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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Amazon Dark Patterns

1056

2

The Bullshit Web

1017

3

A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet

1004

4

Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm

824

5

Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces

785

6

Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times

761

7

Learning Math for Machine Learning

695

8

You don’t need standups

677

9

Building a Kickass Portfolio

648

10

How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind

602

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (August 2018)

448

2

What are some niche communities you enjoy?

437

3

What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?

432

4

How to get web development career on track from being homeless?

305

5

What “dumbphones” are available and viable in the US?

175

6

How to overcome fear of flying?

170

7

What is going on?

55

8

What are some good projects/resources to learn distributed systems?

54

9

What is likely to improve with 10/7nm CPUs?

52

10

Had anyone already had to deal with the GDPR fines / abuse?

50

Top Show HN

1

I made a tool that made me faster at Git

551

2

A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance

455

3

Make a business model canvas in your browser

295

4

Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

266

5

I trained a neural network to learn Arabic morphology

183

6

Toy – A thin C++ game engine

180

7

Owl, a new kind of parser generator

156

8

Polyhedra Viewer

123

9

Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform WebAssembly VM in Go

111

10

Wikipedia2Vec – A tool for learning embeddings of words and entities

105

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit

467

2

Google Maps is no longer a flat map

339

3

Ex-SolarCity employees: We were fired after reporting millions in fake sales

279

4

FCC sides with Google Fiber over Comcast with new pro-competition rule

258

5

France bans smartphone use in schools

232

6

I made my own WireGuard VPN server

227

7

Patrick Stewart Returns as Jean-Luc Picard for a New Star Trek Series

206

8

Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform

191

9

The Mind: Most polarizing card game of the year?

187

10

Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars

185

News [?]

1

Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal

492

2

How America Uses Its Land

463

3

Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed – They're Paid For

455

4

Apple becomes the first $1T company

339

5

The Stock Market Is Shrinking

333

6

Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig

274

7

3M Knew About the Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago, Internal Documents Show

272

8

Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money

244

9

Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Are Near: Meet a Teen Who Rides One Every Day

236

10

GE Engineer Linked to China Stole Power Plant Technology, FBI Says

232

Scientific publications [?]

1

Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling

214

2

Actor Model of Computation (2010) [pdf]

117

3

Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier

100

4

The structure of the Milky Way

65

5

A material found to carry current in a way never before observed

64

6

Quantum Mechanics Toys that Didn’t Catch On

63

7

NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Competition

59

8

Plate tectonics not needed to sustain life

50

9

Progressive Neural Architecture Search

45

10

Learning to Ask: Neural Question Generation

23

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How we scaled Nginx

364

2

How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours

307

3

Evolving the Firefox Brand

237

4

Dell XPS 13 Kabylake Makes for a Great Linux Laptop

91

5

Ruby on Rails to Lucky on Crystal: Blazing fast, fewer bugs, and even more fun

20

6

How we scaled Nginx and saved 54 years every day

17

7

Introducing the Stripe Partner Program

13

8

Hey DevOps Leave My UI Alone

12

9

The End of Xeon Phi – It’s Xeon and Maybe GPUs from Here

10

10

Reddit Breach Highlights Limits of SMS-Based Authentication

9

Tech blogs [?]

1

Light painting animations directly from Blender

243

2

AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chinese Consoles

236

3

Are patent claims coming for your WS2812?

18

4

Apple Sold Fewest Macs Since 2010 as Nearly Entire Lineup Outdated

9

5

AAPL hits $1T market cap according to Apple’s own Stocks app, but it is wrong

8

6

Apple Removes Apps from iTunes Affiliate Program

4

7

The Intel Xeon W Review

4

8

Facebook Deletes Anti-Unite the Right Event, Claiming Russian Involvement

4

9

Apple Is Officially a Trillion Dollar Company as Shares Cross $207 Mark

3

10

Sextortion Scam: What to Do with the Latest Phishing Spam Demanding Bitcoin

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Paul Graham on SICP (2000)

380

2

Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena

204

3

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

174

4

General magic user interface

6

5

Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (2009)

4

6

Maintaining Transport Layer Security All the Way to Your Container

3

7

Thoughts on Machine Learning Accuracy

2

8

Project Malmo: Reinforcement learning in a complex world

2

9

Serverless Bot Framework

2

10

CAFE: A Configurable PAcket Forwarding Engine for Data Center Networks [pdf]

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful

566

2

Jason's Machine Learning 101

332

3

274

4

Google Refuses to Remove the Pirate Bay's Homepage

239

5

How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation

193

6

Facebook Lenses

144

7

Children learn best when engaged in the living world, not on screens

140

8

Tracking collars reveal just how extreme a wild cheetah’s movements can be

110

9

The Disturbing Fate of a Planet Made of Blueberries

110

10

The World’s Largest Speedo Collection Almost Oozed Away

42

Science News [?]

1

Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm

824

2

Algorithm recovers speech from a potato-chip bag filmed through glass (2014)

327

3

Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences?

252

4

To Persuade Someone, Look Emotional

159

5

Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning

157

6

Relation between alcohol consumption in midlife and dementia in late life

139

7

A Mathematical Theory for Why People Hallucinate

133

8

2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize Winners

111

9

Systemisers are better at maths

103

10

Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars

99

Social [?]

1

That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to publisher, 0% to authors

522

2

Reddit Security Incident

308

3

Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing every interaction

252

4

Showing a Craigslist scammer who's boss using Python [video]

94

5

Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web

85

6

Facebook is down

53

7

Exercise to improve hunchback posture forward head carriage correction

50

8

The Computer Chronicles – Microchip Technology (1983) [video]

48

9

American Fast Food Took Over Kuwait and Made Its People Obese [video]

42

10

Elliptic orbits explained by Albert Baez (1959) [video]

38

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python

549

2

JPL Open-Source Rover Project Based on the Rovers on Mars

324

3

Taskbook: Like Trello but for the Terminal

243

4

Faust: Stream Processing for Python

205

5

Ferret: a Lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems

135

6

Scream – virtual network sound card for Windows

106

7

Vectorized processing for Apache Arrow

103

8

CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a Git repo (2017)

103

9

Rapidstring: Maybe the fastest string library ever

100

10

Open-guides/og-aws:Amazon Web Services – a practical guide

86

Wikipedia [?]

1

Usenet – A worldwide distributed discussion system

104

2

66

3

Sabre (computer system)

65

4

55

5

11

6

Einstellung Effect

9

7

Joy programming language

9

8

4

9

The 2018 Fields Medals Go to Birkar, Figalli, Scholze and Venkatesh

4

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

You don’t need standups

677

2

How Britain beat the odds to achieve space flight, and then abandoned it

266

3

Hello World on z/OS

199

4

Nassim Nicholas Taleb vs. Less Wrong

41

5

The Cost of JavaScript in 2018

33

6

The Healthiest People in the World Don’t Go to the Gym

29

7

The Market Is Poised For Catastrophic Losses (Part 1)

28

8

Java will kill your startup. PHP will save it

27

9

Introducing Square Reader SDK

23

10

An Introduction to WebAssembly with C++

17

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?

2

2

Python: Copy contents of one doc file to another, image part tricky

2

3

How to load a library in Angular io with Electron's NodeIntegration enabled

1

Substack [?]

1

The argument for why Bitcoin must remain the dominant crypto

3

2

EOS raised $4B but booked everything as non-dilutive revenue

3

3

Jihan Wu is the Andrew Carnegie of advanced computing

2

4

Writing comments on internet forums

1