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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Productivity
1264
2
AV1: A new general-purpose video codec
909
3
Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative
874
4
Fuchsia is not Linux
784
5
A Taxonomy of Technical Debt
711
6
Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release
684
7
Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?
674
8
Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
642
9
H&R Block and Intuit Lobbying Against Simpler Tax Filing (2017)
631
10
How to Decide What to Build
630
Top Ask HN
1
What is your favourite tech talk?
701
2
Those making over $300k/year, how did you achieve it?
282
3
What is the best Modern C++ MOOC?
228
4
Resources for catching up on modern JavaScript for Python/C++ Programmer
214
5
What are well designed SaaS websites?
191
6
Organizing company knowledge?
190
7
Alternatives to Reddit?
154
8
Do you have the courage to abandon your high paying job?
147
9
What happened to the semantic web?
109
10
What are the some passive income strategies you do beside your IT job?
83
Top Show HN
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Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app
277
2
Tube – Minimalist YouTube
220
3
Visualizing disk IO activity using log-scale banded graphs
207
4
InKino – An open-source movie app made with Flutter
148
5
I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler
118
6
Turn Touch wooden smart home remote now shipping
110
7
Munt – The simplest way to accept cryptocurrencies
98
8
Using deep learning to detect objects from your webcam
95
9
Facebook data analyzer
85
10
Blank – A stack-based programming language I wrote 21 years ago
73
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sustainable business model
448
2
Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material
362
3
Apple is making a show based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ books
323
4
Jolla is the last company with an 'alternative' mobile operating system
310
5
Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
302
6
The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font
277
7
Firefox updates its iOS web browser to turn Tracking Protection on by default
268
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It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance
261
9
Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail
258
10
FCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segments and scripts
224
News [?]
1
Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative
874
2
Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
642
3
In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information
555
4
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was a sham
483
5
Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress
431
6
Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns
429
7
Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
366
8
SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round
361
9
Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB
357
10
YouTube and Facebook Are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals
317
Scientific publications [?]
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PowerHammer: Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers Through Power Lines
298
2
Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space
239
3
Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners
191
4
New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins
122
5
When algorithms surprise us
112
6
PULP – Inner-Process Isolation Based on Program Counter and Data Memory Address [pdf]
17
7
The chromatic number of the plane is at least 5
9
8
Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning
6
9
Space Exploration: Real Reasons and Acceptable Reasons (2007) [pdf]
4
10
Google Brain: Concept Activation Vectors
4
Dev Blogs [?]
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Don't give away historic details about yourself
532
2
NEON is the new black: fast JPEG optimization on ARM servers
252
3
Abusing Linux's firewall: the hack that allowed us to build Spectrum
241
4
YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by automated bots
181
5
Our experience with Stripe Atlas (2017)
139
6
Power9 Benchmarks vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance on Debian Linux
110
7
The Programming Talent Myth (2015)
98
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How we made $100K trading CryptoKitties
29
9
Fixing reachability to 1.1.1.1, globally
29
10
Spectrum: Extending Cloudflare to 65,533 More Ports
23
Tech blogs [?]
