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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?

1494

2

Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US

1124

3

Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

1080

4

USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources

1044

5

Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework

851

6

Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser

824

7

A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator

773

8

Whistleblower uncovers London police hacking of journalists and protestors

764

9

System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house

617

10

CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS

572

Top Ask HN

1

Best business advice for software developers

847

2

Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?

451

3

How to actually “talk to your customers”?

291

4

What are the most important problems in your industry?

191

5

How do you unwind at the end of a day?

103

6

What book is considered the bible of your field/industry?

93

7

How has Facebook figured out my family doctor as a friend suggestion?

76

8

What distributed storage technology are you using?

71

9

Books Like 'Calculus Made Easy'?

61

10

Taking a junior SWE job at around 7 years?

51

Top Show HN

1

Zuck.js, a JavaScript library that lets you add Stories everywhere

339

2

Audioshop – Audio image editing

285

3

'Hack' the user cursor

267

4

My RIP Goodbye to my Co-Founder Carlos Icaza

261

5

Visual Studio Code for ARM, submitted to core

236

6

TorrentPeek – Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite

184

7

WrapAPI v2 – Build APIs, scrapers, bots on any website

166

8

Webhook – A lightweight configurable tool written in Go

144

9

Recursive DNS Server Fingerprint

120

10

Securely Handle Encryption Keys in Go

119

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework

851

2

Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do

259

3

Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center

171

4

We Need More Alternatives to Facebook

155

5

Google plans to reach a Quantum Computing milestone before the year is out

147

6

Uber's VP of global vehicle programs is out

144

7

Steve Jobs’ custom Apple I and other historic machines are on display in Seattle

133

8

Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foundations

132

9

Big publishers are fleeing from Facebook's Instant Articles

131

10

A big patch of plastic garbage has been discovered in the Arctic

117

News [?]

1

Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US

1124

2

Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser

824

3

For First Time Since 1800s, Britain Goes a Day Without Burning Coal for Power

558

4

How to Raise a Creative Child – Step One: Back Off (2016)

517

5

The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people

453

6

H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms

421

7

Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)

420

8

Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap

341

9

How the Airlines Became Cartels

311

10

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria: The Tragedy of Google Books

310

Scientific publications [?]

1

Velodyne Announces a Solid-State Lidar

189

2

Physicists demonstrate new way to violate local causality

95

3

Building a Completely Reversible Computer

90

4

Beating Atari with Natural Language Guided Reinforcement Learning [pdf]

82

5

Total Solar Eclipse 2017: When, Where and How to See It

4

6

Redshirts Aren't Likeliest to Die – And Other 'Star Trek' Math Lessons

3

7

MobileNets: Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision

3

8

Naked mole-rats turn into plants when oxygen is low

3

9

Dental Caries Vaccine – A Possible Option? (2013)

3

10

Three Computer Games That Make Assembly Language Fun

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

What programming languages are used late at night?

424

2

Google Home now supports multiple users

123

3

Intel Shuts Down Lustre File System Business

108

4

Tracing Spam: Diet Pills from Beltway Bandits

19

5

Introducing SSL for SaaS

16

6

Russian debian developer arrested

12

7

I spent all of my millions. This is what I learned

8

8

Wootric: Analyzing customer feedback using machine learning

8

9

5 things I learned as an Android developer after doing some Web development

6

10

FPGAs to Shake Up Stodgy Relational Databases

6

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cancelled

219

2

You think you can't be phished?

