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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
“Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course on Coursera
848
2
Feather: Open-source icons
844
3
Android Oreo
778
4
Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t
682
5
Inside a fast CSS engine
660
6
Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System
656
7
Disconnect. Offline only
601
8
Windy.com
580
9
Let Consumers Sue Companies
576
10
iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from shared URLs
534
Top Ask HN
1
What is your favorite CS paper?
793
2
What are your favourite self-hosted tools?
304
3
How much do developers earn in Europe?
201
4
How to move past 150k/200k in compensation?
100
5
How long did it take you to go from side project idea to launch?
96
6
What does deliberate practice look like for computer programming?
92
7
Best marketplace for passive income businesses?
89
8
What online communities offer a high level of discussion?
66
9
How much do you save in the SF Bay Area with $120k salary?
59
10
Why are compensation tiers secret?
43
Top Show HN
1
The best time to visit any city
395
2
Moon – fast 7k Vue alternative
268
3
Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome
235
4
RNN that generates Game of Thrones text
143
5
Idea Generator That Uses YC as Data
132
6
Park your domain name with just 2 DNS records
131
7
Spongedown
64
8
Marina.io, an open source Docker Hub with ARM support
59
9
Link.fish – Boomarking meets web-parsing with archiving
58
10
Off-premises insight for on-premises Prometheus servers
53
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO
307
2
Workplace flexibility is the way to win the war for talent
305
3
Sonos: users must accept new privacy policy or devices may “cease to function”
271
4
All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1
235
5
Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to fund lab-grown meat
214
6
Despite privacy outrage, AccuWeather still shares location data with ad firms
199
7
An algorithm that recreates 3D objects from tiny 2D images
161
8
Web merchants routinely leak data about Bitcoin purchases
158
9
Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, and It Won't Tell Me How
154
10
The Enduring Legacy of Zork
145
News [?]
1
“Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course on Coursera
848
2
Let Consumers Sue Companies
576
3
Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching
427
4
I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids
406
5
Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices
343
6
Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming
332
7
Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars
310
8
Billionaire Porn King Reinvents Himself as Japan's Startup Guru
308
9
VW engineering executive sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case
288
10
Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
272
Scientific publications [?]
1
Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point
216
2
A Brief Survey of Deep Reinforcement Learning
174
3
Cyborg bacteria outperform plants when turning sunlight into useful compounds
127
4
Sun Flyer, an Electric Trainer Aircraft
105
5
The prior can generally only be understood in the context of the likelihood
94
6
Solar Eclipse live stream
73
7
Deterministic Browser
71
8
Gaps in basic knowledge of deep sea life
58
9
A Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Capture the Flag Platform
41
10
Virtual Reality Platform Created for Lab Animals
26
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Chrome Enterprise
418
2
Introducing Android 8.0 Oreo
160
3
How Google Could Collapse
155
4
Dylan: A New Language Is Blowin' in the Wind (1992)
123
5
In-Depth View of Wave Computing’s DPU Architecture, Systems
62
6
Shop Walmart and more of your favorite stores, faster
46
7
Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership – The New Stack
41
8
Go vs .NET Core in terms of HTTP performance
37
9
Building Reactive Terminal Interfaces in C++
30
10
C# 8.0 previewed
29
Tech blogs [?]
1
Google TPU Performance Analysis
129
2
Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby Lake Refresh
121
3
Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy
92
4
A Deep Dive into Qualcomm’s Centriq 2400 for Windows Server and Linux
40
5
A multi-user hologram table
32
6
ASUS Announces B250 Expert Mining Motherboard: 19 Expansion Slots
14
7
Apple wins ‘Best Paper Award’ at prestigious machine learning conference
8
8
10+ Years of Activists Silenced: Internet Intermediaries’ History of Censorship
8
9
Will TPP-11 Nations Escape the Copyright Trap?
6
10
As First NAFTA Round Opens in Secrecy, Digital Rights Groups Fear Another TPP
6
FAANG+ [?]
