The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2018

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Apple open-sources FoundationDB foundationdb.org · spullara · 19 Apr 2018

2.1k pts 441 comments

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1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service blog.cloudflare.com · _l4jh · 1 Apr 2018

1.9k pts 657 comments

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Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project nytimes.com · s3r3nity · 4 Apr 2018

1.4k pts 1.1k comments

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Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel bloomberg.com · uptown · 2 Apr 2018

1.3k pts 1.1k comments

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Facebook Container for Firefox mozilla.org · aaossa · 17 Apr 2018

1.3k pts 394 comments

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Productivity blog.samaltman.com · dsr12 · 10 Apr 2018

1.3k pts 399 comments

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You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts threadreaderapp.com · passenger · 22 Apr 2018

1.1k pts 322 comments

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Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook theguardian.com · pmoriarty · 6 Apr 2018

1.1k pts 276 comments

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I wandered off and built an IDE blog.querystorm.com · anakic · 6 Apr 2018

1.1k pts 256 comments

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Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours doublepulsar.com · coloneltcb · 24 Apr 2018

1k pts 284 comments

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The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user jameshfisher.com · jamesfisher · 7 Apr 2018

1k pts 506 comments

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EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides theguardian.com · YeGoblynQueenne · 27 Apr 2018

1k pts 314 comments

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Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online msn.com · DoreenMichele · 25 Apr 2018

1k pts 544 comments

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AV1: A new general-purpose video codec people.xiph.org · TD-Linux · 9 Apr 2018

909 pts 243 comments

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IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) rogerschank.com · dirtyaura · 30 Apr 2018

904 pts 435 comments

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Dumber phone nomasters.io · jstanley · 24 Apr 2018

895 pts 343 comments

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Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative theguardian.com · lnguyen · 12 Apr 2018

874 pts 295 comments

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DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS medium.com · nykolasz · 2 Apr 2018

860 pts 311 comments

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Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties github.com · tjwds · 2 Apr 2018

840 pts 308 comments

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Berkeley offers its data science course online for free news.berkeley.edu · seycombi · 5 Apr 2018

801 pts 158 comments

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Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website cbc.ca · eigenvector · 16 Apr 2018

793 pts 483 comments

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Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks pulse.ng · vezycash · 16 Apr 2018

785 pts 689 comments

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Fuchsia is not Linux fuchsia.googlesource.com · navigaid · 11 Apr 2018

784 pts 688 comments

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Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role fuzzyblog.io · fuzzygroup · 24 Apr 2018

772 pts 741 comments

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“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” lifefaker.com · olifrost · 29 Apr 2018

751 pts 234 comments

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Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ twitter.com · coloneltcb · 3 Apr 2018

745 pts 514 comments

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Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App matrix.org · arctux · 26 Apr 2018

738 pts 198 comments

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GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere graalvm.org · nirvdrum · 17 Apr 2018

731 pts 207 comments

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Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text medium.com · spongysponges · 3 Apr 2018

727 pts 191 comments

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StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations streetlend.com · cbeach · 29 Apr 2018

724 pts 1.1k comments

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Smugmug Acquires Flickr smugmug.com · uptown · 20 Apr 2018

720 pts 230 comments

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A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit sam.zeloof.xyz · DEFCON28 · 30 Apr 2018

712 pts 116 comments

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A Taxonomy of Technical Debt engineering.riotgames.com · edroche · 11 Apr 2018

711 pts 113 comments

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Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk? ratpik · 14 Apr 2018

701 pts 147 comments

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Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video] batteryfreevideo.cs.washington.edu · InclinedPlane · 20 Apr 2018

701 pts 99 comments

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Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B techcrunch.com · harshgupta · 3 Apr 2018

692 pts 453 comments

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Magnasanti: Large and Terrifying SimCity (2010) rumorsontheinternets.org · ingve · 26 Apr 2018

690 pts 153 comments

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Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance neflabs.com · neflabs · 23 Apr 2018

687 pts 349 comments

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Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release access.redhat.com · alianinfo · 11 Apr 2018

684 pts 334 comments

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Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines vas3k.com · sneks · 4 Apr 2018

677 pts 460 comments

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Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia blog.wikimedia.org · subset · 23 Apr 2018

677 pts 243 comments

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Why Does “=” Mean Assignment? hillelwayne.com · panic · 10 Apr 2018

674 pts 354 comments

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Two Koreas Agree to End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization bloomberg.com · almost_usual · 27 Apr 2018

673 pts 400 comments

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The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework work.qz.com · draven · 19 Apr 2018

659 pts 997 comments

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TextQL: Execute SQL Against CSV or TSV github.com · TAForObvReasons · 7 Apr 2018

658 pts 91 comments

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My account is sending spam emails productforums.google.com · benpink · 22 Apr 2018

647 pts 143 comments

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Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case bbc.com · zeveb · 13 Apr 2018

642 pts 429 comments

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H&R Block and Intuit Lobbying Against Simpler Tax Filing (2017) propublica.org · bajsejohannes · 15 Apr 2018

631 pts 232 comments

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How to Decide What to Build dcgross.com · danicgross · 12 Apr 2018

630 pts 175 comments

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Apple Hires Google’s A.I. Chief nytimes.com · ninkendo · 3 Apr 2018

628 pts 237 comments

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NirSoft Freeware (2008) nirsoft.net · valgaze · 16 Apr 2018

625 pts 232 comments

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Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook inthemesh.com · bpierre · 19 Apr 2018

623 pts 342 comments

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Stripe Billing stripe.com · craigkerstiens · 5 Apr 2018

620 pts 353 comments

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Make your own sourdough github.com · hendricius · 28 Apr 2018

619 pts 204 comments

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ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility reactos.org · bratao · 15 Apr 2018

617 pts 312 comments

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A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class cjr.org · mrleiter · 21 Apr 2018

614 pts 101 comments

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018) whoishiring · 2 Apr 2018

612 pts 1.1k comments

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Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is baekdal.com · transpute · 8 Apr 2018

607 pts 454 comments

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OpenSimpleLidar github.com · lovelearning · 4 Apr 2018

605 pts 107 comments

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Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines npr.org · smaili · 20 Apr 2018

603 pts 418 comments