The Best Hacker News Posts of 2018

1

Stephen Hawking has died bbc.com · Cogito · 14 Mar 2018

6k pts 436 comments

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches techcrunch.com · mpweiher · 6 Feb 2018

3k pts 871 comments

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

2.9k pts 277 comments

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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub bloomberg.com · miguelrochefort · 3 Jun 2018

2.9k pts 1.4k 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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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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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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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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Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street reuters.com · kgwgk · 19 Mar 2018

2.4k pts 1.8k 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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Reading privileged memory with a side-channel googleprojectzero.blogspot.com · brandon · 3 Jan 2018

2.3k pts 593 comments

12

Apple open-sources FoundationDB foundationdb.org · spullara · 19 Apr 2018

2.1k pts 441 comments

13

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming byorgey.wordpress.com · weatherlight · 7 May 2018

2.1k pts 310 comments

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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL” mail.python.org · randlet · 12 Jul 2018

2k pts 721 comments

15

Machine Learning Crash Course developers.google.com · matant · 1 Mar 2018

1.9k pts 222 comments

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1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service blog.cloudflare.com · _l4jh · 1 Apr 2018

1.9k pts 657 comments

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Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone ai.googleblog.com · ivank · 8 May 2018

1.9k pts 750 comments

18

Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.” lkml.iu.edu · Valmar · 22 Jan 2018

1.9k pts 656 comments

19

EU copyright law proposal rejected twitter.com · iMerNibor · 5 Jul 2018

1.8k pts 314 comments

20

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

1.8k pts 487 comments

21

Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself mtlynch.io · mtlynch · 28 Feb 2018

1.8k pts 751 comments

22

Paper Airplane Designs foldnfly.com · wilsonfiifi · 18 Oct 2018

1.8k pts 206 comments

23

Farewell, Google Maps inderapotheke.de · ScottWRobinson · 19 Jul 2018

1.7k pts 527 comments

24

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

1.7k pts 1k comments

25

GitLab sees huge spike in project imports monitor.gitlab.net · AgentK20 · 3 Jun 2018

1.7k pts 455 comments

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

1.7k pts 609 comments

27

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

1.7k pts 840 comments

28

How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team getweeklyupdate.com · voska · 5 Jun 2018

1.6k pts 224 comments

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US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data zdnet.com · voctor · 16 May 2018

1.6k pts 625 comments

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Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store github.com · dhuramas · 20 Aug 2018

1.6k pts 421 comments

31

Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers blog.google · Nemant · 8 Oct 2018

1.6k pts 699 comments

32

Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown raspberrypi.org · TiredOfLife · 5 Jan 2018

1.6k pts 215 comments

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

1.6k pts 876 comments

34

Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres theguardian.com · philliphaydon · 19 Dec 2018

1.6k pts 417 comments

35

Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try mobile.nytimes.com · MilnerRoute · 21 Jun 2018

1.6k pts 722 comments

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Please do not attempt to simplify this code github.com · whalesalad · 27 Dec 2018

1.6k pts 627 comments

37

Congrats Dropbox blog.ycombinator.com · runesoerensen · 23 Mar 2018

1.5k pts 264 comments

38

Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs letsencrypt.org · okket · 6 Aug 2018

1.5k pts 144 comments

39

It's time to head back to RSS? wired.com · kawera · 31 Mar 2018

1.5k pts 491 comments

40

Hello, GitHub natfriedman.github.io · rafaelc · 4 Jun 2018

1.5k pts 644 comments

41

The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written quora.com · graposaymaname · 18 May 2018

1.5k pts 481 comments

42

John Perry Barlow has died eff.org · schoen · 7 Feb 2018

1.5k pts 126 comments

43

Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide blender.org · gargron · 19 Jun 2018

1.5k pts 426 comments

44

The Machine Fired Me idiallo.com · foxfired · 19 Jun 2018

1.5k pts 554 comments

45

Twitter ‘smytes’ customers techcrunch.com · panarky · 22 Jun 2018

1.4k pts 551 comments

46

Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time petapixel.com · shawndumas · 8 Mar 2018

1.4k pts 215 comments

47

Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook techcrunch.com · middle1 · 23 Mar 2018

1.4k pts 499 comments

48

Google Memory Loss tbray.org · AndrewDucker · 15 Jan 2018

1.4k pts 539 comments

49

Thank you HN throwAwayXYZ69 · 12 Aug 2018

1.4k pts 137 comments

50

Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project nytimes.com · s3r3nity · 4 Apr 2018

1.4k pts 1.1k comments

51

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

1.4k pts 708 comments

52

Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US alexa.com · Mahn · 30 May 2018

1.4k pts 584 comments

53

Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality blog.mozilla.org · lainon · 16 Jan 2018

1.4k pts 186 comments

54

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

1.4k pts 458 comments

55

Blocklist Facebook domains github.com · z0a · 20 Mar 2018

1.3k pts 348 comments

56

The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill azeria-labs.com · ingve · 26 May 2018

1.3k pts 197 comments

57

Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL sandspiel.club · 15DCFA8F · 17 Dec 2018

1.3k pts 185 comments

58

Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations? simonswords82 · 3 Dec 2018

1.3k pts 366 comments

59

Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed perens.com · jeswin · 23 Aug 2018

1.3k pts 484 comments

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Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact kiro7.com · spking · 24 May 2018

1.3k pts 710 comments