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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A guide to difficult conversations

1809

2

Warp – Mobile VPN

1211

3

Why Bother with What Three Words?

944

4

Productivity Is About Attention Management

939

5

Facebook to ban white nationalist content

888

6

Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods

848

7

European Parliament approves copyright reform

769

8

Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award

769

9

Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent

729

10

655

Top Ask HN

1

Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days?

454

2

Who is hiring? (April 2019)

400

3

What are your best learning methods/hacks/tips?

238

4

Best questions for an engineer to ask a CEO during a job interview?

230

5

How do I ask for a raise?

202

6

Those who moved careers from the West to China, what's your experience?

191

7

I will pay you $2000 and code the MVP for your side-project

167

8

Who wants to be hired? (April 2019)

156

9

Is all programming constantly changing or just front-end JavaScript?

131

10

What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

91

Top Show HN

1

Bsed – Simple, English syntax on top of Perl text processing

178

2

Provide a CSV and a target field, generate a model and code to run it

171

3

Grassland – Real-Life SimCity

167

4

Tinytetris – 80 x 23 Terminal Tetris

132

5

GNUplot with sixel – Mix images, ANSI colors and plots

107

6

SocialAmnesia – Open-source tool that auto-erases old Reddits/tweets

70

7

Prefect – A workflow engine designed for modern data engineering

59

8

NatUIve 2.0 – lightweight, rich, open web

54

9

IP-Api.io – Geolocation by IP

36

10

Training Data for Robot Dogs

32

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple Cancels AirPower Product

621

2

RSS Is Better Than Twitter

541

3

Google launches AMP for email

511

4

Lyft prices IPO at top of range

283

5

Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan

253

6

EU to ban plastic plates, cups, and cutlery by 2021

186

7

McDonald's Acquires Machine-Learning Startup Dynamic Yield for $300M

150

8

UC Browser for Android, Desktop Exposes 500M Users to MiTM Attacks

120

9

Senators ask why vendors sell voting machines with ‘known’ vulnerabilities’

111

10

No Man’s Sky’s next update will let you explore infinite space in VR

109

News [?]

1

Productivity Is About Attention Management

939

2

Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods

848

3

Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award

769

4

Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of storing data in Australia

572

5

Man makes money from cold calls with his own higher-rate phone number (2013)

366

6

The Day the Dinosaurs Died

326

7

Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved

319

8

An amphibian fungus has become “the most deadly pathogen known”

303

9

Burnout caused by chronic stress is widespread

301

10

If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too

279

Scientific publications [?]

1

Teeny-Tiny Bluetooth Transmitter Runs on Less Than 1 Milliwatt

122

2

Tetris Is Hard, Even to Approximate

122

3

Electronic music reduces host attack and mating success in dengue mosquitoes

72

4

Lost in translation: Exposing hidden compiler optimization opportunities

54

5

The role of cannabinoids in adult neurogenesis

52

6

A Deep Attention-Based Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Model-Based Control

38

7

Hash Your Way to a Better Neural Network

14

8

The sun's magnetic field is ten times stronger than previously believed

13

9

Can “Internet-of-Body” Thwart Cyber Attacks on Implanted Medical Devices?

13

10

A Link Layer Protocol for Quantum Networks

12

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Warp – Mobile VPN

1211

2

Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? (2018)

275

3

Looking for a new CEO

235

4

173

5

BoringTun, a Userspace WireGuard Implementation in Rust

170

6

Errors – Gotta Catch 'Em All

48

7

The creation of the io.latency block I/O controller

47

8

Firefox Lockbox Now on Android

45

9

Working with UTF-8 in the Kernel

34

10

Hitting send on the next 15 years of Gmail

34

Tech blogs [?]

1

EU’s Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next?

