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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Paul Allen has died

2901

2

Paper Airplane Designs

1753

3

What I loved about Paul Allen

964

4

How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS

925

5

Japan's Hometown Tax

847

6

Helm: Personal Email Server

846

7

Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness

712

8

GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool

642

9

Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid

633

10

Apple Launches Portal for U.S. Users to Download Their Data

625

Top Ask HN

1

What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?

733

2

What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

717

3

575

4

Am I just a wantrepreneur?

428

5

What do you do in your 1-on-1s with your direct reports?

409

6

What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

393

7

Is there a modern “power on to basic” computer, for kids to learn on?

387

8

Over 60 = no engineering jobs?

328

9

What is your advice for a technical founder learning sales?

314

10

What's your advice for someone who's raising capital for the first time?

246

Top Show HN

1

Polar – an offline web browser with annotations and tagging

382

2

Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place

306

3

Physically Based Rendering – Online Edition

297

4

Lipreading with Deep Learning

258

5

Coffee Chat – Trade your expertise

182

6

Mole – an open source tool to easily create ssh tunnels

142

7

Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings

127

8

Webpage to PDF Microservice

93

9

Experience Colorblindness on the Web

92

10

SQL Viewer – UI for uber/queryparser, written in Haskell

88

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool

642

2

MongoDB switches up its open source license

306

3

Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend

229

4

Trivial authentication bypass in libssh leaves servers wide open

227

5

Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, it’s how it develops it

223

6

Zero-day in jQuery plugin sample code exploited for at least three years

216

7

Silicon Valley is awash with Saudi Arabian money

168

8

Tricks That Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos for Now

138

9

Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your personal life

119

10

Senators Demand Google Hand Over Internal Memo Urging Google+ Cover-Up

114

News [?]

1

Paul Allen has died

2901

2

Apple Launches Portal for U.S. Users to Download Their Data

625

3

Repair is as important as innovation

598

4

Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews

598

5

M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1B

560

6

Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story

530

7

China May Have $5.8T in Hidden Debt with ‘Titanic’ Risks

482

8

US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty

412

9

Study shows massive insect loss

372

10

Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know

327

Scientific publications [?]

1

Steve Wozniak on Smart Watches, Motivating Engineers, Siri, and More

225

2

Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Replace Traffic Lights, Shorten Commutes

151

3

Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption

145

4

Can moons have moons?

116

5

Relational inductive biases, deep learning, and graph networks

45

6

Mathematical and physical models toward building a more perfect flying vehicle

24

7

The Roman 'Brexit': how life in Britain changed after 409 AD

21

8

A new way to measure nearly nothing: Ultracold trapped atoms to measure pressure

14

9

Private Machine Learning in TensorFlow Using Secure Computation

6

10

GPU-Accelerated Robotic Simulation for Distributed Reinforcement Learning

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Encrypted SNI Comes to Firefox Nightly

326

2

How to price a product, sell it to customers, and build a sales team

265

3

How I hacked modern vending machines

249

4

Removing Old Versions of TLS

217

5

Signing Your Apps for Gatekeeper

211

6

Stripe Integration for Twilio Pay

207

7

133

8

A new course to teach people about fairness in machine learning

119

9

Enabling further research of information operations on Twitter

49

10

Complying with the EC’s Android decision

41

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel 9th Gen Review

221

2

Is the Touch Bar a gimmick? Two years in, I can answer that

45

3

US Announces Withdraw from Postal Treaty; International Shipping Prices to Rise

27

4

Arm Announces Neoverse Infrastructure IP Branding and Future Roadmap

23

5

Mother of all bike lights

19

6

Samsung: first EUV based process

7

7

Intel to Support 128GB of DDR4 on Core 9th Gen Desktop Processors

6

8

Apple Invites Media to October 30th Event in New York City

4

9

Ten Legislative Victories You Helped Us Win in California

4

10

EFF is introducing a new Coders' Rights project

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video]

