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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password
3001
2
Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers
1089
3
Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills
937
4
Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already
854
5
Asking members to support journalism, The Guardian raises more revenue than ads
841
6
Hello, world: this is WikiTribune
830
7
Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed
828
8
Deep image prior 'learns' on just one image
782
9
Netflix Stole My VHS Cassette Photos for Its Stranger Things Boxed Set
780
10
After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrusters
740
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (December 2017)
592
2
Time Management Tricks and Tips
219
3
Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable?
197
4
What coding challenge sites should I try next?
138
5
How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?
130
6
What are the big differences working at a startup, bigco, old smallco?
97
7
Best books you read in 2017?
84
8
What tips do you have for weathering a recession?
77
9
How did you meet your spouse?
74
10
What are your long-term goals?
68
Top Show HN
1
Golang DNS server, including DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS
283
2
Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go
196
3
Shazam-like acoustic fingerprinting of continuous audio streams
158
4
Ondevice SSH – Terminal emulator for devices without public IP address
152
5
3D Game Programming using bitblting in Windows
109
6
Freeciv WebGL 3D
105
7
Angelic-hierarchy, a game about Turing machines, philosophy, and math
95
8
Airport Locations from Around the World
87
9
Merchant.js, a state framework for creating idle games
86
10
Listen Notes Podcast Search API
80
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrusters
740
2
Astonishing OS X bug lets anyone log into a High Sierra machine
427
3
MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's “root” Bug Patch
426
4
Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)
426
5
AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012
410
6
Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
402
7
Members of congress who voted to reverse FCC web browsing privacy rule
378
8
HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs
371
9
Expensify sent images with personal data to Mechanical Turkers
253
10
Australian uses snack bags as Faraday cage to block tracking by employer
252
News [?]
1
Judge Tells Uber Lawyer: ‘It Looks Like You Covered This Up’
469
2
Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships
442
3
Woman offers WaPo false tale about Roy Moore in effort to discredit the paper
433
4
Nasdaq Plans to Introduce Bitcoin Futures
416
5
Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago
394
6
American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take the Holidays Off
364
7
Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting
358
8
U.S. judge says Uber withheld evidence, delays Waymo trial
344
9
Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands
290
10
Bitcoin hits $10,000
283
Scientific publications [?]
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50 Years Ago Jocelyn Bell Discovered Pulsars
180
2
Not Your Father’s Analog Computer
115
3
Physicists make most precise measurement ever of the proton's magnetic moment
88
4
The information capacity of a single photon (2012)
62
5
Consumers and Curators: Browsing and Voting Patterns on Reddit
37
6
Velodyne Unveils Monster Lidar with 128 Laser Beams
23
7
Neural Text Generation: A Practical Guide [pdf]
15
8
Controllable Cyborg Beetles for Swarming Search and Rescue
9
9
109 Microwave Towers Bring the Internet to Remote Alaska Villages
6
10
Do HN members read before voting? This Reddit study found their subjects didn't
5
Dev Blogs [?]
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Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
521
2
AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Including Nitro
155
3
Cloudflare Reports Massive Slowdown in Network Level DDoS Attacks
136
4
Blocking Top-Level Navigations to Data URLs for Firefox 58
118
5
Finance information on Google
108
6
Name+DOB+SSN=FAFSA Data Gold Mine
86
7
Cavium Is an Arm Server Contender
86
8
A Deep Dive into NEC’s Aurora Vector Engine
85
9
Startup books and podcasts: making the most of a longer commute
83
10
The decline of Stack Overflow
48
Tech blogs [?]
