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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
2361
2
Congrats Dropbox
1543
3
Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook
1390
4
Blocklist Facebook domains
1349
5
Fred's ImageMagick Scripts
1149
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Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
1108
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FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says
1107
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WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
1086
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Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation
1074
10
Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA
947
Top Ask HN
1
How do you find freelance work?
518
2
Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production?
330
3
How did you start your business?
278
4
Resources to learn real analysis?
215
5
What percentage of your users are using social login?
206
6
How does a great resume look like? What are the best tools to make one?
161
7
Is 2018 the end of Facebook?
132
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Which YC companies failed badly?
123
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Are there any purely keyword-based search engines with no NLP?
121
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Why is PayPal's password length limit still a thing?
112
Top Show HN
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URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds your secrets
273
2
Find3 – An indoor positioning system for smartphones and laptops
265
3
Transfer files to mobile device by scanning a QR code from the terminal
238
4
Word2Bits – Quantized Word Vectors
221
5
Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information
197
6
Wishminer – Mining social media for app ideas, my weekend project
164
7
Sheet2Site – Create Websites Out of Google Sheets
145
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Asynchronous HTTP/2 client for Python 2.7
94
9
Noderize – Create Node apps in 30 seconds
85
10
libRmath.js – A port of R's Nmath numeric library to JavaScript
80
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook
1390
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WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
1086
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#deletefacebook
836
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Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones
800
5
Facebook was warned about app permissions in 2011
425
6
Towards a world without Facebook
323
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Toxic management cost an award-winning game studio its best developers
321
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Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M
289
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A Visiting Star Jostled Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago
228
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The Glory That Was Yahoo
226
News [?]
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Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
2361
2
FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says
1107
3
Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation
1074
4
Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
942
5
Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings
706
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Facebook’s Surveillance Machine
677
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The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works
552
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Zuckerberg summoned to House Of Commons inquiry
483
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‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem
436
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Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting
419
Scientific publications [?]
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Facebook Use of Sensitive Data for Advertising in Europe [pdf]
212
2
Neural Network Quine
138
3
Investigation Confirms IBM Layoffs Targeted Older Workers
126
4
Next-Gen Display: MicroLEDs
123
5
A Look Back at the 1960s PLATO Computing System
88
6
MIT's Soft Robotic Fish Explores Reefs in Fiji
82
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Group Normalization
82
8
Efficient Recurrent Neural Networks using Structured Matrices in FPGAs
79
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Just Spent Its 2,000th Day on Mars
71
10
Agility Robotics Raises $8M for Commercial Bipedal Robots
47
Dev Blogs [?]
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Listening for illegal logging chainsaws using TensorFlow
471
2
TCP Tracepoints have arrived in Linux
325
3
Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising
272
4
Cloud Identity
257
5
Google Cloud Armor
179
6
IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple
121
7
Experimenting with Light Fields
78
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Our Discovery of Cramming (2017)
41
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Survey: Americans Spent $1.4B on Credit Freeze Fees in Wake of Equifax Breach
38
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A Tour Through Merkle Town, Cloudflare's Certificate Transparency Dashboard
26
Tech blogs [?]
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With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good intentions from bad law
715
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Responsibility Deflected, the CLOUD Act Passes
259
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EFF and 23 Groups Tell Congress to Oppose the CLOUD Act
65
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How Congress Censored the Internet
19
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Best SSDs: Q2 2018
6
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Buying Machine Tools: Foreign or Domestic, New or Used?
