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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

2873

2

GitLab sees huge spike in project imports

1736

3

Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

1361

4

AI winter is well on its way

993

5

Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal

805

6

Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox

757

7

UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?

757

8

De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds

733

9

MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)

709

10

How to get rich without getting lucky

647

Top Ask HN

1

What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

542

2

Who is hiring? (June 2018)

450

3

What companies are using probabilistic programming?

251

4

Which YouTube channels do you watch regularly?

233

5

How to blog things I've learnt in graduate school?

213

6

Recommendations on books and documentaries on tech companies/people?

190

7

Do I place the fan so that it blows air inwards or outwards?

190

8

How do security researchers know where to look for vulnerabilites?

164

9

When is federation a better solution than decentralization?

121

10

How has working remotely for long periods affected your social skills?

83

Top Show HN

1

Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies

581

2

Write every day, measure your progress, achieve your writing goals

262

3

Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

250

4

Domain-tailored CRDTs for collaboration without server involvement

158

5

JQBX – Social Listening Web/Mobile App

120

6

An Example Microservice Back End for Kubernetes, Bazel, Go, Java, GRPC

119

7

A Hacker News Reader App with Tabs

108

8

An Almost Ideal React Image Component

106

9

Sucrase, 20x faster smaller-scoped alternative to Babel

88

10

Smooth UI, a React UI Library for Humans

87

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google quits selling tablets

398

2

Canon has sold its last film camera

296

3

Microsoft is now worth more than Alphabet

209

4

China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup, closes $620M round

184

5

Loot boxes are obviously gambling

181

6

Google admits brainteasers were useless for hiring (2013)

179

7

Vermont passes first law to crack down on data brokers

159

8

Imgur launches video

158

9

How Apple Programmer Sal Soghoian Got Apps Talking to Each Other

155

10

Google Won't Renew Contract for Project Maven, Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program

152

News [?]

1

Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

2873

2

Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal

805

3

Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially

535

4

I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

467

5

American tech giants are making life tough for startups

455

6

America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook

435

7

Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

426

8

Telegram App Says Apple Is Blocking Updates Over Dispute with Russia

413

9

Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition for its U.S. workers

363

10

The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure?

362

Scientific publications [?]

1

Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)

332

2

How microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft

223

3

Deep learning: a critical appraisal

147

4

A 'self-eating' rocket engine could put satellites in orbit more easily

145

5

Ocean waves play greater role in trapping CO2 than previously understood

142

6

Playing hard exploration games by watching YouTube

127

7

Why We Engage in FLOSS: Answers from Core Developers

103

8

Drone Delivery Becomes a Reality in Remote Pacific Islands

74

9

Unsupervised Predictive Memory in a Goal-Directed Agent

63

10

If you’re a software engineer, where should you live to maximize your income?

62

Dev Blogs [?]

1

1.1.1.1 outage explanation

459

2

The Open Home Lab Stack (2017)

98

3

When an implementation monoculture might be the right thing

86

4

Linux 4.17 I/O Scheduler Tests on an NVMe SSD Yield Surprising Results

35

5

Introducing Machine Learning Practica

34

6

Working on Compiler-Assisted Performance Analysis on GCC

30

7

Broadcast Ethereum Events with Web3.js and PubNub

9

8

Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Appointment Scheduling

8

9

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)

7

10

Systemd Introduces “Portable Services” Functionality, Similar to Containers

7

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel Announces Optane DIMMs

446

2

ARM Details “Project Trillium” Machine Learning Processor Architecture

127

3

The Raspberry Pi 3B+ as an SDR, Without the SDR

116

4

Samsung Unveils 32 GB DDR4-2666 SO-DIMMs

69

5

Apple Releases iOS 11.4 with Messages in iCloud and AirPlay 2

64

6

Telegram Gets First Update After Six Week App Store Lockout

10

7

Amazon, Stop Powering Government Surveillance

9

8

“Nvidia’s Next Generation Mainstream GPU” Preso Briefly Listed for Hot Chips

6

9

How the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Will Lock Up Online Video

