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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

2504

2

Startup idea checklist

1251

3

Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra

1176

4

Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions

1014

5

Things I learnt the hard way in thirty years of software development

872

6

Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline

863

7

Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

850

8

A janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2017)

780

9

Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

770

10

Give Firefox a chance

735

Top Ask HN

1

What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

1741

2

What are the signs that you have a great manager?

585

3

Best free compute and other resources for startups?

389

4

What’s the legality of web scraping?

214

5

Resources for getting started with bare-metal coding?

179

6

Do you use automated tools to create APIs, or do you code them manually?

165

7

Who is seeking a cofounder?

141

8

How to get better at Data structures and Algorithm?

92

9

I want to get a Bachelor's in CS online. What are some good programs?

88

10

How would you teach teens to code in 2019?

82

Top Show HN

1

A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech

523

2

Catj – A new way to display JSON files

388

3

Learn anything by creating something everyday

232

4

I wrote a book on GNU grep and ripgrep

182

5

Reading list of popular Hacker News users

143

6

A star map creation tool with Common Lisp

138

7

Fist – Persistent Full Text Search and Indexing Server Written in C

124

8

Ludigraphix, geometry-oriented vector drawing software for Mac

106

9

Gravitle – 2D soft-body engine built with Rust for the web

95

10

I wrote a maze traversal program in Clojure

91

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions

1014

2

Support for right-to-repair laws slowly grows

707

3

Transforming a Tesla Model 3 into a Pickup Truck

387

4

The internet is increasingly a low-trust society

261

5

Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users

261

6

Mozilla patches Firefox zero-day abused in the wild

255

7

Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”

210

8

Sony launches a taxi-hailing app in Tokyo

197

9

When Myspace Was King, Employees Abused a Tool Called ‘Overlord’ to Spy on Users

181

10

Friendly policies keep US oil and coal afloat far more than we thought (2017)

152

News [?]

1

Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation

651

2

What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues

432

3

Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy

421

4

Facebook Cryptocurrency Plan Faces Opposition in France

409

5

Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby

358

6

Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number

343

7

Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World

317

8

We tried to publish a replication of a Science paper in Science

290

9

NASA Has Been Hacked

290

10

Walmart Pleads Guilty After a Decade of Bribes

289

Scientific publications [?]

1

Corsica's 'fox cat': On the trail of what may be a new species

139

2

Engineers boost output of solar desalination system by 50%

135

3

The Cognitive Profile of People with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders

91

4

XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding

79

5

Snake Venom Use as a Substitute for Opioids: A Case Report and Review

60

6

Lagrange Points: Parking Places in Space (2017)

52

7

Dishcraft Robotics Takes over Dishwashing from Humans

29

8

'DNA microscopy' offers new way to image cells

29

9

HotStuff: BFT Consensus in the Lens of Blockchain

21

10

Effects Without Monads: Non-Determinism – Back to the Meta Language

14

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline

863

2

$1B for 20,000 Bay Area homes

469

3

Valve Will Not Be Officially Supporting Ubuntu 19.10

175

4

Libra, a Cyberpunk Nightmare in the Midst of Crypto Spring

172

5

Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway

143

6

C, Fortran, and single-character strings

102

7

Graydon Hoare Talks About Security, History, and Rust

65

8

New Windows Terminal Preview

62

9

Introducing time.cloudflare.com

43

10

Maybe Agile Is the Problem

24

Tech blogs [?]

1

NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alternative

237

2

Brain imaging study reveals signs of Parkinson’s decades before symptoms appear

150

3

How to Land on the Moon

113

4

Intel to Slash Desktop Processor Pricing Up to 15 Percent as Ryzen 3000 Nears

98

5

Zhaoxin KX-6000 CPUs Purportedly Match Intel's Core I5-7400 in Performance

77

6

Results from placebo-controlled LSD microdose human study

58

7

Overclocking the Raspberry Pi 4

17

8

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Glides Past Intel Core I9-9900K in Leaked Geekbench Numbers

