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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
2968
2
John Perry Barlow has died
1485
3
VLC 3.0 release
827
4
Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
806
5
How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?
803
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Modern CSS Explained
762
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U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice
739
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Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing
706
9
A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
622
10
Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
568
Top Ask HN
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What are the books you wish your colleagues had read?
225
2
Simple tools/hack for small project management
106
3
Best companies to work for in Europe?
86
4
Why has Apple's software quality steadily gone downhill?
83
5
Why is there so little programming related content on HN?
79
6
What is setup for your static blog generator?
70
7
How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?
59
8
What other websites/forums do you use that are of similar quality to HN?
53
9
How would you relearn programming?
51
10
What project did you tackle to learn C?
48
Top Show HN
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TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases
333
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Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT
315
3
Ask a Dev
288
4
An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume
185
5
Generating GraphQL servers for Go
172
6
Algebraic Number Theory in Python 3
157
7
Thanks – See which NPM dependencies are seeking donations
138
8
HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS
127
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Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbon Dioxide
118
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Online web tools to get your work done faster
118
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
2968
2
The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
522
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Science’s Pirate Queen
496
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Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things
473
5
Intel made smart glasses that look normal
440
6
Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning
312
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Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack
187
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SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt
181
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The House That Spied on Me
154
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Musk explains why SpaceX prefers clusters of small engines
152
News [?]
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U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice
739
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Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude
459
3
Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit
406
4
Fertility 'breakthrough' as human eggs grown in lab for first time
345
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Dow plunges 1000 points
330
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In Baltimore, Brazen Officers Took Every Chance to Rob and Cheat
328
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Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains
267
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The marbled crayfish is a mutant species that clones itself
265
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The Berlin Wall has now been down longer than it was up
250
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Why Paper Jams Persist
242
Scientific publications [?]
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“The effects of lifelong exposure to a perverse contingency” (2002)
197
2
26% of violent crime convicts account for 63% of violent crime conviction (2014)
192
3
Escaping Data from Faraday-Caged, Air-Gapped Computers via Magnetic Fields
161
4
A Sleeping Alexa Can Listen for More Than Just Its Name
150
5
How to Design a New Chip on a Budget
145
6
Partisan: Enabling Cloud-Scale Erlang Applications
88
7
Probing Planets in Extragalactic Galaxies Using Quasar Microlensing
72
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Venus flytraps don't eat the insects that pollinate them
72
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Predicting outcomes for games of skill by redefining what it means to win
63
10
Why and How Java Developers Break APIs
41
Dev Blogs [?]
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Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions
226
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QUIC as a solution to protocol ossification
203
3
What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM
196
4
The Kubernetes Effect
163
5
CI/CD Is Not a Progression
82
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AI Will Not Be Taking Away Code Jobs Anytime Soon
44
7
Measuring Re-Identification Risk in De-Identified Content
32
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Bitcoin in BigQuery: blockchain analytics on public data
25
9
Are You Working on a Side Project or a Startup?
17
10
Deep Learning Resources – the best way to learn DL from scratch in 2018
9
Tech blogs [?]
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John Perry Barlow has died
1485
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Startup Won't Give in to Motivational Health Messaging's $35k Patent Demand
171
3
Twilio Demonstrates Why Courts Should Review Every National Security Letter
68
4
IPR Process Saves 80 Companies from Paying for a Sports-Motion Patent
56
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Newly Released Surveillance Orders Show That Spying Powers Are Misused
19
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace – Electronic Frontier Foundation
10
7
iOS 11.3 Beta 2 Introduces New 'Battery Health' Feature
4
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Telegram was serving child porn, reason it was pulled from App Store
3
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Fair Use Overcomes Chrysler's Bogus Copyright Notice
3
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
3
FAANG+ [?]
