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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team

1631

2

1498

3

Alternatives to Google Products

1169

4

Microsoft acquires Github

1161

5

Things I Regret About Node.js [video]

994

6

938

7

Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

792

8

Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?

720

9

Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL

668

10

GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source

667

Top Ask HN

1

Are you working on interesting technical problems?

542

2

What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?

245

3

Best practices for onboarding new employees?

168

4

Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion, or new career?

148

5

What are useful CS theories you actually use at work?

100

6

Is it worth investing in learning Rust?

97

7

Any resources to learn the fundamentals of critical thinking?

86

8

How do you meet new people?

80

9

How did you transition from Mac to Linux?

76

10

What is the best blog/article you read on internet?

67

Top Show HN

1

BitHubLab, Search for projects on all the major Git platforms

318

2

Interactive guitar scales diagrams

277

3

LogicEmu – Online Logic Simulator

210

4

Transity – Plain Text Accounting

190

5

µFSM – A state chart library for embedded applications

154

6

Podscripter – Automated Transcription for Podcasters

153

7

CircuitVerse – Online Digital Circuit Simulator

145

8

Grep with colours written in Go

127

9

Kubernetes operator to automatically deploy and run Tor hidden services

113

10

Python library for learning binarytrees

112

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain

644

2

NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash

509

3

State of Washington sues Facebook and Google over failure to disclose spending

488

4

Intel 28-core fantasy vs. AMD 32-core reality

398

5

Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen

307

6

Four years after its release, Kubernetes has come a long way

233

7

Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars and lane dividers

221

8

Intel demonstrates a 28-core processor running at 5GHz

163

9

Half of all adults in the world have less than $2,300 in wealth (2016)

160

10

How Instagram’s algorithm works

129

News [?]

1

Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

792

2

Anthony Bourdain has died

590

3

Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency

512

4

For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose

459

5

Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children

451

6

Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders

445

7

U.S. lawmaker: 'Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress'

409

8

How Children in a Maya Village Do Chores

382

9

GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button

351

10

If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power

348

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars

333

2

Playing Atari with Six Neurons

169

3

Why do CNNs generalize so poorly to small image transformations?

149

4

The limitations of gradient descent as a principle of brain function

119

5

Firefighting Robot Snake Flies on Jets of Water

90

6

Design of CMOS-memristor Circuits for LSTM architecture

58

7

Transdifferentiation of human adult peripheral blood T cells into neurons

44

8

Hardware Transactional Persistent Memory

38

9

Curiosity Rover Finds Ancient 'Building Blocks for Life' on Mars

5

10

Canadian Government’s Phoenix Pay System an “Incomprehensible Failure”

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL

668

2

AI at Google: our principles

644

3

Advanced computing with IPython

326

4

Introducing DNS Resolver for Tor

251

5

Network.framework: A modern alternative to sockets

193

6

How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2018

183

7

Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open-Sourcing Product

158

8

144

9

MapKit JS – Embed interactive Apple maps on your website

132

10

Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring A.I.

115

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Reveals Threadripper 2: Up to 32 Cores, 250W, X399 Refresh

