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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Stephen Hawking has died
6015
2
Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud
1211
3
“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”
1155
4
ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live
1024
5
China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
827
6
Slack's bait and switch
757
7
Google bans cryptocurrency ads
686
8
EU wants to require platforms to filter uploaded content, including code
681
9
Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (2016)
639
10
Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture
571
Top Ask HN
1
“Write your own” or “Build your own” software projects
576
2
Is a blog clever marketing or just a waste of time?
154
3
Are there any studies about book reading retention rates vs. audiobooks?
120
4
Which books have helped you the most professionally?
110
5
Working remotely in Portugal for an Irish company
55
6
Is online self-education useful or just delusion?
48
7
Moving to Mountain View CA – Places to go to hang with fellow geeks?
47
8
What laptop do you use?
46
9
I'm teaching my wife to code. What direction should we go?
41
10
Anyone else not read the questions on SO, only the answers when stuck?
41
Top Show HN
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RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript
1087
2
Where is Sci-Hub now?
247
3
Gitkube – Deploy to Kubernetes Using Git Push
224
4
LonelyPage – One page is all you need
216
5
Makesite – A static site generator in 125 lines of Python
146
6
Fossa-cli – Fast and reliable dependency analysis for any codebase
104
7
Mindset – Self-Improvement Hypnosis
101
8
Using AI to Summarize Terms and Conditions
91
9
Macro – Keyboard Shortcuts for the web
91
10
Talent vs. Luck – A recreation of the paper's model
86
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election
542
2
Stock trade app Robinhood raising at $5B+, up 4X in a year
289
3
iOS 11 bugs are so common they now appear in Apple ads
261
4
A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
247
5
Adrian Lamo has died
228
6
Lyft says its revenue is growing nearly 3x faster than Uber’s
205
7
Apple Music now has 38M paid members
196
8
Scott Kelly’s medical monitoring has spawned some bad press coverage
176
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US utilities have finally realized electric cars may save them
172
10
Pilot.com raises $15M to bring bookkeeping into the modern era
155
News [?]
1
Stephen Hawking has died
6015
2
China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
827
3
Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture
571
4
50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
558
5
Airtable gets $52M in funding
459
6
Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
401
7
How Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate America’s Nightmare
365
8
Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting Them Down Themselves
347
9
Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women
347
10
'Mind Over Matter': Stephen Hawking – Obituary by Roger Penrose
319
Scientific publications [?]
1
Examining overlooked clues reveals how ultrasound could have caused harm in Cuba
208
2
Deep Quaternion Networks (2017) [pdf]
151
3
Rust-style resource management in OCaml
131
4
Surprising Creativity: Anecdotes from Evolutionary Computation
86
5
Computer personality judgments more accurate than those made by humans: study
70
6
Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to Ultralow-Power Chips
62
7
Feature extraction without learning using Hierarchical Temporal Memory
58
8
Kristen Stewart: Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer
24
9
A Smooth Curve as a Fractal Under the Third Definition
22
10
TCNs are better than RNNs
21
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Run JavaScript on Cloudflare with Workers
249
2
The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With
188
3
Train Your Machine Learning Models on Google’s GPUs for Free
102
4
Making music using new sounds generated with machine learning
91
5
How GraphQL Replaces Redux
80
6
Tesla GPU Accelerator Bang for the Buck, Kepler to Volta
78
7
Optimizing a Static Site
58
8
Android Wear, it’s time for a new name
38
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How to build a SaaS with $0
34
10
Stack Overflow: The 2018 Developer Survey Results Are Live
21
Tech blogs [?]
