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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

1562

2

Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL

1323

3

Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States

1130

4

The Yoda of Silicon Valley

976

5

Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves

952

6

Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

902

7

For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain

814

8

MailChimp deleted my account with no warning

715

9

We should replace Facebook with personal websites

614

10

Windows Sandbox

597

Top Ask HN

1

Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?

842

2

Best talks of 2018?

710

3

What technologies did you learn in 2018?

629

4

Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

238

5

How to shadow a CEO?

231

6

Did you learn any life changing lessons this year?

106

7

Have I lost my skills in programming?

76

8

Can I download my HN data?

76

9

Favorite fiction books of 2018?

69

10

Do you think Google's recaptcha has gone greedy off late?

63

Top Show HN

1

Fully-automatic image background removal tool

640

2

341

3

Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts

301

4

Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

247

5

DPAGE – build and publish webpages on the decentralized internet

161

6

Goldpinger – Visualize Kubernetes cluster connectivity

158

7

Bubblin – Bandcamp for books

138

8

CoolQLCool – Turn Websites into GraphQL Accessible APIs

124

9

Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch

114

10

KubeDB – Kubernetes-ready production-grade databases

108

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills

424

2

Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

416

3

Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers

371

4

Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport

339

5

With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals

308

6

Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages

297

7

Video of Glitter Bomb for Package Thieves Exposed as Partial Fake

265

8

At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from tech employees

236

9

A $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech

232

10

Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to

206

News [?]

1

Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

1562

2

The Yoda of Silicon Valley

976

3

Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves

952

4

Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation

592

5

SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation

565

6

As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants

499

7

Robinhood Checking Moved Fast and Broke

462

8

China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients

370

9

Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs

354

10

Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week

245

Scientific publications [?]

1

Knowledge from small number of debates outperforms wisdom of large crowds (2017)

235

2

Manhole Covers Serve as Antennas Expanding Wireless Network Coverage

125

3

A Lens-Less Camera Built Specially for AI and Computer Vision Programs

119

4

Wikipedia2Vec: Optimized Implementation for Learning Embeddings from Wikipedia

109

5

On Having No Head: Cognition Throughout Biological Systems (2016)

98

6

Next-generation of GPS satellites are headed to space

88

7

Utility Ghost: Gamified redistricting with partisan symmetry

80

8

Acne vulgaris: a disease of Western civilization (2002)

69

9

Enabling Faster, More Capable Robots with Real-Time Motion Planning

41

10

Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in endurance training (2010)

22

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person

498

2

Writing copy for landing pages

416

3

Python gets a new governance model

414

4

Let Google do the patching with new managed base images

120

5

Raw String Literals Removed From Java 12 as Feature Set Frozen

87

6

Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing a Package Over Its Name

50

7

Intel Unfolds Roadmaps for Future CPUs and GPUs

45

8

The Problem with LoRa and The Things Network

20

9

How to Write Better Cold Emails to VCs

15

10

Encrypting DNS end-to-end

15

Tech blogs [?]

1

What We Learned About the Hemisphere Program After Suing the DEA

195

2

Breakthrough ultrasound treatment to reverse dementia moves to human trials

174

3

Water-stabilized hydrogen promises twice the range of gasoline at half the price

35

4

Neural Network Knows When Cat Wants to Go Outside

21

5

Samsung to Manufacture IBM’s 7nm Power CPUs

10

6

Apple Shares Six Free Classic Audiobooks Narrated by Celebrities

8

7

Facebook Responds to Demand That Users Get a Say in Content Removal Decisions

5

8

Cambridge Joins Cities Requiring Civilian Control of Police Surveillance Tech

5

9

New 8K OLED Displays for Tablets and Laptops: 8.3 and 13.3 Inches

4

10

The Toxic Rainbow of Locked Technology

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team

196

2

Transparency Report: Government requests for customer data globally

123

3

Serverless and startups

62

4

Websockets for AWS API Gateway

21

5

To BLOB or Not to BLOB: Large Object Storage in a Database or a Filesystem? [pdf]

8

6

How to Blog Book – Created by Ex-Hacker

5

7

Microsoft Research Open Data

4

8

Amazon EC2 P3 – Ideal for Machine Learning and HPC

3

9

Introducing AWS Client VPN to Securely Access AWS and On-Premises Resources

3

10

Blackmagic eGPU Pro

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess

324

2

Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices

294

3

Court Returns Seized Laptops to Accused GTA V Cheat Developer

31

4

Tesla says someone fired a bullet in Model S that caught on fire

14

5

Multics Intro Course (1978)

14

6

Call with Patreon’s Jacqueline Hart about Sargon's Banning

8

7

Jump just made all new e-bikes to fix everything wrong with e-bike sharing

6

8

Oops EU Piracy Watchlist Includes a Perfectly Legal Site

3

9

The 2018 Stratechery Year in Review

3

10

Higher education in the US is driven by a lust for glory

3

Science News [?]

1

For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain

814

2

What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life

262

3

Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms

253

4

Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine?

200

5

A Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times (2014)

184

6

The universal decay of collective memory and attention

144

7

How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke (2015)

102

8

United States should prepare to build a prototype fusion power plant, panel says

79

9

The Brain’s Autopilot Mechanism Steers Consciousness

68

10

Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health

50

Social [?]

1

Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

902

2

Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

323

3

Raspberry Pi Pet Detector Camera Using Python, TensorFlow, and Twilio [video]

277

4

Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM [video]

152

5

How low can you go? Ultra low latency Java in the real world [video]

151

6

What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System

117

7

Slack terminated an account because they thought it originated in Iran

105

8

Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap

78

9

TempleOS – Down the Rabbit Hole [video]

56

10

Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap

43

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler

382

2

Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers as executable binaries

294

3

NHS.UK frontend

244

4

Machine Learning for .NET

202

5

OrbitDB – serverless, peer-to-peer database on top of IPFS

202

6

MiSTer: Run Amiga, SNES, NES and Genesis on an FPGA

161

7

Vue.js and Go example project

160

8

OpsMop – Config management and app deployment from the creator of Ansible

128

9

Introspected REST: An alternative to REST and GraphQL

122

10

Awesome Python Applications: 180+ case studies in shipping Python software

106

Wikipedia [?]

1

97

2

61

3

HTTP 451: Unavailable for Legal Reasons

9

4

The Perry Index

5

5

4

6

Gopher_(protocol)

3

7

3

8

Kearny fallout meter

3

9

Czochralski process was discovered by accident

3

10

Kalundborg Eco-industrial Park

3

Blogs [?]

1

Evaluation of five password managers

247

2

Depression, Self-Identity and Reality: Living in a Story Created by Facebook

106

3

How Flutter uses Widgets, Elements, RenderObjects to create eye-candy at 120fps

98

4

Lenses: Composable Getters and Setters for Functional Programming

89

5

Anthony Levandowski: Pronto AI

77

6

Did Google Cripple Edge’s YouTube Performance?

70

7

My own brain’s refusal to integrate the seriousness of climate change

60

8

Twitter Locks WikiLeaks and Multiple WikiLeaks Staff Accounts

49

9

GraphQL concepts I wish someone explained to me a year ago

33

10

Costs of using Google Maps

33

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Figuring Out Embedding-Free Neural Networks for NLP: Reproducing Research

3

2

What does iota of std::iota stand for in C++?

3

3

Maze generation code in c generating weird characters

1

Substack [?]

1

Goldman Sachs charged in 1MDB scandal

2

2

The Big Brother of Things

1