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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why I’m done with Chrome

2357

2

EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019

1367

3

Life in the Spanish city that banned cars

1240

4

Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration

1105

5

724

6

GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the State of Washington

711

7

Build Impossible Programs

652

8

621

9

Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway

621

10

People Like You More Than You Know

577

Top Ask HN

1

Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?

675

2

What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great?

575

3

What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?

458

4

How to come up with monetizable side project ideas?

426

5

What is the dark side of working at a successful startup?

337

6

Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

313

7

How did you get started as a freelancer?

211

8

Better tools for the software requirements / scoping phase?

181

9

How much did you, as an employee, make when your startup exited?

168

10

What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

95

Top Show HN

1

I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

968

2

Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

935

3

Hacking slot machines with a buttonhole camera and brute-force search

421

4

My new SaaS side-project, after years of open source

229

5

Thi.ng/hdom – S-expression based, pure ES6 UI/VDOM components

180

6

Solo, open source FIDO2 security key

98

7

Python library to create Siri shortcuts

82

8

Arc Studio Pro – Collaborative Editing/Version Control for Screenplays

75

9

Plash – Build and run containers

66

10

TakeShape, a Headless GraphQL CMS and SSG

60

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce

327

2

GitLab raises $100M from Iconiq, GV, and Khosla, at $1.1B valuation

320

3

US Congress passes bill to help advanced nuclear power

305

4

SpaceX's rise can be traced to a critical launch from a Pacific isle

287

5

iOS 12, reviewed

240

6

Walmart deploys Oculus Go headsets to train its employees

193

7

Senate passes copyright bill to end 140-year protection for old songs

185

8

Steve Jobs licensed Amazon’s one-click patent for $1M in one phone call

175

9

A real estate company's simple way to offer the homeless a house and a job

166

10

Delta to start scanning faces at airport check-in

152

News [?]

1

EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019

1367

2

Life in the Spanish city that banned cars

1240

3

Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

541

4

Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program

517

5

IBM Is Being Sued for Age Discrimination After Firing Thousands

480

6

Let Teenagers Sleep In

450

7

Woman Rides Bicycle to 183.9 MPH, a New World Record

443

8

Alphabet Backs GitLab's Quest to Surpass Microsoft's GitHub

353

9

Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements

339

10

News Site to Investigate Big Tech, Helped by Craigslist Founder

268

Scientific publications [?]

1

David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Languages

444

2

Octopuses on MDMA reveal genetic evolution link to human social behaviors

125

3

Coding Error Forces 2019 Subaru Ascents to be Scrapped

124

4

Carnegie Mellon Is Saving Old Software from Oblivion

123

5

Kai-Fu Lee talks about AI, jobs, and the human heart

51

6

CAN: Generating Art by Learning About Styles and Deviating from Style Norms

37

7

Exploiting Errors for Efficiency: A Survey from Circuits to Algorithms

26

8

Long-Running U.S. Federal Radio Stations, Beloved by Hams, in Danger of Shutdown

4

9

Strangers with Similar Names Meet Through Emails Sent to the Wrong Address

4

10

A Tutorial on Principal Component Analysis

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway

621

2

Stripe Terminal – Programmable point of sale

539

3

Firefox Reality Now Available

301

4

Apple File System Reference [pdf]

248

5

PostgreSQL 11: something for everyone

201

6

The Evolution of Reddit’s Architecture (2017)

183

7

Google’s revamped Cloud Source Repositories in beta

135

8

What Could You Build with $10k?

134

9

Introducing the Cloudflare Onion Service

121

10

Protecting user identity against Silhouette

99

Tech blogs [?]

1

Molecule produced during fasting has anti-aging effect on vascular system

255

2

A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor

225

3

Yes, You Can Name a Website “Fucknazis.us”

19

4

Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 Review:Foundations for a Ray Traced Future

9

5

Sony's $100 PlayStation Classic: Available December 2018 with 20 Games

5

6

Exploring an Abandoned Toys “R” Us

5

7

AirPower 'Doomed to Failure' Unless Apple Can Resolve Engineering Issues: Report

4

8

Windows File Discreetly Stores Touch Devices' Sensitive Text

4

9

Older Recordings Will Belong to the Public, Orphan Recordings Will Be Heard

4

10

Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti Review

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

iOS 12 released

457

2

iOS 12 Security [pdf]

