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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
1798
2
We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
1652
3
Backdoor in event-stream library dependency
1034
4
Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web
959
5
A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics
937
6
Go 2, here we come
816
7
I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
805
8
Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup
777
9
How to balance full-time work with creative projects
760
10
Open Source is Not About You
734
Top Ask HN
1
What is the best online course you've ever taken?
211
2
Have you ever inherited a codebase nobody on the team could understand?
185
3
As a programmer, how do you know if you're a good one or not?
182
4
What's your routine/ways to keep being productive day by day?
85
5
Who was your most impressive hire?
74
6
How to learn a language on the side in 2018?
38
7
Anyone in GM IT scared about the layoffs?
37
8
What is your 2019 book reading list?
36
9
What heuristic made a big difference to your life?
35
10
GraphQL or REST?
35
Top Show HN
1
Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary
436
2
Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software
290
3
End-to-end LTE example with Docker and emulated radio
210
4
Tabulator – Easy-to-use JavaScript library for interactive tables
205
5
An open-source collaborative whiteboard
185
6
A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats
134
7
An experimental code search engine
88
8
Asdfasdf.co – emails from the internet's gibberish form fills
78
9
Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot
76
10
Arcentry – Create Interactive Cloud Diagrams
75
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
805
2
Monarch butterfly populations in U.S. west are down an order of magnitude
382
3
Google accused of GDPR privacy violations by seven countries
250
4
Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection
240
5
The Science Is Clear: Dirty Farm Water Is Making Us Sick
176
6
Sennheiser Headset Software Could Allow Man-In-the-Middle SSL Attacks
171
7
Asana raises $50M at a $1.5B valuation
165
8
Researchers have significantly increased the scope of the Rowhammer threat
157
9
Mitochondrial DNA can come from both parents
142
10
Airbnb Backyard will sell houses in 2019
139
News [?]
1
I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier
574
2
Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship
569
3
Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Real
490
4
The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
418
5
Marriott hack hits 500M Starwood guests
408
6
Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams from Secret China Project
364
7
'Talent Wants Transit': Companies Near Transportation Gaining the Upper Hand
328
8
Paying for Popularity Can Be Fraud
281
9
The Octopus Is Smart as Heck, But Why?
280
10
Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen?
273
Scientific publications [?]
1
New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors
216
2
Rare and diverse giant viruses unexpectedly found in a forest soil ecosystem
110
3
Amazon May Be Hiding Its Plans to Test New Wireless Tech
71
4
A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners
64
5
Training ResNet-50 on ImageNet in 35 Epochs Using Second-Order Optimization
49
6
Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion in social networks (2014)
43
7
Tests of General Relativity
42
8
Old Lunar Data Gets New Life, with Help from Seismologists
25
9
Atomic Clocks Make for Longer-Lasting Qubits
21
10
How TV-B-Gone’s Mitch Altman Created the ArduTouch Music Synthesizer
14
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Half of All Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock
166
2
The Bare Minimum You Should Do to Protect Your Family's Data
148
3
Twitter’s Kafka adoption story
137
4
Learning to Predict Depth on the Pixel 3 Phones
130
5
Cloud Source Repositories
83
6
L4Drop: XDP DDoS Mitigations
38
7
Apple entrepreneur camp (for WLO)
34
8
Why Don't They Trust Us?
34
9
Apple Entrepreneurship Camp for Women
29
10
Apple Entrepreneur Camp
25
Tech blogs [?]
1
Soft Silicone Pneumatics Are 3D-printed in a Tub of Gel
95
2
A Sub-$1000, Non-X86 Motherboard
24
3
EFF to Court: Remedy for Bad Content Moderation Isn’t Government Control
14
4
Questions We Should Ask About Facebook’s Smear Campaign Against Its Critics
8
5
Sci-Hub, Scientific Journals, and the Argument Over Paywalls
8
6
EFF Asks Court to Unseal Secret Wiretap of Encrypted Facebook Messenger Calls
5
7
Apple Music to Launch on Amazon's Echo Devices the Week of December 17
4
8
Before the Internet: MUDPIE
3
9
Sci-Hub: Breaking Down the Paywalls
3
10
Shushing Sonic Booms: NASA’s Supersonic X-Plane to Take Flight in 2021
3
FAANG+ [?]
