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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard
1183
2
Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall
1104
3
Why you should not use Google Cloud
895
4
Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers
812
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Norwegian Consumer Council report on how tech companies use dark patterns [pdf]
731
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Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
718
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We're Baking ‘Have I Been Pwned’ into Firefox and 1Password
688
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How to get kids to pay attention
670
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I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
649
10
OpenAI Five
646
Top Ask HN
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Old CS lecturer looking for advice from current and recent students
392
2
Anyone else using Hacker News as a `dopamine hit`?
82
3
Would you rather work for Google or a smaller high growth company?
79
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What's the best documentation you've ever read?
70
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Which project management and team communication software do you use?
67
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How to ditch an established online identity and start over?
62
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What is one Vim trick most people don't know?
45
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How do Google's iOS apps track your identity even after reinstalling?
45
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What's the best way to handle internal tech support?
43
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What should we consider when moving to a service mesh architecture?
41
Top Show HN
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Google Drive as a file system
374
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B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python
359
3
Mimicking the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript
355
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The Vue.js Handbook – Free 120 pages ebook
262
5
The Program – A fictional podcast inspired by Hacker News stories
162
6
Shotsnapp – Create beautiful device mockup presentation
146
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Maskmail – anonymous email address service
110
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Simple Open Source 3D Online Multiplayer Battle Game Using Node.js
102
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Muzoti – Algorithmic Music with Web Audio/Midi and VueJS
93
10
A raytracer to shade topographic maps in R, Part 2
76
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
718
2
Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B
576
3
Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records
429
4
Google ups its Linux Foundation membership to the $500,000/year Platinum level
266
5
Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering a Phone’s Mic When Hidden Signal Plays on TV
255
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500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under CC
250
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John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China
236
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A closer look at Google Duplex
222
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Porsche shatters the Nürburgring record we thought was unbreakable
214
10
Silicon Valley’s Exclusive Salary Database
190
News [?]
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Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers
812
2
How to get kids to pay attention
670
3
Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve
640
4
How a Hacker Proved Cops Used a Stingray to Find Him
624
5
U.S. Supreme Court to hear civil forfeiture case
575
6
The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
490
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Twitter Will Show Who Pays for Ads and How Much They Spend
416
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Tesla meets self-imposed deadline for Model 3, rolls out 5000 cars in a week
361
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Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B
332
10
BBC releases its computer history archive
274
Scientific publications [?]
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Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI
570
2
The physics of baking good pizza
368
3
What life could be like for civilizations 1 trillion years from now
209
4
Toward a Mature Science of Consciousness
105
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The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012)
91
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The Nixie Tube Story: The Neon Display Tech That Engineers Can’t Quit
86
7
Design case history: the Commodore 64 (1985) [pdf]
80
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Toward Psychoinformatics: Computer Science Meets Psychology (2016)
80
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5G Beam-Steering Antennas: More Accurate, Less Power Hungry
60
10
Deuce: A Lightweight User Interface for Structured Editing
57
Dev Blogs [?]
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Python 3 at Facebook
339
2
Timsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data
260
3
Effectively using AWS Reserved Instances
227
4
TCP small queues and WiFi aggregation – a war story
137
5
Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool
131
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Self-Supervised Tracking via Video Colorization
129
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RISC-V Hardware So Far Isn't Entirely Open-Source
80
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Why My 11-Year Old Stopped Coding Then Switched to Python
42
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Are You a 10x Programmer? Or Just a Jerk?
42
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How Immutable Data Structures Are Optimized
35
Tech blogs [?]
