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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off
2585
2
Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies
2364
3
Why I’m done with Chrome
2357
4
EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
1737
5
Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users
1677
6
Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
1572
7
EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019
1367
8
Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information
1359
9
Life in the Spanish city that banned cars
1240
10
Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build
1232
Top Ask HN
1
Best alternative to Gmail?
867
2
What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?
850
3
Favorite teachers on YouTube?
770
4
Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?
675
5
What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?
613
6
What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great?
575
7
Who is hiring? (September 2018)
486
8
What was the best decision you made in your career?
460
9
What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
458
10
How to come up with monetizable side project ideas?
426
Top Show HN
1
I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
968
2
Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text
935
3
Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book
700
4
Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics
660
5
Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists
590
6
TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked by confidence intervals
514
7
Hacking slot machines with a buttonhole camera and brute-force search
421
8
Magic Sandbox – learn Kubernetes on real infrastructure
392
9
Py-spy – A new sampling profiler for Python programs
286
10
Hacklily – sheet music editor
285
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
1737
2
Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information
1359
3
A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data
934
4
Google is discontinuing Inbox
916
5
SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy
798
6
Apple's best product is now privacy
717
7
Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms
677
8
After century of removing appendixes, doctors find antibiotics can be enough
481
9
Whole Foods workers seek to unionize
433
10
The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now it’s dead
391
News [?]
1
Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users
1677
2
EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019
1367
3
Life in the Spanish city that banned cars
1240
4
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal
849
5
A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes
829
6
Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company
778
7
WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind
626
8
Stripe Is Now a $20B Company
563
9
Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China
541
10
Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web
532
Scientific publications [?]
1
David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Languages
444
2
Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3
261
3
Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees
165
4
Surprising hidden order unites prime numbers and crystal-like materials
157
5
Desperate for Data Scientists
157
6
Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but changed Earth's climate: study
154
7
One Billion Apples’ Secret Sauce: Recipe for Apple Wireless Direct Link Protocol
145
8
Meal frequency and timing in health and disease
145
9
Future Directions for Optimizing Compilers
144
10
Apple, Huawei Both Claim First 7-nm Smartphone Chips
135
Dev Blogs [?]
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Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
780
2
Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway
621
3
Stripe Terminal – Programmable point of sale
539
4
Introducing Cloudflare Registrar
527
5
Introducing Firefox Monitor, Helping People Take Control After a Data Breach
515
6
Killing processes that don't want to die
354
7
Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta
320
8
Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates
307
9
Firefox Reality Now Available
301
10
EU copyright reform: the facts
273
Tech blogs [?]
1
Sony Finally Admits It Doesn’t Own Bach
438
2
Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back
433
3
Molecule produced during fasting has anti-aging effect on vascular system
255
4
A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor
225
5
New “Terrorist Content” Regulations: A Grim Day for Digital Rights in Europe
150
6
Additional Mac App Store apps caught stealing and uploading browser history
124
7
The Nvidia Turing GPU Architecture Deep Dive: Prelude to GeForce RTX
120
8
Hacking into a CPU’S Microcode (2017)
117
9
Intel Tock-Ticks Chipsets Back to 22nm
117
10
UK Surveillance Regime Violated Human Rights
87
FAANG+ [?]
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iOS 12 released
457
2
AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys
357
3
Apple Special Event [video]
197
4
Checked C: Making C Safer by Extension
84
5
EC2 Instances with 6, 9, and 12 TB of Memory
74
6
iPhone XS – A12 Bionic
48
7
AWS announces cloud backend support for Vue.js apps
33
8
Apple Watch Series 4
8
9
New AWS Session Manager for Shell Access to EC2 Instances
7
10
iOS 12 Security [pdf]
6
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light
591
2
Instagram’s CEO
566
3
World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years
533
4
How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels
384
5
Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure
281
6
Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’
271
7
CBS Shuts Down Stage 9, a Fan-Made Recreation of the USS Enterprise
242
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The European Union versus the Internet
194
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Before Food Trucks, Americans Ate 'Night Lunch' from Beautiful Wagons
185
10
The iPhone Franchise
177
Science News [?]
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Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
509
2
Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture
373
3
Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit
335
4
People can die from giving up the fight
335
5
Evidence that addictive behaviors have links with ancient retroviral infection
315
6
Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice
232
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'Mindful people' feel less pain
207
8
Quaternions: the Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra
205
9
Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room
192
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Why are conversations limited to about four people?
171
Social [?]
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Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies
2364
2
Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
996
3
Found hooked up to my router
965
4
Anatomy of a Killing
768
5
Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video]
717
6
Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint
500
7
A Conversation with Paul Graham [video]
396
8
Ikarus electric “rocket” – Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan [video]
357
9
John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”
308
10
SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 – Onyx RealityEngine² [video]
306
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration
1105
2
XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust
609
3
Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
581
4
Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI server, and makes them pass
538
5
How to create an OS from scratch – tutorial
377
6
Yarn Plug'n'Play: Getting rid of node_modules
362
7
Firefox about:config privacy settings
362
8
The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0
328
9
Nvidia Vid2vid: High-resolution photorealistic video-to-video translation
303
10
Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux
280
Wikipedia [?]
1
Dry Water
543
2
Gell-Mann amnesia effect
361
3
Isochronous Curves
224
4
TRIZ, a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool
172
5
Poka-yoke
160
6
Project West Ford
148
7
Mirror life
145
8
Bellman's lost in a forest problem
139
9
Braess’s paradox
134
10
Hajnal line
102
Blogs [?]
1
Build Impossible Programs
652
2
My Story as a Homeless Developer
482
3
Building your own deep learning computer is 10x cheaper than AWS
437
4
How to teach yourself hard things
434
5
Growing Our SaaS to $1M+ ARR: 7 People, 3 Years, No VC Money
411
6
Plans for the Next Iteration of Vue.js
271
7
How to Design for the Modern Web
227
8
How to be alone: the difference between loneliness and solitude
223
9
Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)
215
10
Lessons From a Failed Startup — From and For First Time Founders
202
Stackoverflow [?]
1
iOS 12 Safari Array reverse bug
333
2
Different behaviour about pthread_cond_wait on OpenBSD and Linux
3
3
In Vim how can I search and replace every other match?
2
4
Calculate your salary
2
5
Deoptimizing a Program for the Pipeline in Intel Sandybridge-Family CPUs
2
6
Stackoverflow – Calculate your salary
2
7
Stackoverflow – calculate your salary
2
8
Question: Crazy and Weird TimeZone Issue in JavaScript
1
9
StackOverflow Salary Comparison tool
1
10
Google Maps shows “For development purposes only”
1
Substack [?]
1
Payday loans are coming for everyone
56
2
Bitcoin is under attack in India
5
3
SEC cracks down on Bitcoin product, while Citigroup considers jumping in
3
4
The Bitcoin thesis is playing out in Venezuela
3
5
Wall Street is going all-in on cryptocurrencies
2
6
The Winklevoss twins are playing the crypto long game
2
7
Banks are more fraudulent than crypto companies
2
8
Coinbase is implementing Facebook's platform strategy
2
9
Bitmain is the modern day Carnegie Steel
2
10
Bitcoin is a deflationary system but has an expansive circulating supply
1