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Instant scale with AWS Lambda (2017)
36
2
Migrating Your Amazon ECS Containers to AWS Fargate
11
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New – Encryption at Rest for DynamoDB
4
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Amazon 404 Page
3
5
Introducing the AWS Instance Scheduler
2
6
Give Your Amazon Box New Life (2016)
2
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Now Available: Encryption at Rest for Amazon DynamoDB
2
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Pipelines for Container Applications Made Easy with Mu
1
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World's largest jigsaw puzzle has 40,320 pieces
1
10
Amazon Polly Plugin for WordPress
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names
415
2
You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time
116
3
A transcriber on the Isle of Man can decipher almost anything
85
4
Apple's Middle Age
78
5
The red and green specialists: why human colour vision is so odd
77
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Why people collect art
66
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A Russian Train Stop That Serves One Schoolgirl
60
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Google Won’t Take Down ‘Pirate’ VLC with Five Million Downloads
38
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The Conqueror Who Longed for Melons (2017)
29
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Norway’s Olympic Team Bought 15k Eggs Due to a Google Translate Mistake
25
Science News [?]
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Crushed wood is stronger than steel
461
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An Argument Against Quantum Computers
173
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The Fields Medal should return to its roots
122
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Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News
117
5
Search for Lost Hammer Led to Largest Cache of Roman Treasure Ever Found in UK
111
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What William James Got Right About Consciousness
66
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Life on Mars, from Viking to Curiosity (2017)
49
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The Meme as Meme (2015)
44
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The culprit behind snowmelt floods isn’t temperature, it’s dirt
44
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There Might Be No Way to Live Comfortably Without Also Ruining the Planet
43
Social [?]
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I reported a critical bug and now they started a police investigation on me
243
2
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST)
175
3
Financial Times journo's private messages quoted to her at China visa renewal
151
4
BitGrail lost $170M because only client-side validation was used
134
5
Graal: How to use the new JVM JIT compiler in real life [video]
128
6
LMARV-1: A RISC-V processor you can see [video]
120
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How Will I Measure My Life?
120
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Tesla Roadster has been officially logged as a celestial object by NASA
91
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Visual Group Theory: What is a group? (2016) [video]
89
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Live Views of Starman
61
Github repos and gists [?]
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A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
622
2
Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps
409
3
Nuklear: A single-header ANSI C GUI library
402
4
Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly
377
5
LCUI – A small C library for building user interfaces with XML and CSS
335
6
Quiet for Android – TCP over sound
301
7
OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000
294
8
Answers to front-end developer job interview questions
217
9
Julia v0.7.0 Release Notes
207
10
Lime: Explaining the predictions of any machine learning classifier
174
Wikipedia [?]
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Swatch Internet Time (1998)
86
2
Blind Signature
57
3
Ōmoto
47
4
Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster
22
5
Bismuth
7
6
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
4
7
Lists of Global Issues
4
8
List of hoaxes on Wikipedia
4
9
Georgism: The Single Tax
3
10
Polish medical doctor who saved thousands of Jews
3
Blogs [?]
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Modern CSS Explained
762
2
Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
381
3
Growing from 0 to 4M users on our fashion app with vertical machine learning
306
4
Writing eBPF tracing tools in Rust
121
5
Rollup now has code-splitting and we need your help
75
6
Making Sense of the Bias / Variance Trade-Off in Deep Reinforcement Learning
62
7
Exploring portable ratings for gig workers
47
8
Allcancode: from a coding game to a tool that simplifies software production
45
9
A toddlers guide to memory leaks in JavaScript
26
10
Introducing Rekit Studio: A Real IDE for React and Redux Development
18
Stackoverflow [?]
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How to Understand the Fifth Normal Form?
3
2
What is Multi Dimensional OLAP CUBE, and give example with more than 3?
2
3
LibreOffice wants memory pages to be writable and executable in the same time?
1
4
How to check if a table exists in a given schema (PgSQL)
1
5
Composite primary key vs. an additional ID column?
1
Substack [?]