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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns

2735

2

Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js

2280

3

DuckDuckGo vs Google

1140

4

It’s time to kill the web app

1003

5

A new kind of map: it’s about time

968

6

New in PostgreSQL 10

962

7

How I got to 200 productive hours a month

853

8

Cutting your salary by 40%

844

9

New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains

829

10

Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would outperform hedgefunds

786

Top Ask HN

1

Companies who adopted React Native over a year ago, do you regret it?

363

2

Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?

354

3

What's the next big advance in AI you're looking forward to most?

66

4

Which is the best laptop for programmers under budget?

57

5

What weekend projects have you created?

52

6

Engineering team consists of all friends

52

7

What are some geeky wrist watches?

46

8

What is everyone currently working on?

36

9

Are you using WebRTC in production?

32

10

ASK HN: What emerging technologies do you think will trend in 2020 and why?

25

Top Show HN

1

Doogie – A Chromium-Based Browser with Tree-Style Pages

264

2

No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners

254

3

Redox Rust OS – v0.3.3 release

232

4

ThingsOnReddit – Products linked to on Reddit

153

5

Calcflow, an open-source complex maths visualization tool in VR

117

6

TR-101 – A drum synth/sequencer made with Vue and the web audio API

105

7

Telescope, a news reader app

90

8

SentinelJS – Detect new DOM nodes using CSS selectors

90

9

Colors – A data-driven collection of beautiful color palettes

89

10

Dodeka Music – piano keyboard and easy-to-read sheet music in one app

53

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect

418

2

Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation

328

3

AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances

305

4

EU paid for report that concluded piracy isn’t harmful, tried to hide findings

280

5

Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into official Python repository

244

6

iOS 11 reviewed

226

7

Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pavel Durov

215

8

Interview with GoCardless CEO Hiroki Takeuchi after paralyzing accident

190

9

SpaceX’s Dragon capsule successfully returns from ISS resupply mission

190

10

EU suppressed results of a study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales

174

News [?]

1

New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains

829

2

Top medical experts say we should decriminalize all drugs (2016)

687

3

Uber London loses licence to operate

672

4

Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime

572

5

Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed

560

6

Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe

414

7

Facebook’s war on free will

411

8

Get Rid of Equifax

362

9

Bitcoin is fiat money, too

308

10

Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For

295

Scientific publications [?]

1

Super-Accurate GPS Chips Coming to Smartphones in 2018

354

2

PassGAN: A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing

148

3

Inception Drive: A Compact, Infinitely Variable Transmission for Robotics

136

4

Hubble discovers first known binary asteroid also classified as a comet

71

5

A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When It Fails

57

6

First Prescription App for Substance Abuse Approved by FDA

21

7

Gravitational waves may oscillate, just like neutrinos

9

8

A blueprint for demonstrating quantum supremacy with superconducting qubits

7

9

Hubble discovers a new type of object in solar system

4

10

The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Google signs agreement with HTC

437

2

Pitching your early-stage startup

264

3

Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

237

4

Experian Site Can Give Anyone Your Credit Freeze PIN

172

5

Building the Linux kernel with clang

132

6

What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 (2007)

90

7

The History of Email (2016)

62

8

How I discovered my love for JavaScript after throwing 90% of it in the trash

23

9

The Power9 Rollout Begins with Summit and Sierra

16

10

The Dark Side of Life in a Silicon Valley 'Hacker House' – The New Stack

15

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased

433

2

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

314

3

A smaller, cheaper RISC V board

182

4

LimeSDR Mini – An open, full-duplex, USB stick radio for femtocells and more

171

5

EFF to Court: The First Amendment Protects the Right to Record First Responders

150

6

Google Will Survive SESTA – Startups Might Not

149

7

California Legislature Sells Out Our Data to ISPs

119

8

An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership

110

9

American companies should say No to Saudi demands to geoblock content

84

10

.Cat Domain a Casualty in Catalonian Independence Crackdown

56

FAANG+ [?]

