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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

EU copyright law proposal rejected

1847

2

Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

1207

3

California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online

1070

4

Please stop asking me to use the app

929

5

Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design

730

6

My home lab setup for highly-available Internet

699

7

Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly

621

8

Learn C and Build Your Own Lisp (2014)

603

9

Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

581

10

Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach

578

Top Ask HN

1

What are your favorite statistics and probability textbooks?

452

2

Who is hiring? (July 2018)

425

3

What talks or videos do you suggest to watch on a long flight?

187

4

Who are some unsung heroes in open source that need more support?

177

5

Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?

151

6

How did you find your passion?

119

7

What highly scalable thing have you built with Go?

102

8

Best programming language or theory to learn before learning Rust?

89

9

What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

82

10

What you wish you'd known before getting into JavaScript?

79

Top Show HN

1

Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations

767

2

Hacker News job trends

371

3

TaskBotJS – TypeScript and JavaScript background job processing

137

4

Pesky Adblock – Blocks site access to visitors without an adblocker

119

5

GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

115

6

A Build System for Packaging Applications in LXC Containers

105

7

Software to give insurance advice like an agent would

97

8

Snibox – Self-hosted snippets manager

84

9

Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks

80

10

Axax – Async iterator extensions for JavaScript

74

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon millions

252

2

FBI would rather prosecutors drop cases than disclose stingray details (2015)

230

3

AT&T promised lower prices after Time Warner merger, but it’s raising them

222

4

A bug in Samsung’s default texting app is sending random pics to other people

186

5

SpaceX is working on a kid-size submarine to extract those boys in Thailand

175

6

Surviving as an ‘Old’ in the Tech World

171

7

Apple's AirPods and Live Listen are a revolution for the hearing impaired

161

8

The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective

154

9

EU parliament calls for Privacy Shield to be pulled until US complies

130

10

The Pentagon Is Building a Team of Tech-Savvy Soldiers

127

News [?]

1

Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copyright law

567

2

Cities don't have to offer huge subsidies to companies like Apple and Amazon

363

3

Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras

286

4

The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work

276

5

British divers make contact with missing Thai football team

276

6

With more students boasting flashy GPAs, academic honors lose their luster

208

7

The Electric Flight of Spiders

206

8

Hawaii moves to ban sale of sunscreens with coral-harming chemicals

204

9

Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork

203

10

How Reddit plans to make money through advertising

201

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)

239

2

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Small, Trainable Neural Networks

137

3

Water compresses under a high gradient electric field

135

4

A Double First in China for Advanced Nuclear Reactors

126

5

Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Networks

98

6

Physical and Mental Effects of Bathing: A Randomized Intervention Study

88

7

Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver System (2015)

88

8

Human ancestors walked on two feet but their children still had a backup plan

81

9

Molecular oxygen in comet's atmosphere not created on its surface

71

10

Dawn’s Latest Orbit Reveals Dramatic New Views of Occator Crater

70

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How to drop 10M packets per second

194

2

Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and LambdaEdge

155

3

The final step for huge-page swapping

127

4

Rise of Kotlin: A Programming Language for the Next Generation

110

5

ExxonMobil Bungles Rewards Card Debut

37

6

Apple Rejects iOS App for Using MoltenVK (Vulkan Over Metal)

35

7

ConsensusPedia: An Encyclopedia of 29 Consensus Algorithms

24

8

Apple Rejects iOS App for Using MoltenVK

16

9

Ensuring your security and privacy within Gmail

13

10

Apache Kafka’s Metamorphosis

11

Tech blogs [?]

