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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

1572

2

Google Dataset Search

1035

3

A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data

934

4

A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes

829

5

Medieval Fantasy City Generator

788

6

Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video]

717

7

Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms

677

8

Terry Davis has died

634

9

GIMP receives a $100K donation

631

10

XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust

609

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (September 2018)

486

2

How to transition from academic programming to software engineering?

220

3

Types of questions to ask team members before accepting role?

219

4

What are your favorite non-fiction books of all time?

134

5

What methods and tools can I use to decrease my app churn?

117

6

As a technical founder what is the best business book you've read?

107

7

I'm 40 this year, and have depression. Any words of wisdom?

95

8

Favorite books on how to be a good manager?

95

9

A modern day alternative to “JavaScript the good parts”?

74

10

Data diff tool for tabular data?

68

Top Show HN

1

Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book

700

2

Magic Sandbox – learn Kubernetes on real infrastructure

392

3

Py-spy – A new sampling profiler for Python programs

286

4

Zero – Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud

252

5

Reminiscence, self-hosted bookmark manager and personal wayback machine

213

6

BitMidi – Wayback machine for old-school MIDI files

168

7

Snowy – a new image library for Python

124

8

Interactive Calculus via LaTeX

114

9

AgentMaps – Turn maps into living societies

112

10

Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

109

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data

934

2

Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms

677

3

Whole Foods workers seek to unionize

433

4

Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibrant free web’

264

5

Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phones

260

6

20M historical artifacts destroyed in Brazil National Museum fire

236

7

Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

230

8

US Court of Appeals: An IP address isn't enough to identify a pirate

207

9

NSA metadata program “consistent” with Fourth Amendment, Kavanaugh once argued

185

10

An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard

178

News [?]

1

A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes

829

2

Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web

532

3

‘Five Eyes’ Nations Quietly Demand Government Access to Encrypted Data

478

4

Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack

455

5

Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba

401

6

YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politically extreme content

395

7

YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers

390

8

How to Make a Big Decision

350

9

Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve

332

10

Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience

324

Scientific publications [?]

1

Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3

261

2

Desperate for Data Scientists

157

3

Surprising hidden order unites prime numbers and crystal-like materials

157

4

Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but changed Earth's climate: study

154

5

New Roomba Has Persistent Maps, Selective Room Cleaning, Automatic Dirt Disposal

132

6

Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest (2014)

114

7

Modeled impact of large-scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara

102

8

Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string (2007)

71

9

Evaluating Fuzz Testing

59

10

An Evolutionary Theory for the Variability Hypothesis

49

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates

307

2

EU copyright reform: the facts

273

3

The Developer Coefficient: a $300B opportunity for businesses

177

4

Google Optimize now free for everyone

164

5

Why we needed Redux in the past, and don’t any more

52

6

Chrome's turning 10, here's what's new

49

7

Programming sucks, I quit

18

8

Mobile Spyware Maker MSpy Leaks Millions of Sensitive Records

13

9

S3 trickery, using it as a scheduler

8

10

Experiences from Building an Event-Sourced System with Kafka Streams

6

Tech blogs [?]

1

Additional Mac App Store apps caught stealing and uploading browser history

124

2

Hacking into a CPU’S Microcode (2017)

117

3

The Whole World Should Be Up in Arms About the EU's Looming Internet Catastrophe

54

4

The NSA Continues to Blame Technology for Breaking the Law

26

5

Whole World Should Be Up in Arms About the EU's Looming Internet Catastrophe

10

6

Intel 14nm Processors Facing Shortages, Increasing Prices

4

7

It's Time for Google to [Stop Trying To] Patent Use of Public Domain Algorithm

4

8

Samsung Launches Broad Range of Datacenter SSDs

3

9

Chelsea Manning Continues Fight Against Unfair Hacking Charge

2

10

Evernote cuts price as report suggests it’s in a ‘death spiral’

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Checked C: Making C Safer by Extension

84

2

AWS CloudFormation Supports AWS Lambda Powered Macros

6

3

AWS CDK Developer Preview

4

4

Extending AWS CloudFormation with AWS Lambda Powered Macros

4

5

Compute Abstractions on AWS: A Visual Story

3

6

Use Amazon Mechanical Turk with Amazon SageMaker for Supervised Learning

3

7

iPhone 8 Logic Board Replacement Program

2

8

Thinking outside-of-the-black-box of ML to perfect automatic speech recognition

2

9

Putting the cloud under the sea with Ben Cutler

2

10

Amazon EKS Available in Ireland

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light

591

2

How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels

384

3

Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure

281

4

We know music is pleasurable, the question is why?

