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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web

1307

2

Do you need a VPN?

969

3

We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)

910

4

Freelancer.com has ruined my life

845

5

Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web

712

6

What is backpropagation and what is it doing? [video]

645

7

Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python

542

8

Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”

527

9

LineageOS for microG – Access Google services without closed software

504

10

Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads

494

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (November 2017)

624

2

Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

600

3

We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea

337

4

Is Meteor.js still a thing?

146

5

How’d you go from a noodler to writing large well structured programs?

115

6

How did you significantly reduce your AWS cost?

100

7

I would pay X for Y

91

8

What are top promising technologies of tomorrow must get involved today?

78

9

Which programmer do you look up to?

69

10

What to do if client ghosts and won't pay?

67

Top Show HN

1

Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript charting with zero dependencies

474

2

Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

469

3

Server.js – A modern Express alternative

295

4

219

5

Link.fish – API to extract data from websites as JSON

201

6

Open Source alternative to services like Intercom.io and Smooch

163

7

React patterns, techniques, tips and tricks

162

8

Vehicle Detection – using machine learning and computer vision

153

9

CertStream – See SSL certs as they're issued in real time

142

10

API to check where a TV show or movie is available

133

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

I cured my tech fatigue by ditching feeds

294

2

Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video]

253

3

Comcast has a lot to lose if municipal broadband takes off

242

4

AMD takes on Intel with new Ryzen processors for laptops

234

5

DOJ: Billionaire pharma owner fueled the opioid epidemic with bribery scheme

217

6

TransferWise announces $280M investment

151

7

Breitbart, other conservative outlets escalate anti-SpaceX campaign

139

8

Stack Overflow lays off 20% of staff

129

9

A “Silicon Valley” actor is terrified by what’s happening in Silicon Valley

123

10

How the Kodi Box Took Over Piracy

122

News [?]

1

'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza

324

2

Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C

320

3

Facebook denies 'listening' to conversations

302

4

Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally

299

5

Tesla posts big loss, cuts production of Models X and S to catch up on Model 3

267

6

Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause

227

7

Forget iPhone X–Apple's Best Product Is Its Privacy Stance

219

8

How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them

215

9

Bitcoin Futures Could Open the Floodgates for Institutional Investors

196

10

A Pentagon-funded contest spawned many of today’s self-driving startups

195

Scientific publications [?]

1

One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks

260

2

Butterfly iQ – A cheap handheld ultrasound tool with AI smarts inside

238

3

Chip Hall of Fame: Atmel ATmega8

128

4

Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpora Only [pdf]

115

5

The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint

99

6

Generative Adversarial Networks: An Overview [pdf]

90

7

Learning Depth-Three Neural Networks in Polynomial Time

80

8

Dudley Buck's Forgotten Cryotron Computer

47

9

Countering Adversarial Images Using Input Transformations [pdf]

11

10

The Origin Story of ROS, the Linux of Robotics

9

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Do you need a VPN?

969

2

Trusting transferred root certificates

125

3

What are some of the most disliked programming languages?

93

4

What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages?

91

5

Azure Functions Now Support Java

68

6

How Docker's Support for Kubernetes Will Impact Developers – The New Stack

65

7

Going beyond the idiomatic Python

60

8

25 Ruby Gems I use in almost every SaaS project

30

9

Google: Security and Disinformation US 2016 Election

25

10

Bruce Schneier: A Self Study Course in Block-Cipher Cryptnalysis [pdf]

11

Tech blogs [?]

1

Internet Association Endorses Internet Censorship Bill

209

2

14TB Hard Drives Now Available

176

3

10 Year Old Bug Crushed by Hacker on a Mission

50

4

PCI-SIG Releases PCIe 4.0 Specs

46

5

Verizon Asks the FCC to Stops States from Protecting User Privacy

11

6

The Term “Homegrown Violent Extremist” Needs Transparency

9

7

Circuit Challenge: Two Transistor 3.3V Regulator

7

8

This Weekend: Celebrate the Life of Aaron Swartz at the Internet Archive

5

9

Apple says color and hue shifting, OLED burn-in expected on iPhone X

5

10

Silicon Valley Was Built on Tubes of Glass

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

130

2

Z-Order Indexing for Multifaceted Queries in Amazon DynamoDB

10

3

Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria?

