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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”
2024
2
Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar
1277
3
Learn how to design large-scale systems
1273
4
Thailand cave rescue: all 12 boys and coach successfully rescued
971
5
MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros
889
6
People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
868
7
Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified
665
8
Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB
632
9
The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea
613
10
The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand
579
Top Ask HN
1
2018 Summer Reading List?
746
2
Favorite note-taking software?
374
3
As a team lead how to handle project going off the rails?
325
4
Have you ever chosen Postgres over Mongo and regretted it?
233
5
Why do you keep a personal knowledge base?
136
6
What are your heuristics for deciding which HN links to click on?
127
7
How to be found as a technology co-founder?
124
8
How to find an effective career coach?
94
9
What are the best Sci-Fi books you've ever read?
92
10
Are you a remote worker that escaped to the countryside?
86
Top Show HN
1
Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
967
2
Router7 – A pure-Go implementation of a small home internet router
461
3
Solving Rush Hour, the 6x6 Sliding Block Puzzle
223
4
Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown
218
5
Oathkeeper – Cloud-Native Identity and Access Proxy
174
6
Online challenge: Build a CPU from scratch
143
7
Gaia – Build powerful pipelines in any programming language
134
8
Clothes shopping app UI built in React Native
128
9
Announce and discover GitHub repos
66
10
How to make your Python code more idiomatic – 25 tips and tricks
56
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand
579
2
Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%
337
3
A California mall operator is sharing license plate tracking data with ICE
313
4
A biologist who believes that trees speak a language we can learn to listen to
308
5
Apple’s Shortcuts will flip the switch on Siri’s potential
239
6
iPhone crashing bug likely caused by code added to appease Chinese government
215
7
Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure’ starting in July
179
8
The seeming irrationality of a well-tuned emotional system
168
9
An app that reads Wikipedia to teach you about cities you’re driving through
142
10
Microsoft is updating Notepad
139
News [?]
1
Thailand cave rescue: all 12 boys and coach successfully rescued
971
2
Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified
665
3
Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Finalized
466
4
Employers will do almost anything to find workers except pay them more
427
5
Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recognition
372
6
FCC Proposes Changing Comment System After WSJ Found Thousands of Fakes
321
7
‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice
315
8
The Joy of Missing Out
231
9
Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful?
229
10
Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich
216
Scientific publications [?]
1
The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt
221
2
TherML – Thermodynamics of Machine Learning
154
3
Towards an optical FPGA – Programmable silicon photonic circuits [pdf]
121
4
Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System (2016)
73
5
Talent vs. Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
38
6
Towards Inferring Mechanical Lock Combinations Using Wrist-Wearables
36
7
Archaeologists in Egypt discover mummification workshop
35
8
Lisp, Jazz, Aikido – Three Expressions of a Single Essence
28
9
Towers Toppled at Historic Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 17
22
10
Don Eyles: Space Hacker [video]
20
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to the open web
262
2
PEP 572 and decision-making in Python
131
3
Comparing Serverless Performance for CPU Bound Tasks
127
4
Notorious ‘Hijack Factory’ Shunned from Web
111
5
The libkern C++ Runtime
80
6
Where is the money for mobile app developers in blockchain?
48
7
Cloudflare Workers is 4.6x faster for CPU-bound tasks than Amazon Lambda
30
8
Automating Drug Discoveries Using Computer Vision
28
9
Using FPGA superpowers to speed up cloud workloads with InAccel
28
10
Nvidia Jetson Xavier Dev Kit: Under 30 Watts, 8-Core ARMv8.2, 512 Core Volta
17
Tech blogs [?]
1
Former Apple Employee Charged with Theft of Autonomous Car Project Trade Secrets
280
2
Intel to Acquire eASIC: Lower Cost ASICs in FPGA Design Time
151
3
Apple planning 11″ iPad Pro, Mac mini, 1.57″ and 1.78″ Apple Watch, AirPower
44
4
8 Cheap CPUs Tested and Ranked: The Best Processors Under $130
22
5
Teardown of USB Fan Reveals Journalists’ Lack of Opsec
19
6
EFF to Japan: Reject Website Blocking
16
7
EFF to Patent Office: Don't Make It Harder to Kill Bad Patents
9
8
Teardown of USB Fan Reveals Journalists’ Lack of Opsec
8
9
Apple MacBook Pro Updated: Max 32 GB RAM, Third-Generation Keyboard, True Tone
7
10
MacBook Pro Keys Feature a Silicone Barrier to Prevent Malfunctions Due to Dust
7
FAANG+ [?]
