james.darpinian.com)

863 points by modeless on Sep 21, 2019 | 151 comments

25.

Ask HN: Are you ok?

857 points by quantumwoke on Sep 12, 2019 | 864 comments

26.

Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO (forbes.com)

848 points by andygcook on Sep 17, 2019 | 349 comments

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Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties (nytimes.com)