The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2018
We track 1,193 stories from October 2018, averaging 244 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 60 stories. Together they drew 145,679 comments, 122 per story on average.
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IBM acquires Red Hat
redhat.com · nopriorarrests · 28 Oct 2018
2.6k pts
1.1k comments
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The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
bloomberg.com · Osiris30 · 4 Oct 2018
2.5k pts
770 comments
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Paper Airplane Designs
foldnfly.com · wilsonfiifi · 18 Oct 2018
1.8k pts
206 comments
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Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
blog.google · Nemant · 8 Oct 2018
1.6k pts
699 comments
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iPhones are allergic to helium
ifixit.org · kwiens · 30 Oct 2018
1.3k pts
340 comments
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Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
cnbc.com · octosphere · 29 Oct 2018
1.2k pts
567 comments
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Carbon Removal Technologies
carbon.ycombinator.com · sama · 23 Oct 2018
1.2k pts
660 comments
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Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced
tls.ulfheim.net · aberoham · 12 Oct 2018
1.2k pts
103 comments
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How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It
queue.acm.org · tchalla · 9 Oct 2018
1.2k pts
183 comments
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Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms
ifixit.org · sinak · 25 Oct 2018
1.1k pts
343 comments
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Coders Automating Their Own Job
theatlantic.com · benryon · 2 Oct 2018
991 pts
485 comments
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We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them
news.vice.com · pulisse · 30 Oct 2018
970 pts
332 comments
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What I loved about Paul Allen
gatesnotes.com · uknownuser · 16 Oct 2018
964 pts
114 comments
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Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
wsj.com · tysone · 8 Oct 2018
953 pts
258 comments
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With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
protondb.com · bdefore · 29 Oct 2018
932 pts
311 comments
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How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS
blog.inkdrop.info · spiffytech · 15 Oct 2018
925 pts
135 comments
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In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Electronics Is Legal
motherboard.vice.com · jbegley · 25 Oct 2018
924 pts
2 comments
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Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
throwawaygoaway · 8 Oct 2018
911 pts
1.1k comments
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Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast
hacks.mozilla.org · lainon · 8 Oct 2018
907 pts
143 comments
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New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
bloomberg.com · gorbachev · 9 Oct 2018
875 pts
366 comments
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Amazon increases minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour
techcrunch.com · doppp · 2 Oct 2018
853 pts
4 comments
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Compare career levels across companies
levels.fyi · kposehn · 31 Oct 2018
832 pts
411 comments
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27
Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
bbc.com · farseer · 11 Oct 2018
830 pts
370 comments
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Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim
nytimes.com · untog · 25 Oct 2018
819 pts
535 comments
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Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network
globenewswire.com · MikusR · 10 Oct 2018
809 pts
371 comments
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Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
cnbc.com · deegles · 2 Oct 2018
768 pts
1k comments
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Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
eduardogarcia.xyz · thewarpaint · 14 Oct 2018
746 pts
151 comments
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My somewhat complete salary history as a software engineer
humanwhocodes.com · jodooshi · 31 Oct 2018
726 pts
650 comments
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Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem
twitter.com · cabraca · 24 Oct 2018
714 pts
198 comments
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Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness
triplebyte.com · aacook · 18 Oct 2018
712 pts
340 comments
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Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack
lightbluetouchpaper.org · bellinom · 5 Oct 2018
707 pts
313 comments
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Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”
techcrunch.com · laktak · 24 Oct 2018
697 pts
528 comments
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JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works
twitter.com · firasd · 30 Oct 2018
689 pts
132 comments
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More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued
blog.archive.org · infodocket · 1 Oct 2018
689 pts
100 comments
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The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It
wsj.com · sonabinu · 5 Oct 2018
678 pts
413 comments
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New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $5k Customs fine
radionz.co.nz · petethomas · 1 Oct 2018
658 pts
621 comments
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Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects
doxsey.net · cdoxsey · 1 Oct 2018
652 pts
329 comments
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GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool
techcrunch.com · moritzplassnig · 16 Oct 2018
642 pts
145 comments
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Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds
gijsk.com · arayh · 12 Oct 2018
634 pts
320 comments
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Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid
twilio.com · coloneltcb · 15 Oct 2018
633 pts
184 comments
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Apple Launches Portal for U.S. Users to Download Their Data
bloomberg.com · uptown · 17 Oct 2018
625 pts
217 comments
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An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s
artsy.net · okket · 6 Oct 2018
621 pts
290 comments
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PostgreSQL 11 Released
postgresql.org · MarkusWinand · 18 Oct 2018
621 pts
161 comments
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Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People
bloomberg.com · aportnoy · 12 Oct 2018
616 pts
207 comments
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How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language
twobithistory.org · chwolfe · 16 Oct 2018
614 pts
307 comments
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Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
nature.com · sohkamyung · 30 Oct 2018
606 pts
300 comments
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52
Do You Really Know CORS?
performantcode.com · grzegorz_mirek · 3 Oct 2018
603 pts
124 comments
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Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews
theguardian.com · sefrost · 20 Oct 2018
598 pts
313 comments
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Repair is as important as innovation
economist.com · sinak · 18 Oct 2018
598 pts
217 comments
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The Periodic Table of Data Structures [pdf]
stratos.seas.harvard.edu · asplake · 27 Oct 2018
598 pts
64 comments
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56
Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
lists.gnu.org · stargrave · 22 Oct 2018
596 pts
396 comments
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Show HN: Websites in 2018
2018.bloomca.me · bloomca · 23 Oct 2018
595 pts
192 comments
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Sourcegraph is now open source
about.sourcegraph.com · aranw · 1 Oct 2018
594 pts
93 comments
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JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
security.googleblog.com · amaccuish · 31 Oct 2018
593 pts
499 comments
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Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment
evergreen.segment.com · ggregoire · 17 Oct 2018
593 pts
296 comments
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