192

3

Building a simple e-ink display from scratch

145

4

The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D XPoint Performance

134

5

The AMD Radeon RX 580 and RX 570 Review

55

6

Hollow Privacy Promises from Major Internet Service Providers

5

7

Apple Autonomous Driving Training Program Confirms Self-Driving Software

3

8

Apple releases finally a new bug reporter (in beta)

3

9

Microsoft releases Wunderlist replacement To-Do; iPhone today, Mac/iPad soon

2

10

New Part Day: Very Cheap LIDAR

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS

572

2

Support for tagging of Lambda functions and for the Python 3.6 runtime

183

3

Redshift Spectrum – Exabyte-Scale In-Place Queries of S3 Data

157

4

Hints for Computer System Design (1983) [pdf]

68

5

X-Ray Update – General Availability, Including Lambda Integration

44

6

Querying OpenStreetMap with Amazon Athena

40

7

AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.6

32

8

14

9

EC2 Instances with FPGAs Now Generally Available

8

10

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

8

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly

304

2

I Joined Airbnb at 52, Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and Tech Industry

228

3

Sega Mega Drive / Genesis Hardware Notes

163

4

The Embarrassing History of Crap Thrown into Yellowstone’s Geysers

151

5

The Forged ‘Ancient’ Statues That Fooled the Met’s Art Experts for Decades

70

6

What makes a genius?

55

7

Pirate Bay Founder Launches Anonymous Domain Registration Service

35

8

How Humans Are Shaping Our Own Evolution

26

9

Tesla voluntarily recalls 53,000 cars due to faulty parking brakes from supplier

18

10

Pirate Bay Founder Launches Anonymous Domain Registration Service

12

Science News [?]

1

We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2

255

2

A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery

217

3

Deep Patient Predicts Patients Future from Health Records

144

4

Mice treated with a protein from umbilical cord plasma showed improved memory

139

5

How gut bacteria change cancer drug activity

98

6

The Deep Space of Digital Reading

78

7

The Kekulé Problem

74

8

New method for 3-D printing extraterrestrial materials

42

9

Did Spellbound Show Us the Power or the Myth of the American Dream?

34

10

Medieval medical books could hold the recipe for new antibiotics

25

Social [?]

1

John Carmack reviews VR app “Just Relax”

107

2

Sam Altman at the Family, Paris [video]

99

3

“Millennial savages me on Glassdoor for giving constructive feedback”

47

4

EEVblog's new YouTube channel inexplicably banned

39

5

“Hey Google, we’re trying to find a few of our friends Can you help us?”

16

6

Video: Neo4j's Engineering Evolution: Graph Layer on RDBMS – Native Graph DB

11

7

Jonathan Blow “Making Game Programming Less Terrible” Talk [video]

11

8

Hitler's frustration with Using Docker for everything

9

9

Webinar: Step into the world of microservices using Node.js

7

10

72M Req/h for $0.05 on a Packet Host with a Hyper Webserver (Rust)

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components

571

2

Rope Science – Computer science concepts behind the Xi editor

421

3

The Fuck – An app which corrects your previous console command

287

4

Serde 1.0.0 for Rust released

273

5

React-Move – Animate anything in React

255

6

Image-to-image translation in PyTorch

244

7

Solid – Re-decentralizing the web

224

8

PX8 – A PICO-8 compatible fantasy console written in Rust

207

9

Multilingual word vectors in 78 languages

205

10

Why-did-you-update – Warnings about unnecessary React updates

163

Wikipedia [?]

1

Frog galvanoscope

11

2

Landauer's principle

10

3

10

4

9

5

Tarski's high school algebra problem

6

6

RIP Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 16 April 2017)

4

7

3

8

Cat burning in the middle ages

3

9

Ninety-ninety rule

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address

308

2

Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago Tribune’s posts

215

3

Cache eviction: when are randomized algorithms better than LRU? (2014)

192

4

An experienced Javascript developer’s account of learning React

170

5

Why functional programming matters

145

6

Putting GPUs to work with Kubernetes

133

7

How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural language analysis

117

8

Understanding Homoiconicity through Clojure macros

77

9

WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum: “Most of startup ideas are absolutely stupid”

57

10

Juicero's CEO responds

56

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Creating a memory leak with Java

174

2

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex

2

3

How does Python's super() work with multiple inheritance?

2

4

Is it safe to assume a GUID will always be unique?

1

5

Invalidating JWT tokens

1

6

How does PHP foreach work

1

Substack [?]