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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

AMA: NY AG Schneiderman on net neutrality and protecting our voice in government

1126

2

The Big Vitamin D Mistake

756

3

Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin

675

4

Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle

660

5

Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

572

6

Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps

556

7

Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning

539

8

Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back

527

9

Oregon punished an engineer for criticizing red-light cameras. He fought and won

518

10

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf]

516

Top Ask HN

1

Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code

513

2

CS and programming books of 2017

205

3

What to do if you hate working for someone else and arent an entrepreneur?

180

4

Who hires mathematicians?

165

5

I'm a solopreneur and I feel demoralised

137

6

Which skills are essential for a developer to join a blockchain startup?

111

7

What is your Golang web-dev tech stack?

98

8

In your company, how important is code quality vs. getting things done

94

9

What should I know before I invest fully in CSS grid?

76

10

How do you get better at coding?

60

Top Show HN

1

Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

273

2

SeKey: An SSH Agent for OS X, Using Secure Enclave and TouchID, in Rust

169

3

A New, Clean Geolocation API

167

4

Misocoin – A barebones Bitcoin-like protocol implemented in Python 3.6

151

5

Effects of House and Senate Bill on California Residents

140

6

Counting Foot Traffic Over IP Webcams

133

7

Go Freaking Do It – Smart contract for reaching your goals

128

8

Echo Podcasts – Goodreads for podcasts

116

9

Tax plan impact calculator

114

10

A proxy service for debugging HTTP/S traffic

74

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say

419

2

Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons

410

3

Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV

332

4

Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section

268

5

I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor

263

6

A Spectator Who Threw a Wrench in the Waymo/Uber Lawsuit

260

7

FCC won’t delay vote, says net neutrality supporters are “desperate”

245

8

How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop

239

9

Zeta Global acquires Disqus (YC S07)

217

10

People have spent over $1M buying virtual cats on the Ethereum blockchain

165

News [?]

1

Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

572

2

Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps

556

3

Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back

527

4

Oregon punished an engineer for criticizing red-light cameras. He fought and won

518

5

I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it

478

6

The compelling case for working less

461

7

Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows

423

8

Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating

397

9

Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy

388

10

Japan eyes startup visa program

372

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Big Vitamin D Mistake

756

2

Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning

539

3

Behind the Scenes at Xerox Parc’s Futures Day – 40 Years Ago

93

4

Learning Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms Over Graphs

88

5

Safe Pointers in SPARK 2014

70

6

Microwave Towers Bring the Internet to Remote Alaska Villages

52

7

MRAM-Like Device Could Make Logic Run Backwards

46

8

A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture

42

9

Will humans write code in 2040?

42

10

Grasshopper problem yields insight into quantum theory

21

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Web Assembly now supported across all browsers

240

2

Mozilla Files Cross-Complaint Against Yahoo Holdings and Oath

239

3

Android 8.1 Oreo

152

4

Google for India: Building India-first products and features

139

5

Power9 to the People

125

6

Reinventing the FPGA Programming Wheel

66

7

The Booming Server Market in the Wake of Skylake

64

8

CSS Grid is better than Bootstrap for creating layouts

59

9

Make SSL boring again

44

10

My most common code review suggestions

44

Tech blogs [?]

1

Microsoft launches Windows 10 on ARM

374

2

Nvidia Announces “Titan V” Video Card: GV100 for $3000

154

3

The FCC Still Doesn’t Know How the Internet Works

73

4

Protect Your Right to Repair and Control the Devices in Your Life

14

5

Apple begins selling unlocked and SIM-free iPhone X in the U.S

11

6

The FCC Still Doesn’t Know How the Internet Works

9

7

Court Recognizes First Amendment Right to Anonymity After Speakers Lose Lawsuits

8

8

Coinbase becomes the most downloaded iPhone app in the U.S

5

9

AMD Makes a Surprise Appearance: Ryzen Mobile with Qualcomm LTE

3

10

0day iOS HomeKit vuln allowed remote access to smart accessories including locks

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Macie: A machine learning service to discover and protect sensitive data

