Go dark
Top HN Stories
[from
Nov 19, 2018
to
Nov 26, 2018
)
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
W10
W11
W12
W13
W14
W15
W16
W17
W18
W19
W20
W21
W22
W23
W24
W25
W26
W27
W28
W29
W30
W31
W32
W33
W34
W35
W36
W37
W38
W39
W40
W41
W42
W43
W44
W45
W46
W47
W48
W49
W50
W51
W52
Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Thank you to dang and sctb
950
2
Boss as a Service – Hire a boss, get stuff done
917
3
If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
855
4
How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
704
5
Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research
697
6
Dive – A tool for exploring each layer in a Docker image
684
7
The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died
680
8
Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts
662
9
LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
619
10
AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking
576
Top Ask HN
1
Best Command-Line Applications?
634
2
Is there a better way to document complex software architectures?
406
3
Have you ever regretted working on a product?
371
4
Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?
367
5
What are you thankful for?
304
6
Resources for introverted devs to learn workplace politics?
299
7
Online banks where I can open account worldwide?
233
8
How can I learn to read mathematical notation?
212
9
Resources for blind developers and sysadmins?
197
10
Starting a career in security at 40?
190
Top Show HN
1
Self-Driving Pi Car
304
2
Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcut for iOS 12
253
3
PowerPoint slide builder with handwriting
163
4
Share one-liner command snippets
145
5
SkillUpper – practice coding interview questions step-by-step
143
6
All-pair similarity search on millions of sets in Python and on laptop
123
7
Easy-to-use curl command to send email notifications
107
8
Twiverse – Find Twitter users and get more followers
93
9
Funky – Easier, flexible, and more interactive shell functions
78
10
Scatterstocks – visualize the impact of news on stock prices
77
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
619
2
Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details
521
3
How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request
503
4
A small French privacy ruling could remake adtech
250
5
Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
229
6
Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI
190
7
Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio is worried about AI’s future
185
8
Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chinese ownership
182
9
The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really?
153
10
CV Compiler is a robot that fixes your resume to make you more competitive
152
News [?]
1
A debt-collection machine that’s chewing up small businesses across America
450
2
The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history
418
3
Dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction
354
4
NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say
347
5
No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,250
327
6
China blacklists millions from booking flights as 'social credit' introduced
306
7
The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities
270
8
Some Amazon employees bought NYC condos before news of HQ2 location emerged
267
9
Facebook policy chief admits hiring PR firm to attack George Soros
245
10
A remote UK community living off-grid
244
Scientific publications [?]
1
The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson (2015)
128
2
Scientists find remains of huge ancient herbivore
54
3
The taming of the dog, cow, horse, pig and rabbit
39
4
Swarmlike collective behavior in bicycling
37
5
Superfluid Transport in Quantum Spin Chains
14
6
Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere hit new high
12
7
What Caused the Apollo 13 Accident?
10
8
Scientists explain how wombats drop cubed poop
6
9
NetScatter: Enabling Large-Scale Backscatter Networks
6
10
A Microprocessor in 65nm CMOS for Programmable In-Memory Computing
5
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup
570
2
Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
267
3
Archiving web sites
170
4
The EU Terrorist Content Regulation – a threat to the ecosystem and user rights
116
5
Ford Eyes Use of Customers’ Personal Data to Boost Profits
112
6
Fast Google Fonts with Cloudflare Workers
43
7
USPS Site Exposed Data on 60M Users
18
8
Poke-a-hole and friends (2009)
14
9
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Consensus Algorithms
13
10
USPS Site Exposed Data on 60M Users
11
Tech blogs [?]
1
World's first full-body medical scanner generates astonishing 3D images
22
2
EFF Asks Zuckerberg to Provide Mechanism to Appeal Censorship on Facebook
7
3
China Pushes Deeper with DRAM Anti-Monopoly Probe
5
4
The End of Trust [McSweeney's 54]
2
5
Tumblr Removed from Apple App Store for Serving Child Pornography
2
6
Dad’s Custom Xbox Adaptive Controller Build for His Child
2
7
Arm Delivers on Cortex A76 Promises: What It Means for 2019 Devices
2
8
‘The End of Trust’ – On Sale in Bookstores and Free to Download Now
2
9
Newly discovered region of the brain could be part of what makes us unique
1
10
Apple Reportedly Plans to Cut Price of iPhone XR in Japan Due to Poor Sales
1
FAANG+ [?]
