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541.

ProtonMail iOS app goes open source (protonmail.com)

231 points by _eigenfoo on Oct 30, 2019 | 109 comments

542.

Show HN: Scale Heaven – Browse and play any scale/chord, chord progression (scale-heaven.com)

231 points by seanitzel on Oct 3, 2019 | 61 comments

543.

FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA ruling finds (arstechnica.com)

231 points by headalgorithm on Oct 9, 2019 | 33 comments

544.

Signal: Incoming call can be connected without user interaction (bugs.chromium.org)

231 points by iamd3vil on Oct 4, 2019 | 30 comments

545.

US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site (coindesk.com)

230 points by srameshc on Oct 16, 2019 | 335 comments

546.

Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report (tomshardware.com)

230 points by rbanffy on Oct 15, 2019 | 170 comments

547.

Plants “panic” when it rains (phys.org)

230 points by lelf on Oct 31, 2019 | 83 comments

548.

35 Year-Old C64 Easter Egg Hidden on Vinyl [video] (youtube.com)

230 points by modinfo on Oct 29, 2019 | 46 comments

549.

Project MKUltra (en.wikipedia.org)

229 points by rasengan on Oct 5, 2019 | 121 comments

550.

The A2 motorway no longer divides Maastricht (bicycledutch.wordpress.com)

229 points by sgwil on Oct 16, 2019 | 116 comments

551.

3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal (github.com)

229 points by bwidlar on Oct 28, 2019 | 51 comments

552.

How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch (vox.com)

228 points by babelfish on Oct 14, 2019 | 363 comments

553.

A GUI framework for C# console applications (github.com)

228 points by otherdave on Oct 29, 2019 | 62 comments

554.

Electron 7.0 (electronjs.org)

227 points by ausjke on Oct 24, 2019 | 278 comments

555.

Tcl: Everything Is a String (wiki.tcl-lang.org)

227 points by blacksqr on Oct 28, 2019 | 162 comments

556.

Small C Compilers (bootstrapping.miraheze.org)

227 points by blacksqr on Oct 10, 2019 | 56 comments

557.

3D animation with sound in 64 bytes of assembler (old.reddit.com)

227 points by pera on Oct 5, 2019 | 32 comments

558.

Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify (wsj.com)

226 points by AznHisoka on Oct 4, 2019 | 329 comments

559.

Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’ (theguardian.com)

226 points by jelliclesfarm on Oct 28, 2019 | 164 comments

560.

We tested Europe’s new lie detector for travelers and triggered a false positive (theintercept.com)

226 points by rchaudhary on Oct 25, 2019 | 114 comments

561.

PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video] (channel9.msdn.com)

226 points by DemiGuru on Oct 27, 2019 | 107 comments

562.

Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone (theverge.com)

225 points by aminecodes on Oct 2, 2019 | 178 comments

563.

Why Garmin watches have become common in some segments of tactical aviation (theaviationist.com)

225 points by smacktoward on Oct 23, 2019 | 147 comments

564.

The iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A Completely New Camera (blog.halide.cam)

225 points by tomduncalf on Oct 29, 2019 | 105 comments

565.

UTF-8 history (2003) (cl.cam.ac.uk)

225 points by antipropaganda on Oct 10, 2019 | 52 comments

566.

What happens when a city bans cars from its streets? (bbc.com)

224 points by pseudolus on Oct 16, 2019 | 235 comments

567.

How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to Postgres? (peterbe.com)

224 points by Manozco on Oct 2, 2019 | 114 comments

568.

OpenBSD 6.6 (openbsd.org)

224 points by liv-io on Oct 17, 2019 | 90 comments

569.

Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina (thetapedrive.com)

223 points by bookofjoe on Oct 12, 2019 | 381 comments

570.

Most first-time visitors to Japan are struck by how clean the country is (bbc.com)

223 points by pseudolus on Oct 13, 2019 | 181 comments