1
Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers
686
2
AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites
598
3
New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
480
4
EC2 Instances Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors
420
5
Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing
368
6
AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
319
7
Amazon Timestream – Fast, scalable, fully managed time series database
285
8
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database
283
9
Amazon Textract – Extract text and data from virtually any document
229
10
Amazon DynamoDB Transactions
173
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth
441
2
Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple
119
3
Smoking Banana Peels Is the Greatest Drug Hoax of All Time
90
4
Bee-brained
55
5
Some species of birds like to rub themselves with ants (2017)
41
6
Rivian unveils all-electric pickup truck with unbelievable specs
32
7
Elon Musk Wants Tesla Gigafactory Employees to Live on Site in Mobile Homes
18
8
The logic of Buddhist philosophy goes beyond simple truth
7
9
GM kills the Chevy Volt, shuts down factories, but accelerates EV investment
6
10
Sci-Hub blocked in Russia following a complaint from Springer
6
Science News [?]
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Designing cities to counter loneliness? Let's explore the possibilities
156
2
Why Don’t We Forget How to Ride a Bike?
141
3
The Frightening Power of Ransomware Done Right
111
4
Intermittent fasting: No advantage over conventional weight loss diets
93
5
Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution's Speed
90
6
A state variable for crumpled thin sheets
85
7
A lost language encoded in Inca cords
66
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Bigger brains are smarter, but not by much
61
9
A Glimpse into the Heart of a Quasar
60
10
Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary
55
Social [?]
1
East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (1985)
246
2
Clojure REBL [video]
205
3
Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images with $10 USB SDR Device (2014) [video]
195
4
Sorry, upgrading your Dropbox Business plan will take 11 months
174
5
Maybe Not [video]
160
6
But why is a sphere's surface area four times its shadow? [video]
141
7
James Mickens' USENIX Speech [video]
128
8
Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA
128
9
Distributed Erlang: From Datacenter to Planetary Scale Applications [video]
120
10
Party REPL – A multi-player REPL built for pair-programming [video]
111
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Backdoor in event-stream library dependency
1034
2
Open Source is Not About You
734
3
Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
338
4
If it's not fun anymore, you get nothing from maintaining a popular package
317
5
Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
311
6
Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm
228
7
Guessing the pressed keyboard keys by analyzing the audio from the microphone
194
8
Aminal: Golang terminal emulator from scratch
182
9
Learn how to bring animation to your web projects
146
10
Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go
144
Wikipedia [?]
1
Direct Democracy in Switzerland
84
2
Shoelace formula
73
3
Slow television
36
4
Oil drilling: Wrong coordinate system creates lake 1,300 feet deep (1980)
32
5
Cosmic latte – Color of the universe
7
6
Pharo (Smalltalk)
6
7
Wirth's law
5
8
List of Cognitive Biases
5
9
Copyleft
4
10
Jack the Baboon
3
Blogs [?]
1
We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
1652
2
The greatest sales deck I've ever seen (2016)
395
3
The deepest problem with deep learning
149
4
Flutter on desktop, a real competitor to Electron
122
5
Microsoft is Dead (2007)
111
6
Announcing the Winners of the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
92
7
Ways to Build Virality into Your Product
63
8
Today’s JavaScript trash fire and pile on
52
9
10 services web developers should know
42
10
You should never spend $825K on a domain – but here’s why I’m glad I did
36
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why is 2 * (i * i) faster than 2 * i * i in Java?
424
2
How to run a program without an operating system?
394
3
Why is “2 * (i * i)” faster than “2 * i * i”?
6
4
Why is “2 * (i * i)” faster than “2 * i * i” in Java?
6
5
Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?
5
6
Count and sum an iterable in a single pass? Use complex numbers. (Python)
1
Substack [?]