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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store
1620
2
Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed
1318
3
Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
948
4
Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server
877
5
Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux
819
6
How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites
766
7
Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
675
8
Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff
647
9
Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning
636
10
John McCain has died
628
Top Ask HN
1
Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?
406
2
Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my content and ranking higher
224
3
Which types of tech jobs are best for people that can't handle stress?
189
4
Software development after 40, how do you keep the fire?
111
5
How can I avoid just making rich people richer?
67
6
Do you get good applications from “Who is hiring?”?
62
7
Is it possible to get pigeonholed to certain company sizes/cultures?
59
8
Ever had a “are we the baddies” moment?
57
9
How do I choose between software engineering and data science?
45
10
What exciting open-source science projects can one contribute to?
44
Top Show HN
1
Windows 95 in an Electron App
213
2
How privacy-friendly is your site?
200
3
Remote jobs for people with disabilities
177
4
BuzzFeed open source SSO
166
5
SVG 3D Builder – Build 3D Models with SVG
157
6
Ledger-analytics – Analytics for ledger-cli
102
7
Weltschmerz by age
72
8
Crypto Table – A Periodic Table of Cryptocurrencies
57
9
A single command terminal configuration installer
51
10
Reducing the size of PCSA to that of HyperLogLog
45
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
675
2
Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire
567
3
Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
445
4
What is this Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work?
432
5
WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages
361
6
How an International Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100M
358
7
Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All at Risk
245
8
Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri to find out
190
9
vTaiwan: An experiment in participatory governance
161
10
Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1
156
News [?]
1
John McCain has died
628
2
National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions
573
3
The Bitter Regrets of a Useless Chinese Daughter
487
4
Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere
466
5
Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’
457
6
Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound
327
7
More Americans report near-constant cannabis use
315
8
Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism
280
9
Money Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life
263
10
Just Read the Book Already
262
Scientific publications [?]
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Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
239
2
Memristor – The fictional circuit element
193
3
The Desperate Quest for Genomic Compression Algorithms
95
4
Sarcasm Analysis Using Conversation Context
78
5
Research team finds evidence of matter-matter coupling
71
6
Depression marks on seafloor suggest whales visiting prospective mining sites
62
7
How Paper Batteries Charged by Bacteria Could Power the Internet of Things
56
8
Nanotubes change the shape of water
47
9
Blood uric acid level and IQ: a study in twin families (1984)
28
10
Stars memorize rebirth of our home galaxy
18
Dev Blogs [?]
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Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux
819
2
Mistakes we made in our company’s first 8 years
231
3
OpenAI Five: Goals and Progress
195
4
Beta release of PHP 7.2 in the Google App Engine standard environment
185
5
A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages
116
6
Understand what AI sees
100
7
An update on state-sponsored activity
97
8
Microservices from a Startup Perspective
47
9
Hey Google, tell me something good
26
10
FUJITSU’S A64FX ARM CHIP WAVES THE HPC BANNER HIGH
20
Tech blogs [?]
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Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never Be Illegal
432
2
Traveler sues US Customs and Border Protection over iPhone search and seizure
363
3
Supreme Court Should Say No to Patents That Take Old Ideas Away from the Public
310
4
Don’t Shoot Messenger
197
5
Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking Ban
168
6
Multiple vulnerabilities cause compromised AT&T and T-Mobile account PINs
6
7
Don’t Shoot Messenger
6
8
Throttling of Fire Fighters Could Go Unpunished Because the FCC Repealed Order
5
9
What Will You Do If WWVB Goes Silent?
5
10
Rare Apple-1 Headed to Auction in September
5
FAANG+ [?]
