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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Switch from Chrome to Firefox

3287

2

A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

2195

3

Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

2093

4

GitHub Sponsors

2082

5

Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System

1370

6

"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"

1343

7

All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

1318

8

Block Fingerprinting with Firefox

1292

9

Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown

1276

10

Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline

1250

Top Ask HN

1

What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into

927

2

What was your experience starting a tech consultancy?

510

3

Who is hiring? (May 2019)

488

4

Which books teach mental models?

473

5

How can I work towards building a company while employed?

413

6

A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha?

368

7

How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?

324

8

Is freelance web development still a viable path in 2019?

301

9

How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?

275

10

Starting Your Own LLC?

274

Top Show HN

1

CSSFX – Click-to-copy CSS effects

595

2

30 Hour Jobs – a job board for shorter work weeks

558

3

Switch from Medium to your own blog

494

4

I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics

475

5

ZFS Implementation in Python

411

6

Turn an Excel file into a web application

386

7

nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole

372

8

Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains

363

9

Python Machine Learning – A Crash Course

350

10

Risp – Lisp in Rust

314

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent

1077

2

All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward

556

3

AT&T promised 7k new jobs to get tax break, cut 23k jobs instead

556

4

How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years

528

5

Windows gets a new terminal

509

6

CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history

500

7

Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords

491

8

Supreme Court rules antitrust lawsuit against Apple can proceed

448

9

Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse

440

10

Uber opens at $42 per share

397

News [?]

1

Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues

993

2

Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords

950

3

WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones

939

4

Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

634

5

Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes

587

6

Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?

585

7

Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction, U.N. panel says

548

8

Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

542

9

Niki Lauda has died

537

10

Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets

512

Scientific publications [?]

1

For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection

433

2

James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test

345

3

One SQL to Rule Them All: Management of Streams and Tables

260

4

Next-Paradigm Programming Languages: What Will They Look Like?

217

5

Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete

192

6

Urban trees 'live fast, die young' compared to those in rural forests

183

7

Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey

173

8

An exoplanet has been found in the ‘Neptunian Desert’

164

9

Another Step Toward the End of Moore’s Law

148

10

Speech2Face: Learning the Face Behind a Voice

143

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Block Fingerprinting with Firefox

1292

2

730

3

Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote

587

4

Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

455

5

First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Insurance Records

418

6

Remote-Powered Developer Tools

311

7

309

8

Introducing Windows Terminal

298

9

Security Update

292

10

GitHub Package Registry

281

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Ryzen 3000 announced

657

2

Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All the Time

233

3

AMD Immune to MDS Vulnerabilities

218

4

Integrated Circuits Can Be Easy to Understand with the Right Teachers

214

5

What Happened with Supermicro?

196

6

EFF Wins National Security Letter Transparency Lawsuit

189

7

Zork and the Z-Machine: Bringing the Mainframe to 8-Bit Home Computers

106

8

Samsung announces first 3nm PDK

102

9

We Got U.S. Border Officials to Testify Under Oath. Here’s What We Found Out

94

10

Indictment of Julian Assange Poses a Clear Danger to Journalism, Speech

76

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro

674

2

Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story

604

3

Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mainframe to AWS

233

4

Apple App Store Principles and Practices

156

5

Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless

83

6

The Next Generation (I3en) of I/O-Optimized EC2 Instances

59

7

Announcing the new pricing plan for AWS Config rules

39

8

New iPod touch delivers even greater performance

32

9

Amazon MSK – managed streaming for Apache Kafka – now generally available

29

10

Updates to Amazon EKS Version Lifecycle

24

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google Fights Back

423

2

Hertz bug leads to people being erroneously arrested and jailed

358

3

Tesla's Screen Saga Shows Why Automotive Grade Matters

246

4

Byte Magazine – LISP (1979)

187

5

How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian

175

6

The moon may be tectonically active

174

7

Apple tried to buy Tesla for more than it’s currently worth in 2013, report says

174

8

Map Shows Millions of Acres of Lost Amazon Rainforest

172

9

What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

158

10

A Single Component Can Brick Older Teslas

148

Science News [?]

1

A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests

695

2

Video filmed at four trillion frames per second captures light in a flash

387

3

Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by fungi

230

4

During Cold War, CIA Plucked Soviet Submarine from Ocean Floor Using Giant Claw

221

5

How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics

219

6

Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next

218

7

Algorithm Solves Graph Isomorphism in Record Time (2015)

212

8

An old artifact kept in a vault outside Paris is no longer the standard kilogram

202

9

Underground network of microbes that connects trees mapped for first time

199

10

Google revives controversial cold-fusion experiments

191

Social [?]

1

"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"

1343

2

Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown

1276

3

“A company is copyright-claiming every video I have ever made”

596

4

“It’s hard to take risks if you don’t have a safety net”

548

5

Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

460

6

Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

371

7

Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider

332

8

Keepass.com spreading malware acting as the official password manager site

293

9

Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (1995)

287

10

3D interfaces are usually worse than 2D interfaces

287

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub Sponsors

2082

2

GitHub Package Registry

1181

3

DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

1067

4

Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end

1010

5

Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author

644

6

The Art of Command Line (2015)

597

7

Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64

585

8

Practices for writing high-performance Go

498

9

SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics

469

10

Why CRDT didn't work out as well for collaborative editing xi-editor

457

Wikipedia [?]

1

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

135

2

The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text

89

3

Bonini's Paradox

88

4

Goro Shimura has died

86

5

71

6

32

7

27

8

25

9

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

21

10

Hybridogenesis in water frogs

21

Blogs [?]

1

Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study

751

2

What I gained, lost and learned while working for Microsoft

380

3

The Most Expensive Lesson of My Life: Details of SIM Port Hack

317

4

Cost of serving billions of images per month

301

5

TensorFlow Graphics: Computer Graphics Meets Deep Learning

239

6

To reinvent the processor

223

7

How to Do Nothing (2017)

215

8

Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups, with code examples

151

9

I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python

143

10

Introduction to Containerization

134

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)

83

2

What makes Lisp macros so special?

7

3

How to undo the most recent local commits in Git

6

4

How to Create a Minimal, Reproducible Example

6

5

How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?

5

6

What are the main technical differences between Prolog and miniKanren

4

7

Web Share API, Browser Inconsistencies (Issue Affects WSJ)

4

8

How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?

3

9

How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?

3

10

Why does the hash of INF have the digits of Pi in Python?

3

Substack [?]

1

Journalists Are Reporting Their Colleagues to HR for Political Opinions

78

2

Phones Should Be Like Toothbrushes

55

3

Python's Caduceus Syndrome

45

4

Is Fake News Spam?

31

5

In 2010 Apple had 1.4 stores per 100M devices. Today they have 0.36, 4x fewer

6

6

The End of Greed – “Where should we cap our ambitions?”

6

7

WhatsApp, Too, Gets Hacked

4

8

Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain

3

9

This Week in Blockchain Research

3

10

SaaS Onboarding Flow

3