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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)

2010

2

California bans private prisons

1952

3

Google’s GDPR Workaround

1868

4

Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

1831

5

Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

1793

6

Serverless: slower and more expensive

1787

7

Richard M. Stallman resigns

1747

8

Sunsetting Python 2

1616

9

Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

1606

10

How to do a code review

1471

Top Ask HN

1

857

2

What things do you wish you discovered earlier?

332

3

Who is hiring? (September 2019)

326

4

What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?

290

5

Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

268

6

Good Remote Work Literature?

255

7

Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?

255

8

What Have You Learned at Google as a Software Engineer?

246

9

Will getting a PhD lead to a more interesting life?

243

10

What is the ops architecture like for AAA multiplayer game servers?

234

Top Show HN

1

See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required

863

2

Cyberpunk web design made easy, really easy

775

3

Browse Reddit in 3D

720

4

A Senior Engineer's CheckList

662

5

I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

502

6

Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code

444

7

I built an online image editor using WebGL and CSS transforms

425

8

I made a jobs board for developers without degrees

343

9

HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup

341

10

RemoteMore – We connect developers with full-time remote jobs

334

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Uber lays off 435 people

976

2

In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default

679

3

A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online

649

4

Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law

566

5

DoorDash confirms data breach affected 4.9M customers, workers and merchants

526

6

Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian

506

7

Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer

411

8

Tom Delonge’s UFO Research Center Is Making Politicians Demand Answers

356

9

CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads

338

10

Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times

331

News [?]

1

California bans private prisons

1952

2

France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra

1255

3

Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?

1179

4

Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

848

5

Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties

806

6

Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study

785

7

WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO

728

8

California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees

721

9

Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

709

10

Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook

685

Scientific publications [?]

1

Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped by up to 90% since 1914

743

2

Starship Prototype Unveiled

543

3

The effect of meditation on brain structure (2012)

472

4

Hacking the Brain

389

5

Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment

389

6

Goodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric

345

7

China Grew Two Cotton Leaves on the Moon

331

8

What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?

285

9

How Do Developers Promote Open Source Projects?

249

10

Increased sedentary behaviour alters metabolism and body composition (2018)

210

Dev Blogs [?]

1

804

2

Running GitHub on Rails 6.0

703

3

657

4

A patent lawsuit against GNOME

604

5

Stripe Corporate Card

525

6

GitHub releases an ImageNet for code and a CodeSearchNet challenge

428

7

426

8

MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud

401

9

Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

374

10

Stop Infinite Scrolling

362

Tech blogs [?]

1

Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype

441

2

Why Ada Is the Language You Want to Be Programming Your Systems With

301

3

Don't Let Congress Hand Patent Abusers Their Ultimate Wishlist

248

4

Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Geekbench 4

239

5

Apple is evaluating new keyboard mechanisms to make thinner MacBooks

181

6

TSMC: 3nm EUV Development Progress Going Well

135

7

Forth: The Hacker’s Language (2017)

122

8

Artificial leaf produces first drugs using sunlight

111

9

AMD's Upcoming Ryzen 9 3900 Listed with 12 Zen 2 Cores at 65W

109

10

Arm and TSMC Showcase 7nm Chiplet, Eight A72 at 4GHz on CoWoS Interposer

105

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas

946

2

Edward Snowden: Permanent Record

759

3

iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

567

4

500

5

A Message about iOS Security

432

6

Apple Watch Series 5

307

7

Static TypeScript: A Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language

269

8

New Mac Pro Tech Specs

246

9

Echo Frames – Eyeglasses with Alexa

221

10

Improved VPC Networking for AWS Lambda

158

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet

606

2

Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking

546

3

The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so

379

4

The SR-71's predecessor used cesium-laced fuel to create radar-absorbing exhaust

308

5

Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1M miles

252

6

What Is a Tech Company?

245

7

The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)

230

8

Day Two to One Day

166

9

Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Climate Strike

160

10

People are reporting collisions with Tesla’s Smart Summon feature

159

Science News [?]

1

Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second

671

2

New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases

382

3

Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 into liquid fuel

379

4

Cormac McCarthy on how to write a science paper

326

5

Ultraprocessed Foods – A New Theory of Obesity

319

6

To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight

285

7

Charts show how little progress has been made in limiting greenhouse emissions

280

8

Physicists finally nail the proton’s size, eliminating an anomaly

261

9

Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decline in Just Two Months

254

10

In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’

253

Social [?]

1

Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

1793

2

94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

1430

3

It's later than you think

914

4

Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket

553

5

42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

552

6

Three recent papers uncover the extent of tracking on TVs

411

7

Troubles with the AWS web console

359

8

OpenBSD was right to disable hyperthreading [video]

265

9

SNES Cartridges and Enhancement Chips

256

10

Another Interstellar Object Detected in the Solar System

248

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Questions to ask a company during a job interview

1388

2

Pure Bash Bible

746

3

727

4

Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code

687

5

Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari

645

6

A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just the basics

540

7

Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

507

8

Sites with dumb password rules

485

9

OSSU: A path to a free self-taught education in computer science

474

10

Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts

471

Wikipedia [?]

1

Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc'

620

2

446

3

353

4

Attempto Controlled English

243

5

Entropic Gravity

193

6

TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol

174

7

Nebraska Furniture Mart

170

8

Trillion-dollar coin

152

9

143

10

139

Blogs [?]

1

Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting (2017)

187

2

Self-serve first: an overlooked paradigm underlying great software companies

175

3

Taking a year to explain computer things

161

4

A Kubernetes/GKE mistake that cost me thousands of dollars

155

5

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

153

6

I Lost My $50k Twitter Username (2014)

148

7

What a Senior Staff Software Engineer Does

115

8

I’m Suing Lyft

113

9

We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF

112

10

How two dead accounts allowed remote crash of any Instagram Android user

108

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression?

376

2

What are five things you hate about your favorite language?

3

3

What's the Point of This Macro?

2

4

Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

2

5

Using HTTPS? The URL may not be fully encrypted, hence can be tracked

2

6

Why were JavaScript atob() and btoa() named like that?

2

7

How to zip directories of a current folder in Python?

1

8

What's the point of “#define PROTOTYPE(s) s” that merely expands its arguments?

1

9

How to set proper orientation in 3D model in Augmented Face?

1

10

What Is a Memory Fence?

1

Substack [?]

1

WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism

1158

2

What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by oil wealth?

199

3

The Quest to Be Good at Everything

189

4

Why I don't love Light Rail Transit

117

5

The Writer of the Future

34

6

Can You Solve This? 1B Records per Second Data Streaming Challenge

16

7

Lifestyles of the Broke and Nameless

3

8

Why New York City Is on the Verge of Disaster

3

9

How A Jeopardy! Champion Remembers Everything

3

10

The Quest to Be Good at Everything

3