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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

IBM acquires Red Hat

2611

2

Carbon Removal Technologies

1187

3

Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms

1064

4

iPhones are hard to use

976

5

In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Electronics Is Legal

924

6

Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim

819

7

768

8

Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem

714

9

Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”

697

10

The Periodic Table of Data Structures [pdf]

598

Top Ask HN

1

How to get started developing with FPGA?

247

2

How do you monitor your websites?

143

3

Lost $10k as my email was hacked. Any ways to recover it?

109

4

What's your favorite code practice site?

109

5

How do I stop being resentful towards other devs

91

6

4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?

83

7

Is Google is broken for discovery?

82

8

What is the one habit that you adopted and it changed your life?

79

9

How do you pay remote employees in different countries?

73

10

Best alternate client to web-based Gmail? Now that it sucks

51

Top Show HN

1

Websites in 2018

595

2

Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview

484

3

Algojammer – an experimental Python code editor inspired by Bret Victor

309

4

TeXMe – Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX Documents

209

5

A note-taking web app that won't ever betray you

156

6

Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

151

7

I wrote a BASIC interpreter in Go

144

8

Relica – Cross-platform local, remote, and multi-cloud file backups

132

9

Turtle.audio – a music sequencer inspired by turtle graphics

126

10

I made a script to generate self-signed SSL certs for local development

107

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”

697

2

Night Sight for Pixel phones

455

3

List of 600 free online courses launched by 190 universities

298

4

Turns Out Wearing a Hi-Vis Vest Gets You into Everything for Free

274

5

DRM for chargers? Google Pixel 3 locks fast Qi charging to its own stand

274

6

256

7

Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of ‘Rift 2’ headset

225

8

Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare

200

9

Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k

187

10

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket seems to be a hit with satellite companies

184

News [?]

1

Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim

819

2

Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months

535

3

A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley

527

4

AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of Chinese spy chip story

461

5

Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a dermatology journal

449

6

For back pain, the subtle moves of the Feldenkrais Method can help some people

347

7

IBM Nears Deal to Acquire Red Hat

294

8

How a Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Exploited Android Phones to Steal Millions

268

9

Texans say voting machines changing straight-ticket choices

266

10

My phone is spying on me, so I decided to spy on it

261

Scientific publications [?]

1

768

2

301

3

Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study

234

4

Person Retrieval in Surveillance Video using Height, Color and Gender

45

5

90% of apps on Google Play contain third-party trackers

22

6

Automatic Compilation of Julia Programs and Generic ML Models to Cloud TPUs

7

7

Compiling Julia to TPUs [pdf]

7

8

Automatic Full Compilation of Julia Programs and ML Models to Cloud TPUs

7

9

Memory Model Verification at the Trisection of Software, Hardware, ISA (2017)

6

10

Location of large mystery source of banned ozone depleting substance uncovered

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Top lawyers beaten by legal AI

237

2

The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA (Variable-Length Array) Free

216

3

Mozilla Announces Experimental Partnership with ProtonVPN

167

4

Why Netflix Rolled Its Own Node.js Functions-As-a-Service Runtime

139

5

As a female engineer, I am not diversity

104

6

Linus Torvalds is back in charge of Linux

75

7

DevOops, some common anti-patterns

74

8

Btrfs to Ship Multiple Performance Improvements in the Next Linux Kernel

12

9

Linus Torvalds Shows His New Polite Side While Pointing Out Bad Kernel Code

11

10

AMD Inches Up Server Share on the Way to Rome

11

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Responds to Intel's 9th Gen Benchmarks

96

2

The BNC Connector and How It Got That Way

71

3

Sidney Darlington, inventor of the Darlington transistor

44

4

VoiceOver bug lets hackers bypass lockscreen, view and send iPhone photos

23

5

Psilocybin therapy for depression granted Breakthrough Therapy status by FDA

23

6

IBM open sources Mac-at-IBM code

9

7

Corporate Speech Police Are Not the Answer to Online Hate

9

8

SSD Prices Could Drop Over 50 Percent in 2019

8

9

That Time Atari Cracked the Nintendo Entertainment System

8

10

Appeals Court Tells Georgia: State Code Can’t Be Copyrighted

7

FAANG+ [?]

