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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

GitHub Package Registry

1181

2

Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end

1010

3

IT Runs on Java 8

964

4

WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones

939

5

Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API

935

6

We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

898

7

HTTP headers for the responsible developer

887

8

How I Run a Company with ADHD

784

9

Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study

751

10

The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017)

670

Top Ask HN

1

What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into

927

2

What was your experience starting a tech consultancy?

510

3

Which books teach mental models?

473

4

How does your development team handle database migrations?

269

5

How to Self-Study Integrated Circuit Design?

178

6

What's preventing us from achieving seamless video communication?

112

7

Personal Library Manager?

97

8

Do you ask to see the codebase before taking a job?

72

9

Has Google made you pay $15,000 to $75,000 for a security review?

54

10

Remote companies prefer not to hire remote developers from India?

53

Top Show HN

1

CSSFX – Click-to-copy CSS effects

595

2

I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics

475

3

Python Machine Learning – A Crash Course

350

4

2D Graphics on Modern GPU

306

5

Koonchi – Convert Photo to Hand-Painted Painting by Artists from India

275

6

WildDuck – Self-hosted modern email server

222

7

Person Identification by Keyboard Typing

202

8

Full Help – Self-hosted help desk and knowledge base software

197

9

RSS Search Engine

192

10

2M fully loaded concurrent WebSockets

158

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward

556

2

CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history

500

3

Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords

491

4

Supreme Court rules antitrust lawsuit against Apple can proceed

448

5

Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse

440

6

Uber opens at $42 per share

397

7

Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019

351

8

Google launches new “portal” HTML element

236

9

Don Norman on how design fails older consumers

234

10

Security lapse exposed a Chinese smart city surveillance system

212

News [?]

1

WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones

939

2

Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes

587

3

Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

542

4

CBS censors a ‘Good Fight’ segment whose topic was Chinese censorship

494

5

Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs

450

6

U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly

441

7

GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud

431

8

U.S. regulators approve the Long-Term Stock Exchange

394

9

Sued for copyright infringement for putting legal materials online

359

10

They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia

301

Scientific publications [?]

1

For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection

433

2

Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete

192

3

Urban trees 'live fast, die young' compared to those in rural forests

183

4

Experimental device generates electricity from the coldness of the universe

141

5

Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features

76

6

Ancient ritual bundle contained multiple psychotropic plants

68

7

Same-sex marriage legalization associated with reduced antigay bias

61

8

Multi-Person Pose Estimation with Enhanced Channel-wise and Spatial Information

57

9

Consumer Robotics Company Anki Shuts Down

21

10

How to Design a New Chip on a Budget (Andrew “Bunnie” Huang)

13

Dev Blogs [?]

1

309

2

GitHub Package Registry

281

3

Inheritance versus Composition

273

4

Predicting Stack Overflow Tags with Google’s Cloud AI

163

5

Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta

148

6

An End-to-End AutoML Solution for Tabular Data at KaggleDays

96

7

TLS 1.3 is going to save us all, and other why IoT is still insecure (2017)

94

8

Argo and the Cloudflare Global Private Backbone

93

9

Go Is on a Trajectory to Become the Next Enterprise Programming Language

93

10

Nine Charged in Alleged SIM Swapping Ring

60

Tech blogs [?]

1

Tim Cook: Four-Year Degree Not Necessary to Be Proficient at Coding'

