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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How to do hard things

1189

2

I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page

1148

3

DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

1067

4

989

5

Can we all stop using Medium now?

925

6

908

7

WebGL Fluid Simulation

868

8

ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Intel CPUs

854

9

Leaving Google Fi

813

10

I turned my interview task for Google into a startup

752

Top Ask HN

1

Is freelance web development still a viable path in 2019?

301

2

Low self confidence and self esteem. How to improve?

253

3

What's your preferred way of ensuring complex database integrity?

73

4

Examples of bad open-source code to learn what to avoid?

66

5

Any cheaper but good alternatives to DigitalOcean?

53

6

What was it like to work at a “dotcom” in the late 90s?

37

7

How to Negotiate for Job Offer?

31

8

Which RSS reader do you use?

27

9

Engineers over 40: What is your career path?

25

10

How to Bootstrap a Startup Effectively?

25

Top Show HN

1

30 Hour Jobs – a job board for shorter work weeks

558

2

The Cyber Plumber's Handbook – SSH Tunnel Like a Boss

277

3

Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks

188

4

Konstellate – An Open Source GUI to Visualize Kubernetes Applications

133

5

UXY – adding structure to Unix tools

126

6

Oya – New projects set up lightning fast

116

7

Real-time image manipulation with Voronoi/Delaunay

87

8

Hacker News Front Page Trends

84

9

Made a new notification tool and I'm looking for some beta testers

64

10

Python 3 TSP solver based on LKH (cross platform)

57

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

AT&T promised 7k new jobs to get tax break, cut 23k jobs instead

556

2

Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data scraped and exposed

244

3

Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security Risk

229

4

GDPR adtech complaints keep stacking up in Europe

221

5

Americans can opt out of airport facial recognition

205

6

A SHA-1 chosen-prefix collision attack

178

7

New secret-spilling flaw affects almost every Intel chip since 2011

167

8

Sam Altman’s leap of faith

161

9

Almost every speed limit is too low (2017)

135

10

Microsoft open sources code to give any app Bing-like intelligence

119

News [?]

1

Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

634

2

Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets

512

3

Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max

509

4

I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit other workers

480

5

Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

469

6

Google suspends some business with Huawei

466

7

Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard to delete

402

8

SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships

355

9

Sony and Microsoft set rivalry aside for cloud gaming alliance

322

10

Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board Says

315

Scientific publications [?]

1

Voynich Manuscript Decrypted by Bristol Academic

54

2

Digital Doppelgängers Fool Advanced Anti-Fraud Tech

54

3

Catapulting spider winds up web to launch itself at prey

45

4

Radar for the Wrist

37

5

Visualizing the Consequences of Climate Change

30

6

Trump Proposes Extra $1.6B for Nasa's 2024 Return to Moon

5

7

What Is Applied Category Theory?

4

8

Inferring JavaScript Types Using Graph Neural Networks

4

9

A new iron-based superconductor stabilized by inter-block charger transfer

4

10

Google's recent paper on scaling Federated Learning

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Security Update

292

2

Has the Python GIL Been Slain? Subinterpreters in Python 3.8

235

3

Update to Security Incident

235

4

Glass Enterprise Edition 2

223

5

Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web

183

6

GKE Sandbox: Independent operating system kernel to each container

158

7

Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003

151

8

Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit

148

9

Updates to Works with Nest

129

10

Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model

121

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Immune to MDS Vulnerabilities

218

2

What Happened with Supermicro?

196

3

EFF Wins National Security Letter Transparency Lawsuit

189

4

Intel Process Technology Update: 10nm Server Products in 1H 2020, 7nm in 2021

56

5

Intel Reveals New Spectre-Like Attack, Advises Disabling Hyper-Threading

18

6

California Classifies Immigration Enforcement as Misuse of Network

14

7

How to enable full mitigation against Intel CPU attacks on Mac

9

8

Adobe Warns of Potential Legal Action for Using Older Versions of Creative Cloud

7

9

EFF Supports Unnamed Company in Bringing an End to Endless NSL Gag Orders

7

10

Speak Out for the Right to Take Companies That Violate Your Privacy to Court

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

As We May Program – Peter Norvig

4

2

Upcoming Updates to the AWS Lambda and AWS Lambda Edge Execution Environment

4

3

Delimited and Composable Continuations in PLT Scheme (2008)

