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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Email is your electronic memory
1248
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AMP for email is a terrible idea
1151
3
OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble
1062
4
Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website
1016
5
Let's Learn About Waveforms
989
6
Let’s talk about usernames
900
7
Who Killed the Junior Developer?
803
8
How to Study Mathematics (2017)
661
9
Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
658
10
German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal
650
Top Ask HN
1
Have you successfully done a career do-over, and how did you do it?
243
2
Best project management practices in 2018?
184
3
Which stack do you use at your startup?
88
4
Which books describe modern devops?
82
5
What software is so good you are surprised it is free?
80
6
Is there server-side software that we are missing in 2018?
79
7
How are you implementing GDPR-compliant soft deletes?
67
8
How to launch an algo trading side project?
58
9
What Algorithms are you using to make money?
52
10
Possible to Become a Part-Time Manager? (Project or Product)
49
Top Show HN
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Curated, Pre-trained ML Models for Transfer Learning
324
2
Decentralized application starter with Vue, Ethereum and IPFS
245
3
Bookmarklet to view full size photos from Google Images
219
4
OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative
215
5
Kismet – get an e-mail introduction to a fellow HN member every day
199
6
Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcoding and subtitles
176
7
Web scraping page analyzer
166
8
Turn your GitHub Gist into a live dashboard
159
9
Takehome.io – Time-limited coding challenges for interviews via Git
134
10
Simple monthly passive income calculator
102
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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AMP for email is a terrible idea
1151
2
Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
658
3
MongoDB gets support for multi-document ACID transactions
343
4
As we age, cancer rates go up as immune system winds down
313
5
New studies zero in on roots of depression and how ketamine affects it
290
6
A British couple who took on Google and cost it £2.1B
265
7
Visa confirms Coinbase wasn’t at fault for overcharging users
215
8
Telegram has raised an initial $850M for its billion-dollar ICO
184
9
Skype can't fix a nasty security bug without a massive code rewrite
181
10
Waymo granted a permit to operate as a Transportation Network Company in Arizona
178
News [?]
1
German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal
650
2
A surprisingly potent technique can boost short and long-term recall
481
3
Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Belgian court
418
4
Deodorants, perfumes, soaps pollute air at levels as high as cars
412
5
Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge
381
6
Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Google over 'toxic content'
378
7
Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’
370
8
It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies
322
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How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software
286
10
Borneo Lost More Than 100k Orangutans from 1999 to 2015
260
Scientific publications [?]
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The random walk of cars and their collision probabilities with planets
165
2
Breaking Textbook RSA Used to Protect the Privacy of Millions of Users
144
3
Astrophotographer Spots Elon Musk's Roadster Cruising Through Space [video]
124
4
Cleo Robotics Demonstrates Uniquely Clever Ducted Fan Drone
118
5
NeuroSAT: Learning a SAT Solver from Single-Bit Supervision
76
6
Robonaut Has Been Broken for Years, and Now NASA Is Bringing It Home
70
7
TVM: End-To-End Optimization Stack for Deep Learning
16
8
P not equal to NP
13
9
Incredible Obstacle-Dodging Full Autonomy with New R1 Consumer Drone
7
10
MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automated Attacks Exploiting Coherence Protocols
6
Dev Blogs [?]
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Chrome will stop displaying ads that are repeatedly flagged as disruptive
415
2
Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Patent Invalidated
261
3
Bringing AMP to Gmail
118
4
The next billion users are the future of the internet
102
5
Speed improvements in Python 3.7
78
6
Stripe: We reached our goal of net-zero emissions in a matter of months
29
7
Marhaba Beirut Cloudflare’s 121st location
27
8
How I Have a Universal Phone Number Using Google Voice, Twilio and Stdlib
22
9
‘99.9999%’ uptime – it’s an illusion
22
10
These Alternatives to Google Don't Track You
21
Tech blogs [?]
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Marrying Vega and Zen: The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Review
153
2
Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement
131
3
Let's Encrypt Hits 50M Active Certificates and Counting
79
4
We Don’t Need New Laws for Faked Videos, We Already Have Them
28
5
Hands on with the Smallest Game Boy Ever Made
23
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DIY underwater monitoring with an Arduino-based logging platform
13
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Apple Confirms HomePod Can Leave White Rings on Wood Surfaces
10
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Whatever Happened to the Desktop Computer?