174

2

AWS Lambda announces service level agreement

4

3

AWS announced managed databases for Lightsail

4

4

Managed Databases for Amazon Lightsail

2

5

New – Managed Databases for Amazon Lightsail

2

6

Designing the future with the help of the past with Bill Buxton

2

7

New – Managed Databases for Amazon Lightsail

2

8

Power to the Startup People: Grow Your Startup Career When Not the Founder

1

9

Adobe previews Photoshop CC on iPad and new apps for creative pros

1

10

Use AWS DeepLens to give Alexa the power to detect objects via Alexa skills

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt

403

2

Messenger systems compared by security, privacy, compatibility, and features

300

3

A Hacker from South Africa Rescued the First NASA Computer in Space (2016)

140

4

L.A.'s Most Derided Piece of Public Art Is About to Light Up Again

138

5

Tesla deploys massive new Autopilot neural net in v9

125

6

Java Is Still Free

108

7

The World Is Built on Probability (1988)

95

8

The Greatest Use of Life: On William James

39

9

How Fish and Chips Migrated to Great Britain

38

10

GTA ‘Cheat’ Developers Have Homes Searched and Assets Frozen

24

Science News [?]

1

Dandelion Seeds Fly Using ‘Impossible’ Method Never Before Seen in Nature

395

2

How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain

390

3

Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study

249

4

Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s

190

5

Are Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars?

138

6

The genetics of university success

97

7

Brain pollution: Evidence builds that dirty air causes Alzheimer’s, dementia

95

8

“Poliolike” Childhood Muscle-Weakening Disease Reappears

79

9

The Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems

78

10

Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? (2017)

78

Social [?]

1

MIT AGI: Conversation with Yoshua Bengio [video]

115

2

Apple using CBP to seize Rossmanns shipment of original Macbook batteries

101

3

Channels, Concurrency, Cores: A New Concurrent ML Implementation (2017) [video]

84

4

A Unix Shell poster from 1983

74

5

Reverse Engineering of a Huawei P20 from China

72

6

Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security [video]

71

7

Bruce Schneier: “Click Here to Kill Everybody” [video]

60

8

Type-Driven Program Synthesis [video]

59

9

Up to 17 F-22 Raptors may have been damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Michael

47

10

Typical website in 2018

43

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Concepts to help developers master JavaScript

316

2

Mio – Cross-platform header-only C++11 library for memory-mapped file IO

208

3

Flight rules for Git

203

4

Falcon: A high-performance web server for Ruby, supporting HTTP/2 and HTTPS

187

5

RaptorJIT 1.0: Lua implementation for high-perf low-level system programming

156

6

Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty

127

7

Thefuck – Corrects your previous console command

112

8

A honeypot programmed in Micropython for the ESP8266

105

9

Formality – An efficient programming language and proof assistant

102

10

Chicago95 Linux Theme

92

Wikipedia [?]

1

525

2

180

3

Reservoir computing

99

4

Space Transportation System

87

5

39

6

List of people claimed to be Jesus

17

7

6

8

5

9

Oldest known case of forensic entomology from 1247

4

10

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

4

Blogs [?]

1

Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tech to Police

313

2

Hello P5.js Web Editor

194

3

The Joy of Haxe

160

4

Tesla Is Doing Much Better Than Headlines Suggest

97

5

What you can't say (2004)

90

6

Why Apple Eventually Lost Me and I’m Switching Back to Windows

76

7

No More Entrepreneurial “Struggle Porn”

76

8

Blockchain Is a Semantic Wasteland

67

9

Games Today Shut the Door to Tomorrow’s Devs

67

10

Mystery of the ketchup cups

64

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden features of Python

3

2

Is it possible to allow user to modify React app in a safe way?

3

3

iOS 12 Safari Bug: Returned Array References Can Link to the Same Memory Address

1

4

How and when to align to cache line size

1

Substack [?]

1

Crypto is caught in the trade war crossfire

2

2

Developers could be held accountable for publishing code that is misused

2