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Top of Month - Apr 2018

1. Apple open-sources FoundationDB
   (19 Apr 2018 | 2136 points | Comments)

2. 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
   (1 Apr 2018 | 1895 points | Comments)

3. Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?
   (6 Apr 2018 | 1681 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
   (3 Apr 2018 | 1665 points | Comments)

5. Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
   (4 Apr 2018 | 1368 points | Comments)

6. Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
   (2 Apr 2018 | 1302 points | Comments)

7. Facebook Container for Firefox
   (17 Apr 2018 | 1274 points | Comments)

8. Productivity
   (10 Apr 2018 | 1264 points | Comments)

9. Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook
   (6 Apr 2018 | 1075 points | Comments)

10. You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts
    (22 Apr 2018 | 1075 points | Comments)

11. I wandered off and built an IDE
    (6 Apr 2018 | 1053 points | Comments)

12. Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours
    (24 Apr 2018 | 1048 points | Comments)

13. The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
    (7 Apr 2018 | 1023 points | Comments)

14. EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
    (27 Apr 2018 | 1022 points | Comments)

15. Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online
    (25 Apr 2018 | 1015 points | Comments)

16. AV1: A new general-purpose video codec
    (9 Apr 2018 | 909 points | Comments)

17. IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016)
    (30 Apr 2018 | 904 points | Comments)

18. Dumber phone
    (24 Apr 2018 | 895 points | Comments)

19. Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative
    (12 Apr 2018 | 874 points | Comments)

20. DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS
    (2 Apr 2018 | 860 points | Comments)

21. Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties
    (2 Apr 2018 | 840 points | Comments)

22. Berkeley offers its data science course online for free
    (5 Apr 2018 | 801 points | Comments)

23. Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
    (16 Apr 2018 | 793 points | Comments)

24. Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks
    (16 Apr 2018 | 785 points | Comments)

25. Fuchsia is not Linux
    (11 Apr 2018 | 784 points | Comments)

26. Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role
    (24 Apr 2018 | 772 points | Comments)

27. “Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy”
    (29 Apr 2018 | 751 points | Comments)

28. Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ
    (3 Apr 2018 | 745 points | Comments)

29. Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App
    (26 Apr 2018 | 738 points | Comments)

30. GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere
    (17 Apr 2018 | 731 points | Comments)

31. Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
    (3 Apr 2018 | 727 points | Comments)

32. StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
    (29 Apr 2018 | 724 points | Comments)

33. Smugmug Acquires Flickr
    (20 Apr 2018 | 720 points | Comments)

34. A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit
    (30 Apr 2018 | 712 points | Comments)

35. A Taxonomy of Technical Debt
    (11 Apr 2018 | 711 points | Comments)

36. Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
    (14 Apr 2018 | 701 points | Comments)

37. Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video]
    (20 Apr 2018 | 701 points | Comments)

38. Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B
    (3 Apr 2018 | 692 points | Comments)

39. Magnasanti: Large and Terrifying SimCity (2010)
    (26 Apr 2018 | 690 points | Comments)

40. Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance
    (23 Apr 2018 | 687 points | Comments)

41. Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release
    (11 Apr 2018 | 684 points | Comments)

42. Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
    (4 Apr 2018 | 677 points | Comments)

43. Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia
    (23 Apr 2018 | 677 points | Comments)

44. Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?
    (10 Apr 2018 | 674 points | Comments)

45. Two Koreas Agree to End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization
    (27 Apr 2018 | 673 points | Comments)

46. The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework
    (19 Apr 2018 | 659 points | Comments)

47. TextQL: Execute SQL Against CSV or TSV
    (7 Apr 2018 | 658 points | Comments)

48. My account is sending spam emails
    (22 Apr 2018 | 647 points | Comments)

49. Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
    (13 Apr 2018 | 642 points | Comments)

