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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

iPhones are allergic to helium

1289

2

Apple's New Map

1250

3

Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app

1213

4

We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them

970

5

With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

932

6

Compare career levels across companies

832

7

An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake from 1974

791

8

Sales mistakes that software engineers make

777

9

My somewhat complete salary history as a software engineer

726

10

JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works

689

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (November 2018)

539

2

Companies using Racket?

188

3

I'm just a programmer worried about climate change, how can I help?

114

4

What makes for a world-class software engineer?

110

5

Who wants to be hired? (November 2018)

85

6

How to stop my greed for money?

77

7

Is it worth getting into distributed systems after 12 years full stack?

77

8

Paid app to free and Patreon?

59

9

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2018)

55

10

Is FaceID harmfull for your eyes?

54

Top Show HN

1

SQL Trainer – Learn SQL by doing live data exercises

303

2

Jobs Done – A ritual app for ending the work day inspired by Deep Work

263

3

Space invaders, but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm

253

4

Not Depressing News

209

5

Above-average products selling for below-average prices

183

6

Vespene – My new Python CI/CD and automation server written in Django

180

7

Technical note app that builds a knowledge base

180

8

Detect which iOS devices are used on your site

166

9

Stay with founders in San Francisco

154

10

Basilica – word2vec for anything

153

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID

274

2

Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone

218

3

Wisconsin’s $4.1B Foxconn factory boondoggle

210

4

Apple finally announces an overhauled Mac mini

208

5

An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Travelers in the EU

203

6

Notorious patent enforcement entity values its entire portfolio at $2, folds

200

7

Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated hack that stole aviation secrets

195

8

Neo4j nabs $80M Series E as graph database tech flourishes

189

9

Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability

187

10

Edward Snowden says a report critical to an NSA lawsuit is authentic

166

News [?]

1

Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app

1213

2

Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds

511

3

Kids’ Apps Are Crammed With Ads

495

4

When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves

477

5

The SOS in my Halloween decorations

394

6

Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill

386

7

Google staff walk out over women's treatment

383

8

Tim Berners-Lee says tech giants may have to be split up

372

9

Goldman Sachs Ensnarled in Vast 1MDB Fraud Scandal

354

10

Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale

314

Scientific publications [?]

1

Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort-Of Cheap

444

2

What Does It Take to Keep a Classic Mainframe Alive?

102

3

A Common Derivation for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms [pdf]

93

4

Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?

90

5

Towards Understanding Linear Word Analogies

70

6

DNA Is a Fractal Antenna in Electromagnetic Fields (2011)

58

7

Smell and behavior: The scents of taking action

45

8

The three princes of Serendip: Notes on a mysterious phenomenon

45

9

Swiss experiment with sound to make cheese tastier

40

10

Study challenges conventional wisdom of how cell membranes work

38

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The D Language Front-End Merged Into GCC 9

269

2

Available on Google Cloud: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

167

3

Making the GPL more scary

134

4

Introducing AdaNet: Fast and Flexible AutoML with Learning Guarantees

103

5

SMS Phishing and Cardless ATM = Profit

52

6

How Streak built a graph database on Cloud Spanner to wrangle billions of emails

38

7

Brave Browser is taking the web by storm

33

8

Top 12 Things That Destroy Developer Productivity

32

9

Equifax has chosen Experian for credit monitoring, and will share your info

31

10

Android is ten years old

21

Tech blogs [?]

1

The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News

271

2

15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620

183

3

The 2018 MacBook Air is the iPhone X’s ASP strategy all over again

114

4

90

5

EFF Wins DMCA Exemption Petitions for Tinkering and Repair

67

6

Google Chrome’s Users Take a Back Seat to Its Bottom Line

61

7

New iPad Pro Has Comparable Performance to 2018 15“ MacBook Pro in Benchmarks

56

8

MDMA therapy achieves astounding 76% success rate for treating PTSD

49

9

The AMD Threadripper 2 CPU Review: The 24-Core 2970WX and 12-Core 2920X Tested

4

10

Snowden Files Declaration in NSA Spying Case Confirming Authenticity of Report

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

480

2

Apple T2 Security Chip: Security Overview [pdf]