5
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AMD Confirms CTS-Labs Exploits: All to Be Patched in Weeks
5
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Inventing the digital watch again and again and
5
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Apple developing new 3D sensor system for 2019 iPhone rear camera (2017)
4
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The CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on Cross-Border Data
3
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS Public Datasets
390
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Project Malmo [Minecraft AI Platform by Microsoft]
10
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Build systems a la carte - Microsoft Research
7
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The Bw-Tree: A B-tree for New Hardware Platforms [pdf]
7
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Introducing the AWS IoT Framework for Automotive Grade Linux
4
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AWS announced ECS service discovery
4
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Introducing Service Discovery for Amazon ECS
3
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Introducing Amazon Lightsail – Virtual Private Servers Made Easy
2
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Will it hold up to a taco
2
10
Launch: Building for the Enterprise: Product Management in Enterprise Software
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Gallery of programming UIs
369
2
US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser
134
3
How Twitch Learned to Make Better Predictions About Everything (2017)
77
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The idea of creating a new universe in the lab is no joke
5
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Spotify may owe its success to piracy
4
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Why children ask ‘Why?’ and what makes a good explanation
3
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The Facebook Brand
3
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Disgraceful Dashcam Video Proves Uber Is the Theranos of Self-Driving
3
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Uber self-driving prototype involved in a fatal crash investigated by police
3
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Getting Value from Machine Learning – It’s About Making It Easier to Use
3
Science News [?]
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Is Facebook Really Scarier Than Google?
423
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Two weeks before death, Hawking submitted a paper on parallel universes
204
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Reduced-calorie diet shows signs of slowing ageing in people
133
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Robert Langlands, Mathematical Visionary, Wins the Abel Prize
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In field tests, device harvests water from desert air
103
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Artificial data give the same results as real data without compromising privacy
99
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In Search of Proofs from “The Book”
94
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Physicists discover new quantum electronic material
83
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American cockroaches thrive in cities thanks to their long genomes
68
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Evidence of Delayed Aging Among a National Sample of Americans
56
Social [?]
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Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
1108
2
Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation
854
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Downloaded my Facebook data and it has the call history with my partner’s mother
503
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Rent out GPUs to AI researchers and make ~2x more than mining cryptocurrencies
488
5
Facebook tracks all calls and messages on Android
265
6
What is Mastodon? [video]
171
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Facebook tracks your private calls
169
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Michał Zalewski, Director Information Security Engineering, leaves Google
165
9
Types, and Why You Should Care [video]
110
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Solving 2D equations using color [video]
93
Github repos and gists [?]
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Blocklist Facebook domains
1349
2
D3.js 5.0 is out
407
3
Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim
309
4
At full speed with Python: a book for self-learners
304
5
Concurrency Limits by Netflix
191
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Migra – A schema diff tool for PostgreSQL
177
7
An attempt to upgrade to Webpack 4
130
8
Dejavu – Web UI for Elasticsearch
129
9
Knusperli: A deblocking JPEG decoder
121
10
ProteinNet: A standardized data set for machine learning of protein structure
103
Wikipedia [?]
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Chernoff face
221
2
Lucky iron fish
52
3
Pointing machine
41
4
Miller columns
6
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Tarpit: a computer system service that purposely delays incoming connections
5
6
Blue–green distinction in language
4
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Behavioral differences of humans infected with Toxoplasma gondii
3
8
Brief (text editor)
3
9
The lexer hack
3
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Book: “The Foundations of Geopolitics”: The Geopolitical Future of Russia
2
Blogs [?]
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DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon
215
2
Talent, luck and success: simulating meritocracy and inequality
156
3
Code your own Proof of Stake blockchain in Go
105
4
What Could You Build with Just $10,000?
96
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The Benefits of Server Side Rendering Over Client Side Rendering
73
6
Is Ada a failed language?
63
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Self-driving cars will cause sprawl
51
8
Everybody’s Lying About the Link Between Gun Ownership and Homicide
44
9
Payments is not a consumer product
43
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We need a new platform before we can #deleteFacebook
19
Stackoverflow [?]
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The name slug in Heroku is a reference to Quake's Railgun
2
2
Stack Overflow: 2018 Developer Survey Results
2
3
Go: Using interfaces{} in slices seems to incur a 40x slowdown
2
Substack [?]
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Miirror: a framework for writing
2
2
Seven Books for Advancing Your Soft Skills as a Programmer
2
3
Miirror: a framework for effective written communication
2
4
Felix Salmon's Nota Bene: Toys don't fung
2
5
A better future for news
2