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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. China May Have $5.8T in Hidden Debt with ‘Titanic’ Risks

    471 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  2. iPad Pro

    469 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  3. AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of Chinese spy chip story

    460 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  4. Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on New MacBook Pros

    459 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  5. October 21 post-incident analysis

    458 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  6. When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves

    456 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  7. Motorola and iFixit partner to sell phone repair kits

    449 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  8. Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations

    448 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  9. Night Sight for Pixel phones

    446 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  10. Don’t sign a CLA

    445 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  11. Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a dermatology journal

    445 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  12. Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloomberg's Hack Story

    443 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  13. The Big Hack: Statements From Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, Chinese Government

    443 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  14. Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort-Of Cheap

    438 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  15. Startups I Want to Fund

    437 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  16. Air pollution linked to “huge” reduction in intelligence

    435 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  17. Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (2001-2016)

    430 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  18. Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracking protection

    429 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  19. Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?

    425 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  20. Heavy multitaskers have reduced memory

    425 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  21. Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor

    420 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  22. Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin

    418 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  23. Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others

    416 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  24. The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world

    415 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  25. First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings

    413 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  26. YC Top Companies List

    409 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  27. Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?

    408 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  28. DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon Systems Vulnerabilities

    408 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  29. Ask HN: Am I just a wantrepreneur?

    407 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  30. Show HN: Alan – a low-code application platform

    405 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  31. Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit

    404 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  32. US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty

    401 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  33. How to Make a Roguelike

    398 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  34. Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazon.com

    398 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  35. Why we need more than “learn at your own pace” online learning

    398 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  36. System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware

    397 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  37. Micro.blog

    396 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  38. Brief aerobic exercise immediately enhances attention and perceptual speed

    395 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  39. Not Lisp again (2009)

    395 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  40. A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers

    392 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  41. What's a CPU to do when it has nothing to do?

    392 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  42. Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt

    387 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  43. The SOS in my Halloween decorations

    387 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  44. Writing an OS in Rust: Hardware Interrupts

    387 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  45. 5G Got me Fired

    385 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  46. Dandelion Seeds Fly Using ‘Impossible’ Method Never Before Seen in Nature

    384 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  47. Introduction to Differential Equations (2008)

    381 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  48. How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain

    379 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  49. Ask HN: What do you do in your 1-on-1s with your direct reports?

    378 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  50. The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found

    377 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  51. Ask HN: Is there a modern “power on to basic” computer, for kids to learn on?

    377 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  52. An invitation to category theory

    376 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  53. Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland

    376 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  54. Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports

    374 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  55. “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

    373 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  56. Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

    372 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  57. Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google’s Official Story on China

    370 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  58. Mixnode: Turn the web into a database

    370 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  59. GoogleMeetRoulette: Joining random meetings

    368 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  60. Why I’m Worried About Google

    367 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  61. Show HN: Polar – an offline web browser with annotations and tagging

    367 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  62. Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides]

    365 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  63. Tesla Third Quarter 2018 Update [pdf]

    365 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  64. Study shows massive insect loss

    364 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  65. Flatpak – a security nightmare

    362 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  66. “Stress Hormone” Cortisol Linked to Early Toll on Thinking Ability

    362 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  67. Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

    360 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  68. Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States

    356 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  69. Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29

    355 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  70. Model-Based Machine Learning Book

    355 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  71. Ask HN: 40+ Career Advice?

    353 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  72. My Journey into Fractals

    353 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  73. Apple T2 Security Chip: Security Overview [pdf]

    353 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  74. How to Write a Technical Paper [pdf]

    351 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  75. Snapchat CEO’s leaked memo on survival

    351 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  76. Honda will use GM’s self-driving technology, invests in Cruise

    350 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  77. How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

    348 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  78. The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B

    348 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  79. Anti-social Punishment

    343 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  80. Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave

    342 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  81. Calculus Made Easy (1910)

    342 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  82. Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript

    341 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  83. Intel ME Manufacturing Mode: obscured dangers and MacBook vulnerability

    340 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  84. The Architecture of Git (2012)

    340 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  85. How to build your own neural network from scratch in Python

    340 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  86. Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design

    340 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  87. Facebook Isn’t Sorry, It Just Wants Your Data

    338 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  88. Amazon Warehouse Workers Lose Bonuses, Stock Awards for Raises

    338 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  89. gRPC-Web is going GA

    338 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  90. For back pain, the subtle moves of the Feldenkrais Method can help some people

    335 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  91. Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier

    333 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  92. The Waiting Time Paradox, Or, Why Is My Bus Always Late?

    330 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  93. TinySeed – A Startup Accelerator Designed for Bootstrappers

    329 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  94. The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging

    329 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  95. The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter

    328 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  96. Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

    326 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  97. Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought

    326 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  98. Introducing Dav1d: a new AV1 decoder

    324 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  99. So You Want to Open a Small Press Bookstore/Artist-Run Space? A Cautionary Tale

    324 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  100. Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

    324 points • comment • oct 22, 2018