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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Announcing unlimited free private repos
2867
2
Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
1620
3
FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
1534
4
Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
1527
5
Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
1516
6
Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson
1463
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Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN
1454
8
Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
1320
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Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry
1158
10
John C. Bogle Has Died
1084
Top Ask HN
1
How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
985
2
How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level?
654
3
Who is hiring? (January 2019)
587
4
How do you organize everything you want to do?
574
5
What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?
551
6
What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?
548
7
Go-to web stack today?
542
8
Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?
519
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Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?
499
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What are must-know concepts for back end development?
491
Top Show HN
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I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
1079
2
Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost
839
3
HN.Academy – Top online courses recommended by Hacker News users
773
4
Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories
475
5
Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018
411
6
A tool to find related subreddits
398
7
HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age
355
8
X-spreadsheet – A JavaScript canvas spreadsheet for web
347
9
Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application
328
10
Learn and practice modern JavaScript
305
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN
1454
2
Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps
882
3
Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps
735
4
Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain
727
5
Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door
640
6
Oslo made its city center basically car-free
488
7
Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize
483
8
Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy
463
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Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry
436
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Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL
417
News [?]
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Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry
1158
2
John C. Bogle Has Died
1084
3
Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
862
4
Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook
848
5
Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or Face, Judge Rules
787
6
Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
777
7
Sears has another chance to avoid closing down
773
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Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers
749
9
Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
707
10
50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
645
Scientific publications [?]
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Software Engineering at Google (2017)
685
2
Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
626
3
Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics
419
4
Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA damage in humans
266
5
Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code
250
6
Seneca Valley Virus has earned a reputation as a potent oncolytic agent
248
7
Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an invisible beam
210
8
Vitamin B1 deficiency at the heart of an environmental mystery
180
9
The Hallmarks of Aging (2013)
175
10
Geometric Understanding of Deep Learning (2018)
164
Dev Blogs [?]
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Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud
680
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773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old
449
3
Oracle v. Google and the future of software development
372
4
Thunderbird in 2019
341
5
HTTP/3: from root to tip
340
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Systemd as tragedy
288
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Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA
283
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Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
280
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Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language
252
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Approaching the kernel year-2038 end game
203
Tech blogs [?]
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FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
1534
2
Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point
344
3
EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition
241
4
AMD Radeon VII: High-End 7nm Vega Video Card
223
5
Analyzing Core I9-9900K performance with Spectre and Meltdown mitigations
206
6
AMD Ryzen 3rd Gen 'Matisse' Coming Mid 2019: Eight Core Zen 2 with PCIe 4.0
188
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Samsung Unveils 15.6-Inch Ultra-HD OLED Display for Laptops
184
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SSD Storage: 2018 in review
173
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Underclocking the ESP8266 Leads to WiFi Weirdness
159
10
Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 2060
106
FAANG+ [?]
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Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors
535
2
Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
519
3
Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
331
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Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets
328
5
Office 365 is now on Mac App Store
239
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TLS Termination for Network Load Balancers
117
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A Verified, Efficient Embedding of a Verifiable Assembly Language [pdf]
78
8
Apple Financial Results – Q1 2019 Conference Call LIVE
57
9
I wanted to like this book
55
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AWS Fargate Price Reduction
46
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
502
2
Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017)
272
3
Netflix Flexes
189
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A fifth of Earth’s geologic history might have vanished because of glaciers
183
5
Apple’s Errors
145
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The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica (2017)
124
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The Buzzfeed Lesson
121
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HN on second day from launch
120
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Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees
92
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Cars People Keep for 15 Years or More
80
Science News [?]
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A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar eclipse
600
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How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code
509
3
Proper Breathing Brings Better Health
404
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Unprovability comes to machine learning
218
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Earth’s magnetic field is acting up
191
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Screen time: how much is too much?
190
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How to give a great scientific talk
155
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Body-painting protects against bloodsucking insects
146
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Fasting can improve overall health
142
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Mathematicians Seal Loophole to Breaking RSA Encryption
138
Social [?]
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My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag
775
2
Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
718
3
We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic
549
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Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets
414
5
Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam
349
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Matz: We are mere mortals
302
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I'm leaving GitLab to help everyone work remotely
301
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Facebook is the worst thing that's ever happened to the internet
258
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Non-Euclidean Worlds Engine [video]
234
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Tesla laid off my disabled veteran husband then cancelled his sign on bonus
234
Github repos and gists [?]
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KABOOM in 180 lines of bare C++
854
2
Practical Linux Hardening Guide
683
3
AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
505
4
Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals
492
5
Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
456
6
Happy Birthday, Ruby
387
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How LinkedIn detects browser extensions
382
8
Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond
380
9
Build your own Mint
380
10
Flair: A simple framework for natural language processing
361
Wikipedia [?]
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Kuleshov effect
151
2
University of the Third Age
119
3
Gömböc
113
4
Billion laughs attack
110
5
The Market for Lemons
82
6
Paradox of tolerance
78
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Train ferry
73
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Ray Kurzweil 2019 Predictions
60
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Rules of Play
55
10
MONIAC – Monetary National Income Analogue Computer
38
Blogs [?]
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Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway
388
2
Ten minutes a day
355
3
Monorepos: Please don’t
332
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You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008)
322
5
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
304
6
Lessons learned scaling a PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month
259
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Monorepo: please do
234
8
Why Telegram is insecure (2015)
230
9
SF restaurants are suffocating
210
10
Airbnb Is Moving Faster at Scale with GraphQL and Apollo
202
Stackoverflow [?]
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What's so great about Lisp?
3
2
Matrix multiplication: small difference in size, large difference in timing
2
3
In CSS Flexbox, why are there no “justify-items” and “justify-self” properties?
2
4
Code Loops Without Any Loop Statement or 'goto' or Recursion
2
5
How to stop 'uninterruptible' process on Linux?
2
6
Is it possible to compile only mixins in scss?
1
7
Why does padding have to be a power of two?
1
8
“Piping” output from one function to another using Python infix syntax
1
9
Cat /dev/random asks me to print
1
10
Down vote favorite Tips for using vim over a slow connection?
1
Substack [?]
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Steve Jobs was wrong about middle management
18
2
Flat organizations are the most hierarchical
12
3
Television’s 1993 future is being recreated on the Internet
3
4
Apple markets on privacy, Facebook Android shenanigans, Chromecast hacked
1
5
Why Digital Native Vertical Brands Are Boring
1
6
Beam Newsletter
1
7
Flow State: Two hours of music that's perfect to work to, every weekday
1
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A week of privacy backlash against some of the US's largest tech corporations
1