117

2

Amazon Route 53 Releases Auto Naming API for Service Name Management/Discovery

88

3

Amazon Prime Video arrives on Apple TV in over 100 countries

27

4

Amazon Sample Boxes

5

5

Explore AWS Data Centers

4

6

Access Multiple AWS Accounts with AWS SSO

3

7

T2 Unlimited – Going Beyond the Burst with High Performance – AWS News Blog

3

8

Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep Learning

3

9

All AWS Re:Invent 2017 Product Annoucements on One Page

3

10

AWS Educate Now Available to Students Ages 14 and Up

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom

122

2

The Last Death-Defying Honey Hunter of Nepal

108

3

Notes Towards an Emularity

25

4

How to Stay Focused When You’re Working from Home

16

5

The mystery of the blend (2009)

12

6

The Most and Least Digital Jobs – And How Well They Pay

9

7

Elon Musk confirms that Tesla is working on its own new AI chip

7

8

How to fight work bullshit (and keep your job and your dignity)

6

9

Black holes are simpler than forests and science has its limits

5

10

The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl’s Apples

4

Science News [?]

1

Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and play more creatively

468

2

Nations agree to ban fishing in Arctic Ocean for at least 16 years

293

3

Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

255

4

‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem (2015)

160

5

Bat cave solves mystery of SARS virus

96

6

The Resulting Fallacy Ruins Decisions: An Interview with Annie Duke

57

7

Use machine learning to find energy materials

56

8

Capgras syndrome gives us a unique insight into the digital age (2016)

53

9

Taking a Second Look at the Learn-To-Code Craze

48

10

The microscope makers

40

Social [?]

1

macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

424

2

Steve Jobs on how to hire, manage, and lead people [video]

235

3

Lisp at the Frontier of Computation [video]

202

4

Don't Talk to the Police (2012)

190

5

The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ milliseconds is exactly 1 day

184

6

Why Are Data Science Leaders Running for the Exit?

116

7

Lectures from Princeton on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies

102

8

Integration tests are a symptom of poor design

71

9

7th RISC-V conference videos

52

10

Universal Basic Income Explained – Free Money for Everybody? [video]

31

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Kubeflow – Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes

203

2

Barliman – real-time program synthesis to make the programmer's life easier

186

3

Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models

179

4

A TensorFlow implementation of Baidu's DeepSpeech architecture

156

5

Mal Lisp for TempleOS

120

6

Nix-build freezes system on macOS High Sierra with multi-user install

116

7

Zbox – Zero-knowledge, privacy-focused embeddable file system written in Rust

112

8

2KB JavaScript animation library

59

9

Essential Guide to keep up with AI/ML/CV

35

10

Save net neutrality in the US

29

Wikipedia [?]

1

85

2

67

3

6

4

3

5

Ponzi schemes caused the Albanian Civil War of 1997

3

6

Est! Est!! Est!!!

3

7

Decision Fatigue

3

8

Apple III – a fascinating failure with lessons for today

2

9

Chesterton's fence

2

10

Student Boilersuits

2

Blogs [?]

1

Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle

660

2

Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting

250

3

Microsoft leaks TLS private key for cloud ERP product

210

4

Is there data on the quality of management decisions?

178

5

1.4B Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database

155

6

Taking a sabbatical to work on Ruby profiling tools

128

7

Normalization of deviance in software: broken practices become standard (2015)

125

8

The Dark Underbelly of Women Who Code and Google Women Techmakers

103

9

Could the Nuclear Family Be the Reason We’re All Miserable?

102

10

What's Happening with Bitcoin Prices

93

Stackoverflow [?]

1

StackOverflow breaks 15M questions

11

2

Using HTML5/Canvas/JavaScript to take in-browser screenshots

2

3

“243,583,606,221,817,150,598,111,409x more entropy”

1

Substack [?]