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Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hours Prior Notice
401
2
New ThinkPad Guts Bring Intel Core I, DDR4, USB 3 to Cult Laptops
251
3
Intel Publishes Spectre and Meltdown Hardware Plans: Fixed Gear Later This Year
202
4
Our Interesting Call with CTS-Labs
186
5
Power Outage at Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% of Global NAND Flash Output for March
150
6
A New Backdoor Around the Fourth Amendment: The CLOUD Act
55
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Samsung Power Outage Kills 3.5% Of Global Flash For March
30
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'GrayKey' iPhone Unlocking Box Used by Law Enforcement Shown Off in Photos
9
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The CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on Cross-Border Data
4
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30min power outage at fab ruins 3.5% of monthly NAND world-wide supply
3
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS documentation is now open source and on GitHub
243
2
Apple to acquire digital magazine service Texture
114
3
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 4 in San Jose – Apple
3
4
Achieving Human Parity on Automatic Chinese to English News Translation [pdf]
3
5
Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (1978) [pdf]
2
6
Android GraphQL subscriptions and support for complex objects in AWS AppSync
2
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AWS Documentation Is Now Open Source and on GitHub – AWS News Blog
2
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Predict March Madness Using Amazon Sagemaker
2
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Building a serverless real-time chat application with AWS AppSync
1
10
Families
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Qualcomm, National Security, and Patents
242
2
Tiny, Perfect Staircases Made by French Woodworkers
210
3
The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files
95
4
Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now
83
5
I know how hard it would have been to escape the helicopter crash in NYC
62
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The Struggle of Keeping a Roadside Attraction Alive
54
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Revisiting an Explorer’s Northwest Passage Disappointment After Nearly 230 Years
29
8
Atlantis in the Mountains of Italy (2007)
23
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For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist
20
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Rising Anxiety Among American Whites
18
Science News [?]
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How Europeans evolved white skin (2015)
142
2
Autism's social deficits in animal model are reversed by an anti-cancer drug
133
3
A brief history of Stephen Hawking: A legacy of paradox
123
4
Why the Tiny Weight of Empty Space Is Such a Mystery
120
5
Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth
108
6
How Cheese, Wheat and Alcohol Shaped Human Evolution
86
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Geoengineer polar glaciers to slow sea-level rise
56
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To Test Einstein’s Equations, Poke a Black Hole
52
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Micro-scale fusion in dense relativistic nanowire array plasmas
39
10
Euclid as Founding Father (2016)
31
Social [?]
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“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”
1155
2
The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR
508
3
Writing System Software [video]
505
4
Wikimedia director on commercial use of Wikipedia
102
5
Benz remotely controlled vehicle stuck in cruise control mode for 1h at 120km/h
55
6
Patrick Collison AMA on r/neoliberal
50
7
27TB of Digg Reader content available on request
34
8
Garry Kasparov: Open-Ended AI [video]
33
9
How pi was almost 6.283185 [video]
29
10
Cryptocurrencies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
23
Github repos and gists [?]
1
TinyVM – A small and easy to understand virtual machine in C
241
2
Org-brain – mind-mapping for org-mode
190
3
Trump's Campaign Payments Totalling $130K
181
4
Operating Broadcom Wi-Fi Chips as Arbitrary Signal Transmitters, Like SDRs
176
5
HIP – Convert CUDA to Portable C++
142
6
KotCity – an open-source city simulation game written in Kotlin
130
7
Checked C: extension to C that adds static and dynamic checking
129
8
Making a TTS model with 1 minute of speech samples within 10 minutes
112
9
Tandem – Decentralized, cross-editor, collaborative editing
110
10
ASP.NET Core Elevation Of Privilege Vulnerability
76
Wikipedia [?]
1
Policy laundering
119
2
Mail art
110
3
Fitts’s law
83
4
Pi Day
10
5
Ikigai
4
6
List of lists of lists
3
7
Leidenfrost effect – Floating drops of water you see when cooking
3
8
Maxima Computer Algebra Software Is Still in Use After 50 Years
3
9
Social Credit System will rate every Chinese citizen
3
10
Paddy the Wanderer
2
Blogs [?]
1
Gaijin Engineer in Tokyo
286
2
Coltrane Pitch Diagrams: Wrapping notes around a torus
198
3
Who will steal Android from Google?
183
4
AWS Lambda and .zip is a recipe for serverless success
146
5
Say Yes to Markdown, No to MS Word
97
6
MobX 4: Better, simpler, faster, smaller
28
7
The Mastodon Spring Creator’s Release
27
8
How Netflix evacuates regions in less than 10 minutes
26
9
Python 3.7’s new builtin breakpoint – a quick tour
22
10
Chrome unmasks your identity to sites you’ve logged out of
16
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018
4
2
Parsing PT15M: ISO 8601 Duration in Go
1
3
Developers Survey Results 2018
1
4
Why does this code using random strings print “hello world”?
1
5
What was the motivation behind introducing preflight requests?
1
6
Implementing the “tails” from Data.List module
1
7
One way to create runtime service next to OS
1
Substack [?]
1
Filters, Funnels
3
2
How to signal good intentions in short emails
3
3
A Programmer’s Guide to Risk Management
3
4
A Programmer's Guide to Building Value
1
5
Performing the Real-Time Self
1