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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Sublime Text 3.0

1653

2

Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch

1111

3

1017

4

995

5

Equifax Lobbied to Kill Rule Protecting Victims of Data Breaches

893

6

Firefox Multi-Account Containers

850

7

Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered studies”

819

8

Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

670

9

It appears my Google account is slated for deletion

657

10

Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent

645

Top Ask HN

1

Anyone here make a 'comeback' from rock bottom? What is your story?

146

2

Why isn't there a modern MS Access clone?

115

3

At what company were you happiest and why?

102

4

What are good tech jobs that don't require being good at interviewing?

92

5

Anyone making passive (or not passive) income from a content site?

82

6

S3 down in us-east-1 for everyone, or just mostly everyone?

82

7

Do you mostly program in a non-FP or non-OO style? Why?

69

8

How does an online game with AIs manage so many AIs?

67

9

What algorithms should I research to code a conference scheduling app

55

10

You have $1BN, how do you disrupt Facebook?

54

Top Show HN

1

Build A Personal Power Plant for $200

373

2

Nulis – Open Source Tree Editor for Writers

231

3

1 KB JavaScript framework for building front-end applications

216

4

Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner

212

5

Using Google Sheets to create a survey chat bot without a server

119

6

Yue – A new library to create cross-platform GUI apps

104

7

Generate high-res images of code samples with Chrome Headless

93

8

GameOfCoins.de – Virtual Cryptocurrency Trading

83

9

Professional profile management tool built using React

72

10

Manage your cost of app subscriptions in one place

71

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound

670

2

Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving

339

3

Alan Kay is still waiting for his dream to come true

337

4

Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your device without a passcode

331

5

Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and network

317

6

Mercedes-Benz will electrify its entire car lineup by 2022

293

7

Billions of devices imperiled by new clickless Bluetooth attack

284

8

Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads

274

9

Our entire credit bureau system is broken

255

10

MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms at colleges

225

News [?]

1

Mystery of sonic weapon attacks in Cuba deepens

523

2

Equifax’s Maddening Unaccountability

477

3

A New Way to Learn Economics

398

4

Alphabet considers Lyft investment of about $1B

361

5

Three Years in Identity Theft Hell

315

6

Organizers have unionized 5,000 contract workers at Apple, Facebook, Yahoo

295

7

Court OKs child porn prosecution of minors distributing pictures of themselves

260

8

Why American Workers Pay Twice as Much in Taxes as Wealthy Investors

254

9

With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold

253

10

Cassini's Saturn Mission Goes Out in a Blaze of Glory

235

Scientific publications [?]

1

Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley

348

2

Privacy Loss in Apple's Implementation of Differential Privacy on MacOS 10.12

180

3

Sorting with GPUs: A Survey

148

4

Google Has Spent Over $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech

124

5

Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation – A Survey

96

6

Getting a $1000 iPhone X? You'll want a $60 Ikea Nightstand or a $5 Rotary Saw

30

7

Insights into atomic structure of next-generation superconductors

23

8

A Tribute to Alain Colmerauer (2001)

15

9

Cassini's Impact Site: Infrared Image

9

10

Biocomputer and Memory Built Inside Living Bacteria

9

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Firefox Multi-Account Containers

850

2

Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform

564

3

Equifax Argentinian portal secured with admin/admin

331

4

Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?

254

5

A Peek Inside a 400G Cisco Network Chip

176

6

A Copyright Vote That Could Change the EU’s Internet

176

7

What's So Bad About Posix I/O?

160

8

Verified cryptography for Firefox 57

155

9

A Hardware Privacy Monitor for iPhones

129

10

Shedding Light on Dark Bandwidth

78

Tech blogs [?]

1

Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent

645

2

EFF, ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at U.S. Border

549

3

Western Digital Ships 12 TB WD Gold HDD: 8 Platters and Helium

168

4

HP Updates Z8 Workstations: Up to 56 Cores, 3 TB RAM, 9 PCIe Slots, 1700W

136

5

Stop SESTA: Whose Voices Will SESTA Silence?

