Hacker News on 26 June 2020

• Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first
• Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks
• The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers
• Boston bans use of facial recognition technology
• There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff
• Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores
• Dynamic linking
• Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify
• Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
• Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters