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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance

1176

2

Effective Engineer – Notes

751

3

Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time

738

4

Economics of Minecraft

642

5

I Got Paid $0 from the Uber Security Bug Bounty

624

6

Computer latency: 1977-2017

588

7

Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting

574

8

How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME [pdf]

543

9

Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me

504

10

Yew: Rust framework for making React-like client web apps

500

Top Ask HN

1

What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?

558

2

Any recommended books on developing mental models?

350

3

What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you change them?

109

4

Companies with a culture similar to Basecamp's?

103

5

What's the best way to recover from burnout?

102

6

Does Apple slow down old Macbooks as well?

96

7

I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How do I get it back?

83

8

Good resources about legacy code?

56

9

What do you look forward to doing in 2018?

54

10

Which are some of the best books on Mental Toughness?

50

Top Show HN

1

Data Prism – Weekly newsletter about data science, ML, AI and analytics

233

2

Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness

215

3

Themer – a CLI for generating themes for all your tools

135

4

Sundown – an alternative to Markdown

121

5

Convert your Google Slides to high-quality animated GIFs and tweet

115

6

Simple Gameboy Emulator

82

7

Ad Revenue Prediction Tool for Side Projects

58

8

1 KB JavaScript library for building front end apps

40

9

Live Reloading WebGL Shaders

20

10

Embedded v8 inspector integration with chromedev tools front end

20

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year

495

2

Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures

244

3

228

4

The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday season

186

5

I realized my brain belongs to my phone

151

6

The World's Best Film School Is Free on YouTube

127

7

The proportion of medical procedures unsupported by evidence may be nearly half

126

8

Google claims near-human accuracy at imitating a person speaking from text

124

9

26k blockchain projects launched in 2016, 92% are now dead

119

10

What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its skills

119

News [?]

1

Power Prices Go Negative in Germany

485

2

Tricks to make yourself effortlessly charming

360

3

Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret

324

4

Cities with Uber Have Lower Rates of Ambulance Usage

298

5

Airbus ready to axe A380 if fails to win Emirates deal

294

6

Facebook Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the US and Israeli Governments

289

7

The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis

263

8

From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over

247

9

Exmo Bitcoin exchange chief executive kidnapped in Kiev

245

10

New York's vanishing shops and storefronts: 'It's not Amazon, it's rent'

227

Scientific publications [?]

1

Evidence of exponential speed-up in the solution of hard optimization problems?

141

2

Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications

119

3

Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow

75

4

A type of semi-transparent polymer that can be mended at room temperature

73

5

Mathematical picture language program

65

6

Advances in Pre-Training Distributed Word Representations

59

7

RaspiReader: An Open-Source Fingerprint Reader Facilitating Spoof Detection

40

8

Researchers describe first-ever hybrid bird species from the Amazon

40

9

Differential Pricing of Traffic in the Internet

39

10

DDoS Attacks in Cloud Computing: Issues, Taxonomy, and Future Directions

35

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting

574

2

Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet

190

3

Demystifying container runtimes

138

4

I made a talking emoji using regular emojis and JavaScript

112

5

Skyrocketing Bitcoin Fees Hit Carders in Wallet

96

6

Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

87

7

The current state of kernel page-table isolation

81

8

I went full nomad and it almost broke me

79

9

Toward better CPU load estimation

67

10

We already know blockchain’s killer apps

51

Tech blogs [?]

1

MediaTek Launches 6-in-1 Biosensor for Smartphones

78

2

LG Develops ‘Nano IPS’ LCD, Unveils 32“ 4K Display with DCI-P3, HDR600, TB3

41

3

Record-breaking hybrid drone stays aloft for over four hours

32

4

Tim Cook is now required to fly on private jets only

19

5

One-Night No Budget CNC Machine

10

6

JST is Not a Connector

6

7

Italian Clothing Company Wins the Right to Use Steve Jobs' Name

6

8

Italian Clothing Company Wins the Right to Use Steve Jobs' Name

3

9

Know Your Rights – Electronic Frontier Foundation

3

10

How the EFF fought for your rights in 2017

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance

1176

2

Amazon Linux 2 – Modern, Stable, and Enterprise-Friendly

8

3

Amazon Aurora Serverless

3

4

In the Works – Amazon Aurora Serverless

3

5

Introducing Gluon: An Easy-To-Use Interface for Flexible Deep Learning

2

6

Effective Java 3rd Edition Released

2

7

Aws sdk 2.0 for go

2

8

Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball (2011)

2

9

1

10

No it can't do that

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Shenzhen Electrifies Entire Public Transit Bus Fleet

134

2

Before the Iron Age, Most Iron Came from Space

132

3

What Is It Like to Be a Bee?

