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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
2031
2
Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair
1903
3
A guide to difficult conversations
1809
4
U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
1293
5
Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool
1283
6
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
1252
7
Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
1057
8
Thinkpad X210
1005
9
Why Bother with What Three Words?
944
10
Productivity Is About Attention Management
939
Top Ask HN
1
How to speak like a leader, not like an engineer?
511
2
Resources/Steps for Becoming a Consultant?
497
3
Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days?
454
4
Tools or sites you use to scope out a workplace before taking a job?
448
5
How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?
440
6
Who is hiring? (March 2019)
398
7
What made you change your mind about a programming language/paradigm?
338
8
Startup failed after years of work – Can I even get a job now?
302
9
How can I learn how to paint?
238
10
What are your best learning methods/hacks/tips?
238
Top Show HN
1
A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time
2690
2
A Color Picker I Made
591
3
A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets
510
4
Everything I Know Wiki
431
5
Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service
423
6
Editable, royalty-free SVG illustrations
293
7
A raycaster that renders to random dot stereogram (like Magic Eye)
277
8
This Question Does Not Exist
274
9
My CV is also a bootloader
255
10
Freeciv-Web
212
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users
932
2
Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing
720
3
Apple announces Apple Card credit card
690
4
Apple Cancels AirPower Product
621
5
Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting
586
6
Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
553
7
RSS Is Better Than Twitter
541
8
Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service
538
9
Google launches AMP for email
511
10
Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts
487
News [?]
1
Productivity Is About Attention Management
939
2
HIV Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient
935
3
Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
811
4
Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award
769
5
SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station
755
6
Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
733
7
U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8
716
8
Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone
649
9
Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men
614
10
How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger
611
Scientific publications [?]
1
A new Einstein cross is discovered
259
2
Graphene Device Sops Up Sunlight, Heats to 160 Degrees Celsius in Seconds
230
3
Oxide: A Formal Semantics for Rust
223
4
Oracle Swings the Layoff Axe
207
5
How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs (2007)
191
6
Experimental rejection of observer-independence in the quantum world
187
7
China’s Plan to Build the World’s Biggest Supergrid
177
8
Why Is It So Hard to Build Profitable Robot Companies?
160
9
In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in skills
148
10
Arrow of time and its reversal on IBM quantum computer (2018)
141
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
2031
2
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
1252
3
Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
808
4
Building Fast Interpreters in Rust
547
5
Myequifax.com Bypasses Credit Freeze Pin
450
6
Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? (2018)
275
7
OpenAI LP
269
8
Looking for a new CEO
235
9
New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception
213
10
Google open sourced GPipe, a library for training large ML models
195
Tech blogs [?]
1
EU’s Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next?
322
2
USB4 Specification Announced: Adopting Thunderbolt 3 Protocol for 40 Gbps USB
308
3
Speedrunning Windows 95
241
4
Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13
192
5
Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?
181
6
ESP8266 gets its game on with open source engine
179
7
Magnetic Bearings Might Keep Motor Spinning for Millennia
172
8
Engineering for the Long Haul, the Nasa Way
166
9
Facebook Doubles Down on Misusing Your Phone Number
157
10
German Data Privacy Commissioner Says Article 13 Inevitably Leads to Filters
152
FAANG+ [?]
1
Addressing Spotify’s Claims
733
2
Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again
378
3
AirPods with Wireless Charging Case
331
4
Apple updates its iMac line
250
5
MS TextWorld: open-source engine that both generates and simulates text games
238
6
New iPad Air and iPad Mini
236
7
Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch
160
8
Apple Arcade – Game subscription service
159
9
Higher-Order Type-Level Programming in Haskell [pdf]
155
10
ECG app and irregular rhythm notification on Apple Watch
148
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Japan’s elaborate, colorful manhole covers
329
2
To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars
297
3
Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1k years stuns archaeologists
269
4
Where Warren’s Wrong
222
5
List of 30 European Tech Visas and Work Permits
221
6
German Regulators Tell Tesla to Stop Advertising Cars with Gas Savings in Price
178
7
Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line in the World
176
8
Data Science Teams Need Generalists, Not Specialists
176
9
F-35's Towed Decoys
173
10
Betrayed by the Android UI [slides]
158
Science News [?]
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Scientists rise up against statistical significance
616
2
The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says
432
3
Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure odour in humans
386
4
SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down After Historic Test Flight
352
5
South Korea accepts geothermal plant probably caused destructive quake
321
6
Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Abel Prize
309
7
U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person
285
8
A Magician Explains Why We See What’s Not There
197
9
The rise and fall of scientific authority, and how to bring it back
197
10
Majority of health apps on Android tested shared personal health data
184
Social [?]
1
The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times
771
2
European Parliament approves copyright reform
769
3
737 Max Explanation by a Software Engineer
759
4
Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent
729
5
Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users
620
6
Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake
586
7
Major bank accidentally published a private package to the public NPM Registry
568
8
Google terminated our startup's developer account – what do we do?
464
9
“Every minute I spent thinking about competitors was a minute wasted”
442
10
KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS
434
Github repos and gists [?]
1
x86 Bare Metal Examples
513
2
Gotify – a self-hosted push-notifications service
490
3
Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH (2017)
399
4
Python Data Science Handbook: Full Text in Jupyter Notebooks
396
5
ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archive
381
6
A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job interviews
369
7
Fyne: Cross-Platform GUI in Go Based on Material Design
360
8
An introduction to distributed systems (2017)
318
9
A random dungeon generator in C, small enough to fit on a business card
286
10
Simple script to analyse your PostgreSQL database config, give tuning advice
276
Wikipedia [?]
1
Gall's Law
328
2
List of Emerging Technologies
160
3
Lambda Cube
139
4
German Wikipedia blacked out in protest against EU copyright reform
123
5
Gödel Machine
117
6
MIDI Maze
94
7
Marvin Pipkin, inventor of the frosted light bulb
86
8
List of things named after Leonhard Euler
69
9
Story of a Stolen Boeing
65
10
Risch Algorithm for Symbolic Integration
40
Blogs [?]
1
Everyone should read support emails
504
2
Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track
445
3
Peak California
384
4
The cortex is a neural network of neural networks
297
5
How Transformers Work – Model Used by Open AI and DeepMind
216
6
Terminal latency (2017)
181
7
Deadlines and sprints are bad for you
167
8
Types Are Moving to the Right
167
9
Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol
154
10
Vice Media Had YouTube Shut Down My Gaming Channel Without Contacting Me
148
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses? (2010)
212
2
Why does /usr/share/dict/words contain “manbird” on OS X?
9
3
StackOverflow Is Down
8
4
Why is the Lisp community so fragmented?
7
5
What happened to stackoverflow on this question
3
6
Java Equivalent of Lisp Trace
3
7
What is the maximum length of a URL (in different browsers)?
2
8
How to share secrets between an in-browser web app and a desktop app?
2
9
What's the difference between an argument and a parameter?
2
10
A Usecase of CSS Variables
2
Substack [?]
1
Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
201
2
Lyft warns it may never make any money
6
3
The Secret Liabilities of Data
3
4
Shared scooters don't last long
2
5
Shared scooters don't last long
2
6
Shared scooters don't last long
1
7
Beam Newsletter – 2019 Week #9
1
8
Beam Week #10
1
9
Beam Newsletter #11
1
10
Spotify vs. Apple Tax
1