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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

I Sell Onions on the Internet

3015

2

Julian Assange arrested in London

2369

3

Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

2292

4

Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]

2164

5

Google Is Eating Our Mail

1931

6

Joe Armstrong has died

1928

7

I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me

1920

8

You Are Not Google (2017)

1623

9

I made a smart watch from scratch

1451

10

CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust

1340

Top Ask HN

1

What is your money-making side project outside programming?

1134

2

Are you put off building something because it already exists?

1046

3

One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

752

4

What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

740

5

How do you stay disciplined in the long run?

537

6

Amazon delisted me – what do I do?

495

7

Who is hiring? (April 2019)

400

8

How to Teach Coding?

322

9

What does your ML pipeline look like?

318

10

Which great products didn't succeed?

278

Top Show HN

1

Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

880

2

1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

744

3

I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking

593

4

Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer

501

5

Tree of Reddit Sex Life

494

6

CC Search – search engine for 300M CC-licensed images

375

7

Should you buy a house and rent it out?

353

8

312

9

Sauron – A web framework in Rust that adheres to the Elm architecture

305

10

Ethical Resources – 300 ethical alternatives to mainstream stuff

291

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand

788

2

The U.S. government is about to bar the IRS from creating a free e-filing system

408

3

No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick

388

4

A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions

356

5

Google launches an end-to-end AI platform

355

6

Google makes BigQuery available in Sheets

345

7

Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports overstate broadband adoption

341

8

Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars

335

9

Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation

333

10

China Bans the Word 'Leica' on Social Media

324

News [?]

1

Julian Assange arrested in London

2369

2

Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist

1036

3

Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris

989

4

Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image

889

5

Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods

848

6

Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize

712

7

Zuckerberg’s Rules Would Hurt Everyone but Facebook

592

8

Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report

579

9

Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues

562

10

Dieter Rams designed products to last, is horrified how we throw things away

541

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an open web index

548

2

How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer

528

3

Software Projects and Heroes: Lessons Learned from GitHub Projects

337

4

Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018)

324

5

IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care

237

6

Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow

231

7

DopplerFi – Communication Between BLE and Wi-Fi by Injecting Doppler Shifts

192

8

Exercise as a treatment for depression: a meta-analysis (2016)

156

9

Fooling surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection

148

10

The Anhei tokamak is first in the world to generate 100M degrees Celsius

135

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Warp – Mobile VPN

1211

2

814

3

Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta

630

4

Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

476

5

Notarizing Your App Before Distribution

252

6

Cloud Run beta pricing

247

7

2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

235

8

New version of Stripe Checkout

230

9

We’re asking Apple to change the advertising ID for each iPhone every month

222

10

Google Cloud Healthcare API

217

Tech blogs [?]

1

5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk

668

2

Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data

639

3

The Mueller Report Can’t Be Copyrighted, Is Flagged by Copyright Bots Anyway

327

4

EFF’s Tweet About a DMCA Takedown Is Now Subject to an Overzealous Takedown

313

5

DHS Asserting Unconstitutional Authority to Search Travelers’ Phones and Laptops

203

6

Windows 3.1 in my BIOS? It's more likely than you think

155

7

The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame

134

8

Apple now repairing MacBook keyboards in store, promising next day turnaround

132

9

House of Representatives Passes Net Neutrality Protections

111

10

EFF Statement on Assange Indictment and Arrest

100

FAANG+ [?]

1

Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation

471

2

Microsoft finds privilege escalation vulnerability in Huawei driver

368

3

A fork() in the road

257

4

Bosque Programming Language

123

5

Apple Q2 Results

119

6

AWS Mesh Generally Available

94

7

Amazon S3 Batch Operations

75

8

Out of sight but not invisible: Defeating fileless malware

66

9

Simple, Fast and Safe Manual Memory Management (2017) [pdf]

60

10

AWS Asia Pacific – Hong Kong Region

51

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen

696

2

Tesla Model 3 becomes best-selling car in Switzerland

357

3

An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)

347

4

Matrix.org hacked

324

5

Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires

231

6

This Place Is Not a Place of Honor (1992)

186

7

Thinking on Your Feet

185

8

Reddit's /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban

163

9

Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator

158

10

The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

156

Science News [?]

1

Brain signals translated into speech using AI

270

2

Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics

261

3

Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates

253

4

Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind

236

5

Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial archaeology

230

6

Benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut microbiota

216

7

Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains

210

8

Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding (2013)

192

9

The case for rejecting the memristor as a fundamental circuit element (2018)

191

10

After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking

186

Social [?]

1

Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]

2164

2

Joe Armstrong has died

1928

3

Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors

702

4

“I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”

640

5

Name one thing in this photo

568

6

A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla

415

7

Types will be part of Ruby 3 stdlib source

387

8

SQL databases come up with algorithms you’d never have dreamed of (2017) [video]

292

9

Overview of differential equations [video]

273

10

Sweden will vote against the copyright deal/article 13

254

Github repos and gists [?]

1

CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust

1340

2

Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

705

3

PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again

675

4

Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos

669

5

Joe the office mate

495

6

Agile Lite: Agile without all the burnout

427

7

Ripgrep 11 Released

410

8

Commit messages guide

385

9

Design Tools for Everything

377

10

Flutter desktop shells

370

Wikipedia [?]

1

209

2

180

3

174

4

Apollo 15 postage stamp incident

133

5

Elwyn Berlekamp has died

125

6

Seven-Dimensional Cross Product

104

7

Tokyo's Underground Discharge Channel

96

8

Alternative Periodic Tables

77

9

The Baghdad Battery

76

10

Haversine Formula

73

Blogs [?]

1

No one should have to travel in fear

444

2

Python at Netflix

440

3

Network Determines Success More Than People Realize

270

4

Deadlines Are Killing Us, and Almost Everything Else I Know About Leadership

256

5

How I Eat for Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, AI, and Instagram

227

6

Claude Shannon’s “Creative Thinking” Speech (2017)

188

7

Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate

170

8

C#88: The Original C# (2018)

158

9

Trying to make sense of CompuServe server hard disk images

133

10

Silicon Valley Is Not a Fad

121

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the incentive for curl to release the library for free?

26

2

StackOverflow time travels to the 90s for April fools

12

3

StackOverflow now has a 90s theme (link to a random SO thread)

4

4

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (2008)

3

5

Pros and cons of using multiple Kubernetes clusters

2

6

How to speed up Linux kernel compilation?

2

7

What's the rationale for all comparisons returning false for IEEE754 NaN values?

2

8

Erlang's 99.9999999% (nine nines) reliability

2

9

Calculating Big-O time and space complexity for functional languages

2

10

Stackover Prank

1

Substack [?]

1

Is everything an MLM

352

2

An Introduction to René Girard

73

3

Chinese AI: Year 1 of ChinAI

54

4

Every time you want to say 'problem' say 'project' instead

6

5

Service Oriented What Again?

4

6

Biases Blocking Your Way to Success

4

7

There's no such thing as “the average millionaire”

4

8

Russiagate Was Journalist QAnon

4

9

I hate what they’ve done to almost everyone in my family

4

10

I hate what they’ve done to almost everyone in my family

4