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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.

2119

2

Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

944

3

Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads

903

4

Georgia Tech's free math textbook collective

834

5

After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

776

6

Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens

776

7

Your own company? You can do it (2011)

701

8

Teller – API for your bank account

609

9

Debian 9 Stretch released

595

10

My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won

588

Top Ask HN

1

What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?

352

2

Passive income ideas for solo developers?

254

3

How was your experience with AWS Lambda in production?

215

4

Who's running a profitable newsletter?

187

5

What was it like to quit your job and focus on your successful startup?

162

6

Assistive Devices for recently quadriplegic dad

158

7

How secure is the encryption offered by OS X's Disk Utility?

98

8

What has happened to YC's residential development research project?

97

9

What personal finance advice would you give your 25yo self ?

93

10

How to manage my bookmarking habit?

87

Top Show HN

1

Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to modern JS

361

2

Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units

354

3

Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

328

4

Algorithm Cookbook in Rust

320

5

Copyfish – Extract text from images, videos or PDF

292

6

NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

286

7

3D Packing for 3D Printing

260

8

GoldenLayout – build multi-screen webapps

201

9

Crown – A flexible game engine written from scratch in C++

193

10

Fast C-based HTML 5 parsing for Python

169

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy

538

2

Comcast accused of cutting competitor’s wires to put it out of business

499

3

Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality

355

4

Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-sports events

230

5

Waymo filing says Travis Kalanick knew engineer had Google info

226

6

Etsy slashes almost a quarter of its staff

213

7

Female founders accuse VC Justin Caldbeck of making unwanted advances

203

8

How FireWire came to market and ultimately fell out of favor

189

9

Cable lobby tries to stop state investigations into slow broadband speeds

186

10

An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard

154

News [?]

1

Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.

2119

2

Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads

903

3

Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens

776

4

A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For'

400

5

How to Call B.S. On Big Data: A Practical Guide

360

6

14 People Make 500K Tons of Steel a Year in Austria

303

7

Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook

299

8

Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule

288

9

Crony capitalism may be cannibalizing productive capitalism in the U.S.

245

10

My Father, in Four Visits Over Thirty Years

223

Scientific publications [?]

1

Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids

224

2

Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor

223

3

How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died (2009)

115

4

NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates

65

5

On the time lags of the LIGO signals

65

6

Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers

56

7

New catalyst paves way for carbon neutral fuel

41

8

Capacity and Trainability in Recurrent Neural Networks

41

9

Shut Up About the Batteries: The Key to a Better Electric Car Is a Lighter Motor

40

10

NASA Systems Engineering Handbook [pdf]

33

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How to use BeyondCorp to ditch VPN, improve security and go to the cloud

441

2

Google Jobs Search

406

3

Connect: behind the front-end experience

273

4

Mozilla and NSF offer $2M prize to decentralize the web

255

5

Why So Many Top Hackers Hail from Russia

142

6

Four steps we’re taking today to fight online terror

111

7

88

8

Digital security and due process: A new legal framework for the cloud era

72

9

The PMCs of EC2: Measuring IPC

60

10

How to Bootstrap Your SaaS Company to $1M ARR Before Raising Venture Capital

55

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD's Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched and EPYC Analysis

365

2

Intel discontinues Joule, Galileo, and Edison product lines

360

3

Help EFF Track the Progress of AI and Machine Learning

238

4

Tools from EFF’s Tech Team

122

5

The Intel Skylake-X Review: Core i9-7900X, i7-7820X and i7-7800X Tested

122

6

GlobalFoundries Details 7 nm Plans: Three Generations, 700 mm², HVM in 2018

83

7

Nvidia Announces PCIe Tesla V100

52

8

European Parliament Recommends End-To-End Encryption for All Communications

34

9

An Attack on Net Neutrality Is an Attack on Free Speech

23

10

14

FAANG+ [?]

1

Getting compilers right: a reliable foundation for secure software

87

2

Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM [pdf]

27

3

Using Amazon Rekognition to Identify Persons of Interest for Law Enforcement

3

4

50+ PR Hacks for Startups to Find, Pitch and Stay in the Media

3

5

Auto Scaling for Amazon DynamoDB – AWS Blog

3

6

Amazon Prime Wardrobe

3

7

DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Now Generally Available

2

8

Manage Instances at Scale Without SSH Access Using EC2 Run Command

2

9

New AMI Patch for Stack Clash Vulnerability

2

10

Keyboard Ghosting Explained

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Amazon’s New Customer

293

2

Medieval Scholars Believed in the Possibility of Parallel Universes

96

3

New HN data dump available with over 14.5m entries

79

4

How totalism works

68

5

Uber Can’t Be Fixed – It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

52

6

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan [pdf]

42

7

Soviet research of the 1920s on whether dogs can be psychic

33

8

Lion-Shaped Maps That United a Nation

16

9

US Embassy Threatens to Close Domain Registry Over 'Pirate Bay' Domain

10

10

Sci-Hub Ordered to Pay $15M in Piracy Damages

8

Science News [?]

1

Algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3D structure

371

2

A Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist

130

3

Geophysicists are ramping up their efforts to monitor major undersea faults

65

4

The Strength of Us Versus Them

60

5

Native Intelligence (2005)

58

6

US court grants Elsevier millions in damages from Sci-Hub

47

7

Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)

44

8

The Multiverse of 1686

28

9

Causes of differences in model and satellite tropospheric warming rates

26

10

Rainer Weiss, Remembering the Little Room in the Plywood Palace

22

Social [?]

1

Chris Lattner: “Turns out that Tesla isn't a good fit for me”

239

2

My biggest mistake as an F1 engineer

219

3

The trouble I had trying to contact Twitter support about a security issue

139

4

67

5

Backblaze lost over 13TB of my data

58

6

Jonathan Oxer Needs a Job

34

7

Hacker writes a script to flood phone lines of telephone scammers [video]

32

8

12 Most Influential Books Every Software Engineer Needs to Read

13

9

Super Mario Bros Recreated as Life Size Augmented Reality Game [video]

9

10

John Grisham on his regimented writing routine

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

TensorFlow-World: Simple and ready-to-use tutorials for TensorFlow

276

2

GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7

267

3

pREST – A fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database writting in Go

176

4

Front End Development Guide for Large Engineering Teams

172

5

Goism – Use Go instead of Emacs Lisp inside Emacs

164

6

Competitive Programming Curriculum

142

7

Julia 0.6 is out

88

8

Ways to Invoke a Function in JavaScript

79

9

Wondrous, tailor-made Pokémon themes for your Hyper terminal

52

10

Awesome-Fuzzing

46

Wikipedia [?]

1

Zugzwang: when a game player is at a disadvantage because they must make a move

12

2

List of cognative biases

6

3

4

4

Oligodynamic effect

4

5

4

6

Outline of Cryptography

3

7

3

8

Culture Industry

3

9

Zeigarnik effect – remember uncompleted tasks better

3

10

Food preservation

3

Blogs [?]

1

If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers

216

2

AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum

195

3

Introducing Dash – Reactive Web Apps for Python

175

4

Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/classical computing

173

5

Ten Weeks with Y Combinator’s Startup School

144

6

Copy What You Like (2006)

129

7

Webpack 3: Official Release

97

8

Leveling up as a Junior Engineer

90

9

Provider Fighting Secret Surveillance Order Denied Access to Relevant Law

85

10

How to become better at software estimations

67

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Is a HashMap thread-safe for different keys?

3

2

GitHub satanically messing with my README

2

3

Optimize deployment to regions for minimum latency and maximum cost savings?

1

Substack [?]