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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs

1532

2

1370

3

Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available

1082

4

Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate

948

5

915

6

Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

851

7

To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008)

740

8

650

9

I’m a very slow thinker (2016)

604

10

603

Top Ask HN

1

What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?

381

2

What are your go-to blogs and books on building business applications?

204

3

How do you all deal with lack of motivation?

137

4

How to find contract work in Bay Area?

105

5

Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?

103

6

How's the Paris startup scene?

89

7

Do you cover the camera/mic on your computer/phone?

64

8

Bootcamp for self-taught developers?

47

9

Best way to introduce programming to a 5 year old?

44

10

Cities underserved by tech jobs?

42

Top Show HN

1

Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding

611

2

Retool – build internal tools faster

592

3

Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Renderer for C++

527

4

Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

269

5

Curl for GraphQL with autocomplete, subscriptions and GraphiQL

246

6

NES Party – Online Multiplayer NES Emulator Using WebRTC

237

7

WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history

229

8

A Rust macro that parses Java-like syntax and runs it as a Rust program

195

9

Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles

152

10

A parser for electronic component descriptions

126

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008)

740

2

Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool

580

3

FCC admits it was never actually hacked

494

4

One man designed and built the ultimate bush plane

252

5

Very few owners of Alexa-powered devices use them for shopping

201

6

Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals

198

7

SpaceX set to re-fly a Block 5 rocket for the first time tonight

178

8

Georgia defends voting system despite 243-percent turnout in one precinct

141

9

Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypassing the Play Store

121

10

Tech-support scammers know everything about my computer, Dell customer says

115

News [?]

1

Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers

597

2

Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid

537

3

New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers

361

4

A $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes

317

5

Musk mulls taking Tesla private, Saudi sovereign fund builds $2B stake

313

6

Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak

309

7

A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos

301

8

Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed

266

9

The terrible 'what if': how OCD makes every day a matter of life or death

262

10

A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Personal Information

256

Scientific publications [?]

1

Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

851

2

Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt?

311

3

Study finds flaw in emergent gravity

98

4

Probe Memory Packs 138 Terabytes per Square Inch

93

5

The Foundry at the Heart of DARPA’s Plan to Let Old Fabs Beat New Ones

74

6

Engineers Say 'No Thanks' to Silicon Valley Recruiters, Citing Ethical Concerns

57

7

Piping Botnet – Turning Green Technology into a Water Disaster

36

8

Dancing Pigs or Externalities? Measuring Rationality of Security Decisions [pdf]

34

9

Astronomers report the most distant radio galaxy ever discovered

31

10

New Translation from Original Latin of Leonhard Euler's “On Divergent Series”

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment

277

2

WireGuarding the mainline

206

3

The magic of asyncio explained

168

4

Practical Web Cache Poisoning

146

5

Firefox Offers Recommendations with Latest Test Pilot Experiment: Advance

84

6

76

7

Unprivileged filesystem mounts, 2018 edition

22

8

A Detailed Look at RFC 8446 (a.k.a. TLS 1.3)

20

9

A Detailed Look at RFC 8446 (a.k.a. TLS 1.3)

18

10

Building a truly decentralized system with a distributed key generator

16

Tech blogs [?]

1

The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores

188

2

The VU Meter and How It Got That Way

98

3

Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities

68

4

“God Mode” exploit found in old x86 chips

40

5

How Florida's Prisons and DRM Made $11.3M Worth of Prisoners' Music Disappear

28

6

Hacker Finds Hidden 'God Mode' on Old via X86 CPUs

10

7

Security researchers take control of a brand new Mac on first Wi-Fi connection

5

8

Feeling the Heat of High-Frequency Trading: Summer Weather Slows Transactions

4

9

Newton Mail app shutting down September 25

4

10

EFF Tells Bay Area Regional Transit: Reject Proposed Face Surveillance Scheme

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Aurora Serverless

111

2

Aurora Serverless MySQL Generally Available

14

3

AWS: Linux Kernel SegmentSmack Issue

6

4

Aurora Serverless MySQL Generally Available

6

5

Amazon Aurora Serverless Brings Serverless Computing to Relational Databases

3

6

AWS Startup Stories

2

7

Amazon ECS Now Supports Docker Volumes and Volume Plugins

2

8

What’s in a laugh?

