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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Google Maps' Moat
1960
2
Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations
1209
3
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads
1186
4
Magic Leap One
1115
5
Chrome is Not the Standard
807
6
WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities
795
7
How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
780
8
Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year
758
9
Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
701
10
Boardgame.io: State management and more for turn-based games
657
Top Ask HN
1
Has working remotely harmed your career growth?
214
2
How can I learn computer security?
181
3
Why is Docker so popular in comparison to other containerization tech?
144
4
How can I become a self-taught software engineer?
119
5
Is it too late to find a mentor after 30 for a software developer?
118
6
Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI
107
7
Resources for learning about boot loaders?
102
8
Books you read in 2017?
76
9
Any open source code/materials on predicting future crimes based on data?
62
10
What is the best book you read on 2017?
61
Top Show HN
1
An educational blockchain implementation in Python
412
2
Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents
285
3
Termipal – native micro-GUIs for shell scripts and command line apps
195
4
Byte Arena – Code Your Fighter Bot
179
5
Project Management as Code with Graphviz
122
6
Darkwire.io – instant encrypted web chat (Socket.io and Web Crypto API)
118
7
All Politicians in Switzerland
113
8
Using word vectors to classify spam messages
104
9
Cryptocurrency portfolio app on Blockstack
94
10
Cr – Runs your tasks at maximum concurrency
83
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning against municipal broadband
346
2
Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today
284
3
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket sets up at Cape Canaveral ahead of launch
275
4
Sam Altman: ‘Too many’ Y Combinator companies raise money
269
5
I got locked out of my Google account for a month
257
6
IPhones start slowing down after a year
197
7
Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
193
8
Haven: Snowden's New App Turns Your Phone into a Home Security System
172
9
By ditching usernames, OKCupid is removing a crucial protective barrier
171
10
Volvo is reportedly scaling back its self-driving car experiment
148
News [?]
1
WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities
795
2
120M American Households Exposed In 'Massive' ConsumerView Database Leak
465
3
Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda
419
4
US Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted
394
5
Tiananmen Square 1989 death toll was at least 10,000 according to UK documents
362
6
Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps to Create One User Experience
350
7
Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk
346
8
Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court
340
9
Older Adults' Forgetfulness Tied to Faulty Brain Rhythms in Sleep
334
10
The Google-Facebook Duopoly Threatens Diversity of Thought
319
Scientific publications [?]
1
A High School Student Building Integrated Circuits
400
2
Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on HDDs
125
3
Genetic Algorithms for Training Deep Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning
124
4
Where’s the Next Silicon Valley? VC Is Betting on the Midwest
99
5
Researchers discover how cells remember infections decades later
95
6
A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers' Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk
51
7
New study shows how birds work to sing together
40
8
Demonstration of Two-Qubit Algorithms with a Quantum Processor (2009)
32
9
Visual to Sound: Generating Natural Sound for Videos in the Wild
25
10
Mysterious alien cigar 'asteroid' is interstellar lump of ice, not a spaceship
9
Dev Blogs [?]
1
New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff
432
2
Update: Looking Glass Add-On
393
3
Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably
357
4
“Username or password is incorrect” is bullshit
244
5
AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
216
6
I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games
172
7
Busting myths about BigQuery
108
8
Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior
70
9
A FactoryFactoryFactory in Production
69
10
The end of the Iceweasel Age (2016)
45
Tech blogs [?]
1
We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill
412
2
Microsoft Surface Book 2 15-inch Review
63
3
Apple Being Sued for 'Purposefully Slowing Down Older iPhone Models'
12
4
Apple cracking down on template apps
12
5
Motivational Health Messaging LLC Gets a Patent on Sending Uplifting Texts
8
6
Team Internet Far from Done: What's Next for Net Neutrality and How You Can Help
7
7
EFF Asks Copyright Office to Improve Exemptions to the DMCA
7
8
Apple Updates App Store Guidelines to Relax Restrictive Rules on Template Apps
4
9
Apple Being Sued for 'Purposefully Slowing Down Older iPhone Models'
4
10
Safari in Arms Race Against Trackers – Criteo Feels the Heat
4
FAANG+ [?]
