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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

It’s time to give Firefox another chance

1674

2

China Blocks WhatsApp

1174

3

A “right to repair” movement tools up

928

4

Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee

927

5

Scenic Tram Simulator

918

6

914

7

How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

906

8

Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

896

9

YC’s Essential Startup Advice

825

10

Draggable JS – a lightweight, responsive, modern drag-and-drop library

633

Top Ask HN

1

Learning modern web design and CSS

194

2

What is the best way to spend my time as a 17-year-old who can code?

161

3

Xray cost – USA $200 (13000 INR), India 1000 INR – what causes 10x diff?

93

4

Do you meditate and which system do you follow?

68

5

What's an important problem that more people should work on?

62

6

Where can I host a 1TB DB relatively cheaply?

58

7

Coffee table books

53

8

Which scifi authors to interview about immortality?

40

9

How technically hard was it for Twitter to move to 280 chars?

31

10

Resources for transitioning from development to management?

31

Top Show HN

1

Logo Crunch – Multi-resolution logo maker

328

2

Moocha.io – A search engine for MOOCs

231

3

Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual

217

4

300k lines of Java UI code running as JavaScript in browser

154

5

ARKit Playground – Make ARKit Experiences in JS from Your Browser

151

6

Sitebulb, a website crawler and auditor for SEOs

120

7

EnvKey – securely manage API keys, credentials, and config

116

8

Raspberry Pi Zero W Simultaneous AP and Managed (Client) Mode WiFi

101

9

Readwise – Review and retain your Kindle highlights

90

10

Haskell library for pricing and information on crypto-currencies

86

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

It’s time to give Firefox another chance

1674

2

The SEC has charged two initial coin offerings with defrauding investors

427

3

Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony?

401

4

Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB

399

5

Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight

307

6

Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson says the company is mining cryptocurrencies

300

7

Musk revises Mars ambitions

243

8

Anthony Levandowski, self driving car whiz who fell from grace

222

9

Battery-Free Cell Phone

214

10

A therapist’s guide to staying productive when depressed or heartbroken

189

News [?]

1

China Blocks WhatsApp

1174

2

A “right to repair” movement tools up

928

3

Programmers who want to change how we code before catastrophe strikes

383

4

Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars

378

5

Saudi Arabia Agrees to Let Women Drive

352

6

Equifax C.E.O. Richard Smith Retires After Huge Data Breach

350

7

When I asked Tinder for my data, it sent me 800 pages of my deepest secrets

349

8

Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing

334

9

In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (2015)

325

10

Without Power, Puerto Rico Is Cash Only

294

Scientific publications [?]

1

Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (2011)

317

2

The Video Game Software Wizardry of Id (2002)

113

3

Raccoons solve an ancient puzzle, but do they understand it?

82

4

Review of Jean Bricmont's book "Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics"

71

5

In social networks, group boundaries promote the spread of ideas (2015)

54

6

Infinitely many twin primes

35

7

Why pens have rubbery grips

31

8

Unexpected discovery leads to new theory of liquid streaming

5

9

Debunking in a world of tribes

5

10

For some, lunar village takes shape

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

896

2

Giving you more characters

576

3

Learn Blockchains by Building One

328

4

Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge

327

5

Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player

305

6

Why kernel development still uses email (2016)

204

7

Someone stole my identity on Upwork (2016)

177

8

Equifax or Equiphish?

140

9

Edward Snowden: Zcash Is 'Most Interesting Bitcoin Alternative'

129

10

Safety-critical realtime with Linux

118

Tech blogs [?]

