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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
1401
2
How SSH got port number 22
1034
3
Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
850
4
The Boring Company [video]
836
5
Painting with Code: Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app
787
6
If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it
762
7
Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative to Mailgun or Sendgrid
715
8
Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be successful in a job
693
9
India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste
687
10
Robert M. Pirsig has died
655
Top Ask HN
1
How did you acquire your first 100 users?
486
2
How do you keep improving?
301
3
How did you grow from 100 to 1,000 users?
209
4
How has volunteering helped you grow?
192
5
Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable drone?
143
6
Best practices for log format?
137
7
Alternatives to Vagrant for development environments?
135
8
What's the best way to learn about testing/TDD?
71
9
What project can I start in my free time to make some side-cash?
71
10
How do you define DevOps and is it dead?
69
Top Show HN
1
Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego
1264
2
An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
305
3
Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking
264
4
Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-free alternative to Disqus
233
5
Pygit – Just enough git to push itself to GitHub
208
6
Play multiplayer and singleplayer NES games online
196
7
Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
179
8
BreakLock – A hybrid of Mastermind and the Android pattern lock
139
9
Get colour palettes from pictures
132
10
Cheaper flights when flying multiple destinations by route optimisation
120
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Robinhood stock trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation
450
2
Uber gets sued over alleged ‘Hell’ program to track Lyft drivers
426
3
Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies lead amid legal fight
397
4
States are moving to cut college costs by introducing open-source textbooks
314
5
A vigilante trying to improve IoT security
303
6
Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo
297
7
Apple cuts App Store affiliate commission from 7% to 2.5%
293
8
LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how
269
9
How Yahoo Killed Flickr (2012)
238
10
An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep
226
News [?]
1
Robert M. Pirsig has died
655
2
Uber CEO Plays with Fire
559
3
Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress
468
4
Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies
417
5
Getting Closer to Mass Production of Bones, Organs, and Implants
335
6
Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
323
7
Exercise 'keeps the mind sharp' in over-50s, study finds
317
8
The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules
299
9
The Arctic as it is known today is almost certainly gone
257
10
New Bridges Rise in New York
232
Scientific publications [?]
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Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution
597
2
NASA Image Shows Earth Between the Rings of Saturn
272
3
Enhancement of human color vision by breaking the binocular redundancy
229
4
El Salvador bans metal mining in world first
205
5
Things learned from Anthony Levandowski's deposition in Waymo vs. Uber
185
6
How brains are built: Principles of computational neuroscience
144
7
NASA Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings
134
8
A Large Self-Annotated Corpus for Sarcasm
105
9
HPTT: A High-Performance Tensor Transposition C++ Library
94
10
Consciousness as a State of Matter (2014)
76
Dev Blogs [?]
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How to talk about yourself in a developer interview
441
2
Setting Up HTTP(S) Load Balancing – WebSocket proxy support
224
3
Debian 9 not including support for UEFI Secure Boot
130
4
A Trillion Edge Graph on a Single Commodity Node
116
5
Pushing a Trillion Row Database with GPU Acceleration
83
6
LinkedIn’s new UI proves it doesn’t know it’s value to users
64
7
Behind Carder Kingpin Roman Seleznev’s Record 27 Year Sentence
63
8
Introducing Cloudflare Orbit: A Private Network for IoT Devices
60
9
New approaches to network fast paths
41
10
Our latest quality improvements for Search
30
Tech blogs [?]
