Hacker News on 17 January 2020

• A Sad Day for Rust
• DigitalOcean is laying off staff
• An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
• EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces
• Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL
• I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS
• Startup Ideas 2020
• Actix project postmortem
• Aussie firefighters save world's only groves of prehistoric Wollemi pines
• PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon's tactics before House committee