The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2018

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Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview patentpandas.org · jerryX · 30 Nov 2018

1.8k pts 487 comments

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We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly medium.com · daveowei · 27 Nov 2018

1.7k pts 840 comments

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Apple's New Map justinobeirne.com · joao · 1 Nov 2018

1.3k pts 365 comments

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Story of a failed pentest threader.app · mariedm · 17 Nov 2018

1.1k pts 167 comments

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Backdoor in event-stream library dependency github.com · cnorthwood · 26 Nov 2018

1k pts 491 comments

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Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web addons.mozilla.org · LukeWalsh · 30 Nov 2018

959 pts 290 comments

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Thank you to dang and sctb sama · 22 Nov 2018

950 pts 123 comments

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Boss as a Service – Hire a boss, get stuff done bossasaservice.life · thisacctforreal · 22 Nov 2018

917 pts 276 comments

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Medium is a poor choice for blogging medium.com · rlv-dan · 13 Nov 2018

909 pts 374 comments

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Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha drewdevault.com · ddevault · 15 Nov 2018

892 pts 217 comments

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If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley gatesnotes.com · trequartista · 19 Nov 2018

855 pts 459 comments

12

International System of Units overhauled in historic vote npl.co.uk · daegloe · 16 Nov 2018

834 pts 576 comments

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GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working from Home inc.com · janvdberg · 13 Nov 2018

833 pts 418 comments

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Go 2, here we come blog.golang.org · mdelias · 29 Nov 2018

816 pts 516 comments

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I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back fastcompany.com · bennettfeely · 27 Nov 2018

805 pts 724 comments

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Build a do-it-yourself home air purifier for about $25 uofmhealth.org · io_io · 13 Nov 2018

801 pts 342 comments

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An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake from 1974 threadreaderapp.com · InclinedPlane · 4 Nov 2018

791 pts 252 comments

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Big List of Naughty Strings github.com · pmoriarty · 16 Nov 2018

780 pts 146 comments

19

Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption status.cloud.google.com · rlancer · 11 Nov 2018

779 pts 407 comments

20

Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup hharnisc.github.io · hharnisch · 26 Nov 2018

777 pts 329 comments

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Sales mistakes that software engineers make pipelinedb.com · Fergi · 1 Nov 2018

777 pts 201 comments

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Infinite procedurally-generated city with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm marian42.itch.io · guessmyname · 13 Nov 2018

764 pts 141 comments

23

How to balance full-time work with creative projects thecreativeindependent.com · cookingoils · 27 Nov 2018

760 pts 267 comments

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How Smart People Sabotage Their Success hbr.org · apress · 15 Nov 2018

737 pts 210 comments

25

Open Source is Not About You gist.github.com · jashkenas · 27 Nov 2018

734 pts 277 comments

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Romania orders investigative journalists to disclose sources under GDPR occrp.org · treewhistle · 9 Nov 2018

723 pts 190 comments

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Building your color palette refactoringui.com · tnorthcutt · 10 Nov 2018

705 pts 115 comments

28

How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers docs.google.com · itsbenlee · 19 Nov 2018

704 pts 122 comments

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Web.dev by Google web.dev · mxschumacher · 12 Nov 2018

699 pts 247 comments

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Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research newscientist.com · joeyespo · 24 Nov 2018

697 pts 300 comments

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Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers aws.amazon.com · ydereky · 26 Nov 2018

686 pts 104 comments

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Thelio – System76 system76.com · secure · 2 Nov 2018

684 pts 220 comments

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Dive – A tool for exploring each layer in a Docker image github.com · boyter · 25 Nov 2018

684 pts 42 comments

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The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died gcemetery.co · naeemnur · 22 Nov 2018

680 pts 344 comments

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‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’ thecut.com · petethomas · 29 Nov 2018

672 pts 635 comments

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Colorizing and restoring old images with deep learning github.com · varal7 · 2 Nov 2018

665 pts 104 comments

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Cloud Computing Without Containers blog.cloudflare.com · zackbloom · 9 Nov 2018

663 pts 241 comments

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NES.css: 8-bit style CSS framework bcrikko.github.io · RyanShook · 29 Nov 2018

663 pts 90 comments

39

Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts scientificamerican.com · tshannon · 21 Nov 2018

662 pts 223 comments

40

The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker libcom.org · isomorph · 12 Nov 2018

651 pts 271 comments

41

Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications? jaydouken · 19 Nov 2018

634 pts 385 comments

42

Making rain simulation as real as possible rainbowhunt.me · sazers · 11 Nov 2018

632 pts 126 comments

43

‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Computer Science Students nytimes.com · JumpCrisscross · 15 Nov 2018

630 pts 533 comments

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The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images Online kottke.org · malshe · 11 Nov 2018

624 pts 112 comments

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LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members techcrunch.com · sidcool · 25 Nov 2018

619 pts 138 comments

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I Found the Best Burger Place in America, Then I Killed It thrillist.com · wallflower · 16 Nov 2018

613 pts 387 comments

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Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages tabnine.com · jacob-jackson · 6 Nov 2018

607 pts 188 comments

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AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites aws.amazon.com · leef · 27 Nov 2018

598 pts 159 comments

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How to Keep Your Job as Your Company Grows steveblank.com · Raj7k · 13 Nov 2018

584 pts 205 comments

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VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape github.com · kpcyrd · 6 Nov 2018

577 pts 108 comments

51

AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking caixinglobal.com · breitling · 25 Nov 2018

576 pts 397 comments

52

Estimating the chances of something that hasn’t happened yet johndcook.com · devy · 15 Nov 2018

575 pts 150 comments

53

Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 23 Nov 2018

570 pts 94 comments

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Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship nytimes.com · tosh · 28 Nov 2018

569 pts 215 comments

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The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection: Every Byte Explained tls13.ulfheim.net · syncsynchalt · 7 Nov 2018

568 pts 44 comments

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Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 STRML · 8 Nov 2018

565 pts 313 comments

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Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people reddit.com · arikr · 7 Nov 2018

562 pts 179 comments

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Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS elementary.io · diggernet · 16 Nov 2018

561 pts 421 comments

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Some notes about HTTP/3 blog.erratasec.com · BerislavLopac · 23 Nov 2018

561 pts 170 comments

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I've compiled the best SaaS Landing pages and broke down all their secrets cortes.design · pedrocortes · 8 Nov 2018

561 pts 88 comments