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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

1293

2

Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

1283

3

Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

1057

4

HIV Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient

935

5

Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon

733

6

Serious Chrome zero-day

732

7

Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing

720

8

Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

649

9

Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python

616

10

Daydreaming about the future instead of doing work today

599

Top Ask HN

1

How to speak like a leader, not like an engineer?

511

2

Where should I start as a 34-year-old switching to software as a career?

194

3

How do you keep your files organized on macOS?

174

4

How to create a service similar to Patreon?

141

5

How do I 3x my performance?

112

6

Current and former FB employees, what's the other side to the story?

108

7

Game devs, what is the hardest part about designing an AI for your game?

89

8

How to Get Good at Sales?

78

9

What is the best setup to work remotely with GUI on Linux?

59

10

Which C++ style guide do you follow?

49

Top Show HN

1

My CV is also a bootloader

255

2

212

3

Create Chart Images from a URL

204

4

I'm a robot tech enthusiast and this is my robot website

195

5

ApproveAPI – Real-Time user approvals via email, SMS, and push

183

6

Strans – Sed alternative that automatically learns from examples

158

7

The Jankest Autonomous Drone Built and Programmed from Scratch

137

8

Mixing WebGL and HTML, Both Rendered Out in React

129

9

Deep Work Hours

112

10

Feed of current articles for science lovers shortened to bullet points

94

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing

720

2

YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

246

3

Unconscious brain activity predicts decisions 11 seconds before action

211

4

The Foursquare of today is a location data giant

183

5

New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers

182

6

Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandoned years ago

168

7

In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were cast online

157

8

Tufts student claims innocence after being expelled for grade hacking

136

9

Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

128

10

A Romanian campus computer lab pentested the world and helped protect it (2018)

120

News [?]

1

HIV Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient

935

2

Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon

733

3

Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

649

4

Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfunctional future'

573

5

How the Internet Travels Across Oceans

365

6

How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all

359

7

Dutch join backlash at expensive drugs by making their own

353

8

Animals are no less emotional than we are

347

9

Democrats to push to reinstate repealed 'net neutrality' rules

347

10

China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Max aircraft

322

Scientific publications [?]

1

Oxide: A Formal Semantics for Rust

223

2

Welding breakthrough could transform manufacturing

105

3

Nasa captures images of supersonic shockwaves

63

4

Meta-Dataset: A Dataset of Datasets for Learning to Learn from Few Examples

44

5

Engineered microbe may be key to producing plastic from plants

41

6

Spoiler: Speculative Load Hazards Boost Rowhammer and Cache Attacks

35

7

What Programming Languages Engineers and Employers Love and Hate

33

8

Listening to Quantum Radio

31

9

Rebuilding a Piece of the First Digital Voice Scrambler

29

10

In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Deep Learning

18

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Myequifax.com Bypasses Credit Freeze Pin

450

2

269

3

Google open sourced GPipe, a library for training large ML models

195

4

Diving into Technical SEO Using Cloudflare Workers

116

5

RNN-Based Handwriting Recognition in Gboard

109

6

The service mesh era: Using Istio and Stackdriver to build an SRE service

85

7

The perils of federated protocols (2016)

62

8

Reimplementing Printk()

53

9

The history of ImageNet

26

10

Richard Stallman and Future of Software Innovation

20

Tech blogs [?]

1

Speedrunning Windows 95

241

2

ESP8266 gets its game on with open source engine

179

3

Engineering for the Long Haul, the Nasa Way

166

4

Facebook Doubles Down on Misusing Your Phone Number

157

5

True Random Number Generator for a True Hacker (2015)

67

6

“Good Code Documents Itself” and Other Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself

52

7

AMD: 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper in 2019

40

8

Tim Cook Changes Twitter Name to 'Tim Apple' After President Trump's Name Flub

40

9

Look Ma, No Glue: Electrostatic Adhesion as If by Magic

38

10

A Privacy-Focused Facebook? We'll Believe It When We See It

11

FAANG+ [?]

1

Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch

160

2

Azure Kinect DK

8

3

Free Book on Amazon about Computer Vision and Machine Learning

4

4

Henk: A typed intermediate language (1997) [pdf]

2

5

Running your game servers at scale for up to 90% lower compute cost

2

6

Predicting the ‘holy grail’ of climate forecasting: A new model

2

7

Predicting the ‘holy grail’ of climate forecasting

2

8

2

9

iPhone Can Do What?

1

10

The Making of Prince of Persia (1985 – 1993)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1k years stuns archaeologists

269

2

List of 30 European Tech Visas and Work Permits

221

3

German Regulators Tell Tesla to Stop Advertising Cars with Gas Savings in Price

178

4

Facebook’s Privacy Cake

120

5

One-fourth of Americans drink water from systems that don’t meet standards

118

6

Scientists are getting creative to save the kakapo

85

7

Theory of self-reproducing automata (1966)

80

8

The Brain Is Not a Computer (2016)

57

9

An Exuberant Renaissance Calligraphy Guide

49

10

A Crucial Clue the MH370 Investigators Missed

32

Science News [?]

1

SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down After Historic Test Flight

352

2

A PhD state of mind (2018)

170

3

Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox

169

4

Well-Meaning Bad Ideas Spoiling a Generation

143

5

Neuroactive potential of human gut microbiota in quality of life and depression

135

6

The Voyage of the Kon-Tiki Misled the World About Navigating the Pacific (2014)

109

7

Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing (2016)

90

8

Octopus and Squid Evolution Is Weird

88

9

The Black Death may have transformed medieval societies in sub-Saharan Africa

87

10

The Prague Astronomical Clock

57

Social [?]

1

Major bank accidentally published a private package to the public NPM Registry

568

2

“No, we’re telling everyone we are using Java”

400

3

What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words? (2012)

343

4

Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depends on Image Rotation

260

5

What is it like working at a company after releasing a negatively-received game?

247

6

A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking

133

7

“Summary of why Grammarly are predatory and you should avoid them”

88

8

PSA: Some Major News Outlets Are Also Sending Data Directly to Facebook

81

9

Splashdown of Crew Dragon DM-1

75

10

Twitter Exec Is Questioned About “Learn to Code”

25

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Gotify – a self-hosted push-notifications service

490

2

Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH (2017)

399

3

ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archive

381

4

A random dungeon generator in C, small enough to fit on a business card

286

5

Apple Maps Flyover Reverse Engineering

246

6

Run full Linux distros or specific applications on top of Android

244

7

Transform ML models into native code with zero dependencies

184

8

Curv: A language for making art using mathematics

152

9

Common Lisp Koans

151

10

ZFS on Linux 0.7.13

148

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of Emerging Technologies

160

2

139

3

List of things named after Leonhard Euler

69

4

39

5

23

6

12

7

9

8

Simulacra and Simulation

8

9

Artificial Life

5

10

4

Blogs [?]

1

Peak California

384

2

How Transformers Work – Model Used by Open AI and DeepMind

216

3

Deadlines and sprints are bad for you

167

4

Waymo: Bringing 3D perimeter Lidar to partners

136

5

Technical Debt Is Like Tetris

134

6

Chickens Are Bullies – Can Their Behavior Teach Us About Our Own?

107

7

The ‘secretary problem’ is so unrealistic it can't inform our decisions

89

8

Why we built our core engineering team outside of the SF Bay Area

71

9

46

10

Using TensorFlow to detect fish species

46

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses? (2010)

212

2

How to pair socks from a pile efficiently (2013)

2

3

And when to align to cache line size

1

Substack [?]

1

Lyft warns it may never make any money

6

2

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