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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention

1224

2

AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1

999

3

Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)

910

4

IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016)

904

5

I've spent the last two years building a new email client

874

6

You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent?

751

7

Subscription Hell

745

8

Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award

714

9

A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit

712

10

Python startup time: milliseconds matter

662

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (May 2018)

587

2

What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

241

3

Why are big companies so much less efficient?

156

4

Building a game for AI Research

121

5

Is HN GDPR compliant?

99

6

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2018)

90

7

What are some amazing open source projects that you have found recently?

88

8

Startup to enterprise and back to startups – how?

80

9

What do you consider resume red flags?

78

10

Has it become harder for Canadians to get work in the US on a TN visa?

73

Top Show HN

1

ReLaXed – High-quality PDFs using web technologies

344

2

A free, lightweight static page to get stock quotes using the IEX API

207

3

Create your own crapcoin in 3 minutes

206

4

FPGA Ultrasound Imaging on a Raspberry Pi

199

5

Morning Cup of Coding – A curated newsletter of programming articles

192

6

LayerJS – A simple UI composition and navigation library

176

7

Skor – Drop-in microservice to get Postgres changes as JSON webhooks

133

8

~200 byte in-browser, no JS, private notepad

133

9

Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles

111

10

Stadia Maps, reasonably priced map tiles, static maps, and routing

105

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Subscription Hell

745

2

Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica researcher

365

3

A mistake about manufacturing costing Americans millions of jobs

308

4

Tesla beats expectations with $3.4B in revenue

303

5

AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just an accident

248

6

Finding the longest straight line you could sail without hitting land

242

7

NASA completes full-power tests of small, portable nuclear reactor

216

8

How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US

191

9

You don’t actually need a co-founder (2016)

175

10

Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply with GDPR

160

News [?]

1

Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'

661

2

NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report

633

3

The rise of the pointless job

560

4

Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby

544

5

Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook

501

6

Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

427

7

'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi

417

8

96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2M

402

9

Thinking of yourself as an insomniac may be a part of the problem

398

10

Facebook is launching a dating feature

393

Scientific publications [?]

1

KRust: A Formal Executable Semantics of Rust

148

2

Particle Physics Resurrects Alexander Graham Bell’s Voice

119

3

A new model for communication in plant cells

29

4

Extreme mobility of mantis shrimp eyes

28

5

Laundering Money On-line: a review of cybercriminals’ methods [pdf]

12

6

Scientists Find Strange New Effect for Future Solar Cells: Flexo-Photovoltaics

6

7

NASA – Transcript: The Girl Who Named Pluto

6

8

Your Guide to the GDPR

5

9

Tiramisu: A Code Optimization Framework for High Performance Systems

4

10

KRust: A Formal Executable Semantics of Rust

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe Atlas for LLCs

403

2

Introducing .app, a more secure home for apps on the web

395

3

“Manager READMEs” from some tech companies

394

4

Google Maps Platform

342

5

How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018

273

6

PostgreSQL's fsync surprise

187

7

New autoplay policy in Chrome

169

8

Twitter – Keeping your account secure

43

9

One of LLVM's Top Contributors Quits Development Over CoC, Outreach Program

32

10

Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change

28

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel's New Optane 905P Is the Fastest SSD

122

2

Introduces Actual Encryption Experts to US Senate Staff

9

3

There Is No Middle Ground on Encryption

8

4

Petition calls on Apple to recall failing butterfly MacBook Pro keyboards

6

5

MIPS Announces I7200 32-bit CPU with New NanoMIPS ISA

5

6

U.S. IP Policy Spins Out of Control in the 2018 Special 301 Report

4

7

20 years of iMac: A story of relentless design iteration

4

8

Twitter sold data to Cambridge Analytica; data sales account for 13% of revenue

4

9

The Big Lie ISPs Are Spreading in State Congresses Is That They Don’t Make Money

3

10

Report Claims Eight New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities Impact Intel and ARM CPUs

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Reports Q2 2018 Results

95

2

Learning from Source Code (Microsoft Research)