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Access Now and EFF Condemn the Arrest of Tor Node Operator Dmitry Bogatov
154
2
The Intel Optane Memory (SSD) Preview: 32GB of Kaby Lake Caching
87
3
The FCC Wants to Eliminate Net Neutrality Protections. We Can't Let That Happen
68
4
Air-Powered Wheelchair Goes Like the Wind
20
5
FCC Announces Plan to Abandon Net Neutrality and ISP Privacy
11
6
Apple Asks California DMV to Make Changes to Autonomous Vehicle Testing Policies
10
7
FCC Chairman Pai's Network Neutrality Plan Unworkable
8
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Another Lawsuit Tries to Force an ISP into Being a Copyright Cop
5
9
Tim Cook Threatened to Remove Uber App Over iPhone Tagging Tactics
4
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Skylake-SP Xeon Moving from E7/E5 Naming to Xeon Gold and Xeon Platinum
4
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Echo Look
252
2
AWS Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility: Preview now open to all
5
3
Amazon Echo Look – An eye into your bedroom
4
4
Patterns in Network Architecture
3
5
Amazon Echo Look
3
6
AWS Storage Gateway – Hybrid Cloud Storage
3
7
Deep Learning for Program Synthesis
2
8
Manage Aurora / MySQL Users via IAM
2
9
“Today at Apple” bringing new experiences to every Apple Store
2
10
Apple launches new in-store educational sessions
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The legend of the Legion
88
2
BitTorrent Inventor Bram Cohen Will Start His Own Cryptocurrency
82
3
The First Wave of Corporate AI Is Doomed to Fail
39
4
Quantum cryptography is unbreakable. So is human ingenuity
31
5
Hackers Leak Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, Season 5
25
6
Fear of a White Lighter
22
7
Tesla owner asks $1m in Model X fiery crash with Falcon Wing doors not opening
20
8
Buddhism can be as violent as any other religion
17
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Ebook Library Punishes Anti-Piracy Outfit for Wrongful DMCA Notices
14
10
Make Your Enemies Your Allies (HBR,2012)
13
Science News [?]
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Teller Reveals His Secrets (2012)
470
2
The Grim Biology of Being Poor
302
3
NASA's Peer-Reviewed EM Drive Paper Has Finally Been Published
177
4
An extra-uterine system to physiologically support the extreme premature lamb
143
5
Patients with drug-resistant malaria cured by plant therapy
39
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Perception: Our useful inability to see reality: Nature: Nature Research
26
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Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets
26
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Grand-maternal smoking in pregnancy and grandchild's autistic traits
17
9
Why do we have blood types?
13
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3-D printing offers new approach to making buildings
8
Social [?]
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Is it really “Complex”? Or did we make it “Complicated”? (2014) [video]
185
2
How to mod a Porsche 911 to run Doom [video]
101
3
Amazon's HTML code has a DUCK that says MEOW (2016)
28
4
Indian army man learns to code at age of 65 and now have 110 customers
23
5
The Boring Company – Elon Musk's Next Project's Vision for Future Cities
17
6
Mesosphere's VP of Eng. Tal Broda interviews Prof. Randy Katz, creator of RAID
14
7
Jack buys 574,002 more TWTR shares: 1m total in 2017
14
8
Donald Knuth at a March for Science
10
9
Jonathan Blow: “Making Game Programming Less Terrible” [video]
9
10
Move Mars to the habitable zone and turn it into another Earth? Sure.[video]
8
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative to Mailgun or Sendgrid
715
2
Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python
247
3
Go programming language secure coding practices guide
225
4
Tiny Linux distro that runs the entire OS as Docker containers
219
5
GitPitch – Markdown Presentations for Devs on GitHub and GitLab
208
6
VK9: Direct3D 9 compatibility layer using Vulkan
205
7
Rust for Clojurists
151
8
Rooby: a Ruby-like object oriented language written in Go
122
9
CoreFreq – CPU monitoring for 64-bit processors
120
10
OfflineIMAP: sync and backup tool for IMAP
117
Wikipedia [?]
1
Nontransitive dice
194
2
Limits of computation
121
3
Curse of knowledge
92
4
FRACTRAN
82
5
Fairfax, California B-17 Crash in 1946
28
6
Information cascade
22
7
Hashiwokakero puzzle
4
8
Goiânia accident
3
9
List of Software Bugs
3
10
Π-calculus
3
Blogs [?]
1
If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it
762
2
A critique of trends in tech
473
3
Should I buy ECC memory? (2015)
300
4
Why don't schools teach debugging? (2014)
276
5
A response to “An experienced JavaScript dev’s account of learning React”
216
6
A dive into spatial search algorithms
172
7
Formal Methods in Practice: Using TLA+ at ESpark
152
8
How Google Could Collapse
82
9
No feigning surprise
82
10
Rethinking Design Tools in the Age of Machine Learning
79
Stackoverflow [?]
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Shared Libraries: Windows vs. Linux
3
2
Is there a public API for card view UI that can be seen across iOS 10?
2
3
How to eliminate stack overflow error even after allocating a large stack size?
2
4
Why is treated so strangely in Swift strings?
2
5
Is there a way to find out which Python method can raise which Exception
2
6
Why are emoji characters treated so strangely in Swift strings?
2
7
Why bundle optimizations are no longer a concern in HTTP/2
1
Substack [?]