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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People

1720

2

Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will

1466

3

FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see

1330

4

Join the Battle for Net Neutrality

1269

5

I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality

966

6

Google collects cell tower info even if location services are disabled

953

7

My unusual hobby

856

8

An Open Letter to the FCC

849

9

Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code

793

10

More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked

766

Top Ask HN

1

CS papers for software architecture and design?

525

2

I'm lonely. Are there any video chat support groups for solo founders?

293

3

How can we stop the plan to end net neutrality?

248

4

What are hardware development learning web tutorials?

222

5

Books on specific topics that have applied to many areas of your life?

204

6

Resources on how to improve abstract thinking skills?

195

7

How do you read programming books?

186

8

We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?

185

9

High functioning alcoholism – anyone?

172

10

How to deal with inexperienced interviewers?

102

Top Show HN

1

Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

572

2

LogoFox – fast logo maker

431

3

Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep

345

4

Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

328

5

Boltzmann Machines in TensorFlow with Examples: RBM, DBM, AIS

201

6

OhMyCo.in – Real-time charts for cryptocurrency markets

167

7

Node.js node_modules file pruning

111

8

Example of a polyglot microservice app

92

9

Product job board created with Vue.js

71

10

Coinmon – Check Bitcoin Prices in Terminal

68

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google collects cell tower info even if location services are disabled

953

2

Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017

454

3

Intel will ship processors with integrated AMD graphics and memory

270

4

John Lasseter taking a leave of absence amid reports of inappropriate behavior

205

5

The Last of the Iron Lungs

194

6

Ajit Pai and the FCC want it to be legal for Comcast to block BitTorrent

162

7

Last Words of Programmer Bill Zeller (2011)

145

8

Studies suggest that many inventors do their best work at later stages

140

9

Some Instacart workers to strike over pay that can be as low as $1 per hour

132

10

Cryptocurrencies described in four words or less

127

News [?]

1

Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People

1720

2

FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see

1330

3

I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality

966

4

Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs

627

5

A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm

600

6

Workers at Amazon's main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday

419

7

The first known object to enter our solar system from deep space

377

8

We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself

374

9

Warning Signs About Another Giant Bitcoin Exchange

360

10

Norway Idea to Exit Oil Stocks Is ‘Shot Heard Around the World’

343

Scientific publications [?]

1

Sending a Spacecraft to the Interstellar Asteroid

223

2

Willow Garage and the Making of the Robot Operating System

75

3

Building the World’s Smallest Atomic Clock: A Nitrogen Atom in a Carbon Cage

62

4

A General Neural Network Hardware Architecture on FPGA [pdf]

42

5

iRobot is testing software to make sense of all the rooms in a house

41

6

Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6 month olds

40

7

Solar System’s First Interstellar Visitor Dazzles Scientists

6

8

WebAssembly Will Finally Let You Run High-Performance Applications in Browser

5

9

Shift: A Zero FLOP, Zero Parameter Alternative to Spatial Convolutions [pdf]

5

10

Necessary Vitamin D intake is 10x higher than currently recommended by the NIH

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked

766

2

Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Go

498

3

Extensions in Firefox 58

287

4

Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is Faster?

262

5

Deleting $300M by messing around with Ethereum contracts

60

6

The Moral Bankruptcy of Manipulating Human Psychology to Turn Users into Addicts

58

7

The Declaration of Neutrality – Internet Freedom as a Constitutional Right

44

8

Cloudflare Warp

18

9

More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked

13

10

How repealing net-neutrality could destroy my small business

11

Tech blogs [?]

