Top Hackernews posts from www.abc.net.au

  1. Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone (www.abc.net.au)
    445 points by adrian_mrd about 2 years ago | 337 comments
  2. Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app (www.abc.net.au)
    431 points by ferros over 3 years ago | 348 comments
  3. Australia to ban engineered stone (www.abc.net.au)
    336 points by bobnamob 9 months ago | 524 comments
  4. Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after frantic search (www.abc.net.au)
    293 points by martyvis over 1 year ago | 234 comments
  5. Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google (www.abc.net.au)
    271 points by defrost 11 months ago | 214 comments
  6. Winter temperatures above 35C in South America leave climatologists in disbelief (www.abc.net.au)
    257 points by hnuser0000 about 1 year ago | 177 comments
  7. Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill (www.abc.net.au)
    243 points by bryanrasmussen about 3 years ago | 218 comments
  8. Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts (www.abc.net.au)
    202 points by ColinWright about 1 year ago | 162 comments
  9. Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo in 'just over an hour' (www.abc.net.au)
    199 points by psychstudio about 2 years ago | 105 comments
  10. Atlassian to shed 5 per cent of workers (www.abc.net.au)
    189 points by rstuart4133 over 1 year ago | 223 comments
  11. Magpies have outwitted scientists by helping each other remove tracking devices (www.abc.net.au)
    183 points by clouddrover over 2 years ago | 55 comments
  12. Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds (www.abc.net.au)
    173 points by AFlyingBoom over 3 years ago | 92 comments
  13. Cancer expert given experimental treatments for incurable brain tumour (www.abc.net.au)
    169 points by femto 12 months ago | 150 comments
  14. Quairading shire erects signs telling travellers to ignore Google Maps (www.abc.net.au)
    156 points by pabs3 9 months ago | 149 comments
  15. The world has reached 8B people but soon we'll hit a decline we'll never reverse (www.abc.net.au)
    151 points by adrian_mrd almost 2 years ago | 264 comments
  16. Morris Chang founded TSMC, the most valuable company in Asia (www.abc.net.au)
    147 points by adrian_mrd about 1 year ago | 106 comments
  17. A simple mistake that stuffed up world temperature records for 90 years (www.abc.net.au)
    140 points by adrian_mrd about 3 years ago | 134 comments
  18. Farmer ordered to pay $CAD82k after confusion over meaning of thumbs-up emoji (www.abc.net.au)
    133 points by ColinWright about 1 year ago | 148 comments
  19. Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside (www.abc.net.au)
    130 points by incompatible over 3 years ago | 61 comments
  20. X becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods internet (www.abc.net.au)
    122 points by thunderbong 7 months ago | 123 comments
  21. Women of the sea: Korea’s oldest free divers (www.abc.net.au)
    115 points by adrian_mrd almost 3 years ago | 27 comments
  22. Replika users fell in love with their AI chatbot companions. Then they lost them (www.abc.net.au)
    95 points by prawn over 1 year ago | 106 comments
  23. 'Speed friending' events (www.abc.net.au)
    92 points by adrian_mrd almost 3 years ago | 103 comments
  24. Playing sounds of healthy coral on reefs makes fish return (2019) (www.abc.net.au)
    89 points by thinkingemote about 1 year ago | 43 comments
  25. Fitbit fined $11M for misleading consumers about their rights under consumer law (www.abc.net.au)
    88 points by clouddrover 9 months ago | 44 comments
  26. Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customers' cars: Ex-employees (www.abc.net.au)
    86 points by samaysharma 11 months ago | 34 comments
  27. Deliveroo is leaving Australia (www.abc.net.au)
    85 points by jayhoon almost 2 years ago | 102 comments
  28. Urgent public health warning issued over lost radioactive capsule (www.abc.net.au)
    76 points by mjsweet over 1 year ago | 52 comments
  29. Australia's first complete plesiosaur fossil discovered in outback Queensland (www.abc.net.au)
    75 points by adrian_mrd almost 2 years ago | 20 comments
  30. Millions of customers in Australia hit by mobile phone and internet outage (www.abc.net.au)
    72 points by langfo 11 months ago | 43 comments
  31. Coffee does not give you energy, it just borrows what you will pay for later (www.abc.net.au)
    71 points by belltaco over 1 year ago | 43 comments
  32. Hundreds of drones plunge into Melbourne’s Yarra River (www.abc.net.au)
    70 points by richardjam73 about 1 year ago | 38 comments
  33. Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, report finds (www.abc.net.au)
    70 points by elorant 9 months ago | 177 comments
  34. Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison during appeal of sentence (www.abc.net.au)
    68 points by jiwidi over 1 year ago | 62 comments
  35. Team New Zealand set new wind-powered land speed record on South Australian Lake (www.abc.net.au)
    65 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 24 comments
  36. German gymnastics team, tired of sexualisation, wears unitards at Tokyo Olympics (www.abc.net.au)
    63 points by DocFeind about 3 years ago | 52 comments
  37. Scientists find enzyme that can make electricity out of tiny amounts of hydrogen (www.abc.net.au)
    61 points by fagnerbrack over 1 year ago | 9 comments
  38. In Japan, a million people have shut themselves in their rooms (www.abc.net.au)
    61 points by terrycody over 2 years ago | 28 comments
  39. Apple Maps wrongly lists restaurant permanently closed, costing owner thousands (www.abc.net.au)
    59 points by resolutebat 8 months ago | 105 comments
  40. Skiplagging: The travel hack hated by airlines is now the subject of a lawsuit (www.abc.net.au)
    57 points by adrian_mrd about 1 year ago | 78 comments
  41. Lebanon: Worst economic collapse in 150 years (www.abc.net.au)
    57 points by jgmasters about 3 years ago | 26 comments
  42. Tonga is running out of space for more than 30k abandoned cars (www.abc.net.au)
    55 points by adrian_mrd 12 months ago | 74 comments
  43. As wildfires burn across the world, what is the role of Australia's eucalyptus? (www.abc.net.au)
    53 points by adrian_mrd about 1 year ago | 27 comments
  44. A billion-dollar industry helping students at Australian universities cheat (www.abc.net.au)
    53 points by adrian_mrd about 2 years ago | 87 comments
  45. North Korea making billions from stolen cryptocurrency (www.abc.net.au)
    53 points by stubish 10 months ago | 63 comments
  46. Encrypted Chat An0m was a FBI honeypot Used to take down global criminal network (www.abc.net.au)
    52 points by rmm over 3 years ago | 17 comments
  47. Boeing 737 Max mid-air emergencies revealed (www.abc.net.au)
    50 points by dlcmh about 2 years ago | 15 comments