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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Indie Hackers: Learn how developers are making money

971

2

Zero-cost futures in Rust

930

3

This JPEG is also a webpage

833

4

Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

649

5

Hello from Orkut

643

6

Everyone is quitting

599

7

What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists

563

8

“I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body”

536

9

I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation

494

10

Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum

483

Top Ask HN

1

How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

406

2

What book have you given as a gift?

360

3

What are good reads for designing APIs?

319

4

8 years working, now 3-4 months off to learn. Looking for advice

218

5

What book impacted your life the most and how?

120

6

Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos from Facebook?

110

7

Technology stall

100

8

Chances for mature newbie

74

9

How much job hopping is acceptable?

68

10

Do employers care how long it took you to finish a degree?

61

Top Show HN

1

Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration

1004

2

Give 7B people an instant physical address

415

3

Gping.io – Like TinyURL for your car

184

4

Cuckoo Filter Implementation in Go, Better Than Bloom Filters

181

5

Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat

160

6

Book about writing web apps in Go without a framework

158

7

Set of trained deep learning models for computer vision

127

8

Knuckleball – An in-memory data structure server

100

9

100

10

Publish blog post with a simple Git push

96

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers

479

2

Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars

435

3

Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash

429

4

Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years

357

5

AI’s Language Problem

309

6

Amazon launches Prime Air, its own dedicated cargo planes to speed delivery

277

7

Carnegie Mellon’s Mayhem AI Wins DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge

166

8

FCC loses court battle to let cities build their own broadband

145

9

How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead

122

10

Backyard telescopes and amateur eyes see where “pro” astronomers can’t

109

News [?]

1

How the Arab World Came Apart

306

2

Sheriff Raids House to Find Anonymous Blogger Who Called Him Corrupt

299

3

Google Outpaces Facebook on Getting India Connected to Internet

262

4

Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users

241

5

Trial by Jury, a Hallowed American Right, Is Vanishing

215

6

WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder

199

7

We’re in a Low-Growth World. How Did We Get Here?

180

8

The fight to cheat death is heating up

175

9

Airbnb Files to Raise $850M at $30B Valuation

169

10

Five languages that came from English

159

Scientific publications [?]

1

MIT and DARPA Pack Lidar Sensor onto Single Chip

261

2

DeepRegex: Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language

145

3

Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (2000)

98

4

Scientists discover light could exist in a previously unknown form

26

5

Gravity in the Quantum Lab

22

6

Bitcoin not money, judge rules in victory for backers

20

7

Unethical Research: How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence

9

8

KIC 8462852 Faded Throughout the Kepler Mission

6

9

NASA HDR Slow-Motion Rocket Plume Footage

6

10

Scientists discover light could exist in a previously unknown form

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation

494

2

Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects

441

3

Frequent Password Changes Is a Bad Security Idea

130

4

GDB Debugging Full Example: Ncurses

97

5

Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Found to Be Very Unsafe and Will Likely Require a Rewrite

87

6

The DAO Hacker Is Getting Away

64

7

Data Breach at Oracle’s MICROS Point-Of-Sale Division

7

8

Deep Learning Chip Upstart Takes GPUs to Task

6

9

Philip Wadler: Category Theory for the Working Hacker

6

10

Deep Learning Chip Upstart Takes GPUs to Task

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Meccano Differential Analyzer

