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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption

779

2

Romania orders investigative journalists to disclose sources under GDPR

723

3

Building your color palette

705

4

Cloud Computing Without Containers

663

5

Making rain simulation as real as possible

632

6

The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images Online

624

7

VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape

577

8

The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection: Every Byte Explained

568

9

Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8

565

10

Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people

562

Top Ask HN

1

What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?

539

2

Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

422

3

How should a programming language accommodate disabled programmers?

173

4

Has anyone undergone stem cell treatment for auto-immune disease?

165

5

Has anyone managed to regain their attention span/ability to focus?

149

6

Help I owe over 100k in taxes after signing up for Stripe Atlas

138

7

Other online communities like HN?

138

8

Is it normal for VC to take a fee on exit?

128

9

Where to find someone to review my code?

123

10

What excites you most about Neuromorphic Hardware?

69

Top Show HN

1

TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages

607

2

Cruip – Free landing page templates for startups

222

3

Graph-based notebook for data scientists and researchers

171

4

Millow – Stay connected with your inner circle

159

5

Pushdata.io – Ultra simple time series data storage

108

6

100x Faster Slicing of SCAD Files for 3D Printing

103

7

Adios.ai – Stop email interruptions, receive emails 3 times a day

93

8

Predict how well people will react to your writing

84

9

Interactive implementation of the NIST Blockchain use case flow chart

82

10

MindForger Markdown IDE – Autolinking, MathJax Menu and CSV Export

72

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation

379

2

Researchers “see” through walls using ambient Wi-Fi signals and a smartphone

273

3

VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes

245

4

Healthcare.gov confirms hackers stole income, immigration and tax data

243

5

The DEA and ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights

242

6

A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at a stroke

236

7

Small robots may kill the tractor and make farming efficient

235

8

Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)

224

9

Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives [pdf]

224

10

China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk

196

News [?]

1

Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site

481

2

Gates Foundation spent $200M funding toilet research

457

3

Cancer-Linked Chemicals Manufactured by 3M Are Turning Up in Drinking Water

387

4

Sprint Is Throttling Skype, Study Finds

386

5

What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?

347

6

Experiment that ended in 1767 still linked to higher incomes, education levels

304

7

Rocket Launch in New Zealand Brings Quick, Cheap Space Access

291

8

Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations: NY and VA

271

9

Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue

266

10

Long-Awaited Study Results on Vitamin D and Fish Oil Supplements

264

Scientific publications [?]

1

Adversarial Examples That Fool Both Computer Vision and Time-Limited Humans

120

2

A faster, cheaper path to fusion energy

117

3

Toward an AI Physicist for Unsupervised Learning

111

4

Egypt's newly discovered tombs hold mummies, animal statues

84

5

Entombed: An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game

42

6

Novel Quantum Emitter Provides Key Building Block for a Quantum Internet

29

7

Recent Advances in Physical Reservoir Computing: A Review

24

8

Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials

17

9

Impact of Daylight Saving Time on the Clinical Laboratory

15

10

Simple Blockchain Scaling

12

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Cloud Computing Without Containers

663

2

U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves Are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service

269

3

A note to our employees

244

4

How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018: NLL edition

204

5

Ads just work, no matter what you think

184

6

Object-oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (2011)

149

7

Lawsuits Aim Billions in Fines at Equifax and Ad-Targeting Companies

118

8

How to Use Facebook Ads in the Search for a Missing Person

45

9

Apple's Hardware with T2 Security Chip Will Currently Block Linux from Booting

39

10

Compartmentalized computing with CLIP OS

30

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Announces 7nm Rome CPUs and MI60 GPUs

291

2

Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12 Gb DRAM Chips

185

3

Why intel processors draw more power than expected: TDP and Turbo explained

91

4

8

5

Australia Is the Testbed for the World's Most Extreme Copyright Blocks

5

6

Spot the Surveillance: A VR Experience for Keeping an Eye on Big Brother

4

7

Is Apple ceasing to report unit sales because the iPhone has peaked?

