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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”

1854

2

Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

1224

3

Ursula Le Guin has died

1125

4

Ending Bitcoin Support

989

5

NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive

826

6

Facebook open-sources Detectron

801

7

754

8

DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing

727

9

Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds

726

10

Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases

695

Top Ask HN

1

What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

100

2

Do You Consider Remote a Working Perk?

93

3

I own a large adult business and am moving to the Bay Area soon

90

4

Where do you find great remote developers?

87

5

What books have most influenced the way you see the world?

80

6

How to make fewer mistakes?

67

7

Finding your weak spots?

66

8

What do you look for in an applicant's GitHub?

59

9

Started a new job and their existing code sucks. What to do?

39

10

Can I ask for more severance pay?

38

Top Show HN

1

Self-generated custom art for your home or Airbnb

644

2

RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac

309

3

Paper Programs – Run JavaScript on pieces of paper

235

4

How to store a set of four 5-bit values in one 16-bit value

188

5

A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

183

6

PonziCoin, a transparent, decentralized Ponzi Scheme you can trust

182

7

Interactive Ansible Tutorial

170

8

Find a co-hacker for your project

149

9

A radically more scalable alternative to Bayesian Optimization

96

10

Cobrowse.io – Add screen sharing to any iOS or Android mobile app

94

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers

440

2

Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors

403

3

Netflix is now worth more than $100B

351

4

Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them

328

5

Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting users watch videos

257

6

Mayor quits FCC committee, says it favors ISPs over the public interest

228

7

Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to artificial intelligence

226

8

ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US

201

9

AI is going to supercharge surveillance

191

10

Why Tesla's autopilot can't see a stopped firetruck

144

News [?]

1

Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

1224

2

Ursula Le Guin has died

1125

3

NSA Deletes “Honesty” and “Openness” from Core Values

462

4

Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone

459

5

The Follower Factory

432

6

Mary Lee Berners-Lee has died

431

7

George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society

380

8

Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK

370

9

Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad has died

368

10

Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost

355

Scientific publications [?]

1

Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past [video]

254

2

Non-Convex Optimization for Machine Learning

154

3

The eardrums move when the eyes move

152

4

Experiments reveal faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track (2014)

120

5

Candy Wrappers Are Listening (2014)

109

6

Objects larger than the wavelength of sound in an acoustic tractor beam

103

7

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot

93

8

Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)

86

9

Scalable and accurate deep learning for electronic health records

65

10

Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech-To-Text

64

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Ending Bitcoin Support

989

2

Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine

510

3

Extensions in Firefox 59

496

4

It’s About Time for Time Series Databases

356

5

Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

338

6

20 Years of LWN

307

7

BeyondCorp: How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee Access

256

8

‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs

247

9

Craftsmanship – The alternative to the four-hour work week mindset

244

10

Microsoft’s PowerShell Core Offers Cross-Platform Automation

112

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Reassembles the Radeon Technologies Group

59

2

Intel Announces Q4 2017 and FY 2017 Results

38

3

Quantum Computing Hardware Teardown

25

4

Twist, startup behind AirPlay-powered smart home light, abruptly shuts down

18

5

KGI: Apple to Discontinue iPhone X When Second-Generation Model Launches

14

6

DNA vaccine promises permanent, universal protection against the flu

5

7

Teardown: What’s Inside a Christmas Laser Projector?

4

8

EFF/ACLU Ask Court to Allow Legal Challenge to Proceed vs Warrantless Searches

4

9

4

10

Support Community Control of Spy Tech in Berkeley

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Building blocks of Amazon ECS

116

2

Increased Network Bandwidth for EC2 Instances

73

3

HomePod arrives February 9, available to order this Friday

62

4

Apple previews iOS 11.3

45

5

Functional Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones

18

6

Task Networking in AWS Fargate

8

7

AWS Lambda Supports C# (.NET Core 2.0)

4

8

4

9

3

10

Apple teams with Malala Fund to support girls’ education

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense

373

2

Amazon Go and the Future

284

3

How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis

268

4

USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air War Exercise

226

5

The Bad Hair, Incorrect Feathering, and Missing Skin Flaps of Dinosaur Art

161

6

The good guy/bad guy myth

154

7

A Mystery Manuscript Found in a Used Copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland’

114

8

The salacious Middle Ages

112

9

Ted Nelson’s published papers on computers and interaction, 1965 to 1977

104

10

Putting Ancient Recipes on the Plate

79

Science News [?]

1

With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit

503

2

Evidence that the brain’s ability to control thinking relies on beta rhythms

240

3

The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy

198

4

The Neuroscience of Changing Your Mind

190

5

Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose? (2017)

190

6

With Fungi in the Mix, Concrete Can Fill Its Own Cracks

139

7

Claude Shannon built a machine to game roulette (2017)

111

8

A New Recipe for Hunting Alien Life

110

9

The Evolution of Pleasure and Pain

105

10

The Quantum Theory and Reality (1979) [pdf]

93

Social [?]

1

Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases

695

2

An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform [video]

287

3

OnePlus Is Again Sending User Data to a Chinese Company Without User Consent

185

4

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch is reportedly set for February 6th

122

5

Tether has “dissolved” relationship with auditor Friedman LLP

115

6

SpaceX performs static fire test on Falcon Heavy

102

7

Apple rejects Puffin Browser on iOS

70

8

“I guess you can’t use NYU Libraries if you don’t have Twitter or Facebook?”

57

9

Alto Restoration Part 18: We Crash Our Disk Drive [video]

50

10

Markov mashups of Erowid trip reports and ICO whitepapers

37

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Branchless Doom

454

2

Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin description page

249

3

Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++

191

4

PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

173

5

Hacker101: A free class for web security

159

6

Tensorflow 1.5.0

137

7

Why is setState asynchronous?

136

8

How to Emulate a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Jessie) on Mac OS X

128

9

Isso – a commenting server similar to Disqus

119

10

95

Wikipedia [?]

1

8

2

Z39.50: ISO standard for searching and retrieving information on a database

5

3

Reverse mathematics

5

4

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

4

5

"The Beast" (alias Luis Garavito)

3

6

3

7

The Californian Ideology

3

8

Law of triviality

3

9

2

10

Game Oriented Assembly Lisp

2

Blogs [?]

1

I think I found a Mac kernel bug?

349

2

Why I left Google to join Grab

311

3

Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation

208

4

Taking Equifax to Small Claims Court

194

5

Bitfinex fails to perform promised audits

192

6

A minimalist guide to tmux

176

7

Webpack 4 Beta released

168

8

Introducing Chronicle, a new Alphabet business dedicated to cybersecurity

152

9

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin

135

10

Progressive web apps are coming to iOS 11.3: Cupertino, we have a problem

116

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What are the 6 dots in template parameter packs?

2

2

What is a retpoline and how does it work?

2

3

A valid SSID is 0-32 octets with arbitrary contents. (2011)

1

4

Why is strtok() Considered Unsafe?

1

Substack [?]