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October 2018 Archive
31.
Hubble is back (nasa.gov)
768 points by perlgeek on Oct 27, 2018 | 117 comments
32.
Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account (eduardogarcia.xyz)
746 points by thewarpaint on Oct 14, 2018 | 151 comments
33.
Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?
733 points by algobuddy on Oct 17, 2018 | 491 comments
34.
My somewhat complete salary history as a software engineer (humanwhocodes.com)
726 points by jodooshi on Oct 31, 2018 | 650 comments
35.
Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
717 points by mirianbert on Oct 15, 2018 | 171 comments
36.
Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem (twitter.com)
714 points by cabraca on Oct 24, 2018 | 198 comments
37.
Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness (triplebyte.com)
712 points by aacook on Oct 18, 2018 | 340 comments
38.
Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack (lightbluetouchpaper.org)
707 points by bellinom on Oct 5, 2018 | 313 comments
39.
Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex” (techcrunch.com)
697 points by laktak on Oct 24, 2018 | 528 comments
40.
JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works (twitter.com)
689 points by firasd on Oct 30, 2018 | 132 comments
41.
More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued (blog.archive.org)
689 points by infodocket on Oct 1, 2018 | 100 comments
42.
The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It (wsj.com)
678 points by sonabinu on Oct 5, 2018 | 413 comments
43.
New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $5k Customs fine (radionz.co.nz)
658 points by petethomas on Oct 1, 2018 | 621 comments
44.
Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects (doxsey.net)
652 points by cdoxsey on Oct 1, 2018 | 329 comments
45.
GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool (techcrunch.com)
642 points by moritzplassnig on Oct 16, 2018 | 145 comments
46.
Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds (gijsk.com)
634 points by arayh on Oct 12, 2018 | 320 comments
47.
Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid (twilio.com)
633 points by coloneltcb on Oct 15, 2018 | 184 comments
48.
Apple Launches Portal for U.S. Users to Download Their Data (bloomberg.com)
625 points by uptown on Oct 17, 2018 | 217 comments
49.
An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s (artsy.net)
621 points by okket on Oct 6, 2018 | 290 comments
50.
PostgreSQL 11 Released (postgresql.org)
621 points by MarkusWinand on Oct 18, 2018 | 161 comments
51.
Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People (bloomberg.com)
616 points by aportnoy on Oct 12, 2018 | 207 comments
52.
How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (twobithistory.org)
614 points by chwolfe on Oct 16, 2018 | 307 comments
53.
Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice (nature.com)
606 points by sohkamyung on Oct 30, 2018 | 300 comments
54.
Do You Really Know CORS? (performantcode.com)
603 points by grzegorz_mirek on Oct 3, 2018 | 124 comments
55.
Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews (theguardian.com)
598 points by sefrost on Oct 20, 2018 | 313 comments
56.
Repair is as important as innovation (economist.com)
598 points by sinak on Oct 18, 2018 | 217 comments
57.
The Periodic Table of Data Structures [pdf] (stratos.seas.harvard.edu)
598 points by asplake on Oct 27, 2018 | 64 comments
58.
Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (lists.gnu.org)
596 points by stargrave on Oct 22, 2018 | 396 comments
59.
Show HN: Websites in 2018 (2018.bloomca.me)
595 points by bloomca on Oct 23, 2018 | 192 comments
60.
Sourcegraph is now open source (about.sourcegraph.com)
594 points by aranw on Oct 1, 2018 | 93 comments