76

4

Why the Shipping Forecast Is So Beloved in the UK

67

5

Web Extension equivalents to legacy Firefox add-ons

37

6

Doki Doki Panic: the Strange Truth Behind Super Mario Bros. 2 (2007)

18

7

Why millions of Chinese children are left to raise themselves

15

8

Indian man plants a forest bigger than central park

5

9

Read Consistency: Dumb Databases, Smart Services (2007)

3

10

“LOL,” the Pirate Bay Adds Donation Options, Mocks Bitcoin Cash?

2

Science News [?]

1

What We Get Wrong About Dying

155

2

Dustin Moskovitz pours funds into high-risk research

141

3

Lack of sleep boosts levels of Alzheimer's proteins

135

4

Neutrino experiment reveals inconsistency in how matter and antimatter behave

127

5

The Data That Threatened to Break Physics

94

6

Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers

85

7

Why Anti-Corruption Strategies May Backfire

78

8

Engineers create plants that glow

74

9

A Mathematician Who Decodes the Patterns Stamped Out by Life

62

10

Men Resist Green Behavior as Un-Manly

53

Social [?]

1

LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum

259

2

Apple Autocorrects Names of Some Medications to Names of Different Medications

248

3

Ex-FB exec: The dopamine-driven feedback loops are destroying how society works

207

4

Why hasn't economic progress lowered work hours more? (2016) [video]

167

5

“Did you copy/paste the info? Facebook seems to read all pasteboard data”

159

6

How to scam and get 67k all 5 Star reviews on the app store

159

7

How to make a rain on a windshield shader in ShaderToy [video]

133

8

ChromeOS: How VM and Containers will seem to run

93

9

Uncovering British spies’ web of sockpuppet social media personas [video]

76

10

SF engineer came to money and now wants wife to sign a post-nuptial agreement

65

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Effective Engineer – Notes

751

2

Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me

504

3

Yew: Rust framework for making React-like client web apps

500

4

ESP 8266 Wi-Fi Repeater with Mesh Networking

491

5

Open-source clone of the Age of Empires II engine

393

6

Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science

264

7

Much Assembly Required: Assembly Programming Game

224

8

Ixy – a userspace network driver in 1000 lines of code

122

9

ThunderSVM: A Fast SVM Library on GPUs and CPUs

99

10

Fast nnn file browser v1.6 released

95

Wikipedia [?]

1

256

2

131

3

Hockney–Falco thesis

70

4

66

5

Program slicing

59

6

57

7

RIP Bob Givens, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry Artist

44

8

Whistled language

37

9

22

10

Topological quantum computer

12

Blogs [?]

1

I Got Paid $0 from the Uber Security Bug Bounty

624

2

Computer latency: 1977-2017

588

3

How I learned to program

322

4

Game developer’s guide to graphical projections

219

5

'Picasso', the Painter on GDAX?

176

6

Hard and Soft Skills in Tech

121

7

LastPass’ Authenticator app is not secure

116

8

Bitcoin is Eating Itself

105

9

Bitcoin is an Energy Hog

73

10

An Introduction to Microservice Based Architecture Through Story – Part 2

59

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Extending Array with ES6 classes

2

2

What is the best way to set a register to zero in x86 assembly: xor, mov or and?

2

3

Differences in prettier-eslint, eslint-plugin-prettier, eslint-config-prettier

1

4

Should functional programming be taught before imperative programming?

1

5

Python – Interpreting Tensorboard Plots – Stack Overflow

1

Substack [?]