HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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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

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Twitter to ban political advertising (twitter.com)

2447 points by coloneltcb on Oct 30, 2019 | 1004 comments

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Ken Thompson's Unix Password (leahneukirchen.org)

2101 points by stargrave on Oct 9, 2019 | 637 comments

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A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store (github.com)

1757 points by ismaildonmez on Oct 12, 2019 | 588 comments

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Firefox 70 (hacks.mozilla.org)

1595 points by feross on Oct 22, 2019 | 457 comments

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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

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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

1474 points by gajus on Oct 23, 2019 | 657 comments

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Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong (blog.emojipedia.org)

1456 points by pulisse on Oct 7, 2019 | 686 comments

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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

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I just lost my wallet on the way home from work (twitter.com)

1385 points by isp on Oct 15, 2019 | 528 comments

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NordVPN confirms it was hacked (techcrunch.com)

1368 points by afshinmeh on Oct 21, 2019 | 642 comments

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Broken (tyler.io)

1354 points by bangonkeyboard on Oct 10, 2019 | 545 comments

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Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?

1331 points by richtapestry on Oct 22, 2019 | 918 comments

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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

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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

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Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store (twitter.com)

1175 points by ewoodrich on Oct 10, 2019 | 872 comments

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Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work (theregister.co.uk)

1166 points by devilcius on Oct 16, 2019 | 1286 comments

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Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video] (youtube.com)

1128 points by juandazapata on Oct 23, 2019 | 584 comments

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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

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Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database (aws.amazon.com)

927 points by jeffbarr on Oct 15, 2019 | 460 comments

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“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

925 points by bookofjoe on Oct 21, 2019 | 586 comments

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Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles? (twitter.com)

918 points by pflenker on Oct 1, 2019 | 280 comments