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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
My Family’s Slave
1419
2
Kill Google AMP before it kills the web
969
3
A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month
952
4
AI Playbook
806
5
Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars
719
6
Let them paste passwords
694
7
Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone
652
8
“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story
650
9
Chelsea Manning released from prison
629
10
The Boring Company FAQ
624
Top Ask HN
1
How can I do social good through programming?
461
2
For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?
360
3
Is Hackernews still using the file system as database?
264
4
How to leave a startup when you own a third of it?
202
5
What do you use Machine Learning for?
170
6
Has the HN entry about Sam Altman running for office just been removed?
98
7
Which websites do you visit?
84
8
Is Telegram better than WhatsApp?
83
9
Do you keep a developer diary?
83
10
What's the best way to relearn math?
62
Top Show HN
1
FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-esque queries
341
2
Nginx Sysguard – throttle requests by load, average request time, etc.
161
3
3DC.io – A dead simple cross-platform 3D design tool
161
4
Interactively explore different map projections
109
5
Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac
109
6
Goka – distributed stream processing library for Kafka written in Go
105
7
Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack
103
8
BOOLR, a digital logic simulator
78
9
Genetic Hello World
76
10
Cuckoo Filter in Ruby
74
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Android now supports Kotlin
620
2
Doxing the hero who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb
442
3
Why Amazon is eating the world
417
4
Tagger News takes a subset of HN articles, analyzes using ML, and applies tags
308
5
A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus
301
6
U.S. Senate staff can now use Signal
255
7
The FCC voted to start the process of eliminating net neutrality rules
236
8
Twitter abandons 'Do Not Track' privacy protection
200
9
Access codes for United cockpit doors accidentally posted online
161
10
UploadVR sued over ‘rampant’ sexual behavior in workplace, wrongful termination
130
News [?]
1
My Family’s Slave
1419
2
Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars
719
3
Chelsea Manning released from prison
629
4
Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
538
5
Vancouver bans whales and dolphins at aquarium
378
6
Theresa May to create new internet controlled and regulated by government
347
7
An Indian village addicted to chess
309
8
Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt
287
9
America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
278
10
How Craigslist Makes Money
256
Scientific publications [?]
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Carbonated beverages induce increased food consumption in rats
209
2
Space-Efficient Construction of Compressed Indexes in Deterministic Linear Time
197
3
SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Communications Satellite
174
4
Scientists discover evidence for a habitable region on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
142
5
How RNA formed at the origins of life
94
6
Mathematics of Topological Quantum Computing
66
7
Nano fiber feels forces and hears sounds made by cells
40
8
Fingerprinting SDN controllers
29
9
Self-Driving Electric Cars Will Dominate Roads by 2030
23
10
Swirling swarms of bacteria offer insights on turbulence
12
Dev Blogs [?]
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One Step Closer to a Closed Internet
542
2
A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab
228
3
Working at Netflix 2017
168
4
Google Cloud Prediction API End of Life
119
5
Programmer’s guide to homogeneous coordinates
102
6
Using Deep Learning at Scale in Twitter’s Timelines
62
7
Argo from Cloudflare – featuring Smart Routing and Tiered Cache
62
8
NSA Brute-Force Keysearch Machine
61
9
C++ Error Handling: Why Use Eithers in Favor of Exceptions and Error-Codes
44
10
Office distractions could be costing more than $30k per employee each year
37
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple has started production of iPhone SE in India
99
2
How to Opt Out of Twitter's New Privacy Settings
88
3
Aquantia Launch AQtion 5G/2.5G/1G Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Cards for PCIe
49
4
Apple to Announce New MacBook, MacBook Pro, and Possibly MacBook Air at WWDC
16
5
Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, users need a way to disable it
11
6
Recording Industry Claims Imaginary Value Gap as a Bigger Threat Than Piracy
11
7
No Hunting Undocumented Immigrants with Stingrays
7
8
Car security experts dump all their research and vulnerabilities online
7
9
Secret New European Copyright Proposal Spells Disaster for Free Culture
5
10
Arduino Cinque – The RISC-V, ESP32, WiFi, Bluetooth Arduino
4
FAANG+ [?]
