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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”

1213

2

How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community

1014

3

18yo arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system

874

4

Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed

632

5

Pev: Postgres ‘Explain’ Visualizer (2016)

612

6

Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't Inform Customers About

594

7

How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit

577

8

Here be dragons: the same 3D scene implemented with 10 different 3D APIs

574

9

Petition to open source Flash

560

10

Computational Linear Algebra

537

Top Ask HN

1

What programming blogs do you follow?

407

2

How do you find clients when you have no network and can only do remote?

383

3

What books had the greatest effect on how you structure your code?

332

4

Best-architected open-source business applications worth studying?

296

5

HNers who got their “Show HNs” on homepage, how is your site doing now?

279

6

How do you start giving tech talks?

222

7

Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

166

8

How is your standing desk working for you?

154

9

What do people use to prevent crawlers?

122

10

What language/framework do you plan to use in your next project?

119

Top Show HN

1

The JavaScript Way, a book for learning modern JavaScript from scratch

545

2

Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda

385

3

Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

340

4

I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next

296

5

Hacking an ultrasound probe with a Raspberry Pi and low-cost hardware

227

6

AI Grant – Non-profit, distributed AI research lab

213

7

Teachcraft – Learn Python through Minecraft

212

8

Dharma – Programmable Peer-To-Peer Loans Using Ethereum Smart Contracts

156

9

Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

133

10

A 2D Physics Simulator in JavaScript

126

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

First Human Embryos Edited in U.S

444

2

Bollinger B1: An electric truck with 360HP and up to 200 mile range

315

3

Millennials are keeping libraries alive

255

4

Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome in the dust

230

5

The ImageNet dataset transformed AI research

198

6

Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Platform

196

7

How Microsoft brought SQL Server to Linux

190

8

Sweden Leaks the Personal Information of Millions of Its Own Citizens

175

9

I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12 (2016)

171

10

Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder

159

News [?]

1

Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person

462

2

Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship

433

3

SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies

423

4

Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

399

5

Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm

373

6

The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills

337

7

P&G Cuts More Than $100M in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads

326

8

Robot cracks open safe live on Def Con's stage

325

9

Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet

299

10

Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year

257

Scientific publications [?]

1

Buying time promotes happiness

188

2

42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S

167

3

Deep Learning in Robotics: A Review of Recent Research

121

4

U.S. Defense Budget May Help Fund “Hacking for Defense” Classes at Universities

106

5

Robust Physical-World Attacks on Machine Learning Models

97

6

Telescope design promises to revolutionize amateur astronomy

68

7

Optical lens can transfer digital information without loss

54

8

Densely Connected Convolutional Networks: CVPR 2017 Best Paper Award Winner

29

9

Eclipse balloons to study effect of Mars-like environment on life

22

10

New York eyes 'textalyzer' to bust drivers using phones

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Bitcoin Cash: Why It's Forking the Blockchain and What That Means

170

2

Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-Of-Life

165

3

Delaware Governor Signs Blockchain Legislation into Law

25

4

Google Cloud Now Available in Sydney and Singapore

14

5

Helping people in a crisis

14

6

LedgerX to Begin Trading Cryptocurrency Derivatives

11

7

Forget frameworks, become a versatile hacker

10

8

Payable is joining Stripe

9

9

High-reliability OCSP stapling and why it matters

8

10

The SEC Called About Our ICO, I Answered – Hacker Noon

7

Tech blogs [?]

