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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Please Make Google AMP Optional

1146

2

“Let her speak please”

995

3

Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels

928

4

A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD

752

5

On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs nets a higher return

739

6

$80k/month App Store Scam

716

7

Options vs. Cash

679

8

Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality

625

9

Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys

593

10

List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots

586

Top Ask HN

1

What language-agnostic programming books should I read?

927

2

What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?

609

3

Women in tech, how do you find non-toxic work environments?

459

4

People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: what are you doing now?

314

5

What code samples should programmers read?

310

6

How to not bring emotion from work back home?

268

7

Why does visual programming suck?

212

8

Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN?

207

9

How can I experience SF and Silicon Valley in two weeks?

197

10

How do I earn money as a teenage programmer?

189

Top Show HN

1

Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

1097

2

Search engine for lectures

200

3

Retool: Excel-like, with higher order primitives

190

4

A Browser-based Blockchain

186

5

A password manager using Keybase for encryption and storage

172

6

Welder – set up your Linux server with plain shell scripts

158

7

Neural Japanese Transliteration

115

8

L2: An elegant untyped, unsafe, unhygienic programming language

83

9

Bender – a Deep Learning framework for iOS

81

10

Cell.js – A Self-constructing web app framework

70

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari

517

2

YC will accept 10k new companies into its new online Startup School

334

3

Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 emulation is a patent minefield

327

4

Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M

278

5

How hackers abused satellites to stay under the radar (2015)

232

6

Malware Uses Obscure Intel CPU Feature to Steal Data and Avoid Firewalls

198

7

Apple Announces macOS High Sierra

169

8

Apple enters the augmented reality fray with ARKit for iOS

169

9

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is developing border surveillance technology

163

10

PCIe 4.0 will be twice as fast as today's slots

139

News [?]

1

Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels

928

2

SoftBank Agrees to Buy Boston Dynamics From Alphabet

566

3

Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard

525

4

In 1957, Five Men Agreed to Stand Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb (2012)

498

5

WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Results

469

6

Jean Sammet, co-creator of COBOL, has died

429

7

Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills

396

8

Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe

394

9

Pirate Joe’s, Maverick Distributor of Trader Joe’s Products, Shuts Down

374

10

The Benefits of Talking to Yourself

349

Scientific publications [?]

1

Fractal planting patterns yield optimal harvests, without central control

255

2

Self-Normalizing Neural Networks

219

3

Nasa Aeronautics Book Series (2015)

188

4

Relational Reasoning with Neural Networks

137

5

Scalable and Sustainable Deep Learning via Randomized Hashing

92

6

Incredible free ebooks from NASA (kindle ready and more)

48

7

NASA picks 12 new astronauts from crush of applicants

21

8

Neutrino discovery–a step closer to finding charge-parity violation

18

9

SoftBank Acquires Boston Dynamics and Schaft

9

10

WOW mystery signal from space finally explained

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality

625

2

295

3

The future of MDN: a focus on web docs

294

4

Core ML: Integrate machine learning models into your app

171

5

Human Interface Guidelines

165

6

Google Cloud Public Datasets now hosts EPA and OpenAQ air quality data

115

7

ARM Pointer Authentication

106

8

103

9

Software Engineer to SaaS Founder

85

10

A formal kernel memory-ordering model

78

Tech blogs [?]

1

List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots

586

2

Comcast Has Always Opposed Internet Freedom

245

3

Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"

194

4

Ninth Circuit Sends a Message to Platforms: Use a Moderator, Go to Trial

16

5

Apple releasing ARKit for iOS

11

6

NSA Reneges on Promise to Tell Congress How Many Innocent Americans It Spies On

6

7

With New Browser Tech, Apple Preserves Privacy and Google Preserves Trackers

4

8

Apple launches AR kit the world's largest AR platform

4

9

EFF Sues DOJ for Records on Procedures for Ending NSL Gag Orders

4

10

EFF and Broad Coalition Call for Day of Action to Defend Net Neutrality

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan

352

2

269

3

121

4

Apple Events – WWDC Keynote, June 2017 [video]

88

5

53

6

Surface Hub, by Microsoft

29

7

Boogie: An Intermediate Verification Language

13

8

12

9

iOS 11 – Apple

6

10

OpenStreetMap Public Data Set Now Available on AWS

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How a Fake Typhus Epidemic Saved a Polish City From the Nazis

109

2

The truth about tarot

40

3

How WebKit Works (2012) [slides]

29

4

Inside the Magic Library at the Conjuring Arts Research Center

28

5

Certified Pre-owned Teslas for Less Than $40K USD

23

6

A Modern Movement to Exonerate a Medieval Serial Killer

22

7

Edison, Clarence Dally, and the Hidden Perils of X-Rays (1903)

22

8

Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect Its Anti-Piracy Tool

13

9

Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect Its Anti-Piracy Tool

9

10

A truck intentionally ran over 4 people at a Tesla event in a Detroit

9

Science News [?]

1

Mathematicians looking to make elections in the US more representative

155

2

Mice fed a time-restricted, high-fat diet show reduced metabolic disease (2012)

123

3

Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On

95

4

The transgenic petunia carnage of 2017

86

5

The contest between gravity and quantum physics takes a new turn (2015)

67

6

Einstein’s Relativity Used to Weigh a Star

58

7

Economic Inequality Is Worse Than We Think (2015)

53

8

Snake oil can be beneficial for arthritis and other conditions (2007)

46

9

Why Climate Skeptics Are Wrong

36

10

Traffic Wouldn’t Jam If Drivers Behaved Like Ants (2016)

33

Social [?]

1

“Let her speak please”

995

2

iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users

458

3

Dasung Paperlike Pro: E-Ink Monitor with HDMI connector [video]

143

4

I have $12M in Bitcoin I want to give away

63

5

Microdots in the Intercept NSA leaks expose printer serial and timestamp

48

6

Netflix: Container Scheduling, Execution and Integration with AWS (2016) [video]

44

7

The Great Suspender developer account hacked, extension pulled from Chrome Store

43

8

History of the entire world, i guess [video]

34

9

BALLU: Buoyancy Assisted Lightweight Legged Unit (2016) [video]

30

10

Building a Better Web Browser (2015) [video]

20

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language

483

2

Kubernetes Production Patterns and Anti-Patterns

343

3

Comdb2 – Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS under Apache 2

240

4

Best websites a programmer should visit

210

5

PG-Strom: SSD-To-GPU Direct SQL Execution

124

6

A curated list of design systems, pattern libraries, and more

108

7

Foundations of deep learning

101

8

Quantum Simulations with Julia

74

9

VaderSharp – Sentiment analysis using Vader with C#

67

10

Game Boy emulator for TempleOS

66

Wikipedia [?]

1

356

2

68

3

Frank Oppenheimer's blacklisting led to the Exploratorium

13

4

Wikipedia's lead sentence problem

9

5

6

6

4

7

3

8

Non-English-based programming languages

3

9

One-time pad – encryption that cannot be cracked

3

10

Naturalistic Fallacy

3

Blogs [?]

1

$80k/month App Store Scam

716

2

Options vs. Cash

679

3

SecureLogin Authentication Protocol 1.0

243

4

What Amazon Teaches Us About AI and the “Jobless Future”

140

5

How we grew ThemeIsle into a $50k per month business

121

6

Async IO on Linux: select, poll, and epoll

103

7

Code boilerplate: Is it always bad?

88

8

Playing with my son (2014)

76

9

Homehero is shutting down

67

10

Iptables Basics

43

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Can a thumbnail be set when playing audio from Safari?

1

2

On GitHub, what's the difference between reviewer and assignee?

1

Substack [?]