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Hacker News (Sep 2018)

  1. Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off

    2525 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  2. Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

    2329 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  3. Why I’m done with Chrome

    2314 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  4. EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’

    1720 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  5. Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

    1661 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  6. Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

    1534 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  7. EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019

    1362 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  8. Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information

    1350 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  9. Life in the Spanish city that banned cars

    1230 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  10. Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build

    1224 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  11. DuckDuckGo Traffic

    1122 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  12. Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration

    1099 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  13. Questions

    1081 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  14. Google Dataset Search

    1023 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  15. Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking

    989 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  16. Found hooked up to my router

    960 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  17. Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

    959 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  18. Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads

    940 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  19. A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data

    929 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  20. Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

    897 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  21. Did I just waste 3 years?

    890 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  22. Google is discontinuing Inbox

    880 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  23. SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal

    842 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  24. Mmm, Pi-hole

    835 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  25. Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

    834 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  26. A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes

    803 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  27. SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy

    785 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  28. Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

    780 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  29. Medieval Fantasy City Generator

    780 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  30. Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

    776 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  31. Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company

    762 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  32. Anatomy of a Killing

    761 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  33. GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the State of Washington

    710 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  34. Solid – Reshape the web as we know it

    709 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  35. Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video]

    709 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  36. Apple's best product is now privacy

    694 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  37. Dear Moon

    691 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  38. Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?

    685 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  39. Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book

    681 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  40. Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges

    677 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  41. Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms

    667 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  42. Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change

    667 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  43. Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?

    658 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  44. Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics

    657 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  45. Hire people who aren’t proven

    650 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  46. How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC

    644 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  47. Build Impossible Programs

    636 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  48. Self-solving Rubik's Cube

    627 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  49. Hayabusa2 Now

    617 points • comment • sep 22, 2018

  50. WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind

    616 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  51. GIMP receives a $100K donation

    615 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  52. Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway

    610 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  53. XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust

    603 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  54. Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

    602 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  55. Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists

    584 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  56. How to Build a Low-Tech Website

    583 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  57. The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light

    574 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  58. The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security

    574 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  59. How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censor Google results (2017)

    567 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  60. People Like You More Than You Know

    560 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  61. Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?

    559 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  62. Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

    555 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  63. Instagram’s CEO

    555 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  64. Stripe Is Now a $20B Company

    548 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  65. Ask HN: What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great?

    545 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  66. Dry Water

    536 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  67. All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders

    534 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  68. An Intensive Introduction to Cryptography

    530 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  69. Stripe Terminal – Programmable point of sale

    530 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  70. Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web

    526 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  71. Terry Davis has died

    522 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  72. World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years

    519 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  73. Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

    514 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  74. Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI server, and makes them pass

    511 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  75. Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program

    511 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  76. Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages

    507 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  77. A First Course in Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers

    506 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  78. Introducing Firefox Monitor, Helping People Take Control After a Data Breach

    505 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  79. Apple can delete purchased movies from your library without telling you

    503 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  80. Show HN: TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked by confidence intervals

    501 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  81. NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner

    500 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  82. Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2

    498 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  83. Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions

    498 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  84. Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

    497 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  85. Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole

    495 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  86. PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018

    490 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  87. Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint

    487 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  88. Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

    483 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  89. TypeScript at Google

    477 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  90. ‘Five Eyes’ Nations Quietly Demand Government Access to Encrypted Data

    474 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  91. After century of removing appendixes, doctors find antibiotics can be enough

    474 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  92. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

    471 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  93. My Story as a Homeless Developer

    469 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  94. On generative algorithms

    469 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  95. The Tools I Use to Write Books

    467 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  96. Oracle’s Java 11 trap

    464 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  97. Brave files adtech complaint against Google

    462 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  98. IBM Is Being Sued for Age Discrimination After Firing Thousands

    462 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  99. Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

    461 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  100. Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack

    452 points • comment • sep 04, 2018