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New T3 Instances – Burstable, Cost-Effective Performance
97
2
Amazon Ending Prime 20% Off Games Discount
17
3
Kinesis Data Streams HTTP/2 Support
9
4
How Pagely implemented a serverless data lake in AWS
4
5
More Instance Sizes and Price Reductions for Amazon Lightsail
4
6
Monadic IO, concurrency, exceptions, and foreign-language calls in Haskell
4
7
Amazon Lightsail Announces 50% Price Drop and Two New Instance Sizes
4
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Amazon Lightsail Update – More Instance Sizes and Price Reductions
3
9
DoWhy – A library for causal inference
2
10
Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics [pdf]
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The Apocalyptic Architecture of One 1970s Retail Chain
303
2
What Data Scientists Really Do, According to Data Scientists
278
3
Go 1.11 and Beyond
182
4
The Illegal Ramen Vendors of Postwar Tokyo
121
5
TorrentFreak Is Blocked as a Pirate Site and Hacking Resource
112
6
Tesla Semi made it ‘across the country alone’
74
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Have elite US colleges lost their moral purpose altogether?
24
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Tesla expands solar roof tile installations to the Northeast
11
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Alibaba and the Future of Business
7
10
I Don't Like Notebooks – Joel Grus – #JupyterCon 2018
6
Science News [?]
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Eerie Skyglow Called 'Steve' Isn't an Aurora, Is 'Completely Unknown' to Science
280
2
Elusive mitochondrial connection to inflammation uncovered
242
3
Need More Self-Control? Try a Simple Ritual
212
4
Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: discovery of an ancient-human hybrid
117
5
How Do We Measure the Distance to a Star?
74
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There's No 'Safe' Level of Alcohol Consumption, Global Study Finds
68
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‘Reprogrammed’ stem cells to be tested in people with Parkinson’s
59
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Why the Earth Has Fewer Species Than We Think
56
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The Reinvention of Black (2015)
54
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What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience death
52
Social [?]
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Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
948
2
What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power Lines (2017) [video]
312
3
A spreadsheet of the businesses I've started over the past 15 years
231
4
OpenAI Five at Dota 2 – The International [video]
209
5
What does genius look like in math? Where does it come? Dandelin spheres [video]
113
6
Divergence and curl: The language of Maxwell's equations and more [video]
75
7
MIT 6.875 – Cryptography and Cryptanalysis [video]
65
8
Video-to-Video Synthesis [video]
62
9
How to Get Rich (without Getting Lucky)
59
10
Exception Handling in Programming Languages [video]
44
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store
1620
2
Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff
647
3
Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders
578
4
Minecraft Global Warming
524
5
The Book “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach” is now open source
327
6
Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
189
7
The Python scientific stack, compiled to WebAssembly
173
8
Arduino command line interface
147
9
Surviving the App Store
118
10
Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries
114
Wikipedia [?]
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Shavian alphabet
108
2
Artificial Photosynthesis
30
3
Year 2038 problem
15
4
Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB)
7
5
Hedonic Treadmill
4
6
Seldon Crisis
4
7
Cryptonomicon
3
8
Robert Smalls
3
9
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
3
10
Sixel
3
Blogs [?]
1
Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A
570
2
What they don’t tell you about event sourcing
234
3
I'm Wil Wheaton. I Live with Chronic Depression and Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed
154
4
Hacking law firms with abandoned domain names
113
5
The Dark Reality Behind America’s Greatest Thrift Store Empire
104
6
Facebook Is Now Rating Users Black Mirror Style
47
7
How to Design for the Modern Web
42
8
WordPress is at a Crossroads
37
9
Bootstrapping the Industrial Age (2007)
33
10
WeChat shutdown cryptocurrency and blockchain accounts
17
Stackoverflow [?]
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ReasonML vs. Elm
4
2
Sessions vs. Token based authentication
2
3
How do I calculate someone's age in C#?
1
Substack [?]
1
Don't Invest All Your Money in One Place
3
2
Bitcoin won't hit $50k by end of year, it may take another 4 years instead
3
3
A Blockchain Company Actually Making a Profit
2
4
ICO issuers may be in more legal trouble than they originally thought
1
5
Coinbase may be the key to the promise of no-fee online payments
1
6
The Tether Has Broken
1