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Top of Month - Oct 2018

1. Paul Allen has died
   (15 Oct 2018 | 2901 points | Comments)

2. IBM acquires Red Hat
   (28 Oct 2018 | 2611 points | Comments)

3. The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
   (4 Oct 2018 | 2493 points | Comments)

4. Paper Airplane Designs
   (18 Oct 2018 | 1753 points | Comments)

5. Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
   (8 Oct 2018 | 1613 points | Comments)

6. iPhones are allergic to helium
   (30 Oct 2018 | 1289 points | Comments)

7. Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
   (29 Oct 2018 | 1213 points | Comments)

8. Carbon Removal Technologies
   (23 Oct 2018 | 1187 points | Comments)

9. Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced
   (12 Oct 2018 | 1185 points | Comments)

10. How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It
    (9 Oct 2018 | 1165 points | Comments)

11. Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms
    (25 Oct 2018 | 1064 points | Comments)

12. Coders Automating Their Own Job
    (2 Oct 2018 | 991 points | Comments)

13. iPhones are hard to use
    (22 Oct 2018 | 976 points | Comments)

14. We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them
    (30 Oct 2018 | 970 points | Comments)

15. What I loved about Paul Allen
    (16 Oct 2018 | 964 points | Comments)

16. Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
    (8 Oct 2018 | 953 points | Comments)

17. With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
    (29 Oct 2018 | 932 points | Comments)

18. How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS
    (15 Oct 2018 | 925 points | Comments)

19. In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Electronics Is Legal
    (25 Oct 2018 | 924 points | Comments)

20. Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
    (8 Oct 2018 | 911 points | Comments)

21. Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast
    (8 Oct 2018 | 907 points | Comments)

22. New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
    (9 Oct 2018 | 875 points | Comments)

23. Amazon increases minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour
    (2 Oct 2018 | 853 points | Comments)

24. Japan's Hometown Tax
    (19 Oct 2018 | 847 points | Comments)

25. Helm: Personal Email Server
    (17 Oct 2018 | 846 points | Comments)

26. Compare career levels across companies
    (31 Oct 2018 | 832 points | Comments)

27. Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
    (11 Oct 2018 | 830 points | Comments)

28. Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim
    (25 Oct 2018 | 819 points | Comments)

29. Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network
    (10 Oct 2018 | 809 points | Comments)

30. Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
    (2 Oct 2018 | 768 points | Comments)

31. Hubble is back
    (27 Oct 2018 | 768 points | Comments)

32. Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
    (14 Oct 2018 | 746 points | Comments)

33. Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?
    (17 Oct 2018 | 733 points | Comments)

34. My somewhat complete salary history as a software engineer
    (31 Oct 2018 | 726 points | Comments)

35. Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
    (15 Oct 2018 | 717 points | Comments)

36. Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem
    (24 Oct 2018 | 714 points | Comments)

37. Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness
    (18 Oct 2018 | 712 points | Comments)

38. Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack
    (5 Oct 2018 | 707 points | Comments)

39. Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”
    (24 Oct 2018 | 697 points | Comments)

40. More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued
    (1 Oct 2018 | 689 points | Comments)

41. JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works
    (30 Oct 2018 | 689 points | Comments)

42. The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It
    (5 Oct 2018 | 678 points | Comments)

43. New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $5k Customs fine
    (1 Oct 2018 | 658 points | Comments)

44. Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects
    (1 Oct 2018 | 652 points | Comments)

45. GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool
    (16 Oct 2018 | 642 points | Comments)

46. Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds
    (12 Oct 2018 | 634 points | Comments)

47. Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid
    (15 Oct 2018 | 633 points | Comments)

48. Apple Launches Portal for U.S. Users to Download Their Data
    (17 Oct 2018 | 625 points | Comments)

49. An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s
    (6 Oct 2018 | 621 points | Comments)

50. PostgreSQL 11 Released
    (18 Oct 2018 | 621 points | Comments)

51. Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People
    (12 Oct 2018 | 616 points | Comments)

