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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles

2220

2

uBlock Origin 1.20

742

3

No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?

738

4

Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

695

5

Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml

690

6

Apollo 11 in Real Time

677

7

Chase did a bad thing, so we did a good thing

605

8

596

9

Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation

596

10

Dear Bureaucrat, my job wants me to lie

583

Top Ask HN

1

Good tech talks on how analytics systems are implemented?

188

2

What can I do to accelerate scientific research?

138

3

Why are ISO standards so expensive?

114

4

Twitter account stolen by presumed vulnerability

104

5

Old guys, what do you miss about development in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s?

65

6

“Contact us for pricing” nonsense

63

7

More tech-oriented HN alternative?

54

8

Do you program in Basic?

51

9

How to learn about problems of other industries?

43

10

I want to create a software business, where do I start?

41

Top Show HN

1

Enviro+ for Raspberry Pi – Environmental sensors

381

2

Slim – Build and run tiny VMs from Dockerfiles

377

3

Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

320

4

Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone

266

5

Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience

256

6

GitHub Repository Card for Every Web Site

164

7

A LaTeX-based resume building app

151

8

A curated library of venture capital investment pitch decks

127

9

Never-Blink: Blink and Lose. An Online Web Game

115

10

Lannister – open-source wealth manager app

102

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games

462

2

SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Google won't help

430

3

The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal (2017)

381

4

Apple is making corporate ‘BYOD’ programs less invasive to user privacy

208

5

Researchers use Rowhammer bit flips to steal 2048-bit crypto key

203

6

Samsung’s security reminder makes the case for not owning a Samsung smart TV

197

7

Superblocks: Barcelona’s plan to take back streets from cars

160

8

Bird Acquires Scoot

146

9

Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market

120

10

GitHub Hires Former Bitnami Co-Founder Erica Brescia as COO

120

News [?]

1

Canada to ban keeping whales, dolphins in captivity

459

2

Asian countries take a stand against the rich world’s plastic waste

428

3

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Where Is It?

356

4

Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters

355

5

Why Hong Kong Is Still Marching

346

6

About 2M People Rally in Hong Kong Weekend Protests

346

7

Retail stores use Bluetooth beacons to track customers

345

8

US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave threat to a free media

343

9

Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says

323

10

Chinese Cash Is Suddenly Toxic in Silicon Valley, Following U.S. Pressure

303

Scientific publications [?]

1

Magnesium and major depression (2011)

251

2

Researchers use lasers to detect and destroy tumor cells in melanoma patients

201

3

New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced life in the universe

132

4

There is no general AI: Why Turing machines cannot pass the Turing test

39

5

Three Other Models of Computer System Performance (2018)

37

6

Weird metal anomaly found beneath the moon's south pole

12

7

Only 241 US coal plants remain, down from 530 in 2010

6

8

Genetic basis for extended lifespan and cancer resistance discovered in bats

5

9

Nineteenth-century nanotechnology: The plasmonic properties of daguerreotypes

5

10

Effective problem solving using SAT solvers

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

481

2

Firefox: The Evolution of a Brand

217

3

Ray Tracing with Metal [video]

99

4

Mozilla files FTC comments calling for interoperability (2018)

91

5

Amazon Alexa Secretly Records Children, Lawsuits Allege

91

6

Project Galileo: five years of protecting the vulnerable online

79

7

Building hybrid blockchain/cloud applications

73

8

Three new FOSS umbrella organizations in Europe (2017)

69

9

Nvidia Makes Arm a Peer to x86 and Power for GPU Acceleration

57

10

Renaming OpenSUSE

47

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome

334

2

A Field Guide to Power Transmission Lines

242

3

Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act

72

4

$10k Later, an Apple Store Genius Diagnoses a $0 MacBook Pro Problem

46

5

Windows 10 Goes to Shell

20

6

Five California Cities Are Trying to Kill an Important Location Privacy Bill

9

7

AMD Announces Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700

7

8

AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su Named One of World's Best CEOs

6

9

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Beats $2k Intel Core I9-9980XE in Geekbench Test

5

10

AMD Ryzen 16-Core CPU for $749

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Textract – Now Generally Available