1

Our Approach to Privacy

237

2

Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second

117

3

Per-Second Billing for EC2 Instances and EBS Volumes

68

4

Amazon updates the Fire HD 10 tablet with a 1080p display and a much lower price

25

5

AWS Elastic GPUs

4

6

iOS 11: Available 9.19

3

7

Why GoPro Is Migrating Their Online Video Hosting Services to Amazon ECS

3

8

Prime Day 2017 – Powered by AWS

2

9

Hints for Computer System Design (Butler Lampson)

2

10

Apple Pay now available as person to person through iMessage

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Pirate Bay Website Runs a Cryptocurrency Miner (Updated)

22

2

All the Lies About the Origins of ‘Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire’

22

3

Why is linguistics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots?

18

4

Tesla Model S P100D Crushes All Competition in ‘World’s Greatest Drag Race’

17

5

If your pay is not yours to keep, then neither is the tax

17

6

You’ll Probably Never Get to See, Let Alone Touch, Sea Silk

13

7

Should We Kill Animals to Save Them?

8

8

For millennia, we never saw anything like film cuts. How do we process them?

6

9

How to Help an Employee Who Rubs People the Wrong Way

4

10

Step by step, Americans are sacrificing the right to walk

4

Science News [?]

1

Gut Germs Appear to Play Role in Multiple Sclerosis

249

2

Tulipmania: More Boring Than You Thought

207

3

The 'internet of things' is sending us back to the Middle Ages

146

4

A Brain Built from Atomic Switches Can Learn

124

5

Oakland and SF sue five oil companies for damages from rising seas

104

6

New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning

72

7

First quantum computers need smart software

70

8

Modern Humans and Neanderthals May Be More Similar Than We Imagined

69

9

Is Tribalism a Natural Malfunction? What computers teach us about getting along

57

10

Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive

55

Social [?]

1

Equifax linked customers to my fake phishing version of their site by accident

499

2

Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos

389

3

Ray Dillinger: If I'd Known What We Were Starting

329

4

The Last Analog Motion Graphics Machine [video]

172

5

Here I Stand, at Age 80

92

6

Spanish police doing an intervention in Fundació puntCAT office

84

7

Uber to Lose Private Hire Licence in London

82

8

Healthcare.gov going offline nearly every Sunday for 12 hours during enrollment

78

9

Adobe Security team posted their private key

68

10

Linux Foundation director runs Mac OS? [video]

64

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Building multiplayer games with Socket.io and HTML5 Canvas

308

2

GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues

301

3

Ultrafast single TCP packet audio/visual experience

265

4

Minideb – A small image based on Debian designed for use in containers

234

5

AR.js: Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web

226

6

A simple heap memory allocator in about 230 lines of C

186

7

AWS Serverless React Native Starter App

183

8

Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++

182

9

GeoNotebook: A Jupyter Notebook extension for exploratory geospatial analysis

137

10

Macro-Lisp, a Lisp-Like DSL for Rust Language

128

Wikipedia [?]

1

Tea leaf paradox

12

2

11

3

5

4

List of data breaches

3

5

3

6

Lukasa, an ancient memorizing device

3

7

3

8

3

9

Research on meditation

2

10

The Resources, Events, Agents (REA) Accounting Model

2

Blogs [?]

1

How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC

305

2

Zero-knowledge proofs, Zcash, and Ethereum

141

3

Wire Server open sourced

128

4

Understanding V8’s Bytecode

114

5

JavaScript development is not fun for me anymore

106

6

Emailing 25k Marilyn Manson fans a video of their house

93

7

Runtime type information for JavaScript

84

8

Tyler Cowen interviews Larry Summers on Macroeconomics, Mentorship, Complacency

75

9

How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk

72

10

So You Want to Start Your Own Business? Things People Don't Tell You

48

Stackoverflow [?]

1

2017 Average Software Developer Salary

7

2

Reflection in C++ in under 100 LOC

6

3

Valgrind Is Broken on Mac OS Sierra

3

4

Salary Calculator

3

5

JavaScript has a number formatter, and it's part of the Internationalization API

2

6

Python: What does the “yield” keyword do?

2

7

What and where are the stack and heap?

2

8

Efficient Clojure workflow

2

9

2017 Average Software Developer Salary – Stack Overflow

2

10

Common programming mistakes for Clojure developers to avoid

1

Substack [?]