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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Google Memory Loss
1377
2
Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
1360
3
The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
993
4
Start Your Own ISP
938
5
Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler
912
6
JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
906
7
LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections
804
8
Intel Has a Big Problem
780
9
Wine 3.0 Released
724
10
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
699
Top Ask HN
1
What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?
397
2
How to Seriously Start with Machine Learning and AI
264
3
Is big-endian dead?
202
4
What influenced your personal growth the most?
198
5
How do you keep track of releases/deployments of dozens micro-services?
108
6
Remote workers, how do you show your work?
104
7
Mozilla Persona Post-Mortem
79
8
Which functional language has the best ecosystem for a web backend?
57
9
What is the Bitcoin price level at which miners will leave?
55
10
If you had a month of free time, what would you do?
48
Top Show HN
1
2D multiplayer battle royale game
163
2
On-disk B+ tree for Python 3
159
3
Genact – A nonsense activity generator
131
4
Low cost CO₂ monitoring (your office) with Prometheus and Go
127
5
Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool
126
6
Bootrino.com – Netboot Run-From-RAM OS's on AWS, Google and Digital Ocean
109
7
Datasette Publish – Turn CSVs into a SQLite-Backed JSON API
101
8
Collateralized Debt Agreements Using Smart Contracts and Virtual Cats
97
9
Bistro – A light-weight column-oriented data processing engine
95
10
Triangulart – Isometric graphic editor, like pixel art with triangles
95
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000
692
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How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
429
3
Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan
241
4
Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017
214
5
Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy
200
6
BMW's Apple CarPlay annual fee is next-level gouging
188
7
High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets (2013)
173
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Alibaba neural network defeats human in global reading test
170
9
Vitalik Buterin Has Left VC Firm Fenbushi Capital
162
10
City-owned Internet services offer cheaper and more transparent pricing
156
News [?]
1
Intel Has a Big Problem
780
2
Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017)
540
3
Fed Up with Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own
405
4
BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales
389
5
Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes
369
6
Inside Amazon Go
317
7
CIA rendition flights from rustic North Carolina called to account by citizens
306
8
Trial of a blood test that detects eight common forms of cancer
301
9
Bitcoin Fall Extends to 25% as Fears of Crackdown Linger
292
10
NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve
278
Scientific publications [?]
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Predicting Death for Better End-Of-Life Care
95
2
Theoretical Impediments to Machine Learning with Seven Sparks from Causality
71
3
Measuring the Tendency of CNNs to Learn Surface Statistical Regularities
66
4
Fine-Grained Text to Image Generation with Attentional GAN
45
5
Deep Learning for Forecasting Stock Returns in the Cross-Section [pdf]
27
6
Meteorite hunters find first fragments of Michigan meteor
22
7
Russia Is Building Its Own Internet
17
8
Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has 'Sea Level' Like Earth
5
9
Infectious flu virus in exhaled breath of symptomatic cases
5
10
Meteorite hunters find first fragments of Michigan meteor
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
1360
2
Is it time for open processors?
596
3
How I Shipped Six Side Projects in 2017
224
4
Google IT Support Professional Certificate
215
5
Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business
191
6
However improbable: The story of a processor bug
162
7
Requiring secure contexts for all new features
159
8
Jon Skeet earns 1mm rep on Stack Overflow
135
9
How to Measure the Working Set Size on Linux
133
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Cloudflare Access: Like BeyondCorp, but You Don’t Have to Be at Google to Use It
116
Tech blogs [?]
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The Public Domain Starts Growing Again Next Year
250
2
Mobile Devices Compromised by Fake Secure Messaging Clients
129
3
California Police Chiefs Misrepresent License Plate Privacy Bill
68
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Requiring Universities to Ban Anonymous Speech on Campus Is Unconstitutional
45
5
EFF and Lookout Uncover New Malware Espionage Campaign called Dark Caracal
21
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Dark Caracal: Good News and Bad News
12
7
How Closed Trade Deals Ratchet Up the Copyright Term Worldwide
10
8
How License Plate Covers Would Protect Vulnerable Communities
5
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Revolve folding 26-inch wheel could be a game-changer
5
10
Open Letter on Congress Vote to Extend NSA Spying from EFF Director Cindy Cohn
5
FAANG+ [?]
