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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Farewell, Google Maps
1747
2
European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case
921
3
YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
850
4
The Wrong Abstraction (2016)
717
5
Timeline of the far future
696
6
Assembly Language for Beginners [pdf]
672
7
Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day
646
8
Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities
633
9
Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch
602
10
PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
576
Top Ask HN
1
What are the best resources for learning security and pen testing?
305
2
Were you happy moving your API from REST to GraphQL?
301
3
What are the things keep in mind while giving/preparing for a tech talk?
299
4
Got a CS degree, but I’m unable to be programmer. What can I do?
294
5
How do you organize/track your personal goals?
239
6
How do you sell to governments and large organizations?
170
7
Going to lead a struggling dev team in a different culture, now what?
114
8
Should I abandon a functioning SaaS with no paying users?
92
9
Researchers: What practical research hasn't been commercialized?
90
10
How to stop Google indexing dynamic search pages?
83
Top Show HN
1
Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres
382
2
Learn how to work remotely from people doing it every day
343
3
Open source non-linear notepad app
222
4
Compare benefits of second passport based on the one you have
201
5
Video Hub App – like YouTube for videos on your computer
198
6
Font Playground – Play with variable fonts
131
7
CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost
125
8
Ansible Kernel – Run Ansible Tasks and Plays with Jupyter Notebook
123
9
Bo, the Swiss army knife of data examination and manipulation
104
10
Pinpointer – A Firefox extension to share links to page elements
91
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day
646
2
Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch
602
3
Ex-Valve employee describes internal politics at 'self-organizing' companies
484
4
Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one
456
5
Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine
399
6
Dozens of PC games drop tracking software after surveillance fears
195
7
Google warns Android might not remain free because of EU decision
180
8
Solar and wind are coming. And the power sector isn’t ready
174
9
Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles every day
153
10
Coinbase reportedly gets approval from US regulators for tokenized securities
138
News [?]
1
Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
371
2
Ecuador will hand over Julian Assange to the UK
348
3
Work less, get more: New Zealand firm's four-day week an 'unmitigated success'
301
4
Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150B
295
5
The Power of Positive People
295
6
Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster
278
7
The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers
274
8
Python has brought computer programming to a vast new audience
252
9
Goldman Sachs model to predict World Cup game results didn’t come close
245
10
The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care
232
Scientific publications [?]
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Darpa Shows Off Some Things You Can Do with Distributed Electric Propulsion
182
2
Darpa Plans a Major Remake of U.S. Electronics
165
3
Darpa Wants Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics
148
4
Traveling to the Sun: Why Won't Parker Solar Probe Melt?
117
5
Hyperledger Fabric: A Distributed Operating System for Permissioned Blockchains
113
6
New Wearable Sensor Detects Stress Hormone in Sweat
106
7
Perceptrons from memristors
104
8
Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in the Movie Interstellar (2015)
103
9
Bolt: A Practical Binary Optimizer for Data Centers and Beyond
89
10
Oo7: Low-Overhead Defense Against Spectre Attacks
80
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Python post-Guido
189
2
Emacs and TLS
145
3
PSI: Pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO
123
4
Improving Connectomics by an Order of Magnitude
114
5
Google Cloud Platform is down
76
6
IR decoding with BPF
58
7
Efficiency Gains of Optical Interconnects at Exascale
41
8
Android has created more choice, not less
36
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Cirq: An Open Source Framework for NISQ Algorithms
22
10
Email re-skinned as a social network
16
Tech blogs [?]
1
MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issues, claims YouTuber
411
2
Intel’s High-End Cascade Lake CPUs to Support 3.84 TB of Memory per Socket
117
3
Apple Confirms 2018 MacBook Pro Has 'Membrane' to 'Prevent Debris from Entering'
39
4
Interview with Jim Keller
26
5
Between You, Me, and Google: Problems with Gmail's “Confidential Mode”
5
6
Backdoors Keep Appearing in Cisco's Routers
5
7
EFF has a new logo
5
8
Announcing EFF’s New Logo
4
9
Intel and Micron to Dissolve 3D XPoint Partnership After 2019
4
10
Between You, Me, and Google: Problems with Gmail's “Confidential Mode”
4
FAANG+ [?]