8
9
Marrying Vega and Zen: The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Review
8
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ARM Announces Project Trillium Machine Learning IPs
6
FAANG+ [?]
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New AWS AppSync features to run serverless GraphQL
15
2
Book Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
8
3
Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball (2011) [pdf]
2
4
Comprehensive guide to software engineering and entrepreneurship for free
2
5
Augmented Reality for iOS
2
6
Amazon Aurora Is Compatible with MySQL 5.7
2
7
The Optimal Strategy for Crafting a Software Solution
1
8
A Case Study of Tuning Autovacuum in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
1
9
Ask HK: Anyone Know More about Amazon Aurora Parallel Query?
1
10
On Interprocess Communication
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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1960s Kodachrome photos of London’s East End
142
2
Tesla confirms having produced its 300,000th electric car
60
3
An Underground Farm Delivering Rare Herbs to New York’s Top Chefs
57
4
White House Looks to Cut Fuel Economy Standards
29
5
Wind Telephone: A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones
26
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Game Companies Oppose DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games
11
7
Pirates Crack Microsoft’s UWP Protection
10
8
The Capones’ Foray into the Dairy Business
8
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Once a Year, a Nightmarish King Cake Baby Roams New Orleans
8
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The Long, Strange Legacy of One of the World’s Earliest Fake Mermaids
5
Science News [?]
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The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”
419
2
Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks
207
3
Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong
184
4
Ketamine blocks bursting in the lateral habenula to rapidly relieve depression
148
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Missing data hinder replication of artificial intelligence studies
134
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Newly observed optical state could enable quantum computing with photons
111
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Women who clean at home or work face increased lung function decline
89
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New chip reduces neural networks’ power consumption
83
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Energy-efficient encryption for the internet of things
53
10
Mark Twain’s adventures in love
45
Social [?]
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Coinbase Multiple Charges
144
2
Andy Gross has died
144
3
Udemy is infringing upon my content [video]
112
4
Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements
83
5
Validating email addresses: A journey down RFC5321 [video]
71
6
Apple won't approve apps that use emojis that aren't provided by the keyboard
65
7
Agile Is Dead (2015) [pdf]
65
8
“A thread on the best reading lists I've come across so far.”
56
9
The Furby Organ, a Musical Instrument Made from Furbies [video]
43
10
The Stolen XRB has already been Redistributed or Sold
35
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Don't use VPN services
384
2
React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook
375
3
Vim Anywhere
368
4
Phaser 3.0: HTML5 game framework
349
5
How to make a game from scratch using Lua and Löve
335
6
Go accepts patches from GitHub pull requests now
277
7
Inspector – A drop-anywhere C++ REPL
194
8
Ariane RISC-V CPU
171
9
A list of swag opportunities for developers
130
10
JavaScript Promises Discussion: Make Them Monadic? (2013)
113
Wikipedia [?]
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Prince Rupert's cube
126
2
The Sokal Hoax
19
3
MilkDrop
7
4
Some helicopters have a part called a Jesus nut
7
5
Bertrand Paradox
3
6
Outsider Art
3
7
Venus on the Half-Shell (novel)
3
8
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
3
9
Unit 731
3
10
Date Format by Country
2
Blogs [?]
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Who Killed the Junior Developer?
803
2
What I wish I knew when I became CTO
519
3
Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World
224
4
Advantages of monolithic version control
198
5
What Made Lisp Different (2002)
184
6
Coinbase Commerce: merchants can accept multiple digital currencies
152
7
LLVM’s garbage collection facilities and SBCL’s generational GC
142
8
Rusty Russell: The Corrosion of Ethics in Cryptocurrencies
90
9
Ruby’s New JIT
66
10
We took a hacker to a public WiFi café (2014)
60
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What are the options for storing hierarchical data in a relational database?
3
2
TensorFlow returns a positive log-probability
3
3
The Not Not Operator in JavaScript
2
4
Selenium Web Scrapping with Beautiful Soup on Dynamic Content and Hidden Data
2
5
Building a complete online payment gateway
2
Substack [?]
1
You're going to make mistakes – Advice for junior software developers
2
2
Junior Engineers – Some things to consider when a crisis arises
1