1

China Begins Production Of x86 Processors Based On AMD's IP

458

2

With EFF’s help, language teacher responds to threat over ‘invalid’ patent

123

3

Apple dropping Intel as radio chip supplier, killing off the product – report

76

4

How Snow Leopard became synonymous with reliability

71

5

Apple Registers Several New Mac and iPad Models in Eurasia

38

6

China Finds Zen: Begins Production of X86 Processors Based on AMD's IP

16

7

The Nvidia Titan V Deep Learning Deep Dive: It's All About the Tensor Cores

8

8

Data Privacy Policy Must Empower Users and Innovation

5

9

Facebook shuts down 'Moves' fitness tracker and two other apps due to low usage

3

10

EFF to Illinois Supreme Court: Protect Biometric Privacy

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

The App Store turns 10

116

2

Differential Privacy at Apple [pdf]

4

3

Offloading Amazon DynamoDB Tables to Amazon S3 and Querying Them Using Athena

3

4

Microsoft Open Data – Datasets by Microsoft Research Now Available in the Cloud

2

5

Eksctl: Amazon EKS Cluster with One Command

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

1207

2

If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is?

131

3

The Dangers of Train Yards, Through the Eyes of Railroad Employees

111

4

Plasma, the Mysterious and Powerful Fourth Phase of Matter

86

5

Seattle’s Mystery Soda Machine Has Gone Missing

69

6

How to Read a Book a Week (2016)

5

7

To Take Charge of Your Career, Start by Building Your Tribe

4

8

Tesla could revisit ‘Vehicle-to-Grid’ technology

4

9

Finally, Evidence That Diversity Improves Financial Performance

4

10

A day in Tech without Indians

3

Science News [?]

1

Axolotl Genome Slowly Yields Secrets of Limb Regrowth

166

2

Back-and-forth exchanges boost children’s brain response to language

148

3

Why your brain never runs out of problems to find

145

4

Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data

143

5

Parrots have evolved a primate-like telencephalic-midbrain-cerebellar circuit

141

6

The Surprising Power of Virtue Labeling

119

7

An AI system for editing music in videos

102

8

Speaking in code: hands-free programming

91

9

British geologist Herbert Henry Thomas’ seminal study on Stonehenge was wrong

89

10

A psychology of the film

68

Social [?]

1

EU copyright law proposal rejected

1847

2

Please stop asking me to use the app

929

3

MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-retina displays blurry

466

4

A div that looks different in every browser

444

5

Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union

315

6

Where grep came from [video]

250

7

Christopher Alexander – Patterns in Architecture (1996) [video]

104

8

NES Emulator on the UEFI Shell Running Super Mario Bros [video]

89

9

Discord does not allow 3rd party clients

61

10

European Commission conducting poll on daylight saving time

15

Github repos and gists [?]

1

My home lab setup for highly-available Internet

699

2

Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

581

3

Roadmap to becoming a React developer in 2018

311

4

Dear-GitHub: Host Github by itself as an open source project

197

5

GlobaLeaks: Open-Source Whistleblowing Software

131

6

Genann – Simple neural network library in ANSI C

117

7

JINQ – A minimalistic library for Java inspired from .NET LINQ

92

8

Tezos and Ocaml: A self-amending cryptographic ledger

90

9

RoboSat: feature extraction from aerial and satellite imagery

80

10

Functional Typelevel Programming in Scala

70

Wikipedia [?]

1

Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed EU copyright law

272

2

232

3

128

4

75

5

Natural nuclear fission reactor

71

6

Telescript programming language

66

7

36

8

10

9

Ovelgönne bread roll

10

10

8

Blogs [?]

1

Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly

621

2

Escaping the SPA rabbit hole with modern Rails

274

3

Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

264

4

The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens

230

5

Introducing plotly.py 3.0.0

191

6

Survival of the Richest

136

7

It was raining in the data center

119

8

The F-35 Is a $1.4 Trillion National Disaster

92

9

Bare Metal K8s Clustering at Scale

88

10

Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation

80

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Tf.multinomial outputs number other numbers than range – Stack Overflow

1

Substack [?]

1

How to ask a stranger on the internet for help

2

2

Swiss stock exchange is building a regulated platform for tokenized securities

1