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EFF Sues to Invalidate FOSTA, an Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law
223
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Announcing STARTTLS Everywhere: Securing Hop-To-Hop Email Delivery
37
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Disabilities vs. DRM: The World Cup Edition
17
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EFF Sues to Invalidate FOSTA, an Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law
8
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10 Times AMD Beat Intel in the CPU Innovation Race
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New Lawsuit Challenges FOSTA – The Federal Law Sparking Website Shutdowns
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SiFive Releases Smaller, Lower Power RISC-V Cores
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New Lawsuit Challenges FOSTA – The Federal Law Sparking Website Shutdowns
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Competition, Civil Liberties, and the Internet Giants
3
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US Dethrones China with IBM Summit Supercomputer
3
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS Introduces Amazon Linux WorkSpaces
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AWS Lambda Adds Amazon Simple Queue Service to Supported Event Sources
27
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Amazon Linux WorkSpaces
7
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AWS Fargate – run containers without having to manage servers or clusters
3
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AWS Amplify Now Supports AI-Powered Chatbots with Amazon Lex
3
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Prime at Whole Foods Market
2
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MacOS Mojave Preview
2
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iOS 12 Preview
2
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AWS Lambda Adds Amazon Simple Queue Service to Supported Event Sources
2
10
Thoughts on Flash – Steve Jobs (2010)
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results
306
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Intel and the Danger of Integration
225
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The Board Game at the Heart of Viking Culture
110
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Asian Americans are the least likely in the US to be promoted to management
56
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Colorado Lawmakers Seek to Make Flying Drones Over Wildfires a Felony
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Abalonia: The Island Nation That Never Was
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Research: Women Ask for Raises as Often as Men, but Are Less Likely to Get Them
14
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Formal Verification: The Gap Between Perfect Code and Reality (2017)
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Point Roberts,an American City Embedded in Canada
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Tesla reaches Model 3 production milestone and record 7,000-car week, says Musk
8
Science News [?]
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The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber (2016)
240
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We discovered three poisonous books in our university library
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There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives human lifespan debate
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New research a ‘breakthrough for large-scale discrete optimization’
97
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Forget in a Flash: A Further Investigation of the Photo-Taking-Impairment Effect
93
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Mathematics Shows How to Ensure Evolution
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Real-Life Schrödinger’s Cats Probe the Boundary of the Quantum World
76
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Taking Another Person’s Perspective Doesn’t Help You Understand Them
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Solution: ‘The Slippery Math of Causation’
57
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Life Is a Braid in Spacetime (2015)
56
Social [?]
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Borders and populations of countries in Europe each year since 400 BC [video]
55
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Tesla produce 7000 cars in seven days
49
3
Beginners’ Guide to Solidity Development [video]
36
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I'm being threatened by Magic Leap's lawyer. How should I handle this?
28
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Harlan Ellison has died
16
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ProtonMail Down for Many Users as the Company's Network Faces 'Sustained Attack'
15
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Why annotating data directly on videos is way superior to annotating images
14
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StumbleUpon is Shutting Down
12
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This Is Water – David Foster Wallace
12
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Why Udemy is bad
9
Github repos and gists [?]
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React from zero: a simple tutorial for React
222
2
OpenPDF – A free Java library for creating and editing PDF files
213
3
Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base
189
4
Plume – WIP Federated Blog Engine with ActivityPub
157
5
Awesome macOS open source applications
105
6
Pain27 keyboard
98
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Kubernetes 1.11
98
8
Quicksort in Idris
90
9
DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit
83
10
BlueChip – An ORM-like syntax for retrieving data from GraphQL or JsonAPI
82
Wikipedia [?]
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Negative Base
177
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DjVu, an open PDF alternative
143
3
Greek numerals
80
4
Unexpected hanging paradox
77
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Juan de Fuca
50
6
United States National Radio Quiet Zone
11
7
EPUB, open PDF alternative supported by the largest number of hardware readers
5
8
Languages of India
3
9
Overton Window
3
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Didius Julianus – the man who bought the Roman Empire
3
Blogs [?]
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Why you should not use Google Cloud
895
2
A Bank for Student Hackers
256
3
Why developers need to be able to identify technologies with staying power
96
4
Inko, a peer-to-peer collaborative whiteboard app for iPad and Apple TV
65
5
Zero Knowledge Taxation on Ethereum
43
6
Introducing plotly.py 3.0.0
40
7
Spencer Perceval, The Forgotten Prime Minister
18
8
Ways to screw up as a woman in technology
16
9
How to build powerful REST APIs blazingly fast with Node.js
15
10
Peer Review Is Not Scientific
15
Stackoverflow [?]
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What is this unknown Google-originating client triggering JavaScript errors?
1
2
Var FunctionName = Function() {} vs. Function FunctionName() {} – Stack Overflow
1
Substack [?]
1
Privacy Coins are coming under attack by Secret Service
2
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Anthony Pompliano's Daily Crypto Newsletter
1
3
Don't be afraid of long sentences
1