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Hacker News (Nov 2018)

  1. Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome

    431 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  2. The History of Unix, by Rob Pike [video]

    431 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  3. Slow Software

    429 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  4. Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

    429 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  5. Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsholders Website Too

    427 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  6. A debt-collection machine that’s chewing up small businesses across America

    425 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  7. SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites

    423 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  8. EC2 Instances Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors

    418 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  9. Why is 2 * (i * i) faster than 2 * i * i in Java?

    417 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  10. Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich text editors

    416 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  11. Autodesk to Acquire PlanGrid (YC W12) to Accelerate Construction Productivity

    414 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  12. ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ Is a Love Letter to Amateur Cooks

    410 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  13. Now 2.0

    409 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  14. Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees

    407 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  15. The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history

    404 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  16. “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

    404 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  17. Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation

    403 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  18. Fortran is still a thing

    403 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  19. China Telecom's Internet Traffic Misdirection

    403 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  20. Spectrum is joining GitHub

    402 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  21. Marriott hack hits 500M Starwood guests

    397 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  22. Boeing Withheld Information on 737 Model, According to Safety Experts and Others

    396 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  23. The Insect Apocalypse Is Here

    394 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  24. What Is The Morning Writing Effect?

    393 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  25. Ask HN: Is there a better way to document complex software architectures?

    391 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  26. Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD

    390 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  27. Internet Vulnerability Takes Down Google

    388 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  28. Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal

    387 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  29. Dropping Acid

    385 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  30. Krisp.ai – Mute background noise during your calls

    384 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  31. Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia

    384 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  32. How to run a program without an operating system?

    383 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  33. How Dad's Stresses Get Passed Along to Offspring

    381 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  34. Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill

    381 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  35. Sprint Is Throttling Skype, Study Finds

    381 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  36. The greatest sales deck I've ever seen (2016)

    380 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  37. Monarch butterfly populations in U.S. west are down an order of magnitude

    379 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  38. Oil Demand for Cars Is Already Falling

    377 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  39. Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price

    376 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  40. Cancer-Linked Chemicals Manufactured by 3M Are Turning Up in Drinking Water

    375 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  41. Google staff walk out over women's treatment

    375 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  42. Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation

    374 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  43. Google's interview system: it's not about solving the problem

    374 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  44. The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in startup's metrics

    374 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  45. A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

    373 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  46. Italy’s olive crisis intensifies as deadly tree disease spreads

    372 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  47. Waymo CEO Says Alphabet Unit Plans to Launch Driverless Car Service

    371 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  48. YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January 15, 2019

    370 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  49. Linux on Dex

    368 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  50. Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely on a CPAP Machine Hacker

    368 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  51. Corretto – No-cost, multiplatform, developer-preview distribution of OpenJDK

    367 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  52. SubEthaEdit 5 is now free and open source

    366 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  53. Ask HN: I've been a programmer for 6 years, and I can't solve basic CS problems

    366 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  54. Mondelez cuts ties with 12 palm oil suppliers, citing deforestation

    365 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  55. How one family built Qualtrics to an $8B exit

    364 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  56. Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air

    363 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  57. My App Is Dead in the Water

    362 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  58. Writing Network Drivers in Rust [pdf]

    361 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  59. Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?

    361 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  60. Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain

    359 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  61. Tim Berners-Lee says tech giants may have to be split up

    358 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  62. Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin

    358 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  63. Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing

    351 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  64. The C++ Build Process Explained

    347 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  65. Goldman Sachs Ensnarled in Vast 1MDB Fraud Scandal

    346 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  66. Dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction

    346 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  67. WireGuard for iOS

    345 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  68. NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say

    345 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  69. NIST's answer to “Do you need a blockchain?”

    345 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  70. Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?

    341 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  71. Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem

    341 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  72. 30 spies dead after Iran cracked CIA comms network

    340 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  73. Dot Dot Considered Harmful

    340 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  74. A story about Upwork and freelancers

    340 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  75. NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job

    339 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  76. Typed-Html: Type Checked JSX for Rust

    336 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  77. Impostor syndrome strikes men just as hard as women in technical interviews

    336 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  78. What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?

    336 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  79. Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams from Secret China Project

    335 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  80. An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (2009)

    334 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  81. Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

    334 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  82. The State of JavaScript 2018

    334 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  83. Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers

    333 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  84. You Only Need 50% of Job “Requirements”

    333 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  85. Tulsa Remote

    332 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  86. Show HN: WriteFreely – minimalist, federated blogging platform

    332 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  87. Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

    330 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  88. My Amazon Interview Horror Story

    328 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  89. Should you use www or not in your domain? (2017)

    327 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  90. Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful

    327 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  91. British intelligence hacked Belgacom then sabotaged investigation

    327 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  92. Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting down sometime in 2020

    327 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  93. 'Talent Wants Transit': Companies Near Transportation Gaining the Upper Hand

    326 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  94. The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video]

    325 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  95. Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more

    325 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  96. Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Documents into Open Data

    324 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  97. US asks allies to drop Huawei

    324 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  98. How Many Computers Are in Your Computer?

    324 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  99. YouTube CEO calls EU’s proposed copyright regulation financially impossible

    323 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  100. Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression

    322 points • comment • nov 10, 2018