9

3

Packaging an Electron app for managed distribution across devices

4

4

Running AWS Fargate with virtual-kubelet

4

5

Amazon to drop support for Domain Fronting

4

6

Privacy – Government Information Requests – Apple

4

7

OAuth 2.0 for Mixed Reality applications

3

8

Manipulating Space and Time in Mixed Reality

2

9

HEARING IS BELIEVING innovation provides a richer browsing experience for blind

2

10

Running AWS Fargate with virtual-kubelet

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Tesla reviewing contractors, firing everyone not vouched for by an employee

175

2

A growing number of philosophers are conducting experiments to test arguments

105

3

How the Manhattan Project’s Nuclear Suburb Stayed Secret

95

4

Tesla is hit by $2B patent troll case from Nikola Motors

89

5

Sci-Hub 'Pirate Bay for Science' Security Certs Revoked by Comodo

34

6

SCOXENIX 2.2 FLOPPIES disk images

33

7

Envy’s Hidden Hand

30

8

Why do the temperamentally blessed sail through life’s storms?

8

9

Tesla to settle class action lawsuit over Autopilot 2.0 with partial refunds

6

10

These Are the Dinosaurs That Didn't Die

6

Science News [?]

1

Brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time

212

2

Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses

201

3

Troubled Times for Alternatives to Einstein’s Theory of Gravity

158

4

EEG Accurately Predicts Autism as Early as 3 Months of Age

154

5

Particle physicists turn to AI to cope with CERN’s collision deluge

132

6

Civilization Is Built on Code (2017)

96

7

Stephen Hawking's Final Paper Cuts the Multiverse Down to Size

89

8

Inkjet Printing of High Performance Transistors (2017)

61

9

Physically stronger Norwegian men are more likely to be married

47

10

A Radically Conservative Solution for Cosmology’s Biggest Mystery

45

Social [?]

1

You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent?

751

2

Facebook announces Clear History feature

608

3

Simone Giertz on her brain tumour [video]

453

4

Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts

163

5

Hosting Jupyter Notebooks for 100k Users [video]

151

6

OkCupid Deletes Post “Your Looks and Your Inbox”

49

7

Waymo releases dashcam footage of Arizona Crash

27

8

200 people in cars, on bikes, on buses and light rail

25

9

Albertan changes gender to save 25% on car insurance

18

10

UK Parliament Will Issue Formal Summons for Zuckerberg If He Doesn't Volunteer

15

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL

248

2

Impact – HTML5 Game Engine

245

3

Joint 3D Face Reconstruction

124

4

Everest: A lightweight REST API client written in JavaFX

114

5

How to Train and Build a Conversational News Chatbot

108

6

CPY – Code C/C++ with no redundancy

99

7

Scrcpy: Display and control of Android devices connected on USB

93

8

Cosmos – The universe of algorithm and data structures

88

9

GDPR Transparency and Consent Framework

87

10

The Basic Sourdough

69

Wikipedia [?]

1

100 prisoners problem

324

2

169

3

Wikipedia: List of lists of lists

112

4

37

5

9

6

The nothing to hide argument in favor of surveillance

6

7

Tanganyika laughter epidemic

4

8

The unexpected hanging paradox

3

9

Moving Day (New York City)

3

10

Rubber duck debugging

3

Blogs [?]

1

Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)

910

2

Never Write Your Own Database (2017)

445

3

Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers

263

4

What SSH Hacking Attempts Look Like

167

5

Fuck You Startup World (2016)

110

6

Reconsidering the Hardware Kindle Interface

83

7

83

8

ICOs are Cancer

67

9

Vapor 3.0.0 released - Swift web framework

42

10

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

39

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stack Overflow for Teams

274

2

Learning to write a compiler

30

3

What is the best architecture for a YouTube downloader site?

2

4

Efficient and concise method for accumulating gradients in TensorFlow

1

Substack [?]

1

The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing

11

2

Order: creating flow and comprehension

4