Hacker News on 2 October 2018

• Coders Automating Their Own Job
• Amazon increases minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour
• Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
• Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology
• In Praise of Mediocrity
• Startups I Want to Fund
• Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
• Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29
• Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”?
• Intel ME Manufacturing Mode: obscured dangers and MacBook vulnerability