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European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse
290
2
Another Reason to Learn Morse Code: Kidnapping
134
3
User Privacy Isn't Solely a Facebook Issue
124
4
Quantum mechanics used for better random numbers
39
5
D.C. Court: Accessing Public Information Is Not a Computer Crime
37
6
AMD Ryzen 2nd Gen Details: Four CPUs, Pre-Order Today, Reviews on the 19th
33
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Apple Cuts HomePod Orders After Sales Prove to Be Lackluster
27
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Facebook, This Is Not What “Complete User Control” Looks Like
9
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Korea likely to be 3rd country to fine Apple for unfair contracts with carriers
7
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No, Section 230 Does Not Require Platforms to Be “Neutral”
7
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple says it’s now powered by renewable energy worldwide
274
2
AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and offline capabilities
39
3
How to Be the Startup Hero by Tim Draper (free on Kindle for 24 Hours)
28
4
Amazon S3 Select Is Generally Available (April 2018)
9
5
Paxos made simple (Lamport, 2001)
5
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AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Implementation Is Now Open-Source
3
7
Blood Sweat and Pixels: The Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
2
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Apple is now completely powered by clean energy
2
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Project Zanzibar, a human-computer interaction project from Microsoft Research
2
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AWS AppSync – Production-Ready GraphQL with Six New Features
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Publisher Gets Carte Blanche to Seize New Sci-Hub Domains
297
2
Soviet-Era Industrial Design
245
3
The Facebook Current
103
4
Escape the echo chamber
83
5
Elon Musk gives first glimpse inside Tesla Model 3 production line
40
6
Tesla battery degradation, less than 10% after 160,000 miles, according to data
12
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The Microbiologist Sniffing Out the World’s Perfect Cheese
11
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Tesla battery degradation at less than 10% after over 160,000 miles
7
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Women of Color Get Asked to Do More Office Housework. Here’s How They Can Say No
6
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How the Quakers became unlikely economic innovators by inventing the price tag
4
Science News [?]
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Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes
403
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Atlantic Ocean's Circulation Is Weakest in 1,600 Years
183
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Time for third-party data brokers to emerge from the shadows?
182
4
Gut microbes are vulnerable to wide range of drugs
161
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Thinning in brain regions important for memory linked to sedentary habits
152
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85,000-year-old Finger Bone Complicates Understanding of African Migration
127
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Giant coconut crabs feed on birds (2017)
126
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Trouble Detected in Infamous Dark Matter Signal
98
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ML turns video of a 360° turn into 3D model of a person
96
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One bad night’s sleep may increase levels of Alzheimer’s protein
88
Social [?]
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Check if your data was shared with Cambridge analytica FB check tool
100
2
YouTube Accounts Of Famous Singers Hacked. Despacito video deleted.
83
3
The Guardian covertly sends your data to 58 tracking services
74
4
In the 1950s, a California teacher's annual mortgage payments were 14% of salary
74
5
A privacy flaw in Comcast's automated telephone system
66
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“I don't have a Facebook account and would like to request all personal data...”
64
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Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live
58
8
Steve Jobs MIT Class (1992) [video]
52
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Photo of Zuck's notes
44
10
Charlie Munger: Investing in AI [video]
30
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Apple Object to W3C Fork of DOM Spec
549
2
Vipassana for Hackers [pdf]
461
3
ZFS on Linux: Unlistable and disappearing files
380
4
Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Web
350
5
Deep Painterly Harmonization
340
6
Go-internals: Chapter 2, “Interfaces” released
252
7
Original Windows File Manager with enhancements
247
8
Qusim.py – A toy multi-qubit quantum computer simulator written in Python
242
9
Prototool – A Swiss Army Knife for Protocol Buffers
215
10
Carp: A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications
202
Wikipedia [?]
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Eroom's law
120
2
Gruen transfer
105
3
IBM 7950 Harvest
81
4
Smyth Report
8
5
Three men make a tiger
8
6
List of Cognitive Biases
3
7
List of important publications in computer science
3
8
The Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Explosion Was 48 Years Ago Today
3
9
IEFBR14
2
10
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
2
Blogs [?]
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TurboTax Freemium Funnel: Critical Analysis and UX Teardown
153
2
Hiring and the market for lemons (2016)
128
3
The BEAM needs an APL-y language
110
4
SourceForge Hiding Fact That They Have Lost the Latest Revision of SVN?
101
5
Effects of CPU Caches
99
6
Don’t Do for Money What Others Do for Love
90
7
Why is Ember fading away?
74
8
People Who Have “Too Many Interests” More Likely to Be Successful
66
9
Common Mistakes in Firebase Security Rules
60
10
Visualizing an iOS Device in Blender Through Quantum Entanglement
29
Stackoverflow [?]
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How and when to align to cache line size
3
2
Is 0 an octal or a decimal in C? (2014)
2
3
What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
1
4
Returning http 200 OK with error within response body
1
Substack [?]
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Your reader will try to infer your intentions anyway, so help them get it right
3
2
The Label Is Not the Object
1