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October 2019 Archive
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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments (playhearthstone.com)
2525 points by hownottowrite on Oct 8, 2019 | 1126 comments
2.
Twitter to ban political advertising (twitter.com)
2447 points by coloneltcb on Oct 30, 2019 | 1004 comments
3.
Ken Thompson's Unix Password (leahneukirchen.org)
2101 points by stargrave on Oct 9, 2019 | 637 comments
4.
A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store (github.com)
1757 points by ismaildonmez on Oct 12, 2019 | 588 comments
5.
Firefox 70 (hacks.mozilla.org)
1595 points by feross on Oct 22, 2019 | 457 comments
6.
TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (propublica.org)
1519 points by danso on Oct 17, 2019 | 447 comments
7.
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
1474 points by gajus on Oct 23, 2019 | 657 comments
8.
Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong (blog.emojipedia.org)
1456 points by pulisse on Oct 7, 2019 | 686 comments
9.
Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links (lists.zx2c4.com)
1438 points by regecks on Oct 16, 2019 | 557 comments
10.
I just lost my wallet on the way home from work (twitter.com)
1385 points by isp on Oct 15, 2019 | 528 comments
11.
NordVPN confirms it was hacked (techcrunch.com)
1368 points by afshinmeh on Oct 21, 2019 | 642 comments
12.
Broken (tyler.io)
1354 points by bangonkeyboard on Oct 10, 2019 | 545 comments
13.
Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
1331 points by richtapestry on Oct 22, 2019 | 918 comments
14.
Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption (buzzfeednews.com)
1325 points by minimaxir on Oct 3, 2019 | 558 comments
15.
I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb (vice.com)
1324 points by fieryscribe on Oct 31, 2019 | 618 comments
16.
My Favourite Git Commit (fatbusinessman.com)
1313 points by robin_reala on Oct 18, 2019 | 370 comments
17.
Why Enterprise Software Sucks (twitter.com)
1310 points by randomwalker on Oct 11, 2019 | 554 comments
18.
Show HN: Bel (paulgraham.com)
1288 points by pg on Oct 12, 2019 | 456 comments
19.
Thank You, Guido (blog.dropbox.com)
1269 points by pauloxnet on Oct 30, 2019 | 376 comments
20.
Perfectly Cropped (tyler.io)
1232 points by keehun on Oct 25, 2019 | 553 comments
21.
US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits (github.com)
1198 points by styfle on Oct 23, 2019 | 378 comments
22.
Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store (twitter.com)
1175 points by ewoodrich on Oct 10, 2019 | 872 comments
23.
Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work (theregister.co.uk)
1166 points by devilcius on Oct 16, 2019 | 1286 comments
24.
Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video] (youtube.com)
1128 points by juandazapata on Oct 23, 2019 | 584 comments
25.
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project (theverge.com)
1083 points by gkolli on Oct 11, 2019 | 343 comments
26.
Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts (helpx.adobe.com)
998 points by sndpsy on Oct 7, 2019 | 519 comments
27.
Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
942 points by billions on Oct 2, 2019 | 831 comments
28.
Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database (aws.amazon.com)
927 points by jeffbarr on Oct 15, 2019 | 460 comments
29.
“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
925 points by bookofjoe on Oct 21, 2019 | 586 comments
30.
Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles? (twitter.com)
918 points by pflenker on Oct 1, 2019 | 280 comments