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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Please do not attempt to simplify this code
1552
2
Things I Don’t Know as of 2018
753
3
DOOMBA
687
4
How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]
673
5
Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces
664
6
Larry Roberts has died
654
7
How DOOM fire was done
637
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Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.
592
9
Fridge 0.2
584
10
How the Valley treats experienced people
554
Top Ask HN
1
Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?
681
2
What do you use for authentication and authorization?
457
3
What skills to acquire in 2019?
218
4
How is software development different in China and India?
183
5
Famous anonymous inventions other than Bitcoin?
180
6
What should I do when I'm bored with my career?
180
7
Anyone doing business using Estonian e-residency?
158
8
What’s your plan in 2019?
133
9
Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?
113
10
What happened to Pinboard?
104
Top Show HN
1
Open source JavaScript library to record and replay the web
353
2
Vector Logo Zone – SVG logos for your readme or credits page
275
3
Wiv.js – A library for a more wiggly div
265
4
Pg-extend-rs – Easy Postgres extensions in Rust
244
5
Magic Grid – A simple JavaScript library for dynamic grid layouts
167
6
Bake – A modular build system and package manager for C/C++
132
7
Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
124
8
Inside Python Dict – an explorable explanation
111
9
A minimal FFT code
100
10
YouRepl – Watch video-tutorials and write code at the same time
90
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects
459
2
911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
434
3
Social networks are no longer social
422
4
A fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante, and a murder
271
5
Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018
266
6
Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015)
244
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As Bitcoin Sinks, Industry Startups Are Forced to Cut Back
219
8
Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism
184
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Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets
171
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Two years later, I still miss the headphone port
164
News [?]
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Larry Roberts has died
654
2
New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers
478
3
Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record
396
4
Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps
366
5
Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt
302
6
How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games
247
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Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech
241
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New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion
240
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Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica with Final 32-Hour Push
235
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Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles
222
Scientific publications [?]
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Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism
300
2
How Facebook Keeps Messenger from Crashing on New Year's Eve
275
3
Lenia – Biology of Artificial Life
89
4
VW Solves Quantum Chemistry Problems on a D-Wave Machine
88
5
The C Object System (2010)
68
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Fast and accurate object detection in high resolution 4K and 8K video using GPUs
61
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Log on Like It’s 1985: A Fragment of Minitel Returns
51
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Differentiable Genetic Programming (2016)
31
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Hybrid qubits solve key hurdle to quantum computing
22
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Introducing Neuromodulation to Deep Neural Networks to Learn Adaptive Behaviours
11
Dev Blogs [?]
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Improving HTML Time to First Byte
15
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Serial Swatter/Stalker Mir Islam Arrested for Allegedly Dumping Body in River
12
3
What does it mean to be an Open Startup?
9
4
Creating Private MMO Game Servers as a Way to Get Desired Skills for Job Market
8
5
Improving HTML Time to First Byte
7
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A farewell to email
6
7
Linux KVM Continues Offering Much Better Out of Box Performance Than VirtualBox
6
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Java Language Architect Brian Goetz on Java and the JDK
6
9
Intel Contributes Its Parallel STL Implementation to LLVM
5
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Parsing in almost-natural language
5
Tech blogs [?]
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IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses
337
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Open Source IDE for FPGAs as QtCreator Learns Verilog
81
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Austria is the next country working to impose a tech tax on companies like Apple
77
4
7400 Quad 2-Input NAND Gate: Neglected Survivor from a Pre-Microprocessor World
56
5
Logic Noise: Sweet, Sweet Oscillator Sounds (2015)
42
6
Year in Review 2018: GPUs
23
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Apple exited the home Wi-Fi market at the wrong time
21
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Year in Review 2018: CPUs
5
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From Encrypting the Web to Encrypting the Net: 2018 Year in Review
4
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JOLED Demos 21.6-Inch OLED Monitor for Gamers
4
FAANG+ [?]
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Microsoft Font Maker
5
2
Amazon Corretto – Free, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK
5
3
Offer HN: My Book “Understanding SEO” – Free (Kindle) on Amazon for 24h
3
4
Lexically scopes type variables [pdf]
1
5
7 out of 15 of Microsoft's acquisitions this year have been video game studios
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Domain Registrar Can Be Held Liable for Pirate Site, German Court Rules
118
2
Great Wall Motor unveils $9k electric urban car with nearly 200-mile range
109
3
How the Netherlands Feeds the World (2017)
84
4
An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions (2016)
71
5
Work Marathon Guidelines
54
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Machine Learning 101: 2 yrs of headbanging, so you don't have to (2017) [slides]
49
7
Christiansen Patreon Call Transcript
14
8
Cassini's Grand Tour
9
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Domain Registrars Liable for Site Infringement
9
10
Why “Many-Model Thinkers” Make Better Decisions
8
Science News [?]
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British Doctors May Soon Prescribe Art, Music, Dance, Singing Lessons
152
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In 1991, Congress authorized $650M to make driverless cars a reality (2013)
150
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A tilt of the head facilitates social engagement
83
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The Lazy Susan Is Neither Classic nor Chinese (2014)
37
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Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software
37
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the Wizard of Schenectady (2011)
27
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The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS
25
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Iron is the new Cholesterol?
24
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What Defines a Stem Cell?
23
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The Year in Math and Computer Science
15
Social [?]
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CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets
328
2
Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video]
253
3
My video with 47M views was stolen on YouTube [video]
238
4
Patreon suspended my account. They have not notified me
237
5
PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold funds for 180 days
233
6
911 call centers down in Washington state
193
7
Amazon is selling stolen art, fake products and is infringing copyrights
151
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Offline voice AI within 512 KB of RAM [video]
142
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Buttery smooth Emacs (2016)
122
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How to Make a Crystal Radio – No Batteries, No External Power (2015) [video]
94
Github repos and gists [?]
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Please do not attempt to simplify this code
1552
2
Windows file access performance compared to Linux
518
3
Fish shell 3.0
506
4
lsix: ls for images
430
5
A list of lists of interview questions
284
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Brain.js
273
7
Emacs Fireplace
269
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T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree
266
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ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier
238
10
Software Methodology: Why One Size Fits No One
211
Wikipedia [?]
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Marchetti's constant
82
2
Phonautograph
51
3
Magdeburg Hemispheres
49
4
LOOP (programming language)
36
5
Pentagramma mirificum
27
6
Fog computing
12
7
Nazi Book Burnings
11
8
Mariko Aoki phenomenon
11
9
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
10
10
Kleptoplasty
9
Blogs [?]
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Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful (2016)
315
2
Haiku Beta is finally here
208
3
The math’s not pretty on digital advertising’s future revenues? (2017)
172
4
The Link Between Inflammation and Depression?
169
5
An introduction to Georg Cantor’s transfinite paradise
98
6
Ranges, Code Quality, and the future of C++
85
7
It’s 2019 and I Still Make Websites with My Bare Hands
84
8
If San Francisco Is So Great, Why Is Everyone I Love Leaving?
82
9
The Wright Brothers Defeated Gravity and the Government Machine
68
10
It’s probably time to learn Chinese
55
Stackoverflow [?]
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[JavaScript] Why does {....0} evaluate to {}?
4
2
[JavaScript] Why does {....0} evaluate to {}?
2
Substack [?]
1
A better future for news (2017)
3