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Hacker News (Nov 2018)
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Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
1759 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
1633 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Apple's New Map
1240 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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Story of a failed pentest
1131 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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Backdoor in event-stream library dependency
999 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web
946 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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Thank you to dang and sctb
907 points • comment • nov 22, 2018
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Boss as a Service – Hire a boss, get stuff done
892 points • comment • nov 22, 2018
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Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha
884 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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Medium is a poor choice for blogging
862 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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International System of Units overhauled in historic vote
821 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
818 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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Go 2, here we come
811 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working from Home
805 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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Build a do-it-yourself home air purifier for about $25
786 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake from 1974
782 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption
769 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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Big List of Naughty Strings
766 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
765 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Sales mistakes that software engineers make
762 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup
761 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Infinite procedurally-generated city with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm
758 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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How to balance full-time work with creative projects
742 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Romania orders investigative journalists to disclose sources under GDPR
709 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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Open Source is Not About You
703 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Web.dev by Google
691 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research
689 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
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Dive – A tool for exploring each layer in a Docker image
673 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
671 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers
669 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Building your color palette
665 points • comment • nov 10, 2018
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Thelio – System76
664 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died
661 points • comment • nov 22, 2018
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NES.css: 8-bit style CSS framework
658 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts
658 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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How Smart People Sabotage Their Success
657 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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Colorizing and restoring old images with deep learning
654 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Cloud Computing Without Containers
650 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker
643 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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Making rain simulation as real as possible
623 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’
618 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images Online
617 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
605 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Computer Science Students
602 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites
597 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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I Found the Best Burger Place in America, Then I Killed It
591 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages
590 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape
574 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
574 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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How to Keep Your Job as Your Company Grows
573 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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Estimating the chances of something that hasn’t happened yet
570 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking
564 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup
563 points • comment • nov 23, 2018
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Graveyard Keeper: How the graphics effects are made
556 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection: Every Byte Explained
554 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship
553 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
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Some notes about HTTP/3
552 points • comment • nov 23, 2018
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How to self-publish a book: A handy list of resources
550 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8
547 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps
546 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York”
545 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
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We're in a Golden Age for Amateur Radio
544 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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Advent of Code 2018
540 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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Thinking About Thinking (1999)
537 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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I've compiled the best SaaS Landing pages and broke down all their secrets
536 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
532 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people
530 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)
527 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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Successful second round of fusion experiments with Wendelstein 7-X
527 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync
522 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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Companies struggling to fill jobs 'should try paying more,' Fed's Kashkari says
518 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details
518 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Show HN: Google Earth for live radios
510 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses
509 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
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1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scientific Fraud
505 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?
496 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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How to Design Software Good
496 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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As women have more equal opportunity, the more their preferences differ from men
495 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
487 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request
485 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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HTTP-over-QUIC will officially become HTTP/3
483 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
477 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know (2009) [pdf]
477 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site
473 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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Amazon Web Services in Plain English
469 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard
468 points • comment • nov 23, 2018
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The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public
465 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'
465 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable
465 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Why Aren't There C Conferences?
456 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights
454 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool
451 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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Gates Foundation spent $200M funding toilet research
451 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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2018 Mac Mini Review
450 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine
445 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Aardman Animation Is Giving the Company to Their Employees
442 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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AMD Discloses Initial Zen 2 Details
440 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth
439 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
432 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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Don’t work “remotely”
432 points • comment • nov 19, 2018