1
DRM’s Dead Canary: How We Lost the Web, What We Learned, and What to Do Next
660
2
Apple’s Secure Enclave Processor (SEP) Firmware Decrypted
230
3
Officials Don't Get to Choose Who Gets to Receive, Comment, and Reply to Tweets
213
4
Miniaturizing a Mac
178
5
Congress Shouldn't Turn the Copyright Office into a Copyright Court
81
6
Start Tracking Satellites with This Low-Cost Azimuth-Elevation Positioner
62
7
House Internet Censorship Bill Is Just Like the Senate Bill, Except Worse
9
8
Major MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Full Admin Access Without Password
6
9
EFF Receives Award for Providing Public Access to Police Surveillance Records
5
10
EFF Supports Berkeley's Surveillance Tech Use and Community Safety Ordinance
5
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure
533
2
EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware
385
3
Amazon EKS – Highly available and scalable Kubernetes service
355
4
AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and off-line capabilities
310
5
Amazon Neptune – Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud
286
6
Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences
274
7
AWS Cloud9 – Cloud Developer Environments
210
8
Amazon FreeRTOS – IoT operating system for microcontrollers
193
9
AWS Media Services – Process, Store, and Monetize Cloud-Based Video
180
10
AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers
173
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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YouTube monetization analysis
354
2
Ajit Pai is right
211
3
Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 gigawatts worth
163
4
When Gas Masks Were an Inescapable Part of Everyday Life
47
5
Clearing Up Some Myths About Victorian ‘Post-Mortem’ Photographs
44
6
Pro-Neutrality, Anti-Title II
18
7
Solar powered smart windows break 11% efficiency, can provide 80% US electricity
12
8
“Light Touch”, Cable, and DSL; the Broadband Tradeoff; Importance of Antitrust
8
9
Genetic algorithm for building Hearthstone decks
4
10
Reverse engineering YouTube’s demonetization algorithm
4
Science News [?]
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Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015)
571
2
When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?
228
3
Advances in number theory inspired by physics
214
4
Fast desktop-scale extrusion 3D printing
185
5
Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”
160
6
What if consciousness is not what drives the human mind?
148
7
Ways to fix statistics
134
8
Babies who get more cuddles have their genetics changed for years, study shows
128
9
Why a Hedge Fund Started a Video Game Competition
127
10
A faster way to make Bose-Einstein condensates
101
Social [?]
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macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password
3001
2
App with local notification will crash iOS Springboard on Dec. 2
167
3
Hidden Cameras in AirBnBs
153
4
BTC addresses whose private keys are from SHA256 of another public address
142
5
How to buy a Dell laptop with the Intel ME disabled from the factory
134
6
A good resource for financial advice to share with people in their twenties?
125
7
Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” – Talks at Google [video]
112
8
Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)
112
9
Elon Musk: Falcon Heavy's first payload will be my Tesla Roadster to Mars
92
10
Tutorial: Building a collaborative text editor over IPFS with Yjs in 10 minutes
62
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills
937
2
Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal
474
3
Is Filecoin a $257 million Ponzi scheme? [pdf]
272
4
Git hash function transition plan
215
5
A handy guide to financial support for open source
175
6
Faster: Fast numerical calculations in Rust
163
7
Bucket Stream: Finding S3 Buckets by watching certificate transparency logs
122
8
Stacks-cli: Analyze a website’s stack from the terminal
116
9
Pride, Prejudice
95
10
Unified GAN for Image-to-Image translation
90
Wikipedia [?]
1
Crush, Texas
179
2
Enteric nervous system
18
3
Tulip Mania
5
4
Inner-platform effect
4
5
Reversible computing
4
6
0.999
3
7
Eggnog
3
8
Sinclair Black Watch (wristwatch)
3
9
List of failed assassination attempts
3
10
How Did Christianity Manage to Grow into 3 Continents?
2
Blogs [?]
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Charging for our product originally hurt but ultimately saved our startup
271
2
What's a reference in Rust?
242
3
What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today
181
4
Why your programmers just want to code
165
5
How Easy and Cheap It Is to Manipulate Reddit Discussions
157
6
Big tech is built on predatory pricing
157
7
Vitalik Unveils Ethereum 2.0 Roadmap
156
8
Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Rails
122
9
What's worked in Computer Science (2015)
118
10
The impossibility of intelligence explosion
114
Stackoverflow [?]
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How should I ethically approach user password storage for plaintext retrieval?
2
2
Creating a range in JavaScript, cleverly
2
3
Using Selenium to test Polymer elements and shadow DOMs
1
4
What is the optimal algorithm for the game 2048?
1
Substack [?]