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Hacker News (Jun 2018)

  1. Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

    2843 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  2. GitLab sees huge spike in project imports

    1717 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  3. How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team

    1611 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  4. Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

    1541 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  5. Hello, GitHub

    1495 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  6. Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide

    1463 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  7. The Machine Fired Me

    1446 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  8. Twitter ‘smytes’ customers

    1421 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  9. Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cellphone

    1301 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  10. Alternatives to Google Products

    1153 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  11. Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard

    1137 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  12. YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

    1124 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  13. Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?

    1122 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  14. Microsoft acquires Github

    1109 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  15. Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall

    1093 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  16. Things I Regret About Node.js [video]

    983 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  17. Earliest images of the moon were better than people realised

    962 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  18. Remote Only

    913 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  19. Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

    881 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  20. Why you should not use Google Cloud

    829 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  21. Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

    807 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  22. Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers

    802 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  23. How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite (2008) [video]

    800 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  24. Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

    789 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  25. GitLab Web IDE

    760 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  26. Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox

    754 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  27. Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

    715 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  28. Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?

    710 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  29. Norwegian Consumer Council report on how tech companies use dark patterns [pdf]

    709 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  30. MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)

    691 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  31. U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani

    684 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  32. Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro

    682 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  33. We're Baking ‘Have I Been Pwned’ into Firefox and 1Password

    682 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  34. Certificates for localhost

    678 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  35. YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)

    671 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  36. Show HN: Open Logos – Free logos for open source projects

    661 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  37. Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL

    658 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  38. GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source

    657 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  39. European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill

    655 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  40. Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game

    653 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  41. Why you should learn just a little Awk (2010)

    646 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  42. OpenAI Five

    637 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  43. AI at Google: our principles

    636 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  44. Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve

    635 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  45. I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA

    631 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  46. The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official

    628 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  47. Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain

    621 points • comment • jun 10, 2018

  48. Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination

    608 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  49. Grow the Puzzle Around You

    595 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  50. The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning

    595 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  51. Performance Reviews Are a Waste of Time

    592 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  52. Why does a spray bottle work?

    590 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  53. How to get rich without getting lucky

    586 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  54. Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B

    573 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  55. Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt (2014)

    572 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  56. I discovered a browser bug

    571 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  57. Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say

    568 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  58. Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI

    567 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  59. Anthony Bourdain has died

    567 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  60. U.S. Supreme Court to hear civil forfeiture case

    566 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  61. Habits of Highly Miserable People

    553 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  62. Why Skylake CPUs Are Sometimes 50% Slower

    550 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  63. States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules

    536 points • comment • jun 21, 2018

  64. Facebook’s patents show a commitment to collecting personal information

    533 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  65. How I use Wireshark

    531 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  66. Neural scene representation and rendering

    531 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  67. Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok

    527 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  68. Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought

    525 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  69. Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially

    525 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  70. Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency

    510 points • comment • jun 06, 2018

  71. Forgotten Employee (2002)

    508 points • comment • jun 17, 2018

  72. Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?

    505 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  73. JVM Internals (2013)

    505 points • comment • jun 09, 2018

  74. NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash

    505 points • comment • jun 07, 2018

  75. Id Software

    501 points • comment • jun 13, 2018

  76. Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

    498 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  77. John Resig: Introducing the GraphQL Guide

    494 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  78. Losing 100 pounds in 276 days

    493 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  79. IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

    493 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  80. React Native at Airbnb

    488 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  81. Game Boy Camera Canon EF Lens Mount

    487 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  82. Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Prices Grew Most

    484 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  83. State of Washington sues Facebook and Google over failure to disclose spending

    483 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  84. How not to structure database-backed web apps: performance bugs in the wild

    475 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  85. OpenBSD disables Intel's hyperthreading due to security concerns

    472 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  86. The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities

    471 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  87. DevTube: Searchable index of developer videos

    470 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  88. Firefox 61.0 Released

    469 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  89. Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging sabotage' by employee

    467 points • comment • jun 18, 2018

  90. Polly.js – Record, replay, and stub HTTP interactions

    467 points • comment • jun 14, 2018

  91. A sad update about a scissors maker that went viral

    462 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  92. Don't Provide Your References to a Recruiter Until After Your Last Interview

    461 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  93. 1.1.1.1 outage explanation

    459 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  94. Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

    458 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  95. American tech giants are making life tough for startups

    452 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  96. OpenDUNE – An open-source recreation of the game Dune II

    446 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  97. Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders

    440 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  98. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)

    438 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  99. Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk

    437 points • comment • jun 23, 2018

  100. Show HN: Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4, React, Angular, Vue.js

    434 points • comment • jun 22, 2018