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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
1630
2
The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
1493
3
LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time
1209
4
Completely Silent Computer
1087
5
John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
1075
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How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas
986
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GDPR: Don't Panic
863
8
Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles
784
9
Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality
754
10
A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign
748
Top Ask HN
1
How do I learn math/physics in my thirties?
441
2
Amazon software engineers, how is the work culture now?
284
3
Looking to branch out into remote work, how to start
258
4
Any recommended resources to learn market analysis?
162
5
How do you handle long-running workflows at your company?
156
6
Which VPN?
102
7
Anyone designs financial engineering tools as a hobby?
98
8
What are you currently self hosting?
77
9
Anyone using Nixos in production?
64
10
Why aren't you using a public cloud?
64
Top Show HN
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The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5
458
2
Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard
396
3
Cannoli – A compiler for a subset of Python written in Rust
292
4
A raytracer to shade topographic maps in R
198
5
Vuido builds desktop apps using Vue.js without Electron
192
6
I built an open source event-management system
175
7
HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN
175
8
Simple and comprehensive tutorials in Deep Learning using TensorFlow
157
9
Gojay – Performant JSON encoder/decoder for Golang
153
10
Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images
121
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
1630
2
Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality
754
3
Jails are replacing visits with video calls–inmates and families hate it
212
4
Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”
195
5
Google de-emphasizes 'Don't Be Evil' motto in its code of conduct
194
6
Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Enterprise Software Again
191
7
Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
189
8
GPU-equipped Ryzen Pros give AMD what it needs to conquer the corporate desktop
170
9
An Alphabet X concept from 2016 is an unsettling vision of social engineering
159
10
Boston Dynamics will start selling its dog-like SpotMini robot in 2019
155
News [?]
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The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now
447
2
How to disappear from the internet
389
3
How Judea Pearl Became One of AI's Sharpest Critics
308
4
Tom Wolfe Has Died
304
5
College May Not Be Worth It Anymore
291
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Australian regulator investigates Google data harvesting from Android phones
274
7
Has wine gone bad?
249
8
Data Science Is America’s Hottest Job
237
9
Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks, even emotions
232
10
Ocean-going robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and science
219
Scientific publications [?]
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Making Radio Chips for Hell
94
2
Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults Through Network Requests
87
3
When physics meets biology: a less known Feynman
67
4
The size of giraffe groups is not influenced by the presence of predators
42
5
DOOM Level Generation Using Generative Adversarial Networks
31
6
An O(N) Sorting Algorithm: Machine Learning Sorting
30
7
Reconfigurable Cache Architecture for Storage Systems with Online Workload
22
8
Google worker rebellion against military project grows
14
9
Towards a Design Philosophy for Interoperable Blockchain Systems
11
10
Elon Musk Explains Improvements to SpaceX's Falcon 9 Block 5 Rocket
6
Dev Blogs [?]
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How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015)
129
2
OpenAI Research
124
3
Automatic Photography with Google Clips
80
4
How to Run a Blockchain on a Deserted Island with Pen and Paper
70
5
Modifying the Python object model
63
6
T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account
42
7
AMD Zen CPU Microcode Added to Linux-Firmware Tree, Bulldozer Updated – Phoronix
21
8
Schneier: Details on a New PGP Vulnerability
18
9
Deep Learning for Electronic Health Records
13
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The Rust compiler is getting faster
10
Tech blogs [?]
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A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME
288
2
Open Source Calculator Teaches Us about Quality Documentation
183
3
Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors
140
4
Microsemi Licenses Crossbar ReRAM Non-Volatile Memory
40
5
Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over 'Defective' Keyboards
30
6
EFF to New York Appellate Court: No Warrantless Searches of Devices at Border
27
7
The Eric Lundgren Story: When Free Isn’t Free
18
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The FBI Supposedly Has 7,775 Un-Hackable Phones. We’re Asking for Proof
10
9
EFF Sues Texas A&M for Blocking PETA from Facebook Page
9
10
Disabling PGP in Apple Mail with GPGTools
8
FAANG+ [?]