1
Amazon Rekognition updates face detection, analysis and recognition capabilities
51
2
Predictive Scaling for Amazon EC2, Powered by Machine Learning
29
3
Building an Android App with AWS Amplify
14
4
Python 3.7 now a supported Lambda runtime
7
5
AWS Resource Access Manager – Cross-Account Resource Sharing
7
6
Password-less sign-in for Microsoft accounts using FIDO2
6
7
Access Your Amazon Aurora Serverless Database with the New Data API (Beta)
5
8
Access Your Amazon Aurora Serverless Database with the New Data API (Beta)
4
9
Amazon CloudWatch Introduces Automatic Dashboards
3
10
Use the AWS DMS to Stream Change Data to Kinesis Data Streams
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
704
2
For Decades, Southern States Saw Thanksgiving as an Act of Northern Aggression
157
3
Container Linux on the Desktop [slides]
126
4
A Secret Code on Madrid Security Bollards
77
5
Keeping Track of the Weird Stuff We Send into Space
21
6
Victorian Culinary Trading Cards
20
7
Cheese Buried with Mummies
5
8
Why your mental map of the world is wrong
5
9
MPAA: Making All Domain WHOIS Data Public Will Advance Privacy
5
10
TorrentGalaxy Aims to Bridge the Gap Between Torrents and Streaming
4
Science News [?]
1
Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research
697
2
Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts
662
3
Italy’s olive crisis intensifies as deadly tree disease spreads
373
4
Swathing is going out of fashion, as most farmers desiccate to ripen their crops
206
5
A Binary Star Is About to Go Supernova and Could Produce a Gamma-Ray Burst
178
6
Architects have a lot to learn from the sound engineering of the ancients
138
7
4,000-year-old termite mounds found in Brazil are visible from space
136
8
The spread of low-credibility content by social bots
120
9
World’s Oldest Fossils Now Appear to Be Squished Rocks
75
10
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Infographics
73
Social [?]
1
The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York”
550
2
Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome
461
3
Advanced Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning
166
4
Why does London's Moorgate tube station have a mix of logo signage?
150
5
Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture (1985) [video]
142
6
Gabor Maté on Addiction to Ideology and Social Media [video]
125
7
The Shinkansen Story [video]
113
8
Falcon Heavy Model – Flight 1 [video]
102
9
Making transparent wood [video]
89
10
The Computer Hack That Saved Apollo 14 (2017) [video]
83
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Dive – A tool for exploring each layer in a Docker image
684
2
A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface
400
3
A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language
320
4
Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers
298
5
JAB Code – A high-capacity 2D color bar code
170
6
Hyperscript Tagged Markup: JSX alternative using standard tagged templates
146
7
How much bandwidth does the L2 have to give, anyway?
143
8
Real-time 3D Face Reconstruction
126
9
Goboy: Multi-Platform Nintendo Game Boy Color Emulator Written in Go
125
10
Relit: Typed Literal Macros for Reason
123
Wikipedia [?]
1
Sousveillance
154
2
Airglow
79
3
Induction of regular languages
44
4
Space Infrastructure Servicing
24
5
THX 1138
13
6
The Abilene Paradox
11
7
Rabin-Karp Algorithm for finding matching substrings in text
10
8
PCRE: Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
7
9
The Limits to Growth (1972)
6
10
MONIAC Analog Computer
5
Blogs [?]
1
Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly
307
2
Casey Neistat’s Viral Marketing Strategy
117
3
Coding Interview Preparation Bootcamp
103
4
Introducing Conjure, Palantir’s Toolchain for HTTP/JSON APIs
61
5
The art of debugging – or how it took me 3 years to fix my PC
41
6
The Battle for Amazon HQ2 Was a Con
38
7
Scalable agent alignment via reward modeling - DeepMind Safety Research
16
8
Software Patents Considered Harmful
13
9
Boost productive through team morale
11
10
Top reasons your development team can fail
9
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Python: Named regrxp group “(?Pregexp)”: what does “P” stand for?
3
2
Accessing Shadow DOM Tree with Selenium
2
Substack [?]