322

2

Magnetic Bearings Might Keep Motor Spinning for Millennia

172

3

Nokia 9 PureView Now Available: A Flagship with a 5+1-Camera Array

53

4

EFF Backs Redditor in Fight to Stay Anonymous

38

5

Two zero-day Safari exploits found, one allowing complete takeover of Mac

15

6

AMD EPYC Rome Benched: 64 Cores, 128 Threads at 2.4 GHz (For Now)

11

7

HP to Introduce Amoled Envy and Spectre Laptops in April

7

8

Microsoft Discovers Backdoor-Like Flaw in Huawei Matebook Driver

6

9

Apple announces Apple News+ $9.99/mo. subscriptions with over 300 publications

5

10

Spot the Surveillance

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

ECG app and irregular rhythm notification on Apple Watch

148

2

New Amazon S3 Storage Class – Glacier Deep Archive

84

3

Concurrency Scaling for Amazon Redshift – Peak Performance at All Times

5

4

AWS App Mesh – service mesh networking across ECS, EC2, EKS, Fargate, K8S

3

5

AWS EKS Supports Kubernetes 1.12

3

6

AWS Deeplearning Containers

3

7

Glacier Deep Archive Storage Class

3

8

AMD EPYC-Powered EC2 Instances – M5ad and R5ad

3

9

Advanced Request Routing for AWS Application Load Balancers

3

10

Apple Card - How it works

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires

231

2

F-35's Towed Decoys

173

3

How to Dress Like an Ottoman

114

4

SR-71's “R2-D2” Could Be the Key to Winning Fights in GPS Denied Environments

107

5

Lockheed’s D-21 Tagboard Supersonic Spy Drone

91

6

Rugged 'mountains' taller than Everest lurk deep inside Earth

85

7

Cash Back Credit Card Comparison

66

8

Defeating Feature Fatigue (2006)

40

9

U.S. Wants ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer in Prison for 12.5 Years

37

10

Producer Playbook: Guidelines, best practices for producers and project managers

22

Science News [?]

1

Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure odour in humans

386

2

U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person

285

3

A Magician Explains Why We See What’s Not There

197

4

Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33

178

5

The sexes don’t feel pain the same way

142

6

A once abandoned drug compound shows an ability to rebuild organs

132

7

Ways to manage your time better

112

8

Kicking neural network design automation into high gear

90

9

Plagiarism detectors are a crutch, and a problem

88

10

How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning

81

Social [?]

1

European Parliament approves copyright reform

769

2

Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent

729

3

Paul Graham inspired the creation of Redis

408

4

Boston Dynamics’ new robot stacks boxes [video]

361

5

Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic

226

6

Boss is 90% of the 'Employee Experience'

221

7

“Google just started mass banning/limiting Archive Team downloads”

217

8

Typing with a Piano [video]

206

9

Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads

187

10

AT&T 1993 “You Will” Ads [video]

154

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Git implemented in Rust

370

2

Tone.js – A framework for making interactive music in the browser

261

3

Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim

251

4

Miri: Interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation

218

5

Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements

201

6

The anti crunch hours license

181

7

Cartography: Graph view of infrastructure assets and relationships between them

174

8

ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations for robot sensor data

165

9

Native Javascript alternatives to jQuery methods

114

10

Handsontable drops open source for a non-commercial license

112

Wikipedia [?]

1

209

2

117

3

94

4

University of Florida Taser incident (“Don't tase me, bro!”)

9

5

Holocene Extinction

7

6

Single-wire earth return (grid infrastructure)

5

7

Replication Crisis

5

8

Project MKUltra

5

9

4

10

4

Blogs [?]

1

Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track

445

2

Deadlines Are Killing Us, and Almost Everything Else I Know About Leadership

256

3

C#88: The Original C# (2018)

158

4

Why The Intercept closed the Snowden archive

70

5

Why are monoidal categories interesting?

66

6

Creating a collaborative app using CRDTs

60

7

How London thieves exploit organisational silos

56

8

What Crippling Depression Feels Like to Me

29

9

Think Like a Martian About Money and Universal Basic Income

27

10

Why Distributed Systems Are Hard to Develop – and How to Fix It

27

Stackoverflow [?]

1

StackOverflow time travels to the 90s for April fools

12

2

Why does /usr/share/dict/words contain “manbird” on OS X?

9

3

StackOverflow now has a 90s theme (link to a random SO thread)

4

4

What happened to stackoverflow on this question

3

5

How to share secrets between an in-browser web app and a desktop app?

2

6

Stack Overflow New(old) Look

1

7

Stack Overflow 90s Theme

1

8

Stackover Prank

1

Substack [?]

1

The Secret Liabilities of Data

3

2

Beam Newsletter Week 13

1