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Hacker News (Nov 2018)

  1. Why do all websites look the same?

    259 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  2. From Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

    258 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  3. Prac­ti­cal Ty­pog­ra­phy

    258 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  4. China Steps Up Trade Secret Theft from US Companies

    257 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  5. Google accused of 'trust demolition' over health app

    257 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  6. LearnDB: Learn how to build a database

    256 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  7. Programming Quotes

    256 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  8. The Dangerous Fetishization of ‘Hustle Porn’

    255 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  9. Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?

    255 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  10. Some Amazon employees bought NYC condos before news of HQ2 location emerged

    254 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  11. Why I'm Ditching Android

    253 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  12. Real-Time Noise Suppression Using Deep Learning

    253 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  13. OpenBSD on a Laptop

    252 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  14. Long-Awaited Study Results on Vitamin D and Fish Oil Supplements

    251 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  15. South Koreans lock themselves up to escape prison of daily life

    251 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  16. Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B

    250 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  17. Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’

    250 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  18. Madrid bans polluting vehicles from city centre

    250 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  19. D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler

    249 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  20. We Regulate the Wrong Things

    249 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  21. Starting a Business in Silicon Valley

    248 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  22. Israeli scientists develop tissue implants that won't be rejected

    248 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  23. The Matrix Cookbook (2012) [pdf]

    248 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  24. MemSQL is now free to use for databases with up to 128GB of RAM usage

    248 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  25. Daniel Kahneman on when to trust intuitive judgment

    248 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  26. Half of lonely people think no one will notice if something bad happens to them

    247 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  27. Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcut for iOS 12

    246 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  28. Google accused of GDPR privacy violations by seven countries

    246 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  29. Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power

    245 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  30. Google, Facebook, and Amazon benefit from an outdated definition of “monopoly”

    245 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  31. How to Land on Mars

    244 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  32. East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (1985)

    244 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  33. A small French privacy ruling could remake adtech

    244 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  34. Building a company is fucking hard

    243 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  35. Blockchain study finds zero success rate and vendors don't call back

    243 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  36. Tensorflow 2.0: models migration and new design

    243 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  37. Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years

    243 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  38. Ford Buying San Francisco-Area E-Scooter Startup Spin

    243 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  39. Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress

    242 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  40. AI Playbook

    242 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  41. Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them to George Soros

    241 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  42. Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users

    241 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  43. Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL

    241 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  44. Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing

    241 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  45. Sundar Pichai: ‘Technology Doesn’t Solve Humanity’s Problems’

    241 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  46. A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming

    241 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  47. “A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming

    241 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  48. The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal

    241 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  49. Compiler basics: Lisp to Assembly

    240 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  50. A note to our employees

    240 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  51. New Lower-Cost, AMD-Powered M5a and R5a EC2 Instances

    240 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  52. Chip wars: China, America and silicon supremacy

    240 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  53. OpenCV 4.0

    239 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  54. A remote UK community living off-grid

    239 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  55. Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)

    239 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  56. How Zapier Reached $35M ARR

    239 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  57. Against software development

    238 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  58. Tracking China's Muslim Gulag

    237 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  59. Programs to Read

    237 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  60. Healthcare.gov confirms hackers stole income, immigration and tax data

    237 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  61. Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star

    236 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  62. Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection

    236 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  63. What a Real Train System Looks Like (2009)

    236 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  64. VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes

    236 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  65. A new Venezuelan ID, created with China's ZTE, tracks citizen behavior

    235 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  66. Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country

    235 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  67. A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer

    234 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  68. Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents, Only Poorer

    234 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  69. Stop using JWT for sessions (2016)

    233 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  70. The DEA and ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights

    233 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  71. Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock Smartphones

    232 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  72. Apple Admits to Hardware Quality Problems with iPhone X, MacBook Pro

    232 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  73. You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make the Old Adage Literally True

    232 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  74. Designing an Engineering Performance Management System from Scratch

    231 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  75. There is more to high house prices than constrained supply

    231 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  76. A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at a stroke

    231 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  77. New critical vulnerability in multiple high-privileged Android services

    230 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  78. Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists

    229 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  79. Small robots may kill the tractor and make farming efficient

    229 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  80. Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down

    228 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  81. Show HN: HomelabOS – Ansible scripts to deploy self hosted cloud services

    228 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  82. Googlers are openly asking bosses to cancel the censored search engine for China

    227 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  83. LibrePCB: First stable release published

    227 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  84. Apple’s Social Network

    226 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  85. What Makes .NET Core So Special?

    226 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  86. So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)

    226 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  87. Fundamental Algorithms of Machine Learning

    225 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  88. Snapshots of Tokyo’s vivid street life

    225 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  89. The Media Industry and the “Make-Google-Pay” Fantasy

    224 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  90. Scientists who make apps addictive

    224 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  91. GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go

    223 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  92. Bogle Sounds a Warning on Index Funds

    223 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  93. Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time (2014)

    222 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  94. Apple has removed us from the App Store

    222 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  95. Facebook Applied for Patent to Predict Who’s in House Based on Family Photos

    221 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  96. Dead sperm whale found in Indonesia had ingested '6kg of plastic'

    221 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  97. Show HN: A JavaScript Handbook

    221 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  98. Functional, stateless JavaScript finite state machines and statecharts

    221 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  99. ASRock motherboard destroys Linux software RAID

    221 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  100. Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

    221 points • comment • nov 13, 2018