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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Email is your electronic memory

1248

2

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

1

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 [?]

1

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

9

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 [?]

1

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 [?]

1

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 [?]

1

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

6

DIY underwater monitoring with an Arduino-based logging platform

13

7

Apple Confirms HomePod Can Leave White Rings on Wood Surfaces

10

8

Whatever Happened to the Desktop Computer?

8

9

Marrying Vega and Zen: The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Review

8

10

ARM Announces Project Trillium Machine Learning IPs

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

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 [?]

1

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

6

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

9

Once a Year, a Nightmarish King Cake Baby Roams New Orleans

8

10

The Long, Strange Legacy of One of the World’s Earliest Fake Mermaids

5

Science News [?]

1

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

5

Missing data hinder replication of artificial intelligence studies

134

6

Newly observed optical state could enable quantum computing with photons

111

7

Women who clean at home or work face increased lung function decline

89

8

New chip reduces neural networks’ power consumption

83

9

Energy-efficient encryption for the internet of things

53

10

Mark Twain’s adventures in love

45

Social [?]

1

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

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 [?]

1

Prince Rupert's cube

126

2

19

3

7

4

Some helicopters have a part called a Jesus nut

7

5

Bertrand Paradox

3

6

3

7

Venus on the Half-Shell (novel)

3

8

The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism

3

9

3

10

Date Format by Country

2

Blogs [?]

1

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