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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Signal Foundation

1314

2

JupyterLab is ready for users

958

3

The Business of SaaS

845

4

"Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords

842

5

Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

803

6

How poverty changes your mindset

777

7

Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012)

763

8

Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month

740

9

Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, disposable utensils by 2030

659

10

629

Top Ask HN

1

What has HN given you?

1095

2

Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work?

802

3

As a data scientist, what should be in my toolkit in 2018?

341

4

What's the best algorithms and data structures online course?

273

5

How do you overcome the problems of task switching?

174

6

What can I do as a software engineer to help the underpriviliged?

67

7

How do you manage “knowledge”

64

8

What best practices for in-house Docker Registry?

57

9

Ok. I have the MVP. I have a small feedback. What is next?

54

10

I'm not a good programmer, but I keep acing interviews

52

Top Show HN

1

Hacker News Classics

864

2

A CSS Keylogger

576

3

Mitmproxy 3.0 released, an open-source console-based proxy

242

4

GitHub Trending Repos

203

5

Headless Chrome Crawler

172

6

Mux Video, a simple API to powerful video streaming

124

7

Use encrypted passwords in shell scripts signed with your SSH key

117

8

Introduction to Simple Computational Geometry Concepts Using C++

114

9

Scale 3D, API for 3D labeling of LIDAR, camera, and radar data

85

10

How software projects and companies got their name

84

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants

342

2

Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital download codes

289

3

Researchers Use CRISPR to Detect HPV and Zika

236

4

Many patent holders stop looking to East Texas following Supreme Court ruling

198

5

Ajit Pai faces investigation into moves that benefit Sinclair Broadcasting

190

6

Samsung crams 30TB of SSD into a single 2.5-inch drive

148

7

Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky has joined Y Combinator as a partner

141

8

What are we going to do with quantum computers?

140

9

UPS is working on a fleet of 50 custom-built electric delivery trucks

136

10

How to Get Wyoming Wind to California, and Cut 80% of U.S. Carbon Emissions

123

News [?]

1

Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012)

763

2

In an Era of ‘Smart’ Things, Sometimes Dumb Stuff Is Better

362

3

Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

334

4

There's a Persistent Hum in Windsor, Ontario, and No One Knows Why

332

5

Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School Graduates

257

6

China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit

233

7

Robinhood Opens Cryptocurrency Trading

228

8

Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears

227

9

Doctors, Revolt

210

10

Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs

209

Scientific publications [?]

1

Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell

468

2

A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers (2017)

379

3

Machine Theory of Mind

207

4

Learning Word Vectors for 157 Languages

137

5

A Closed-Form Solution to Photorealistic Image Stylization

125

6

Accurate Navigation Without GPS

125

7

Finding the Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale

121

8

Austin, Denver, Detroit: Good Places to Be a Software Engineer Looking for a Job

113

9

'Memtransistor' Forms Foundational Circuit Element to Neuromorphic Computing

110

10

Image2Mesh: Single Image 3D Reconstruction

97

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Business of SaaS

845

2

Mozilla Re-Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

467

3

Money Laundering via Author Impersonation on Amazon

210

4

Snips Uses Rust to Build an Embedded Voice Assistant

209

5

BPF comes to firewalls

182

6

The Google Assistant is going global

147

7

Automation and the Use of Multiple Accounts

88

8

Serverless Security: What's Left to Protect?

38

9

Google Pay app for Android

37

10

Why I’m still using “Fizz Buzz” to hire Software-Developers

13

Tech blogs [?]

1

QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64

237

2

A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology

119

3

Federal Circuit Should Not Allow Patents on Inventions That Belong to the Public

86

4

Predicting Starman’s Return to Earth

77

5

When the Copyright Office Meets, the Future Needs a Seat at the Table

36

6

Did Congress Really Expect Us to Whittle Our Own Personal Jailbreaking Tools?

18

7

The Revolution and Slack

18

8

“The Commodore Story” Documentary Premieres 23 Feb 2018

12

9

“The Commodore Story” Documentary Premieres Today

4

10

iPhone and Android Smartphone Duopoly Reaches Peak with 99.9% Market Share in 2017

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Numerical Tools for Non-Experts - Microsoft Research

4

2

Ironfleet, verified disributed system from Microsoft research

3

3

Now Available – AWS Serverless Application Repository

3

4

AWS AppSync region expansion and new features for API keys

2

5

Machine Learning for Developers

2

6

AWS Serverless Application Repository

2

7

1

8

AWS Serverless Application Repository

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passwords

403

2

FAA Tapes from That Oregon UFO Incident

282

3

The Battle for Best Semi-Autonomous System: Tesla Autopilot vs. GM SuperCruise

193

4

Tesla deployed over 300 Powerwalls in Hawaiian schools to cool down classrooms

189

5

How to sell a $300 chocolate bar

159

6

An Artist’s Mission to Illustrate All the World’s Mythical Beasts

99

7

Rediscovering the Blazingly Bright Colors of Ancient Sculptures

71

8

Politics is a Mind-Killer (2007)

38

9

ACM ethical practices survey: how do we ensure AI's humane, fair, and inclusive?

14

10

The usefulness of dread

13

Science News [?]

1

Peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head

299

2

Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016)

240

3

Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble with the Real World

175

4

Adolescents’ rich and nuanced relationship with risky behaviour

119

5

Childhood intelligence in relation to major causes of death in 68 year follow-up

114

6

The quantum internet has arrived (and it hasn’t)

90

7

The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism

85

8

Alcohol use disorder largest risk factor for dementia

80

9

Anthropocene began in 1965, according to signs left in world’s ‘loneliest tree’

79

10

Sex differences in ability tilt in the right tail of cognitive abilities

36

Social [?]

1

21 Years of Income as a Software Engineer in San Francisco

199

2

Self-driving car on Moscow streets after snowfall [video]

195

3

Overview and Introduction to Lisp (1986) [video]

156

4

Ubuntu 18.04 with Unity8

50

5

You can write a keylogger in pure CSS

18

6

Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account

13

7

DisneyQuest: 1990s edutainment game made manifest, strange utopian idea run wild

10

8

Rob Pike: /bin/true used to be an empty file

9

9

Rob Pike on History of /bin/true

8

10

An excellent full-stack react-graphql-express tutorial

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

803

2

Do not use NPM 5.7

544

3

Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans

467

4

Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch

379

5

FastPhotoStyle from Nvidia

231

6

Keras reimplementation of "One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks"

212

7

160

8

Common combinators in JavaScript

160

9

NLP concepts with spaCy tutorial

153

10

Tilemap generation from single example using ideas from quantum mechanics

153

Wikipedia [?]

1

289

2

100

3

95

4

The eastern coyote, a wild N. American canine with coyote-wolf and dog parentage

47

5

11

6

6

7

List of Greek and Roman architectural records

5

8

Single-letter second-level domains

4

9

Criticism of the Space Shuttle program

4

10

Douglas Bader, the legendary legless British WWII ace

4

Blogs [?]

1

I don’t understand Graph Theory

566

2

Practical Tips for Cheating at Design

480

3

Working remotely, 4 years in

424

4

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2016)

262

5

Keep your Identity Small (2009)

254

6

Let’s have no managers, instead of managers with no engineering experience

228

7

What to do when tech jobs go bad

196

8

Airbnb is putting AMP at the core of its digital strategy

115

9

FlightSimLabs Alleged Malware Analysis

113

10

Eve Online Chat Is Moving to Ejabberd

106

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]

1

Learn how to write effective automated tests

2