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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking

867

2

Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing

856

3

The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank

853

4

The Depression Thing

841

5

Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp

828

6

Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile

812

7

150 days of living and coding in a van

720

8

Disabling the Intel Management Engine

707

9

Please take care of my plant

660

10

Dangers of CSV Injection

645

Top Ask HN

1

What non-work task have you automated?

586

2

My house might burn down in the next 24 hours. Suggestions?

498

3

How and where can I publish my research on AI as a college dropout?

270

4

Developers who became engineering managers, how was the experience?

211

5

Why Isn't the Construction of CRUD Web UIs 90% Automated?

201

6

Are Glassdoor reviews a reliable indicator of a company's culture?

172

7

Best hard scifi AI novels?

170

8

Learning NoSQL, papers and books

142

9

Is anyone using Watson in their business?

124

10

UK Startups – Are You Thinking of Leaving the UK Because of Brexit?

86

Top Show HN

1

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

456

2

An API for filling out PDF forms

209

3

Rejection Conditioner for YC Applications

177

4

CoinMall Alpha: A Crypto Marketplace for Digital Goods

156

5

Twitter bot which tweets Magic cards with appropriate GIFs superimposed

138

6

Cockpit – create tmux panes and windows with ease

125

7

1 KB JavaScript library for building applications

116

8

Vue-Model – Models with HTTP Actions for Vue.js

109

9

Find and follow journalists relevant to your startup using ML

92

10

Token Spread – Bitcoin/crypto spread tracking for arbitrage

83

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U

578

2

Equifax website hacked again, this time to redirect to fake Flash update

390

3

Google commits $1B in grants to train U.S. workers for high-tech jobs

366

4

Hyperloop One Becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’

364

5

IGN acquires Humble Bundle

340

6

Dear Silicon Valley: America’s fallen out of love with you

325

7

Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing Society

257

8

Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots

230

9

GitLab raises $20M Series C round led by GV

214

10

Accenture left a huge trove of highly sensitive data on exposed servers

194

News [?]

1

Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile

812

2

Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Then Tipped NSA Its Tools Had Been Breached

537

3

Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’

293

4

Two scientists quietly revolutionising the study and practice of interrogation

290

5

Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend

275

6

SoftBank Leads $164M Bet on Mapbox

257

7

Equifax takes down web page after reports of new hack

240

8

EPA photos show what US looked like before pollution regulation

236

9

Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expel Them

236

10

What’s Inside Every iPhone, from Retina Displays to Cameras

232

Scientific publications [?]

1

New periodic orbits of the three-body problem

163

2

'Staying longer at home' was key to stone age technology change 60k years ago

106

3

The IIT Bombay English-Hindi Parallel Corpus [pdf]

103

4

Theoretical Computer Science for the Working Category Theorist [pdf]

76

5

Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos (2012)

65

6

A possible "Planet Nine" in Earth's solar system would orbit far beyond Neptune

63

7

Quantum Machine Learning [pdf]

53

8

First study to find link between testosterone and stock market instability

8

9

Mixed Precision Training for Deep Learning Models

6

10

Meal frequency and timing in health and disease

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music

551

2

Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

340

3

An update on GnuPG

158

4

Broken packets: IP fragmentation is flawed

144

5

New Optimizations Improve Deep Learning Frameworks for CPUs

47

6

Build Sustainably on Google Cloud Platform

17

7

Intel Takes First Steps to Universal Quantum Computing

16

8

Designing an Enterprise Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) System

13

9

I’m Returning My Apple Watch 3 Cellular

12

10

Japan's Biggest Utility Uses Blockchain to Fight Climate Change

10

Tech blogs [?]

