Go dark
Top HN Stories
[from
Nov 12, 2017
to
Nov 19, 2017
)
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
W10
W11
W12
W13
W14
W15
W16
W17
W18
W19
W20
W21
W22
W23
W24
W25
W26
W27
W28
W29
W30
W31
W32
W33
W34
W35
W36
W37
W38
W39
W40
W41
W42
W43
W44
W45
W46
W47
W48
W49
W50
W51
W52
Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
How Firefox Got Fast Again
2180
2
Firefox 57.0 Released
1692
3
Tesla Roadster
1261
4
Using SVG as image placeholders
983
5
Tesla Semi
922
6
Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom
873
7
Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux
796
8
The fake Facebook profile industry
795
9
Security alerts on GitHub
697
10
Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support
662
Top Ask HN
1
Best way to get started with AI?
709
2
What are some interesting papers in CS for a beginner?
534
3
What are best tools for web scraping?
502
4
What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
408
5
Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
187
6
Why are supercomputers all running Linux and not BSD?
132
7
Best tech for a web site 2018? (PHP, Rails, Django, Node, Go, etc.)?
109
8
Firefox vs. Chrome security
82
9
What are the not-so obvious things to consider while API integration?
74
10
What are your favorite browser extensions/add-ons for Firefox or chrome?
69
Top Show HN
1
Datasette – Create and publish an API for SQLite databases
269
2
Chord Progressions
161
3
Free Math, an offline React app for managing digital math homework
138
4
Erlang REST framework
96
5
Sanity – A Headless CMS Construction Kit in JavaScript
90
6
2D Isometric Editor
78
7
Forsh – A Unix shell embedded in Forth
76
8
Email controlled gate opener in 20 lines of shell
73
9
Quickfix, the best stupid idea for fixing problems in Node modules
61
10
Dramatiq – An alternative to Celery
53
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux
796
2
All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
371
3
Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off
302
4
The Apple Watch can detect hypertension and sleep apnea, a new study suggests
227
5
TechShop shuts down all U.S. locations, declares bankruptcy
214
6
Mozilla terminates its deal with Yahoo and makes Google the default in Firefox
184
7
Uber confirms SoftBank has agreed to invest
180
8
Kaspersky: Yes, we obtained NSA secrets. No, we didn’t help steal them
166
9
Jeff Bezos’ guide to life
161
10
No big deal, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas can perform backflips now
148
News [?]
1
Orcas have learned how to drown great white sharks
404
2
The FCC has repealed a 42-year-old rule blocking broadcast media mergers
368
3
Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the future
366
4
Germany bans children's smartwatches
365
5
Qualcomm rejects Broadcom's $103B takeover proposal
349
6
Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early
337
7
FCC plans to vote to overturn U.S. net neutrality rules in December
327
8
Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A.
311
9
The Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss
303
10
Trade school, not 4-year college, is a better bet to solve the US income gap
292
Scientific publications [?]
1
The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial
248
2
Towards Linux Kernel Memory Safety
144
3
The Xerox Alto Struts Its Stuff on Its 40th Birthday
112
4
Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
73
5
Quantum magic: A skeptical perspective (2011)
62
6
DLPaper2Code: Auto-Generation of Code from Deep Learning Research Papers
25
7
Breaking the Softmax Bottleneck: A High-Rank RNN Language Model
4
8
Development of a Short Sleeper Phenotype After Third Ventriculostomy
4
9
Learning Explanatory Rules from Noisy Data [pdf]
3
10
Souper: A Synthesizing Superoptimizer
3
Dev Blogs [?]
1
WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers
574
2
Go, don't collect my garbage
272
3
Brilliant Jerks in Engineering
267
4
Introducing Twitter premium APIs
245
5
Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
225
6
Google Maps Gets a New Look
114
7
Linux 4.14 released
109
8
XFS for Linux 4.15 Brings “Great Scads of New Stuff”
58
9
Introducing the New Firefox: Firefox Quantum
56
10
Dramatic Shifts in Technologies on Stack Overflow
47
Tech blogs [?]