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Introducing Surface Hub 2
259
2
EC2 Instance Update – C5 Instances with Local NVMe Storage
108
3
A Knowledge-Grounded Neural Conversation Model [pdf]
3
4
Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists [video]
3
5
How to Change Your Mind (The New Science of Psychedelics)
2
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Announcing General Availability of Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances
2
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Microsoft Announces Surface Hub 2
1
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AWS IoT 1-Click
1
9
Apple brings Everyone Can Code to schools serving blind and deaf students
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Rust at CloudFlare
271
2
The myth of ‘mad’ genius
107
3
Tesla is holding a hackathon to fix two robot bottlenecks in Model 3 production
85
4
The Moat Map
82
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Remembering the ‘Knocker-Ups’ Hired to Wake Workers with Pea Shooters
60
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Seeing is not simple: you need to be both knowing and naive
40
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Musk Says Tesla Will Build 500 Cars per Day Starting This Week
27
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My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination
23
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Drowning in Plastic
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Elon Musk announces ‘a thorough reorganization’ at Tesla
5
Science News [?]
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Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread
302
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Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes
227
3
A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine
149
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Mice with 3D-Printed Ovaries Successfully Give Birth
115
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The popular creation story of astronomy is wrong
110
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How NASA’s Mission to Pluto Was Nearly Lost
101
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Altered body odor indicates malaria even if microscope doesn't
64
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A Chemist Shines Light on a Surprising Prime Number Pattern
59
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How Social Media Exploits Our Moral Emotions
54
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Smarter Brains Run on Sparsely Connected Neurons
34
Social [?]
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The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day
361
2
Steve Jobs at MIT Sloan School of Management (1992) [video]
254
3
Reports from Nest Secure customers who are unable to arm/disarm or lock/unlock
152
4
Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
149
5
Dijkstra: Reasoning About Programs (1990) [video]
70
6
Bertrand Russell – Message to Future Generations (1959) [video]
54
7
[3Blue1Brown] What they won't teach you in calculus
42
8
SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes [video]
40
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Why, if p=.04, we can't say the study has a 4% chance of being false positive
19
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Intel stops reverse engineering of their dodgy firmware
19
Github repos and gists [?]
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A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and browsers
381
2
Libui: a portable GUI library for C
356
3
Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings
273
4
ClassicKit – A collection of UI components for iOS influenced by Windows 95
236
5
A relatively simple Datalog engine
207
6
Rust Qt Binding Generator
206
7
Open source tutorial for Hackintosh installation
191
8
Xi-Editor – Modern editor with Rust back end
92
9
The Morris Worm source code in C – decompiled version
81
10
Angr – User-friendly binary analysis platform
73
Wikipedia [?]
1
Chess boxing
219
2
Signalling System No 7
64
3
US public and private health spending vs. the world (graph)
6
4
Fluxus
5
5
Jamestown Polish craftsmen and the 1619 strike
3
6
List of software bugs
3
7
UUID
3
8
Ethical Regulator
3
9
The Utah Teapot
3
10
Memento mori – remember that you have to die
3
Blogs [?]
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Lessons from My Math Degree That Have Nothing to Do with Math
268
2
Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
186
3
Why a Dutch court stopped high school students from swapping schools (2017)
170
4
Material UI v1 for React is out
169
5
Pie Menus: A 30-Year Retrospective: Take a Look and Feel Free
130
6
History of Symbolics Lisp Machines (2007)
108
7
The weirdest bug I’ve found in a compiler: MSVC 2017
103
8
Free Ethereum spam bots are ravaging Twitter
76
9
EU parliaments website in violation of GDPR
74
10
How to Stop Negative Thoughts in 180 Seconds Without Meditating
68
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Is StackOverflow answer portfolio relevant to recruiters?
1
Substack [?]
1
A proposal for a standardized structure of commit messages
1