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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours
1048
2
EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
1022
3
Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online
1015
4
Dumber phone
895
5
Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role
772
6
“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy”
751
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Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App
738
8
StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
724
9
Magnasanti: Large and Terrifying SimCity (2010)
690
10
Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance
687
Top Ask HN
1
My startup has basically failed. What now?
463
2
Anyone making money through algorithmic trading?
389
3
What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?
383
4
What are some examples of beautiful x86 assembly code?
278
5
Laid-off readers over 50, have you left the tech workforce?
231
6
Where did you learn modular electronics?
222
7
Turning 40 soon – seeking personal and professional life advice
207
8
Effective methods to fight depression?
137
9
Uncommon but attainable programmer skillsets valued by employers?
128
10
Why don't more entrepreneurs focus on lifestyle businesses?
77
Top Show HN
1
Intuitive Linear Algebra and 3D Geometry
402
2
Watch Stanford CS Lectures Together
360
3
Giving a Broken Barcode Scanner a New Life with Elixir and Nerves
330
4
A proof-of-concept FoundationDB based network block device backend
192
5
A fast, hopefully accurate, fuzzy matching library written in Go
186
6
Generating fun Stack Exchange questions using Markov chains
178
7
HTTP/2 Python-Asyncio Web Microframework
173
8
Interactive WebGL visualization of all 47K buildings in Manhattan
151
9
Web Audio DSP Playground
126
10
Fast 2kB date library alternative to Moment.js with the same API
122
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994
491
2
Impersonators who are paid to flirt on dating apps
371
3
'Demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides Inside Computer Chip
360
4
The Ocean Cleanup's Machine Is About to Set Sail
312
5
Underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video
253
6
What’s Not Included in Facebook’s “Download Your Data”
208
7
Microsoft attempts to spin its role in counterfeiting case
199
8
Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave
187
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Ford to Stop Selling Every Car in North America but the Mustang and Focus Active
181
10
The “unpatchable” exploit that makes every current Nintendo Switch hackable
181
News [?]
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EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
1022
2
Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online
1015
3
Two Koreas Agree to End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization
673
4
Square to buy Weebly for $365M
430
5
NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google'
401
6
Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
394
7
E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve prison term
391
8
Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin-based
365
9
Bulldoze the business school
344
10
High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up for University
341
Scientific publications [?]
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Boltzmann Encoded Adversarial Machines
205
2
The aging mind: neuroplasticity in response to cognitive training (2013)
204
3
Context Is Everything: Finding Meaning Statistically in Semantic Spaces
135
4
The 20-year-old entrepreneur is a myth, according to study
91
5
A survey of comics research in computer science
68
6
World's oldest spider discovered in Australian outback
67
7
Quantum radar will expose stealth aircraft
64
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Spaceflight from Super-Earths is difficult
58
9
Deep Probabilistic Programming Languages: A Qualitative Study
53
10
Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (1973)
52
Dev Blogs [?]
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Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
558
2
A rundown of the new Gmail
258
3
A look at terminal emulators, part 2
222
4
Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class Security
211
5
BGP leaks and cryptocurrencies
196
6
The NSA is not made of magic (2014)
127
7
How the Nintendo Switch prevents firmware downgrades
105
8
OpenIndiana Hipster 2018.04, Drops Gnome 2 for MATE and Adds KPTI for Meltdown
21
9
Same-Site Cookies in Firefox 60
15
10
Researchers Hacked Amazon’s Alexa to Spy on Users, Again
11
Tech blogs [?]
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Intel's 10nm Is Broken, Delayed Until 2019
242
2
TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips
237
3
Samsung's 970 EVO SSDs Reviewed – 500GB and 1TB
100
4
Two More Chinese DRAM Fabs Ready
86
5
Core Memory Upgrade for Arduino
75
6
Apple Will Start Paying Back Taxes to Irish Government Next Month
70
7
A Timely Discovery: Examining Our AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Results
63
8
Intel Delays Mass Production of 10nm CPUs to 2019
47
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Supreme Court Upholds Patent Office Power to Invalidate Bad Patents
34
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CPU Design Guru Jim Keller Joins Intel; Completes CPU Grand Tour
10
FAANG+ [?]
