The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2018

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Paul Allen has died cnbc.com · coloneltcb · 15 Oct 2018

2.9k pts 277 comments

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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

12

Coders Automating Their Own Job theatlantic.com · benryon · 2 Oct 2018

991 pts 485 comments

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iPhones are hard to use blog.fawny.org · mrzool · 22 Oct 2018

976 pts 636 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

15

What I loved about Paul Allen gatesnotes.com · uknownuser · 16 Oct 2018

964 pts 114 comments

16

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

18

How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS blog.inkdrop.info · spiffytech · 15 Oct 2018

925 pts 135 comments

19

In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Electronics Is Legal motherboard.vice.com · jbegley · 25 Oct 2018

924 pts 2 comments

20

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

24

Japan's Hometown Tax kalzumeus.com · gwern · 19 Oct 2018

847 pts 249 comments

25

Helm: Personal Email Server thehelm.com · keehun · 17 Oct 2018

846 pts 575 comments

26

Compare career levels across companies levels.fyi · kposehn · 31 Oct 2018

832 pts 411 comments

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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Hubble is back nasa.gov · perlgeek · 27 Oct 2018

768 pts 117 comments

32

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

35

Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness triplebyte.com · aacook · 18 Oct 2018

712 pts 340 comments

36

Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack lightbluetouchpaper.org · bellinom · 5 Oct 2018

707 pts 313 comments

37

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

39

More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued blog.archive.org · infodocket · 1 Oct 2018

689 pts 100 comments

40

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

41

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

46

Apple Launches Portal for U.S. Users to Download Their Data bloomberg.com · uptown · 17 Oct 2018

625 pts 217 comments

47

An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s artsy.net · okket · 6 Oct 2018

621 pts 290 comments

48

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

50

How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language twobithistory.org · chwolfe · 16 Oct 2018

614 pts 307 comments

51

Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice nature.com · sohkamyung · 30 Oct 2018

606 pts 300 comments

52

Do You Really Know CORS? performantcode.com · grzegorz_mirek · 3 Oct 2018

603 pts 124 comments

53

Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews theguardian.com · sefrost · 20 Oct 2018

598 pts 313 comments

54

Repair is as important as innovation economist.com · sinak · 18 Oct 2018

598 pts 217 comments

55

The Periodic Table of Data Structures [pdf] stratos.seas.harvard.edu · asplake · 27 Oct 2018

598 pts 64 comments

56

Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines lists.gnu.org · stargrave · 22 Oct 2018

596 pts 396 comments

57

Show HN: Websites in 2018 2018.bloomca.me · bloomca · 23 Oct 2018

595 pts 192 comments

58

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