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Hacker News (Oct 2018)
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Paul Allen has died
2889 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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IBM acquires Red Hat
2577 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
2480 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Paper Airplane Designs
1724 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
1595 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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iPhones are allergic to helium
1283 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
1172 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Carbon Removal Technologies
1171 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced
1154 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It
1147 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms
1059 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Coders Automating Their Own Job
975 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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iPhones are hard to use
969 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them
962 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
953 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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What I loved about Paul Allen
952 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS
910 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
906 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast
902 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
867 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
865 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Electronics Is Legal
861 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Helm: Personal Email Server
836 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Amazon increases minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour
836 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
828 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Compare career levels across companies
820 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Japan's Hometown Tax
817 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network
809 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim
796 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
765 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Hubble is back
759 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
730 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack
699 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness
697 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem
693 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?
690 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”
685 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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My somewhat complete salary history as a software engineer
680 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued
679 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works
677 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
668 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It
643 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $5k Customs fine
635 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid
632 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool
630 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects
629 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds
626 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Apple Launches Portal for U.S. Users to Download Their Data
623 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People
603 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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PostgreSQL 11 Released
599 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
596 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language
594 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Do You Really Know CORS?
592 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Sourcegraph is now open source
591 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
591 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s
590 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Repair is as important as innovation
590 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews
589 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment
588 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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The Periodic Table of Data Structures [pdf]
588 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Denmark to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030
585 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
573 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
569 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound
566 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Ask HN: YouTube down?
565 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1B
560 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Generating custom photo-realistic faces using AI
560 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Show HN: Websites in 2018
560 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology
557 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automatically record the police
554 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastructure [pdf]
540 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
537 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Microsoft open sources parts of Minecraft: Java Edition
534 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
532 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coercion by angels and VCs
528 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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IBM’s Old Playbook
527 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story
525 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita
523 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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A True Story
519 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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12 Factor CLI Apps
513 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
509 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40
508 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Unicode Dicks
503 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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WebAssembly’s post-MVP future
501 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
500 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Today Is My Wife’s First Birthday Since She Died
498 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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End-to-end implementation of a machine learning pipeline (2017)
498 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Who Are My Investors?
497 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Introducing Hooks
496 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Kids’ Apps Are Crammed With Ads
492 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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A Python Library to extract tabular data from PDFs
491 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?
490 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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In Praise of Mediocrity
489 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
487 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research
486 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks
479 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview
478 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds
475 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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InVision has no physical headquarters and all 700 employees work remotely
474 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product managers
472 points • comment • oct 14, 2018