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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

1065

2

Robinhood launches 3% checking account

972

3

Firefox 64 Released

954

4

Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares

938

5

CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to

830

6

An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth

790

7

DigitalOcean launches its container service

765

8

Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards

629

9

UCLA asked faculty to consider declining to review for Elsevier journals

619

10

Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space

592

Top Ask HN

1

Books you read in 2018?

578

2

What's the best book on modern UI/UX?

542

3

How did you decide where to live?

229

4

How to incorporate machine learning into day job?

169

5

Best Centralized Backup Solution

133

6

What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?

90

7

How do I become a better team lead for a small, junior dev team?

60

8

Help me weave in STEM topics for a children's book

56

9

How do you guys develop mental toughness?

53

10

Learning tech leadership vs. growing as a developer?

53

Top Show HN

1

Minimal Google Analytics Snippet

171

2

Free and open-source home for art made with code

144

3

Strength News – An HN-inspired website for sport and gym enthusiasts

137

4

Vaex - Out of Core Dataframes for Python and Fast Visualization

126

5

CHIP-8 console implemented in FPGA

120

6

Egeria, a multidimensional spreadsheet for everybody

113

7

A mobile-friendly, web-based, countries of the world game

112

8

Failory 2.0 – Learn How to Build a Profitable Startup

104

9

Single-header C++11 HTML document constructor

87

10

High-performance ahead-of-time compiler for Machine Learning

83

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Robinhood launches 3% checking account

972

2

DigitalOcean launches its container service

765

3

Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead

561

4

FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than was thought

333

5

Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Across the Tech Industry

315

6

Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak

261

7

After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning

220

8

Netflix’s biggest competition isn’t sleep, it’s YouTube

199

9

Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation

188

10

Is Windows 10 still telling what you're doing even if you don't want it to?

171

News [?]

1

Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards

629

2

Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space

592

3

Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users

512

4

SIPC Says It Has Serious Concerns About Robinhood's New Product

480

5

Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds

448

6

Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel

419

7

Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System'

405

8

China’s Economy Slows Sharply

389

9

How the 0.001% invest

388

10

Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless

347

Scientific publications [?]

1

Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

465

2

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

240

3

Systematic Parsing of X.509: Eradicating Security Issues with a Parse Tree

146

4

Java’s Forgotten Forebear (2009)

122

5

Hubble finds far-away planet vanishing at record speed

80

6

A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks [pdf]

78

7

Memristors for Curious Outsiders

67

8

The U.S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for Quantum Computing

58

9

MiniRHex: a surprisingly capable six-whegged robot

52

10

Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide

47

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support

174

2

Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping

106

3

Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods

105

4

Page Views on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

89

5

Rare Datasets for Computer Vision Every Machine Learning Expert Must Work With

63

6

NeurIPS 2018 Recap

10

7

More consistent LuaJIT performance

6

8

Intel Working on Open-Sourcing the FSP

6

9

Red Hat, Google, IBM, and SAP Go Knative for Serverless

6

10

The Vital Engines of Commerce

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

UC Berkeley to build open-source secure enclave using RISC-V

160

2

Forrest Mims, Radio Shack, and the Notebooks That Launched a Thousand Careers

139

3

Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track

103

4

The Future of Core, Intel GPUs, 10nm, and Hybrid x86

95

5

Samsung Kills Headphone Jack in Latest Smartphone After Years of Mocking Apple

23

6

20 Node Pi Cluster

22

7

Samsung Kills Headphone Jack in Latest Smartphone After Years of Mocking Apple

11

8

The EFF Gift Guide: What’s Creeping Us Out

9

9

Intel unveils new 10nm Sunny Cove CPUs, possibly destined for future Macs

4

10

In the New Fight for Online Privacy and Security, Australia Falls

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple to build campus in Austin and sites in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City

191

2

Now Open – AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

13

3

4

4

How to solve common challenges faced while migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL

2

5

Serverless: Nested Apps for AWS SAM and AWS Serverless Application Repository

2

6

Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)

2

7

Micro-Optimization: Activity-Based Costing for Digital Services?

2

8

Building an Android App with AWS Amplify – Part 2

1

9

Z-Order Indexing for Multifaceted Queries (2017)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Archive.org donations are currently matched by a generous supporter 2-to-1

494

2

Why Design Thinking Works

218

3

Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars as It Drifted Across Midwest Remains a Mystery

99

4

Abandoned Cities from Around the World

71

5

Tesla says someone fired a bullet into battery pack of Model S that caught fire

32

6

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

26

7

Why giving birth in the U.S. is surprisingly deadly

18

8

Gender is not a spectrum (2016)

9

9

The Manipulated Man (1971)

5

10

The State of Technology at the End of 2018

5

Science News [?]

1

China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tribunal

460

2

Ant Colonies Retain Memories That Outlast the Lifespans of Individuals

395

3

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft

370

4

Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research

344

5

A New Connection Between the Gut and Brain

165

6

A ‘Self-Aware’ Fish Raises Doubts About a Cognitive Test

162

7

An experiment in controlling how much of Scrabble is luck

72

8

China introduces ‘social’ punishments for scientific misconduct

71

9

Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself

61

10

Dracula ants possess fastest known animal appendage: the snap-jaw

54

Social [?]

1

An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth

790

2

I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options?

393

3

GoDaddy is a scam

281

4

Fragmentation Is Why Desktop Linux Failed [video]

109

5

How your life changes at different levels of wealth (2015)

69

6

Banned from a meeting because of GDPR by the Romanian Ministry of Education

62

7

Ways of seeing (1972) [video]

54

8

Let There Be Light, and Thus, Time (2015) [video]

41

9

What is your least popular but deeply held opinion on personal productivity?

34

10

None of these faces are real. All made up by AIs

22

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

444

2

PracticalAI – A practical approach to learning machine learning

335

3

Pytext: A natural language modeling framework based on PyTorch

219

4

How to Grow Software Architecture out of Jupyter Notebooks

189

5

DevHub: TweetDeck for GitHub – Android, iOS and Web with 99% Code Sharing

149

6

145

7

Open Location Code

137

8

9cc: A Small C Compiler

132

9

Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python

126

10

Make photomosaics, GIFs, and murals from pictures in Python with ML/OpenCV

126

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Onion Futures Act

260

2

150

3

Berkson's Paradox

87

4

83

5

$100 Billion USD oops

18

6

The fire that has been burning for 56 years

12

7

11

8

When you talk about a country you never visited, consider Paris syndrome

7

9

History of Wikipedia

7

10

Attention Economy

6

Blogs [?]

1

The Titanic Was on Fire for Days Before the Iceberg Hit

334

2

I was scammed by a celebrity influencer

114

3

Machine Learning Often a Complicated Way of Replicating Simple Forecasting

101

4

The End of the Ad-Supported Web

100

5

Flutter will change everything, and is an excellent choice for iOS development

54

6

User retention at Pinterest: tackling an ambiguous problem

43

7

Huawei Is China’s Black Mirror Corporation

24

8

Netflix – Our learnings from adopting GraphQL

22

9

State of Python in 2018

19

10

Salesforce embraces standards with new Lightning Web Components

19

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Joel Spolsky's Answer to “Why do I need an IoC container?”

4

2

Stack Overflow for Enterprise

1

Substack [?]

1

Failure happens in technology. Just ask Mark Twain

3