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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store

1620

2

Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs

1532

3

1370

4

Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed

1318

5

Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available

1082

6

1016

7

964

8

Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate

948

9

Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System

948

10

NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

931

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (August 2018)

448

2

What are some niche communities you enjoy?

437

3

What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?

432

4

Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?

406

5

What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?

381

6

What do you struggle with?

365

7

Have you built a house?

356

8

How to get web development career on track from being homeless?

305

9

Best way to publish papers as a non-scholar?

250

10

Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?

242

Top Show HN

1

I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node

1072

2

Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding

611

3

Retool – build internal tools faster

592

4

I made a tool that made me faster at Git

551

5

Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Renderer for C++

527

6

A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance

455

7

git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git

447

8

Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support

334

9

Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C

332

10

Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

269

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008)

740

2

Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy

726

3

Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality

675

4

Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool

580

5

Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire

567

6

FCC admits it was never actually hacked

494

7

Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing

445

8

What is this Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work?

432

9

How the Dutch created a casual biking culture

388

10

WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages

361

News [?]

1

NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

931

2

John McCain has died

628

3

EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time

602

4

Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers

597

5

National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions

573

6

Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid

537

7

Google tracks your movements, like it or not

515

8

Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal

492

9

The Bitter Regrets of a Useless Chinese Daughter

487

10

Procrastination is more about managing emotions than time: study

478

Scientific publications [?]

1

Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

851

2

Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt?

311

3

Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

239

4

Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling

214

5

Memristor – The fictional circuit element

193

6

How to print an electric motor

167

7

Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape

142

8

Actor Model of Computation (2010) [pdf]

117

9

How intermittent breaks in interaction improve collective intelligence

109

10

Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier

100

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking

858

2

Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

819

3

Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine

333

4

How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours

307

5

Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment

277

6

Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Threadripper 2990WX

234

7

Mistakes we made in our company’s first 8 years

231

8

WireGuarding the mainline

206

9

OpenAI Five: Goals and Progress

195

10

Beta release of PHP 7.2 in the Google App Engine standard environment

185

Tech blogs [?]

1

Sen. Wyden Confirms Cell-Site Simulators Disrupt Emergency Calls

518

2

Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never Be Illegal

432

3

Traveler sues US Customs and Border Protection over iPhone search and seizure

363

4

GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development

356

5

AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review

322

6

Supreme Court Should Say No to Patents That Take Old Ideas Away from the Public

310

7

Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans

268

8

AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chinese Consoles

236

9

Don’t Shoot Messenger

197

10

Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation

195

FAANG+ [?]

1

Paul Graham on SICP (2000)

380

2

Amazon Aurora Serverless

111

3

New T3 Instances – Burstable, Cost-Effective Performance

97

4

Using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild and Lambda for automated UI testing (2017)

59

5

Amazon Ending Prime 20% Off Games Discount

17

6

Aurora Serverless MySQL Generally Available

14

7

AWS: Rust Expands Its Reach at RustConf 2018

11

8

Kinesis Data Streams HTTP/2 Support

9

9

General magic user interface

6

10

AWS: Linux Kernel SegmentSmack Issue

6

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

580

2

Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful

566

3

Katie's New Face

493

4

Jason's Machine Learning 101

332

5

JupyterCon: I don't like Notebooks [slides]

312

6

Google Boots Open-Source Anti-Censorship Tool "Ahoy" from Chrome Store

303

7

The Apocalyptic Architecture of One 1970s Retail Chain

303

8

What Data Scientists Really Do, According to Data Scientists

278

9

274

10

274

Science News [?]

1

Algorithm recovers speech from a potato-chip bag filmed through glass (2014)

327

2

Cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies

281

3

Eerie Skyglow Called 'Steve' Isn't an Aurora, Is 'Completely Unknown' to Science

280

4

Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found

275

5

Engineers teach a drone to herd birds away from airports autonomously

264

6

Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18

253

7

Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences?

252

8

Elusive mitochondrial connection to inflammation uncovered

242

9

Researcher at center of epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him

240

10

Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc Is Female

214

Social [?]

1

Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System

948

2

Gerald M. Weinberg has died

374

3

Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Leaked on Twitter

332

4

What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power Lines (2017) [video]

312

5

Reddit Security Incident

308

6

Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable

277

7

The new MacBook Pros with T2 chips do indeed kernel panic randomly

257

8

GitLab is now running on GCP

253

9

Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing every interaction

252

10

SpiderOak removes its warrant canary

235

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store

1620

2

My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

814

3

Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff

647

4

Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders

578

5

Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python

549

6

Minecraft Global Warming

524

7

Bash Infinity: Standard library and boilerplate framework for Bash

507

8

Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research

401

9

LiteTree: SQLite with Branches

343

10

Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused Amazon alternative

342

Wikipedia [?]

1

232

2

Shamir's Secret Sharing

177

3

Alcubierre drive

166

4

155

5

136

6

Shavian alphabet

108

7

Usenet – A worldwide distributed discussion system

104

8

Video game crash of 1983

84

9

Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2

82

10

74

Blogs [?]

1

Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate

948

2

You don’t need standups

677

3

Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

570

4

My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine

418

5

How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes

415

6

Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform

246

7

What they don’t tell you about event sourcing

234

8

Getting Alexa to Respond to Sign Language Using Your Webcam and TensorFlow.js

213

9

The tech industry's use of persuasive techniques on children

203

10

Cracking WPA-2 Just Got a Whole Lot Easier

199

Stackoverflow [?]

1

New StackOverflow code of conduct

59

2

What Are the Differences Between Clojure, Scheme/Racket and Common Lisp?

58

3

ReasonML vs. Elm

4

4

StackOverflow New Code of Conduct

3

5

Why don't C++ compilers do better constant folding?

3

6

What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?

2

7

Python: Copy contents of one doc file to another, image part tricky

2

8

Sessions vs. Token based authentication

2

9

What does a production ready Google Cloud Function look like?

2

10

JavaScript sorts numbers alphabetically

2

Substack [?]

1

EOS raised $4B but booked everything as non-dilutive revenue

3

2

Robbing the Bank with a Cellphone

3

3

Bitcoin won't hit $50k by end of year, it may take another 4 years instead

3

4

Don't Invest All Your Money in One Place

3

5

A Blockchain Company Actually Making a Profit

2

6

Coinbase may allow people to store, transact personal data as a digital asset

2

7

Bitcoin is being banned as a campaign donation in some states

2

8

Crypto prices are falling, but not everyone is losing money

1

9

Dems Must Build a Democratic Culture, Too

1

10

Empathy on writing

1