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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Story of a failed pentest

1147

2

Medium is a poor choice for blogging

909

3

Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

892

4

International System of Units overhauled in historic vote

834

5

GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working from Home

833

6

Build a do-it-yourself home air purifier for about $25

801

7

Big List of Naughty Strings

780

8

Infinite procedurally-generated city with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm

764

9

How Smart People Sabotage Their Success

737

10

Web.dev by Google

699

Top Ask HN

1

What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?

464

2

What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?

428

3

I've been a programmer for 6 years, and I can't solve basic CS problems

404

4

Why do we want to learn something new when we don't have time?

280

5

What was your best passive income in 2018?

246

6

Older textbooks/papers you consider classics still worth studying today?

237

7

Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?

228

8

Blind programmers, what can I do to make my code easier for you?

202

9

Is Google Compute down?

174

10

Does Shareware still work in 2018?

153

Top Show HN

1

WriteFreely – minimalist, federated blogging platform

337

2

Don't code your UI, draw it

302

3

Founders launching startups on Twitch

265

4

A JavaScript Handbook

239

5

HomelabOS – Ansible scripts to deploy self hosted cloud services

235

6

Gmail Classic – CSS for Reverting Gmail's New Look

226

7

FreePizza.io – free pizza for usergroups, meetups, hackathons, talks

221

8

Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code

217

9

Find a Study Buddy for your MOOC

217

10

TensorSpace.js – Neural network 3D visualization framework

167

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites

438

2

Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation

404

3

YouTube CEO calls EU’s proposed copyright regulation financially impossible

325

4

Surveillance Kills Freedom by Killing Experimentation

279

5

Google, Facebook, and Amazon benefit from an outdated definition of “monopoly”

255

6

Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users

247

7

A cheaper, smaller Raspberry Pi 3 is now available

220

8

A chemical so hot it destroys nerve endings – in a good way

185

9

Quietly, Japan has established itself as a power in the aerospace industry

178

10

New Study Details Toxic Particles Spewed by 3D Printers

146

News [?]

1

‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Computer Science Students

630

2

Companies struggling to fill jobs 'should try paying more,' Fed's Kashkari says

545

3

Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis

517

4

Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'

481

5

‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ Is a Love Letter to Amateur Cooks

415

6

Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal

406

7

Boeing Withheld Information on 737 Model, According to Safety Experts and Others

398

8

Oil Demand for Cars Is Already Falling

388

9

Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price

382

10

How one family built Qualtrics to an $8B exit

367

Scientific publications [?]

1

Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star

239

2

The Case Against Quantum Computing

138

3

Gradient Descent Finds Global Minima of Deep Neural Networks

133

4

Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees

128

5

How plants evolved to make ants their servants

88

6

Embracing the Laws of Physics: Three Reversible Models of Computation

70

7

IP Geolocation Through Reverse DNS

68

8

Revisiting Actor Programming in C++ (2015)

48

9

Trans-galactic streamers feeding most luminous galaxy in the universe

34

10

The complexity of UNO (2010)

34

Dev Blogs [?]

1

SpamAssassin is back

324

2

Mozilla Fights On For Net Neutrality

285

3

Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years

251

4

Bisected: The Unfortunate Reason Linux 4.20 Is Running Slower

227

5

Data Structure and Algorithms Interview Questions for Programmers

198

6

Night Sight: Seeing in the Dark on Pixel Phones

152

7

The rise of multivector DDoS attacks

112

8

C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof

112

9

Turning the CPU-GPU Hybrid System on Its Head

73

10

SSH Access through Cloudflare

68

Tech blogs [?]

1

A $6 Linux computer you might be able to write code for

11

2

Supreme Court Should Confirm Abstract Patents Don’t Need Trial to Be Invalid

7

3

Naples, Rome, Milan, Zen 4: An Interview with AMD CTO, Mark Papermaster

4

4

Apple Wins Stop Slavery Award from T Reuters Foundation for Supply Chain Efforts

4

5

Intel Cuts CPU Shipments by 2M, Motherboard Makers May Suffer – Report

4

6

Jony Ive’s latest design is the ultimate diamond ring – made only of diamond …

3

7

EFF and MuckRock Release Data from 200 Law Enforcement Agencies' ALPR Programs

3

8

Low-Energy ESP8266-Based Board Sleeps Like a Log Until Triggered

3

9

Tumblr for iOS mysteriously disappears from the App Store

3

10

FPGA Testbenches Made Easier

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Corretto – No-cost, multiplatform, developer-preview distribution of OpenJDK