5

10

Arm's Cortex-A76 CPU Unveiled: Taking Aim at the Top for 7nm

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep Learning

233

2

Simplify Login with Application Load Balancer Built-In Authentication

93

3

iOS 11.4 brings stereo pairs and multi-room audio with AirPlay 2

8

4

Amazon Neptune Generally Available

3

5

Z-order indexing for multifaceted queries in Amazon DynamoDB: Part 2

2

6

Re-Hosting Mainframe Applications to AWS with NTT DATA Services

2

7

Amazon Neptune Generally Available – AWS News Blog

2

8

New – Pay-Per-Session Pricing for Amazon QuickSight

2

9

Amazon Neptune GraphDB Generally Available

2

10

Amazon says sorry not sorry about face recognition

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why read Aristotle today?

166

2

Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk

144

3

Michael Jackson Estate Turns the 'Fair Use' Tables on Disney

126

4

Large Tesla Powerpack project quietly deployed at new solar project in Arizona

73

5

Tesla Model 3 teardown points to $28k in potential material and production cost

64

6

Do platforms work?

54

7

Tesla is building up in-house insurance as Model S tops most expensive to insure

18

8

Workers of the world unite on distributed digital platforms

15

9

Ringing the chords of the Universe: how music influenced science

12

10

“Fight Club” Author Chuck Palahniuk Apologizes for Piracy Rants

6

Science News [?]

1

Secret to longevity may lie in the microbiome and the gut

154

2

The Slippery Math of Causation

124

3

Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis

85

4

Evidence Found for a New Fundamental Particle

80

5

Cells Talk and Help One Another via Tiny Tube Networks

80

6

The Trouble with Theories of Everything (2015)

63

7

A Brief History of America’s Appetite for Macaroni and Cheese

62

8

Japanese Whalers Killed 122 Pregnant Whales and 114 Babies Last Summer

51

9

To Predict Turbulence, Count the Puffs (2014)

27

10

Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions (2016)

25

Social [?]

1

Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-controlled nodes

304

2

ReactOS can finally build itself

248

3

Facebook moving away from React Native?

159

4

Zig: programming language designed for robustness optimality and clarity [video]

136

5

Facebook Location History View

78

6

78

7

Simone Giertz is out of surgery and her doctors are very pleased

78

8

Leaked screenshots of Xcode 10 on macOS 10.14

70

9

Traffic flow measured on different 4-way junctions [video]

67

10

The1975..com (very odd glitch)

57

Github repos and gists [?]

1

OpenDUNE – An open-source recreation of the game Dune II

450

2

WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal

334

3

294

4

NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot

294

5

An embedded database written in Rust

277

6

Nebulet: A microkernel that runs WebAssembly in Ring 0

248

7

Windows gifski.exe with a digital signature

230

8

Learn cryptographic engineering by example

210

9

Odyssey – Scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler

203

10

Cervus: A WebAssembly subsystem for Linux

198

Wikipedia [?]

1

Three-sided Football

146

2

83

3

17

4

Codd's 12 rules

5

5

The Chinese Room Theory

4

6

Latin Wikipedia

3

7

Bruno Tesch – major supplier of Zyklon B to the Nazi concentration camps

3

8

List of defunct hard disk manufacturers

3

9

Last universal common ancestor

3

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

Stripe is building a Ruby typechecker

351

2

The History of the Processing Programming Language

81

3

Startups are Financial Suicide

58

4

Why I won’t run another startup

54

5

A Fresh Perspective on Seed Investing

34

6

Phishing Protection – Comparing DNS Security Filters

31

7

A better way to fund SaaS companies: Pingboard's $5mm Seed Round

26

8

Fractal is a new messaging app for the Gnome desktop, powered by Matrix

21

9

How Apple store all your email metadata for years on their servers

20

10

ASCII Dashboards

19

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is javafx mangling my semi-transparent cursors?

1

Substack [?]

1

3