top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-10-19

Japan's Hometown Tax

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2018/10/19/japanese-hometown-tax/

7 years ago

847 upvotes – 249 comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-tim-cook-bloomberg-retraction

7 years ago

530 upvotes – 317 comments

The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40

https://mchap.io/that-time-the-city-of-seattle-accidentally-gave-me-32m-emails-for-40-dollars4997.html

7 years ago

516 upvotes – 233 comments

Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/microservices-are-something-you-grow-into-not-begin-with

7 years ago

338 upvotes – 153 comments

Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place

https://afterinterview.com/

7 years ago

306 upvotes – 126 comments

Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years

https://www.winamp.com/

7 years ago

283 upvotes – 135 comments

Hackintosh-KVM Guide: High Sierra+ Using QEMU's I440fx Chipset

https://passthroughpo.st/hackintosh-kvm-guide-high-sierra-using-qemus-i440fx-chipset/

7 years ago

248 upvotes – 95 comments

This Old Lisp

http://thisoldlisp.com/talks/els-2018/

7 years ago

238 upvotes – 106 comments

42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings

https://bigthink.com/how-much-does-cancer-cost-2612936248.html

7 years ago

230 upvotes – 289 comments

Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1396657

7 years ago

229 upvotes – 172 comments

Repair Café

https://repaircafe.org/en/

7 years ago

227 upvotes – 65 comments

Intel 9th Gen Review

https://www.anandtech.com/print/13400/intel-9th-gen-core-i9-9900k-i7-9700k-i5-9600k-review

7 years ago

221 upvotes – 174 comments

Did Facebook’s faulty data push publishers to make terrible decisions on video?

http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/10/did-facebooks-faulty-data-push-news-publishers-to-make-terrible-decisions-on-video/

7 years ago

207 upvotes – 106 comments

Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/10/18/658335490/grandma-was-right-sunshine-helps-kill-germs-indoors

7 years ago

205 upvotes – 183 comments

How the Finnish survive without small talk

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181016-how-the-finnish-survive-without-small-talk

7 years ago

191 upvotes – 199 comments

Ask HN: First month job anxiety. Am I actually an impostor?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257767

7 years ago

187 upvotes – 87 comments

New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry into Net Neutrality Comments

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/technology/net-neutrality-inquiry-comments.html

7 years ago

184 upvotes – 41 comments

Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/church-turing-thesis-cannot-possibly-be-true/

7 years ago

174 upvotes – 147 comments

Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transaction Protocol

https://fauna.com/blog/consistency-without-clocks-faunadb-transaction-protocol

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 101 comments

Brand New ODroid Single Board Computer

https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=32536

7 years ago

171 upvotes – 72 comments
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