1

9

Amazon RDS for MySQL Now Supports Delayed Replication

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

580

2

Google Boots Open-Source Anti-Censorship Tool "Ahoy" from Chrome Store

303

3

Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead

220

4

MacOS System 6, Version 6.0.8: run in browser

178

5

For progress to be by accumulation and not random walk, read great books (2010)

158

6

The World's Newest, Most Gloriously Designed Maps

68

7

Step-by-step code execution on the Toshiba FlashAir SD card

63

8

P2P Piracy Is Alive and Growing, Research Suggests

8

9

Bizarre DMCA Takedown Requests Censor EU 'Censorship' News

6

10

Tesla plans to open-source its vehicle security software for free

4

Science News [?]

1

Engineers teach a drone to herd birds away from airports autonomously

264

2

Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18

253

3

Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc Is Female

214

4

Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations?

188

5

How to Recover from Romantic Heartbreak?

153

6

New Map Scale Is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind

136

7

Mini antimatter accelerator could rival the likes of the Large Hadron Collider

117

8

A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths

71

9

A Botulism Outbreak Gave Rise to America’s Food Safety System

64

10

How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014)

51

Social [?]

1

Gerald M. Weinberg has died

374

2

Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable

277

3

GitLab is now running on GCP

253

4

SpiderOak removes its warrant canary

235

5

User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers

152

6

iOS 12 uses Lua code downloaded from Apple's servers

97

7

M. Hashimoto(Hashicorp CEO) loses access to Google account, asks help on Twitter

56

8

Elon Musk Considering Taking Tesla Private at Stock Price of $420

40

9

Microsoft case results in prison time for restore CD copier [video]

36

10

TypeScript is nearly half as popular as JavaScript for React apps

33

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Bash Infinity: Standard library and boilerplate framework for Bash

507

2

Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused Amazon alternative

342

3

TinyEditor: A functional HTML/CSS/JS editor in less than 400 bytes

244

4

The Xi Text Engine CRDT

235

5

Christopher Domas: Hardware Backdoors in X86 CPUs

218

6

Dev.to is now open source

212

7

Speech-to-Text Benchmark: Framework for benchmarking speech-to-text engines

195

8

Luna Studio – Visual and textual functional programming language

189

9

Julia v1.0 has been released

182

10

Sclack: The best CLI client for Slack, because everything is terrible

142

Wikipedia [?]

1

232

2

Alcubierre drive

166

3

136

4

Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2

82

5

74

6

Grue and Bleen: New riddle of induction

49

7

48

8

Odeillo solar furnace

38

9

The Bielefeld Conspiracy

22

10

FidoNet – A worldwide low-bandwidth distributed discussion system

8

Blogs [?]

1

Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate

948

2

My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine

418

3

How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes

415

4

Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform

246

5

Getting Alexa to Respond to Sign Language Using Your Webcam and TensorFlow.js

213

6

Cracking WPA-2 Just Got a Whole Lot Easier

199

7

Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of LED Lighting

166

8

Introducing Electron Fiddle

165

9

Facial Recognition Is the Perfect Tool for Oppression

94

10

Going Serverless: From Common Lisp and CGI to AWS Lambda and API Gateway

85

Stackoverflow [?]

1

New StackOverflow code of conduct

59

2

What Are the Differences Between Clojure, Scheme/Racket and Common Lisp?

58

3

StackOverflow New Code of Conduct

3

4

What does “JavaScript:void(0)” mean?

1

Substack [?]

1

Bitcoin is being banned as a campaign donation in some states

2

2

Empathy on writing

1

3

We are in the third worst price drawdown in Bitcoin history

1

4

ICOs have raised $11B so far in 2018

1