1

New AWS EC2 / EBS Pricing Calculator

5

2

Microsoft Earnings Release FY19 Q1

4

3

Amazon RDS now supports MySQL 8.0

3

4

AI for Imperfect-Information Games: Beating Top Humans in No-Limit Poker

2

5

AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface

2

6

Amazon EC2 Now Offers On-Demand Capacity Reservations

2

7

New Garage Project Earth Lens Pairs AI with Aerial Imagery

1

8

Brief Narrative of Enterprise IT Transformation Anti-Patterns

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts

161

2

Eugene Shoemaker Is Still the Only Man Buried on the Moon

141

3

How Curry Became a Japanese Naval Tradition

115

4

How a Brewer and the Government Killed Colombia’s Ancestral Drink (2017)

87

5

Study Links Uber and Lyft to Increase in U.S. Traffic Deaths

71

6

The Problem with Facebook and Virtual Reality

69

7

VW CEO says they’ll have ‘EVs as good as Tesla’s for half the price by 2020’

42

8

How to stop saying “um”, “ah”, and “you know”

24

9

Model 3 best-selling car by revenue delivers surprisingly high gross margin

14

10

Crowdsourced database of Augmented Reality developers and makers

10

Science News [?]

1

First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings

415

2

“Stress Hormone” Cortisol Linked to Early Toll on Thinking Ability

373

3

Perceptual Illusions

184

4

Electrical properties of dendrites help explain our brain’s computing power

180

5

‘Two-faced’ membrane can create electricity from salty and fresh water

156

6

Why Are Japan’s Cherry Blossom Trees Blooming in Fall?

142

7

How to build a Moon base

131

8

How working memory gets you through the day

109

9

A Proof About Where Symmetries Can’t Exist

102

10

Lowly Moss-Like Plant Seems to Copy Cannabis

94

Social [?]

1

Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem

714

2

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video]

265

3

How I made my own RFID tag [video]

176

4

Compiling to Categories (2017) [video]

84

5

Gab.com banned from PayPal

81

6

The Future of Java SE [video]

76

7

ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector [video]

67

8

Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account

63

9

What are some Unix design decisions that proved to be wrong or short sighted?

48

10

Joyent drops Gab's web hosting

36

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland

378

2

What I Learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD

292

3

TypeScript support added to Create React App

280

4

Gophish: An open source phishing toolkit

235

5

Proposal: Go 2 transition

206

6

Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family

167

7

C++: Associative map containers with compile-time lookup

155

8

Up: tool for writing Linux pipes in a terminal-based UI interactively

122

9

Django zero-downtime migrations for Postgres that respect database locks

122

10

First-Class Automatic Differentiation in Swift

111

Wikipedia [?]

1

Raising of Chicago

216

2

Friendly Floatees

216

3

97

4

23

5

22

6

Gauge blocks, a system for producing precision lengths

12

7

Timsort: Fastest Sorting algorithm

10

8

Antikythera Mechanism

9

9

7

10

Nifty Fifty – 50 Blue-chip stocks from the 60s and 70s

6

Blogs [?]

1

Do the Rich Capture All the Gains from Economic Growth?

329

2

What I Learned From Making Hot Sauce at Scale in China

281

3

How to Raise Money (2013)

168

4

Open-Sourcing Subzero: Square’s Bitcoin Cold Storage Solution

165

5

The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code

140

6

Why I switched sides: From bootstrapping to VC

61

7

I Know the Salaries of Thousands of Tech Employees

50

8

The Ad-Based Internet Is a Threat Against Human Rights and Democracy

37

9

Why the NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code

33

10

No More “Struggle Porn”

27

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi

19

2

How does newly introduced arrays parallelprefix in java-8 work

1

3

How to get terminating or terminated event,when UWP app is closed by the system?

1

Substack [?]