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The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2018

We track 1,114 stories from July 2018, averaging 228 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 53 stories. Together they drew 131,149 comments, 118 per story on average.

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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL” mail.python.org · randlet · 12 Jul 2018
2k pts 721 comments
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EU copyright law proposal rejected twitter.com · iMerNibor · 5 Jul 2018
1.8k pts 314 comments
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Farewell, Google Maps inderapotheke.de · ScottWRobinson · 19 Jul 2018
1.7k pts 527 comments
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Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar segment.com · manigandham · 10 Jul 2018
1.3k pts 753 comments
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Learn how to design large-scale systems github.com · donnemartin · 13 Jul 2018
1.3k pts 185 comments
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Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up docs.google.com · dy · 3 Jul 2018
1.2k pts 245 comments
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Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars bbc.co.uk · yawz · 25 Jul 2018
1.1k pts 472 comments
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California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online niemanlab.org · danso · 5 Jul 2018
1.1k pts 536 comments
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Amazon Dark Patterns netinstructions.com · handpickednames · 31 Jul 2018
1.1k pts 272 comments
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The Bullshit Web pxlnv.com · codesections · 31 Jul 2018
1k pts 550 comments
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Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian bloomberg.com · uptown · 26 Jul 2018
1k pts 710 comments
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A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet quaxio.com · chetanhs · 31 Jul 2018
1k pts 140 comments
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Thailand cave rescue: all 12 boys and coach successfully rescued theguardian.com · wallflower · 10 Jul 2018
971 pts 540 comments
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Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser brow.sh · tombh · 9 Jul 2018
967 pts 322 comments
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Please stop asking me to use the app old.reddit.com · dredmorbius · 3 Jul 2018
929 pts 253 comments
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European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case europa.eu · tiger3 · 18 Jul 2018
921 pts 918 comments
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MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros apple.com · briandear · 12 Jul 2018
889 pts 1.2k comments
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People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard freakonomics.com · dctoedt · 12 Jul 2018
868 pts 425 comments
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YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course blog.ycombinator.com · adora · 18 Jul 2018
850 pts 180 comments
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Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm quantamagazine.org · okket · 31 Jul 2018
824 pts 216 comments
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The Best Textbooks on Every Subject lesswrong.com · Ibethewalrus · 26 Jul 2018
823 pts 186 comments
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Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing krebsonsecurity.com · sohkamyung · 23 Jul 2018
775 pts 409 comments
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Show HN: Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations github.com · nbe · 3 Jul 2018
767 pts 79 comments
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Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times john-millikin.com · jmillikin · 30 Jul 2018
761 pts 246 comments
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Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? gozzoo · 12 Jul 2018
746 pts 391 comments
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Stripe Issuing – An API for creating physical and virtual cards stripe.com · zuck9 · 26 Jul 2018
742 pts 215 comments
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Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design brutalist-web.design · andyjohnson0 · 7 Jul 2018
730 pts 312 comments
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The Wrong Abstraction (2016) sandimetz.com · LopRabbit · 20 Jul 2018
717 pts 207 comments
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Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know lesswrong.com · cepp · 28 Jul 2018
711 pts 263 comments
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Machine Learning Guides developers.google.com · _ntka · 23 Jul 2018
708 pts 54 comments
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My home lab setup for highly-available Internet github.com · bradfitz · 2 Jul 2018
699 pts 287 comments
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Timeline of the far future en.wikipedia.org · speeq · 18 Jul 2018
696 pts 258 comments
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Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf] yurichev.com · dennis714 · 17 Jul 2018
672 pts 94 comments
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How to get kids to pay attention npr.org · bkohlmann · 1 Jul 2018
670 pts 267 comments
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Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified wsj.com · blawson · 9 Jul 2018
665 pts 342 comments
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Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research zotero.org · autocorr · 25 Jul 2018
659 pts 163 comments
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Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day techcrunch.com · koolba · 16 Jul 2018
646 pts 360 comments
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How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions thedailybeast.com · DLay · 29 Jul 2018
638 pts 230 comments
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Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities blog.ptsecurity.com · nh2 · 22 Jul 2018
633 pts 327 comments
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Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB medium.com · ancarda · 13 Jul 2018
632 pts 311 comments
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How a Hacker Proved Cops Used a Stingray to Find Him politico.com · mhb · 1 Jul 2018
624 pts 158 comments
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Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly medium.com · lxm · 5 Jul 2018
621 pts 374 comments
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Facebook stock drops more than 20% after revenue forecast misses marketwatch.com · noncoml · 25 Jul 2018
618 pts 388 comments
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The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea m.signalvnoise.com · ingve · 12 Jul 2018
613 pts 447 comments
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Learn C and Build Your Own Lisp (2014) buildyourownlisp.com · AlexeyBrin · 7 Jul 2018
603 pts 86 comments
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Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch techcrunch.com · Ours90 · 18 Jul 2018
602 pts 195 comments
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Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos github.com · axiomdata316 · 4 Jul 2018
581 pts 248 comments
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The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand gizmodo.com · lisper · 11 Jul 2018
579 pts 321 comments
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Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach blog.infinitenegativeutility.com · DyslexicAtheist · 5 Jul 2018
578 pts 332 comments
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PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding quariety.com · Roccan · 20 Jul 2018
576 pts 298 comments
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Refresh: concept for a new kind of web browser refresh.study · davidbarker · 29 Jul 2018
575 pts 146 comments
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Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copyright law bbc.com · mikece · 3 Jul 2018
567 pts 242 comments
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The hotel bathroom puzzle nevalalee.wordpress.com · tlrobinson · 14 Jul 2018
561 pts 260 comments
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Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat engineering.riotgames.com · cammm · 17 Jul 2018
557 pts 399 comments
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Why Use OpenStreetMap Instead of Google Maps? openstreetmap.org · tdurden · 14 Jul 2018
557 pts 209 comments
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Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video] youtube.com · lentil_soup · 19 Jul 2018
548 pts 144 comments
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The Effect of Sleep on Happiness trackinghappiness.com · Doncametic · 18 Jul 2018
542 pts 250 comments
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Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF gds.blog.gov.uk · edent · 16 Jul 2018
541 pts 241 comments
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Electronic Circuit Simulator in the Browser falstad.com · okket · 24 Jul 2018
534 pts 134 comments
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ESLint compromised, may have stolen your credentials github.com · matsemann · 12 Jul 2018
527 pts 248 comments
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