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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules

3384

2

Firefox is on a slippery slope

2023

3

Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to

1656

4

Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time

1214

5

We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change

1195

6

Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages

999

7

Statement on Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings

811

8

Exercism – Level up your programming skills

795

9

Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10

793

10

792

Top Ask HN

1

What software/service helps you be an effective remote developer?

284

2

Writing cover letters for tech jobs

265

3

Fully online CS degrees?

191

4

How to approach testing in Golang?

98

5

What are some sabbatical programs for working software engineers?

87

6

What's your favorite tech talk from 2017?

83

7

How do you stay focused while programming/working?

83

8

What is the reason behind the rise of cryptocurrency?

63

9

What can I do to acquire more freelancing projects/clients?

53

10

Is net neutrality overblown?

38

Top Show HN

1

Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game

1535

2

Culture Queries – The best questions to ask during your job interview

572

3

Enlight – Learn to code by building projects

322

4

LibreRead 1.0 – Self-Hosted Free Ebook Reader

210

5

Work at a Startup – Find a Job at a YC Company

210

6

Joy – a Go to JavaScript compiler

201

7

Sandglass – Distributed, scalable, persistent time-sorted message queue

188

8

Hiding code from Git diff

167

9

Servers.lol – Should Your EC2 Be a Lambda?

150

10

Python library for functional programming

129

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society

555

2

MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike

429

3

SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO

374

4

Tech luminaries call net neutrality vote an 'imminent threat'

279

5

Facebook wants your children's mind

203

6

Former Uber employees have gone into debt to exercise options they can’t sell

193

7

Nike’s Two Hour Marathon Attempt

168

8

The FCC says Net Neutrality cripples investment, but that's not true

161

9

Ed Lee, 65, SF mayor who had a close relationship with the tech world, has died

158

10

Y Combinator announces growth program for later-stage startups

153

News [?]

1

F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules

3384

2

France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools

505

3

Haemophilia A trial results 'mind-blowing'

431

4

The Pentagon’s U.F.O. Program

409

5

Why Aren’t Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financial Crisis? (2016)

407

6

CDC gets list of forbidden words

382

7

HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger

368

8

Net Neutrality Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal Was Written by Comcast Attorney

359

9

Estonia, the Digital Republic

351

10

FT Person of the Year: Susan Fowler

345

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Case for Learned Index Structures

398

2

Game Theory: Open Access textbook

271

3

Mathematics of Deep Learning [pdf]

220

4

$17B Modernization Plan for Puerto Rico's Grid

102

5

How Long Before Sodium Batteries Are Worth Their Salt?

71

6

Fourteen Years of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich

71

7

Super Smash Bros. Melee: An “Untouchable” Agent

64

8

Engineers create plants that glow

62

9

Information Extraction with Neural Networks and Free Noisy Supervision

60

10

Machine Teaching: Building Machine Learning Systems

59

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Encryption in Transit in Google Cloud

182

2

AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver

161

3

Kicking off Stripe’s private beta in India

126

4

88

5

A thorough introduction to eBPF

83

6

ES6 for beginners, part 3

64

7

Introducing Vireo: A Lightweight and Versatile Video Processing Library

61

8

Why Some Phishing Emails Are Mysteriously Disappearing

58

9

Google Home Max is now available

40

10

Amazon is the biggest threat to Bitcoin right now

25

Tech blogs [?]

1

Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime

726

2

Accident Forgiveness Comes to GPLv2

91

3

Western Digital to Use RISC-V for Controllers, Processors

78

4

Don’t Reauthorize NSA Spying in a Must-Pass Funding Bill

53

5

Phil Schiller Says iPad Pro Can Both Supplement and Replace the Mac

21

6

EFF: Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime

17

7

iMac Pro, Apple’s most powerful Mac, will be available to order December 14

12

8

How the Court System Is Abused to Chill Activist Speech

5

9

EFF to Court: Accessing Publicly Available Info on the Internet Is Not a Crime

3

10

Apple iMac Pro available 14.12 starting at $4999

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Single Sign-On

212

2

iMac Pro Available Now

92

3

Introducing Amazon Linux 2

71

4

Microsoft Announces Preview of Quantum Development Kit

10

5

David Kadavy's new book, “The Heart to Start” is free on Kindle today

5

6

CodeTalk: Rethinking IDE Accessibility

4

7

Hyper-V VMs to AWS with AWS Server Migration Available in the AWS GovCloud

3

8

iMac Pro available to order on the 14th of December

3

9

Quantum Development Kit from Microsoft

3

10

Microsoft Quantum Development Kit

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to

1656

2

How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay

701

3

Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines?