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Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda
399
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Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2
325
3
AWS Auto Scaling – Unified Scaling for Your Cloud Applications
7
4
New AWS Auto Scaling – Unified Scaling for Your Cloud Applications
5
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New AWS Auto Scaling
5
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AWS lambda supports dotnet 2.0
4
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Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda
4
8
AWS SageMaker BlazingText: Parallelizing Word2Vec on Multiple CPUs or GPUs
3
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AWS Lambda Supports Go
3
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AWS Lambda Supports C# (.NET Core 2.0)
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India
219
2
When the Soviet Union Paid Pepsi in Warships
159
3
Yacob and Amo: African precursors to Enlightenment thinkers
149
4
The Real Adam Smith
144
5
Bob Lutz Thinks the Tesla Model S Is a Future Classic
13
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Tesla loses one of its most senior engineers and director of manufacturing
13
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Competent Elites – The World Is Stratified by Genuine Competence
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The Man from Earth Sequel 'Pirated' on the Pirate Bay – By Its Creators
4
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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors
4
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Startups That Seek to “Disrupt” Get More Funding Than Those That Seek to “Build”
3
Science News [?]
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Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders
275
2
Surfers three times more likely to have antibiotic-resistant bacteria in guts
238
3
The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently
214
4
Why Understanding Space Is So Hard (2016)
136
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How to see a memory
120
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“The Problem Child of Seasonal Flu”: Beware This Winter’s Virus
120
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What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult?
115
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An old theory of quantized gravity is gaining new life
110
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Lithium chloride kills a honey bee parasite by a systemic mode of action
91
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Why Are Some People More Creative Than Others?
80
Social [?]
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The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday
653
2
A prime number whose binary representation looks like a giraffe
264
3
MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning
241
4
Indistinguishable from Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips (2012) [video]
183
5
Pornhub “Hawaii on Alert” traffic stats
109
6
A new grad SDE makes 2x more in SF than Toronto after tax and COL
91
7
Apple Rejects Academic App That Detects Net Neutrality Violations
63
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TIS-100 Signal Averager (2016) [video]
54
9
Don’t do the long take home assignments like coinbase
52
10
The Suicide Prevention Hotline is pinned to the top of r/cryptocurrency
29
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Learn FFmpeg the hard way
586
2
Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS
532
3
System Bus Radio: Transmits AM radio on computers without transmitting hardware
515
4
Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator
466
5
Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100
449
6
Org-Mode for Visual Studio Code
331
7
DNS over HTTPS
284
8
An open source GitHub-like platform as an alternative for AWS Lambda
278
9
Convert React JavaScript Code to TypeScript with Proper Typing
216
10
Dvxk: A Vulkan-Based D3D11 Implementation for Linux with Wine
216
Wikipedia [?]
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List of oldest companies: Before 1300
416
2
Sussman anomaly
151
3
Lojban
84
4
Solresol
72
5
Transputer
46
6
Gauss–Markov theorem
14
7
How to Win Friends and Influence People
4
8
Maude programming language
4
9
Keynesian Beauty Contest
3
10
Worker-Priest
3
Blogs [?]
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Guaranteed Minimum Agriculture: Why Basic Jobs Might Fare Better Than UBI
96
2
Designing Social Systems Without Causing Depression and War
89
3
Best ways to kill your startup
89
4
The Gen Z Pyramid Scheme Sweeping Instagram
73
5
Unlearning Unhelpful Behaviors in a Code Review Culture
50
6
One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”
35
7
Best practices and tips on Jupyter Notebooks
27
8
Fees calculation in Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) explained
26
9
Luna, the visual way to create software
18
10
Missile Alert System Redesign
15
Stackoverflow [?]
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Can (a ==1 && a== 2 && a==3) ever evaluate to true?
180
2
Can (a ==1 && a== 2 && a==3) ever evaluate to true?
4
3
JavaScript: can you have the statement if(a ==1 && a== 2 && a==3) evaluate true?
3
4
Can (a ==1 && a== 2 && a==3) ever evaluate to true?
3
5
“Good” SO answer with -36 points for a Python dictionary question
3
6
Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?
2
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I solved the problem by dropping the table and restoring it from backup
1
8
Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?
1
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Which algorithm is better: O(nlogn) time and O(1) space vs. O(n) time and O(n) space?
1
Substack [?]