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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Apple open-sources FoundationDB
2136
2
Facebook Container for Firefox
1274
3
You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts
1075
4
Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
793
5
Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks
785
6
GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere
731
7
Smugmug Acquires Flickr
720
8
Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video]
701
9
The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework
659
10
My account is sending spam emails
647
Top Ask HN
1
What are some tech companies that do not use an open floor plan?
409
2
What tools do you use to automate your business?
249
3
Does SEO still work in 2018?
226
4
Girlfriend is being shown ads depending on what we do together. How?
98
5
Why can't I delete my HN account?
95
6
Are there any online trainings worth paying for?
92
7
Is “a decentralized alternative to X” the new “Uber for X”?
80
8
If you could go back to study any CS-related field, what would it be?
72
9
When do you use a library vs. implement something yourself?
72
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What are the disadvantages of Docker?
67
Top Show HN
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A curated library of free music for content creators
239
2
Hacker Daily, a daily podcast for Hacker News readers
199
3
Telescope – News and RSS Reader
166
4
Slate-md-editor – A markdown editor that allows live editing
123
5
HoneyMoney – 100% more Bees than any other personal finance software
121
6
Lisp Shell
120
7
I Write In-Depth Wordpress Plugin Reviews
104
8
Phi-editor, a text editor implemented in Go and SDL
102
9
Decentralized P2P Messaging with Blockchain Verified Identities
95
10
Faster.js – a micro-optimizing JavaScript compiler
89
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Facebook has auto-enrolled users into a facial recognition test in Europe
440
2
I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter
347
3
Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram
330
4
Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
321
5
In India, high-pressure exams are creating a student suicide crisis
297
6
Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to Allo, double down on RCS
274
7
OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world
235
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Google's Project Zero exposes unpatched Windows 10 lockdown bypass
225
9
Login-with-Facebook data hijacked by JavaScript trackers
213
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Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Botnets, APTs
213
News [?]
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Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
793
2
Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines
603
3
Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens
523
4
The Quest for the Next Billion-Dollar Color
470
5
Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor mortality ratings
434
6
Susan Kare designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary
423
7
Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU privacy law
384
8
Ketamine has 'fast-acting benefits' for depression
335
9
San Francisco’s Seismic Gamble
310
10
A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit
309
Scientific publications [?]
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After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?
311
2
FCC Issues Warning in Wake of Swarm's Unauthorized Launch
135
3
Dissecting the NVIDIA Volta GPU Architecture via Microbenchmarking
111
4
StarCraft Micromanagement with Reinforcement Learning and Curriculum Transfer
98
5
Graphene Is Grown with the Same Band Gap as Silicon
80
6
Plasmodium-associated changes in human odor attract mosquitoes
73
7
Is dark matter made of primordial black holes?
57
8
Heterosexual College Students Who Hookup with Same-Sex Partners
38
9
I Was a Russian Facebook Troll Named Martha
34
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'The Bay Area is broken': Why Silicon Valley startups are hiring elsewhere
20
Dev Blogs [?]
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Stripe Home
496
2
A look at terminal emulators, part 1
213
3
Improved fraud prevention with Radar 2.0
170
4
GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets
85
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Mark Zuckerberg is either lying, incompetent,or an inept CEO. What do you think?
50
6
BPF comes to firewalls
47
7
What Your Boss Doesn’t Want You to Know About Negotiation
39
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A Great User Onboarding Process Flow Creates Happy Users
30
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Improved fraud prevention with Radar 2.0
16
10
Mmproxy – Linux L7 proxy that preserves client IP address
13
Tech blogs [?]
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AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive
205
2
To Delete Facebook or Not to Delete Facebook? That Is Not the Question
187
3
Why Lenovo Is the Best Laptop Brand and Apple Fell Off a Cliff
20
4
Turning 8-Track Player into a Walkman
7
5
Cali Senate’s Net Neutrality Analysis Might as Well Have Been Written by ATT
4
6
Cray Adds AMD EPYC Processors to CS500 Cluster Supercomputers
3
7
Improving the Exynos 9810 Galaxy S9: Part 2 – Catching Up with the Snapdragon
3
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Protecting Email Privacy–A Battle We Need to Keep Fighting
3
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Apple Park drone pilot thinks company tracking flights, planning countermeasures
3
10
Mapping Apple’s vast universe of space gray shades
3
FAANG+ [?]