1
Amazon EC2 Instance Update – Faster Processors and More Memory
131
2
Hints for Computer System Design (1983) [pdf]
50
3
New EC2 Compute Instances for AWS Snowball Edge
8
4
AWS AppSync releases no-code GraphQL API builder, HTTP resolvers, new scalars
5
5
AWS Snowball Edge – Petabyte-Scale Data Transport with Compute
3
6
Amazon S3 Announces Increased Request Rate Performance
3
7
AWS Snowball: Physically migrate petabyte-scale data sets into and out of AWS
3
8
Amazon S3 Announces Increased Request Rate Performance
3
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New – Lifecycle Management for Amazon EBS Snapshots
3
10
Bring your own ip for Amazon VPC
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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14,400-year-old flatbread remains that predate known agriculture
291
2
Sleep Science: In the Era of Screens, Rest Is Crucial
130
3
The European Commission versus Android
126
4
How Sherry Became the Secret to Great Scotch
115
5
Think everyone died young in ancient societies? Think again
100
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The Great CEO Within: How to build a category-killing company from the ground up
59
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Morocco's nutty, decadent spread is made from the prized oil of the argan tree
58
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Russia Releases Videos Offering Unprecedented Look at Its Six New Super Weapons
30
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Marriage in Japan and in the West: One word, two concepts (2003)
30
10
Colorful Atlases That Brought the Night Sky Within Reach
23
Science News [?]
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The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics
412
2
Chinese Researchers Achieve Quantum Entanglement Record
305
3
Jupiter has 10 more moons we didn't know about
249
4
A Short Guide to Hard Problems
213
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Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting
209
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Urine, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes in Pools (2015)
118
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Three Major Physics Discoveries and Counting
99
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China expands surveillance of sewage to police illegal drug use
93
9
A record-breaking microscope
85
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The Hunt for Earth’s Deep Hidden Oceans
83
Social [?]
1
Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]
548
2
Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI
343
3
A used voting machine from the 2016 election
223
4
Munro Teardown Shows Tesla Model 3 Solidly Profitable [video]
162
5
Banner ads on CNN.com contain keyloggers
157
6
MacBook Pro 15 (2018) – Beware the Core i9
65
7
GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
65
8
Google owns duck.com and points it directly at Google search
50
9
How the “Be.” battery-free toothbrush faked a demonstration video
47
10
Debate about science at organizations like Google Brain/FAIR/DeepMind
46
Github repos and gists [?]
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Ndb – An improved debugging experience for Node.js
337
2
Rockstar: A programming language where programs are also song lyrics
297
3
Classic Algorithms Implemented in JavaScript
249
4
El Fuego Viviente Chili Sauce
228
5
Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be fast and safe
200
6
Suspend for the X1 Carbon 2018 on Linux
189
7
Tutorial: Designing a GraphQL API
180
8
Prose: a Golang library for text processing
167
9
Participle: A parser library for Go
128
10
Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler
112
Wikipedia [?]
1
Timeline of the far future
696
2
Before Present
56
3
Ignaz Semmelweis
9
4
Boltzmann brain
7
5
Thagomizer
4
6
TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator)
4
7
Pele's hair
4
8
Naming units of measure after noteworthy scientists, since 1861
3
9
Fallacies of distributed computing
3
10
Agent Oriented Programming
3
Blogs [?]
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What travel insurance really means
274
2
Richard Feynman's Integral Trick
182
3
Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything
152
4
Liberapay is in trouble
102
5
Getting Started with DNS over HTTPS on Firefox
78
6
Ultrasound can cause anomalies in the Xiaomi MI5S Plus gyroscope
57
7
Wrongfully convicted Isaac Wright Jr returns to courtroom as an attorney (2017)
57
8
Imagining Sex Redistribution
37
9
GoFundMe seized $1337, blocked my book campaign and account
37
10
“Real developers don't use UIs”: The value of web UIs for CLI-oriented users
36
Stackoverflow [?]
Substack [?]
1
Malta Stock Exchange is building a tokenized security exchange
4
2
China is becoming more innovative than the US
3
3
BlackRock CEO made big mistake when describing crypto yesterday
3
4
Communicating in technical terms with non-technical people
2
5
Goldman Sachs COO will create more interest in crypto
1
6
A new game
1