362

3

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

93

4

84

5

New MacBook Air with Retina Display, no TouchBar but TouchID

17

6

Live Apple 30 October event [starts at 10 AM EST]

4

7

Mac mini – Technical Specs

4

8

Disabling Intel Hyper-Threading Technology on Amazon Linux

4

9

Amazon RDS now supports MySQL 8.0

2

10

Look at the Passive Aggressive First Bullet Point of This Amazon Listing

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

IBM’s Old Playbook

534

2

Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsholders Website Too

455

3

Copyright Office Adds DMCA Exemption for 'Abandoned' Online Games

325

4

Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)

248

5

Massive octopus nursery found in deep sea

151

6

How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds

147

7

Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of pollutants

140

8

In Medieval Europe, No Outfit Was Complete Without a Personal Eating Knife

132

9

A Fetus Can Turn to Stone in Its Mother’s Body and Go Undiscovered for Decades

113

10

Soviet Children’s Books That Broke the Rules of Propaganda

70

Science News [?]

1

Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice

606

2

Protect the last of the wild

218

3

Chemists thrilled by speedy atomic structures

123

4

Machine learning spots natural selection at work in human genome

119

5

Dissecting the Bloodthirsty Bliss of Death Metal

103

6

Drug cocktail almost doubles lifespan of worms

98

7

Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole

89

8

Surprise graphene discovery could unlock secrets of superconductivity

71

9

What’s Wrong with Bananas

69

10

Redefining the Kilogram

61

Social [?]

1

JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works

689

2

GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow

113

3

Post-mortem: MRI disables every iOS device in facility

66

4

Starlink network topology simulations and predictions

34

5

Yayoi Kusama: Earth is a Polka Dot (2015) [video]

34

6

Google Pixel Buyer: FedEx lost shipment, Google won't send me a replacement

31

7

If you want my money, you’ll have to answer to these four questions

22

8

CVE-2018-4407 Vid: crash any macOS High Sierra or iOS 11 device on the same WiFi

20

9

OOP Is Dead, Long Live Data-Oriented Design [video]

20

10

Post-mortem: MRI disables every iOS device in facility

19

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Colorizing and restoring old images with deep learning

665

2

Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool

455

3

Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD

402

4

Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks

314

5

ASP.NET Core 3.0 will only run on .NET Core

178

6

Carlo – Web rendering surface for Node applications

177

7

C++17 constexpr Compile-time Ray Tracer (2017)

155

8

A List of Recommender Systems and Resources

139

9

TensorFlow Code for Google Research's BERT: Pre-Training Method for NLP Tasks

129

10

CFDPython: A sequence of Jupyter notebooks featuring "12 Steps to Navier-Stokes"

126

Wikipedia [?]

1

Solar storm of 1859

109

2

81

3

Kessler Syndrome

63

4

Machine Identification Code

62

5

Coffman engine starter

58

6

Phillis Wheatley

50

7

Sparse Distributed Memory

24

8

12

9

Barometric light

12

10

Fixed price of Coca-Cola from 1886 to 1959

8

Blogs [?]

1

Tailwind: style your site without writing any CSS

208

2

October Brings Node.js 10.x to LTS and Node.js 11 to Current

162

3

Transforming Wikipedia into a cultural knowledge quiz

132

4

You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re Managing Writers

97

5

An iOS dev's intro to graphics, and a graphics engineer's intro to ARKit

74

6

A Big LITTLE Problem: A Tale of Big.LITTLE Gone Wrong

39

7

VueJS cheat sheet

38

8

How we designed the software for the Brex rewards platform

37

9

Practical Apache Spark in 10 Minutes. Part 7 – GraphX and Neo4j

24

10

Berkeley White Paper Circle – Hybrid Blockchain

17

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the difference between 'git pull' and 'git fetch'?

2

2

How to create a setlist where no two consecutive songs are in the same key

1

3

Are the reverse 'for' loops quicker?

1

Substack [?]

1

Bitcoin is more transparent than the Federal Reserve

2

2

The return of open source software

1

3

Gifting crypto to politicians

1