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Hacker News (2018)

  1. Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks

    762 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  2. Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup

    761 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  3. An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth

    761 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  4. Anatomy of a Killing

    761 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  5. Show HN: Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations

    761 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  6. GitLab Web IDE

    760 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  7. Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website

    760 points • comment • apr 16, 2018

  8. Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

    759 points • comment • feb 22, 2018

  9. A Career Cold Start Algorithm

    759 points • comment • mar 09, 2018

  10. Hubble is back

    759 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  11. Infinite procedurally-generated city with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm

    758 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  12. Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces

    758 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  13. Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times

    756 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  14. Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?

    755 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  15. How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites

    754 points • comment • aug 23, 2018

  16. Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox

    754 points • comment • jun 01, 2018

  17. Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

    752 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  18. Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role

    750 points • comment • apr 24, 2018

  19. DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

    749 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  20. Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012)

    748 points • comment • feb 20, 2018

  21. Waze Carpool

    747 points • comment • jan 25, 2018

  22. UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?

    747 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  23. Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work?

    747 points • comment • feb 19, 2018

  24. You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent?

    746 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  25. Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic

    743 points • comment • mar 07, 2018

  26. How to balance full-time work with creative projects

    742 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  27. A well-known URL for changing passwords

    740 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  28. Modern CSS Explained

    740 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  29. A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign

    740 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  30. Subscription Hell

    738 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  31. Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality

    737 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  32. Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App

    737 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  33. GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers

    737 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  34. Slack's bait and switch

    734 points • comment • mar 12, 2018

  35. Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ

    732 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  36. U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice

    731 points • comment • feb 05, 2018

  37. Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

    730 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  38. De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds

    729 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  39. Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month

    728 points • comment • feb 21, 2018

  40. Facebook's seized files published by MPs

    727 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  41. “Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy”

    727 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  42. Elementary Knightship found in Conway's Game of Life

    725 points • comment • mar 08, 2018

  43. Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]

    723 points • comment • jan 30, 2018

  44. GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere

    723 points • comment • apr 17, 2018

  45. DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing

    723 points • comment • jan 23, 2018

  46. Stripe Issuing – An API for creating physical and virtual cards

    723 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  47. How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less

    722 points • comment • mar 25, 2018

  48. To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008)

    720 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  49. Wine 3.0 Released

    716 points • comment • jan 18, 2018

  50. EFail – Vulnerabilities in end-to-end encryption technologies OpenPGP and S/MIME

    716 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  51. Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

    715 points • comment • jun 29, 2018

  52. StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations

    714 points • comment • apr 29, 2018

  53. With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good intentions from bad law

    714 points • comment • mar 23, 2018

  54. Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award

    711 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  55. The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

    710 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  56. GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the State of Washington

    710 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  57. Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?

    710 points • comment • jun 08, 2018

  58. Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video]

    709 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  59. Solid – Reshape the web as we know it

    709 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  60. Romania orders investigative journalists to disclose sources under GDPR

    709 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  61. Norwegian Consumer Council report on how tech companies use dark patterns [pdf]

    709 points • comment • jun 27, 2018

  62. Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?

    709 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  63. Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text

    708 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  64. Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

    705 points • comment • jan 24, 2018

  65. A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit

    704 points • comment • apr 30, 2018

  66. Open Source is Not About You

    703 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  67. 82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding

    702 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  68. Things I Don’t Know as of 2018

    702 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  69. MailChimp deleted my account with no warning

    701 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  70. Smugmug Acquires Flickr

    701 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  71. Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing

    700 points • comment • feb 10, 2018

  72. Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

    699 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  73. Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack

    699 points • comment • oct 05, 2018

  74. Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy

    697 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  75. Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness

    697 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  76. Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

    697 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  77. Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design

    695 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  78. A Taxonomy of Technical Debt

    694 points • comment • apr 11, 2018

  79. Apple's best product is now privacy

    694 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  80. Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

    693 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  81. Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem

    693 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  82. Too Clever by Half

    692 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  83. Dear Moon

    691 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  84. Web.dev by Google

    691 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  85. MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)

    691 points • comment • jun 02, 2018

  86. Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?

    690 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  87. Machine Learning Guides

    690 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  88. Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video]

    689 points • comment • apr 20, 2018

  89. Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research

    689 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  90. Timeline of the far future

    689 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  91. Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B

    689 points • comment • apr 03, 2018

  92. Magnasanti: Large and Terrifying SimCity (2010)

    688 points • comment • apr 26, 2018

  93. My home lab setup for highly-available Internet

    688 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  94. LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware

    687 points • comment • jan 29, 2018

  95. Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?

    685 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  96. Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”

    685 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  97. The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees

    684 points • comment • mar 22, 2018

  98. U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani

    684 points • comment • jun 15, 2018

  99. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State Machine

    683 points • comment • feb 26, 2018

  100. Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

    683 points • comment • jan 19, 2018