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Transform Data by Example [video]
363
2
P: A programming language for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty
266
3
Top 20 Most Sold and Most Read Books of the Week
236
4
Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter Within Its Headquarters
204
5
EC2 Instances with 4-16 TB of Memory
4
6
AWS Chatbot Challenge
4
7
EC2 Instances with 4 to 16 TB of Memory
3
8
AWS Lambda Support for AWS X-Ray
3
9
AWS HIPAA – Removal of Dedicated Instance Requirement
3
10
Aligning to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework in the AWS Cloud
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
190
2
The Typefaces of W.A. Dwiggins
155
3
ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good
146
4
Plato knew a lot about behavioural economics
144
5
Wannacry About Business Models
84
6
How San Francisco Chronicled Its Own Tech Boom
73
7
How playing Wittgensteinian language-games can set us free
34
8
We need ecstasy and cocaine in place of Prozac and Xanax
33
9
The Rare Archival Photos Behind ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
32
10
VCs’ Conversations: How Differently They Talk About Female Entrepreneurs
15
Science News [?]
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Biology needs more staff scientists
169
2
A Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter
162
3
Physician age and outcomes in elderly patients in hospital in the US
117
4
To Become a Better Investor, Think Like Darwin
116
5
Scientists Achieve Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication
88
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A Defense of the Reality of Time
73
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Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography
52
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Some mother cells kick DNA damage 'down the road' to offspring
37
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Physicists attempt to prove the Riemann hypothesis
27
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The Hidden Sexism of How We Think About Risk
15
Social [?]
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How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]
185
2
WCry 2.0 functions perfectly under Wine
173
3
Notes from an Emergency [video]
85
4
Apple WWDC 2017 Conference Scholarship Recipient Denied Entry to the US
75
5
Avoid These 35 Habits That Lead to Unmaintainable Code
67
6
uBlock vs. uBlock Origin (2015)
49
7
Tour of MIT's Robotics Lab
42
8
It looks like rclone has been banned on Amazon Cloud Drive
28
9
Design by Introspection [video]
23
10
Urbit – So What Are You Building?
18
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Writing correct lock-free and distributed stateful systems in Rust, with TLA+
374
2
WannaCry in-memory key recovery for Windows XP
317
3
Intel AMT Checker for Linux
227
4
Flang – A Fortran compiler targeting LLVM
176
5
Hauberk – A web-based roguelike written in Dart
165
6
Asm-Dom – WebAssembly Virtual DOM
158
7
Haret: A strongly consistent distributed coordination system implemented in Rust
128
8
Tisp: Time is space programming language
106
9
Self-Hosted “SQL-Not-required” Data Analytics and BI Tool. Inspired by Looker
102
10
Language-agnostic schemas based on Haskell's type system
80
Wikipedia [?]
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Chicken tax
75
2
Today Is Norwegian Constitution Day
19
3
FATCA
4
4
Software Archaeology
4
5
Haskell Brooks Curry
2
6
Flak towers: designed by Hitler, 3.5m thick walls, still around
2
7
Harold Hering
2
8
JavaScript Style Sheets
2
9
Game Boy Advance Video
2
10
List of eponymous laws
2
Blogs [?]
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A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month
952
2
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012)
252
3
Why We Are Self-Publishing the Aviary Cookbook
236
4
What Does the Met’s New Online Collection Mean for Art Students?
88
5
Picasso: An open-source visualizer for Convolutional Neural Networks
81
6
Don’t Build a Startup, Build a Business
64
7
Node.js 8.0.0 has been delayed and will ship on or around May 30th
58
8
Go Long on Web Components
56
9
The Collector's Fallacy
53
10
What’s Happening with Me
43
Stackoverflow [?]
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Firebase bandwidth usage growing rapidly even when the database is not in use
6
2
What are vdso and vsyscall?
4
3
How to transform black into any given color using only CSS filters
3
4
How to transform black (#000) into a given color using only CSS filters
2
5
Need help Processing robbery case night time CCTV footage?
1
Substack [?]