377

2

Best practices for migrating an Oracle database to Amazon PostgreSQL

170

3

Amazon S3 Block Public Access: Protection for Your Accounts and Buckets

150

4

In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy

126

5

Amazon DynamoDB encrypts all customer data at rest

91

6

Introducing Amazon Corretto, a No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK with LTS

27

7

Microsoft Releases Guidelines for Developers of Conversational AI

21

8

Amazon Coretto – OpenJDK with No Cost LTS

16

9

Amazon Corretto

10

10

Introducing Amazon Corretto, a No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How Smart People Sabotage Their Success

737

2

Vue 3.0 Updates [slides]

292

3

The Experience Economy

53

4

End intellectual property

37

5

When no one retires

22

6

Tesla is pushing to achieve Model 3 production of 7,000 units per week

22

7

Musk’s Boring Company is launching DIY watchtowers with bricks from tunnel dirt

22

8

Vue 3.0 Updates

6

9

Is Clickbait Destroying Our General Intelligence?

5

10

Tesla Model 3 is starting to show some important flaws in cold weather

5

Science News [?]

1

Orangutans are the only great apes besides humans to ‘talk’ about the past

204

2

Tantalizing but preliminary evidence of a “brain microbiome”

192

3

Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover

166

4

New Algorithm Solves Cake-Cutting Problem (2016)

92

5

Crater under Greenland points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans

89

6

The Problem with Scientific Credit

53

7

Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’

50

8

An FDA for Algorithms?

47

9

Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover

35

10

The Doctor Who theme and beyond: female pioneers of electronic music

25

Social [?]

1

Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video]

211

2

UBlock-LLC taking code from ad blocker uBlock Origin without proper attribution

151

3

The Lost Art of Steam Heating (2017) [video]

134

4

An 1861 illustrated Japanese book on the American revolutionary war

103

5

ProtonMail: Alleged data breach was a “hoax and failed extortion attempt”

79

6

Sheryl Sandberg: I want to address some of the claims that have been made

58

7

Potential BGP hijack underway

28

8

MIT AI: Statistical Learning (Vladimir Vapnik)

24

9

Xbox 360 Emulation is here on the PC. The story of Xenia

22

10

Help me create a list of startups/projects working on climate change

15

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Big List of Naughty Strings

780

2

The C++ Build Process Explained

358

3

Typed-Html: Type Checked JSX for Rust

342

4

Intel Management Engine JTAG Proof of Concept

301

5

Golua – A Lua 5.3 engine implemented in Go

277

6

A web-based mission control framework by NASA

268

7

XSStrike: XSS detection suite

211

8

A Raft implementation in Haskell

159

9

Abusing C macros to render the Mandelbrot Set at compile-time

131

10

Shumway: Flash implementation in JavaScript

90

Wikipedia [?]

1

Evolved antenna

192

2

US Senate Candy Desk

128

3

Alchian–Allen effect

122

4

Drzymała's wagon

109

5

Stan Lee has died

60

6

52

7

Scunthorpe Problem

51

8

William Goldman, author and screenwriter of “The Princess Bride”, has died

32

9

Year 2038 problem

22

10

Post-quantum cryptography

20

Blogs [?]

1

Medium is a poor choice for blogging

909

2

My App Is Dead in the Water

369

3

Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists

237

4

End-to-end encryption does not prevent Facebook from accessing WhatsApp chats

173

5

A critique of Gmail's “smart replies”

146

6

Facebook is the new cigarettes

45

7

Things Rust doesn't let you do

45

8

Blockchain’s Hype Is Dying According to Corporate America’s Earnings Calls

41

9

Oasis confidential smart contract platform opens devnet

37

10

How Google is slowing innovation

37

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Lazy Loading React Components with React.Suspense

3

2

Slack and Stack Overflow for Teams

2

3

Lazy Loading React Components with React.Suspense

1

Substack [?]

1

Thirty Years After Manufacturing Consent, How Mass Media Keeps Thought Inbounds

25