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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
Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson
1463
4
China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon
1040
5
How to Start Learning Computer Graphics Programming
754
6
Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain
727
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New Horizons’ first hi-res imagery of Ultima Thule
697
8
Software Engineering at Google (2017)
685
9
The Hand Licking Incident
641
10
Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
626
Top Ask HN
1
How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
985
2
Who is hiring? (January 2019)
587
3
Go-to web stack today?
542
4
Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?
519
5
High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics?
398
6
How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
325
7
Is web development still a viable career choice?
292
8
How do you organise your hard drive?
275
9
How old were the most talented software engineers you've met?
195
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Fastest way to get started with freelancing?
160
Top Show HN
1
Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost
839
2
HN.Academy – Top online courses recommended by Hacker News users
773
3
Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application
328
4
Learn and practice modern JavaScript
305
5
Gaia – Build pipelines in any programming language
231
6
Convert blog articles to high-quality audio
146
7
Dimage.js – Never settle for two dimensions
119
8
Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient
116
9
I've re-implemented the Doom fire effect in plain JavaScript
108
10
An experimental data-flow analysis tool for JavaScript
95
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain
727
2
Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens
403
3
Compass Pathways has set itself up to be the first legal provider of psilocybin
214
4
Boom Supersonic raises $100M, aims for 2019 test flights
180
5
Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR
175
6
The Chinese scientist who allegedly created CRISPR babies is being detained
171
7
Singapore activist found guilty of hosting ‘illegal assembly’ via Skype
170
8
Geoff Hinton Wants Computers to Think More Like Brains
126
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A landmark 2012 paper transformed how software recognizes images
110
10
Netheads vs. Bellheads (1996)
102
News [?]
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Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums
622
2
New Horizons Reaches Ultima Thule
426
3
Marriott Concedes 5M Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted
360
4
Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash
336
5
My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror (2018)
310
6
Norway's electric cars zip to new record: almost a third of all sales
248
7
Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data
235
8
The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet?
207
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Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t
200
10
Google shifted $23B to tax haven Bermuda in 2017
196
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
The Hallmarks of Aging (2013)
175
4
The Erdos Paradox
133
5
Chinese rover powers up devices in pioneering moon mission
87
6
Grundig Satellit 650 Radio
85
7
Lasers vs. Microwaves: A Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage
81
8
The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia
72
9
Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates
54
10
A judging system that can score a routine from the angles of a gymnast's joints
29
Dev Blogs [?]
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Thunderbird in 2019
341
2
Kernel quality control, or the lack thereof
174
3
Learn EBPF Tracing: Tutorial and Examples
147
4
Io_submit and Linux AIO – An epoll alternative
121
5
The Firecracker virtual machine monitor
96
6
Toward race-free process signaling
23
7
The Vital Engines of Commerce
16
8
Why businesses fail at machine learning
15
9
The Datomic Information Model
11
10
One Year with Flutter: My Experience
8
Tech blogs [?]
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Analyzing Core I9-9900K performance with Spectre and Meltdown mitigations
206
2
Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 2060
106
3
Investigating Nvidia's Jetson AGX: A Look at Xavier and Its Carmel Cores
59
4
Qualcomm Puts Aside $1.5B in Funds Required to Enforce iPhone Sales Ban in DE
43
5
35C3: Safe and Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages
24
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Promising new Alzheimer’s treatment unexpectedly found in old antibiotic
6
7
Nvidia to Support VESA Adaptive Sync(FreeSync) Under “G-Sync Compatible” Brand
5
8
Breakthrough study explains how the immune system puts cancer cells to sleep
5
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AMD Launches 3000-series Picasso APUs, New H-Series and A-Series Processors
5
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Package tracking app turns users’ devices into a bot farm, violates user privacy
4
FAANG+ [?]
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Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors
535
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AWS Fargate Price Reduction – Up to 50%
14
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Announcing AWS Fargate Price Reduction by Up to 50%
7
4
Siri & AirPlay 2 enabled TVs.
6
5
Amazon Showroom
5
6
Tango: Distributed Data Structures Over a Shared Log (2013) [pdf]
4
7
S3 Intelligent Tiering storage class
3
8
Offer HN: My Book “Understanding SEO” – Free (Kindle) on Amazon for 24h
2
9
A Verified, Efficient Embedding of a Verifiable Assembly Language
2
10
Project Everest – Verified Secure Implementations of the HTTPS Ecosystem (2016)
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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A fifth of Earth’s geologic history might have vanished because of glaciers
183
2
Apple’s Errors
145
3
A Giant Speaker in Taiwan Is About to Switch on Again (2018)
77
4
In Its First Decades, the United States Nurtured Schoolgirl Mapmakers
67
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Travels with Smalltalk (1995)
53
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Death is no leveller if some live much longer than others
18
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Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why
16
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Tesla owner says Autopilot automatically regained control after slide-video
13
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National parks face years of damage from government shutdown
12
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Why playing peekaboo with babies is a very serious matter
9
Science News [?]
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How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code
509
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How to give a great scientific talk
155
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How ‘Magic Angle’ Graphene Is Stirring Up Physics
129
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How does the brain learn by talking to itself?
84
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How Alan Turing Deciphered Shark Skin
83
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Work on using AI to brain activity into speech
72
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Real-time readouts of thinking in rats
66
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Bill Gates Just Published a Letter Urging US Leaders to Embrace Nuclear Energy
64
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Computers Determine States of Consciousness
37
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Ravenmaster Tells of His Relationships with the Tower of London’s Resident Birds
31
Social [?]
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We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic
549
2
Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets
414
3
Non-Euclidean Worlds Engine [video]
234
4
Tesla Autopilot HW3 details
201
5
Rust at speed – building a fast concurrent database [video]
201
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Someone is trying to steal archive.is's domain
176
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How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp expert's perspective?
151
8
Torrents with public domain paywalled papers from before 1923
130
9
Pandas dropping Python 2 support
122
10
A thread for Junior Developers/Engineers
99
Github repos and gists [?]
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Build your own Mint
380
2
Flair: A simple framework for natural language processing
361
3
Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
317
4
How to Use JSON Web Tokens
260
5
Uncaptcha2: Defeat ReCaptcha with Google Speech2Text
239
6
Tilt – Local Kubernetes development with no stress
217
7
Tinyalloc: replacement for malloc/free in unmanaged, linear memory situations
199
8
Crev: dependency vetting with a web of trust
190
9
Pizza Dough
190
10
Merlin: A cross-platform command and control server and agent written in Go
181
Wikipedia [?]
1
Kuleshov effect
151
2
Billion laughs attack
110
3
Ray Kurzweil 2019 Predictions
60
4
MONIAC – Monetary National Income Analogue Computer
38
5
Powder metallurgy
28
6
Immunity-aware programming
18
7
Microsoft _NSAKEY
18
8
We are now half-way between the Y2K and the Year 2038 problem
17
9
2019 in spaceflight
11
10
Null Island
8
Blogs [?]
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Monorepos: Please don’t
332
2
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
304
3
Monorepo: please do
234
4
Why Telegram is insecure (2015)
230
5
Problems With Open-Source Business Models
158
6
Fusion Power Is About to Become a Reality?
118
7
The 30-Year Mortgage Is an Intrinsically Toxic Product
101
8
Bullshit Jobs and the Labourisation of Work
89
9
Privacy Inequality: The Most Brutal Form of Inequality You’ve Ever Imagined
72
10
My Name Is Daniel: He Could Have Been My Son. He Was Killed at 29
51
Stackoverflow [?]
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Is it possible to compile only mixins in scss?
1
2
Why does padding have to be a power of two?
1
Substack [?]