Hacker News on 17 January 2019

• Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over
• Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals
• Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool
• Rust 1.32 released
• Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway
• DNS Flag Day on February 1, 2019: check your domains
• Microsoft pledges $500M for affordable housing in Seattle area
• The creeping IT apocalypse
• Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
• Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email