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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

2195

2

I made a smart watch from scratch

1451

3

All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

1318

4

Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline

1250

5

Common mistakes in PostgreSQL

1084

6

Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords

950

7

Have a personal web site

883

8

Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers

876

9

I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]

817

10

730

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (May 2019)

488

2

How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?

275

3

Who wants to be hired? (May 2019)

163

4

When have you taken a decision in code outside your domain of expertise?

145

5

How common is it to work on projects with no testing?

115

6

Can we build Ironman's Jarvis with 2019 tech?

99

7

Advice on balancing family life at a startup

61

8

How do you guys prevent back problems?

57

9

Best way to learn JavaScript in 2019?

53

10

Do you think Google make ReCaptcha harder for users who block ads?

47

Top Show HN

1

ZFS Implementation in Python

411

2

CC Search – search engine for 300M CC-licensed images

375

3

Risp – Lisp in Rust

314

4

Faast.js – Serverless Batch Computing Made Simple

201

5

Nextjournal – seamless data science for teams

170

6

Komiser – Detect potential AWS cost savings

166

7

IPFS-Deploy – Zero-Config CLI to Deploy Static Websites to IPFS

150

8

Working on a new network transport for PulseAudio and ALSA

107

9

Talk to Transformer – Generate Text with OpenAI's Latest GPT-2 Model

93

10

DeepSwarm – Optimising CNNs Using Swarm Intelligence

73

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Windows gets a new terminal

509

2

Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

385

3

Hackers went undetected in Citrix’s internal network for six months

328

4

Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10

313

5

Microsoft Launches React Native for Windows

221

6

Bored Lonely Angry Stupid

218

7

Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash

216

8

Facebook is redesigning its core app

205

9

Microsoft launches a drag-and-drop machine learning tool

197

10

Girl’s $143k bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging

193

News [?]

1

Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords

950

2

Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?

585

3

Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction, U.N. panel says

548

4

Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard

503

5

Guardian records first operating profit since 1998

460

6

Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure

450

7

Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location and Web History

395

8

Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others

354

9

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

345

10

500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a language app

342

Scientific publications [?]

1

Next-Paradigm Programming Languages: What Will They Look Like?

217

2

Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey

173

3

Graph Matching Networks for Learning the Similarity of Graph Structured Objects

117

4

Survey of Dropout Methods for Deep Neural Networks

88

5

Caffeine Cranks Up Solar Cells

79

6

Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018)

77

7

RowHammer: A Retrospective

65

8

John Archibald Wheeler: A Biographical Memoir

45

9

The Influence of Streamlined Music on Cognition and Mood (2016)

28

10

A Practical Analysis of Rust's Concurrency Story

16

Dev Blogs [?]

1

730

2

Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote

587

3

Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

455

4

Remote-Powered Developer Tools

311

5

Introducing Windows Terminal

298

6

Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows

270

7

OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 model

234

8

CallJoy – A cloud-based phone agent for small businesses

161

9

eBPF Can't Count?

154

10

Announcing WSL 2

53

Tech blogs [?]

1

DHS Asserting Unconstitutional Authority to Search Travelers’ Phones and Laptops

203

2

We Got U.S. Border Officials to Testify Under Oath. Here’s What We Found Out

94

3

Shipments of PC Hard Drives Predicted to Drop by Nearly 50% in 2019

49

4

Organisms that breathe arsenic discovered in the Pacific Ocean

40

5

Add a Bit of Soviet-Era Super-Computing to Your FPGA

21

6

Shipments of PC Hard Drives Predicted to Drop by Nearly 50% in 2019

19

7

We Got U.S. Border Officials to Testify Under Oath

13

8

Section 230 Is Not a Special “Tech Company” Immunity

10

9

No, Section 230 Does Not Require Platforms to Be “Neutral”

