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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

2873

2

GitLab sees huge spike in project imports

1736

3

How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team

1631

4

Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

1558

5

1498

6

Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide

1473

7

The Machine Fired Me

1471

8

Twitter ‘smytes’ customers

1422

9

Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cellphone

1301

10

Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard

1183

Top Ask HN

1

Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?

1139

2

What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

897

3

What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

542

4

Are you working on interesting technical problems?

542

5

Who is hiring? (June 2018)

450

6

Old CS lecturer looking for advice from current and recent students

392

7

What is the first thing you implement at a new company?

331

8

Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverless” architecture?

329

9

Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

317

10

Who has started a business because they couldn't get hired for work?

316

Top Show HN

1

Open Logos – Free logos for open source projects

680

2

Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination

611

3

Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4, React, Angular, Vue.js

436

4

Plot modern addresses on Earth 240M years ago

384

5

Google Drive as a file system

374

6

B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python

359

7

Mimicking the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript

355

8

BitHubLab, Search for projects on all the major Git platforms

318

9

Interactive guitar scales diagrams

277

10

The Vue.js Handbook – Free 120 pages ebook

262

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Twitter ‘smytes’ customers

1422

2

Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

718

3

Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain

644

4

Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B

576

5

Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Xbox Empire and Went Too Far

515

6

NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash

509

7

State of Washington sues Facebook and Google over failure to disclose spending

488

8

Eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist

437

9

Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records

429

10

Intel 28-core fantasy vs. AMD 32-core reality

398

News [?]

1

Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

2873

2

Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cellphone

1301

3

Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

822

4

Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers

812

5

Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

792

6

U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani

701

7

European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill

675

8

Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve

640

9

The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official

633

10

Anthony Bourdain has died

590

Scientific publications [?]

1

Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI

570

2

NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars

333

3

Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)

332

4

How microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft

223

5

What life could be like for civilizations 1 trillion years from now

209

6

AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New Chip Network Scheme

192

7

Dank Learning: Generating Memes Using Deep Neural Networks

172

8

Playing Atari with Six Neurons

169

9

Text Normalization using Memory Augmented Neural Networks

152

10

Why do CNNs generalize so poorly to small image transformations?

149

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL

668

2

AI at Google: our principles

644

3

1.1.1.1 outage explanation

459

4

Python 3 at Facebook

339

5

Advanced computing with IPython

326

6

Introducing DNS Resolver for Tor

251

7

Effectively using AWS Reserved Instances

227

8

Twitter meets TensorFlow

206

9

Network.framework: A modern alternative to sockets

193

10

How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2018

183

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Reveals Threadripper 2: Up to 32 Cores, 250W, X399 Refresh

340

2

Intel: We 'Forgot' to Mention 28-Core, 5-GHz CPU Demo Was Overclocked

335

3

The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even Wikipedia

253

4

Homeland Security’s New Database to Include Faces, DNA, and Relationships

230

5

EFF Sues to Invalidate FOSTA, an Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law

223

6

Samsung Kicks Off Mass Production of 8 TB NF1 SSDs with PCIe 4 Interface

179

7

AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019

176

8

Arm unveils 7nm Cortex-A76 CPU

168

9

Stanford research turns human blood cells into functional neurons

131

10

AMD Demos 7nm Vega GPU

130

FAANG+ [?]

1

Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro

682

2

Apple introduces macOS Mojave

441

3

iOS 12 introduces new features to reduce interruptions and manage Screen Time

400

4

Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

240

5

Faster – A key-value store for large state management

142

6

AWS Introduces Amazon Linux WorkSpaces

38

7

Apple WWDC Keynote

31

8

AWS Lambda Adds Amazon Simple Queue Service to Supported Event Sources

27

9

Amazon Linux WorkSpaces

7

10

AWS automated reasoning to achieve security at scale

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

1129

2

The Cost of Developers

397

3

One Island Grows 80% of the World’s Vanilla

367

4

Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company

311

5

Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results

306

6

PeerTube: A ‘Censorship’ Resistent YouTube Alternative

259

7

IPVanish “No-Logging” VPN Led Homeland Security to Comcast User

231

8

Intel and the Danger of Integration

225

9

Performance patches in Go 1.11

200

10

AT&T, Time Warner, and the Need for Neutrality

173

Science News [?]

1

Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought

531

2

We Should Teach Music History Backwards

339

3

Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital

311

4

EU copyright reforms draw fire from scientists

256

5

Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait

245

6

We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud

241

7

The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber (2016)

240

8

Methane leaks from US gas fields dwarf government estimates

207

9

Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub leaves some scientists uneasy

197

10

Study reveals how, when a synapse strengthens, its neighbors weaken

194

Social [?]

1

Things I Regret About Node.js [video]

994

2

How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite (2008) [video]

813

3

Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript

393

4

I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA

336

5

Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-controlled nodes

304

6

CopperheadOS has imploded

289

7

Xcode 10 is now integrated with GitLab

268

8

ReactOS can finally build itself

248

9

Reddit DMs will not reach their destination if they contain certain text

232

10

Two Vortex Rings Colliding in Slow Motion [video]

231

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game

656

2

516

3

OpenDUNE – An open-source recreation of the game Dune II

450

4

Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi

368

5

Cutter – A Qt and C++ GUI for Radare2 reverse engineering framework

336

6

DensePose – Dense Human Pose Estimation in the Wild

298

7

ActorDB – Distributed SQL database

284

8

Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system

269

9

Reinforcement Learning: From Zero to State of the Art with Pytorch 4

238

10

React from zero: a simple tutorial for React

222

Wikipedia [?]

1

405

2

Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

229

3

177

4

Seikilos epitaph

160

5

DjVu, an open PDF alternative

143

6

List of common misconceptions

94

7

80

8

Unexpected hanging paradox

77

9

Kola Superdeep Borehole

57

10

50

Blogs [?]

1

Why you should not use Google Cloud

895

2

How I use Wireshark

552

3

React Native at Airbnb

498

4

The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment?

422

5

Stripe is building a Ruby typechecker

351

6

The Trouble with D3

350

7

A Bank for Student Hackers

256

8

In MySQL, don’t use “utf8”, use “utf8mb4” (2016)

244

9

Demand for Ruby on Rails is Still Huge

242

10

Convergence to Kubernetes

207

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What happens to country specific TLD's in a war involving that country?

180

2

Why does array[i++%n] += i+“ ” give different results in Java 8 and Java 10?

25

3

What's your most controversial programming opinion?

3

4

Is there a software-engineering methodology for functional programming?

2

5

Tools for integrated Python and C++ logging (bonus for ROS)?

2

6

Apache Pulsar vs. Apache RocketMQ: the next generation messaging and streaming?

2

7

What is the significance of 1/1/1753 in SQL Server?

2

8

What is a retpoline and how does it work?

2

9

Stackoverflow redesinged with side navigation bar

1

10

How much of the Git SHA is generally required to avoid collisions? (2013)

1

Substack [?]

1

Your emails need white space

2

2

Governments are trying to use ICOs to fund development

2

3

Privacy Coins are coming under attack by Secret Service

2

4

On emails, say “please”

1

5

Focus - Avoid distractions in your text

1

6

Anthony Pompliano's Daily Crypto Newsletter

1

7

Don't be afraid of long sentences

1