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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

1336

2

Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

1119

3

How to assess the quality of garments (2014)

991

4

How is it like to be a dev in Iran

745

5

Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day

740

6

HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide

709

7

YouTube video has its own URL in it

681

8

YouTube was launched as a dating site

680

9

At what time of day do famous programmers work?

651

10

Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation

645

Top Ask HN

1

How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?

329

2

Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?

275

3

What have the past 12 months taught you?

181

4

Best way to relearn basic math?

137

5

Anyone Using CockroachDB in Production?

121

6

Why is programming editing text?

89

7

What are some terminal tricks you wish you knew sooner?

66

8

What is the best chair for developers?

59

9

Why is Google search different on mobile Firefox compared to Chrome?

55

10

Have you been on a meditation retreat? How has it changed your life?

53

Top Show HN

1

I built a service to discover rapidly growing Google search topics

446

2

Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners

359

3

OctoSQL – Query and join multiple databases and files, written in Go

310

4

Turn your fzf into a live REPL

190

5

PCBs with Full-Color Graphics

140

6

Graph Processing with Python and GraphBLAS

122

7

LessPhone – A minimal Android launcher to reduce phone use

103

8

Ciao – HTTP checks and tests monitoring

77

9

Sinuous – Small, fast, reactive UI library

76

10

GraphQL Zeus – Autocomplete GraphQL Queries in JavaScript and TS

67

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project

356

2

Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems

342

3

Firefox to Warn When Saved Logins Are Found in Data Breaches

312

4

AT&T to Face EFF Class Action for Selling Customers’ Location to Bounty Hunters

270

5

The helicopter team that films the Tour de France

263

6

EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation

244

7

Microsoft to Explore Using Rust

224

8

A Rust-based TLS library outperformed OpenSSL in almost every category

214

9

Amazon Warns Customers: Those Supplements Might Be Fake

186

10

DoNotPay's new service auto-cancels free trials

178

News [?]

1

Why wasn't this page found?

622

2

Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew

494

3

GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely

370

4

FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names

355

5

Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee

333

6

Google Protest Leader Leaves

265

7

Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China

264

8

India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try

263

9

Foreign purchases of American homes plunge as Chinese buyers flee the market

235

10

Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem Chip Business

222

Scientific publications [?]

1

A Differentiable Programming System to Bridge ML and Scientific Computing

381

2

A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches

245

3

NASA’s Lunar Space Station Is a Great/Terrible Idea

129

4

A simulation of the insurance industry: The problem of risk model homogeneity

120

5

Math Invented for Moon Landing Helps Your Flight Arrive on Time

117

6

Alaska’s Engineering Colleges Prepare to Slash Programs, Lay Off Faculty

112

7

Google’s Equiano Cable Will Extend to the Remote Island of Saint Helena

86

8

Neural Decipherment via Minimum-Cost Flow: from Ugaritic to Linear B

76

9

Manticore: A Symbolic Execution Framework for Binaries and Smart Contracts

53

10

Girls’ advantage in reading can largely explain the gender gap in STEM

46

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

1119

2

What's Coming in Python 3.8

638

3

Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors

270

4

QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack

254

5

Building the New Twitter.com

207

6

A moonlit tribute to a moon landing icon

122

7

What a bad day at work taught me about building Stack Overflow’s community

79

8

Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?

78

9

Kernel analysis with bpftrace

74

10

Byteboard assesses for on-the-job engineering skills

69

Tech blogs [?]