4

8

AMD Unveils ‘Chiplet’ Design Approach: 7nm Zen 2 Cores Meet 14 Nm I/O Die

4

9

EFF's Newest Annual Report

4

10

Intel Goes for 48-Cores: Cascade-AP with Multi-Chip Package Coming Soon

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

New Lower-Cost, AMD-Powered M5a and R5a EC2 Instances

244

2

Re-affirming Long-Term Support for Java in Amazon Linux

137

3

AWS Price List API Update – New Query and Metadata Functions – AWS News Blog

4

4

Amazon API Gateway Launches the Serverless Developer Portal

3

5

Understanding the Data Science Life Cycle

3

6

AWS Object2Vec: Deep Learning for objects such as customers, products, sentences

3

7

Implementing Serverless Video Subtitles

3

8

Migrating Oracle Autonomous Transactions to PostgreSQL

2

9

The Big 9: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

2

10

Microsoft Research’s Project Prism: A Low-Cost AR Mod

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

All U.S. National Parks Are Free to Enter on Sunday

278

2

Apple’s Social Network

233

3

Specification gaming examples in AI

134

4

How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom (2017)

121

5

2018 was a terrible year for Swiss glaciers

111

6

Before envelopes, people protected messages with letterlocking

82

7

Tesla (TSLA) surpasses BMW's valuation as one soars and the other slips

52

8

Researchers study the genetics and behavior of elephants born without tusks

44

9

Can Hong Kong Sell Its Residents on Watery Graves?

44

10

9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

26

Science News [?]

1

How Dad's Stresses Get Passed Along to Offspring

387

2

Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem

343

3

Two major research funders to bar grantees from publishing in hybrid journals

186

4

Neutrino tomography of Earth

149

5

To John Wheeler, the race to explain time was personal

118

6

How Biologists Are Creating Life-Like Cells from Scratch

116

7

Algorithms Designed to Fight Poverty Can Actually Make It Worse

90

8

New Proof Shows Infinite Curves Come in Two Types

90

9

Brain activity pattern may be early sign of schizophrenia

77

10

How Did Insect Metamorphosis Evolve? (2012)

56

Social [?]

1

Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people

562

2

The History of Unix, by Rob Pike [video]

439

3

A story about Upwork and freelancers

342

4

Zig: software should be perfect [video]

218

5

Why I Quit Being a Therapist [video]

123

6

Can we rule out near-term AGI? [video]

72

7

EXploit X: “Give Me Root” [video]

72

8

Limbo – Commodore 64 [video]

63

9

Die Threads: Python async code [video]

59

10

GitHub: You've been asking for it. You know the issue(s). Delete 'em

53

Github repos and gists [?]

1

VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape

577

2

Spectre.css – A Lightweight, Responsive and Modern CSS Framework

220

3

About Database Connection Pool Sizing

194

4

6502 source code for BBC Micro game Crazee Rider from 1987

165

5

iSH – A Linux shell on iOS

153

6

Redbird: A modern reverse proxy for Node

136

7

Mundane: Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL

120

8

Digispark ATTiny85 USB key “rubber ducky” clone

107

9

Owl: Parser generator for visibly pushdown languages

89

10

BigInt: Arbitrary precision integers in JavaScript

75

Wikipedia [?]

1

95

2

Brouwer–Hilbert controversy

95

3

The Negro Motorist Green Book

36

4

Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass”, was 80 years ago tonight

18

5

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

18

6

Traitorous Eight

13

7

Non-transitive dice

11

8

Earth–Moon–Earth communication

9

9

Shadow Network (China)

4

10

Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture

3

Blogs [?]

1

Why do all websites look the same?

269

2

Quitting Amazon 5 months after I started

201

3

Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them

199

4

The End Is Near for Mobile Apps?

144

5

Some notes on running new software in production

84

6

Logo Adventure for C64 Terrapin Logo

63

7

The impossibility of intelligence explosion

44

8

Why Angular Made Me Quit Web Dev

43

9

Building real-time messaging server in Go

40

10

Confessions of US Postal Worker: “We deliver Amazon packages until we drop dead”

31

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Where would I use a bitwise operator in JavaScript? Ask Question

2

Substack [?]