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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Earliest images of the moon were better than people realised

976

2

776

3

U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani

701

4

Why you should learn just a little Awk (2010)

684

5

The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official

633

6

Habits of Highly Miserable People

603

7

Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say

574

8

Neural scene representation and rendering

545

9

Forgotten Employee (2002)

520

10

516

Top Ask HN

1

Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?

1139

2

Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

317

3

Who has started a business because they couldn't get hired for work?

316

4

How to find a mental health professional?

287

5

How do you manage your manager?

242

6

Elizabeth Holmes has 200 patents – if tech didn't work, why not noticed?

207

7

How to not fail on coding interview questions?

206

8

What has the past 12 months taught you?

203

9

I started a company in Japan but I'm in over my head

193

10

If I Close My Data Centers, What About the People/Jobs Lost?

181

Top Show HN

1

Plot modern addresses on Earth 240M years ago

384

2

Dilay – A free 3D sculpting application

227

3

Fo: An experimental language which adds generics on top of Go

165

4

World Cup API for 2018

141

5

T2b – A wicked-powerful text macro language for building binary files

117

6

One Click Pose Estimation

84

7

22 top US newspapers in an RSS OPML list

83

8

A SIMD-accelerated noise library in Rust

73

9

Node-android – Run Node.js on Android

70

10

An infinite runner for the command line, because why not

65

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist

437

2

Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast

389

3

White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech goods

354

4

American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults

325

5

Backdoored images downloaded 5M times removed from Docker Hub

283

6

FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry

211

7

App Maker, Google’s low-code tool for building business apps, comes out of beta

203

8

The rise and fall of Sugru

163

9

Judge says ‘literal but nonsensical’ Google translation isn’t consent for search

161

10

Ctrl-labs’ armband lets you control computer cursors with your mind

134

News [?]

1

U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani

701

2

The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official

633

3

Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say

574

4

Psychedelics could heal brain cells in people suffering from depression: study

367

5

Solar Surpasses Gas and Wind as Biggest Source of New U.S. Power

362

6

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Wins Chicago Airport High-Speed Train Bid

361

7

Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies

343

8

Lasik’s Risks Are Coming into Sharper Focus

339

9

Wells Fargo Bans Cryptocurrency Purchases on Its Credit Cards

332

10

Apple to Close iPhone Security Hole That Police Use to Crack Devices

297

Scientific publications [?]

1

Dank Learning: Generating Memes Using Deep Neural Networks

172

2

Text Normalization using Memory Augmented Neural Networks

152

3

Are real numbers really real?

147

4

Dissolving the Fermi Paradox

113

5

New form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table

109

6

A seed that could bring clean water to millions

104

7

The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009)

101

8

A Connectome-Based Convolutional Network Model of the Drosophila Visual System

88

9

Prediction of the FIFA World Cup 2018 – A random forest approach

48

10

Does a narcissism epidemic exist in modern western societies?

32

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter meets TensorFlow

206

2

Mozilla Discloses Past Relationships with Facebook

39

3

Getting Started with IPFS, Python, and Jupyter Notebooks

17

4

Russian Censorship of Telegram

13

5

AI Chip Startup Wave Computing Acquires MIPS, Delivers First Silicon

13

6

Breaking Down the Perfect Sign Up Flow

12

7

Ballerina: An API-First Programming Language

10

8

Alternative Private Search Engines to DuckDuckGo

6

9

Don't Lose Your Head with iTerm2

6

10

13 sidechain projects every blockchain developer should know about

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Stanford research turns human blood cells into functional neurons

131

2

Apple Maps has been down for hours, users unable to search for places/directions

63

3

California Can Lead the Way in Open Access

62

4

Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card in 2020

58

5

Intel CEO Bracing for EPYC Impact

21

6

Making Electronics Just Got 25% More Expensive in the US

20

7

Lenovo Crammed a Hexa-Core CPU and 128GB of Memory into a Laptop

19

8

Psychedelic Medicine 101: Psilocybin and the magic of mushrooms

12

9

Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive Threatens the Internet [pdf]