340

2

Intel: We 'Forgot' to Mention 28-Core, 5-GHz CPU Demo Was Overclocked

335

3

The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even Wikipedia

253

4

Homeland Security’s New Database to Include Faces, DNA, and Relationships

230

5

AMD Zen 2 Update: 7nm EPYC in Labs Now, Launching in 2019

176

6

Arm unveils 7nm Cortex-A76 CPU

168

7

AMD Demos 7nm Vega GPU

130

8

Bogus copyright and trademark complaints: EFF’s Hall Of Shame

91

9

A Critic Uses the DMCA to Avoid Criticism

43

10

Intel Announces the Core I7-8086K: Coffee Lake at 5 GHz

35

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple introduces macOS Mojave

441

2

iOS 12 introduces new features to reduce interruptions and manage Screen Time

400

3

Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available

240

4

Faster – A key-value store for large state management

142

5

Apple WWDC Keynote

31

6

Amazon Fire TV Cube

4

7

FASTER – a key-value store for large state management

3

8

Automatic Machine Learning Model Tuning on AWS

3

9

Amazon Fire TV Cube Hands-Free with Alexa and 4K Ultra HD

3

10

Richard Feynman's Messenger Lecture Series

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Cost of Developers

397

2

IPVanish “No-Logging” VPN Led Homeland Security to Comcast User

231

3

FlightSim Co threatens users comments about DRM pw logger/system32 obfuscator

22

4

Eugenics never went away

19

5

Tesla’s ver. 9 software update is coming in August ‘full self-driving features'

15

6

Drawing Made Easy, by E. G. Lutz (1935)

10

7

Tesla unveils new white next-gen Roadster prototype at shareholder meeting

6

8

Tesla might have achieved battery energy density and cost breakthroughs

5

9

What makes people distrust science? Surprisingly, not politics

4

10

Why Microsoft Is Willing to Pay So Much for GitHub

4

Science News [?]

1

Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought

531

2

We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud

241

3

NASA confirms amateur astronomer has discovered a lost satellite

143

4

Overtaxed Working Memory Knocks the Brain Out of Sync: Study

141

5

The Game Theory of Anonymous Donations

124

6

Wireless system can power devices inside the body

114

7

What Time Looks Like to Philip Glass

106

8

Inca civilization was better at skull surgery than Civil War doctors

96

9

There Are No Laws of Physics, There’s Only the Landscape

89

10

Teaching My Computer to Write Its Own Music (2015)

83

Social [?]

1

Things I Regret About Node.js [video]

994

2

I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA

336

3

Xcode 10 is now integrated with GitLab

268

4

Reddit DMs will not reach their destination if they contain certain text

232

5

Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction (2016) [video]

213

6

Aerospike Engines: Why aren't we using them now? [video]

111

7

Chinese Border Police Install Software on My Android Device

110

8

Reverse Engineering the Mind: Brain and Cognitive Sciences [video]

71

9

If Github ends up selling itself one day, Microsoft will be the buyer (2014)

59

10

Gitlab does not comply with GDPR

55

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Cutter – A Qt and C++ GUI for Radare2 reverse engineering framework

336

2

Reinforcement Learning: From Zero to State of the Art with Pytorch 4

238

3

GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme

209

4

“Good Luck with That” Public License

178

5

Popularity of technology on Stack Overflow and Hacker News: Causality Analysis

151

6

Giteabot account was compromised

134

7

Amazon2csv: Amazon products scraper to CSV (no API token required)

129

8

Sending Cat Pictures Over The Phone (2015)

95

9

GitHub removes IF_MS_BUYS_GITHUB_IMMA_OUT repository from Trending

75

10

DropIt – A file uploader built with Node.js

34

Wikipedia [?]

1

Seikilos epitaph

160

2

Tennis racket theorem

4

3

List of first female physicians by country

3

4

The Thing (listening device)

3

5

Mad Jack Churchill

3

6

The Tyranny of Structurelessness

3

7

The Boy or Girl paradox

3

8

2

9

Wealth inequality in the United States

2

10

Wikipǣdia – Old English Wikipedia

2

Blogs [?]

1

How I Automated My Job

202

2

The Land Before Binary

132

3

Leveraging Introversion as a Career Strength

115

4

Torus: A Toolkit for Docker-First Data Science

74

5

'Cash cow' sales model for a macOS app

63

6

I lost all my data stored in DigitalOcean Spaces

62

7

The Insanity of Driving

49

8

Exodus from GitHub, but just not to SourceForge

41

9

80% of all machine learning engineers work at Google or Facebook

36

10

My So-Called (Millennial) Entitlement

25

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does array[i++%n] += i+“ ” give different results in Java 8 and Java 10?

25

2

Is there a software-engineering methodology for functional programming?

2

3

Tools for integrated Python and C++ logging (bonus for ROS)?

2

Substack [?]

1

Your emails need white space

2