The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2019

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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments playhearthstone.com · hownottowrite · 8 Oct 2019

2.5k pts 1.1k comments

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Twitter to ban political advertising twitter.com · coloneltcb · 30 Oct 2019

2.4k pts 1k comments

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Ken Thompson's Unix Password leahneukirchen.org · stargrave · 9 Oct 2019

2.1k pts 637 comments

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A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store github.com · ismaildonmez · 12 Oct 2019

1.8k pts 588 comments

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Firefox 70 hacks.mozilla.org · feross · 22 Oct 2019

1.6k pts 457 comments

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TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free propublica.org · danso · 17 Oct 2019

1.5k pts 447 comments

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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? gajus · 23 Oct 2019

1.5k pts 657 comments

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Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong blog.emojipedia.org · pulisse · 7 Oct 2019

1.5k pts 686 comments

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Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links lists.zx2c4.com · regecks · 16 Oct 2019

1.4k pts 559 comments

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I just lost my wallet on the way home from work twitter.com · isp · 15 Oct 2019

1.4k pts 528 comments

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NordVPN confirms it was hacked techcrunch.com · afshinmeh · 21 Oct 2019

1.4k pts 642 comments

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Broken tyler.io · bangonkeyboard · 10 Oct 2019

1.4k pts 545 comments

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Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? richtapestry · 22 Oct 2019

1.3k pts 918 comments

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Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption buzzfeednews.com · minimaxir · 3 Oct 2019

1.3k pts 558 comments

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I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb vice.com · fieryscribe · 31 Oct 2019

1.3k pts 618 comments

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My Favourite Git Commit fatbusinessman.com · robin_reala · 18 Oct 2019

1.3k pts 370 comments

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Why Enterprise Software Sucks twitter.com · randomwalker · 11 Oct 2019

1.3k pts 554 comments

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Show HN: Bel paulgraham.com · pg · 12 Oct 2019

1.3k pts 456 comments

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Thank You, Guido blog.dropbox.com · pauloxnet · 30 Oct 2019

1.3k pts 376 comments

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Perfectly Cropped tyler.io · keehun · 25 Oct 2019

1.2k pts 553 comments

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US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits github.com · styfle · 23 Oct 2019

1.2k pts 378 comments

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Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store twitter.com · ewoodrich · 10 Oct 2019

1.2k pts 872 comments

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Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work theregister.co.uk · devilcius · 16 Oct 2019

1.2k pts 1.3k comments

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Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video] youtube.com · juandazapata · 23 Oct 2019

1.1k pts 584 comments

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Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project theverge.com · gkolli · 11 Oct 2019

1.1k pts 343 comments

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Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts helpx.adobe.com · sndpsy · 7 Oct 2019

998 pts 519 comments

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Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired? billions · 2 Oct 2019

942 pts 831 comments

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Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database aws.amazon.com · jeffbarr · 15 Oct 2019

927 pts 460 comments

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“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” blogs.scientificamerican.com · bookofjoe · 21 Oct 2019

925 pts 586 comments

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Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles? twitter.com · pflenker · 1 Oct 2019

918 pts 280 comments

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SQL queries don't start with SELECT jvns.ca · protomyth · 3 Oct 2019

905 pts 253 comments

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Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up daringfireball.net · srameshc · 10 Oct 2019

904 pts 363 comments

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Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home bbc.com · vezycash · 17 Oct 2019

903 pts 546 comments

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Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era vice.com · Osiris · 13 Oct 2019

896 pts 426 comments

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'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology theguardian.com · dgelks · 8 Oct 2019

888 pts 342 comments

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The “Talk” smbc-comics.com · ChuckMcM · 28 Oct 2019

877 pts 112 comments

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Text Editing Hates You Too lord.io · panic · 29 Oct 2019

875 pts 282 comments

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Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication clearerthinking.org · antigizmo · 15 Oct 2019

842 pts 337 comments

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Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store theregister.co.uk · ycombonator · 3 Oct 2019

841 pts 505 comments

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Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City nytimes.com · undefined1 · 22 Oct 2019

836 pts 394 comments

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What’s New in Python 3.8 docs.python.org · supakeen · 14 Oct 2019

833 pts 367 comments

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Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing v4.chriskrycho.com · chriskrycho · 28 Oct 2019

830 pts 389 comments

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Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete="off" bugs.chromium.org · bullman · 13 Oct 2019

820 pts 367 comments

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Htop Explained peteris.rocks · apitman · 31 Oct 2019

818 pts 98 comments

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Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster tokio.rs · steveklabnik · 14 Oct 2019

813 pts 148 comments

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Soli atap.google.com · jonbaer · 16 Oct 2019

802 pts 310 comments

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“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe” github.com · nuxdie · 14 Oct 2019

801 pts 522 comments

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Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000 nibblestew.blogspot.com · khc · 14 Oct 2019

792 pts 689 comments

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Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics? pirate_is_back · 24 Oct 2019

788 pts 171 comments

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I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced twitter.com · vinnyglennon · 9 Oct 2019

781 pts 353 comments

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Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life? gavribirnbaum · 21 Oct 2019

781 pts 296 comments

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Pricing niche products kevinlynagh.com · speps · 4 Oct 2019

769 pts 356 comments

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Coffee Is Hard stilldrinking.org · mrleiter · 18 Oct 2019

768 pts 219 comments

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BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror bbc.co.uk · worldofmatthew · 24 Oct 2019

765 pts 288 comments

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Equifax securities fraud class action [pdf] securities.stanford.edu · bookofjoe · 22 Oct 2019

757 pts 219 comments

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Collapse OS collapseos.org · spraak · 7 Oct 2019

753 pts 303 comments

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The State of Machine Learning Frameworks thegradient.pub · hughzhang · 10 Oct 2019

752 pts 193 comments

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Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer thedailybeast.com · minimaxir · 9 Oct 2019

750 pts 304 comments

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Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible latimes.com · justadudeama · 8 Oct 2019

743 pts 591 comments

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N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier n8n.io · tablet · 8 Oct 2019

728 pts 196 comments