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Hacker News (2018)

  1. Au Revoir

    887 points • comment • mar 28, 2018

  2. Let’s talk about usernames

    886 points • comment • feb 12, 2018

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

    884 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  4. Dumber phone

    883 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  5. Julia 1.0

    883 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  6. Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

    881 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  7. Google is discontinuing Inbox

    880 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  8. Please stop asking me to use the app

    880 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  9. Safe ways to do things in bash

    880 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  10. Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)

    878 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  11. MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

    872 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  12. Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative

    867 points • comment • apr 12, 2018

  13. New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom

    867 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  14. Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?

    865 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  15. Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI

    865 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  16. Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server

    863 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  17. Medium is a poor choice for blogging

    862 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  18. In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Electronics Is Legal

    861 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  19. Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

    861 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  20. Facial recognition: It’s time for action

    856 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  21. People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard

    855 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  22. Show HN: Hacker News Classics

    855 points • comment • feb 23, 2018

  23. DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS

    854 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  24. Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking

    854 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  25. I've spent the last two years building a new email client

    852 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  26. Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

    851 points • comment • mar 02, 2018

  27. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?

    844 points • comment • aug 17, 2018

  28. YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course

    843 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  29. Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation

    842 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  30. SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal

    842 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  31. Amazon increases minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour

    836 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  32. "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords

    836 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  33. Helm: Personal Email Server

    836 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  34. Mmm, Pi-hole

    835 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  35. Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

    834 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  36. Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties

    831 points • comment • apr 02, 2018

  37. Bye bye BetterSlack

    830 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  38. Why you should not use Google Cloud

    829 points • comment • jun 30, 2018

  39. Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked

    829 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  40. Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket

    828 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  41. Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

    823 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  42. The Business of SaaS

    821 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  43. International System of Units overhauled in historic vote

    821 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  44. CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to

    820 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  45. Compare career levels across companies

    820 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  46. GDPR: Don't Panic

    819 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  47. Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm

    818 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

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

    818 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  49. NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive

    817 points • comment • jan 26, 2018

  50. Japan's Hometown Tax

    817 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  51. Go 2, here we come

    811 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  52. #deletefacebook

    810 points • comment • mar 19, 2018

  53. Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network

    809 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  54. Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

    807 points • comment • jun 20, 2018

  55. Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

    806 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

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

    805 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  57. Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”

    804 points • comment • feb 08, 2018

  58. A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes

    803 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  59. Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal

    802 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  60. Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers

    802 points • comment • jun 26, 2018

  61. How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite (2008) [video]

    800 points • comment • jun 24, 2018

  62. For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain

    798 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  63. Facebook open-sources Detectron

    797 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  64. Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim

    796 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  65. China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains

    795 points • comment • mar 16, 2018

  66. Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

    795 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  67. LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

    793 points • comment • jan 19, 2018

  68. Berkeley offers its data science course online for free

    791 points • comment • apr 05, 2018

  69. Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

    789 points • comment • jun 04, 2018

  70. Round Peg in a Square Hole [video]

    788 points • comment • mar 10, 2018

  71. VLC 3.0 release

    786 points • comment • feb 09, 2018

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

    786 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  73. SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy

    785 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  74. How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?

    783 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  75. Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones

    783 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

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

    782 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  77. Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

    780 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  78. Medieval Fantasy City Generator

    780 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  79. My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

    779 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  80. Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says

    778 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  81. Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

    776 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  82. Intel Has a Big Problem

    775 points • comment • jan 20, 2018

  83. The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

    774 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  84. Fuchsia is not Linux

    771 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  85. Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)

    771 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

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

    769 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  87. Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google

    769 points • comment • mar 27, 2018

  88. Who Killed the Junior Developer?

    769 points • comment • feb 13, 2018

  89. Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles

    767 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  90. Big List of Naughty Strings

    766 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

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

    765 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  92. How poverty changes your mindset

    765 points • comment • feb 25, 2018

  93. Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

    765 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  94. Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties

    765 points • comment • feb 01, 2018

  95. Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets

    764 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  96. Tell HN: I just wanted to say: thank you, Hacker News

    764 points • comment • mar 21, 2018

  97. Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company

    762 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  98. Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

    762 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  99. DigitalOcean launches its container service

    762 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  100. Sales mistakes that software engineers make

    762 points • comment • nov 01, 2018