3

4

Designing Far Memory Data Structures: Think Outside the Box

2

5

Data Structures from Scratch (JS Edition) – (Free for Kindle Unlimited Members)

2

6

Spending Moore’s Dividend (2008) [pdf]

2

7

Amazon SNS Adds Support for Cost Allocation Tags

2

8

Amazon's Alexa Guard

1

9

AI glass boxes: Open sourcing a library to enable intelligibility in ML

1

10

Foundations of Data Science

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Hertz bug leads to people being erroneously arrested and jailed

358

2

The moon may be tectonically active

174

3

A Single Component Can Brick Older Teslas

148

4

Tesla researcher is 'excited' about new battery tech developed by the Army

106

5

Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs

90

6

ENIAC Operating Manual (1946) [pdf]

83

7

A blueprint to write copy that converts, even if you're an awful writer

56

8

Tesla increases price of all Model 3 variants, even ‘off-the-menu’ base model

53

9

The dark truth behind wildlife tourism

40

10

Why I've started using NoScript

16

Science News [?]

1

How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics

219

2

An old artifact kept in a vault outside Paris is no longer the standard kilogram

202

3

Underground network of microbes that connects trees mapped for first time

199

4

As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern

184

5

What Ancient Romans Used Instead of Toilet Paper

181

6

Ten Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans (2018)

147

7

Neural nets typically contain smaller “subnetworks” that can often learn faster

128

8

Internet Data Is Rotting

121

9

Black, Hot ‘Superionic’ Ice May Be Nature’s Most Common Form of Water

106

10

China’s Rover Reveals Moon’s Hidden Depths

102

Social [?]

1

“A company is copyright-claiming every video I have ever made”

596

2

“It’s hard to take risks if you don’t have a safety net”

548

3

Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider

332

4

3D interfaces are usually worse than 2D interfaces

287

5

Salesforce enables ‘modify all’ in user profiles

280

6

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization [video]

231

7

Mailchimp changes definition of “audience” to include unsubscribed emails

93

8

Interview with Barbara Liskov (2016) [video]

67

9

Knit, Chisel, Hack: Building Programs in Guile Scheme (2016) [video]

47

10

What Happened to Hovertrains? (2018) [video]

46

Github repos and gists [?]

1

DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

1067

2

Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64

585

3

Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter

407

4

My Budget – free, open-source offline cross-platform budgeting

327

5

Genomics – A programmer’s guide

274

6

A new memory profiler for Linux written in Rust

212

7

Lsd: The next gen ls command

200

8

The Law of Leaky Abstractions

177

9

System design interview questions for IT companies

138

10

CodeGen: LLVM wrapper for just-in-time code generation and compilation

79

Wikipedia [?]

1

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

135

2

The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text

89

3

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

21

4

16

5

Kyshtym disaster: radioactive contamination accident from 1957

7

6

Grumpy Cat Has Died

7

7

Knuth's Up-Arrow Notation

5

8

Mojave Phone Booth

4

9

4

10

4

Blogs [?]

1

Excessive Consumption Limits Creativity (2016)

128

2

Stealing Downloads from Slack Users

107

3

Why I’m rewriting my SaaS

103

4

Dave had “fuck you, pay me” programming skills

73

5

Breakfast is a relatively modern invention

67

6

RealTalk Speech Synthesis

54

7

The Most Expensive Lesson of My Life: Details of SIM Port Hack

39

8

Never Take the Meeting: How I Tried (and Failed) to Infiltrate a Mentorship Cult

28

9

Message Queueing for Web Scraping

20

10

Huawei and other mobile “tech giants”: you should break free from Android

16

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)

83

2

What are the main technical differences between Prolog and miniKanren

4

3

Why is SCTP not much used/known?

2

4

How to update data using SlashDB

1

5

Structure Padding and Packing

1

Substack [?]

1

Phones Should Be Like Toothbrushes

55

2

In 2010 Apple had 1.4 stores per 100M devices. Today they have 0.36, 4x fewer

6

3

What I Learned on Twitter This Week

2

4

Underrated Skill: Doing Nothing

2

5

Rewardful Travel Back in Time to Dominate SaaS Referral Programs

2

6

Who Controls the Internet?

2

7

No Surge Pricing for Uber

1

8

Founders still doing live chat for SaaS biz?

1