The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2018

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Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off lore.kernel.org · fejkp · 16 Sep 2018

2.6k pts 998 comments

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Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies twitter.com · jwildeboer · 25 Sep 2018

2.4k pts 810 comments

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Why I’m done with Chrome blog.cryptographyengineering.com · user982 · 23 Sep 2018

2.4k pts 838 comments

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EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ theverge.com · daninet · 12 Sep 2018

1.7k pts 1k comments

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Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users nytimes.com · coloneltcb · 28 Sep 2018

1.7k pts 609 comments

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Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL bugs.chromium.org · gouggoug · 6 Sep 2018

1.6k pts 876 comments

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EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019 dw.com · joshdance · 17 Sep 2018

1.4k pts 708 comments

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Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information gizmodo.com · dhotson · 27 Sep 2018

1.4k pts 458 comments

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Life in the Spanish city that banned cars theguardian.com · antr · 18 Sep 2018

1.2k pts 679 comments

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Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build ghacks.net · mikro2nd · 12 Sep 2018

1.2k pts 740 comments

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DuckDuckGo Traffic duckduckgo.com · patrickbolle · 29 Sep 2018

1.1k pts 375 comments

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Questions patrickcollison.com · tosh · 30 Sep 2018

1.1k pts 470 comments

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Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration github.com · nailer · 23 Sep 2018

1.1k pts 306 comments

14

Google Dataset Search toolbox.google.com · kmax12 · 5 Sep 2018

1k pts 76 comments

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Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking twitter.com · technocracy · 25 Sep 2018

996 pts 355 comments

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Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics simpleanalytics.io · AdriaanvRossum · 19 Sep 2018

968 pts 263 comments

17

Found hooked up to my router reddit.com · empath75 · 27 Sep 2018

965 pts 347 comments

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Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads recode.net · doener · 11 Sep 2018

944 pts 545 comments

19

Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text sublimemerge.com · jskinner · 20 Sep 2018

935 pts 351 comments

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A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data techcrunch.com · sahin-boydas · 8 Sep 2018

934 pts 276 comments

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Google is discontinuing Inbox fastcompany.com · edwinvlieg · 12 Sep 2018

916 pts 439 comments

22

Did I just waste 3 years? infinitroid.com · kiostech · 28 Sep 2018

905 pts 564 comments

23

Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? egonschiele · 24 Sep 2018

867 pts 568 comments

24

SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal bloomberg.com · tysone · 27 Sep 2018

849 pts 825 comments

25

Mmm, Pi-hole troyhunt.com · cryptography · 26 Sep 2018

849 pts 408 comments

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A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes independent.co.uk · pmoriarty · 3 Sep 2018

829 pts 224 comments

27

SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy techcrunch.com · vfc1 · 13 Sep 2018

798 pts 528 comments

28

Medieval Fantasy City Generator watabou.itch.io · BerislavLopac · 6 Sep 2018

788 pts 115 comments

29

Product Updates Based on Your Feedback blog.google · tptacek · 26 Sep 2018

780 pts 451 comments

30

Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company nytimes.com · subdane · 26 Sep 2018

778 pts 352 comments

31

Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube? akudha · 16 Sep 2018

770 pts 189 comments

32

Anatomy of a Killing twitter.com · danso · 24 Sep 2018

768 pts 172 comments

33

Solid – Reshape the web as we know it solid.inrupt.com · yarapavan · 29 Sep 2018

750 pts 250 comments

34

Dear Moon dearmoon.earth · T-A · 18 Sep 2018

724 pts 222 comments

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Apple's best product is now privacy fastcompany.com · octosphere · 14 Sep 2018

717 pts 418 comments

36

Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video] youtube.com · espeed · 6 Sep 2018

717 pts 51 comments

37

GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the State of Washington lists.gnupg.org · Boulth · 18 Sep 2018

711 pts 175 comments

38

Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book selectstarsql.com · zckao · 4 Sep 2018

700 pts 112 comments

39

Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges sec.gov · omarchowdhury · 29 Sep 2018

684 pts 465 comments

40

Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change blog.lukaszolejnik.com · krahmakt · 24 Sep 2018

681 pts 485 comments

41

Hire people who aren’t proven leonardofed.io · type12 · 27 Sep 2018

677 pts 441 comments

42

Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms techcrunch.com · tareqak · 7 Sep 2018

677 pts 252 comments

43

Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics github.com · s-macke · 15 Sep 2018

660 pts 127 comments

44

Build Impossible Programs jvns.ca · Cmerlyn · 19 Sep 2018

652 pts 124 comments

45

How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC blog.discordapp.com · jhgg · 10 Sep 2018

649 pts 244 comments

46

Terry Davis has died templeos.org · leibwiht · 4 Sep 2018

634 pts 198 comments

47

GIMP receives a $100K donation gimp.org · domedefelice · 6 Sep 2018

631 pts 301 comments

48

Self-solving Rubik's Cube media.dmm-make.com · murkle · 24 Sep 2018

630 pts 103 comments

49

WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind forbes.com · petethomas · 26 Sep 2018

626 pts 392 comments

50

Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 17 Sep 2018

621 pts 157 comments

51

Hayabusa2 Now haya2now.jp · MKais · 22 Sep 2018

621 pts 102 comments

52

Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam nr.apple.com · Zaheer · 25 Sep 2018

614 pts 316 comments

53

Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them? Carl_Platt · 29 Sep 2018

613 pts 563 comments

54

XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust github.com · tosh · 8 Sep 2018

609 pts 188 comments

55

How to Build a Low-Tech Website solar.lowtechmagazine.com · RomanZolotarev · 26 Sep 2018

600 pts 183 comments

56

The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light hbr.org · Ianvdl · 5 Sep 2018

591 pts 334 comments

57

Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists guitardashboard.com · mikehadlow · 14 Sep 2018

590 pts 115 comments

58

Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News github.com · 0x4542 · 8 Sep 2018

581 pts 98 comments

59

The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security troyhunt.com · MandieD · 11 Sep 2018

580 pts 285 comments

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People Like You More Than You Know blogs.scientificamerican.com · ALee · 20 Sep 2018

577 pts 200 comments