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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Switch from Chrome to Firefox

3287

2

Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

2093

3

Google Cloud Is Down

1395

4

"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"

1343

5

Block Fingerprinting with Firefox

1292

6

Advanced Data Structures (2017)

1176

7

1145

8

Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well

1109

9

Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent

1077

10

Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]

1060

Top Ask HN

1

I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology

472

2

Who is hiring? (June 2019)

407

3

A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha?

368

4

Resources on how Google/Facebook etc. approach software design?

148

5

Coping when your client is an asshole?

123

6

Who wants to be hired? (June 2019)

88

7

Best Passive Income Method?

85

8

How close together are your bus stops?

85

9

Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (June 2019)

80

10

Data Science portfolio projects ideas

76

Top Show HN

1

Switch from Medium to your own blog

494

2

ZeroHTTPd: A web server to teach Linux performance, with benchmarks

472

3

Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

248

4

Notational Velocity for Vim

171

5

PugSQL, a Python Port of HugSQL

155

6

Easy intro book to Clojure and immutability

148

7

Nullboard – Simple, light, locally-stored to-do lists

145

8

Roc – Real-Time streaming over the network

126

9

jTools – a collection of JavaScript web components with MIT license

106

10

Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

91

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

1145

2

Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent

1077

3

Password expiration is dead, long live passwords

586

4

How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years

528

5

460

6

Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database

294

7

Facebook reportedly argues there's no 'expectation of privacy' on social media

269

8

California is cracking down on the gig economy

264

9

Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings

264

10

Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses

263

News [?]

1

Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google

870

2

Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

547

3

Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change

478

4

I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected

453

5

A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean

394

6

Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Lawmakers Join In

384

7

US demands social media details from visa applicants

372

8

iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and research firms

369

9

Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain

367

10

Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996: study

337

Scientific publications [?]

1

James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test

345

2

India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius

297

3

One SQL to Rule Them All: Management of Streams and Tables

260

4

An exoplanet has been found in the ‘Neptunian Desert’

164

5

Another Step Toward the End of Moore’s Law

148

6

Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light

134

7

EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks

119

8

SATNet: Bridging deep learning and logical reasoning with differentiable SAT

116

9

Fallout: Reading Kernel Writes from User Space

98

10

Household radar can sense a person’s breathing and heart rate, even emotions

92

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Block Fingerprinting with Firefox

1292

2

764

3

Stripe Chargeback Protection

340

4

268

5

Apple iOS Background Tasks

159

6

A way to do atomic writes

140

7

Should Failing Phish Tests Be a Fireable Offense?

139

8

Blocking cryptominers from Firefox

84

9

77

10

Data Is a Toxic Asset, So Why Not Throw It Out? (2016)

59

Tech blogs [?]

1

Paper Strandbeest Is Strong Enough to Walk

62

2

Solder Alloys and Metallurgy

53

3

If Regulators Won’t Stop the Sale of Cell Phone Location Data, Consumers Must

35

4

Apple Unveils All New Mac Pro at WWDC

17

5

Sign in with Apple Will Be Required for Apps That Offer Third-Party Sign-In

17

6

Spotted at computex: The worse fake macbook air

7

7

Antibiotics found in world's rivers at levels up to 300 times above safe levels

6

8

A Terrible Patent Bill Is on the Way

5

9

1M Systems Affected by Remote Desktop Vulnerability

5

10

US Tariffs Drive Some of MSI's Production to Taiwan

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

539

2

Apple App Store Principles and Practices

156

3

WWDC 2019 Keynote Livestream

135

4

Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless

83

5

macOS Catalina Preview

33

6

New iPod touch delivers even greater performance

32

7

Amazon MSK – managed streaming for Apache Kafka – now generally available

29

8

The new iPod touch. Fun at full speed

6

9

6

10

Pro Display XDR

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Data Is Plural – Structured Archive

120

2

The Future of Food Delivery [slides]

97

3

Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech

94

4

Implementing a New CPU Architecture for Ghidra [slides]

75

5

Tesla Model S caught fire while charging (Belgium)

55

6

The Iocaine Powder Strategy in RoShamBo

51

7

U.S. Says Russia Might Be Setting Off Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons

49

8

Flux Capacity: Flux-Readings of Apple Computer Floppies

44

9

My Infant Daughter’s Life Shouldn’t Be a Variable in Tesla Autopilot's Beta

34

10

BitTorrent to Fork IPFS to Create Decentralized File-Storage System

9

Science News [?]

1

Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by fungi

230

2

Google revives controversial cold-fusion experiments

191

3

Deposit of rare-earth minerals off Japan could supply world for centuries (2018)

174

4

Researchers strapped video cameras on cats and let them do their thing

166

5

What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle?

150

6

Pollution cover-ups exposed in Chinese provinces

127

7

The avocado is an evolutionary anachronism

101

8

Cracking open the black box of automated machine learning

101

9

A Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath (2013)

94

10

Stanislaw Lem’s Futurism (2014)

90

Social [?]

1

"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"

1343

2

Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (1995)

287

3

So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebrite Touch”

236

4

Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video]

215

5

Medium pressured freeCodeCamp to put the articles behind the firewall

210

6

I've stopped flying to conferences for climate change reasons

204

7

Adventures with ffmpeg and color ranges

177

8

Large number of Twitter accounts critical of China suspended

155

9

Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”

128

10

GNU Hyperbole 7.0.3

101

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author

644

2

Scaling to 1M active GraphQL subscriptions on Postgres

353

3

Differences between the word2vec paper and its implementation

350

4

Wireguard-docs: Setup, usage, configuration, and a full example

323

5

274

6

Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text

231

7

AdNauseam: Browser extension to fight back against tracking by ad networks

207

8

Semantic: Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages

193

9

Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down

140

10

The Z3 Theorem Prover

137

Wikipedia [?]

1

Zero Rupee Note

771

2

Noblesse Oblige

31

3

There have almost been as many mass shootings in the US as days this year

10

4

7

5

Köppen Climate Classifications

5

6

Neiman Marcus Kitchen Computer (1969)

5

7

3

8

Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)

3

9

3

10

Twelve Basic Principles of Animation

3

Blogs [?]

1

Assange is reportedly gravely ill, and hardly anyone’s talking about it

53

2

Software Design is Human Relationships: Waiters, Changers, and Sufficiency

48

3

Programmers: Stop Undervaluing Your Time

35

4

Introducing Mercury OS

31

5

It’s Not About Assange, It’s About Press Freedom

20

6

Developing the EigenTrust Algorithm and Determining Authenticity Online

19

7

90 Days on a Carnivore Diet: Results and Insights

19

8

BBC, Sky Have Hidden Their Interviews with UN Expert on the Torture of Assange

13

9

Open-sourcing our commit verification tool, Wilfred

13

10

The Regret Minimization Framework: How Jeff Bezos Made Decisions

13

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?

5

2

How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?

3

3

How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?

3

4

“What part of Hindley-Milner do you not understand?”

3

5

Algorithm – How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?

3

6

How is Docker different from a virtual machine?

2

Substack [?]

1

Python's Caduceus Syndrome

45

2

Is Fake News Spam?

31

3

Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain: The Dark Underbelly of Ad-Tech

2

4

It’s Time to Unbundle Facebook

2

5

The Shopping List for Happiness

1

6

The intelligence community needs a house-cleaning – by Matt Taibbi

1

7

This Week in Blockchain Research Issue #10

1