47

2

Qualcomm Firmware Vulnerabilities Expose 900M Devices

34

3

The First Evil Maid-Proof Computer

16

4

Lessons in Small Scale Manufacturing from the Othermill Shop Floor

13

5

DRM: You have the right to know what you're buying

10

6

California Court Asserts Jurisdiction Over Non-Resident Internet Publisher

3

7

3

8

FCC Settlement Requires TP-Link to Support 3rd-Party Firmware

3

9

Malware Linked to Kazakhstan Gov Targets Journalists, Activists, Lawyers

2

10

Editor Wars: The Revenge of Vim

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Application Load Balancer

371

2

IPv6 Support for Amazon S3

153

3

Usage Plans for AWS API Gateway

47

4

New Update to the Microsoft Services Agreement

43

5

Introducing Amazon One

35

6

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Update

30

7

Process Streaming Data in Real Time with SQL

18

8

New – AWS Application Load Balancer

14

9

New AWS Application Load Balancer

4

10

Powerful AWS Platform Features, Now for Containers

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists

563

2

Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine Says Farewell

385

3

Software Library: Amiga

243

4

Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women

221

5

Fear and Loathing in Linux, or Who Needs /etc/motd (2010)

137

6

The Miracle of the Modern Banana

72

7

America's First Medal at the Nazi Olympics Was for Town Planning

70

8

'Library Anxiety' and What Librarians Do to Help

45

9

Tesla Autopilot 2.0: next gen Autopilot powered by more radar, new triple camera

25

10

Torrentz Gone, KAT Down, Are Torrent Giants Doomed to Fall?

13

Science News [?]

1

Tabby's star is dimming at an incredible rate

375

2

New “Leaf” Is More Efficient Than Natural Photosynthesis

336

3

What No New Particles Means for Physics

189

4

Greenland shark found to be at least 272 years old

151

5

The brain's reward circuitry regulates immunity

136

6

A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature: Ball Lightning

107

7

Beyond CRISPR: A guide to the many other ways to edit a genome

106

8

New Measurement Deepens Proton Puzzle

101

9

Trans-Neptunian object discovered in the outer solar system

88

10

The bandwidth bottleneck that is throttling the Internet

60

Social [?]

1

“Please note, the hashtag is for our paying advertisers”

160

2

AMA: We Are the Google Brain Team

130

3

My Airbnb Nightmare Reality

45

4

Essence of linear algebra – YouTube video series by 3Blue1Brown

37

5

Philips Hue app disables light control until users accept updated firmware, T&Cs

24

6

24

7

OpenBSD just added initial support for the RaspberryPi 2 and 3 devices

19

8

New California digital currency bill requires $5k license to run a Bitcoin node

18

9

Yelp CEO Accuses Google of Manipulating Search Results

17

10

Write Modern Asynchronous JavaScript Using Promises, Generators, and Coroutines

16

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Fuchsia, a new operating system

384

2

The Linux kernel hidden inside Windows 10

333

3

Top Deep Learning Projects

217

4

React Fiber Architecture

162

5

Hitchhiker trees: functional, persistent, off-heap sorted maps

150

6

Cjdns: a secure non-anonymous P2P network

135

7

Can NAT traversal be Tor's killer feature? (2014)

117

8

Bubblewrap: Unprivileged sandboxing tool

91

9

Implementation of various string similarity and distance algorithms in Java

88

10

RDL: a lightweight system for adding contracts to Ruby

81

Wikipedia [?]

1

79

2

Western Union Splice

4

3

List of all 27 seasons of How It's Made episodes

3

4

3

5

List of TCP and UDP Port Numbers

3

6

List of films considered the best

3

7

ATLAS-I (EMP generator)

2

8

2

9

List of cognitive biases

2

10

Old school: x86 task state segments

2

Blogs [?]

1

How does gdb work?

320

2

What are Bloom filters? (2015)

202

3

The meeting that showed me the truth about VCs

127

4

Notes on concurrency bugs

103

5

A Letter to My Daughter About Young Men

65

6

I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory And You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

39

7

I Peeked into My Node_Modules Directory and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

31

8

The Meeting That Showed Me the Truth about VC’s and How They Don’t Make Money

30

9

Letter of Resignation from the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission

23

10

Letter of Resignation from the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission

21

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Can you add noise to a CSS gradient?

2

2

How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using cURL in PHP? (2013)

2

3

How to Detect Adblock on Your Site?

1

4

1

5

[2012] Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?

1

Substack [?]