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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming
2074
2
Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
1875
3
Google YOLO clickjacking
1304
4
Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely
915
5
Safe ways to do things in bash
892
6
Emails Show FDA Chemists Have Been Finding Glyphosate in Food
691
7
Make front end shit again
681
8
GDPR will pop the adtech bubble
668
9
Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python
640
10
ISPs Say They Don’t Make Enough Money
634
Top Ask HN
1
Which books have made you introspect?
513
2
How do you continuously monitor web logs for hack attempts?
477
3
How to become a remote contractor?
311
4
What are your favorite terminal programs?
279
5
How is DDoS protection implemented?
260
6
Books you should have read when you start a career in SE / CS?
216
7
Any good collaboratively built documentation on good parenting?
186
8
What are the biggest challenges preventing startups from hiring remote?
176
9
How to deal with a dysfunctional relationship with a 50/50 co-founder?
101
10
What’s helpes you build a successful SaaS business?
97
Top Show HN
1
How to Tune a Guitar
338
2
Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum
249
3
A Native Art Gallery for the Mac
146
4
I built a peer-to-peer publishing platform
115
5
Offline Object Detection and Tracking on a Raspberry Pi
106
6
Corral – A Serverless MapReduce Framework
92
7
Jackal – XMPP server in Go
91
8
When my builds fail I pay money to charity
87
9
Bitbox.co – Cloud Storage for Developers
86
10
Yet Another HN “Who's Hiring” Browser
60
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
585
2
Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
447
3
The Senate has forced a vote to restore net neutrality
365
4
Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck
337
5
Tech watchdogs call on Facebook, Google for transparency around censored content
305
6
Multiple OS Vendors Release Security Patches After Misinterpreting Intel Docs
300
7
FCC fines robocaller record $120M
259
8
Google’s ML Kit makes it easy to add AI smarts to iOS and Android apps
197
9
As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake
184
10
Google announces a new generation for its TPU machine learning hardware
141
News [?]
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Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand
433
2
Man Allegedly Used Change of Address Form to Move UPS Headquarters
402
3
How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance
336
4
Surviving Your 40s
316
5
California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes
305
6
Young Chinese are sick of working long hours
302
7
Things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition (2015)
282
8
Man donated blood every week for 60 years and helped save 2.4M babies
277
9
Nasa will send helicopter to Mars to test otherworldly flight
235
10
Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands
226
Scientific publications [?]
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Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
434
2
That New Memory Smell: Tech Can Tell If Your Flash Is New or Recycled
122
3
Superconducting Optoelectronic Neurons I: General Principles
56
4
Are most cancer cases a consequence of an immune deficiency?
27
5
Deep learning comes full circle
5
6
How Amazon Scale Alexa's Natural Language Understanding Capabilities Faster
4
7
Mars Helicopter to Fly on NASA’s Next Red Planet Rover Mission
3
8
Algorithms for geodesics
3
9
Flamethrowers? Cyborg Dragons? Elon Musk’s Side Hustle Is Anything but Boring
3
10
The Unhackable Envelope
3
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
1875
2
Android P
358
3
Who controls glibc?
339
4
Mozilla Fights for Net Neutrality This May (and Always)
223
5
Write Emails Faster with Smart Compose in Gmail
215
6
Think You’ve Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again
152
7
Introducing Google AI
85
8
The new Google News: AI meets human intelligence
74
9
Who controls glibc?
63
10
Project Jengo Celebrates One Year Anniversary by Releasing Prior Art
37
Tech blogs [?]
1
ISPs Say They Don’t Make Enough Money
634
2
Apple cracking down on applications that send location data to third-parties
381
3
Apple faces class action lawsuit over failing MacBook butterfly keyboards
322
4
No Thanks, Google. I'll Speak for Myself
144
5
Microsoft says it would love to work with Apple to bring iMessage support to Win
43
6
Elon Musk's first LA tunnel with free rides to kick off this summer
41
7
Suspicionless Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border Are Unconstitutional
17
8
EFF, ACLU Can Proceed with Challenge Against Warrantless Searches of Travelers
11
9
EFF and ACLU Can Proceed with Legal Challenge Against Warrantless Searches
10
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Georgia Governor Vetoes Short-Sighted Computer Crime Bill
9
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Aurora Backtrack
416
2
Microsoft Windows command line reference manual
4
3
First Class Modules for Haskell [pdf]
3
4
Apple's Lowest Rated Product?