6

3

Parallel Query for Amazon Aurora

5

4

AmazonBasics Microwave, Works with Alexa

4

5

AWS Japan Begins Manga Campaign

3

6

AWS Data Transfer Price Reductions

3

7

AWS AppSync releases new guided API builder for GraphQL

3

8

Amazon Echo Auto

3

9

Amazon goes into house cleaning business

3

10

Amazon Lightsail

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The European Union versus the Internet

194

2

Intelligent, devoted, alien – parrots are unlike any other pet

167

3

Cloudflare Ordered to Expose YTS, Showbox, and Popcorn Time Site 'Operators'

164

4

List of 600+ Startups Hiring Remote in 2018

137

5

How communist Bulgaria became a leader in tech and sci-fi

126

6

After Five Years of Living in Trees, a Protest Community Is Being Evicted

94

7

Content Is King (1996)

87

8

Saving the Prized Chile That Grows Only in Oaxaca’s Mountains

75

9

What’s stored in a school Google Drive account?

67

10

U.S. Wants Prison Sentence for Facebook User Who Pirated ‘Deadpool’

14

Science News [?]

1

Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture

373

2

Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit

335

3

Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room

192

4

About 40% of economics experiments fail replication survey (2016)

125

5

Discovery of Galileo’s lost letter shows he edited his ideas to fool Inquisition

103

6

It’s not such a problem that the Large Hadron Collider hasn’t found new physics

103

7

The Future of Fish Farming May Be Indoors

65

8

World's first animal was a pancake-shaped ocean dweller

58

9

Helping computers fill in the gaps between video frames

51

10

The crisis inside the physics of time

49

Social [?]

1

Ikarus electric “rocket” – Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan [video]

357

2

John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”

308

3

Rich Hickey on Datomic Ions [video]

147

4

A conversation with Gilbert Strang [video]

100

5

Future Shock Documentary (1972) [video]

74

6

CTRL-Labs: demo of human-computer control using electromyography [video]

50

7

Linux's new CoC is a piece of shit

27

8

iPhone XS is faster than an iMac Pro on the Speedometer 2.0 JavaScript benchmark

27

9

The iPhone XS faster than iMac Pro on the Speedometer 2.0 JavaScript benchmark

23

10

PostgreSQL as a distributed computing platform

19

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration

1105

2

How to create an OS from scratch – tutorial

377

3

Nvidia Vid2vid: High-resolution photorealistic video-to-video translation

303

4

Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux

280

5

Coursera Machine Learning MOOC by Andrew Ng – Python Programming Assignments

214

6

GraphQL editor – Visual node editor for GraphQL

205

7

Algorithms Implemented in Python

153

8

Minih264 – Minimalistic, single-header library for encoding H264/SVC

131

9

Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos

129

10

PL/Lua: Lua as a loadable procedural language for Postgres

119

Wikipedia [?]

1

Gell-Mann amnesia effect

361

2

TRIZ, a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool

172

3

160

4

Braess’s paradox

134

5

75

6

Frankfurt kitchen

75

7

Operation Vegetarian

39

8

17

9

Legendre's constant

14

10

Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia

12

Blogs [?]

1

Build Impossible Programs

652

2

Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

215

3

Lessons From a Failed Startup — From and For First Time Founders

202

4

Subject: Airbnb (2011)

161

5

Getting started with PeerTube

151

6

I'm a Heart Doctor and Wary of the New Apple Watch

94

7

Firefox installs add-ons into your browser without consent, again

71

8

Our react-native experience at Drops (so far)

38

9

On banning racial terms in programming

27

10

Lisp Repl.it Tutorial

26

Stackoverflow [?]

1

iOS 12 Safari Array reverse bug

333

2

How can I handle exit() calls in 3rd party library code? (2013)

1

3

Django QuerySet Update with Subquery

1

4

Array state will be cached in iOS 12 Safari. Is it a bug or feature?

1

Substack [?]

1

Payday loans are coming for everyone

56

2

The Bitcoin thesis is playing out in Venezuela

3

3

Banks are more fraudulent than crypto companies

2

4

The first qualified custodian for crypto has been approved

1

5

The SEC is evaluating the Bitcoin ETF incorrectly

1