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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Choose Boring Technology

1357

2

Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side

1091

3

Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

1075

4

“The books will stop working.”

1044

5

Learning Synths

969

6

Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?

909

7

Microsoft's Linux Kernel

801

8

Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source

777

9

How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit

735

10

Reinventing Firefox for Android

721

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (July 2019)

485

2

Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

474

3

Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?

374

4

Why do new(ish) programming languages eschew OOP features?

231

5

Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)

219

6

US government funds a lot of tech research, why don't startups use it?

141

7

What do you do on an Android phone that cannot be done on an iPhone?

118

8

What do middle-level managers do?

118

9

How much do you work at your job?

78

10

Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (July 2019)

57

Top Show HN

1

Web pages stored entirely in the URL

377

2

A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL

227

3

Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform

227

4

Hydra – Open-Source OAuth2 Server

190

5

DICOM Medical Image Parser in Go

142

6

A music delivery service built around the WebAudio API

80

7

A live map of sunlight on earth

74

8

Fiuti.com – A tool to create Google Ads campaigns 20X faster

67

9

Xlambda – A window manager extensible in Guile

67

10

RemoteJS – Remote Browser Debugging

59

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side

1091

2

Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

426

3

Grubhub is using fake websites to drive up commission fees from real businesses

405

4

The rise of remote working will continue

342

5

Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15

240

6

Ex-chair of FCC broadband committee gets five years in prison for fraud

240

7

Microsoft's eBook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM

232

8

Hackers are stealing years of call records from hacked cell networks

223

9

A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices

209

10

Pentagon has a laser that can identify people at a distance by their heartbeat

200

News [?]

1

Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care

690

2

Calgary student has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since age nine

681

3

NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan

538

4

FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes

507

5

Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai

440

6

Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first time since records began

436

7

Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

390

8

Everything everywhere is securities fraud

288

9

Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers

287

10

Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China

281

Scientific publications [?]

1

New Property of Light Discovered

307

2

Can Life Exist in 2 and 1 Dimensions?

103

3

Must-Read Books About the Moon

78

4

The Problem of the Aging Surgeon (2009)

75

5

A history of the Crusades, as told by crusaders' DNA

50

6

Some extinct species of crocodile were herbivores

47

7

Britain adopts 2050 net zero emissions target

35

8

NASA will send new lander to Titan

28

9

Visualizing probabilistic models and data

21

10

First AI universe sim is fast and accurate – its creators don't know how

13

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Reinventing Firefox for Android

721

2

Hey advertisers, track this

493

3

Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode Fairly Quickly”

302

4

Google Earth Ported to Browsers with WebAssembly

153

5

Equiano, a subsea cable from Portugal to South Africa

134

6

I’m Leaving IBM

131

7

iPhone Apps Surreptitiously Communicated with Unknown Servers

102

8

Innovations in Graph Representation Learning

91

9

Tracing the Supply Chain Attack on Android

84

10

Defining Public Interest on Twitter

66

Tech blogs [?]

1

What's the deal with square traces on PCBs?

211

2

Toshiba and WD NAND Production Hit by Power Outage: 6 Exabytes Lost

162

3

Is 4 GB the Limit for the Raspberry Pi 4?

44

4

Reverse Engineering Cyclic Redundancy Codes

38

5

Leaked Ryzen 5 3600 Benchmark Better Single-Thread Performance Than Core I9-9900

25

6

NASA’s “Green” Fuel Seeks Safer Spaceflight by Moving Off Toxic Hydrazine

6

7

FCC Siding with Landlords and Comcast over Tenants Who Want Broadband Choices

6

8

Victory: California Orders State Audit of Automated License Plate Readers

4

9

The US Decides Huawei's Cool After All

4

10

Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

1075

2

EC2 Instance Connect

162

3

AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring

116

4

Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

116

5

Service Quotas: View and manage your quotas for AWS services from one location

93

6

Windows Terminal Preview Available

29

7

Microsoft makes AI debugging and visualization tool TensorWatch open source

4

8

Microsoft turns off aging PBX phone platform, completes move to Microsoft Teams

4

9

OneDrive Personal Vault

2

10

Drawbridge [2011]

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

One In Five Employees Is Highly Engaged and at Risk of Burnout (2018)

368

2

Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game

314

3

Europe has had five 500-year summers in 15 years

160

4

US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico

156

5

Navy Got 'UFO' Patent Granted by Warning of Similar Chinese Tech Advances

145

6

Ive’s Legacy, the Post-Ive Apple

104

7

Tesla’s head of production is going to EV startup Lucid Motors

71

8

67

9

Against Disenchantment

61

10

A Library Handles a Rare and Deadly Book of Wallpaper Samples (2018)

58

Science News [?]

1

US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries

424

2

How to support open-source software and stay sane

193

3

How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It

145

4

What Is the Human Microbiome, Exactly?

98

5

Einstein, Symmetry and the Future of Physics

77

6

James Lovelock at 100: the Gaia saga continues

49

7

It turns out planes are even worse for the climate than we thought

40

8

Shocking evidence shows people in vegetative states may be conscious

39

9

Interactive Zebrafish Brain

37

10

Aquifer systems extending far offshore on the U.S. Atlantic margin

28

Social [?]

1

“The books will stop working.”

1044

2

Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle

588

3

“I thought I'd share this Boris Johnson story with you”

293

4

Reddit has quarantined /r/The_Donald

216

5

LIGO detects probable black hole merger event

196

6

“Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself”

164

7

Using Mechanical Turk to hide a surgeon's domestic violence charge

159

8

Snowden's talk at Bitcoin 2019 conference [video]

126

9

Cracking the puzzle of automated low-cost malaria diagnosis

122

10

Mitch Kapor Introduces Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheet (1983) [video]

121

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Microsoft's Linux Kernel

801

2

SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

379

3

PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services

345

4

Lazydocker: a terminal GUI for Docker

340

5

Eva – A distributed entity-attribute-value database in Clojure

255

6

A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference

238

7

133

8

GNU Guix package definitions for Gov.uk software and systems

131

9

Go proposal: Leave “if err != nil” alone?

109

10

What I Want from a Type System (2016)

106

Wikipedia [?]

1

368

2

Non-English-based programming languages

262

3

Open Letter to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

113

4

2019 redefinition of the SI base units

85

5

Cherokee Syllabary

56

6

Fruit machine (homosexuality test)

40

7

Non-compete clause

32

8

Choking game, also known as the fainting game

25

9

Wikipedia policies on what editors should do in the case of impending apocalypse

25

10

False Banana Tree

16

Blogs [?]

1

How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit

735

2

Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending (2018)

400

3

I’ve spent five years writing a JavaScript framework

257

4

How and why CPUs do “branch prediction” (2017)

192

5

Snagging Parking Spaces with Mask R-CNN and Python

106

6

Aaron Peskin got his illegally merged $1.5M “monster” home

97

7

How to Fix the Tech Hiring

31

8

You don't need Kubernetes on your laptop

31

9

Real problems with functional languages

26

10

Cruzbit: A simple decentralized peer-to-peer ledger

18

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What languages can be compiled to WebAssembly?

7

2

Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result? (2011)

3

3

Numpy multi-dimensional array indexing swaps axis order

2

4

What is a stack map frame?

2

5

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

1

6

Indexable Search with Grep

1

Substack [?]

1

How to get cash from your startup stock before your company IPOs

4

2

Robinhood and the Limits of Innovation

2

3

The Only Way to Be a Writer

2

4

This Week in Blockchain Research Issue #14 Is Out

1

5

Cryptocurrency, AI, and Education Theses

1

6

Libra Newsletter

1