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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Quora User Data Compromised

1254

2

Goodbye, EdgeHTML

1178

3

Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver

1081

4

Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

1061

5

JIRA is an antipattern

1012

6

Facial recognition: It’s time for action

877

7

Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI

874

8

Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

824

9

Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says

781

10

A well-known URL for changing passwords

749

Top Ask HN

1

What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?

1322

2

What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?

687

3

Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

478

4

Who is hiring? (December 2018)

421

5

How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?

402

6

What should an ideal developer interview process look like?

261

7

What awesome stuff have you come across lately?

114

8

Who wants to be hired? (December 2018)

106

9

How to get a job while having a job?

99

10

What is the best practice for reading large pieces of C code?

74

Top Show HN

1

Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

565

2

Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

369

3

Stock Trading from Google Spreadsheet

281

4

AlphaZero Science paper

200

5

Next Browser native on Linux

198

6

Supportify – Support your top Spotify artists by buying on Bandcamp

141

7

McFly, a smart Bash history search CLI in Rust with a neural network

130

8

Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API

108

9

A UI That Lets Readers Control How Much Information They See

100

10

Mission Emission – Calculate the emissions a vehicle produces

81

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

JIRA is an antipattern

1012

2

Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0

545

3

Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

472

4

Google personalizes search results even when you’re logged out, new study finds

350

5

Microsoft and Docker team up to make packaging cloud-native applications easier

276

6

Fortnite dev launches Epic Games Store that takes 12% of revenue

274

7

Udacity lays off 125 people in global strategy shift

182

8

After 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using Waymo's service

165

9

Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

161

10

Coinbase is exploring the addition of new currencies

159

News [?]

1

Facebook's seized files published by MPs

738

2

Lyft Files for IPO

546

3

The Friendship That Made Google Huge

532

4

Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data'

456

5

Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages

443

6

Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over

439

7

The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted

388

8

Gut bacteria may offer a treatment for autism

378

9

Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended

365

10

Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside homes to steal vehicles

345

Scientific publications [?]

1

China prepares mission to land spacecraft on moon's far side

149

2

Deepmind Produces a General-Purpose Games-Playing Machine

134

3

Maxwell's fluid model of magnetism (2015)

91

4

Anthropologists Say Gladiators and Soldiers in Ancient Rome Were Vegetarian

83

5

Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages

50

6

Protection Against Reconstruction and Applications in Private Federated Learning

48

7

Scientific communication in a post-truth society

34

8

MIT TabulaROSA: Tabular OS Arch for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Comp Engine

33

9

Enabling Heterogeneous-ISA Research with RISC-V and SPARC FPGA Soft-cores

33

10

Experience Report on Formally Verifying Parts of OpenJDK's API with KeY

31

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Goodbye, EdgeHTML

1178

2

Guide to scaling engineering organizations

664

3

The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts

283

4

A history of the distributed transactional database

105

5

Ktask: optimizing CPU-intensive kernel work

63

6

Nvidia Makes PhysX Open-Source

34

7

The EXT4 Corruption Issue on Linux 4.19 Is Caused by BLK-MQ

27

8

Kubernetes Pioneer Tim Hockin on What’s Real and What’s Not

7

9

Qualtrics $8B Takeover Promises Great Opportunities for Insights Network

6

10

Stripe: Guide to scaling engineering organizations

6

Tech blogs [?]

1

TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction

266

2

Serial Port SDR

205

3

LG Releases Gram 17 Laptop: An Ultra-Thin Notebook with a 17.3in Display

168

4

Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities

156

5

Tell Senate Not to Put the Register of Copyrights in the Hands of the President

23

6

Nvidia Uses AI to Render Virtual Worlds in Real Time

14

7

Skype offering live transcriptions from today, PowerPoint from January 2019

10

8

New Documents Show That Facebook Has Never Deserved Your Trust

8

9

A Patent on Using Mathematical Proofs

7

10

Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech Is Supposedly on Track

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source

215

2

11

3

Across the Border: A Short Story

10

4

EC2 Instances with 8x V100 GPU and 100 Gbps Network

6

5

Shared VPCs in AWS

4

6

Microsoft Connect(); 2018 Livestream

4

7

Breathing life into IoT devices with an innovative algorithmic approach

2

8

AWS DeepRacer – the fastest way to get rolling with machine learning

2

9

Whole Enchilada (Choose Your Own Adventure 1-40) Paperback – December 5, 2018

2

10

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says

781

2

How Myst Taught a Generation of Gamers to Explore New Worlds

150

3

Aggregators and Jobs-to-be-Done

30

4

Audi e-tron first drive review: a solid electric SUV

22

5

The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology

16

6

How to Decide Which Data Science Projects to Pursue

5

7

For Sale: Pre-Prohibition Whiskey, Once Hidden in a Vault Behind a Bookcase

4

8

Aggregators and Jobs-to-be-Done

4

9

Alaska fixes earthquake destroyed roads in days

4

10

SK Innovation announces the largest scale EV battery plant in the US

3

Science News [?]

1

'Dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe

409

2

Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB

248

3

China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls

217

4

Scientists Find Gut Bacteria in the Human Brain

147

5

How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space

113

6

Why Black Hole Interiors Grow Almost Forever

99

7

A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises

95

8

A study on the willful regulation of autonomic function during cold exposure

94

9

Why Robot Brains Need Symbols

88

10

Retiring Retirement

46

Social [?]

1

Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen

357

2

Commandeering Australian citizens to become spies

141

3

Heading to a cardiologist

127

4

Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (2013) [video]

107

5

Coding for the World's Trickiest Chip – SEGA's Saturn DSP [video]

87

6

Creating Things That Matter [video]

83

7

Paul M. Romer: Lecture in Economic Sciences 2018 [video]

65

8

Fortnite addiction and parenting in the age of screens

60

9

Duck Duck Go is tracking and personalizing results

36

10

Building a Eurorack Mechanical Sequencer [video]

32

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A well-known URL for changing passwords

749

2

PyTorch 1.0 is out

470

3

UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

418

4

Jupyter Notebook Tutorial – Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning in PyTorch

218

5

JAX: Numpy with Gradients, GPUs and TPUs

132

6

Portable Text – JSON rich text specification for content editing platforms

123

7

Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language

116

8

115

9

What do you dislike about React Native?

110

10

Stripe open-sources Skycfg, a configuration builder for Kubernetes

97

Wikipedia [?]

1

9

2

Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor (77 Years Ago Today)

7

3

6

4

5

5

List of countries by taxes, corporate, income and vat/gst

4

6

Dancing plague of 1518

4

7

4

8

James Harrison (blood donor)

3

9

3

10

Mycorrhizal networks – The Wood Wide Web and how trees talk to each other

3

Blogs [?]

1

Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey

327

2

On Self-Publishing “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”

163

3

Ham Radio – CQ: Personal Mastery Through Hobbies

98

4

Reliable Webhooks Using Serverless Architecture

57

5

Writing a GDB Frame Filter

49

6

POLA Would Have Prevented the Event-Stream Incident

38

7

How We Grew Our SEO to 70K+ Visitors a Month (Step-By-Step Guide) – Fiix

38

8

The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper

36

9

XS-Searching Google’s bug tracker to find out vulnerable source code

36

10

The road of running Nginx with WebAssembly

28

Stackoverflow [?]

1

In python being cool is more important than AsYMpTOtic aNAlysIS

2

2

How to check if an integer is within a range?

1

Substack [?]

1

HQ2 isn't the problem

3

2

YouTube comments are the last sincere space online

1