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Hacker News (Nov 2018)

  1. Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression

    322 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  2. Flying for Thanksgiving

    321 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  3. Lessons Learned from Writing Over 300k Lines of Infrastructure Code

    320 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  4. Chart of the Decade: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Every Scientific Study You See

    320 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  5. The US Is Preparing to Prosecute Julian Assange

    320 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  6. No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,250

    319 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  7. Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics

    319 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  8. German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis

    318 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  9. Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them (2013)

    317 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  10. For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with gamma rays

    316 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  11. SpamAssassin is back

    316 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  12. Vladimir Lukyanov's hydraulic computer

    314 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  13. Creating a QR Code step by step

    313 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  14. Improving DuckDuckGo

    312 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  15. How we spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel

    311 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  16. Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust

    309 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  17. Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?

    309 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  18. AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3

    309 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  19. Cadbury ‘pushing orangutans towards extinction by wrecking habitat for palm oil’

    308 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  20. A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language

    307 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  21. One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)

    306 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  22. Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale

    306 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  23. On Hold for 45 Minutes? It Might Be Your Secret Customer Score

    304 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  24. RHEL is deprecating KDE

    302 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  25. At least it wasn't Oracle

    300 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  26. Coding as an Engineering Manager

    300 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  27. Chicken Scheme 5.0 has been released

    299 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  28. Experiment that ended in 1767 still linked to higher incomes, education levels

    299 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  29. Design Review: Key-Value Storage

    298 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  30. Intel Management Engine JTAG Proof of Concept

    297 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  31. OCaml for the Masses (2011)

    296 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  32. Bitwarden Completes Third-Party Security Audit

    296 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  33. If it's not fun anymore, you get nothing from maintaining a popular package

    296 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  34. FoundationDB Document Layer

    296 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  35. Show HN: Self-Driving Pi Car

    296 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  36. The Story Behind the IKEA Photo of Amsterdam

    295 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  37. Show HN: Don't code your UI, draw it

    295 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  38. Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly

    294 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  39. You might not need Kubernetes

    294 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  40. Python Data Visualization 2018: Why So Many Libraries?

    293 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  41. Rust 2018 survey results

    293 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  42. Learn Git Branching

    292 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  43. Paralleltext: Learn languages by reading

    291 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  44. Rocket Launch in New Zealand Brings Quick, Cheap Space Access

    290 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  45. Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers

    290 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  46. Vue 3.0 Updates [slides]

    289 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  47. Using a Keras Long Short-Term Memory Model to Predict Stock Prices

    289 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  48. Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

    288 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  49. Linux apps running on iOS via userspace x86 emulation and syscall translation

    288 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  50. Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)

    287 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  51. AMD Announces 7nm Rome CPUs and MI60 GPUs

    287 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  52. UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

    287 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  53. Web scraping case fails under Supreme Court's Dastar doctrine

    286 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  54. A million-dollar drug

    285 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  55. Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

    284 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  56. PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

    284 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  57. Post-REST

    283 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  58. Migrating away from Google Maps and cutting costs

    283 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  59. Amazon Timestream – Fast, scalable, fully managed time series database

    282 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  60. NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution

    282 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  61. PG&E stock plunged 32% after it disclosed a possible link to California’s fire

    281 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  62. Mozilla Fights On For Net Neutrality

    280 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  63. Librem5 Hardware Update

    280 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  64. Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord

    279 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  65. Ask HN: Resources for introverted devs to learn workplace politics?

    278 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  66. Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

    278 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  67. Q: Run SQL Directly on CSV Files

    277 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  68. Paying for Popularity Can Be Fraud

    275 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  69. Phoenix 1.4.0 released

    275 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  70. Aether – Free, privacy-sensitive public communities

    275 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  71. Golua – A Lua 5.3 engine implemented in Go

    274 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  72. China blacklists millions from booking flights as 'social credit' introduced

    274 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  73. Beyond Passwords: 2FA, U2F and Google Advanced Protection

    273 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  74. Amazon Quantum Ledger Database

    273 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  75. New antimatter gravity experiments begin at CERN

    272 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  76. The Graphic Art of Incredibles 2

    272 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  77. All U.S. National Parks Are Free to Enter on Sunday

    272 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  78. What I say to people who are looking for a job

    271 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  79. Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud

    271 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  80. rr: lightweight recording and deterministic debugging

    268 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  81. Surveillance Kills Freedom by Killing Experimentation

    267 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  82. Alan Kay: Is it too late to create a healthy future? [video]

    267 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  83. C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines

    266 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  84. First gene-edited babies claimed in China

    266 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  85. Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself

    265 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  86. Researchers “see” through walls using ambient Wi-Fi signals and a smartphone

    265 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  87. The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities

    264 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  88. Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen?

    264 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  89. Lenovo to pay $7.3M for installing adware in laptops

    264 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  90. Want to Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code

    263 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  91. A web-based mission control framework by NASA

    263 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  92. Leaving Apple and Google: more devices now supported

    263 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  93. Using carbon nanotubes and rectennas to yield a 90% efficient solar cell

    262 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  94. Ask HN: Why do we want to learn something new when we don't have time?

    262 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  95. U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves Are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service

    262 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  96. Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue

    261 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  97. Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline

    261 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  98. Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

    261 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  99. Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA

    260 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  100. Facebook hired PR firm that wrote negative articles about Apple and Google

    260 points • comment • nov 14, 2018