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1.

Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview (patentpandas.org)

1742 points by jerryX 2018-11-30 | 472 comments

2.

We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly (medium.com)

1647 points by daveowei 2018-11-27 | 838 comments

3.

Quora User Data Compromised (blog.quora.com)

1253 points by joebeetee 2018-12-04 | 505 comments

4.

Goodbye, EdgeHTML (blog.mozilla.org)

1165 points by __michaelg 2018-12-06 | 651 comments

5.

Story of a failed pentest (threader.app)

1121 points by mariedm 2018-11-17 | 165 comments

6.

Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver (www.theglobeandmail.com)

1064 points by ericzawo 2018-12-05 | 566 comments

7.

Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10 (www.windowscentral.com)

1053 points by rattt 2018-12-04 | 730 comments

8.

Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo (www.namepros.com)

1030 points by rahiel 2018-12-12 | 404 comments

9.

Backdoor in event-stream library dependency (github.com)

1025 points by cnorthwood 2018-11-26 | 488 comments

10.

Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web (addons.mozilla.org)

929 points by LukeWalsh 2018-11-30 | 274 comments

11.

Firefox 64 Released (hacks.mozilla.org)

928 points by feross 2018-12-11 | 503 comments

12.

A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics (jeremykun.com)

902 points by chocolateboy 2018-12-01 | 204 comments

13.

Boss as a Service – Hire a boss, get stuff done (bossasaservice.life)

892 points by thisacctforreal 2018-11-22 | 272 comments

14.

Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha (drewdevault.com)

891 points by Sir_Cmpwn 2018-11-15 | 217 comments

15.

Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI (blogs.windows.com)

862 points by MikusR 2018-12-04 | 373 comments

16.

If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley (www.gatesnotes.com)

850 points by trequartista 2018-11-19 | 457 comments

17.

Facial recognition: It’s time for action (blogs.microsoft.com)

847 points by myinnerbanjo 2018-12-07 | 262 comments

18.

International System of Units overhauled in historic vote (www.npl.co.uk)

834 points by daegloe 2018-11-16 | 576 comments

19.

Firefox desktop market share now below 9% (netmarketshare.com)

823 points by ngokevin 2018-12-04 | 737 comments

20.

Go 2, here we come (blog.golang.org)

815 points by mdelias 2018-11-29 | 516 comments

21.

I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back (www.fastcompany.com)

805 points by bennettfeely 2018-11-27 | 723 comments

22.

Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup (hharnisc.github.io)

777 points by hharnisch 2018-11-26 | 329 comments

23.

Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says (electrek.co)

776 points by touristtam 2018-12-06 | 323 comments

24.

Big List of Naughty Strings (github.com)

747 points by pmoriarty 2018-11-16 | 141 comments

25.

How Smart People Sabotage Their Success (hbr.org)

737 points by apress 2018-11-15 | 210 comments

26.

An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth (twitter.com)

736 points by waffle_ss 2018-12-12 | 316 comments

27.

DigitalOcean launches its container service (techcrunch.com)

735 points by neom 2018-12-11 | 225 comments

28.

A well-known URL for changing passwords (github.com)

733 points by fanf2 2018-12-06 | 163 comments

29.

Open Source is Not About You (gist.github.com)

731 points by jashkenas 2018-11-27 | 276 comments

30.

How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers (docs.google.com)

700 points by itsbenlee 2018-11-19 | 123 comments

31.

Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research (www.newscientist.com)

689 points by joeyespo 2018-11-24 | 299 comments

32.

Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers (aws.amazon.com)

686 points by ydereky 2018-11-26 | 104 comments

33.

Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much? (www.motherjones.com)

685 points by curtis 2018-12-05 | 508 comments

34.

The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died (gcemetery.co)

679 points by naeemnur 2018-11-22 | 344 comments

35.

NES.css: 8-bit style CSS framework (bcrikko.github.io)

662 points by RyanShook 2018-11-29 | 90 comments

36.

Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode” (www.diyphotography.net)

662 points by minikites 2018-12-04 | 267 comments

37.

Guide to scaling engineering organizations (stripe.com)

661 points by joeyespo 2018-12-05 | 139 comments

38.

‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’ (www.thecut.com)

660 points by petethomas 2018-11-29 | 629 comments

39.

‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Computer Science Students (www.nytimes.com)

630 points by JumpCrisscross 2018-11-15 | 533 comments

40.

LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members (techcrunch.com)

619 points by sidcool 2018-11-25 | 139 comments

41.

I Found the Best Burger Place in America, Then I Killed It (www.thrillist.com)

613 points by wallflower 2018-11-16 | 387 comments

42.

AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking (www.caixinglobal.com)

575 points by breitling 2018-11-25 | 397 comments

43.

How to balance full-time work with creative projects (thecreativeindependent.com)

574 points by cookingoils 2018-11-27 | 215 comments

44.

Estimating the chances of something that hasn’t happened yet (www.johndcook.com)

574 points by devy 2018-11-15 | 150 comments

45.

Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup (blog.cloudflare.com)

567 points by jgrahamc 2018-11-23 | 94 comments

46.

Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards (www.reuters.com)

565 points by teddyfrozevelt 2018-12-11 | 312 comments

47.

Some notes about HTTP/3 (blog.erratasec.com)

561 points by BerislavLopac 2018-11-23 | 170 comments

48.

Thinking About Thinking (1999) (www.cia.gov)

550 points by handojin 2018-11-21 | 97 comments

49.

I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier (www.cnbc.com)

549 points by prostoalex 2018-12-02 | 305 comments

50.

Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps (blog.abhijittomar.com)

544 points by motiw 2018-11-25 | 189 comments

51.

Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 (techcrunch.com)

543 points by mikece 2018-12-04 | 324 comments

52.

Lyft Files for IPO (www.reuters.com)

535 points by svtrent 2018-12-06 | 294 comments

53.

Advent of Code 2018 (adventofcode.com)

530 points by rauhl 2018-11-29 | 93 comments

54.

AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites (aws.amazon.com)

523 points by leef 2018-11-27 | 135 comments

55.

Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses (www.travelandleisure.com)

520 points by rmason 2018-11-28 | 381 comments

56.

Rust 2018 is here, but what is it? (hacks.mozilla.org)

520 points by jsheard 2018-12-06 | 180 comments

57.

The Friendship That Made Google Huge (www.newyorker.com)

513 points by adrianhon 2018-12-03 | 98 comments

58.

Successful second round of fusion experiments with Wendelstein 7-X (www.ipp.mpg.de)

510 points by mrfusion 2018-11-26 | 196 comments

59.

ATDT relief (rachelbythebay.com)

507 points by discreditable 2018-12-12 | 138 comments

60.

Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync (hacks.mozilla.org)

506 points by feross 2018-11-14 | 164 comments

61.

The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York” (twitter.com)

497 points by thibautg 2018-11-24 | 83 comments

62.

Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts (www.scientificamerican.com)

495 points by tshannon 2018-11-21 | 198 comments

63.

A blogging style guide (robertheaton.com)

489 points by mbaytas 2018-12-07 | 187 comments

64.

Why Not to Use Quora (waxy.org)

488 points by Reedx 2018-12-10 | 186 comments

65.

JIRA is an antipattern (techcrunch.com)

483 points by panarky 2018-12-09 | 221 comments

66.

Amazon Web Services in Plain English (www.expeditedssl.com)

481 points by ccnafr 2018-11-17 | 105 comments

67.

They Rejected Us (rejected.us)

480 points by deepaksurti 2018-12-07 | 345 comments

68.

The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public (longreads.com)

477 points by cmurf 2018-11-20 | 237 comments

69.

Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer' (www.bbc.com)

477 points by GeneticGenesis 2018-11-15 | 318 comments

70.

The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (triplebyte.com)

477 points by Harj 2018-12-06 | 312 comments

71.

Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th (www.theverge.com)

472 points by phoe-krk 2018-12-03 | 446 comments

72.

Repl.it Multiplayer (repl.it)

470 points by rozhok 2018-12-06 | 115 comments

73.

Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS (elementary.io)

470 points by diggernet 2018-11-16 | 318 comments

74.

Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details (techcrunch.com)

468 points by Ours90 2018-11-21 | 135 comments

75.

Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent (protonmail.com)

462 points by djsumdog 2018-12-08 | 255 comments

76.

Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome (old.reddit.com)

461 points by dredmorbius 2018-11-19 | 275 comments

77.

Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Real (www.theatlantic.com)

458 points by zwieback 2018-12-01 | 255 comments

78.

The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard (davemart.in)

452 points by startlaunch 2018-11-23 | 190 comments

79.

Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis (www.nytimes.com)

450 points by cmmn_nighthawk 2018-11-14 | 133 comments

80.

A debt-collection machine that’s chewing up small businesses across America (www.bloomberg.com)

450 points by acdanger 2018-11-20 | 141 comments

81.

Don’t work “remotely” (blairreeves.me)

449 points by ntang 2018-11-19 | 254 comments

82.

Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth (www.nationalgeographic.com)

441 points by curtis 2018-11-29 | 112 comments

83.

Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages (www.bloomberg.com)

440 points by adventured 2018-12-05 | 238 comments

84.

SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites (www.fastcompany.com)

438 points by crunchlibrarian 2018-11-15 | 280 comments

85.

Slow Software (www.inkandswitch.com)

438 points by Thibaut 2018-11-21 | 260 comments

86.

Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over (www.buzzfeednews.com)

435 points by laurex 2018-12-05 | 316 comments

87.

Dive – A tool for exploring each layer in a Docker image (github.com)

435 points by boyter 2018-11-25 | 33 comments

88.

AMD Discloses Initial Zen 2 Details (fuse.wikichip.org)

434 points by throwaway2048 2018-11-18 | 188 comments

89.

How Google Code Search Worked: Regex Matching with a Trigram Index (2012) (swtch.com)

434 points by kbumsik 2018-12-02 | 70 comments

90.

Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

432 points by tshannon 2018-12-10 | 188 comments

91.

“The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014) (git.kernel.org)

429 points by wolfgang42 2018-11-20 | 108 comments

92.

Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds (www.nytimes.com)

429 points by pcl 2018-12-10 | 166 comments

93.

Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary (github.com)

428 points by rampatra 2018-11-28 | 185 comments

94.

Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again? (www.naughtycomputer.uk)

419 points by xylon 2018-12-09 | 409 comments

95.

The Insect Apocalypse Is Here (www.nytimes.com)

418 points by surbas 2018-11-27 | 337 comments

96.

Why is 2 * (i * i) faster than 2 * i * i in Java? (stackoverflow.com)

415 points by trequartista 2018-11-30 | 96 comments

97.

Autodesk to Acquire PlanGrid (YC W12) to Accelerate Construction Productivity (adsknews.autodesk.com)

412 points by gwintrob 2018-11-20 | 73 comments

98.

New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components (aws.amazon.com)

412 points by abd12 2018-11-29 | 175 comments

99.

Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees (english.hf.cas.cn)

411 points by 7ero 2018-11-14 | 231 comments

100.

Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018 (blog.ycombinator.com)

409 points by craigcannon 2018-12-04 | 53 comments

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