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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
1798
2
We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
1652
3
Apple's New Map
1250
4
Story of a failed pentest
1147
5
Backdoor in event-stream library dependency
1034
6
Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web
959
7
Thank you to dang and sctb
950
8
Boss as a Service – Hire a boss, get stuff done
917
9
Medium is a poor choice for blogging
909
10
Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha
892
Top Ask HN
1
Best Command-Line Applications?
634
2
Who is hiring? (November 2018)
539
3
What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?
539
4
What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
464
5
What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?
428
6
Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
422
7
Is there a better way to document complex software architectures?
406
8
I've been a programmer for 6 years, and I can't solve basic CS problems
404
9
Have you ever regretted working on a product?
371
10
Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?
367
Top Show HN
1
TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages
607
2
Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary
436
3
WriteFreely – minimalist, federated blogging platform
337
4
Self-Driving Pi Car
304
5
Don't code your UI, draw it
302
6
Founders launching startups on Twitch
265
7
Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcut for iOS 12
253
8
A JavaScript Handbook
239
9
HomelabOS – Ansible scripts to deploy self hosted cloud services
235
10
Gmail Classic – CSS for Reverting Gmail's New Look
226
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
805
2
LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
619
3
Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details
521
4
How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request
503
5
SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites
438
6
Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation
404
7
Monarch butterfly populations in U.S. west are down an order of magnitude
382
8
Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation
379
9
YouTube CEO calls EU’s proposed copyright regulation financially impossible
325
10
Surveillance Kills Freedom by Killing Experimentation
279
News [?]
1
‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Computer Science Students
630
2
Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship
569
3
Companies struggling to fill jobs 'should try paying more,' Fed's Kashkari says
545
4
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
517
5
Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site
481
6
Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'
481
7
Gates Foundation spent $200M funding toilet research
457
8
A debt-collection machine that’s chewing up small businesses across America
450
9
The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history
418
10
The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
418
Scientific publications [?]
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Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star
239
2
The Case Against Quantum Computing
138
3
Gradient Descent Finds Global Minima of Deep Neural Networks
133
4
The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson (2015)
128
5
Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees
128
6
Adversarial Examples That Fool Both Computer Vision and Time-Limited Humans
120
7
A faster, cheaper path to fusion energy
117
8
Toward an AI Physicist for Unsupervised Learning
111
9
Rare and diverse giant viruses unexpectedly found in a forest soil ecosystem
110
10
What Does It Take to Keep a Classic Mainframe Alive?
102
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Cloud Computing Without Containers
663
2
Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup
570
3
SpamAssassin is back
324
4
Mozilla Fights On For Net Neutrality
285
5
U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves Are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service
269
6
Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
267
7
Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years
251
8
A note to our employees
244
9
Bisected: The Unfortunate Reason Linux 4.20 Is Running Slower
227
10
How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018: NLL edition
204
Tech blogs [?]
1
AMD Announces 7nm Rome CPUs and MI60 GPUs
291
2
Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12 Gb DRAM Chips
185
3
Soft Silicone Pneumatics Are 3D-printed in a Tub of Gel
95
4
Why intel processors draw more power than expected: TDP and Turbo explained
91
5
Pixel 3 Review
90
6
Google Chrome’s Users Take a Back Seat to Its Bottom Line
61
7
New iPad Pro Has Comparable Performance to 2018 15“ MacBook Pro in Benchmarks
56
8
MDMA therapy achieves astounding 76% success rate for treating PTSD
49
9
A Sub-$1000, Non-X86 Motherboard
24
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World's first full-body medical scanner generates astonishing 3D images
22
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers
686
2
AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites
598
3
New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
480
4
EC2 Instances Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors
420
5
Corretto – No-cost, multiplatform, developer-preview distribution of OpenJDK
377
6
Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing
368
7
AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
319
8
Amazon Timestream – Fast, scalable, fully managed time series database
285
9
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database
283
10
New Lower-Cost, AMD-Powered M5a and R5a EC2 Instances
244
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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How Smart People Sabotage Their Success
737
2
How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
704
3
Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsholders Website Too
455
4
Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth
441
5
Vue 3.0 Updates [slides]
292
6
All U.S. National Parks Are Free to Enter on Sunday
278
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Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)
248
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Apple’s Social Network
233
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For Decades, Southern States Saw Thanksgiving as an Act of Northern Aggression
157
10
How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds
147
Science News [?]
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Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research
697
2
Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts
662
3
How Dad's Stresses Get Passed Along to Offspring
387
4
Italy’s olive crisis intensifies as deadly tree disease spreads
373
5
Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem
343
6
Protect the last of the wild
218
7
Swathing is going out of fashion, as most farmers desiccate to ripen their crops
206
8
Orangutans are the only great apes besides humans to ‘talk’ about the past
204
9
Tantalizing but preliminary evidence of a “brain microbiome”
192
10
Two major research funders to bar grantees from publishing in hybrid journals
186
Social [?]
1
Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people
562
2
The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York”
550
3
Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome
461
4
The History of Unix, by Rob Pike [video]
439
5
A story about Upwork and freelancers
342
6
East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (1985)
246
7
Zig: software should be perfect [video]
218
8
Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video]
211
9
Clojure REBL [video]
205
10
Sorry, upgrading your Dropbox Business plan will take 11 months
174
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Backdoor in event-stream library dependency
1034
2
Big List of Naughty Strings
780
3
Open Source is Not About You
734
4
Dive – A tool for exploring each layer in a Docker image
684
5
Colorizing and restoring old images with deep learning
665
6
VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape
577
7
Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool
455
8
Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
402
9
A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface
400
10
The C++ Build Process Explained
358
Wikipedia [?]
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Evolved antenna
192
2
Sousveillance
154
3
US Senate Candy Desk
128
4
Alchian–Allen effect
122
5
Solar storm of 1859
109
6
Drzymała's wagon
109
7
Base58
95
8
Brouwer–Hilbert controversy
95
9
Airglow
79
10
Kessler Syndrome
63
Blogs [?]
1
We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
1652
2
Medium is a poor choice for blogging
909
3
The greatest sales deck I've ever seen (2016)
395
4
My App Is Dead in the Water
369
5
Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly
307
6
Why do all websites look the same?
269
7
Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists
237
8
Tailwind: style your site without writing any CSS
208
9
Quitting Amazon 5 months after I started
201
10
Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them
199
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why is 2 * (i * i) faster than 2 * i * i in Java?
424
2
How to run a program without an operating system?
394
3
Why is “2 * (i * i)” faster than “2 * i * i”?
6
4
Why is “2 * (i * i)” faster than “2 * i * i” in Java?
6
5
Lazy Loading React Components with React.Suspense
3
6
Python: Named regrxp group “(?Pregexp)”: what does “P” stand for?
3
7
Where would I use a bitwise operator in JavaScript? Ask Question
2
8
Slack and Stack Overflow for Teams
2
9
Accessing Shadow DOM Tree with Selenium
2
10
How to create a setlist where no two consecutive songs are in the same key
1
Substack [?]
1
Thirty Years After Manufacturing Consent, How Mass Media Keeps Thought Inbounds
25
2
Gifting crypto to politicians
1