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Hacker News (Nov 2018)

  1. Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

    1759 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  2. We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly

    1633 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  3. Apple's New Map

    1240 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  4. Story of a failed pentest

    1131 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  5. Backdoor in event-stream library dependency

    999 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  6. Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web

    946 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  7. Thank you to dang and sctb

    907 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  8. Boss as a Service – Hire a boss, get stuff done

    892 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  9. Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

    884 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  10. Medium is a poor choice for blogging

    862 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  11. International System of Units overhauled in historic vote

    821 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  12. If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

    818 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  13. Go 2, here we come

    811 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  14. GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working from Home

    805 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  15. Build a do-it-yourself home air purifier for about $25

    786 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  16. An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake from 1974

    782 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  17. Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption

    769 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  18. Big List of Naughty Strings

    766 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  19. I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back

    765 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  20. Sales mistakes that software engineers make

    762 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  21. Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup

    761 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  22. Infinite procedurally-generated city with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm

    758 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  23. How to balance full-time work with creative projects

    742 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  24. Romania orders investigative journalists to disclose sources under GDPR

    709 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  25. Open Source is Not About You

    703 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  26. Web.dev by Google

    691 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  27. Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research

    689 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  28. Dive – A tool for exploring each layer in a Docker image

    673 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  29. How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

    671 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  30. Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers

    669 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  31. Building your color palette

    665 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  32. Thelio – System76

    664 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  33. The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died

    661 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  34. NES.css: 8-bit style CSS framework

    658 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  35. Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts

    658 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  36. How Smart People Sabotage Their Success

    657 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  37. Colorizing and restoring old images with deep learning

    654 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  38. Cloud Computing Without Containers

    650 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  39. The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker

    643 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  40. Making rain simulation as real as possible

    623 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  41. ‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’

    618 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  42. The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images Online

    617 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  43. LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members

    605 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  44. ‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Computer Science Students

    602 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  45. AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites

    597 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  46. I Found the Best Burger Place in America, Then I Killed It

    591 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  47. Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages

    590 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  48. VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape

    574 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  49. Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

    574 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  50. How to Keep Your Job as Your Company Grows

    573 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  51. Estimating the chances of something that hasn’t happened yet

    570 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  52. AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking

    564 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  53. Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup

    563 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  54. Graveyard Keeper: How the graphics effects are made

    556 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  55. The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection: Every Byte Explained

    554 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  56. Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship

    553 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  57. Some notes about HTTP/3

    552 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  58. How to self-publish a book: A handy list of resources

    550 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  59. Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8

    547 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  60. Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

    546 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  61. The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York”

    545 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  62. We're in a Golden Age for Amateur Radio

    544 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  63. Advent of Code 2018

    540 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  64. Thinking About Thinking (1999)

    537 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  65. I've compiled the best SaaS Landing pages and broke down all their secrets

    536 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  66. Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

    532 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  67. Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people

    530 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  68. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)

    527 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  69. Successful second round of fusion experiments with Wendelstein 7-X

    527 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  70. Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync

    522 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  71. Companies struggling to fill jobs 'should try paying more,' Fed's Kashkari says

    518 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  72. Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details

    518 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  73. Show HN: Google Earth for live radios

    510 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  74. Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

    509 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  75. 1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scientific Fraud

    505 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  76. Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?

    496 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  77. How to Design Software Good

    496 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  78. As women have more equal opportunity, the more their preferences differ from men

    495 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  79. Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis

    487 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  80. How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request

    485 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  81. HTTP-over-QUIC will officially become HTTP/3

    483 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  82. New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components

    477 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  83. Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know (2009) [pdf]

    477 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  84. Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site

    473 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  85. Amazon Web Services in Plain English

    469 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  86. The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard

    468 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  87. The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public

    465 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  88. Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'

    465 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  89. Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable

    465 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  90. Why Aren't There C Conferences?

    456 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  91. Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights

    454 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  92. Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool

    451 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  93. Gates Foundation spent $200M funding toilet research

    451 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  94. 2018 Mac Mini Review

    450 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  95. Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine

    445 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  96. Aardman Animation Is Giving the Company to Their Employees

    442 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  97. AMD Discloses Initial Zen 2 Details

    440 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  98. Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth

    439 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  99. Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?

    432 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  100. Don’t work “remotely”

    432 points • comment • nov 19, 2018