Top Hackernews posts from www.politico.com

1. Facebook paid billions to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege (www.politico.com)
   611 points by croes almost 3 years ago | 345 comments
2. White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note (www.politico.com)
   416 points by rmason almost 2 years ago | 405 comments
3. Who owns private home security footage, and who can get access to it? (www.politico.com)
   389 points by thunderbong over 1 year ago | 492 comments
4. Google sought fellow tech giants' help in stalling kids' privacy protections (www.politico.com)
   342 points by koolba almost 3 years ago | 63 comments
5. A UK college student explaining congressional procedure to Washington (www.politico.com)
   338 points by andytratt 6 months ago | 143 comments
6. Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’s antitrust war (www.politico.com)
   258 points by fortran77 almost 3 years ago | 77 comments
7. Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions (www.politico.com)
   248 points by stsewd over 2 years ago | 62 comments
8. Otter.ai has saved reporters hours transcribing interviews. Caveat emptor (www.politico.com)
   234 points by danso over 2 years ago | 118 comments
9. Starship is threatening NASA’s moon contractors (www.politico.com)
   222 points by danboarder over 2 years ago | 308 comments
10. Eric Schmidt's influence on U.S. science policy (www.politico.com)
    196 points by walterbell over 2 years ago | 90 comments
11. Alaska’s Fisheries Are Collapsing (www.politico.com)
    193 points by mooreds over 1 year ago | 161 comments
12. An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve (www.politico.com)
    161 points by JumpCrisscross about 1 year ago | 297 comments
13. Leaked SCOTUS Draft Opinion Suggests Imminent Overturn of Roe vs. Wade (www.politico.com)
    143 points by vector_spaces over 2 years ago | 132 comments
14. Huawei hiring former Democratic super lobbyist Tony Podesta (www.politico.com)
    140 points by jimmy2020 about 3 years ago | 87 comments
15. Andrew Yang to launch a third party (www.politico.com)
    132 points by hncurious about 3 years ago | 155 comments
16. US Senate’s email system melts down in face of security test and reply-all chaos (www.politico.com)
    131 points by sixstringtheory 12 months ago | 89 comments
17. AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are from Dept of Defense (www.politico.com)
    126 points by fireball_blaze over 3 years ago | 76 comments
18. Who will lead the charge to a four-day work week? (www.politico.com)
    125 points by robg 9 months ago | 152 comments
19. Senior Boeing employee on why he won't fly a MAX: Just Get me Off This Plane (www.politico.com)
    118 points by isaacfrond 7 months ago | 67 comments
20. Clearview AI hits watchdog groups with subpoenas (www.politico.com)
    114 points by dsr12 almost 3 years ago | 17 comments
21. Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows (www.politico.com)
    108 points by IdEntities over 2 years ago | 180 comments
22. FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon (www.politico.com)
    107 points by jnord about 1 year ago | 94 comments
23. Newsom vetoes a proposed ban on caste discrimination in California (www.politico.com)
    103 points by JumpCrisscross 12 months ago | 175 comments
24. How rare is a Supreme Court breach? Very rare (www.politico.com)
    102 points by eganist over 2 years ago | 309 comments
25. Gavin Newsom wants to take smartphones out of schools (www.politico.com)
    92 points by koolba 3 months ago | 209 comments
26. D-Day, as told by paratroopers (www.politico.com)
    89 points by dance-me 3 months ago | 121 comments
27. The Reason Washington Is Silent on the FTX Fiasco - Bipartisan Donations (www.politico.com)
    84 points by alephnerd almost 2 years ago | 43 comments
28. Free Markets Don’t Buy Peace (www.politico.com)
    82 points by Tomte almost 2 years ago | 109 comments
29. Lawmakers shift gears on TikTok ban (www.politico.com)
    82 points by c420 12 months ago | 260 comments
30. First human case of avian flu in Texas (www.politico.com)
    79 points by puttycat 6 months ago | 76 comments
31. Canada's parliament rocked by allegations of treason and foreign interference (www.politico.com)
    77 points by alephnerd 3 months ago | 39 comments
32. FCC proposes fining conspiracists $5.1M for voter suppression robocalls (www.politico.com)
    76 points by commoner about 3 years ago | 66 comments
33. Health industry responds to data privacy crackdown (www.politico.com)
    74 points by luu over 1 year ago | 20 comments
34. Navy cancels ship briefings after damning internal report (www.politico.com)
    71 points by jseliger 5 months ago | 63 comments
35. Qualified Immunity Is Burning a Hole in the Constitution (www.politico.com)
    67 points by JumpCrisscross over 1 year ago | 60 comments
36. Federal Gov. left ‘completely blind’ on cyberattacks looks to force reporting (www.politico.com)
    63 points by Black101 over 3 years ago | 37 comments
37. DHS has a program gathering domestic intelligence virtually no one knows about (www.politico.com)
    61 points by SkyMarshal over 1 year ago | 2 comments
38. Why we still don’t have the JFK assassination files (www.politico.com)
    59 points by alexfromapex almost 2 years ago | 28 comments
39. An East African Kingdom Changed T Roosevelt and the Course of American Democracy (www.politico.com)
    57 points by prmph over 1 year ago | 58 comments
40. The Fed’s Doomsday Prophet Has a Dire Warning About Where We’re Headed (www.politico.com)
    57 points by hodgesrm over 2 years ago | 35 comments
41. Google blocks some California news as fight over online journalism bill escalate (www.politico.com)
    56 points by whyenot 5 months ago | 2 comments
42. Homeland Security records show 'shocking' use of phone data, ACLU says (www.politico.com)
    54 points by arkadiyt about 2 years ago | 2 comments
43. Geoengineering test launched in Alameda (www.politico.com)
    54 points by hammock 5 months ago | 48 comments
44. Applesauce pouches may have been contaminated on purpose, FDA foods chief says (www.politico.com)
    54 points by Timothee 9 months ago | 75 comments
45. ‘I don’t want to become San Francisco’: Urban woes spur state action on housing (www.politico.com)
    53 points by imichael about 1 year ago | 29 comments
46. Why Musk’s biggest space gamble is freaking out his competitors (www.politico.com)
    53 points by dkobia over 2 years ago | 18 comments
47. Fitch downgrades U.S. after debt limit stalemate (www.politico.com)
    51 points by koolba about 1 year ago | 108 comments