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Get Started with Blockchain Using the New AWS Blockchain Templates
114
2
13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement Program
98
3
AWS Blockchain Templates
9
4
AWS Blockchain Templates
3
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Introducing AWS Blockchain Templates for Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric
3
6
Build Systems a la Carte – Unifying build systems under 1 abstraction
3
7
AWS Blockchain Templates
2
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Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math
2
9
Apple announces free 13“ MacBook Pro (non-Touch Bar) battery replacement program
2
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The Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices [pdf]
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM
165
2
Not your Tibetan Buddhism
122
3
Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food?
104
4
Solved: A Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery
86
5
Study suggests drunk people are better at creative problem solving
77
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The case for hydrogen-powered cars
67
7
Istanbul Closes the Books on Its Public Scribes
59
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Portable girdle books were once very handy
29
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Electric Car Charging Technology Is About to Surge Past Tesla's Superchargers
19
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The Half-Life of Danger: the Tesla Model X Crash
16
Science News [?]
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Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
492
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Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention (2015)
359
3
Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos
272
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A manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene
257
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Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? Massive Parallelism
129
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A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost (2017)
116
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The illusion of time
112
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Matabele ants have evolved a complex system of battlefield triage and rescue
88
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The future of electronics based on memristive systems
87
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Tricks Make Virtual Reality Feel Real (2016)
84
Social [?]
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Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
484
2
How to build a house alone [video]
450
3
How to Find Product Market Fit – founder of Segment (2017) [video]
184
4
Growing a Language, by Guy Steele (1998) [video]
166
5
Guild Wars 2 distributed spyware in order to detect cheaters
129
6
Coinbase blocks WikiLeaks Shop
120
7
Eventbrite has removed filming clause from agreement
89
8
How IBM quietly pushed out 20,000 older workers [video]
63
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Borderline BBS: A Commodore 64 dial-up BBS (2014) [video]
61
10
How IBM quietly pushed out 20,000 older workers
45
Github repos and gists [?]
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Mermaid: Markdown-like generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text
453
2
On becoming a better developer (2015)
359
3
Quake III Arena GPL Source Release (2012)
265
4
Mailtrain.org, self-hosted open-source newsletter app like Mailchimp
184
5
Google shuttering domain fronting, Signal moving to souqcdn.com
149
6
AI generation of fake celeb images
81
7
Tidis - Redis protocol on top of TiKV
65
8
Python API for Zero Day Phishing Detection Based on Computer Vision
60
9
VSCode Live Share Now Available on Linux
37
10
Redis Storage Backend for JanusGraph
26
Wikipedia [?]
1
Gravitation water vortex power plant
227
2
Conway's Law
134
3
Microsoft v MikeRoweSoft
96
4
Burr conspiracy
70
5
Moravec's paradox
30
6
One red paperclip
14
7
Fast inverse square root
11
8
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
4
9
Quantum Biology
3
10
Anna Karenina principle
3
Blogs [?]
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Designing very large JavaScript applications
434
2
Interactive Go programming with Jupyter
292
3
The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
270
4
Giving meaning to 100B analytics events a day with Kafka, Dataflow and BigQuery
173
5
Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source
173
6
A brief list of what Scrum gets wrong
147
7
Yes, You Should Delete Facebook
144
8
The Opening Bell (no one told me I had to make a speech)
79
9
Chasing fake volume: a crypto-plague
78
10
Why I Left Academic Philosophy
54
Stackoverflow [?]
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Build an Android app from a to Z without opening AndroidStudio even once
15
2
400 vs. 422 response to POST of data
2
3
Cycles in Family Tree Software
2
4
What are good examples of genetic algorithms/genetic programming solutions?
1
Substack [?]
1
Reader: the hidden dictator of your writing
1