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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Paul Allen has died
2901
2
IBM acquires Red Hat
2611
3
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
2493
4
Paper Airplane Designs
1753
5
Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
1613
6
iPhones are allergic to helium
1289
7
Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
1213
8
Carbon Removal Technologies
1187
9
Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced
1185
10
How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It
1165
Top Ask HN
1
Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
911
2
What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?
733
3
What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
717
4
YouTube down?
575
5
Who is hiring? (October 2018)
542
6
Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?
537
7
What is your best advice for a junior software developer?
470
8
Am I just a wantrepreneur?
428
9
What do you do in your 1-on-1s with your direct reports?
409
10
What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
393
Top Show HN
1
Websites in 2018
595
2
Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview
484
3
Alan – a low-code application platform
413
4
Polar – an offline web browser with annotations and tagging
382
5
Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript
361
6
Comprehensive Tutorials in Deep Learning Using TensorFlow
327
7
Algojammer – an experimental Python code editor inspired by Bret Victor
309
8
Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place
306
9
SQL Trainer – Learn SQL by doing live data exercises
303
10
Physically Based Rendering – Online Edition
297
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Amazon increases minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour
853
2
Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”
697
3
GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool
642
4
Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology
569
5
The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product managers (2016)
479
6
Night Sight for Pixel phones
455
7
Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazon.com
410
8
A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers
397
9
Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports
384
10
Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
363
News [?]
1
Paul Allen has died
2901
2
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
2493
3
Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
1213
4
Coders Automating Their Own Job
991
5
Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
953
6
New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
875
7
Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
830
8
Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim
819
9
Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
768
10
The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It
678
Scientific publications [?]
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Hubble is back
768
2
Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort-Of Cheap
444
3
Zip Trees
301
4
An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
269
5
Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
234
6
Steve Wozniak on Smart Watches, Motivating Engineers, Siri, and More
225
7
Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Replace Traffic Lights, Shorten Commutes
151
8
Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption
145
9
Can moons have moons?
116
10
D-Wave Launches Free Quantum Cloud Service
102
Dev Blogs [?]
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Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
1613
2
What's a CPU to do when it has nothing to do?
394
3
Encrypted SNI Comes to Firefox Nightly
326
4
New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub
322
5
The D Language Front-End Merged Into GCC 9
269
6
Bpftrace for Linux 2018
268
7
How to price a product, sell it to customers, and build a sales team
265
8
How I hacked modern vending machines
249
9
Top lawyers beaten by legal AI
237
10
Removing Old Versions of TLS
217
Tech blogs [?]
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The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News
271
2
The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Secrets
254
3
One of Bloomberg’s sources told them Chinese spy chip story “didn’t make sense”
243
4
TSMC: First 7nm EUV Chips Taped Out, 5nm Risk Production in Q2 2019
239
5
Intel 9th Gen Review
221
6
Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs
217
7
15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620
183
8
EFF to Texas AG: Epson Tricked Its Customers with a Dangerous Fake Update
178
9
The 555 and How It Got That Way
174
10
FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals
162
FAANG+ [?]
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iPad Pro
480
2
Apple T2 Security Chip: Security Overview [pdf]
362
3
Apple Supplier List – Top 200 [pdf]
300
4
What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
267
5
Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video]
174
6
AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available
119
7
New Mac Mini
84
8
What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
79
9
Setting the Record Straight on Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Erroneous Article
45
10
The Microsoft Infer.NET machine learning framework goes open source
37
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
576
2
Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound
571
3
IBM’s Old Playbook
534
4
Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt
403
5
Anti-social Punishment
358
6
Copyright Office Adds DMCA Exemption for 'Abandoned' Online Games
325
7
Messenger systems compared by security, privacy, compatibility, and features
300
8
Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates
202
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Spreadsheet of Steven Pinker’s book recommendations
166
10
In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts
161
Science News [?]
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Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
606
2
First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings
415
3
Brief aerobic exercise immediately enhances attention and perceptual speed
404
4
Dandelion Seeds Fly Using ‘Impossible’ Method Never Before Seen in Nature
395
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How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain
390
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“Stress Hormone” Cortisol Linked to Early Toll on Thinking Ability
373
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Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air
279
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Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem
267
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IQ Matters Less Than You Think
260
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Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study
249
Social [?]
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Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem
714
2
JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works
689
3
“12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
389
4
How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]
289
5
Why iPhone Xs performance on JavaScript is so good
276
6
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video]
265
7
New York Times app autoplays video ads on articles even with paid subscription
219
8
How I made my own RFID tag [video]
176
9
FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine
169
10
Intel's New Low: Commissioning Misleading Core I9-9900K Benchmarks [video]
161
Github repos and gists [?]
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Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
378
2
Concepts to help developers master JavaScript
316
3
Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks
314
4
Boltons: A set of BSD-licensed, pure-Python utilities
312
5
What I Learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD
292
6
TypeScript support added to Create React App
280
7
Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly
278
8
Ferret – Declarative web scraping
260
9
Gophish: An open source phishing toolkit
235
10
Mio – Cross-platform header-only C++11 library for memory-mapped file IO
208
Wikipedia [?]
1
A True Story
525
2
Raising of Chicago
216
3
Friendly Floatees
216
4
42 (school)
180
5
Miller Columns
177
6
Asynchronous (Clockless) CPU
168
7
Oxford Electric Bell
109
8
Optical Tweezers
104
9
Reservoir computing
99
10
Loglan – a predicate logic-based language for humans
98
Blogs [?]
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12 Factor CLI Apps
524
2
Today Is My Wife’s First Birthday Since She Died
517
3
5G Got me Fired
410
4
My Journey into Fractals
366
5
The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter
334
6
Do the Rich Capture All the Gains from Economic Growth?
329
7
Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tech to Police
313
8
How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web?
291
9
What I Learned From Making Hot Sauce at Scale in China
281
10
What's a senior engineer's job?
227
Stackoverflow [?]
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Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
19
2
Why is printing 'B' so much slower than '#'?
4
3
Why do ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name (FJCVTZS)?
4
4
Hidden features of Python
3
5
Is it possible to allow user to modify React app in a safe way?
3
6
Angular router: how to replace a param?
2
7
What is the difference between 'git pull' and 'git fetch'?
2
8
Mapping external errors to domain errors
1
9
iOS 12 Safari Bug: Returned Array References Can Link to the Same Memory Address
1
10
How and when to align to cache line size
1
Substack [?]
1
The MTA spends about $836M every 19 days
9
2
Cheap electricity is king
5
3
What a digital country could look like
3
4
US lawmakers want to outlaw certain software
3
5
Coinbase is the most underrated company in crypto
2
6
Crypto is caught in the trade war crossfire
2
7
Developers could be held accountable for publishing code that is misused
2
8
Bitcoin is more transparent than the Federal Reserve
2
9
The return of open source software
1