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Hacker News (2018)

  1. Who Are My Investors?

    497 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  2. Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

    497 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  3. Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server-side

    496 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

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

    496 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  5. My one-liner Linux Dropbox client

    496 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  6. How to Design Software Good

    496 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  7. Introducing Hooks

    496 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  8. The Friendship That Made Google Huge

    495 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  9. Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Threatened to Sue Journalists

    495 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

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

    495 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  11. Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole

    495 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  12. I don't trust Signal

    495 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  13. Shipping a Neural Network on iOS with CoreML, PyTorch, and React Native

    494 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  14. Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users

    494 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  15. UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful

    494 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  16. John Resig: Introducing the GraphQL Guide

    494 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  17. Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading

    494 points • comment • apr 18, 2018

  18. Bash Infinity: Standard library and boilerplate framework for Bash

    494 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  19. Rust 1.24

    494 points • comment • feb 15, 2018

  20. Science’s Pirate Queen

    494 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  21. IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival

    493 points • comment • jun 22, 2018

  22. Fish shell 3.0

    493 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  23. Losing 100 pounds in 276 days

    493 points • comment • jun 25, 2018

  24. Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

    492 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  25. Kids’ Apps Are Crammed With Ads

    492 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  26. A Python Library to extract tabular data from PDFs

    491 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  27. Stripe Home

    491 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  28. Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence

    491 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  29. Extensions in Firefox 59

    490 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  30. Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?

    490 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  31. U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether

    490 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  32. PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018

    490 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  33. UN: Facebook has turned into a beast in Myanmar

    490 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  34. They Rejected Us

    490 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  35. Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?

    490 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  36. Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens

    490 points • comment • apr 19, 2018

  37. In Praise of Mediocrity

    489 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  38. First firing of air-breathing electric thruster

    489 points • comment • mar 06, 2018

  39. Archive.org donations are currently matched by a generous supporter 2-to-1

    489 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  40. Form a California LLC in 10 minutes for $70

    488 points • comment • apr 10, 2018

  41. All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years: study

    488 points • comment • mar 14, 2018

  42. Keeping a plaintext “did” file

    488 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  43. React Native at Airbnb

    488 points • comment • jun 19, 2018

  44. Uber, Google and others pay London Evening Standard for favorable coverage

    488 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  45. Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook

    488 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

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

    487 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  47. Game Boy Camera Canon EF Lens Mount

    487 points • comment • jun 03, 2018

  48. Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint

    487 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  49. Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?

    487 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  50. Katie's New Face

    487 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  51. Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes

    487 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  52. Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research

    486 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  53. With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit

    486 points • comment • jan 28, 2018

  54. Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life

    486 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  55. AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018

    486 points • comment • jan 31, 2018

  56. Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library

    485 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  57. Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything

    485 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

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

    485 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  59. India's farmed chickens dosed with world's strongest antibiotics, study finds

    485 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  60. FCC admits it was never actually hacked

    485 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  61. Stop Learning Frameworks

    484 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  62. Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?

    484 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  63. Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Prices Grew Most

    484 points • comment • jun 11, 2018

  64. State of Washington sues Facebook and Google over failure to disclose spending

    483 points • comment • jun 05, 2018

  65. Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

    483 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  66. Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffice work well everywhere

    483 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

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

    483 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  68. Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software projects

    483 points • comment • mar 15, 2018

  69. CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work

    483 points • comment • jan 14, 2018

  70. Zuckerberg summoned to House Of Commons inquiry

    483 points • comment • mar 20, 2018

  71. Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

    482 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  72. Towards Scala 3

    482 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  73. As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants

    481 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  74. Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of AWS

    481 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  75. Ask HN: How do you find freelance work?

    481 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  76. France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994

    481 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  77. Rust 1.26 released

    480 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  78. Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks

    479 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  79. Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal

    479 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  80. Downloaded my Facebook data and it has the call history with my partner’s mother

    479 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  81. Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time

    479 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  82. Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom

    478 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  83. Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview

    478 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  84. Hubble finds first galaxy in the local universe without dark matter

    478 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  85. PyPy.js: Python in the web browser

    478 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  86. TypeScript at Google

    477 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  87. Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game

    477 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

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

    477 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

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

    477 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  90. SIPC Says It Has Serious Concerns About Robinhood's New Product

    476 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  91. D3 in Depth

    476 points • comment • apr 15, 2018

  92. Rent out GPUs to AI researchers and make ~2x more than mining cryptocurrencies

    476 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  93. Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Real

    476 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  94. The Multiworse Is Coming

    476 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  95. Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo

    476 points • comment • mar 30, 2018

  96. How not to structure database-backed web apps: performance bugs in the wild

    475 points • comment • jun 28, 2018

  97. The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes

    475 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  98. Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds

    475 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  99. InVision has no physical headquarters and all 700 employees work remotely

    474 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  100. After century of removing appendixes, doctors find antibiotics can be enough

    474 points • comment • sep 27, 2018