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Hacker News (Sep 2018)
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Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off
2525 points • comment • sep 16, 2018
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Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies
2329 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Why I’m done with Chrome
2314 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
1720 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users
1661 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
1534 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019
1362 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information
1350 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Life in the Spanish city that banned cars
1230 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build
1224 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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DuckDuckGo Traffic
1122 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration
1099 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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Questions
1081 points • comment • sep 30, 2018
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Google Dataset Search
1023 points • comment • sep 05, 2018
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Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
989 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Found hooked up to my router
960 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
959 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads
940 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data
929 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text
897 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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Did I just waste 3 years?
890 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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Google is discontinuing Inbox
880 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal
842 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Mmm, Pi-hole
835 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
834 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes
803 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy
785 points • comment • sep 13, 2018
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Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?
780 points • comment • sep 30, 2018
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Medieval Fantasy City Generator
780 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
776 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company
762 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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Anatomy of a Killing
761 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the State of Washington
710 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Solid – Reshape the web as we know it
709 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video]
709 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Apple's best product is now privacy
694 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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Dear Moon
691 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?
685 points • comment • sep 16, 2018
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Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book
681 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges
677 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms
667 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
667 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?
658 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics
657 points • comment • sep 15, 2018
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Hire people who aren’t proven
650 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC
644 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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Build Impossible Programs
636 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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Self-solving Rubik's Cube
627 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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Hayabusa2 Now
617 points • comment • sep 22, 2018
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WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind
616 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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GIMP receives a $100K donation
615 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway
610 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust
603 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam
602 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists
584 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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How to Build a Low-Tech Website
583 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light
574 points • comment • sep 05, 2018
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The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security
574 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censor Google results (2017)
567 points • comment • sep 30, 2018
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People Like You More Than You Know
560 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?
559 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
555 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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Instagram’s CEO
555 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Stripe Is Now a $20B Company
548 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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Ask HN: What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great?
545 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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Dry Water
536 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders
534 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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An Intensive Introduction to Cryptography
530 points • comment • sep 02, 2018
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Stripe Terminal – Programmable point of sale
530 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web
526 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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Terry Davis has died
522 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years
519 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Introducing Cloudflare Registrar
514 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI server, and makes them pass
511 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program
511 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages
507 points • comment • sep 05, 2018
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A First Course in Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers
506 points • comment • sep 05, 2018
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Introducing Firefox Monitor, Helping People Take Control After a Data Breach
505 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Apple can delete purchased movies from your library without telling you
503 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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Show HN: TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked by confidence intervals
501 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner
500 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2
498 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
498 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China
497 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole
495 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018
490 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint
487 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
483 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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TypeScript at Google
477 points • comment • sep 02, 2018
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‘Five Eyes’ Nations Quietly Demand Government Access to Encrypted Data
474 points • comment • sep 05, 2018
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After century of removing appendixes, doctors find antibiotics can be enough
474 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)
471 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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My Story as a Homeless Developer
469 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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On generative algorithms
469 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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The Tools I Use to Write Books
467 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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Oracle’s Java 11 trap
464 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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Brave files adtech complaint against Google
462 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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IBM Is Being Sued for Age Discrimination After Firing Thousands
462 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company
461 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack
452 points • comment • sep 04, 2018