1

Cuban Embassy Attacks and the Microwave Auditory Effect

119

2

Intel Core i9-7980XE and Core i9-7960X CPU Review Part 1: Workstation

92

3

Intel Announces 8th Generation Core “Coffee Lake” Desktop Processors

89

4

Kodi under attack

53

5

Emulate ICs in Python

31

6

Hackaday Superconference Speakers Announced

7

7

Toshiba Signs $17.7B Deal to Sell Memory Chip Unit to Bain-Apple Group

5

8

Dubai Announces Giant Mars City Simulation

5

9

FCC Urges Apple to Activate FM Radio Chip in iPhones

4

10

The Electronics Markets of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

MacOS High Sierra

551

2

446

3

AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging

181

4

Simple, Fast and Safe Manual Memory Management [pdf]

115

5

Deep Learning Research and the Future of AI [video]

77

6

AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Building GitHub Pull Requests

56

7

Amazon Echo Spot

54

8

The Great Courses on Amazon Video

15

9

Natural Language Processing on 1.1M VCPUs Using EC2 Spot Instances

7

10

AWS Plans to Open Middle East Region in Bahrain in 2019

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

We're learning more about the craving that fuels self-defeating habits

263

2

Reducing isolation at work is good for business

98

3

Defining Aggregators

47

4

The Navy's Decaying Shipyards Make Its 355 Ship Goal Seem Laughable

27

5

The Bad Hair, Incorrect Feathering, and Missing Skin Flaps of Dinosaur Art

15

6

The Banned 1910s Magazine That Started a Feminist Movement in Japan

10

7

Forgotten Notebooks Chronicled the Lives of Congolese Trees for 20 Years

7

8

It Me: Under the Hood of Web Authentication

5

9

Honda introduces ‘Riding Assist-e’ self-balancing electric motorcycle

5

10

First mover disadvantage

4

Science News [?]

1

Exceptionally Preserved Ancient Ships Discovered in the Black Sea

257

2

New theory why languages don’t all have the same number of terms for colors

130

3

Yes, We Get Wiser with Age

108

4

Average IQ scores seem to have been falling and population ageing may be why

94

5

When It’s Good to Be Antisocial

90

6

Chip Reprograms Cells to Regenerate Damaged Tissue in Mice

69

7

Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctic Glacier

63

8

What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids (2015)

57

9

A revolution in the study of phase transitions driven by quantum fluctuations

56

10

Best attempts so far to skin Schrödinger’s cat (2016)

46

Social [?]

1

30-Day Timelapse at Sea [video]

477

2

VLC maintainer has refused “several tens of millions of Euro”

446

3

SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video]

438

4

How I Fixed a 10-Year-Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code [video]

383

5

SpaceX BFR [video]

372

6

Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of Linux tracing [video]

295

7

Unsigned apps on High Sierra can programmatically dump and exfil keychain

130

8

Naval Ravikant: “The Internet lowers the returns to distributing facts”

105

9

Xeno Kovah: macOS 10.13 EFI firmware integrity check

88

10

Every Dumb Startup Ever

59

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Darwin-xnu: The Darwin Kernel

375

2

Jaeger – A Distributed Tracing System

311

3

Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding interview

259

4

Abseil: C++ Common Libraries

241

5

Detect.location: Access iOS location data without actually having access

213

6

COST in the land of databases

203

7

Ambient Shipping – a project to allow you to look inside passing cargo ships

200

8

TensorFlow Examples for Beginners with Latest APIs

196

9

Style2Paints: AI colorization of images

165

10

Gophersat: A SAT solver written in Go

133

Wikipedia [?]

1

Von Neumann-Landauer limit

183

2

Simulacra and Simulation

139

3

87

4

Fulton Surface to Air Recovery System

63

5

FOGBANK – How USA forgot how to manufacture an essential ingredient for nukes

22

6

20

7

High Sierra Filesystem

5

8

Mayfield's paradox

5

9

Letters of last resort

5

10

Grain Entrapment

3

Blogs [?]

1

Interesting Codebases

344

2

Relicensing the GraphQL specification

221

3

The rise and fall of Ext JS

220

4

On Disk IO, Part 3: LSM Trees

157

5

Serverless is cheaper, not simpler

146

6

Serving 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance

146

7

Node.js leadership is a toxic mess

115

8

SEO Company CEO Contracts Murderers to Kill Competition, Client Exposes All

104

9

Using Scrapy to Build Your Own Dataset

69

10

GDPR is a good thing

61

Stackoverflow [?]

1

IllegalAccessError while working on inheritance – Why?

1

2

How to create a distributed lock using redis cluster?

1

Substack [?]