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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

1697

2

Ad blocking is under attack

1111

3

I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon

937

4

uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

776

5

Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

730

6

HTML5 Version of the Tron:Legacy Boardroom Scene

701

7

The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm Gramophone records

699

8

Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk

698

9

The world in which IPv6 was a good design

677

10

YouTube AI deletes war crimes evidence as 'extremist material'

674

Top Ask HN

1

Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

488

2

What free resources did you use to learn how to program ML/AI?

415

3

Which companies give programmers offices?

312

4

Website go-live checklist app

274

5

Have you successfully moved away from Google search?

170

6

How did you find your great side project idea?

133

7

What methods, tools etc. do you use to validate your business ideas?

110

8

Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?

105

9

Web developer and looking for a career change, what are my options?

76

10

Why has discussion of the Google Manifesto been censored?

76

Top Show HN

1

Is the stock market going to crash?

813

2

Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists

614

3

An interactive guide to compression basics

256

4

229

5

Short-term rental estimate for sites like Airbnb

220

6

Kozmos – A Personal Library

197

7

Play rock-paper-scissors against your computer via webcam, neural nets

196

8

Transformation Invariant Reverse Image Search

166

9

AsciiDots – a 2D esoteric language inspired by circuits

148

10

Crackle – keyboard layout for programmers

114

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk

698

2

SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside

550

3

Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook

504

4

A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its promises

503

5

Americans don’t need fast home Internet service, FCC suggests

277

6

Why some of the best developers keep quitting

237

7

Why Germans pay cash for almost everything

232

8

Cruise is running an autonomous ride hailing service for employees in SF

224

9

On managing outrage in Silicon Valley

200

10

Netflix Lands the Coen Brothers’ Western TV Series

177

News [?]

1

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

1697

2

“Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work

487

3

Benchmark Capital Sues Travis Kalanick for Fraud

467

4

The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo

450

5

Big Companies and the Military Are Paying Novelists to Write Sci-Fi for Them

438

6

Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life

410

7

Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O

356

8

Tesla raises $1.8B

323

9

Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions

313

10

Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity

311

Scientific publications [?]

1

Proof of Work Without All the Work

208

2

TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System

132

3

JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus

28

4

Japanese scientists create ice cream that doesn't melt using natural substance

16

5

Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star

5

6

STARDATA: A StarCraft AI Research Dataset

4

7

Chip Hall of Fame

3

8

On the stability of four legged tables (2006)

3

9

Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution

3

10

Enabling Massive Deep Neural Networks with the GraphBLAS[pdf]

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

623

2

OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships

510

3

Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai

207

4

Exploring strategies to decarbonize electricity

174

5

Many Smart Contract Use Cases Are Impossible (2016)

134

6

How to Determine If Candidates Will Thrive in a Remote Work Environment

132

7

The NOVA filesystem

131

8

Official support for .NET

129

9

Git v2.14.0 released

102

10

A year with Notmuch mail (2016)

96

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review

192

2

EFF Urges Supreme Court to Take on Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance

152

3

Aadhaar: Ushering in a Commercialized Era of Surveillance in India

97

4

Intel EOLs Atom Chip Used for Microsoft HoloLens

94

5

Thermal Paste Round-up

55

6

Intel Introduces “Ruler” Server SSD Form-Factor

30

7

S.B. 727 Would Unfairly Restrict California Students’ Use of Course Materials

21

8

Open Access Can't Wait. Pass FASTR Now

7

9

EFF Urges Supreme Court to Take on Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance

5

10

IKEA adds HomeKit to existing smart bulbs with software update, new color bulbs

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

5

2

Amazon launches Amazon AI

2

3

Chalice – 1.0.0 GA Release – AWS Developer Blog

2

4

AWS SAM Local (Beta) – Build and Test Serverless Applications Locally

2

5

Get Ready for AWS Re:Invent 2017

1

6

AWS X-Ray APM Now Supports Python

1

7

Apple at Home Advisor: Work from Home with Apple

1

8

Non-Exhaustive List of Amazon Trademarks

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm Gramophone records

699

2

Galaxy Magazine: Free Texts

196

3

Is America Encouraging the Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurship?

169

4

The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engineers

126

5

Hyper.sh: Container-native Cloud

99

6

A Theory of Jerks (2014)

98

7

One 18th-Century Horse Eclipsed All the Others

77

8

The Strange, Sad Story of Joe Orton, His Lover, and 72 Stolen Library Books

47

9

The First Eclipse Prediction: Act of Genius, Brilliant Mistake, or Dumb Luck?

39

10

Blackwater Founder Wants to Provide “Turn Key” Mercenary AF for Afghanistan

27

Science News [?]

1

Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes

123

2

How corporates co-opted mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable (2015)

111

3

How Information Got Re-Invented

70

4

Most archaeologists think the first Americans arrived by boat

50

5

Men are better at maps until women take this course

33

6

Increased blood flow in areas of the brain in women

31

7

Outraged by the Google Diversity Memo? I Want You to Think About It

27

8

Pilot-wave quantum theory gains experimental support

24

9

Possible Anti-Aging Brain Therapy Shows Promise in Mice

22

10

Eclipse Hunter Reveals the Science That Can Only Be Done in the Dark

19

Social [?]

1

Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]

314

2

Richard Stallman Explains [video]

181

3

Jordan Peterson Interviews James Damore

111

4

Google Memo: Fired Employee Speaks Out [video]

68

5

Google Memo Author James Damore Talks to Jordan Peterson [video]

64

6

Python Oddities

40

7

Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing consent (1992) [video]

38

8

Without Higher Education you are in a dead end

25

9

Jeff Dean’s Lecture for YC AI

23

10

1976 Matrix Singular Value Decomposition Film

22

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Learn Regex the Easy Way

323

2

EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown request

261

3

Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin

250

4

Pygorithm – A Python module for learning major algorithms

191

5

Node 8.3.0 released

172

6

Tofu – The opposite of a font

166

7

PyTorch v0.2.0 released

150

8

.NET Standard 2.0 is final

134

9

Immutable Data Structures That Are Compatible with Normal JS Arrays and Objects

121

10

Text Editor Performance Comparison (2016)

120

Wikipedia [?]

1

307

2

249

3

The Man Behind AMD's Zen Microarchitecture: Jim Keller

99

4

SDF Public Access Unix System

94

5

Nicholas Winton, British stockbroker who saved 669 Jewish children during WWII

9

6

Mathematical Maturity

8

7

Operation Ranch Hand

4

8

Kolmogorov complexity

4

9

Greenspun's tenth rule

3

10

Connection Machine

2

Blogs [?]

1

Deeplearning.ai: Announcing New Deep Learning Courses on Coursera

331

2

About This Googler's Manifesto

302

3

Do Things That Don’t Scale (2013)

209

4

Why our outdated brains are making us unhappy

184

5

Small functions considered harmful

172

6

Why does Sattolo's algorithm produce a permutation with exactly one cycle?

156

7

What You Can't Say (2004)

143

8

Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)

143

9

The SRE model at Google

112

10

What I Didn't Say (2013)

96

Stackoverflow [?]

1

RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

15

2

Using GCP Cloud SQL Read Replica's

2

3

Why do all the C files written by my lecturer start with a #?

2

4

How many primitives does it take to build a Lisp machine? Ten, seven or five?

1

5

How does one implement PBAC on a graph within SQL?

1

6

[Help] Cloud Functions for Firebase: 'Error: could not handle the request'

1

7

Stack Overflow Documentation

1

Substack [?]