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Exploiting Vector Instructions with Generalized Stream Fusion [pdf]
32
2
Build a Serverless Web Application
26
3
Introducing the New GDPR Center and Navigating GDPR Compliance on AWS Whitepaper
22
4
Get Google Chrome Installer – Microsoft Store
13
5
Now Open AWS EU (Paris) Region
11
6
Amazon Linux 2 – Modern, Stable, and Enterprise-Friendly
5
7
Run Kubernetes on Your Laptop
3
8
A Digital Geneva Convention to Protect Cyberspace
2
9
Announcing the AWS EU (Paris) Region
2
10
AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Gamers Want DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games
346
2
A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
196
3
China Blocks Foreign Companies from Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars
128
4
BMW delivers its 100,000th electrified vehicle this year
124
5
Molly Houses: Gay Bars in 18th-Century Britain
117
6
Since 1700, Wine Glasses Have Gotten 7 Times Bigger
114
7
Barbed Wire Telephone Lines Brought Isolated Homesteaders Together
85
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Swedish Police Set to Take Over Pirate Bay Domains
59
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5M Dollar in Cryptocurrencies
9
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If Work Dominated Your Every Moment Would Life be Worth Living?
4
Science News [?]
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On the Darknet, Reputation Is Everything
253
2
Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations
240
3
How Does the Flu Kill People?
154
4
'Alien Alloys' in The New York Times' UFO Story
129
5
Walter Pitts pioneered neural networks. Then he lit his entire PhD on fire
73
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How we use big data can reinforce our worst biases, or help fix them
64
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The Tulip Fever Was Exaggerated
55
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Cannabis reverses aging processes in the brain
29
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The lower your social class, the ‘wiser’ you are, suggests new study
21
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Tiny creatures takes centre stage in a battle to work out the tree of life
15
Social [?]
1
Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
701
2
A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms
580
3
More than half of all private wealth has been inherited in most of Europe
213
4
Blizzard's Battle.net Updater Installs Root Certificate
198
5
Litecoin price, tweets, and conflict of interest
126
6
A RISC V Based Linear Algebra Accelerator for SoC Designs [video]
70
7
Google Hangouts now on Firefox without plugins via WebRTC
66
8
Pineapple Fund is switching to Bitcoin Cash
63
9
When all online tests are invalidated, blame Mr. Robot
33
10
28 co-sponsors to overturn #NetNeutrality vote
28
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Blackbird: Bitcoin arbitrage
298
2
Elasticsearch For Beginners: Indexing your Gmail Inbox
221
3
XMR mining app, built with Vue.js, D3 and CoinHive
133
4
Massgate – The central server for the game World in Conflict
118
5
LiteDB – A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a Single Data File
116
6
Colly – Scraping Framework for Golang
116
7
Opinions on functional programming and OCaml
113
8
A lightweight, high-performance, language-independent job queue system
108
9
Emoji-list with emojis, names, shortcodes, unicode and html entities
88
10
A Brainfuck interpreter inside a single printf statement
82
Wikipedia [?]
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Kowloon Walled City
90
2
Toyetic
73
3
Timeline of programming languages
55
4
A Trip Down Market Street
45
5
Occam (programming language) – Wikipedia
7
6
Christmas Jumper
4
7
List of U.S. Metropolitan Areas by GDP
3
8
History of Bitcoin
3
9
Triffin dilemma
3
10
The Magic SysReq Key On Your Keyboard
3
Blogs [?]
1
Estonia is planning to launch Estcoin
341
2
A Zero-Math Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
282
3
Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain
270
4
How do Ruby and Python profilers work?
163
5
What People Think You Can’t Say in Silicon Valley
155
6
Artwork Personalization at Netflix
127
7
Bindgen – Rust tool for generating C bindings
97
8
Things you can't say in Silicon Valley (non-political version)
82
9
Bitcoin, I've Been Here Before
81
10
Unsupervised Machine Learning on Rigetti 19Q with Forest 1.2
38
Stackoverflow [?]
1
How many HTML elements can “modern” browsers “handle” at once?
3
2
Chrome 63 changing http to https
1
Substack [?]