1

The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market

256

2

AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and Ryzen 3 1200 CPU Review

154

3

Kalashnikov’s new autonomous weapons and the “Terminator conundrum”

56

4

Apple Apparently Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle

53

5

Smart gun beaten by dumb magnets

37

6

EFF Asks Court to Strike Down Unconstitutional Restraint on Our Speech

18

7

Crossing the U.S. Border? Here’s How to Securely Wipe Your Computer

8

8

Apple Plans to Build Three 'Big' Factories in the United States

5

9

How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content

5

10

Throttling on Mobile Networks Is a Sign of Things to Come

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor

142

2

Project Snowflake: Non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET

126

3

Griffin: Guarding Control Flows Using Intel Processor Trace [pdf]

43

4

Apple's Hypercard website redirects to the Wikipedia article

41

5

Amazon has a sarcastic comment problem

5

6

Project Snowflake: Non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET

4

7

Implementing Algebraic Effects in C

4

8

Microsoft Announces Deep Neural Network AI Coprocessor

4

9

Microsoft's new messaging app

4

10

New – GPU-Powered Streaming Instances for Amazon AppStream 2.0

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The quitting economy

274

2

Microsoft’s Monopoly Hangover

149

3

Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’

70

4

The Business of Artificial Intelligence

50

5

Pigs are smart and sensitive, yet we continue to justify killing them for food

44

6

Asking the Tough Questions with an 18th-Century Debate Society

20

7

The Clay Models Used to Analyze Entrails in the Ancient World

7

8

The hard problem of consciousness is a distraction from the real one

7

9

Why the Amish Are Building America’s RVs

4

10

Remembering Hair-Raising Landings at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport

3

Science News [?]

1

Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed

632

2

Sperm Count Dropping in Western World

232

3

Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide

157

4

Neural Stem Cells in the Hypothalamus Shown to Control Rate of Aging in Mice

129

5

It will be much harder to call findings ‘significant’ if a team gets its way

128

6

First Support for a Physics Theory of Life

98

7

A new theory sheds light on the emergence of life’s complexity

90

8

A Sculpture Controlled by Live Honeybees

41

9

Physicists Just Generated a Particle That Acts as Its Own Antiparticle

39

10

Neuromorphic Computing with Nanoscale Spintronic Oscillators

35

Social [?]

1

Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly

305

2

Facebook with Adblocker makes 2000+ requests

169

3

MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy [video]

129

4

What are potential disadvantages of functional programming?

119

5

AWS is having widespread issues

111

6

Composing Software in an Age of Dissonance [video]

48

7

Someone is massively registering multiple *.eth domains

35

8

Mark Karpeles: BTC-E Admin Was Mt. Gox Thief

34

9

Voltage vs Power vs Energy [video]

30

10

My job title is “Quality Assurance Tester”

24

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Here be dragons: the same 3D scene implemented with 10 different 3D APIs

574

2

Petition to open source Flash

560

3

Elixir 1.5 released

479

4

Crack WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi Routers with Aircrack-Ng and Hashcat

475

5

Sandsifter: find undocumented instructions and bugs on x86 CPU

447

6

A list of public JSON APIs for use in web development

270

7

Cicada: A Distributed Direct Democracy and Decentralized Application Platform

190

8

Addict: An Active Directory REST API

168

9

Ivy: a minimalist static site generator in Python

164

10

SQL on Ethereum Blockchain with Presto

153

Wikipedia [?]

1

113

2

The Colditz Glider

47

3

9

4

Centralia, Pennsylvania

6

5

3

6

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research supported research topics

2

7

2

8

Professor Yash Pal

2

9

2

10

Opaque forest problem

2

Blogs [?]

1

How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit

577

2

Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web

370

3

Ten Years of Worthless Side Projects

353

4

Successful Solo Founders

302

5

Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack

275

6

The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010)

229

7

Tech is the best industry for women

218

8

The case against Kotlin

142

9

Most open-source software is libraries or frameworks

123

10

Artificial Intelligence, Poker, and Regret

120

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does Rust check array bounds at runtime, not compile time?

3

2

Efficient database query for ancestors on an acyclic directed graph

2

3

“How can I read and parse CSV files in C++?”

1

4

Extracting from .bib file with Perl 6

1

5

Awk: fetching seconds since the epoch with srand()

1

Substack [?]