294

4

Does Life End at 35? (2013)

207

5

Maintenance often matters more than innovation (2016)

121

6

Archive.org is asking for donations

117

7

What Would You Pay to Keep Your Digital Footprint 100% Private?

63

8

In the Middle Ages, the Upper Class Went Nuts for Almond Milk

55

9

Why post sex cuddles and pillowtalk count for more than orgasm

4

10

Battery researchers claim lithium metal breakthrough can triple EV range

3

Science News [?]

1

Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research

624

2

Overcoming Us vs. Them

350

3

New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild

184

4

Near-miss math provides exact representations of almost-right answers

153

5

Does Peppa Pig encourage inappropriate use of primary care resources?

135

6

Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues

100

7

The science that’s never been cited

75

8

Cryptocurrency will always be political

68

9

Work on light-triggered genes overturns old assumptions about how memories form

55

10

Omega-3 fatty acid DHA has a role in diabetic retinopathy in mice

45

Social [?]

1

If your iPhone is slow, try replacing the battery

405

2

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]

227

3

The Mill CPU Architecture – Threading [video]

116

4

CBOE exchange website down minutes after releasing Bitcoin futures

82

5

Boom v2: Open-source out-of-order RISC-V core [video]

75

6

RISC-V Vector Extension overview and proposal [video]

70

7

Attracting high-paying clients to design and development agencies

67

8

Starbucks in-store wifi provider in Buenos Aires uses CoinHive

58

9

Apache Kafka – Scaling SQL with KStream and Kafka Connect

49

10

DuckDuckGo XSS vulnerability

46

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Learn Anything White Paper

300

2

A computer science study plan

270

3

A decentralised Universal Basic Income platform based on personal currencies

258

4

A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting costs down

209

5

DIY MacBook Stand

173

6

Son: A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine communication

143

7

A workshop for scientific computing in Python

98

8

30 seconds of code: Curated list of useful JavaScript snippets

75

9

Robot Operating System 2.0: Ardent Apalone Release

72

10

Awesome Open Source Indie – A curated list of small open source products

72

Wikipedia [?]

1

Differential Power Analysis

21

2

Zero to power zero

7

3

Legality of Bitcoin by Country or Territory

7

4

5

5

Indiana Pi Bill

3

6

Rope trick effect

3

7

SLAM – Simultaneous localization and mapping

3

8

3

9

Happy Human Rights Day, Humans of Hacker News

3

10

Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

3

Blogs [?]

1

REST is the new SOAP

581

2

Now that the FCC has repealed net neutrality, let’s adopt it in California

457

3

Statistics, we have a problem

295

4

How to break a Captcha system in 15 minutes with Machine Learning

257

5

Is AlphaZero really a breakthrough in AI?

114

6

Kubernetes Best Practices

74

7

Every Computer Scientist Should Have a Creative Hobby

64

8

Simplicity Before Generality, Use Before Reuse

58

9

Turning Vim into an R IDE

53

10

Tim Berners-Lee: Act now to save the internet as we know it

50

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Kubernetes vs. Apache Mesos

3

2

You wouldn't use regexes to parse HTML. (2009)

2

3

Hidden cost of Swift closures

2

4

What is the most impressive Lisp application?

2

5

Is file append atomic in Unix?

2

6

W3C vs. WHATWG. Which gives the most authoritative HTML spec?

2

7

SQL Schema design question – delete flags

1

8

TensorFlow, why was python the chosen language?

1

Substack [?]