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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Get started making music

2106

2

Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack

1981

3

A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

1450

4

Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool

1248

5

Wikimedia Foundation spending

1054

6

Net neutrality is in jeopardy again

928

7

A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss a GPL enforcement case

853

8

CockroachDB 1.0

811

9

Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS

692

10

690

Top Ask HN

1

What's your working day like?

377

2

How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?

340

3

How do you manage SSH keys and SSL certificates in your company?

220

4

Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?

156

5

Who's using Clojure, and to do what?

109

6

Remote Employees Double-Dipping?

70

7

Secure automated backup?

62

8

How much time per week do you spend on side projects?

58

9

Freelance Management Services/Apps

57

10

Freelancing? How's Work?

52

Top Show HN

1

100M Books – Open a new tab, discover a new book

289

2

Insomnia REST Client now open-source

218

3

Howmanypeoplearearound – Use wifi to calculate number of people around

199

4

SQueaLy – Fast track analytics for business

163

5

Gitorials – Tutorials as Git Repos

147

6

Verb Master – A site for practising Spanish verbs

124

7

Ora.pm – New task management service

122

8

I wrote a book about Design Ethics called Tragic Design

113

9

Spotter – Search for copies of videos on the internet

90

10

Compressed directories on Linux

70

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss a GPL enforcement case

853

2

Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules

483

3

Apple Watch can detect arrhythmia with 97% accuracy, study says

342

4

Europe is living under Microsoft’s digital killswitch

322

5

The hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips is worse than anyone thought

208

6

Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit

206

7

Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test their apps on Windows

193

8

Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL

180

9

FCC’s comment system targeted by DDoS during filing period for net neutrality

168

10

Google acquires Owlchemy Labs

167

News [?]

1

Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job

662

2

President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

594

3

Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem

428

4

The great British Brexit robbery

364

5

Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack

322

6

Unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane lands after secret, two-year mission

294

7

Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger problem than corporate taxes

249

8

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City

238

9

How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful

233

10

EPA dismisses half of its scientific advisers on key board

232

Scientific publications [?]

1

Drone Uses AI and 11,500 Crashes to Learn How to Fly

462

2

Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013)

351

3

Computer Games That Teach Assembly Language

306

4

How standard portfolio theory changes when assets are technologies

105

5

Lecture Notes on General Relativity (1997)

105

6

Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching

59

7

Quantum entanglement between a single photon and a trillion rubidium atoms

55

8

Scientists solve 400-year-old mystery of Prince Rupert's drops

41

9

Hacking Android Smartphones with NFC Tags

19

10

Plastics–not simply garbage

18

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Net neutrality is in jeopardy again

928

2

CPU Utilization is Wrong

624

3

Thunderbird’s Future Home

298

4

Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP

266

5

Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll

194

6

How Cloudflare analyzes 1M DNS queries per second

180

7

REST Anti-Patterns (2008)

174

8

Using Ultrasonic Beacons to Track Users

44

9

How Macron just changed cyber security forever

43

10

Introducing Stack Overflow Trends

37

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, users need a way to disable it

56

2

Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, and users need to disable it

19

3

Intel's “Management Engines” are a security hazard; they need an “off” button

15

4

Community Control of Police Spy Tech in Oakland

8

5

EFF on the Government’s Plan for Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communication

6

6

JavaScript Art is in the URL

5

7

EFF Statement on the Troubling Firing of FBI Director Comey

4

8

Leaked: UK's mass spying fantasies (1984?)

4

9

Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, users need a way to disable it

4

10

Intel’s Itanium Takes One Last Breath: Itanium 9700 Series CPUs Released

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Echo Show

390

2

How to shoot on iPhone 7

376

3

Multiple Byte Processing with Full-Word Instructions (1975) [pdf]

31

4

Amazon and Nvidia Announce New Volta-Based GPU

9

5

Amazon Echo Show

5

6

Amazon Alexa Calling and Messaging

4

7

Introducing Echo Show

3

8

Volta is coming to AWS

2

9

Redundant Bit Vectors for Quickly Searching High-Dimensional Regions (2005) [pdf]

2

10

AWS Chatbot Challenge

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

110M-year-old dinosaur discovered with skin and soft tissue

479

2

The Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus

348

3

Gallery of programming UIs

316

4

Authentication Techniques for APIs

257

5

Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay

123

6

Report warns computers may threaten constitutional rights (1982)

113

7

Doodles in the Margins of Medieval Books

69

8

What’s so new about news?

31

9

The Local News Business Model

9

10

How the Cold War led the CIA to promote human capital theory

8

Science News [?]

1

Lake Michigan Is So Clear Its Shipwrecks Are Visible from the Air

193

2

Every neuron potentially has a different genome than those it's connected to

177

3

Researchers Find Gut Bacteria Can Lead to Strokes

153

4

Where have all the insects gone?

149

5

How Heat Kills Cells

83

6

What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest? (2014)

72

7

Can Darwinian Evolution Explain Lamarckism?

65

8

The shock tactics set to shake up immunology

46

9

How number words may have changed us from zeroes to heroes

37

10

The Multiverse as Muse

31

Social [?]

1

A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

1450

2

Fixing a bug in “Airwolf” code from 1984 [video]

250

3

Linear Algebra Done Right Video Series

196

4

600 Watt, 3d-printed, Halbach Array, Brushless DC Electric Motor [video]

147

5

Jonathan Blow “Making Game Programming Less Terrible” Talk Reboot Develop 2017

36

6

Tokyo lowers subway line underground in one night without service disruption

31

7

New Essence of calculus

30

8

What should I use when Duolingo isn't sufficient anymore?

26

9

Stanford adopts JavaScript, drops Java for its intro to CS curriculum

23

10

Myki Security Report – Weekly cyber-security news videos

16

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Kubernetes clusters for the hobbyist

321

2

Interactive Mind Map for learning

293

3

Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer

265

4

Sinatra 2.0 released

259

5

240

6

Quest-driven OpenStreetMap editing for Android

156

7

Reed-Solomon coder computing one million ECC blocks at 1 GB/s

151

8

Vy – A Vim-like in Python made from scratch

129

9

The new ASP.NET Core 2.0 packages can no longer be used on .NET Desktop

124

10

Julia 0.6.0-rc1 new language features

90

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wikimedia Foundation spending

1054

2

Raising of Chicago

10

3

9

4

The 3x and 1 problem

7

5

5

6

Kill them all; let God sort them out.

5

7

Stanford marshmallow experiment

4

8

United States free speech exceptions

4

9

Otoacoustic emission

3

10

Reform of the date of Easter

3

Blogs [?]

1

225

2

Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected

224

3

Startup CTO – Premature Scaling

159

4

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to D3.js

128

5

Scaling Mobile Messaging at Airbnb

78

6

The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data

75

7

A small website mystery

64

8

Diet Drinks are not killing you

60

9

Alexa Calling doesn’t allow any numbers in the phone’s contacts to be blocked

58

10

Automated Machine Learning – A Paradigm Shift Airbnb

58

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?

2

2

Why QWERTY keyboard built this way?

2

3

Nginx “server” directive with multiple “server_name” entries

2

4

JavaScript Closures as a fairy tale

2

5

HashMap Java 8 implementation

2

6

Need answer: How to use Apple's new .p8 certificate for APNs

1

7

Newest 'sql' Questions – Stack Overflow

1

Substack [?]