The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2018

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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

28

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

32

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

39

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