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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet

    230 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  2. Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants

    229 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  3. Alternative code styles

    229 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  4. Two years of Elixir at The Outline

    228 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  5. No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This

    227 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  6. Jepsen: MongoDB 3.6.4

    227 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  7. Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study

    227 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  8. Repair Café

    226 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  9. Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs

    225 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  10. This Old Lisp

    225 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  11. Trivial authentication bypass in libssh leaves servers wide open

    224 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  12. Building a language translator from scratch with deep learning

    223 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  13. Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Opened With a Shim from a Soda Can

    223 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  14. Kubernetes on Google, Azure and AWS Compared

    223 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  15. The Super-Rich Are Stockpiling Wealth in Black-Box Charities

    223 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  16. My Parents Give Me $28k a Year

    223 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  17. Don't shoot, I'm disabled

    222 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  18. Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]

    222 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  19. 67% of workers earning over $100k see themselves quitting in the next 6 months

    222 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  20. Pushback against Saudi funding endangers Silicon Valley valuations

    221 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  21. EU drops rule that would prevent self-driving car data from being copyrighted

    221 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  22. Air India Express 737 Hits ILS, Damages Wall on Departure, Flies for 4 Hours

    220 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  23. Opus 1.3 Released

    220 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  24. The Hardest Woods

    219 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  25. Bringing transparency to ER prices, one hospital bill at a time

    219 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  26. An AWS Region is coming to South Africa

    218 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  27. Steve Wozniak on Smart Watches, Motivating Engineers, Siri, and More

    218 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  28. Unslacking Tideways Company

    218 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  29. Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend

    217 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  30. Intel 9th Gen Review

    217 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  31. Removing Old Versions of TLS

    217 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  32. America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away

    216 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  33. Lack of progress exposed by the Canary MacGuffin

    216 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  34. Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem

    216 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  35. When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy

    216 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  36. The Awful German Language (1880)

    216 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  37. Bloomberg News Pays Reporters More If Their Stories Move Markets

    216 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  38. Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of ‘Rift 2’ headset

    216 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  39. The rise of the robot farmer

    215 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  40. 42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings

    215 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  41. Raising of Chicago

    214 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  42. Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs

    214 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  43. The Economics of a Commune in the Ozarks

    214 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  44. The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing (2017)

    214 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  45. Is Chronic Anxiety a Learning Disorder?

    214 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  46. Zero-day in jQuery plugin sample code exploited for at least three years

    213 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  47. Why Do Computers Use So Much Energy?

    213 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  48. In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top 10 percent

    213 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  49. New York Times app autoplays video ads on articles even with paid subscription

    212 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  50. A Brief History of High Availability

    212 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  51. Belgian Air Force F-16 destroyed by fire during maintenance

    212 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  52. The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse

    212 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  53. Friendly Floatees

    212 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  54. YouTube marketing horror story

    211 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  55. Massachusetts gas fires: Another technological tragedy

    211 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  56. Lion Air crash: Boeing 737 plane crashes in sea off Jakarta

    210 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  57. Show HN: WebRTC implementation for Python using Asyncio

    210 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  58. Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040

    209 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  59. We can no longer leave online security to the market

    209 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  60. Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, it’s how it develops it

    209 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  61. Asterisks in Python

    209 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  62. Erlang/OTP by Example

    209 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  63. Physics Nobel won by laser wizardry – laureates include first woman in 55 years

    209 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  64. Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1

    209 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  65. Haskell's kind system: a primer

    209 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  66. Wikipedia bans Breitbart as a source for facts

    208 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  67. Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency

    208 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  68. Declassified documents show why the US and the USSR came close to war in 1973

    208 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  69. The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA (Variable-Length Array) Free

    207 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  70. Tesla delivered 83,500 vehicles in the third quarter, more than expected

    207 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  71. The Dutch Reach: A No-Tech Way to Save Bicyclists’ Lives

    207 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  72. U.S. Secretly Halted JPMorgan’s Growth for Years

    207 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  73. The New Atlanta Billionaires Behind the Unlikely Tech Unicorn MailChimp

    206 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  74. Mio – Cross-platform header-only C++11 library for memory-mapped file IO

    206 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  75. Signing Your Apps for Gatekeeper

    206 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  76. Soup – Alan Kay on Objects

    206 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  77. Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the Dell XPS 13

    206 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  78. Hawaii Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Building Thirty Meter Telescope

    205 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  79. The ugly truth about the ugly produce movement

    205 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  80. Stripe Integration for Twilio Pay

    205 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  81. It’s better to be born rich than gifted

    204 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  82. Proposal: Go 2 transition

    204 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  83. Show HN: TeXMe – Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX Documents

    204 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  84. Wisconsin’s $4.1B Foxconn factory boondoggle

    204 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  85. I.R.S. Tax Fraud Cases Plummet After Budget Cuts

    203 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  86. China Censors Bad Economic News Amid Signs of Slower Growth

    203 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  87. The U.S. Needs to Crack Down on White-Collar Crime

    203 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  88. The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers

    203 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  89. Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid

    203 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  90. Apple finally announces an overhauled Mac mini

    202 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  91. Responder: A familiar HTTP Service Framework

    202 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  92. Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors

    202 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  93. The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle to Live Free

    202 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  94. The State of Agile Software in 2018

    202 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  95. Alphabet's cyber unit Jigsaw introduces a new security app to bust censorship

    202 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  96. Linux 4.19

    202 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  97. Pijul: A Rust based distributed version control system

    201 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  98. What's a senior engineer's job?

    200 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  99. Fidelity launches trade execution and custody for cryptocurrencies

    200 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  100. A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled

    200 points • comment • oct 21, 2018