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Introducing in-car delivery
20
2
Amazon In-Car Delivery
7
3
New .BOT GTLD from Amazon
5
4
Microsoft FY18 Q3 Earnings Report
5
5
Introducing In-Car Delivery
4
6
Buy a kit and learn how to pick a lock, courtesy Amazon
3
7
AWS Blockchain Templates
2
8
New .BOT GTLD from Amazon
2
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Touching the Virtual: How Microsoft Research Is Making Virtual Reality Tangible
2
10
Amazon introduces “In-Car” delivery
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Human nature matters
67
2
Every Library Has a Story to Tell
63
3
Open, Closed, and Privacy
42
4
Tesla’s VP of Autopilot and chip guru Jim Keller is leaving
20
5
A new standard of beauty led to today’s weight-loss regimens
15
6
Gitlab.com performance degradation: Postgresql split – Only one DB node active
9
7
What to Do When Personal and Professional Commitments Compete for Your Time
9
8
Open, Closed, and Privacy
6
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BMW unveils new all-electric iX3 SUV with 250 miles of range and 150 kW charging
4
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There’s no philosophy of life without a theory of human nature
3
Science News [?]
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How Dyson Saw Feynman
262
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The myopia boom (2015)
199
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Hunger Is a Gatekeeper of Pain in the Brain
165
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Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More Than 11,000 Years
129
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Newspaper op-eds change minds
113
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Chart of the Milky Way Includes More Than 1B Stars
110
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Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean
82
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How Poetry and Math Intersect
69
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How Many Genes Do Cells Need? Maybe Almost All of Them
35
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Billion-star map of Milky Way set to transform astronomy
25
Social [?]
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A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet
526
2
"@" on Twitter
504
3
IAmA Dane Jasper, CEO of Sonic, Northern California's Largest Independent ISP
168
4
The truth about Apple's engineering [video]
78
5
Used PHP in a Hackathon was made fun of and it made me feel really shitty
73
6
Turning a broken iPhone into a working USB flash drive [video]
44
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AWS Route53 is down
27
8
John Free: Ten Year Photo Essay [video]
25
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Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing
24
10
Ilya Sutskever Talk on Neural Networks, Meta-Learning and Self-Play
18
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Make your own sourdough
619
2
JavaScript Pattern Matching Proposal
371
3
Ethereum Sharding FAQ
223
4
Swift for TensorFlow Design Overview
198
5
Fast website link checker in Go
190
6
The Wren Programming Language
164
7
Multi-core cryptography for Node.js
71
8
A GPU-Accelerated Quantum Computer Simulator
68
9
64-bit Tiano Core UEFI for the Raspberry Pi 3
67
10
Git vanity-sha: vanity hex prefixes for your commit SHAs
59
Wikipedia [?]
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Illegal prime
267
2
Kasparov versus the World
256
3
Cross Chess
54
4
Misophonia: “Hatred of Sound”
5
5
Rick Dickinson, Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, Spectrum Case Designer, Has Died
3
6
Fast Inverse Square Root
3
7
List of chess variants
3
8
Emergence
3
9
Paris syndrome
3
10
The Magic Goes Away
3
Blogs [?]
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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
383
2
Ex-Facebook Executive: “You Don’t Realize It but You Are Being Programmed”
160
3
Designing a 'Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer' from Diamond Age
153
4
Netflix Blog: Tips for High Availability
152
5
Programming Bottom-Up (1993)
127
6
The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper
121
7
The Node.js Ecosystem Is Chaotic and Insecure
118
8
Announcing NPM 6
104
9
I built a screenshot API and some guy was mining cryptocurrencies with it
73
10
The Node.js Project Introduces Latest Release Line: Node.js 10.x
62
Stackoverflow [?]
1
StackOverflow is down
2
Substack [?]
1
Proof of Work 18 – Weekly Updates from Curated Crypto Projects
2
2
Rapport: building trust through familiarity
1