Top Hackernews posts from restofworld.org

1. The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media (restofworld.org)
   419 points by 2939223 about 3 years ago | 267 comments
2. Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry (restofworld.org)
   349 points by leoschwartz over 3 years ago | 293 comments
3. 90% of Kidnappings in São Paulo result from dates on Tinder and similar apps (restofworld.org)
   320 points by laurex over 1 year ago | 192 comments
4. How the powerful clean up their digital past using a reputation laundering firm (restofworld.org)
   302 points by DamnInteresting over 2 years ago | 93 comments
5. Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India (restofworld.org)
   294 points by lordylord over 3 years ago | 118 comments
6. Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders (restofworld.org)
   294 points by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | 202 comments
7. Man fined for sharing a Facebook link ruled as defamation in Singapore (restofworld.org)
   284 points by donohoe over 3 years ago | 194 comments
8. Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India (restofworld.org)
   264 points by NDAjam over 1 year ago | 142 comments
9. In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical Renaissance (restofworld.org)
   255 points by truth_ over 3 years ago | 169 comments
10. Indonesia's e-bike shops are building their own batteries (restofworld.org)
    226 points by donohoe 6 months ago | 190 comments
11. U.S. companies are hiring Latin America’s tech talent (restofworld.org)
    214 points by braco_alva over 2 years ago | 340 comments
12. I saw millions compromise their Facebook accounts to fuel fake engagement (restofworld.org)
    211 points by leoschwartz over 3 years ago | 64 comments
13. TrueCaller built a billion-dollar caller ID data empire in India (restofworld.org)
    209 points by davesailer over 2 years ago | 127 comments
14. Instagram has largely replaced TikTok in India (restofworld.org)
    204 points by pseudolus almost 3 years ago | 57 comments
15. Overrun by influencers, historic sites are banning TikTok creators in Nepal (restofworld.org)
    203 points by elsewhen about 2 years ago | 159 comments
16. China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub (restofworld.org)
    198 points by donohoe over 3 years ago | 206 comments
17. I am Palestinian. Here’s how Israel silences us on social media (restofworld.org)
    189 points by rguiscard about 3 years ago | 75 comments
18. AI Reduces the World to Stereotypes (restofworld.org)
    184 points by gigama 11 months ago | 133 comments
19. The road to electric is filled with tiny cars (restofworld.org)
    171 points by jimmy2020 over 3 years ago | 261 comments
20. India’s electric rickshaws (restofworld.org)
    168 points by vinnyglennon 5 months ago | 200 comments
21. AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students (restofworld.org)
    166 points by impish9208 over 1 year ago | 222 comments
22. Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off (restofworld.org)
    171 points by Brajeshwar 3 months ago | 154 comments
23. Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene (restofworld.org)
    164 points by palingvel 4 months ago | 135 comments
24. A small community of unofficial Apple technicians in Cuba (restofworld.org)
    162 points by donohoe 12 months ago | 56 comments
25. Showmax has displaced Netflix in Africa (restofworld.org)
    160 points by eatonphil 7 months ago | 66 comments
26. Singapore’s tech-utopia and surveillance state (restofworld.org)
    155 points by imartin2k almost 3 years ago | 182 comments
27. Lebanon’s underground cryptocurrency market (restofworld.org)
    152 points by giuliomagnifico about 3 years ago | 87 comments
28. Azar, a Korean Chatroulette-style dating app quietly taking over the world (restofworld.org)
    151 points by imartin2k over 3 years ago | 102 comments
29. Most Salvadorans have already ditched their national Bitcoin wallets (restofworld.org)
    150 points by donohoe over 2 years ago | 175 comments
30. Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia (restofworld.org)
    147 points by killing_time almost 3 years ago | 75 comments
31. How different languages laugh online (restofworld.org)
    143 points by justanotherdot 8 months ago | 61 comments
32. Trapped in lockdown, Shanghai residents turn to WeChat groups for food (restofworld.org)
    140 points by walterbell over 2 years ago | 190 comments
33. Indian government empowers itself to “fact check,” delete social media posts (restofworld.org)
    139 points by Amorymeltzer over 1 year ago | 181 comments
34. The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Facebook is its weapon (restofworld.org)
    138 points by gbseventeen3331 over 1 year ago | 104 comments
