The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2018
We track 1,108 stories from November 2018, averaging 240 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 56 stories. Together they drew 137,743 comments, 124 per story on average.
1
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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2
We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
medium.com · daveowei · 27 Nov 2018
1.7k pts
840 comments
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5
Backdoor in event-stream library dependency
github.com · cnorthwood · 26 Nov 2018
1k pts
491 comments
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6
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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8
Boss as a Service – Hire a boss, get stuff done
bossasaservice.life · thisacctforreal · 22 Nov 2018
917 pts
276 comments
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9
Medium is a poor choice for blogging
medium.com · rlv-dan · 13 Nov 2018
909 pts
374 comments
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10
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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11
If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
gatesnotes.com · trequartista · 19 Nov 2018
855 pts
459 comments
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12
International System of Units overhauled in historic vote
npl.co.uk · daegloe · 16 Nov 2018
834 pts
576 comments
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13
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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15
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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16
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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17
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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18
Big List of Naughty Strings
github.com · pmoriarty · 16 Nov 2018
780 pts
146 comments
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19
Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption
status.cloud.google.com · rlancer · 11 Nov 2018
779 pts
407 comments
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20
Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup
hharnisc.github.io · hharnisch · 26 Nov 2018
777 pts
329 comments
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21
Sales mistakes that software engineers make
pipelinedb.com · Fergi · 1 Nov 2018
777 pts
201 comments
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22
Infinite procedurally-generated city with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm
marian42.itch.io · guessmyname · 13 Nov 2018
764 pts
141 comments
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23
How to balance full-time work with creative projects
thecreativeindependent.com · cookingoils · 27 Nov 2018
760 pts
267 comments
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24
How Smart People Sabotage Their Success
hbr.org · apress · 15 Nov 2018
737 pts
210 comments
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25
Open Source is Not About You
gist.github.com · jashkenas · 27 Nov 2018
734 pts
277 comments
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26
Romania orders investigative journalists to disclose sources under GDPR
occrp.org · treewhistle · 9 Nov 2018
723 pts
190 comments
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27
Building your color palette
refactoringui.com · tnorthcutt · 10 Nov 2018
705 pts
115 comments
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28
How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
docs.google.com · itsbenlee · 19 Nov 2018
704 pts
122 comments
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30
Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research
newscientist.com · joeyespo · 24 Nov 2018
697 pts
300 comments
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31
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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33
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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34
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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35
‘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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36
Colorizing and restoring old images with deep learning
github.com · varal7 · 2 Nov 2018
665 pts
104 comments
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37
Cloud Computing Without Containers
blog.cloudflare.com · zackbloom · 9 Nov 2018
663 pts
241 comments
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38
NES.css: 8-bit style CSS framework
bcrikko.github.io · RyanShook · 29 Nov 2018
663 pts
90 comments
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39
Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts
scientificamerican.com · tshannon · 21 Nov 2018
662 pts
223 comments
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40
The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker
libcom.org · isomorph · 12 Nov 2018
651 pts
271 comments
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41
Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
jaydouken · 19 Nov 2018
634 pts
385 comments
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42
Making rain simulation as real as possible
rainbowhunt.me · sazers · 11 Nov 2018
632 pts
126 comments
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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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44
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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45
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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46
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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47
Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages
tabnine.com · jacob-jackson · 6 Nov 2018
607 pts
188 comments
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48
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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49
How to Keep Your Job as Your Company Grows
steveblank.com · Raj7k · 13 Nov 2018
584 pts
205 comments
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50
VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape
github.com · kpcyrd · 6 Nov 2018
577 pts
108 comments
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51
AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking
caixinglobal.com · breitling · 25 Nov 2018
576 pts
397 comments
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52
Estimating the chances of something that hasn’t happened yet
johndcook.com · devy · 15 Nov 2018
575 pts
150 comments
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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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54
Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship
nytimes.com · tosh · 28 Nov 2018
569 pts
215 comments
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55
The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection: Every Byte Explained
tls13.ulfheim.net · syncsynchalt · 7 Nov 2018
568 pts
44 comments
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57
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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58
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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59
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
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