Dear Hacker: 2018's Top Tech Stories

Dear Hacker: 2018's Top TechStories

David Smooke

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2018 ― WTF !

Our president thinks shutting down the government is cool, our tech leaders act like they own user data & activity, and I’m just working, working, working until the next family member dies. Where is that work life balance in your own life? Cherish it. Ho hum, lets do this! I looked through the top 100 posts by a number of different metrics, and chose the top 20 overall that embody Hacker Noon.

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Hacker Noon’s Top 20 Stories of2018: 20. Everything I Knew About Reading Was Wrong by Johnny [13 minread] 19. An Open Letter to Banks about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies by Peter McCormack [13 minread] 18. The Best Private Search Engines ― Alternatives to Google by Christian Stewart :heavy_check_mark: [6 minread] 17. 50 Big Companies that Started with Little or No Money by Founder Collective [16 minread] 16. How to Run a Blockchain on a Deserted Island with Pen and Paper by Tal Kol [10 minread] 15. Why Angular Made Me Quit Web Dev by Tobias Merkle [10 minread] 14. Understanding What Artificial Intelligence Actually Sees by Nick Bourdakos [6 minread] 13. The Security Token Thesis by Stephen McKeon [16 minread] 12. Google Interview Questions Deconstructed: The Knight’s Dialer by Alex Golec [15 minread] 11. Why is python so slow? by Anthony Shaw [8 minread] 10. How to Lose an IT Job in 10 Minutes by Albino Tonnina [9 minread] 9. My Most Valuable Crypto Market Insights For 2018 and Beyond by Pierre Rognion [18 minread] 8. A tale of Webpack 4 and how to finally configure it in the right way. by Margarita Obraztsova [19 minread] 7. Top 3 most popular programming languages in 2018 (and their annual salaries) by Dr. Michael J. Garbade [4 minread] 6. Why businesses fail at machine learning by Cassie Kozyrkov [6 minread] 5. The Ethereum-blockchain size has exceeded 1TB, and yes, it’s an issue by StopAndDecrypt [21 minread] 4. How to Crush the Crypto Market, Quit Your Job, Move to Paradise and Do Whatever You Want the Rest of Your Life by Daniel Jeffries [25 minread] 3. How to biohack your intelligence ― with everything from sex to modafinil to MDMA by Serge Faguet [48 minread] 2. How I hacked modern Vending Machines by Matteo Pisani [5 minread] 1.