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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
1879
2
Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
1697
3
A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it
1480
4
Ad blocking is under attack
1111
5
Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
1080
6
Criticizing Google got me fired
1010
7
Explaining React's license
978
8
I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
937
9
Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
857
10
“Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course on Coursera
848
Top Ask HN
1
What is your favorite CS paper?
793
2
What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?
628
3
Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It?
489
4
Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
488
5
What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?
451
6
Who is hiring? (August 2017)
439
7
What free resources did you use to learn how to program ML/AI?
415
8
Which companies give programmers offices?
312
9
What are your favourite self-hosted tools?
304
10
Website go-live checklist app
274
Top Show HN
1
A stop-motion video of an engine
845
2
Is the stock market going to crash?
813
3
Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists
614
4
The best time to visit any city
395
5
Mathcha – Online Mathematics Editor
358
6
Moon – fast 7k Vue alternative
268
7
Product Graveyard – Commemorating the most memorable dead products
265
8
An interactive guide to compression basics
256
9
Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
254
10
Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome
235
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk
698
2
Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another
598
3
SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside
550
4
Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook
504
5
A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its promises
503
6
Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund
470
7
Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture
400
8
Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox
386
9
The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google
353
10
Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO
307
News [?]
1
Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
1697
2
Criticizing Google got me fired
1010
3
“Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course on Coursera
848
4
Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant
793
5
U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data
779
6
Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
752
7
Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community
664
8
Bitcoin Exchange Had Too Many Bitcoins
620
9
How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
594
10
Let Consumers Sue Companies
576
Scientific publications [?]
1
A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
662
2
Blum: “The proof is wrong. I shall elaborate precisely what the mistake is.”
258
3
Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point
216
4
Proof of Work Without All the Work
208
5
Slight Street Sign Modifications Can Fool Machine Learning Algorithms
194
6
A Brief Survey of Deep Reinforcement Learning
174
7
Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (2010)
169
8
Race to discover Planet Nine using astronomy and new computational techniques
166
9
Text Messages Between Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski
164
10
'Snowdrift' game tops 'Prisoner's Dilemma' in explaining cooperation (2007)
163
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
857
2
Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
684
3
Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
623
4
OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships
510
5
APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning
498
6
Chrome Enterprise
418
7
ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale
393
8
The FCC.gov Website Lets You Upload Malware Using Its Own Public API Key
324
9
Languages Which Almost Became CSS
301
10
64-bit Firefox is the new default on 64-bit Windows
253
Tech blogs [?]
1
Intel Reveals Post-8th Gen. Core Architecture 10nm+ Ice Lake
326
2
Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression
233
3
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review
192
4
Concrete-free washing machines are lighter to transport, just as good in a spin
154
5
EFF Urges Supreme Court to Take on Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance
152
6
Google TPU Performance Analysis
129
7
Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X VPU, Featuring ‘Neural Compute Engine’
125
8
Living on Mars: The Stuff You Never Thought About
123
9
Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby Lake Refresh
121
10
Thai activist jailed under lese majeste laws for sharing an article on Facebook
112
FAANG+ [?]
1
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
113
2
Macie: Automatically Discover, Classify, and Secure Content at Scale
104
3
Conversational Speech Recognition System [pdf]
82
4
Amazon Reviews
76
5
Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs for Windows
53
6
Microsoft Unveils Project Brainwave for Real-Time AI
9
7
Amazon's Lumberyard (CryEngine fork) now available on GitHub
6
8
VMware Cloud on AWS – Now Available
6
9
AWS Glue Now Generally Available
6
10
Microsoft Unveils Project Brainwave for Real-Time AI
6
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm Gramophone records
699
2
The Uber Dilemma
301
3
A ship that flips 90 degrees for precise scientific measurements
257
4
Kim Dotcom Spying Operation Was Illegal, NZ High Court Rules
226
5
Uber's New CEO
214
6
Disney’s Choice
204
7
Galaxy Magazine: Free Texts
196
8
Is America Encouraging the Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurship?
169
9
A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle for Days
160
10
What Sets Successful CEOs Apart
157
Science News [?]
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Why the Brain Needs More Downtime (2013)
436
2
Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?
269
3
Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting
258
4
An ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first evidence of trigonometry
141
5
Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Illuminating Future of LED Lighting
136
6
Dilution of whisky – the molecular perspective
134
7
Increased acidity found in schizophrenia and bipolar patients’ brains
130
8
Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes
123
9
The Art of Teaching Math and Science
120
10
Vast deposits of lithium could change the global politics of battery production
113
Social [?]
1
Malicious crossenv package on npm
578
2
iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from shared URLs
534
3
Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]
314
4
John Carmack on Functional Programming (2013) [video]
258
5
ThyssenKrupp Multi – world’s first rope-free elevator [video]
248
6
Berlin Is Becoming a Sponge City [video]
214
7
Draw.io releases open source desktop versions
184
8
Slack using React Dev Build in Production
181
9
Richard Stallman Explains [video]
181
10
Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services
148
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node API
406
2
My wonderful world of macOS
402
3
Effective Tensorflow
372
4
Learn Regex the Easy Way
323
5
EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown request
261
6
Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin
250
7
New implementation of Git in OCaml
245
8
Passive event listeners
235
9
Black Book of Graphics Programming, Special Edition (1997)
229
10
TypeScripts Type System Is Turing Complete
221
Wikipedia [?]
1
Crown shyness
307
2
Knolling
249
3
Name-letter Effect
165
4
X-Seed 4000
150
5
COVFEFE Act
113
6
The Man Behind AMD's Zen Microarchitecture: Jim Keller
99
7
SDF Public Access Unix System
94
8
United States Camel Corps
70
9
Email Storm
69
10
North American F-82 Twin Mustang
69
Blogs [?]
1
I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity
791
2
I’m 35 and I may suddenly have lost the rest of my life
354
3
Startups should not use React
332
4
Deeplearning.ai: Announcing New Deep Learning Courses on Coursera
331
5
How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2017
310
6
About This Googler's Manifesto
302
7
A history of branch prediction
300
8
Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfortable
287
9
Let’s kill no-reply
233
10
Bitcoin: Evidence of spoofing, wash trading, and a scheme known as ‘Tether’
224
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly (2016)
431
2
How to parse text for a DSL at compile time? (C++)
44
3
RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
15
4
Sorting 1M 8-digit numbers in 1 MB of RAM
8
5
Why do all the C files written by my lecturer start with a #?
5
6
How 0Auth2 Works
3
7
What is randomly replacing Baidu TongJi (Analytics)'s JavaScript code?
2
8
Zip in Clojure
2
9
What is randomly replacing Baidu TongJi (Analytics)'s JavaScript code?
2
10
Can you do a parallel counting sort in O(n/p) time?
2
Substack [?]