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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
1613
2
Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced
1185
3
How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It
1165
4
Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
953
5
Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast
907
6
New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
875
7
Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
830
8
Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network
809
9
Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
746
10
Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds
634
Top Ask HN
1
Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
911
2
Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?
537
3
40+ Career Advice?
384
4
What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?
338
5
Which plants can be planted indoors and easily maintained?
123
6
How can we make React better?
96
7
What scripts/cronjobs you have made that made your life generally easier
76
8
Whats the best way to learn C++ for Deep learning?
73
9
I am currently the only developer in a startup. What to expect?
52
10
When has big $$$ before product-market-fit ever worked out?
47
Top Show HN
1
Alan – a low-code application platform
413
2
Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript
361
3
Comprehensive Tutorials in Deep Learning Using TensorFlow
327
4
WebRTC implementation for Python using Asyncio
216
5
Lisp with copying GC in 537 lines of C (plus Lisp 1.5 on top)
152
6
Percollate – a command-line tool to grab web pages as PDFs
123
7
Firebase2graphql – Migrate from Firebase to GraphQL on Postgres
114
8
Oat++ – Zero-dependency C++ framework for high-performance web services
104
9
WebRTC signalling data using QR codes
80
10
Dangless-malloc – Safe dangling pointer errors (master thesis)
66
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product managers (2016)
479
2
A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers
397
3
Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
363
4
French intelligence officer caught selling confidential data on the dark web
277
5
Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work
277
6
Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
249
7
Wayback Machine director outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive
246
8
IRL Glasses Block All the Screens Around You
206
9
Grad Student Solved a Fundamental Quantum Computing Problem
186
10
The Magic Leap Con
185
News [?]
1
Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
953
2
New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
875
3
Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
830
4
Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data from 14M People
616
5
Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research
491
6
The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world
429
7
Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?
418
8
Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google’s Official Story on China
388
9
Facebook Isn’t Sorry, It Just Wants Your Data
352
10
Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
317
Scientific publications [?]
1
Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors
100
2
Tale of Three Probabilistic Families: Discriminative, Descriptive and Generative
97
3
Leonardo da Vinci's tree rule may be explained by wind
93
4
A Fast x86 Implementation of Select (2017) [pdf]
90
5
BERT: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
78
6
Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
73
7
GPU LSM: A Dynamic Dictionary Data Structure for the GPU [pdf]
69
8
Clues from a Somalian cavefish about modern mammals' dark past
57
9
Cimple: Instruction and Memory Level Parallelism
56
10
Pristine Quantum Light Source Created at the Edge of Silicon Chip
48
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
1613
2
What's a CPU to do when it has nothing to do?
394
3
New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub
322
4
Bpftrace for Linux 2018
268
5
An overview of the top web hacking techniques of 2017
144
6
OpenBSD's unveil()
115
7
Delaying Further Symantec TLS Certificate Distrust
111
8
Inferring the Future of FPGAs
76
9
Google shutting down consumer version of Google+
44
10
Words Matter – Moving Beyond “Meritocracy”
41
Tech blogs [?]
1
One of Bloomberg’s sources told them Chinese spy chip story “didn’t make sense”
243
2
TSMC: First 7nm EUV Chips Taped Out, 5nm Risk Production in Q2 2019
239
3
Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs
217
4
EFF to Texas AG: Epson Tricked Its Customers with a Dangerous Fake Update
178
5
The 555 and How It Got That Way
174
6
FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals
162
7
A RISC-V chip with built-in neural networks
138
8
Apple Said to Have 'Dramatically Reduced' iPhone Repair Fraud in China
126
9
How law enforcement is trying to avoid disabling Face ID
107
10
The Google+ Bug Is More About the Cover-Up Than the Crime
22
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Supplier List – Top 200 [pdf]
300
2
AWS Lambda enables functions that can run up to 15 minutes
26
3
AWS Lambda Console Now Enables You to Manage and Monitor Serverless Applications
20
4
Amazon EKS Enables Support for Kubernetes Dynamic Admission Controllers
2
5
Announcing the Open Data Initiative (Microsoft, Adobe, SAP)
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
576
2
Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound
571
3
Anti-social Punishment
358
4
Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates
202
5
Spreadsheet of Steven Pinker’s book recommendations
166
6
Mathematics as thought
147
7
Why Iran's nomads are fading away
100
8
Fantasy Maps That Put the World’s Tallest Mountains Side by Side
79
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Epic Games Sues YouTuber 'Golden Modz' Over 'Magical' Fortnite Powers
74
10
Tribler Invented 'Paid' Torrent Seeding Over a Decade Ago
73
Science News [?]
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Brief aerobic exercise immediately enhances attention and perceptual speed
404
2
Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air
279
3
Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem
267
4
Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid
205
5
Oil droplets guided by pilot waves do not give rise to double-slit interference
162
6
Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot (2015)
119
7
Astronomers discover sonic boom from powerful unseen explosion
95
8
An eclipse gave researchers an inside look at how bees respond to light
92
9
Ancient Proteins from Unwashed Dishes Reveal the Diets of a Lost Civilization
79
10
The Case for Making Cities Out of Wood
79
Social [?]
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“12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
389
2
How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]
289
3
Why iPhone Xs performance on JavaScript is so good
276
4
New York Times app autoplays video ads on articles even with paid subscription
219
5
FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine
169
6
Intel's New Low: Commissioning Misleading Core I9-9900K Benchmarks [video]
161
7
Allegations of overpriced repair charges at Apple Store [video]
82
8
“12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
45
9
Tether is currently in the early stages of a bank run
38
10
Saudi Journalist Wore Apple Watch and Recorded His Own Murder in Saudi Consulate
38
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Boltons: A set of BSD-licensed, pure-Python utilities
312
2
Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly
278
3
Interim OS: minimalist OS influenced by Lisp machines and Plan 9
197
4
Warp – self-contained, single binary applications
197
5
Nvtop: Nvidia GPU htop-like monitoring tool
150
6
Why Zig When There Is Already CPP, D, and Rust? (2017)
141
7
Programs compiled by Go 1.11 allocate an unreasonable amount of virtual memory
137
8
PgFormatter: A PostgreSQL SQL syntax beautifier
129
9
A Comparison of Functional Data Structures on the JVM
122
10
Sandsifter: x86 processor fuzzer
105
Wikipedia [?]
1
East German coffee crisis
91
2
Bullshit asymmetry principle
85
3
Panspermia
73
4
Cyclogyro
72
5
Mark Hofmann
65
6
Atmospheric railway
44
7
Nash equilibrium
20
8
Dvdisaster
16
9
Hungry Tree
11
10
As recently as 1999, we thought babies couldn't feel pain till they were 1yo
10
Blogs [?]
1
12 Factor CLI Apps
524
2
Today Is My Wife’s First Birthday Since She Died
517
3
The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter
334
4
How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk (2017)
166
5
Faster R with FastR
162
6
Firebase outages and misleading status reporting
143
7
Documents OCR: Improving Efficiency by Making PDFs Searchable
126
8
Six Principles for Making New Things (2008)
111
9
The Employee Engagement Myth
101
10
Better bus predictions (a lot better)
74
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why is printing 'B' so much slower than '#'?
4
2
Why do ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name (FJCVTZS)?
4
Substack [?]
1
Cheap electricity is king
5
2
US lawmakers want to outlaw certain software
3
3
Coinbase is the most underrated company in crypto
2