143

5

The Daring Life of a Forgotten Female War Photographer

47

6

Broken Genius – the case of William Shockley (2013)

39

7

No One Knows the Exact Year of the Largest Volcanic Eruption of Our Age

38

8

What USAF Bomber Pilots Would Wear During a Nuclear Apocalypse (2017)

18

9

Supreme Court to Rule Whether Pirate Streaming Damages Are Fair – TorrentFreak

8

10

YouTube Content-ID flags music prof's public domain Beethoven and Wagner uploads

8

Science News [?]

1

Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions

509

2

'Mindful people' feel less pain

207

3

Quaternions: the Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

205

4

In the fundamental physics of the world, there is neither space nor time

164

5

There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (2013)

163

6

The New Science of Seeing Around Corners

93

7

The Ethics of Consciousness Hunting

93

8

Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, and Now We Know How That's Possible

56

9

MIT Energy Initiative study reports on the future of nuclear energy

49

10

Why Walking Through a Doorway Makes You Forget (2011)

42

Social [?]

1

Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video]

717

2

Why does sorting in computer science mean ordering rather than categorizing?

239

3

How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes [video]

163

4

Isaac Asimov on The David Letterman Show (1980) [video]

127

5

Make plastic printed circuits with a standard laser cutter [video]

81

6

Laser-Cut Music Box [video]

77

7

The Mellotron In Action [video]

65

8

Joe Rogan interviews relaxed, joint-smoking Elon Musk [video]

61

9

Google automatically sharing geotagged photos from Photos to Maps

53

10

Elon Musk Interview with Joe Rogan

48

Github repos and gists [?]

1

XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust

609

2

Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News

581

3

Firefox about:config privacy settings

362

4

D3-dag – Layout algorithms for visualizing directed acylic graphs

256

5

Source for theguardian.com

251

6

Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a menu builder for terminal

182

7

Ripgrep 0.10.0 released (PCRE2 and multi-line support)

180

8

Measuring the memory usage of popular web apps

161

9

Fast word vectors with little memory usage in Python

111

10

Reazon – miniKanren for Emacs

90

Wikipedia [?]

1

Isochronous Curves

224

2

145

3

Secessio plebis

88

4

43

5

25

6

Silurian hypothesis

19

7

Unit 731 – Japan’s covert lethal human experimentation unit (1935-1945)

7

8

7

9

Rabbit starvation

4

10

Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

4

Blogs [?]

1

My Story as a Homeless Developer

482

2

AVA: The Art and Science of Image Discovery at Netflix

89

3

Extreme Athleticism Is the New Midlife Crisis

73

4

Editing my blog's HTTP headers with Cloudflare Workers

66

5

Dumb Rules That Make Your Best People Want to Quit (2017)

56

6

Why I’m Bullish on the New York Startup Ecosystem

52

7

Visualizing Toxicity in Twitter Conversations

41

8

A review of the Julia language (2014)

37

9

How older aged devs outpace their peers and should get respect

32

10

Amazon is pathologically incapable of keeping your account safe

22

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Calculate your salary

2

2

Deoptimizing a Program for the Pipeline in Intel Sandybridge-Family CPUs

2

3

Question: Crazy and Weird TimeZone Issue in JavaScript

1

4

StackOverflow Salary Comparison tool

1

5

Google Maps shows “For development purposes only”

1

Substack [?]

1

Wall Street is going all-in on cryptocurrencies

2

2

Bitcoin is a deflationary system but has an expansive circulating supply

1