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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming
2074
2
Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
1875
3
US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
1630
4
The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
1493
5
Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
1361
6
The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
1331
7
Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact
1314
8
Google YOLO clickjacking
1304
9
Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention
1224
10
LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time
1209
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (May 2018)
587
2
Why is nearing completion so demotivating?
534
3
Which books have made you introspect?
513
4
How do you continuously monitor web logs for hack attempts?
477
5
How do I learn math/physics in my thirties?
441
6
How to become a remote contractor?
311
7
What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
305
8
Amazon software engineers, how is the work culture now?
284
9
What are your favorite terminal programs?
279
10
How is DDoS protection implemented?
260
Top Show HN
1
Wired-elements – UI web components with a hand drawn, sketchy look
650
2
Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies
581
3
The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5
458
4
Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard
396
5
How to Tune a Guitar
338
6
HyperApp – 1k JavaScript framework for building web applications
303
7
Cannoli – A compiler for a subset of Python written in Rust
292
8
Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming
291
9
Write every day, measure your progress, achieve your writing goals
262
10
Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch
250
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
1630
2
Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality
754
3
Subscription Hell
745
4
You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
585
5
Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
447
6
Jeff Bezos announces Amazon is picking up 'The Expanse'
446
7
Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’
442
8
FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices
403
9
The Senate has forced a vote to restore net neutrality
365
10
Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck
337
News [?]
1
Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal
805
2
Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'
661
3
NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report
633
4
The rise of the pointless job
560
5
Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby
544
6
I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare
467
7
The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now
447
8
America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
435
9
Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand
433
10
Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
427
Scientific publications [?]
1
Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
434
2
Unifying Theories of Psychedelic Drug Effects
250
3
Is Information in the Brain Represented in Continuous or Discrete Form?
198
4
KRust: A Formal Executable Semantics of Rust
148
5
Ocean waves play greater role in trapping CO2 than previously understood
142
6
Playing hard exploration games by watching YouTube
127
7
That New Memory Smell: Tech Can Tell If Your Flash Is New or Recycled
122
8
Particle Physics Resurrects Alexander Graham Bell’s Voice
119
9
Chip Hall of Fame: Zilog Z80 Microprocessor (2017)
118
10
What really happened to that melted NASA camera?
112
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
1875
2
Things to know about the GDPR, Mozilla and Firefox
430
3
Introducing .app, a more secure home for apps on the web
395
4
“Manager READMEs” from some tech companies
394
5
Why Is Location Data No Longer Private?
378
6
Android P
358
7
Google Maps Platform
342
8
Who controls glibc?
339
9
Mozilla Fights for Net Neutrality This May (and Always)
223
10
Write Emails Faster with Smart Compose in Gmail
215
Tech blogs [?]
1
ISPs Say They Don’t Make Enough Money
634
2
Intel Announces Optane DIMMs
446
3
Apple cracking down on applications that send location data to third-parties
381
4
Apple faces class action lawsuit over failing MacBook butterfly keyboards
322
5
A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME
288
6
Open Source Calculator Teaches Us about Quality Documentation
183
7
No Thanks, Google. I'll Speak for Myself
144
8
Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors
140
9
Intel's New Optane 905P Is the Fastest SSD
122
10
Assessing Cavium’s ThunderX2: The Arm Server Dream Realized
99
FAANG+ [?]
1
Amazon Aurora Backtrack
416
2
Introducing Surface Hub 2
259
3
Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep Learning
233
4
EC2 Instance Update – C5 Instances with Local NVMe Storage
108
5
Apple Reports Q2 2018 Results
95
6
Simplify Login with Application Load Balancer Built-In Authentication
93
7
Learning from Source Code (Microsoft Research)
9
8
iOS 11.4 brings stereo pairs and multi-room audio with AirPlay 2
8
9
Microsoft Windows command line reference manual
4
10
Running AWS Fargate with virtual-kubelet
4
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
The Bill Gates Line
477
2
Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90%
441
3
Rust at CloudFlare
271
4
Tech’s Two Philosophies
242
5
How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit
224
6
The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver
217
7
Tesla reviewing contractors, firing everyone not vouched for by an employee
175
8
The History of the Philips CD-I, Failed PlayStation Ancestor
140
9
Michael Jackson Estate Turns the 'Fair Use' Tables on Disney
126
10
Rare wooden escalators lead down into a staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel
126
Science News [?]
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Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread
302
2
We May First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets
281
3
Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes
227
4
Brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time
212
5
Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses
201
6
How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer
164
7
Troubled Times for Alternatives to Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
158
8
EEG Accurately Predicts Autism as Early as 3 Months of Age
154
9
Artificial Neural Nets Grow Brainlike Navigation Cells
151
10
A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine
149
Social [?]
1
You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent?
751
2
Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python
640
3
Facebook announces Clear History feature
608
4
I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned
563
5
Getting Google to ban our entire company
538
6
GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
466
7
The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day
361
8
Farewell from the Pineapple Fund
300
9
Ghostery exposed everyone's email address in its GDPR email by not using BCC
286
10
Facebook now denying access unless EU users opt-in to tracking
284
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Safe ways to do things in bash
892
2
Build your own X: project-based programming tutorials
507
3
Algorithms and Data Structures Explained and Implemented in JavaScript
483
4
Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter
447
5
How to write efficient matrix multiplication
400
6
A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and browsers
381
7
Libui: a portable GUI library for C
356
8
WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal
334
9
Mastodon 2.4.0
294
10
NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot
294
Wikipedia [?]
1
100 prisoners problem
324
2
List of screw drives
303
3
Chess boxing
219
4
Mecanum wheel
169
5
Münchhausen trilemma
156
6
Three-sided Football
146
7
Wikipedia: List of lists of lists
112
8
Operation Ivy Bells
98
9
Soundex
95
10
Veblen goods
83
Blogs [?]
1
Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)
910
2
The Economics of Writing a Technical Book
519
3
Never Write Your Own Database (2017)
445
4
A Plane That Accidentally Circumnavigated the World (2014)
325
5
StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migrated to Mix
279
6
Lessons from My Math Degree That Have Nothing to Do with Math
268
7
Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
263
8
Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
186
9
Why a Dutch court stopped high school students from swapping schools (2017)
170
10
Material UI v1 for React is out
169
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Stack Overflow for Teams
274
2
Learning to write a compiler
30
3
What is the best architecture for a YouTube downloader site?
2
4
Console.table(), expanded console.log for objects
2
5
Efficient and concise method for accumulating gradients in TensorFlow
1
6
What are inline namespaces for?
1
7
Is StackOverflow answer portfolio relevant to recruiters?
1
8
Why is javafx mangling my semi-transparent cursors?
1
Substack [?]
1
Is crypto money?
5
2
Concision
3
3
APompliano's new crypto newsletter
2
4
Rewrite: your draft of a text as an evolutionary prototype edit
1
5
A proposal for a standardized structure of commit messages
1
6
Style rules for good writing will make your writing worse
1
7
New crypto email newsletter from APompliano
1