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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

2031

2

Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

1903

3

1005

4

Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s

936

5

Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users

932

6

Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop

888

7

Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, Killed in Christchurch

870

8

Give Me Back My Monolith

861

9

Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics

815

10

Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

811

Top Ask HN

1

How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?

440

2

Startup failed after years of work – Can I even get a job now?

302

3

How can I learn how to paint?

238

4

What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile?

235

5

What is the best “dumb” phone?

221

6

Is Someone Hijacking Google Images?

173

7

Any chronically ill founders here? How do you balance your life?

75

8

Has anyone successfully been able to completely quit using Google?

66

9

Articles like Sam Altman's startup playbook?

55

10

Tricks to Avoid Eye Problems?

52

Top Show HN

1

A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time

2690

2

A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets

510

3

This Question Does Not Exist

274

4

Stuff – An Alternative to Facebook Events

201

5

Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator

173

6

A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3

149

7

Graph Processing with Postgres and GraphBLAS

106

8

Tinkersynth, a whimsical generative art machine

105

9

Applying Machine Learning to March Madness

97

10

Graphql2chartjs: Realtime Charts Made Easy with GraphQL and ChartJS

96

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users

932

2

Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

487

3

Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage

370

4

Suse is once again an independent company

364

5

Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web

354

6

Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)

340

7

Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version

329

8

Tumblr has lost 30 percent of web traffic since December

304

9

A world of hurt after GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue 1M certificates

267

10

737 MAX crashes “linked” by satellite track data, FAA says

228

News [?]

1

Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

811

2

U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8

716

3

How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger

611

4

Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox

535

5

Online activists are silencing us, scientists say

503

6

Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

498

7

FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery scheme

393

8

California declared drought free for first time in seven years

391

9

The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’

355

10

E.U.’s Biggest Economies Ban Boeing Max 8 Jets

350

Scientific publications [?]

1

Experimental rejection of observer-independence in the quantum world

187

2

Arrow of time and its reversal on IBM quantum computer (2018)

141

3

Physicists reverse time using quantum computer

107

4

India's starry dwarf frog, lone member of newly discovered ancient lineage

57

5

Mammoth moves: frozen cells come to life, but only just

31

6

Global Initiative Mines Retired Hard Disk Drives for Materials and Magnets

29

7

Challenges in Search on Streaming Services: Netflix Case Study

14

8

Processing Data Where It Makes Sense: Enabling In-Memory Computation

8

9

Dormant viruses activate during spaceflight

7

10

Charles Babbage and the Turk

7

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

2031

2

New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception

213

3

RFC8482 – Saying Goodbye to ANY

162

4

Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP

129

5

Leaderless Debian

119

6

Programming in Rust: the good, the bad, the ugly

70

7

Stop the Bots: Practical Lessons in Machine Learning

56

8

EU takes major step forward on government vulnerability disclosure processes

53

9

Google Blog: With Lookout, discover your surroundings with the help of AI

14

10

Connecting the Dots on Why Nvidia Is Buying Mellanox

8

Tech blogs [?]

1

The debate over privacy can't rely on tech giants

71

2

Our Thoughts on the New Zealand Massacre

52

3

It’s Raining Brand-New Commodore 64s

8

4

Magnetic nano-probe explores individual cells from the inside

6

5

Fix it already: nine steps that companies should take to protect you

5

6

The Patent Office Can’t Ignore Law It Dislikes

3

7

Microsoft Brings DirectX 12 to Windows 7

3

8

United Airlines takes down poster that revealed Apple is its largest client

3

9

A Mechanical Harmonic Analyzer

2

10

Apple Store down – iPad/iMac updates, AirPower rumored

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Addressing Spotify’s Claims

733

2

New iPad Air and iPad Mini

236

3

Higher-Order Type-Level Programming in Haskell [pdf]

155

4

AWS Joins the GraphQL Foundation

7

5

Apple Just Released a New iPad

4

6

Towards Universal Language Embeddings

3

7

AWS Joins the GraphQL Foundation

2

8

Getting Started with the A1 Instance

2

9

Apple to Host Annual Worldwide Developers Conference June 3-7 in San Jose

2

10

Advancing Human-Centered AI

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Japan’s elaborate, colorful manhole covers

329

2

To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars

297

3

Where Warren’s Wrong

222

4

Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line in the World

176

5

Home of Strategic Command and Some of the USAF's Most Prized Aircraft Flooded

88

6

How rats became an inescapable part of city living

87

7

Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes

66

8

Book Summary: Radical Candor by Kim Scott

54

9

Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ (2017)

44

10

Jailed researchers trying to protect threatened cheetahs in Iran await verdict

41

Science News [?]

1

The rise and fall of scientific authority, and how to bring it back

197

2

Cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing

153

3

With single gene insertion, blind mice regain sight

151

4

How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games (2017)

141

5

Against Willpower (2017)

132

6

Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal brain development

86

7

Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Polarized Crowds

84

8

Math Duo Maps the Infinite Terrain of Minimal Surfaces

68

9

28,000-year-old mammoth cells have shown reactivity in mouse egg cells

68

10

Report examines origins and nature of 'math anxiety'

56

Social [?]

1

737 Max Explanation by a Software Engineer

759

2

Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users

620

3

Amazon makes 14 cents from every Lyft ride

221

4

Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has begun

170

5

“HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”

147

6

4chan has been blocked in NZ “for security reasons”

121

7

Altimir: Life in the depopulated Bulgarian countryside [video]

66

8

The Comdyna GP-6 analogue computer that I use daily at work

64

9

Boléro: Sergiu Celibidache (1971) [video]

59

10

Marcel Duchamp Interview on Art and Dada (1956) [video]

56

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Simple script to analyse your PostgreSQL database config, give tuning advice

276

2

VS Code on a Remote Server

264

3

KeyDB: A Multithreaded Redis Fork

186

4

Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python

183

5

Construct-JS – A library for creating byte level data structures

163

6

Lem: A Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility

159

7

Face detection library with speed of 1500FPS

137

8

Picotorrent: a tiny, hackable BitTorrent client

113

9

A Pwn2Own Exploit Chain

99

10

Start a side project, says GitHub founder (2008)

92

Wikipedia [?]

1

38

2

30

3

27

4

Surveillance Capitalism

14

5

The Overton Window

10

6

10

7

Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi

6

8

Rubber Duck Debugging

6

9

Magic Roundabout

6

10

Greenland Was Once in the EU, the original Grexit

6

Blogs [?]

1

Types Are Moving to the Right

167

2

Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol

154

3

How to Make $80k per Month on the Apple App Store (2017)

109

4

Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet (2015)

34

5

The worst bugs (C++)

24

6

Object detection ensembles as graph cliques

23

7

Building Blockchain Games with Confidentiality

18

8

The 737Max and Why Software Engineers Might Want to Pay Attention

12

9

Why I’m Publishing My First Novel in a Format You’ve Never Heard Of

11

10

The 737Max and Why Software Engineers Might Want to Pay Attention

11

Stackoverflow [?]

1

StackOverflow Is Down

8

2

Why is the Lisp community so fragmented?

7

3

What's the difference between an argument and a parameter?

2

4

JavaScript Reduce an Empty Array

1

Substack [?]

1

Beam Newsletter #11

1