HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

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

1798 points by jerryX on Nov 30, 2018 | 487 comments

2.

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

1652 points by daveowei on Nov 27, 2018 | 840 comments

3.

Apple's New Map (justinobeirne.com)

1250 points by joao on Nov 1, 2018 | 365 comments

4.

Story of a failed pentest (threader.app)

1147 points by mariedm on Nov 17, 2018 | 167 comments

5.

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

1034 points by cnorthwood on Nov 26, 2018 | 491 comments

6.

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

959 points by LukeWalsh on Nov 30, 2018 | 290 comments

7.

Thank you to dang and sctb

950 points by sama on Nov 22, 2018 | 123 comments

8.

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

917 points by thisacctforreal on Nov 22, 2018 | 276 comments

9.

Medium is a poor choice for blogging (medium.com)

909 points by rlv-dan on Nov 13, 2018 | 374 comments

10.

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

892 points by ddevault on Nov 15, 2018 | 217 comments

11.

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

855 points by trequartista on Nov 19, 2018 | 459 comments

12.

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

834 points by daegloe on Nov 16, 2018 | 576 comments

13.

GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working from Home (inc.com)

833 points by janvdberg on Nov 13, 2018 | 418 comments

14.

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

816 points by mdelias on Nov 29, 2018 | 516 comments

15.

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

805 points by bennettfeely on Nov 27, 2018 | 724 comments

16.

Build a do-it-yourself home air purifier for about $25 (uofmhealth.org)

801 points by io_io on Nov 13, 2018 | 342 comments

17.

An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake from 1974 (threadreaderapp.com)

791 points by InclinedPlane on Nov 4, 2018 | 252 comments

18.

Big List of Naughty Strings (github.com)

780 points by pmoriarty on Nov 16, 2018 | 146 comments

19.

Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption (status.cloud.google.com)

779 points by rlancer on Nov 11, 2018 | 407 comments

20.

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

777 points by hharnisch on Nov 26, 2018 | 329 comments

21.

Sales mistakes that software engineers make (pipelinedb.com)

777 points by Fergi on Nov 1, 2018 | 201 comments

22.

Infinite procedurally-generated city with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm (marian42.itch.io)

764 points by guessmyname on Nov 13, 2018 | 141 comments

23.

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

760 points by cookingoils on Nov 27, 2018 | 267 comments

24.

How Smart People Sabotage Their Success (hbr.org)

737 points by apress on Nov 15, 2018 | 210 comments

25.

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

734 points by jashkenas on Nov 27, 2018 | 277 comments

26.

Romania orders investigative journalists to disclose sources under GDPR (occrp.org)

723 points by treewhistle on Nov 9, 2018 | 190 comments

27.

Building your color palette (refactoringui.com)

705 points by tnorthcutt on Nov 10, 2018 | 115 comments

28.

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

704 points by itsbenlee on Nov 19, 2018 | 122 comments

29.

Web.dev by Google (web.dev)

699 points by mxschumacher on Nov 12, 2018 | 247 comments

30.

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

697 points by joeyespo on Nov 24, 2018 | 300 comments