18

2

Amazon Lightsail

6

3

Amazon S3 SigV2 Deprecation Period Extended and Modified

3

4

Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud

3

5

Amazon EC2 Instances Featuring AMD EPYC Processors

3

6

Amazon Personalize

2

7

Amazon Store Card Credit Builder

2

8

Apple Xinyi A13 Opens Saturday in Taipei

2

9

Logic Pro X update taps the tremendous power of the new Mac Pro

2

10

When words aren’t enough, teachers find a common language with iPad

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved

242

2

Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH

141

3

F-35 hit with damning reports as Pentagon eyes full rate production

85

4

Simone Weil is the patron saint of anomalous persons

68

5

Gary Gygax Memorial

40

6

Georgia Guidestones (2010)

19

7

Toyota, Hyundai halt sales of fuel cell cars in Norway after hydrogen explosion

11

8

Tesla drivers r getting caught sleeping on Autopilot–blame people, not Autopilot

9

9

Chinese firm invests $23b in production of 1 mn EVs/yr and 500GWh of batteries

3

10

How A Library Handles a Rare and Deadly Book of Wallpaper Samples

3

Science News [?]

1

Mathematician Disproves Hedetniemi’s Graph Theory Conjecture

432

2

WeChat is Watching: Living in China with the app that knows everything about me

396

3

Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices found ineffective in study

271

4

Fertilizer plants emit 100 times more methane than reported

266

5

Why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit

199

6

Learning Chess at 40 (2016)

158

7

Pomegranate compound with anti-aging effects passes human trial

121

8

A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change

106

9

Do Brains Operate at a Tipping Point? New Clues and Complications

88

10

Poverty leaves a mark on our genes

71

Social [?]

1

Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

355

2

I got asked LeetCode questions for a dev-ops systems engineering job today

281

3

Only 37 dogs of each breed can have the same name

205

4

I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers (2017) [video]

204

5

Entropic – A Federated Package Manager for JavaScript

98

6

All the balls are the same color: brown

89

7

How do most SPAs handle breaking API schema changes?

83

8

A Race of Two Compilers: GraalVM JIT versus HotSpot JIT C2 [video]

79

9

Cats, Rats, A.I., Oh My [video]

65

10

Extreme weather and extreme politics (2018)

60

Github repos and gists [?]

1

uBlock Origin 1.20

742

2

Kubernetes Failure Stories

315

3

PingCAP Talent Plan: Courses on writing distributed systems in Go and Rust

209

4

Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org

143

5

Lucet – A Sandboxing WebAssembly Compiler

77

6

R vs. Python for Data Science

59

7

ZFS on Linux 0.8.1 Released

52

8

Cl-cpp-generator – A Common Lisp library to generate C/C++ code

35

9

FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition

29

10

Time Machine style backup with rsync in 540 lines of code

25

Wikipedia [?]

1

596

2

161

3

153

4

Continuous Partial Attention

109

5

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

108

6

Many-valued logic

100

7

Global Peace Index (GPI)

22

8

13

9

10

10

4

Blogs [?]

1

The student loan crisis is really an underemployment catastrophe

246

2

How to Design for the Web in 2019

197

3

Building a Web-Based Motion Graphics Editor

104

4

Student Loan Debt Crisis Is Bankrupting Millennials

35

5

Why Slack will never replace email

21

6

Work-Life. Balance: America Needs Paid Family Leave. Fathers Need to Use It

19

7

Kubernetes at What3words

16

8

The “rent vs. buy” dilemma (2018)

16

9

Skills of an Effective Programmer – Inspired by the TechLead

15

10

Debugging WebAssembly

12

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is C++ template use not recommended in a space/radiated environment?

3

2

Google doesn't send user's Android crash report feedback to its developers

3

3

Is a Refresh Token necessary when using JWT token authentication?

3

4

How can one mock a CI agent?

1

Substack [?]

1

Silk Road Goes Parabolic After Founder Changes Username??

7

2

Print's Return as Curated Media

3

3

Notion's Sign Up Form Knows If You're Using Gmail

2

4

A Brief List of Business Units Google Could Be Separated Into

2

5

Can “Tech” Die?

2

6

Apple Enters the Identity Ring

2

7

Plutio “communitise” customer support with Facebook Groups

2

8

This Week in Blockchain Research Issue #12

2

9

ActiveCampaign Construct a Community for $5m MRR

2

10

The Rise of Distributed Teams

2