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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

931

2

Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?

878

3

My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

814

4

Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)

779

5

Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets

769

6

Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy

726

7

Don’t Do This in Production

696

8

24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

629

9

Serverless Docker Beta

595

10

Original Source code for the Furby [pdf]

533

Top Ask HN

1

Best way to publish papers as a non-scholar?

250

2

Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?

242

3

Simple, beginner friendly ETL / Data Engineering project ideas?

233

4

Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

227

5

How did you find your current job?

199

6

How can I prepare for a coding interview in a week?

170

7

Can engineers from Google or Facebook solve whiteboard questions easily?

142

8

What software should I use to write a textbook?

84

9

What are your favorite long-form nonfiction websites?

80

10

What are some of the simplest software businesses that exist?

73

Top Show HN

1

git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git

447

2

Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C

332

3

A side project in medical devices

267

4

Find recommendations from good people

256

5

Rb – Turns Ruby into a command line utility

232

6

TinyGo – LLVM-based Go compiler for microcontrollers

177

7

Trackerjacker – Map and track wifi networks you're not connected to

159

8

Map of Related Books for “Designing Data Intensive Apps”

138

9

Umbrella JS, a 2.5kb jQuery alternative

132

10

125

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy

726

2

Tinder founders sue parent companies Match and IAC for at least $2B

239

3

Are diesel’s days numbered? A view from a trip to BYD’s electric bus factory

149

4

Netflix will now interrupt series binges with video ads for its other series

141

5

Blind: an anonymous, corporate social network

141

6

Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and Guns Using Basic Wifi

116

7

Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA

112

8

Ajit Pai grilled by lawmakers on why FCC spread “myth” of DDoS attack

110

9

Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive

91

10

The nightmarishly complex wheat genome finally yields to scientists

85

News [?]

1

NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

931

2

Google tracks your movements, like it or not

515

3

Google tracks users who turn off location history

467

4

Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous

367

5

Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders

323

6

FDA approves first generic version of EpiPen

319

7

Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (2015)

312

8

Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22

309

9

Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year

278

10

What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?

260

Scientific publications [?]

1

How intermittent breaks in interaction improve collective intelligence

109

2

Automatic Generation of a Hybrid Query Execution Engine

85

3

Top Programming Languages: Python extends its lead, Assembly enters the Top Ten

67

4

DNA-based chemical compiler

63

5

Easter Island’s society might not have collapsed

39

6

H-1B use skyrocketed among Bay Area tech giants

33

7

X-37B Military Space Plane Nears 1 Year in Orbit

18

8

Work on Paper Batteries Charged by Bacteria

17

9

Spiffy: A Combinatorial-Probabilistic Analysis of Bitcoin Attacks

9

10

New Hubble image shows 15,000 galaxies, about 12,000 of which are forming stars

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine

333

2

Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Threadripper 2990WX

234

3

Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability

95

4

Getting Deep into EVM: How Ethereum Works Backstage

93

5

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

86

6

Service Workers

78

7

ARM Aims to Deliver Core i5 Like Performance at Less Than 5 Watts

33

8

The Patient Change Agent

19

9

Protecting against the new “L1TF” speculative vulnerabilities

19

10

EKatana, Microcontrollers Meet Martial Arts Training

13

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review

322

2

Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans

268

3

Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation

195

4

Student hacked into Apple servers and downloaded 90GB of ‘secure files’

15

5

How Militaries Should Plan for AI

7

6

Arm Unveils Client CPU Performance Roadmap Through 2020 – Taking Intel Head On

5

7

High school student hacked into Apple servers, downloaded 90GB of secure files

5

8

Inside the iPhone Repair Ecosystem

4

9

Large ISPs Blame Consumer Protections for Their Disregard of Rural America

3

10

Build Your Own Linux Single Board Computer

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

GraphQL with Amazon Aurora Sample with AppSync

3

2

John Ousterhout: A Philosophy of Software Design

3

3

AWS – L1 Terminal Fault Speculative Execution Issue

2

4

New book by Cixin Liu, author of the 3 body problem trilogy

1

5

Big and Small Computing: Trajectories for the Future of Software

1

6

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Katie's New Face

493

2

274

3

The Bell System Technical Journal

148

4

Stockholm’s deepest subway station is also an ecological wonder

143

5

Lifeguard Drone Rescues Swimmer in Spain

83

6

Prenda Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Pirate Bay Honeypot Case

71

7

Hume the Humane

50

8

A Versatile Computer-Generated Dynamic Flight Display (1976)

31

9

A "once-in-a-lifetime" shot of Mount Colima during a powerful eruption

27

10

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary puzzled scientists and philosophers

24

Science News [?]

1

Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found

275

2

Researcher at center of epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him

240

3

MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery

171

4

Collaborate, but only intermittently, says new study

131

5

One in five genetics papers contains Excel errors (2016)

115

6

An Ultrahot Exoplanet Has Metallic Skies

96

7

Greek island to run on wind, solar power

79

8

LHC physicists embrace brute-force approach to particle hunt

75

9

An Online Magazine You Can’t Read Online

71

10

Important Algorithms That Helped Define Math, Computing, Physics

69

Social [?]

1

The new MacBook Pros with T2 chips do indeed kernel panic randomly

257

2

Kofi Annan has died

176

3

The 1970s calculator race

169

4

Fraud in superconductor physics

168

5

Design errors Satoshi made

128

6

The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves (2017) [video]

108

7

A tweet storm explaining the history and state of Ethereum's Casper research

99

8

Name and Shame: IBM

93

9

The Mechanical Universe (1986) [video]

56

10

Twitter sysadmin: “I’m deleting the Twitter app from all my devices”

42

Github repos and gists [?]

1

My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

814

2

Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research

401

3

Osx-kvm: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM

299

4

Python Fire – Generates CLIs from any Python object

252

5

Mkcert: Tool for making locally-trusted development certificates

218

6

A dull, resilient stream processor in Go

199

7

How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2017)

196

8

Organized Resources for Deep Learning Researchers and Developers

153

9

Schism: A library of CRDT implementations of Clojure’s core data types

112

10

Bluetooth Low Energy Swiss-Army Knife

107

Wikipedia [?]

1

Shamir's Secret Sharing

177

2

155

3

Video game crash of 1983

84

4

M4 (computer language)

70

5

Curry–Howard correspondence

55

6

Timeline of audio formats

45

7

37

8

8

9

4

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

The tech industry's use of persuasive techniques on children

203

2

Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS

138

3

The Math Required for Machine Learning

123

4

History of T (2001)

117

5

SIGGRAPH 2018 Papers: Machine Learning, Graphics, and Rendering

92

6

How to start an e-commerce store that doesn’t dropship

80

7

From Serverless to Elixir

19

8

Vue CLI 3.0 is here

16

9

Blunt Guide to Mathematically Rigorous Machine Learning

16

10

Economic Inequality (2016)

16

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]

1

Robbing the Bank with a Cellphone

3

2

Coinbase may allow people to store, transact personal data as a digital asset

2

3

Dems Must Build a Democratic Culture, Too

1

4

Crypto prices are falling, but not everyone is losing money

1

5

Is Vitalik Trolling Google?

1

6

The psychology of crypto investors

1