3

4

Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition)

2

5

General Availability of Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility

2

6

Customers who use assistive technologies can upgrade to Windows 10 at no cost

2

7

AWS Application Load Balancers Support SNI

1

8

Startups: Mistakes to Avoid

1

9

Deploy Pivotal Cloud Foundry on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Dramatically Different World of ’70s Dating Ads

95

2

A Visit to a Synthetic Cadaver Factory

82

3

1900s ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe from Harassment

74

4

Tesla gives update on Model 3 production problems, delays ramp up by 3 months

45

5

How natural is numeracy?

19

6

We can end world poverty without destroying the planet

16

7

Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

16

8

How to Apply for a Job You’re Overqualified For

8

9

A Study of 1,100 Employees Found That Remote Workers Feel Shunned and Left Out

5

10

Tech Goes to DC

4

Science News [?]

1

An anti-aging strategy that works in mice is about to be tested in humans

221

2

How a destructive idea paved the way for modern math

209

3

What I Learned from Losing $200M (2015)

178

4

What boredom does to you

128

5

The new thermodynamics: how quantum physics is bending the rules

100

6

The Atomic Theory of Origami

89

7

Where Did the Fear of Poisoned Halloween Candy Come From? (2013)

87

8

Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious

83

9

D-Wave system used to detect particle signature of the Higgs boson

74

10

Experiments to identify potential neural mechanism in “feeling of presence”

71

Social [?]

1

What is backpropagation and what is it doing? [video]

645

2

Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads

494

3

Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20%

171

4

“realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error”

120

5

www.reddit.com/etc/passwd

103

6

Some people on Twitter can post 35k-char tweets

79

7

Carnival scam science, and how to win [video]

65

8

Draft of a story about wildlife crime was frozen for violating Google Docs' TOS

62

9

Why the cops won't help you when you're getting stabbed

49

10

Facebook employees opened a privately shared Google Sheet

46

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you”

527

2

VS Code Roadmap 2018

360

3

Bottery – A conversational agent prototyping platform

336

4

Evio – Fast event-loop networking for Go

281

5

Closh – Bash-like shell based on Clojure

259

6

Simple Virtual Machine in C

253

7

Effective Programs: 10 Years of Clojure

215

8

Deepo: a Docker image containing almost all popular deep learning frameworks

194

9

TensorFlow on a 256K RAM microcontroller

182

10

Create React apps using Kotlin

163

Wikipedia [?]

1

94

2

Legality of Bitcoin by Country or Territory

8

3

Swatch Internet Time

4

4

Knuth reward check

3

5

Digital physics

3

6

Keynesian beauty contest

3

7

Stockfish – open source chess engine

3

8

2

9

List of military nuclear accidents

2

10

Club Penguin Rewritten

2

Blogs [?]

1

We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)

910

2

Node.js 8 Moves into Long-Term Support, Node.js 9 Becomes Current Release Line

211

3

An Early Engineer's Guide to Early Stock Option Exercise

152

4

Stop supporting old releases

97

5

Users don’t need a password

65

6

Rebuilding Strava's Global Heatmap

32

7

Introducing Vega-Lite 2.0, a Grammar of Interactive Graphics

22

8

Ubuntu too slow? Try Lubuntu

18

9

ICO Review: US Dollar

17

10

Access Patterns in LSM Trees

16

Stackoverflow [?]

1

C++: What are move semantics?

3

2

Is it possible to implement bitwise operators using integer arithmetic?

3

3

How and when to align to cache line size

3

4

Performance of Map vs. Starmap

1

5

What should I name a table that maps two tables together?

1

Substack [?]