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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service

1895

2

It's time to head back to RSS?

1501

3

Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted

1187

4

I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet

918

5

Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biological Clocks

910

6

898

7

Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked

854

8

Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google

778

9

FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satellite Services

691

10

I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines

685

Top Ask HN

1

Examples of great landing pages?

566

2

Any recommended resources to develop system thinking?

365

3

Strategies for mentoring junior developers?

215

4

Will HN allow account and comment deletions?

126

5

How can felons find programming jobs?

100

6

What do Facebook employees think about their company?

96

7

Strategies for database reliability when I have no control over the DB?

73

8

What are your favorite podcast episodes, and who might enjoy them?

65

9

Why nobody competes with Adobe?

63

10

How do I find meaningful things to work on if programming is a hobby?

61

Top Show HN

1

A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

346

2

Turn indented text into mind maps

323

3

Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries

272

4

HN Domain Leaderboard

266

5

Launched my first app where people hum songs for others to guess

198

6

Egg Gradients – Gradient color inspirations

186

7

Auditus – Ebook to Audiobook Conversion

146

8

ShivyC – Hobby C compiler created in Python

120

9

Hotspot 3D – Compare Phones with WebGL

112

10

Nothing.js – A chainable mock object which always returns itself

89

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

It's time to head back to RSS?

1501

2

Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo

486

3

Foxconn buys Belkin for $866M

411

4

Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones without permission

411

5

MacOS finally gains external GPU support

402

6

Waymo teams up with Jaguar to intro a new, premium self-driving car

353

7

Google starts blocking “uncertified” Android devices from logging in

324

8

Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will reach $1T market cap

289

9

Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in California

253

10

Facebook Will Cut Off Access to Third Party Data for Ad Targeting

185

News [?]

1

Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google

778

2

Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

677

3

To Change Habits, Try Replacement Instead

634

4

Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired

593

5

U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants

585

6

Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)

534

7

Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality

449

8

How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet

384

9

Kim Dotcom wins battle in ongoing fight against U.S. extradition

378

10

Facebook Delays Home-Speaker Unveil Amid Data Crisis

323

Scientific publications [?]

1

Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years

268

2

Fiber Lasers are set to make laser weapons practical

126

3

Festo's New Bionic Robots Include Rolling Spider, Flying Fox

114

4

Universal Sentence Encoder

89

5

Origami-Folded Hydrogel Paper Instantly Generates 110 Volts of Electricity

71

6

Teaching machines to spot essential information in physical systems

41

7

Metcalfe’s Law is Wrong (2006)

39

8

Making the Cut: Lattice Kirigami Rules (2014)

6

9

Quitting Facebook Leads to Higher Levels of Well-Being

4

10

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service

1895

2

Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked

854

3

The joy of max()

316

4

The Effective Tech Lead Is a 100x Engineer

205

5

Email marketing for e-commerce

189

6

Who and what is Coinhive?

143

7

Apple Is Looking for Linux Kernel Developers

118

8

From Express.js to AWS Lambda: Migrating Existing Node Apps to Serverless

90

9

Linus Torvalds Remembers the Days Before ‘Open Source’

48

10

A Beginner’s Guide to IPFS

31

Tech blogs [?]

1

NVIDIA Develops NVLink Switch: NVSwitch, 18 Ports For DGX-2

118

2

Georgia Passes Anti-Infosec Legislation

45

3

Building a Secure Messenge

7

4

EFF Asks Federal Circuit Not to Make It Harder to Challenge Software Patents

6

5

State of Georgia Passes Anti-Infosec Legislation

6

6

Is Your Clock Tied to Mains Frequency?

5

7

World's largest jet engine, the GE9X, makes maiden flight

4

8

Copyright and Online Journalism: What’s Going on in New York?