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Conversational Speech Recognition System [pdf]
82
2
Microsoft Unveils Project Brainwave for Real-Time AI
9
3
Microsoft Unveils Project Brainwave for Real-Time AI
6
4
Microsoft Unveils Project Brainwave for Real-Time AI
6
5
Microsoft researchers achieve new conversational speech recognition milestone
5
6
MSFT Research – Real world interactive learning
5
7
The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit
4
8
Microsoft Unveils Project Brainwave for Real-Time AI
4
9
Amazon Aurora Under the Hood: Reducing Costs Using Quorum Sets
4
10
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) – An In-Memory Cache for DynamoDB
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
A ship that flips 90 degrees for precise scientific measurements
257
2
Disney’s Choice
204
3
That Alien Message
132
4
The Windows App Store Is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps
124
5
The Dark Side of Resilience
86
6
The Dying Art of Courtroom Illustration
71
7
Warriors Who Once Feared Elephants Now Protect Them
61
8
It is currently 138.7% more profitable to mine on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain
23
9
Jeffrey Immelt: How I Remade GE
15
10
Solar eclipse is putting Tesla’s Supercharger network to the test
14
Science News [?]
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Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting
258
2
An ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first evidence of trigonometry
141
3
Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Illuminating Future of LED Lighting
136
4
Vast deposits of lithium could change the global politics of battery production
113
5
Are You Downplaying Luck’s Role in Your Life?
90
6
Carbon Nanotubes Excluding Salt from Seawater
82
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Dancing can reverse the signs of aging in the brain
71
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“Send Parsons Immediately”
66
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Remembering Sci-Fi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback
62
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Supernova’s messy birth casts doubt on reliability of astronomical yardstick
60
Social [?]
1
iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from shared URLs
534
2
Statistics professor at Columbia and Georgetown banned from all Google services
148
3
Winning the War on Error: Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer [video]
99
4
MS: Bitcoin mining uses as much electricity as 1M US homes
79
5
Clojure Concurrency (2008) [video]
76
6
PDP-11 Instructional Tape (1977) [video]
55
7
EVERY Tech Interview Ever [parody]
26
8
NPM staffer forks Node again
24
9
How I Make $26K+ a Month Selling Onions
17
10
Big blockchain hackathon that's completely managed by Ethereum smart contract
16
Github repos and gists [?]
1
New implementation of Git in OCaml
245
2
Oni: An IDE powered by Neovim
216
3
Rod Vagg's statement on the request to be removed from the Node.js CTC
214
4
Write a hash table in C
189
5
“This project violates the MIT license of Gemstash”
186
6
MTuner is a C/C++ memory profiler and memory leak finder
169
7
A supercompiler pass for Erlang
152
8
Pybind11 — Seamless operability between C++11 and Python
135
9
Goby: A new Ruby-inspired language written in Go
119
10
Awesome Linux Software
106
Wikipedia [?]
1
X-Seed 4000
150
2
North American F-82 Twin Mustang
69
3
Wetware computer
40
4
Strategikon of Maurice
19
5
Simulacra and Simulation
6
6
Timeline of the far future
5
7
Therac-25
5
8
Mike Gordon has died
4
9
Cold welding
4
10
Yale University was named in honor of slave trader Elihu Yale
3
Blogs [?]
1
Startups should not use React
332
2
A history of branch prediction
300
3
Let’s kill no-reply
233
4
Why I Still Use Vim
168
5
Why a Dutch court stopped high school students from exchanging schools
139
6
An Embarrassing Tale: Why my server could only handle 10 players
87
7
Effective immediately I am stepping down from the Nodejs TSC
71
8
Figuring out how to contribute to open source
62
9
Why Shopify doesn't kick Breitbart off
49
10
A guide to Minimalist Web Design
44
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly (2016)
431
2
How to parse text for a DSL at compile time? (C++)
44
3
Example of Eric Raymond's “smart data structures” principle
2
4
Best way to handle memory allocation in C
2
5
Can you do a parallel counting sort in O(n/p) time?
2
6
What is randomly replacing Baidu TongJi (Analytics)'s JavaScript code?
2
7
Zip in Clojure
2
8
What is randomly replacing Baidu TongJi (Analytics)'s JavaScript code?
2
9
Installing Vapor on MacOS Without Needing Homebrew
1
Substack [?]