9

10

Cost-effective method of extracting uranium from seawater

8

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS DeepLens Now Shipping

3

2

Introducing Amazon API Gateway Private Endpoints

3

3

New – Redis 4.0 Compatibility in Amazon ElastiCache

2

4

How to create a fast and globally available user profiling system

1

5

The Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices [pdf]

1

6

Apple Books, all new for iPhone and iPad, celebrates reading

1

7

Fire TV Cube – Hands-Free with Alexa and 4K Ultra HD – Streaming Media Player

1

8

Story Time, a story generating skill to create new story EVERY time, guaranteed

1

9

Combine Transactional and Analytical Data Using Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift

1

10

Sequent Calculus as a Compiler Intermediate Language (2016) [pdf]

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company

311

2

How Ceiling Fans Allowed Slaves to Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners

111

3

Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (1944)

103

4

The Scooter Economy

79

5

Suffering, not just happiness, weighs in the utilitarian calculus

76

6

Anti-Piracy lawyers sentenced to prison for defrauding copyright holder clients

65

7

What caused the Black Death and could it strike again? (2016)

63

8

First look at Tesla Model S using George Hotz’s semi-autonomous driving tech

35

9

Tesla shorts take an estimated $2 bil of losses in Elon Musk’s ‘next level burn’

15

10

GitLab.com is down

7

Science News [?]

1

We Should Teach Music History Backwards

339

2

EU copyright reforms draw fire from scientists

256

3

Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub leaves some scientists uneasy

197

4

Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s

141

5

Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study

130

6

Massive Martian dust storm endangers NASA rover

111

7

How the belief in beauty has triggered a crisis in physics

105

8

Braces Have Made Snoring a Modern Health Problem

89

9

Saving the ‘god of ugly things’: NZ battles to restore its rodent-sized insects

83

10

In an age of all-knowing algorithms, how do we choose not to know?

47

Social [?]

1

Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript

393

2

CopperheadOS has imploded

289

3

“All accredited journalists at the #KimTrumpSummit get a free USB fan.”

189

4

CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

135

5

Recommended path to read the Lua source code by the author of LuaJIT (2007)

89

6

Macintosh Startup Sound History [video]

83

7

A former Theranos employee's account of life inside the company

77

8

Office 365, Skype, MS Teams, and VS Code Are All Being Rewritten in React Native

55

9

Vue Passes React's Star Count on GitHub

54

10

8K 13.3'' OLED laptop screen [video]

42

Github repos and gists [?]

1

516

2

Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi

368

3

ActorDB – Distributed SQL database

284

4

Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system

269

5

Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

209

6

GitPub: An extenstion to ActivityPub for web-based Git services federation

168

7

Neovim 0.3 released

167

8

Usql – Universal command-line interface for SQL databases

160

9

USB Product ID Allocations for Free Software / Open Hardware

132

10

FBG – Lightweight C Linux framebuffer graphics with parallelism

128

Wikipedia [?]

1

405

2

Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

229

3

List of common misconceptions

94

4

Price revolution

33

5

Weber–Fechner law

32

6

11

7

Using Wikipedia for Mathematics Self-Study

11

8

Agnotology: the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt

8

9

Square of opposition

4

10

List of important publications in computer science

4

Blogs [?]

1

The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment?

422

2

The Trouble with D3

350

3

In MySQL, don’t use “utf8”, use “utf8mb4” (2016)

244

4

The End of Video Coding?

204

5

Do VCs really add value? Founders say sometimes

184

6

Go code refactoring: the 23x performance hunt

177

7

What It Was Like to Write a Full-Blown Flutter App

153

8

Faster Natural Language Processing in Python

103

9

A Bitter Guide to Open Source

90

10

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source

76

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Apache Pulsar vs. Apache RocketMQ: the next generation messaging and streaming?

2

2

Stackoverflow redesinged with side navigation bar

1

Substack [?]

1

On emails, say “please”

1