14

9

Chinese-Produced Zhaoxin KX-6000 CPUs Purportedly Match Intel's Core I5-7400

8

10

USB-If: USB4 Products Coming in Late 2020

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Control Tower

145

2

New AWS UDP Load Balancing for Network Load Balancer

132

3

AWS Network Load Balancer Now Supports UDP Protocol

69

4

Workflows in AWS Glue

12

5

AWS Security Hub

6

6

MacBook Pro Retina Display Battery Recall

5

7

Now Available: New C5 instance sizes and bare metal instances

4

8

Mimalloc: Free List Sharding in Action

4

9

Amazon Corretto

3

10

A drawing bot for realizing everyday scenes–and even stories

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star

612

2

New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines: Homo luzonensis

152

3

COM vs SOM: The Component Object Model and Some Other Model (1999)

44

4

Are Some of the UFOs Pilots Are Encountering Airborne Radar Reflectors?

37

5

The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader (2018)

13

6

A Short-Lived Airline That Shuttled Sightseers to America's National Parks

12

7

Toyota's anti-EV ads aren't just deceptive, they also push science illiteracy

11

8

More Kodi Add-On Repos Shut Down in Wake of UK Arrest

6

9

Why I've Started Using NoScript

4

10

Everything you know about the Gospel of Paul is likely wrong

4

Science News [?]

1

A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014)

589

2

Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South American region

336

3

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science

153

4

In defence of the wolf

87

5

Ancient Romans Used Molten Iron to Repair Streets Before Vesuvius Erupted

86

6

New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start (2014)

76

7

Sarah Stewart Revealed the Missing Link Between Viruses and Cancer

76

8

Top academic institutions in 2018: normalized

57

9

I’m a lucid dream researcher – here’s how to train your brain to do it

46

10

How to Turn a Quantum Computer into the Ultimate Randomness Generator

39

Social [?]

1

My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames

297

2

Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra

276

3

“Banclist.com is probably the most lucrative direct messaging platform”

210

4

Solving the heat equation: Differential equations, chapter 3 [video]

144

5

Uber is a tinder box

108

6

Xanadu Basics – Visible Connection (2018) [video]

73

7

Insider Reveals Google Plan to Prevent 'Trump Situation' in 2020

50

8

One liner NPM package “is-windows” has 2.5M dependants, why on earth?

47

9

Google Exec: If you break us up, we can't stop Trump

45

10

There is no such thing as too much knowledge or experience

44

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp

396

2

Mimalloc – A compact general-purpose allocator

356

3

Clojerl – Clojure for the Erlang VM

309

4

Documentation to set up a simple macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM

298

5

Math.Round opens the browser print dialog

274

6

Smoltcp: A small TCP/IP stack in Rust

260

7

Vue RFC: Expose logic-related component options via function-based APIs instead

222

8

DigitalJs: Digital circuit simulator in browser

221

9

Stage0 – A set of minimal C compiler bootstrap binaries

200

10

The V Programming Language is open source

180

Wikipedia [?]

1

212

2

111

3

103

4

98

5

85

6

84

7

The Hedonic Treadmill

78

8

Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle

75

9

61

10

Observations on Wikipedia Behavior (2008)

61

Blogs [?]

1

The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic

171

2

Writing a book, still the same pain 15 years later

150

3

The Tragedy of the Common Lisp: Why Large Languages Explode

113

4

Why ['1', '7', '11'].map(parseInt) returns [1, NaN, 3] in JavaScript

113

5

What does debugging a program look like?

110

6

Migrating 300k LOC from Flow to TypeScript

108

7

Google exec responds to Project Veritas video about bias

80

8

Plaid co-founder William Hockey is leaving

50

9

Impossible Burger: Commitment to consumers and our planet led us to use GM soy

43

10

Gut bacteria effect on autism disappears after re-analysis

28

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How do BitTorrent magnet links work?

2

2

The first question asked on Stack Overflow

2

3

So: Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?

1

4

Proper Use Cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat() (2012)

1

Substack [?]

1

A Wave of Fear in American Commerce

201

2

You Don't Need Kafka

8

3

You Don't Need Kafka

4

4

Questions That Will Help You Become More Self-Aware and Productive

3

5

You Don't Need Kafka

3

6

Learning by Doing

2

7

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

2

8

Print set to return as curated media

1

9

Undercover Cold Outreach

1

10

The Rise and Waterfall of Apple Maps

1