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Hacker News (Apr 2018)

  1. Apple open-sources FoundationDB

    2124 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  2. 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service

    1869 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  3. Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?

    1631 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  4. Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

    1555 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  5. Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project

    1362 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  6. Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel

    1291 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  7. Facebook Container for Firefox

    1258 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  8. Productivity

    1177 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  9. Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook

    1074 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  10. You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts

    1045 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  11. Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours

    1044 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  12. EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides

    1020 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  13. I wandered off and built an IDE

    1020 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  14. The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user

    995 points • comment • apr 07, 2018

  15. Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online

    990 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  16. AV1: A new general-purpose video codec

    905 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  17. IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016)

    899 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  18. Dumber phone

    883 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  19. Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative

    867 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  20. DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS

    854 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  21. Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties

    831 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  22. Berkeley offers its data science course online for free

    791 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  23. Fuchsia is not Linux

    771 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  24. Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks

    762 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  25. Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website

    760 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  26. Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role

    750 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  27. Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App

    737 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  28. Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ

    732 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  29. “Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy”

    727 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  30. GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere

    723 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  31. StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations

    714 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  32. Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text

    708 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  33. A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit

    704 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  34. Smugmug Acquires Flickr

    701 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  35. A Taxonomy of Technical Debt

    694 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  36. Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video]

    689 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  37. Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B

    689 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  38. Magnasanti: Large and Terrifying SimCity (2010)

    688 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  39. Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

    669 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  40. Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia

    665 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  41. Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release

    665 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  42. Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines

    663 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  43. TextQL: Execute SQL Against CSV or TSV

    650 points • comment • apr 07, 2018

  44. Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?

    648 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  45. My account is sending spam emails

    645 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  46. Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case

    641 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  47. The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework

    639 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  48. Two Koreas Agree to End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization

    637 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  49. NirSoft Freeware (2008)

    623 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  50. Apple Hires Google’s A.I. Chief

    623 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  51. Stripe Billing

    620 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  52. A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class

    612 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  53. Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook

    611 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  54. ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility

    611 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  55. H&R Block and Intuit Lobbying Against Simpler Tax Filing (2017)

    611 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  56. OpenSimpleLidar

    604 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  57. Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is

    602 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  58. Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines

    600 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  59. No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login

    599 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  60. Make your own sourdough

    598 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  61. How to Decide What to Build

    597 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  62. Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

    592 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  63. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)

    583 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  64. Time to rebuild the web?

    582 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  65. A Well-Known Expert on Student Loans Is Not Real

    575 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  66. Mylo: A leather-like material made from mycelium

    571 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  67. The End of Windows

    570 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  68. What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

    565 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  69. List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects

    564 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  70. System Shock 1 source code released under GPL

    564 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  71. Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2017) [pdf]

    562 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  72. Life is Short (2016)

    561 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  73. A Workshop on Linux Containers: Rebuild Docker from Scratch

    555 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  74. My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app

    555 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  75. Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio

    553 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  76. In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information

    548 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  77. French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Journals

    548 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  78. Color: From Hex codes to Eyeballs

    546 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  79. Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities

    541 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  80. Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)

    540 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  81. Flask 1.0 Released

    539 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  82. MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’

    538 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  83. Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video]

    535 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  84. Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Apple Object to W3C Fork of DOM Spec

    533 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  85. How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS

    527 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  86. Don't give away historic details about yourself

    525 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  87. I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores

    519 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  88. Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally

    517 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  89. A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet

    516 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  90. Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change

    505 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  91. "@" on Twitter

    500 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  92. Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading

    494 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  93. Stripe Home

    491 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  94. UN: Facebook has turned into a beast in Myanmar

    490 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  95. Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens

    490 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  96. Form a California LLC in 10 minutes for $70

    488 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  97. Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook

    488 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  98. Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything

    485 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  99. Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

    482 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  100. Towards Scala 3

    482 points • comment • apr 20, 2018