75

2

RaspberryPi Featured on UK Postage Stamp

48

3

EFF to Tenth Circuit: First Amendment Protects Right to Record Police

33

4

Why Outlawing Cryptocurrency Purchases Is a Terrible Idea

14

5

California's Assembly Privacy Committee Will Consider Only Industry Bills

13

6

Court Refuses to Keep Patent Licensor's Secrets

13

7

Making a Three Cent Microcontroller Useful

8

8

Reverse-Engineering a Mass Surveillance App Used by Police in Xinjiang

7

9

Bitcoin Miner Bitmain Recently Cut Mining Production by 88%

5

10

Upgrading from an Intel Core I7-2600K: Testing Sandy Bridge in 2019

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story

604

2

The Next Generation (I3en) of I/O-Optimized EC2 Instances

59

3

Amazon Announces AWS EC2 I3en Instances

6

4

AWS DeepRacer the fastest way to get rolling with machine learning

4

5

Reinforcement Learning for the Real World with Dr. John Langford and Rafah Hosn

4

6

Learn Document Embeddings with Amazon SageMaker Object2Vec

3

7

Node.js 6 is approaching End-of-Life – upgrade your AWS Lambda functions

3

8

Apple Carnegie Library Opens Saturday in Washington, D.C

3

9

Creating Universal Windows Apps with React Native

2

10

EverCrypt cryptographic provider offers developers greater security assurances

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google Fights Back

423

2

Tesla's Screen Saga Shows Why Automotive Grade Matters

246

3

U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test

136

4

Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold with Glass

134

5

When time became regular and universal, it changed history

92

6

A tectonic plate may have peeled apart

90

7

The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (2017)

58

8

'YouTube Content-ID Abusers Could Face Millions of Dollars in Damages'

55

9

Lucretius saw no boundary between scientific interests and ethical claims

45

10

The Artistry of China’s Ivory Puzzle Balls

43

Science News [?]

1

During Cold War, CIA Plucked Soviet Submarine from Ocean Floor Using Giant Claw

221

2

Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next

218

3

The word “lox” hasn't changed in sound or meaning in 8k years

189

4

Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts

118

5

Diabetes complications soar in US, but not Canada, as teens become young adults

71

6

Dark Matter Sighting Gets a Reprieve in New Analysis

42

7

Trump Administration Might “Re-Examine” Climate Modeling

41

8

China charts a path into European science

39

9

Deadly Japanese earthquake study retracted over false data

28

10

The Mystery of Human Uniqueness (2013)

22

Social [?]

1

Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

460

2

Keepass.com spreading malware acting as the official password manager site

293

3

Oracle Wallet Master Key Lost

193

4

First SpaceX Starlink satellites loaded into Falcon fairing

131

5

The New Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Architecture [video]

130

6

Adobe tells users of old Premiere versions that they are not allowed to use them

127

7

Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video]

89

8

Begin Japanology – Name Seals / Hanko (2006) [video]

86

9

Off Grid Bitcoin Transactions Using Ham Radio and Blockstreams Satellites

82

10

Apple Pay will support NFC tags

78

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub Package Registry

1181

2

Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end

1010

3

Why CRDT didn't work out as well for collaborative editing xi-editor

457

4

3D Game Shaders for Beginners

391

5

Openpilot – open-source self-driving agent

262

6

Numpy Clone in Common Lisp

231

7

WebAssembly Micro Runtime

228

8

Svgbob: Convert your ASCII diagram scribbles into happy little SVG

213

9

Awesome Pascal – A curated list of Delphi, FreePascal, and Pascal shiny things

185

10

Resilience engineering: Where do I start?

167

Wikipedia [?]

1

25

2

10

3

6

4

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

4

5

3

6

2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years

3

7

A complex system designed from scratch never works [Gall's Law]

3

8

3

9

List of regions by past GDP (PPP) per capita

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study

751

2

What I gained, lost and learned while working for Microsoft

380

3

TensorFlow Graphics: Computer Graphics Meets Deep Learning

239

4

To reinvent the processor

223

5

How to Do Nothing (2017)

215

6

Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups, with code examples

151

7

Introduction to Containerization

134

8

Active freelancer banned on Upwork after video verification process

96

9

TCP/IP over Amazon Cloudwatch Logs

69

10

Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups

68

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What makes Lisp macros so special?

7

2

How to undo the most recent local commits in Git

6

3

Web Share API, Browser Inconsistencies (Issue Affects WSJ)

4

Substack [?]

1

Journalists Are Reporting Their Colleagues to HR for Political Opinions

78

2

This Week in Blockchain Research

3

3

SaaS Onboarding Flow

3

4

Who Controls the Internet?

2

5

Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain

2