4

9

EFF Hosts John Perry Barlow Symposium

3

10

“Fake News” Offers Latin American Powers an Opportunity to Censor Opponents

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

329

2

iOS 11.3 is available today

118

3

A Simple Guide to Machine Learning with Decision Trees

68

4

Several Apple Services are Experiencing Outages

62

5

Apple introduces new 9.7-inch iPad with Apple Pencil support

29

6

Build Systems à la Carte [pdf]

5

7

No more offensive language on Skype, see section 3.a.iv

3

8

Amazon DynamoDB Continuous Backups and Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)

3

9

AWS Launches Service Discovery for ECS

3

10

Apple's ULA – Yes, they track you unless you opt out

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Art of Assembly Language (1996)

297

2

A Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries

286

3

Lockheed Martin has obtained a patent for a compact fusion reactor

257

4

Google Adds 'Kodi' to Autocomplete Piracy Filter

202

5

Stratechery 4.0

166

6

The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader

139

7

Well-Kept Gardens Die by Pacifism (2009)

97

8

Qatar's F-15s Will Feature New 'Low Profile' Heads Up Display and New Cockpit

75

9

On the Hunt for the Lost Wonders of Medieval Britain

60

10

With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies

55

Science News [?]

1

Giraffes Added to the Endangered Species List (2016)

465

2

Time to talk about why so many postgrads have poor mental health

414

3

The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind

396

4

Scientists say we’re on the cusp of a carbon dioxide–recycling revolution

201

5

NASA reveals delay for Hubble successor

195

6

Brains Cling to Old Habits When Learning New Tricks

192

7

Newly-discovered human organ may help explain how cancer spreads

158

8

Trump, Congress approve largest U.S. research spending increase in a decade

128

9

Million-dollar Strads fall to modern violins in blind ‘sound check’

127

10

Machine Behavior Needs to Be an Academic Discipline

96

Social [?]

1

My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app

557

2

Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides

373

3

NYT reporter: “81% ICOs were scams”

137

4

You Can Always Get What You Want, But Not What You Need (2016) [video]

136

5

That feel when you can't captcha [video]

99

6

“Concerns about privacy tend to be old people issues” (2010) [video]

79

7

Sinclair's script for stations [video]

62

8

Want to freak yourself out?

45

9

Shyp is ceasing operations

40

10

Comparing different global problems in terms of potential for impact [video]

33

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Reddit 1.0 source code

251

2

Gron: A command line tool that makes JSON greppable

247

3

Zstandard v1.3.4 – faster everything

202

4

Lsofgraph – Convert lsof output to graph of processes, pipes, fifos and sockets

180

5

TensorFlow 1.7.0 released

165

6

GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP

157

7

Proposal: Non-cooperative goroutine preemption

150

8

RTL-entropy: Uses RTL-SDR to turn a DVB-T dongle into an entropy source

120

9

Debugging across pipes and sockets with strace [pdf]

111

10

Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained neural network

110

Wikipedia [?]

1

Conway notation

75

2

Apple Pippin (1996)

68

3

Assume a can opener

26

4

4

5

Macintosh Common Lisp

4

6

Mertonian norms (Merton's norms)

3

7

Classic HN: Duff's device

2

8

Historicity and origin of the Resurrection of Jesus

2

9

2

10

Spaceship Earth

2

Blogs [?]

1

Life is Short (2016)

568

2

Introducing TensorFlow.js: Machine Learning in JavaScript

329

3

Reverse engineering the Notability file format

146

4

Someone bought my Twitter account 10K fake/bot followers

143

5

File consistency (2015)

127

6

Why collision avoidance is harder for an AI-based system

118

7

Open source sabbatical = awesome

116

8

Free YouTube Video Editor Alternative

48

9

The Thousand Brains Model of Intelligence

43

10

What worries me about AI

43

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Modifying Chrome Extensions

1

2

Fsync success after previous fsync error loses data

1

3

QuackOverflow – StackOverflow's Listening Duck Assistant This April First

1

Substack [?]

1

Ambivalence on Technocracy

3

2

Message: think before you write

1