5

10

Super Micro Dropping China-Made Components After Backdoor Reports

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mainframe to AWS

233

2

Apple Q2 Results

119

3

Amazon S3 Batch Operations

75

4

Toward Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Intelligence

4

5

Building Serverless Pipelines with CloudWatch Events

3

6

Amazon Managed Blockchain

3

7

Food and Mood: Just in time support for emotional eating [pdf]

3

8

HoloLens 2–Pricing and Options

2

9

Machine Reading Systems Are Becoming More Conversational

2

10

(Microsoft Research) TORC Haptic Feedback for Elastic Objects

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian

175

2

Map Shows Millions of Acres of Lost Amazon Rainforest

172

3

What Is Going on with UFOs and the Department of Defense?

158

4

Beekeepers hit hard by thefts of hives

145

5

A Woman Who Preserved over 30 Years of TV History

138

6

US Ride-Share Drivers Ready for Countrywide Strike Ahead of Uber IPO

81

7

Exploring a massive cave labyrinth hidden under Borneo

67

8

Data Engineer Study Guide

41

9

Microsoft, Slack, Zoom, and the SaaS Opportunity

24

10

The Artistry of China’s Ivory Puzzle Balls

20

Science News [?]

1

Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics

261

2

Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release

156

3

European universities dismal at reporting results of clinical trials

128

4

The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (2016)

111

5

Chinese hospitals set to sell experimental cell therapies

108

6

New physics needed to probe the origins of life

68

7

Trippy images were designed by AI to super-stimulate monkey neurons

68

8

Battling Ebola in a war zone

60

9

Smartwatches sense hand activity

35

10

The sun is stranger than astrophysicists imagined

20

Social [?]

1

Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors

702

2

Y Combinator's Essential Startup Advice – Michael Seibel [video]

211

3

We can't judge another programmer's abilities in a 60 minute interview

207

4

Epic Games is killing Linux support for games and software it acquired

194

5

60 days in jail for not paying a $2.75 subway fare costs the city $22,000

119

6

Tertill Weeding Robot

105

7

Google has added “unsupported browser” warnings for Edge Chromium on Google Docs

71

8

Major Azure Outage

69

9

Professor gave us dire warning that CS is going to be the next Art History major

51

10

“I Fell In Love With My Direct Report”

43

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Practices for writing high-performance Go

498

2

Microsoft Build Accelerator – open-source build engine for large systems

154

3

Manifold: Java Type-Safe Metaprogramming, Structural Typing, Extension Methods

126

4

Beam: Distributed knowledge graph store written in Go by eBay

106

5

90

6

SirixDB – An Evolutionary, Temporal NoSQL Storage System

88

7

IsometricSass – Sass library to make isometric 2D without JavaScript

76

8

Gopls: Language server protocol implementation for Go

63

9

Fabrix – A strongly-typed Node.js ecosystem

47

10

43

Wikipedia [?]

1

Apollo 15 postage stamp incident

133

2

Tokyo's Underground Discharge Channel

96

3

Goro Shimura has died

86

4

71

5

27

6

Bertrand Russell

12

7

General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy

11

8

11

9

Exception That Proves the Rule

10

10

Lockheed Martin X-33

10

Blogs [?]

1

Python at Netflix

440

2

Cost of serving billions of images per month

301

3

I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python

143

4

Silicon Valley Is Not a Fad

121

5

89

6

Google terminated my developer account and started a competing business

87

7

What If Unhappiness Contains the Secret to Happiness?

73

8

Self-Taught Mathematician; an Impossibility?

53

9

Interview with Kyle Simpson, author of You Don’t Know JS book series

49

10

Functional Programming Is on the Rise

48

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to sync SQLite database on Android phone with MySQL database on server?

1

Substack [?]

1

The End of Greed – “Where should we cap our ambitions?”

6

2

Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain

3

3

What's in a Username?

2

4

Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain

2

5

Live Action Role Playing at Your Job

2

6

Management of Digital Identity

1