52. How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language
    (16 Oct 2018 | 614 points | Comments)

53. Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
    (30 Oct 2018 | 606 points | Comments)

54. Do You Really Know CORS?
    (3 Oct 2018 | 603 points | Comments)

55. Repair is as important as innovation
    (18 Oct 2018 | 598 points | Comments)

56. Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews
    (20 Oct 2018 | 598 points | Comments)

57. The Periodic Table of Data Structures [pdf]
    (27 Oct 2018 | 598 points | Comments)

58. Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
    (22 Oct 2018 | 596 points | Comments)

59. Show HN: Websites in 2018
    (23 Oct 2018 | 595 points | Comments)

60. Sourcegraph is now open source
    (1 Oct 2018 | 594 points | Comments)

61. Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment
    (17 Oct 2018 | 593 points | Comments)

62. JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
    (31 Oct 2018 | 593 points | Comments)

63. Denmark to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030
    (3 Oct 2018 | 592 points | Comments)

64. Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
    (14 Oct 2018 | 576 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: YouTube down?
    (17 Oct 2018 | 575 points | Comments)

66. Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound
    (13 Oct 2018 | 571 points | Comments)

67. Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology
    (2 Oct 2018 | 569 points | Comments)

68. Generating custom photo-realistic faces using AI
    (26 Oct 2018 | 569 points | Comments)

69. 'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automatically record the police
    (3 Oct 2018 | 566 points | Comments)

70. M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1B
    (15 Oct 2018 | 560 points | Comments)

71. DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastructure [pdf]
    (1 Oct 2018 | 546 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
    (1 Oct 2018 | 542 points | Comments)

73. Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coercion by angels and VCs
    (15 Oct 2018 | 540 points | Comments)

74. Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?
    (11 Oct 2018 | 537 points | Comments)

75. Microsoft open sources parts of Minecraft: Java Edition
    (6 Oct 2018 | 536 points | Comments)

76. Unicode Dicks
    (31 Oct 2018 | 536 points | Comments)

77. Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
    (27 Oct 2018 | 535 points | Comments)

78. Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita
    (16 Oct 2018 | 534 points | Comments)

79. IBM’s Old Playbook
    (29 Oct 2018 | 534 points | Comments)

80. Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story
    (19 Oct 2018 | 530 points | Comments)

81. A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
    (26 Oct 2018 | 527 points | Comments)

82. A True Story
    (15 Oct 2018 | 525 points | Comments)

83. 12 Factor CLI Apps
    (9 Oct 2018 | 524 points | Comments)

84. Today Is My Wife’s First Birthday Since She Died
    (8 Oct 2018 | 517 points | Comments)

85. The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40
    (19 Oct 2018 | 516 points | Comments)

86. WebAssembly’s post-MVP future
    (22 Oct 2018 | 512 points | Comments)

87. Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds
    (30 Oct 2018 | 511 points | Comments)

88. Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
    (17 Oct 2018 | 506 points | Comments)

89. End-to-end implementation of a machine learning pipeline (2017)
    (25 Oct 2018 | 504 points | Comments)

90. Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
    (3 Oct 2018 | 502 points | Comments)

91. A Python Library to extract tabular data from PDFs
    (12 Oct 2018 | 501 points | Comments)

92. Introducing Hooks
    (25 Oct 2018 | 501 points | Comments)

93. In Praise of Mediocrity
    (2 Oct 2018 | 500 points | Comments)

94. Who Are My Investors?
    (21 Oct 2018 | 500 points | Comments)

95. Kids’ Apps Are Crammed With Ads
    (30 Oct 2018 | 495 points | Comments)

96. Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research
    (14 Oct 2018 | 491 points | Comments)

97. Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview
    (24 Oct 2018 | 484 points | Comments)

98. InVision has no physical headquarters and all 700 employees work remotely
    (7 Oct 2018 | 482 points | Comments)

99. China May Have $5.8T in Hidden Debt with ‘Titanic’ Risks
    (16 Oct 2018 | 482 points | Comments)

100. Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks
     (3 Oct 2018 | 481 points | Comments)