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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

1562

2

Please do not attempt to simplify this code

1552

3

Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL

1323

4

Quora User Data Compromised

1254

5

Goodbye, EdgeHTML

1178

6

Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States

1130

7

Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver

1081

8

Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

1065

9

Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

1061

10

JIRA is an antipattern

1012

Top Ask HN

1

What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?

1322

2

Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?

842

3

Best talks of 2018?

710

4

What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?

687

5

Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?

681

6

What technologies did you learn in 2018?

629

7

Books you read in 2018?

578

8

What's the best book on modern UI/UX?

542

9

Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

478

10

What do you use for authentication and authorization?

457

Top Show HN

1

Fully-automatic image background removal tool

640

2

Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

565

3

Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

369

4

Open source JavaScript library to record and replay the web

353

5

341

6

Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts

301

7

Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software

290

8

Stock Trading from Google Spreadsheet

281

9

Vector Logo Zone – SVG logos for your readme or credits page

275

10

Wiv.js – A library for a more wiggly div

265

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

JIRA is an antipattern

1012

2

Robinhood launches 3% checking account

972

3

DigitalOcean launches its container service

765

4

Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue

594

5

Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead

561

6

Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0

545

7

Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

472

8

EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects

459

9

911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage

434

10

What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills

424

News [?]

1

Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

1562

2

The Yoda of Silicon Valley

976

3

Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves

952

4

Facebook's seized files published by MPs

738

5

Larry Roberts has died

654

6

Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards

629

7

Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation

592

8

Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space

592

9

I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier

574

10

SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation

565

Scientific publications [?]

1

Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

465

2

Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism

300

3

How Facebook Keeps Messenger from Crashing on New Year's Eve

275

4

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

240

5

Knowledge from small number of debates outperforms wisdom of large crowds (2017)

235

6

New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors

216

7

China prepares mission to land spacecraft on moon's far side

149

8

Systematic Parsing of X.509: Eradicating Security Issues with a Parse Tree

146

9

Deepmind Produces a General-Purpose Games-Playing Machine

134

10

Manhole Covers Serve as Antennas Expanding Wireless Network Coverage

125

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Goodbye, EdgeHTML

1178

2

Guide to scaling engineering organizations

664

3

Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person

498

4

Writing copy for landing pages

416

5

Python gets a new governance model

414

6

The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts

283

7

Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support

174

8

The Bare Minimum You Should Do to Protect Your Family's Data

148

9

Let Google do the patching with new managed base images

120

10

Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping

106

Tech blogs [?]

1

IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses

337

2

TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction

266

3

Serial Port SDR

205

4

What We Learned About the Hemisphere Program After Suing the DEA

195

5

Breakthrough ultrasound treatment to reverse dementia moves to human trials

174

6

LG Releases Gram 17 Laptop: An Ultra-Thin Notebook with a 17.3in Display

168

7

UC Berkeley to build open-source secure enclave using RISC-V

160

8

Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities

156

9

Forrest Mims, Radio Shack, and the Notebooks That Launched a Thousand Careers

139

10

Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track

103

FAANG+ [?]

1

Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source

215

2

John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team

196

3

Apple to build campus in Austin and sites in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City

191

4

Transparency Report: Government requests for customer data globally

123

5

Serverless and startups

62

6

Websockets for AWS API Gateway

21

7

Now Open – AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

13

8

11

9

Across the Border: A Short Story

10

10

To BLOB or Not to BLOB: Large Object Storage in a Database or a Filesystem? [pdf]

8

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says

781

2

Archive.org donations are currently matched by a generous supporter 2-to-1

494

3

YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess

324

4

Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices

294

5

Why Design Thinking Works

218

6

How Myst Taught a Generation of Gamers to Explore New Worlds

150

7

Domain Registrar Can Be Held Liable for Pirate Site, German Court Rules

118

8

Great Wall Motor unveils $9k electric urban car with nearly 200-mile range

109

9

Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars as It Drifted Across Midwest Remains a Mystery

99

10

How the Netherlands Feeds the World (2017)

84

Science News [?]

1

For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain

814

2

China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tribunal

460

3

'Dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe

409

4

Ant Colonies Retain Memories That Outlast the Lifespans of Individuals

395

5

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft

370

6

Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research

344

7

People with Depression Use Language Differently

269

8

What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life

262

9

Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms

253

10

Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB

248

Social [?]

1

Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

902

2

An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth

790

3

I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options?

393

4

Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen

357

5

CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets

328

6

Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

323

7

“In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart”

307

8

GoDaddy is a scam

281

9

Raspberry Pi Pet Detector Camera Using Python, TensorFlow, and Twilio [video]

277

10

Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video]

253

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Please do not attempt to simplify this code

1552

2

A well-known URL for changing passwords

749

3

Windows file access performance compared to Linux

518

4

506

5

PyTorch 1.0 is out

470

6

Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

444

7

lsix: ls for images

430

8

UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

418

9

Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler

382

10

PracticalAI – A practical approach to learning machine learning

335

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Onion Futures Act

260

2

150

3

97

4

Berkson's Paradox

87

5

Direct Democracy in Switzerland

84

6

83

7

Marchetti's constant

82

8

Shoelace formula

73

9

61

10

51

Blogs [?]

1

The Titanic Was on Fire for Days Before the Iceberg Hit

334

2

Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey

327

3

Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful (2016)

315

4

Evaluation of five password managers

247

5

Haiku Beta is finally here

208

6

The math’s not pretty on digital advertising’s future revenues? (2017)

172

7

The Link Between Inflammation and Depression?

169

8

On Self-Publishing “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”

163

9

The deepest problem with deep learning

149

10

Flutter on desktop, a real competitor to Electron

122

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?

5

2

Joel Spolsky's Answer to “Why do I need an IoC container?”

4

3

[JavaScript] Why does {....0} evaluate to {}?

4

4

Figuring Out Embedding-Free Neural Networks for NLP: Reproducing Research

3

5

What does iota of std::iota stand for in C++?

3

6

In python being cool is more important than AsYMpTOtic aNAlysIS

2

7

[JavaScript] Why does {....0} evaluate to {}?

2

8

How to check if an integer is within a range?

1

9

Stack Overflow for Enterprise

1

10

Maze generation code in c generating weird characters

1

Substack [?]

1

HQ2 isn't the problem

3

2

Failure happens in technology. Just ask Mark Twain

3

3

A better future for news (2017)

3

4

Goldman Sachs charged in 1MDB scandal

2

5

YouTube comments are the last sincere space online

1

6

The Big Brother of Things

1