1

Joan Feynman Found Her Place in the Sun

176

2

Court Rules That EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month Post Is Protected Speech

163

3

Treasury Department Concludes Fraud Investigation into Internet Safety Software

88

4

A Callout: Parts for an Iron Lung

69

5

iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On ‘Hey Siri’

69

6

We Fight to Defend the Open Internet

28

7

NSA Internet Surveillance Under Section 702 Violates the First Amendment

9

8

A Look at Chinese Value Manufacturing

9

9

Database of the Time Lords

8

10

HTTPS Everywhere

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

Better Random Number Generation for OpenSSL, Libc, and Linux Mainline

265

2

Announcing the New AWS Secret Region

206

3

AWS Amplify: JavaScript Open Source Library with React, React Native Extensions

178

4

Amazon EC2 Service Level Agreement

21

5

Amazon RDS offers 16TB storage

7

6

AWS Cost Explorer API

7

7

Introducing the Amazon ML Solutions Lab

6

8

4

9

LambdaEdge Now Supports Content-Based Dynamic Origin Selection

3

10

Introducing AWS Glue: A Simple, Flexible, and Cost-Effective ETL Service

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

A Man Who Has Lived Alone on an Island for 28 Years

461

2

Theories of civilisational ‘collapse’ grow less convincing when scrutinised

152

3

Sci-Hub Loses Domain Names, but Remains Resilient

39

4

Tesla releases ‘expected price’ of semi electric truck: $150,000 to $200,000

17

5

Japanese-Style Entrepreneurship: Interview with Softbank’s Masayoshi Son (1992)

7

6

Western philosophy is racist

6

7

Google and Apple Order Telegram to Nuke Channel Over Taylor Swift Piracy

6

8

Why use Google?

4

9

Harassment is more common when management is dominated by men

4

10

Tesla Model 3 Orders Opened to Regular Reservation Holders (non-employees)

3

Science News [?]

1

Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male researchers

378

2

The World Is Running Out of Sand

214

3

Armed with tough computer chips, scientists are ready to return to Venus

147

4

Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Earthquakes

121

5

Nuclear Power Professionals Are Serious About Joking

118

6

AI-controlled brain implants for mood disorders tested in people

116

7

A helium-resistant material could finally usher in the age of nuclear fusion

94

8

New Number Systems Seek Their Lost Primes

83

9

Lightning makes new isotopes

70

10

Rebuilding Quantum Theory From Simple Physical Principles

69

Social [?]

1

“I fell down a bit of a ruins research rabbit-hole”

586

2

How do I permanently delete my account?

340

3

Slaughterbots: Stop Autonomous Weapons [video]

215

4

Cloudflare Might Be Exploring a Way to Slow Down Ajit Pai's Home Internet Speed

145

5

Capsule Networks Tutorial [video]

140

6

A Case Study in LASP and Distribution at Scale [video]

117

7

Due to Bitcoin network fees, customer loses $10 trying to buy $25 game on Steam

115

8

Tim Ferris comments on his move from Silicon Valley

83

9

Tim Ferris comments on his move from Silicon Valley

75

10

What is our action plan against foreign interference?

29

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code

793

2

Team Discussions

236

3

Ditching Go for Node.js

234

4

Gofpdf: Generate PDFs from Go with No Dependencies

168

5

A simple webpack starter without a framework

71

6

BountySource suspended from GitHub

67

7

A list of Game Boy development resources

63

8

Simh/simh: The Computer History Simulation Project

55

9

Minecase – A distributed Minecraft server in .NET Core

52

10

Control VoIP server clusters with Python's asyncio

41

Wikipedia [?]

1

Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat

212

2

107

3

Beer distribution game

21

4

5

5

United Fruit Company

4

6

Inferno (operating system)

3

7

The Uncanny Valley

3

8

Colon classification (Faceted classification)

3

9

The Life and Work of Dr. Rakhmabai Raut

2

10

Chiquita Bananas intimidated farmers with AK47s, death squads

2

Blogs [?]

1

An Open Letter to the FCC

849

2

Cortana is really bad

439

3

A minimalist guide to tmux

267

4

I don’t want to be a software developer anymore

256

5

How do groups work on Linux?

239

6

Of SVG, Minification and Gzip

217

7

Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten

202

8

SWORD dropbox: An OpenWRT-based DIY disposable pen-test tool

76

9

You're not a hustler. You're a bull-shitter

75

10

Fighting for Open Source Sustainability: Introducing Code Sponsor

69

Stackoverflow [?]

1

PHP expects T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM?

1

2

Creating folders on GitHub.com repo without using Git

1

Substack [?]