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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Apple open-sources FoundationDB
2136
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1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
1895
3
Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
1368
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Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
1302
5
Facebook Container for Firefox
1274
6
Productivity
1264
7
You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts
1075
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Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook
1075
9
I wandered off and built an IDE
1053
10
Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours
1048
Top Ask HN
1
How to self-learn electronics?
1681
2
What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
1665
3
What is your favourite tech talk?
701
4
Who is hiring? (April 2018)
612
5
Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?
472
6
My startup has basically failed. What now?
463
7
What are some tech companies that do not use an open floor plan?
409
8
Anyone making money through algorithmic trading?
389
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What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?
383
10
Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?
320
Top Show HN
1
Intuitive Linear Algebra and 3D Geometry
402
2
I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
385
3
Watch Stanford CS Lectures Together
360
4
ReLaXed – High-quality PDFs using web technologies
344
5
Giving a Broken Barcode Scanner a New Life with Elixir and Nerves
330
6
AI Grant – Get $2,500 for your AI project in minutes
323
7
Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app
277
8
A site that lets you search and subscribe to “Who is hiring?”
255
9
A curated library of free music for content creators
239
10
Travel spontaneously on a budget
238
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B
692
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How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS
531
3
France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994
491
4
RSS is undead
458
5
Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sustainable business model
448
6
Facebook has auto-enrolled users into a facial recognition test in Europe
440
7
Impersonators who are paid to flirt on dating apps
371
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Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica researcher
365
9
Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material
362
10
'Demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides Inside Computer Chip
360
News [?]
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Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
1368
2
Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
1302
3
Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook
1075
4
EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
1022
5
Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online
1015
6
Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative
874
7
Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
793
8
Two Koreas Agree to End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization
673
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Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
642
10
Apple Hires Google’s A.I. Chief
628
Scientific publications [?]
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After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?
311
2
PowerHammer: Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers Through Power Lines
298
3
Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space
239
4
Boltzmann Encoded Adversarial Machines
205
5
The aging mind: neuroplasticity in response to cognitive training (2013)
204
6
Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners
191
7
Context Is Everything: Finding Meaning Statistically in Semantic Spaces
135
8
FCC Issues Warning in Wake of Swarm's Unauthorized Launch
135
9
New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins
122
10
When algorithms surprise us
112
Dev Blogs [?]
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1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
1895
2
Stripe Billing
620
3
Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
558
4
Don't give away historic details about yourself
532
5
Stripe Home
496
6
Panerabread.com leaks millions of customer records
403
7
Stripe Atlas for LLCs
403
8
Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth
369
9
How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018
273
10
PostgreSQL Begins Adding LLVM JIT Support For Faster Performance
269
Tech blogs [?]
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European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse
290
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The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's phone without Apple
252
3
Intel's 10nm Is Broken, Delayed Until 2019
242
4
Intel brings a six-core i9 CPU to laptops
238
5
TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips
237
6
AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive
205
7
To Delete Facebook or Not to Delete Facebook? That Is Not the Question
187
8
Transparent ceramics made with aluminum
169
9
Another Reason to Learn Morse Code: Kidnapping
134
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User Privacy Isn't Solely a Facebook Issue
124
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS Secrets Manager – Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely
384
2
Apple says it’s now powered by renewable energy worldwide
274
3
Get Started with Blockchain Using the New AWS Blockchain Templates
114
4
13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement Program
98
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Node.js 8.10 runtime now available in AWS Lambda
91
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AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and offline capabilities
39
7
How to Be the Startup Hero by Tim Draper (free on Kindle for 24 Hours)
28
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Introducing in-car delivery
20
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AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Implementation Is Now Open-Source
10
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AWS Blockchain Templates
9
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The End of Windows
583
2
Publisher Gets Carte Blanche to Seize New Sci-Hub Domains
297
3
Soviet-Era Industrial Design
245
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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM
165
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A Food Shortage Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease
132
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Not your Tibetan Buddhism
122
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Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food?
104
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The Facebook Current
103
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Solved: A Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery
86
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Escape the echo chamber
83
Science News [?]
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Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
492
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Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes
403
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Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention (2015)
359
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Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos
272
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How Dyson Saw Feynman
262
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A manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene
257
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How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons from Madagascar
241
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The enemy within: Gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease
232
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The myopia boom (2015)
199
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Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire
190
Social [?]
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Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ
745
2
My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app
557
3
A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet
526
4
"@" on Twitter
504
5
Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
484
6
Simone Giertz on her brain tumour [video]
453
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How to build a house alone [video]
450
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Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
433
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Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides
373
10
A thread on on the beauty of procedurally generated maps
293
Github repos and gists [?]
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Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties
840
2
TextQL: Execute SQL Against CSV or TSV
658
3
Make your own sourdough
619
4
OpenSimpleLidar
605
5
A Workshop on Linux Containers: Rebuild Docker from Scratch
568
6
System Shock 1 source code released under GPL
568
7
Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Apple Object to W3C Fork of DOM Spec
549
8
Vipassana for Hackers [pdf]
461
9
Mermaid: Markdown-like generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text
453
10
List of command line tools for manipulating CSV, XML, HTML, JSON, INI, etc.
389
Wikipedia [?]
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Illegal prime
267
2
Kasparov versus the World
256
3
Gravitation water vortex power plant
227
4
Conway's Law
134
5
Great Vowel Shift
129
6
Molyneux's problem
122
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Eroom's law
120
8
Dunbar's Number
108
9
Gruen transfer
105
10
Microsoft v MikeRoweSoft
96
Blogs [?]
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DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS
860
2
Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
727
3
Life is Short (2016)
568
4
Designing very large JavaScript applications
434
5
Netflix FlameScope
389
6
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
383
7
How to Easily Detect Objects with Deep Learning on Raspberry Pi
308
8
Systems built on trust, norms, and institutions function better than blockchain
303
9
Interactive Go programming with Jupyter
292
10
The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
270
Stackoverflow [?]
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Build an Android app from a to Z without opening AndroidStudio even once
15
2
Quack Overflow, Stack Overflow's new rubber ducky debugging feature
3
3
How and when to align to cache line size
3
4
How to tell Git to ignore individual lines; gitignore for specific lines of code
2
5
Stack Overflow for Teams
2
6
Is 0 an octal or a decimal in C? (2014)
2
7
400 vs. 422 response to POST of data
2
8
Cycles in Family Tree Software
2
9
StackOverflow is down
2
10
QuackOverflow – StackOverflow's Listening Duck Assistant This April First
1
Substack [?]
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The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing
11
2
Order: creating flow and comprehension
4
3
Your reader will try to infer your intentions anyway, so help them get it right
3
4
Misrepresenting opinions for facts and other dangers of communication
2
5
Proof of Work 18 – Weekly Updates from Curated Crypto Projects
2
6
The Label Is Not the Object
1
7
Reader: the hidden dictator of your writing
1
8
Rapport: building trust through familiarity
1