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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. Update to Ask HN: What to do if I’m about to lose my job to mental health issues

    267 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  2. French intelligence officer caught selling confidential data on the dark web

    267 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  3. Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’

    266 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  4. RIP Todd Bol, Inventor of ‘Little Free Libraries’

    266 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  5. What I Learned From Making Hot Sauce at Scale in China

    266 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  6. Memory Allocators 101 – Write a simple memory allocator (2016)

    266 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  7. WebAssembly Threads ready to try in Chrome 70

    265 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  8. Bpftrace for Linux 2018

    263 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  9. IBM Nears Deal to Acquire Red Hat

    263 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  10. How to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any Database

    262 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  11. Go hits the concurrency nail on the head

    261 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  12. Turns Out Wearing a Hi-Vis Vest Gets You into Everything for Free

    261 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  13. World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (2016)

    261 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  14. Alarming study shows massive insect loss

    261 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  15. The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News

    261 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  16. DRM for chargers? Google Pixel 3 locks fast Qi charging to its own stand

    261 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  17. Intuitive Understanding of Euler’s Formula

    261 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  18. Millions of workers believe they are bound by non-binding contracts

    260 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  19. Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID

    260 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  20. Texans say voting machines changing straight-ticket choices

    260 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  21. What Businessweek got wrong about Apple

    259 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  22. Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work

    259 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  23. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video]

    258 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  24. An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming

    258 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  25. Fear, trust and JavaScript: When types and functional programming fail

    258 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  26. How a Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Exploited Android Phones to Steal Millions

    257 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  27. How to price a product, sell it to customers, and build a sales team

    255 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  28. Teaching C (2016)

    255 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  29. M.B.A. Applications Decline at Harvard, Wharton, Other Elite Schools

    255 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  30. His Body Was Behind the Wheel for a Week Before It Was Discovered

    254 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  31. I woke up unable to speak English

    253 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  32. Ferret – Declarative web scraping

    253 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  33. Show HN: Lipreading with Deep Learning

    253 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  34. Facebook says millions had phone numbers, search history and location stolen

    252 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  35. Bill to ban bots impersonating people for telemarketing and influencing election

    251 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  36. A guide to rhythm in web typography

    251 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  37. MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable

    250 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  38. Do We Worship Complexity?

    250 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  39. Even janitors have noncompetes now

    250 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  40. Howler.js – JavaScript audio library for the modern web

    249 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  41. IQ Matters Less Than You Think

    249 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  42. Show HN: Jobs Done – A ritual app for ending the work day inspired by Deep Work

    249 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  43. Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate

    249 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  44. My phone is spying on me, so I decided to spy on it

    248 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  45. World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered in Black Sea

    247 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  46. Blood money

    246 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  47. The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Secrets

    246 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  48. A Great Old Timey Game Programming Hack (2013)

    245 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  49. Show HN: Space invaders, but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm

    245 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  50. Identifying QUIC deliverables

    245 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  51. Ban organophosphate pesticides to protect children's health, experts say

    244 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  52. Hackintosh-KVM Guide: High Sierra+ Using QEMU's I440fx Chipset

    244 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  53. RawGit is now in a sunset phase and will soon shut down

    244 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  54. I Pay for News; Why Do I Still See Intrusive Ads? (2017)

    243 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  55. Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science

    243 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  56. Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones

    243 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  57. Wayback Machine director outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive

    243 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  58. Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition

    242 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  59. Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers

    242 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  60. The hacker's guide to uncertainty estimates

    241 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  61. Qualcomm says Apple is $7B behind in royalty payments

    241 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  62. GitHub and Jira Software Integration

    240 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  63. How I hacked modern vending machines

    240 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  64. Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study

    240 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  65. Twitter is being investigated over data collection in its link-shortening system

    240 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  66. WebRender is in beta

    240 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  67. Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity

    240 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  68. Delaunay and Voronoi on a sphere

    240 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  69. At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks

    240 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  70. One of Bloomberg’s sources told them Chinese spy chip story “didn’t make sense”

    240 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  71. ‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System

    240 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  72. Ask HN: What's your advice for someone who's raising capital for the first time?

    240 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  73. Micro Snitch – Know when someone spies on you

    239 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  74. Microsoft is embracing Android as the mobile version of Windows

    239 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  75. A Tour of the Top Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies

    238 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  76. What the hell happened to Darius Miles?

    238 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  77. Penrose: create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text

    238 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  78. Facebook launches PyTorch 1.0

    237 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  79. TSMC: First 7nm EUV Chips Taped Out, 5nm Risk Production in Q2 2019

    237 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  80. Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

    236 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  81. Choosing to stay out of the community

    236 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  82. Multithreading Rust and Wasm

    236 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  83. Ten years ago today, I had the idea for an app I thought was interesting

    236 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  84. Top lawyers beaten by legal AI

    235 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  85. The Marvel API

    235 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  86. Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

    235 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  87. No Phd, No Problem: New Schemes Teach the Masses to Build AI

    235 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  88. Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

    235 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  89. The annoying habits of highly effective people

    234 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  90. Rust RAII is better than the Haskell bracket pattern

    234 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  91. Rust has a static “garbage collector”

    234 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  92. Interpol chief Meng Hongwei vanishes on trip to China

    233 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  93. Wi-Fi Alliance introduces Wi-Fi 6

    232 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  94. Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots

    232 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  95. Ask HN: How to get started developing with FPGA?

    232 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  96. How to Delete Facebook and Instagram from Your Life Forever

    231 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  97. Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?

    231 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  98. Gophish: An open source phishing toolkit

    231 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  99. Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers

    231 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  100. What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?

    231 points • comment • oct 22, 2018