The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2018

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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub bloomberg.com · miguelrochefort · 3 Jun 2018

2.9k pts 1.4k comments

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GitLab sees huge spike in project imports monitor.gitlab.net · AgentK20 · 3 Jun 2018

1.7k pts 455 comments

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How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team getweeklyupdate.com · voska · 5 Jun 2018

1.6k pts 224 comments

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Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try mobile.nytimes.com · MilnerRoute · 21 Jun 2018

1.6k pts 722 comments

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Hello, GitHub natfriedman.github.io · rafaelc · 4 Jun 2018

1.5k pts 644 comments

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Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide blender.org · gargron · 19 Jun 2018

1.5k pts 426 comments

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The Machine Fired Me idiallo.com · foxfired · 19 Jun 2018

1.5k pts 554 comments

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Twitter ‘smytes’ customers techcrunch.com · panarky · 22 Jun 2018

1.4k pts 551 comments

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Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cellphone npr.org · gok · 22 Jun 2018

1.3k pts 265 comments

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Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard ifixit.org · andrewke · 28 Jun 2018

1.2k pts 897 comments

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Alternatives to Google Products restoreprivacy.com · wuschel · 10 Jun 2018

1.2k pts 504 comments

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Microsoft acquires Github blogs.microsoft.com · okket · 4 Jun 2018

1.2k pts 798 comments

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Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? snowmaker · 11 Jun 2018

1.1k pts 939 comments

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YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More torrentfreak.com · gooseus · 18 Jun 2018

1.1k pts 250 comments

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Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall thehustle.co · sxv · 25 Jun 2018

1.1k pts 447 comments

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Things I Regret About Node.js [video] youtube.com · dazhbog · 6 Jun 2018

994 pts 491 comments

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Earliest images of the moon were better than people realised worldofindie.co.uk · theindieg · 14 Jun 2018

976 pts 194 comments

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Remote Only remoteonly.org · omot · 6 Jun 2018

938 pts 361 comments

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Why you should not use Google Cloud medium.com · samdung · 30 Jun 2018

895 pts 357 comments

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Canada legalises recreational cannabis use bbc.co.uk · pmoriarty · 20 Jun 2018

822 pts 406 comments

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How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite (2008) [video] youtube.com · zbaylin · 24 Jun 2018

813 pts 129 comments

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Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers theguardian.com · hw · 26 Jun 2018

812 pts 354 comments

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Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends nytimes.com · sna1l · 4 Jun 2018

792 pts 215 comments

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GitLab Web IDE about.gitlab.com · Shinkirou · 15 Jun 2018

776 pts 273 comments

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Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox trac.torproject.org · jerheinze · 1 Jun 2018

757 pts 239 comments

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Norwegian Consumer Council report on how tech companies use dark patterns [pdf] fil.forbrukerradet.no · erlend_sh · 27 Jun 2018

731 pts 160 comments

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Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? blog.growthbot.org · cjauvin · 8 Jun 2018

720 pts 500 comments

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Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up techcrunch.com · xuki · 29 Jun 2018

718 pts 569 comments

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MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018) nancysbraintalks.mit.edu · indescions_2018 · 2 Jun 2018

709 pts 69 comments

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U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani wsj.com · dcgudeman · 15 Jun 2018

701 pts 500 comments

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We're Baking ‘Have I Been Pwned’ into Firefox and 1Password troyhunt.com · edward · 25 Jun 2018

688 pts 191 comments

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Learn just a little Awk (2010) gregable.com · mason55 · 15 Jun 2018

684 pts 244 comments

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Certificates for localhost letsencrypt.org · colinprince · 20 Jun 2018

684 pts 152 comments

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Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro apple.com · minimaxir · 22 Jun 2018

682 pts 458 comments

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Show HN: Open Logos – Free logos for open source projects openlogos.org · arasatasaygin · 19 Jun 2018

680 pts 108 comments

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European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill bbc.com · sebst · 20 Jun 2018

675 pts 390 comments

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YAML: probably not so great after all (2017) arp242.net · tlb · 20 Jun 2018

673 pts 394 comments

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Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL developer.apple.com · WoodenChair · 4 Jun 2018

668 pts 452 comments

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GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source about.gitlab.com · lunchbreak · 5 Jun 2018

667 pts 207 comments

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Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game github.com · cyberfart · 18 Jun 2018

656 pts 274 comments

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I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA ScottAaronson · 29 Jun 2018

649 pts 356 comments

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How to get rich without getting lucky threadreaderapp.com · madmax108 · 1 Jun 2018

647 pts 506 comments

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OpenAI Five blog.openai.com · gdb · 25 Jun 2018

646 pts 124 comments

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AI at Google: our principles blog.google · dannyrosen · 7 Jun 2018

644 pts 405 comments

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Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain arstechnica.com · buserror · 10 Jun 2018

644 pts 205 comments

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Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve bloomberg.com · danso · 27 Jun 2018

640 pts 441 comments

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The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official nytimes.com · mcargian · 11 Jun 2018

633 pts 405 comments

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Grow the Puzzle Around You foundersatwork.posthaven.com · katm · 30 Jun 2018

613 pts 49 comments

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Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination whydoiprocrastinate.com · ppterodactyl · 21 Jun 2018

611 pts 192 comments

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The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning explained.ai · lxm · 29 Jun 2018

610 pts 77 comments

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Habits of Highly Miserable People alternet.org · gscott · 11 Jun 2018

603 pts 297 comments

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Why does a spray bottle work? alexanderellis.github.io · otras · 9 Jun 2018

601 pts 123 comments

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Performance Reviews Are a Waste of Time blog.bradfieldcs.com · ozanonay · 6 Jun 2018

597 pts 321 comments

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Anthony Bourdain has died bbc.com · chewymouse · 8 Jun 2018

590 pts 323 comments

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Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B techcrunch.com · dogichow · 28 Jun 2018

576 pts 318 comments

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Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt (2014) ai.google · amzans · 18 Jun 2018

576 pts 88 comments

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U.S. Supreme Court to hear civil forfeiture case nytimes.com · wcbeard10 · 25 Jun 2018

575 pts 235 comments

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Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say nytimes.com · Osiris30 · 13 Jun 2018

574 pts 388 comments

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I discovered a browser bug jakearchibald.com · cgtyoder · 21 Jun 2018

574 pts 130 comments

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Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI spectrum.ieee.org · amynordrum · 25 Jun 2018

570 pts 250 comments