9

6

Social app Polygram gives a preview of Animoji-style effects on current iPhones

9

7

Data Protection Measure Removed from the California Values Act

7

8

With EFF’s Help, Small Business Stands Up to Patent Troll

4

9

Apple explains what exactly happened when Face ID ‘failed’ during iPhone X demo

4

10

A11 Bionic Chip in iPhone 8 and X on Par with 13-Inch MBP, Outperforms iPad Pro

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

995

2

206

3

Connecting a Git Repository to Amazon S3 and AWS Services

140

4

Apple TV 4K brings home the magic of cinema with 4K and HDR

35

5

Apple Watch Series 3

28

6

Apple Special Event

15

7

Apple Watch Series 3

7

8

5

9

Manage Kubernetes Clusters on AWS Using CoreOS Tectonic

4

10

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

To treat back pain, look to the brain not the spine

212

2

VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries

158

3

According to Japanese Traffic Lights, Bleen Means Go

97

4

Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it

71

5

The Early Master Plans for United States National Parks

67

6

Tesla Remotely Expands S & X Battery Pack Range in Florida from 60kWh to 75kWh

30

7

The Lessons and Questions of the iPhone X and the iPhone 8

27

8

Tesla extends range of vehicles for free to help owners evacuate hurricane

9

9

Interesting Research: Cat Person or Not?

5

10

Imagination is such an ancient ability it might precede language

4

Science News [?]

1

Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving

323

2

Friends Are Genetically Similar (2014)

280

3

The only safe email is text-only email

198

4

Fossils from Morocco complicate the story of modern humans

192

5

Polari: the dead language of gay British men

165

6

Cassini's “Grand Finale” Will Be a Blaze of Glory

140

7

Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal

116

8

Deadly Mexico earthquake had unusual cause

103

9

Bats slam into buildings because they can't 'see' them

67

10

How China Sidestepped QWERTY

50

Social [?]

1

How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster [video]

296

2

Super Mario 64 Online Release [video]

155

3

Sideproject Marketing

123

4

Basics of demo programming (2011) [video]

68

5

Every reference to Kim Jong Un in official HTML is wrapped in a ﹤nobr﹥

58

6

What are your thoughts on using Clojure for more than 2 years?

46

7

TransUnion Burying Their Credit Freeze to Sell Their Credit Monitoring Product

24

8

The Equifax Chief Security Officer Received a BA and MFA in Music Composition

14

9

How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster

13

10

Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture

13

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Eclipse OpenJ9 – Open-source JVM

322

2

Linear Algebra for AI

318

3

Europilot: A toolkit for Euro Truck Simulator to develop self-driving algorithms

254

4

Mal – Make a Lisp, in 68 languages

236

5

Hack – A typeface designed for source code

174

6

Modern JavaScript Tutorial

115

7

BlockSci: A high-performance tool for blockchain science and exploration

94

8

Systemd-resolved does not keep the order of the DNS servers

89

9

Getting Started with Swift on Windows

86

10

Nano ID: A tiny, secure URL-friendly unique string ID generator for JavaScript

78

Wikipedia [?]

1

Sleeping barber problem

119

2

Salmon Protocol

63

3

A hypercane is a hypothetical class of extreme tropical cyclone

61

4

Free State Project

5

5

Unix Philosophy

4

6

4

7

Thuggee - India's Cult of Thugs

4

8

Simon–Ehrlich wager

4

9

1985 Mexico City earthquake

3

10

The Spirit of Butts' Farm

3

Blogs [?]

1

General and Surprising

417

2

What every software engineer should know about search

368

3

A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the BSD + Patents license

259

4

Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car

201

5

How I snatched 153k Ether after a bad Tinder date

183

6

Mastodon and ActivityPub

148

7

Don't use Git rebase

137

8

Migrating from RethinkDB to Postgres – An Experience Report

135

9

The Non-Marketing Guide to Email Marketing

92

10

In design, everything has been done before

89

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)

329

2

How to compare two functions for equivalence, as in (λx.2*x) == (λx.x+x)?

176

3

Racket: N-Queen Problem and Parallelization

3

4

What Is the Largest Safe UDP Packet Size on the Internet?

2

5

Git: pull vs. fetch

1

6

Why can't a compiler optimize a predictable addition loop into a multiplication?

1

7

How do JavaScript closures work?

1

8

Optimization to explicitly initialize undefined object members in JavaScript

1

Substack [?]