1

MAMR Breakthrough for Next-Gen HDDs

94

2

Intel CPU History

23

3

Dow Jones technical error spreads fake news story of Google acquiring Apple

15

4

Tim Cook: Technology Doesn't Exist to Do AR Smart Glasses 'In a Quality Way'

11

5

A Raspberry Pi Rain Man in the Making

10

6

Your Hard Disk as an Accidental Microphone

6

7

Let’s Consider the Risks of Applying Election Ad Rules to the Online World

4

8

Nvidia Announces Drive PX Pegasus – Self-Driving Hardware

4

9

A Guide to Common Types of Two-Factor Authentication on the Web

4

10

Nvidia launches GeForce Now beta, turns your Mac into a virtual gaming PC

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft

191

2

Introducing Gluon – An Easy-To-Use Programming Interface for Deep Learning

8

3

Data Scientists in Software Teams: State of the Art and Challenges [pdf]

8

4

Announcing Amazon EC2 per second billing

3

5

Microsoft and Facebook Call for Open AI Ecosystem Gaining Broader Momentum

3

6

Amazon RDS RI Offer Instance Size Flexibility

3

7

AWS SES adds email templates

3

8

Automating SQL Caching for Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon RDS

3

9

Amazon EC2 Spot Can Now Stop and Start Your Spot Instances

2

10

All-New Kindle Oasis E-reader – 7“

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Profits Without Prosperity (2014)

194

2

PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker

193

3

Scientists Are Just Starting to Understand Earth’s Eighth Continent, Zealandia

127

4

Anger is temporary madness: the Stoics knew how to curb it

39

5

Why women stray

28

6

The Great Recession Drastically Changed the Skills Employers Want

23

7

Cloudflare CEO Has to Explain Lack of Pirate Site Terminations

14

8

To Be a Great Leader, You Have to Learn How to Delegate Well

6

9

Interactive: Resurrecting a Dragon

4

10

A Visit to a Synthetic Cadaver Factory

3

Science News [?]

1

First detection of the missing half of normal matter in our universe

474

2

Psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression: fMRI-measured brain mechanisms [pdf]

227

3

First detection of the missing half of normal matter in our universe

181

4

Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs

145

5

The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks

133

6

Easter Island: a sustainable society has been falsely blamed for its own demise

97

7

How Science Makes “Rick and Morty” Great

64

8

The Science Behind “Blade Runner”’s Voight-Kampff Test

59

9

I Am Not a Monster: Science has turned the squid from a monster into a marvel

59

10

Where's the Proof That Mindfulness Works?

54

Social [?]

1

Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias

644

2

John Carmack's Keynote at Oculus 4 Live Stream [video]

353

3

Clojure/Conj 2017 – Opening Keynote by Rich Hickey [video]

216

4

A bot that tweets anonymous Wikipedia edits from IP addresses in the US Congress

173

5

It's Time for a New Old Language – Guy Steele [video]

152

6

Elon Musk, ask me anything about BFR

126

7

A Boy and His Atom: Smallest Stop-Motion Film [video]

115

8

SpaceX Iridium-3 Mission Launching Streaming

103

9

What happened to distributed programming languages? [video]

68

10

Why Johnny Can't Code Good [video]

41

Github repos and gists [?]

1

An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2

614

2

TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code

577

3

ChrysaLisp – A 64-bit Lisp OS with GUI

306

4

Coding Interview Cheatsheet

294

5

Recompiler: Porting Xbox360 Executables to Windows

265

6

.NET core spies on users by default

250

7

GitHub Discover

185

8

Visualizations for machine learning datasets

178

9

SmallerC – Small, Simple, Self-Compiling, Single Pass C Compiler

155

10

Rat: Compose shell commands to build interactive terminal applications

120

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wikimedia Foundation's runaway spending growth

150

2

Andreev Bay nuclear accident of 1982

58

3

Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft

19

4

List of cognitive biases

18

5

Reification (Computer Science)

12

6

Letters of last resort

3

7

3

8

“?:” is called the Elvis operator as it looks like an emoticon of him

3

9

Nicolas Bourbaki

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

What I Learned from Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter

228

2

I was sexually assaulted at Equinox and banned for reporting it

196

3

Lessons Operating a Serverless-Like Platform at Netflix, Part 2

178

4

Fairchild Semiconductor: 60th Anniversary

173

5

Times I've Messed Up as a Developer

152

6

The Asynchronous Computability Theorem

125

7

A ski resort used a 1-star review in its ads, so now I’m inspired

112

8

There Are No Houses for Amazonians

91

9

Starting a Web Design Firm from Scratch

79

10

BigQuery: Required Reading List

72

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the "-->" operator in C++?

3

2

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex

3

3

How do browsers pause/change JavaScript when tab or window is not active?

1

Substack [?]