1
TSA Plans to Use Face Recognition to Track Americans Through Airports
251
2
Intel to Launch 3D XPoint DIMMs in 2H 2018
79
3
Apple delaying HomePod smart speaker launch until next year
27
4
A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology
18
5
Weather Station That Needs Almost No Batteries
9
6
The Perils of Developing the Hackaday Superconference Badge
7
7
The FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act Restricts Congress, Not Surveillance
6
8
What Actually Happens at a Hardware Hacking Con
6
9
EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance Project Dissects Police Technology
5
10
Boeing 757 Hacked by DHS in Cybersecurity Test
3
FAANG+ [?]
1
New AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Machine Learning Practitioners
79
2
Announcing ONNX Support for Apache MXNet
40
3
EC2 Update – X1e Instances in Five More Sizes and a Stronger SLA
30
4
Microsoft extends AirSim to include autonomous car research
12
5
Introducing Cloud Native Networking for Amazon ECS Containers – AWS Compute Blog
4
6
EC2 X1e Instances in 5 More Sizes and Stronger EC2 SLA
4
7
Building a Hotdog Detecting Slack App
4
8
New AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Machine Learning Practitioners – AWS AI Blog
4
9
AWS IAM Policy Visual Editor
3
10
Building a Hotdog Detecting App on AWS–Yes, Really
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
I still love Kierkegaard
189
2
The evolution of eyes
152
3
GOTO.js
91
4
Do civilisations collapse?
16
5
Balthild Seal Matrix
12
6
Fisker: electric car battery with “500 miles range and 1 min charging”
7
7
Austrian Supreme Court orders ISPs to block “structurally-infringing” sites
5
8
What the Internet Cannot Do (2000)
4
9
A big 48 MWh Tesla Powerpack system will power the island of Nantucket
4
10
The small business myth
4
Science News [?]
1
Science and Tech of the Byzantine Empire
174
2
The axolotl has nearly disappeared from its natural habitat
164
3
Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter
160
4
Physics Has Demoted Mass
157
5
Choosy Eggs May Pick Sperm for Their Genes, Defying Mendel’s Law
157
6
The Beautiful Intelligence of Bacteria and Other Microbes
150
7
Real-time dynamics of CRISPR visualized by high-speed atomic force microscopy
136
8
Arecibo Telescope Wins Reprieve from U.S. Government
94
9
How to Tell If You’re a Jerk
94
10
Vanu Bose, software pioneer and MIT Corporation member, dies at 52
84
Social [?]
1
Confession as an AI researcher; seeking advice
346
2
Backdoor with root access found from OnePlus phones
317
3
The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history
237
4
How Rust Gets Polymorphism Right [video]
153
5
Tech Industry: “We desperately need more developers”
76
6
Matt Blaze Recounts Teenaged Harassment By John Draper
72
7
A pile of matchboxes that can learn [video]
71
8
Australia's Economy Is a House of Cards
51
9
What Quantum Computing Isn't
51
10
NodeConfEU 2017 Videos
46
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Security alerts on GitHub
697
2
Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support
662
3
Span<T> in C#
326
4
SQL Operations Studio
299
5
Puffs: Parsing Untrusted File Formats Safely
200
6
Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS
185
7
Cquery: highly-scalable, low-latency language server for C++
183
8
Vis – A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
170
9
SearX: Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
162
10
Tosheets, utility to send stdin to Google sheets
161
Wikipedia [?]
1
Killer whales of Eden, Australia
6
2
List of Wikipedia controversies
4
3
Seattle Freeze
3
4
Heirloom plant
3
5
List of mathematical symbols
3
6
Assyrian genocide
3
7
Margaret Hamilton (scientist)
3
8
Battle of the Golden Spurs (AKA Battle of Courtrai)
2
9
Jugaad
2
10
Canadian Gaelic
2
Blogs [?]
1
Using SVG as image placeholders
983
2
There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use
530
3
Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts
313
4
Understanding Hinton’s Capsule Networks, Part I: Intuition
276
5
The Cost of JavaScript
177
6
Understanding LSTM and its diagrams
125
7
Why software engineers don’t get jobs: Three horror stories
96
8
How to Destroy Bitcoin with 51%
78
9
Australia's economy is a house of cards
69
10
How APIs Work – An Analogy for Dummies
63
Stackoverflow [?]
1
The diversity of SQL formatting standards
5
2
Why is C++ code faster than handwritten assembly for testing Collatz conjecture?
4
Substack [?]