50. H&R Block and Intuit Lobbying Against Simpler Tax Filing (2017)
    (15 Apr 2018 | 631 points | Comments)

51. How to Decide What to Build
    (12 Apr 2018 | 630 points | Comments)

52. Apple Hires Google’s A.I. Chief
    (3 Apr 2018 | 628 points | Comments)

53. NirSoft Freeware (2008)
    (16 Apr 2018 | 625 points | Comments)

54. Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook
    (19 Apr 2018 | 623 points | Comments)

55. Stripe Billing
    (5 Apr 2018 | 620 points | Comments)

56. Make your own sourdough
    (28 Apr 2018 | 619 points | Comments)

57. ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility
    (15 Apr 2018 | 617 points | Comments)

58. A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class
    (21 Apr 2018 | 614 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
    (2 Apr 2018 | 612 points | Comments)

60. Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is
    (8 Apr 2018 | 607 points | Comments)

61. OpenSimpleLidar
    (4 Apr 2018 | 605 points | Comments)

62. Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines
    (20 Apr 2018 | 603 points | Comments)

63. No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login
    (18 Apr 2018 | 601 points | Comments)

64. Time to rebuild the web?
    (16 Apr 2018 | 596 points | Comments)

65. Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2017) [pdf]
    (29 Apr 2018 | 594 points | Comments)

66. List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects
    (19 Apr 2018 | 590 points | Comments)

67. The End of Windows
    (2 Apr 2018 | 583 points | Comments)

68. A Well-Known Expert on Student Loans Is Not Real
    (25 Apr 2018 | 578 points | Comments)

69. Mylo: A leather-like material made from mycelium
    (17 Apr 2018 | 574 points | Comments)

70. What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
    (4 Apr 2018 | 573 points | Comments)

71. Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)
    (26 Apr 2018 | 569 points | Comments)

72. Life is Short (2016)
    (1 Apr 2018 | 568 points | Comments)

73. A Workshop on Linux Containers: Rebuild Docker from Scratch
    (2 Apr 2018 | 568 points | Comments)

74. System Shock 1 source code released under GPL
    (5 Apr 2018 | 568 points | Comments)

75. Color: From Hex codes to Eyeballs
    (9 Apr 2018 | 563 points | Comments)

76. Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio
    (11 Apr 2018 | 559 points | Comments)

77. Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
    (26 Apr 2018 | 558 points | Comments)

78. My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app
    (1 Apr 2018 | 557 points | Comments)

79. French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Journals
    (1 Apr 2018 | 555 points | Comments)

80. In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information
    (13 Apr 2018 | 555 points | Comments)

81. Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Apple Object to W3C Fork of DOM Spec
    (13 Apr 2018 | 549 points | Comments)

82. Flask 1.0 Released
    (26 Apr 2018 | 548 points | Comments)

83. MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’
    (23 Apr 2018 | 547 points | Comments)

84. Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities
    (17 Apr 2018 | 545 points | Comments)

85. Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video]
    (18 Apr 2018 | 539 points | Comments)

86. Don't give away historic details about yourself
    (9 Apr 2018 | 532 points | Comments)

87. How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS
    (8 Apr 2018 | 531 points | Comments)

88. I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores
    (16 Apr 2018 | 528 points | Comments)

89. Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally
    (4 Apr 2018 | 526 points | Comments)

90. A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet
    (25 Apr 2018 | 526 points | Comments)

91. Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens
    (19 Apr 2018 | 523 points | Comments)

92. Why SQLite Does Not Use Git
    (10 Apr 2018 | 508 points | Comments)

93. UN: Facebook has turned into a beast in Myanmar
    (2 Apr 2018 | 504 points | Comments)

94. "@" on Twitter
    (27 Apr 2018 | 504 points | Comments)

95. Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading
    (18 Apr 2018 | 501 points | Comments)

96. Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
    (30 Apr 2018 | 501 points | Comments)

97. Stripe Home
    (19 Apr 2018 | 496 points | Comments)

98. Form a California LLC in 10 minutes for $70
    (10 Apr 2018 | 494 points | Comments)

99. D3 in Depth
    (15 Apr 2018 | 493 points | Comments)

100. Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
     (17 Apr 2018 | 492 points | Comments)