35. The off-screen workers who keep the adult webcam industry running (restofworld.org)
    135 points by imartin2k over 2 years ago | 132 comments
36. Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion (restofworld.org)
    133 points by conanxin over 2 years ago | 131 comments
37. Mexico’s subway drivers depend on WhatsApp to keep the trains running (restofworld.org)
    133 points by impish9208 over 1 year ago | 75 comments
38. Lenders are turning to coercive loan apps that shut down smartphones (restofworld.org)
    121 points by akshaybhalotia over 3 years ago | 119 comments
39. Legal documents from the Philippines government have been exposed online (restofworld.org)
    120 points by 1cvmask over 3 years ago | 5 comments
40. Come downstairs or we’ll eat your order, delivery workers tell customers (restofworld.org)
    115 points by nnx about 1 year ago | 234 comments
41. Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s a disaster (restofworld.org)
    114 points by donohoe almost 3 years ago | 100 comments
42. Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative (restofworld.org)
    114 points by donohoe over 3 years ago | 192 comments
43. Watchdog uses open-source research to investigate Sri Lanka’s ongoing crisis (restofworld.org)
    112 points by gbseventeen3331 over 2 years ago | 24 comments
44. The global streaming boom is creating a translator shortage (2021) (restofworld.org)
    107 points by donohoe over 2 years ago | 69 comments
45. The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub (restofworld.org)
    103 points by impish9208 8 months ago | 69 comments
46. The most successful global tech bets are efficient and practical startups (restofworld.org)
    100 points by sorenKaram about 3 years ago | 43 comments
47. TSMC's debacle in the desert: Missed deadlines and tension among coworkers (restofworld.org)
    91 points by impish9208 5 months ago | 83 comments
48. What brought down Airlift, Pakistan's first would-be unicorn (restofworld.org)
    86 points by mooreds about 2 years ago | 44 comments
49. Football shirts chart the rise and fall of tech giants (restofworld.org)
    85 points by marban about 2 years ago | 71 comments
50. Using AI to decipher languages that remain a mystery to us (restofworld.org)
    83 points by Hooke over 2 years ago | 98 comments
51. Nigerian engineering students’ favorite teachers are Indian YouTubers (restofworld.org)
    81 points by impish9208 about 1 year ago | 60 comments
52. Why African startups don't always need to expand across the continent (restofworld.org)
    79 points by mooreds 6 months ago | 57 comments
53. The mysterious user editing a global open-source map in China’s favor (restofworld.org)
    70 points by donohoe over 3 years ago | 7 comments
54. No ID, no vaccines for Indonesia’s invisible people (restofworld.org)
    69 points by nnx over 3 years ago | 46 comments
55. The downfall of Malaysia’s biggest sugar daddy platform (restofworld.org)
    66 points by imartin2k over 3 years ago | 88 comments
56. Young Koreans are echoing r/WallStreetBets in their war against short sellers (restofworld.org)
    65 points by RealDeinonychus over 3 years ago | 104 comments
57. Why forex trading is exploding across Africa (restofworld.org)
    63 points by RealDeinonychus over 3 years ago | 87 comments
58. 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country (restofworld.org)
    63 points by taubek over 1 year ago | 117 comments
59. India’s sex workers turn to WhatsApp, Instagram to find clients safely (restofworld.org)
    62 points by vinnyglennon about 1 year ago | 68 comments
60. The Chinese content farms behind Factory TikTok (restofworld.org)
    60 points by gbseventeen3331 about 3 years ago | 18 comments
61. WhatsApp risks losing its most loyal customers: Indian uncles and aunties (restofworld.org)
    59 points by gbseventeen3331 over 3 years ago | 28 comments
62. When digital nomads come to town (restofworld.org)
    59 points by Michelangelo11 over 1 year ago | 71 comments
63. An industry based on missed calls helped bring India online (restofworld.org)
    57 points by lifeisstillgood over 3 years ago | 40 comments
64. Google automatically installed a Covid-19 tracker on phones in Costa Rica (restofworld.org)
    57 points by donohoe about 3 years ago | 6 comments
65. Kenyan social media campaign designed to undermine the country’s judiciary (restofworld.org)
    57 points by adrian_mrd about 3 years ago | 49 comments
66. People on TikTok are paying elderly women to sit in stagnant mud for hours, cry (restofworld.org)
    56 points by Apocryphon about 1 year ago | 44 comments
67. A baby-faced CEO turned a Farmville clone into a Ponzi scheme (restofworld.org)
    52 points by gmays about 3 years ago | 7 comments