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Hacker News (Apr 2018)

  1. France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994

    481 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  2. Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom

    478 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  3. D3 in Depth

    476 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  4. Rethinking GPS: Engineering Next-Gen Location at Uber

    469 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  5. The Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades

    462 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  6. The Quest for the Next Billion-Dollar Color

    459 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  7. What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why?

    457 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  8. Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost

    457 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  9. Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app

    457 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  10. Web Application Penetration Testing Cheat Sheet

    456 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  11. Why SQLite Does Not Use Git

    454 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  12. FFmpeg 4.0 released

    451 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  13. Vipassana for Hackers [pdf]

    450 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  14. RSS is undead

    450 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  15. Software Testing Anti-patterns

    448 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  16. Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning

    447 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  17. Ask HN: My startup has basically failed. What now?

    446 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  18. Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was a sham

    446 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  19. Web Authentication: Proposed API for accessing Public Key Credentials

    446 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  20. Simone Giertz on her brain tumour [video]

    445 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  21. Mermaid: Markdown-like generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text

    444 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  22. How to build a house alone [video]

    443 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  23. Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)

    441 points • comment • apr 23, 2018

  24. VS Code can do that?

    441 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  25. Probability Theory for Scientists and Engineers

    436 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  26. My Favorite PostgreSQL Queries and Why They Matter

    434 points • comment • apr 14, 2018

  27. Designing very large JavaScript applications

    433 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  28. Distributed architecture concepts I learned when building a large payment system

    432 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  29. Facebook has auto-enrolled users into a facial recognition test in Europe

    430 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  30. Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sustainable business model

    430 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  31. Square to buy Weebly for $365M

    428 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  32. Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?

    427 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  33. Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress

    426 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  34. Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor mortality ratings

    425 points • comment • apr 21, 2018

  35. Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman [pdf]

    424 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  36. The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+

    424 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  37. Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier

    421 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  38. A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google

    420 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  39. Susan Kare designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary

    416 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  40. Microsoft makes AI training courses available to the public

    414 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  41. Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns

    414 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  42. A blockchain is a specific set of choices suitable for a narrow set of use-cases

    413 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  43. Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them

    412 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  44. Hello wasm-pack

    411 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  45. ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

    408 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  46. Lessons learned from a failing local mall

    407 points • comment • apr 28, 2018

  47. NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google'

    400 points • comment • apr 27, 2018

  48. Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash

    399 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  49. Belgium declares loot boxes gambling and therefore illegal

    398 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  50. Stripe Atlas for LLCs

    398 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  51. Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes

    395 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  52. We might be swinging away from the newsfeed

    394 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  53. FTC Warns Manufacturers That 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Are Illegal

    393 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  54. Python 3.7: Introducing Data Classes

    392 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  55. Thinking of yourself as an insomniac may be a part of the problem

    391 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  56. Show HN: Intuitive Linear Algebra and 3D Geometry

    391 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  57. Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry

    388 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  58. Panerabread.com leaks millions of customer records

    387 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  59. Pinebook: An Affordable 64-bit ARM based Open Source Notebook

    387 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  60. Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It

    386 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  61. Swedes turn against cashlessness

    384 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  62. Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case

    383 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  63. Netflix FlameScope

    381 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  64. ZFS on Linux: Unlistable and disappearing files

    379 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  65. AWS Secrets Manager – Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely

    378 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  66. Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 engineering firefighter

    378 points • comment • apr 06, 2018

  67. Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU privacy law

    376 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  68. Android container in Chrome OS

    375 points • comment • apr 09, 2018

  69. Ask HN: What are some tech companies that do not use an open floor plan?

    375 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  70. Be likeable or get fired

    373 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  71. Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

    373 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  72. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters

    373 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  73. E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve prison term

    372 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  74. Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script

    371 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  75. YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form

    370 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  76. Making a Statically-Linked, Single-File Web App with React and Rust

    369 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  77. Tell HN: 17 years on the same game

    368 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  78. SteamOS, Linux, and Steam Machines

    366 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  79. JavaScript Pattern Matching Proposal

    362 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  80. Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin-based

    359 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  81. List of command line tools for manipulating CSV, XML, HTML, JSON, INI, etc.

    359 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  82. Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth

    358 points • comment • apr 04, 2018

  83. Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material

    357 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  84. Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides

    356 points • comment • apr 01, 2018

  85. Examples of everything new in ECMAScript 2016, 2017, and 2018

    356 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  86. SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round

    355 points • comment • apr 13, 2018

  87. Ask HN: What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?

    354 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  88. Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention (2015)

    354 points • comment • apr 22, 2018

  89. Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB

    354 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  90. Cloudflare's new DNS attracting 'gigabits per second' of rubbish

    353 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  91. Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica researcher

    353 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  92. Ask HN: Anyone making money through algorithmic trading?

    353 points • comment • apr 25, 2018

  93. On becoming a better developer (2015)

    352 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  94. Show HN: Watch Stanford CS Lectures Together

    352 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  95. Why I've lost faith in p values

    351 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  96. Giving up reading news will make us happier

    350 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  97. Impersonators who are paid to flirt on dating apps

    350 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  98. Flow chart of cognitive biases

    350 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  99. In 2004, Zuckerberg Broke Into a Facebook User's Private Email Account (2010)

    349 points • comment • apr 08, 2018

  100. Post-Mortem and Security Advisory: Data Exposure After travis-ci.com Outage

    349 points • comment • apr 09, 2018