2
5
Introducing Optimize CPUs for Amazon EC2 Instances
2
6
AWS 10-Minute Tutorials
1
7
Designed by Apple in California – 10.2 x 12.8 inches
1
8
Creating a 1.3M VCPU Grid on AWS
1
9
1.3M vCPU grid in AWS
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90%
441
2
Tech’s Two Philosophies
242
3
How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit
224
4
The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver
217
5
Rare wooden escalators lead down into a staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel
126
6
Why Entrepreneurship Programs for Engineers Fail
73
7
Did the Greeks see themselves as white, black, or something else?
69
8
First, Let’s Fire All the Managers
41
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Why Talented People Don’t Use Their Strengths
18
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Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90% – Electrek
5
Science News [?]
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Artificial Neural Nets Grow Brainlike Navigation Cells
151
2
What Astronomers Are Learning from Gaia’s New Milky Way Map
91
3
How Posture Makes Us Human
82
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Trump White House quietly cancels NASA research verifying greenhouse gas cuts
78
5
Grid-Cell Like Deep Layers in Navigation AI
77
6
Three Decades Later, Mystery Numbers Explained
71
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Carbon emissions from tourism are rising at an alarming rate
54
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Impacted forest patches a key driver of malaria in Amazonian Brazil
45
9
Dolphins Are Helping Us Hunt for Aliens
40
10
Researchers hide information in plain text
31
Social [?]
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Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python
640
2
Farewell from the Pineapple Fund
300
3
Facebook now denying access unless EU users opt-in to tracking
284
4
How to Adopt Modern C++17 into Your C++ Code [video]
225
5
Is it worth supporting Firefox?
195
6
DeepMind: From Generative Models to Generative Agents [video]
194
7
The world split into 7 equal areas of population
176
8
My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler
157
9
Google I/O'18: Keynote Livestream [video]
108
10
Emacs for Writers (2015) [video]
99
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Safe ways to do things in bash
892
2
Build your own X: project-based programming tutorials
507
3
Warriorjs – An exciting game of programming and artificial intelligence
293
4
Mara: A lightweight ETL framework, halfway between plain scripts and Airflow
276
5
Pure CSS Francine
239
6
Mozilla Global Sprint 2018
214
7
Machine Learning for .NET
143
8
Why soap bubbles are colourful and windowpanes are not
118
9
LispKit: framework for Lisp-based extension/scripting languages for macOS apps
99
10
Authenticated Data Structures Generically
73
Wikipedia [?]
1
List of screw drives
303
2
Münchhausen trilemma
156
3
Operation Ivy Bells
98
4
Arecibo message
73
5
1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
44
6
The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code
9
7
The collapse of the Lisp machine market in 1987
8
8
Superdollar
5
9
Richard Feynman was born on this day 100 years ago
4
10
Tub file
3
Blogs [?]
1
The Economics of Writing a Technical Book
519
2
A Plane That Accidentally Circumnavigated the World (2014)
325
3
Batch editing files with ed
151
4
The financial cost of not knowing things
101
5
Bryan Caplan on Learning Across Disciplines
82
6
CloudEvents 0.1 – A common set of metadata to help process events
80
7
Fieldbook is shutting down
74
8
Why we should all be using Windows 95
56
9
Overheard: Jobs' Secret for Eliciting Questions
41
10
Software Sucks Because QA and Testing Are Underpaid and Misunderstood
33
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Console.table(), expanded console.log for objects
2
2
What are inline namespaces for?
1
Substack [?]
1
APompliano's new crypto newsletter
2
2
Rewrite: your draft of a text as an evolutionary prototype edit
1