1
MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros
889
2
Amazon Homepage is Down
34
3
Stripe Press: High Growth Handbook
15
4
Apple Launched New MacBook Pro Generation with 8th Generation Intel CPU
5
5
Adversarial and reinforcement learning-based approaches to information retrieval
4
6
Amazon Quicksight: BI Tool Hosted on AWS
4
7
Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists
4
8
Apple: Law Enforcement process guidelines [pdf]
2
9
Friction Burns: Three steps the startup Tyk.io takes to reduce friction
2
10
The democratization of data science with Dr. Chris White
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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What do Stanford CS PhD students think of their PhD program? [pdf]
149
2
Nordic Ice Skating on Thin, Black Ice in Sweden Is an Art and a Science
110
3
UK unveils extensive new plan to go all-electric by 2040
52
4
Maruti Hard Real-Time OS (1996)
45
5
Life on the slippery Earth
35
6
Boring Company unveils bricks being produced from dirt dug in its tunnels
31
7
Wehrum, Pennsylvania: A coal mining ghost town hidden in the woods
19
8
Why a Volcano Is Crucial to This Azorean Chef’s Homestyle Stew
18
9
Oldest Tools Outside Africa Found, Rewriting Human Story
9
10
Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
4
Science News [?]
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When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing
338
2
How to start a lab when funds are tight
138
3
Therapy experience is associated with negative changes in personality (2017)
87
4
Use of drugs by people seeking to boost mental performance is rising worldwide
62
5
Easter Island statues may have 'walked' out of quarry (2012)
55
6
DNA marks in adults tracked back to changes in earliest days of life
51
7
Weather-Smart Electric Grids Are Needed for Wind and Solar Power to Surge
46
8
Slime molds remember, but do they learn?
42
9
Tardigrade protein helps human DNA withstand radiation (2016)
42
10
Ancient Dog DNA Reveals Close Relationship with Contagious Cancer
37
Social [?]
1
Optimising a Trebuchet [video]
128
2
The Last Hope for Scala's Infinity War [video]
105
3
Using rope physics to simulate cabling a data center in VR
68
4
What I would do differently if I was learning to program again
54
5
I tattooed a set of checkboxes on my hand 2 years ago to help me get shit done
35
6
Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI
29
7
Ghostery now displaying Ads in Germany, marketed as “Rewards” program
28
8
Thai cave rescue used open source hardware, the Heyphone
27
9
How the rich get richer – money in the world economy [video]
22
10
13900+ of these devices have their password as “123456”
18
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Learn how to design large-scale systems
1273
2
ESLint compromised, may have stolen your credentials
527
3
Unified access to the best community-driven cheat sheets repositories
474
4
Toml: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language
358
5
The Spiral Language
329
6
Dhall – A Distributed, Safe Configuration Language
217
7
Bulletproofs – Short zero-knowledge arguments of knowledge
185
8
TerminalView – A terminal inside Sublime Text 3
168
9
Asmttpd: Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly (2017)
166
10
Libaco: A fast and lightweight C asymmetric coroutine library
152
Wikipedia [?]
1
Impossible color
245
2
The moving sofa problem
215
3
Monge's theorem
83
4
Free energy principle
79
5
Elephant Clock
64
6
Alan Smithee
38
7
John Colter
30
8
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaki
26
9
Domain tasting
18
10
Mohism
10
Blogs [?]
1
Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB
632
2
How to take 7 years to ship a beta
233
3
What I Learned Working for Steve Ballmer
141
4
Netdev Day 1: IPsec
126
5
DIRT Protocol raises $3M to build a Wikipedia for structured data
106
6
How I Fully Quit Google (And You Can, Too)
103
7
Building the Google Photos Web UI
93
8
Netflix introduces Lemur: x.509 certificate orchestration (2015)
75
9
Human-Centered AI: Building Trust, Democracy and Human Rights by Design
71
10
Designing a Quantum Computing Board Game
67
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What is the most useful script you've written for everyday life?
1
Substack [?]
1
Context on emails
1
2
Miners and hardware manufacturers are suffering in crypto bear market
1
3
Behind the Obvious: years of reading in nudges sent each week via email
1