1

A New Motherboard for Amiga, the Platform That Refuses to Die

59

2

Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8284 CPU: When 300 MHz Cost $5,500

58

3

Traces of two unknown archaic human species turn up in modern DNA

52

4

A Bad Copyright Bill Moves Forward with No Serious Understanding of Its Dangers

28

5

FaceApp raises concern about how photos are being used to create aging effect

20

6

Hacking Shelters and Swimming Pools

11

7

EFF Sues AT&T, Data Aggregators for Selling Customers’ Real-Time Location

8

8

Neural Network in Glass Requires No Power, Recognizes Numbers

5

9

Israeli surveillance tool silently collects all cloud and communications data

4

10

Israeli Security Firm Claims Spyware Tool Can Harvest iCloud Data

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft FY19 Q4 Earnings

9

2

Pointer Tagging for Memory Safety

5

3

Apple offers a look at new emoji coming to iPhone this fall

4

4

Announcing AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code

4

5

Amazon Introduces Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider (ACCP)

3

6

Amazon Introduces Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider (ACCP)

3

7

Apple Selling Exclusive Satechi USB-C Adapter

2

8

It’s 1985 and the future of STEM is radical

2

9

PacificA: Replication in Log-Based Distributed Storage Systems [pdf]

2

10

Get Windows 1.11

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

YouTube was launched as a dating site

680

2

Game Source Code Collection

405

3

Lockheed's Skunk Works Building Bigger Fusion Reactor

175

4

Tesla Enters “Whistleblower Hell”

129

5

PL/I as a Tool for System Programming (1969)

49

6

The Great CEO Within (Formerly: Founder to CEO)

37

7

Naomi Wu Arrested by Chinese Police?

31

8

Tesla reveals revolutionary new wiring architecture to help robots build cars

25

9

Marxism and Buddhism complement each other

6

10

North Korea Got Kim Jong Un His New Armored S600 Mercedes Maybach Limos

5

Science News [?]

1

Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died

400

2

Gorillas have developed humanlike social structure, controversial study suggests

137

3

A plan to mine the world’s research papers

114

4

If this type of dark matter existed, people would be dying of unexplained wounds

97

5

Anaxagoras Was Exiled for Claiming the Moon Was a Rock

95

6

What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life (2018)

74

7

Arrow of time and its reversal on the IBM quantum computer

64

8

The Invasion of Giant Pythons Threatening Florida

62

9

Leonardo da Vinci’s laboratory: studies in flow

53

10

Scientists Debate the Origin of Cell Types in the First Animals

44

Social [?]

1

YouTube video has its own URL in it

681

2

Neuralink Live Stream [video]

390

3

Let's talk about peeing in space

294

4

Drug cartels use dollar bill serial numbers as random keys for delivery receipts

242

5

Anyone made the jump from MySQL to PostreSQL? It is worth it?

152

6

Saving the World from Spreadsheets [video]

142

7

A Chapter from the FBI's History with OpenBSD and an OpenSSH Vuln

127

8

Protesters in Hong Kong are getting attacked by masked thugs

83

9

Reddit AMA: I'm a Former Amazon Fulfillment Center Employee

80

10

Oral History of Donald Knuth (2007) [video]

54

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Declined Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, “try”

474

2

Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

438

3

Windows 10 Debloat Script

174

4

Flakes – Proposed mechanism to package Nix expressions into composable entities

164

5

Issue: find a new home for repos including Requests

162

6

Opmsg – A GPG Alternative

121

7

Jeison – An Emacs library for declarative JSON parsing

117

8

FRT – A Godot “platform” targeting single-board computers

81

9

Raytracer.jl: A Differentiable Renderer That Supports Parameter Optimization [pdf]

77

10

Programming as a medium for poorly understood, sloppily-formulated ideas (1967) [pdf]

77

Wikipedia [?]

1

Inferno Operating System

188

2

Apollo 11 50th Anniversary

135

3

111

4

Wikipedia's robots.txt

105

5

104

6

The Great Stink

97

7

84

8

Symmetry Minute

84

9

Out-of-Place Artifact

77

10

Carthago delenda est

64

Blogs [?]

1

When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop

289

2

King – Man + Woman = King?

256

3

Fsyncgate: Errors on fsync are unrecoverable (2018)

219

4

151

5

Remove Moving Objects from Video

132

6

The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős

121

7

Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects

115

8

Software design is also about relationships

100

9

Understanding IPFS in Depth(5/6): What Is Libp2p?

82

10

New NASA Images Show Location of the Lunar Library

73

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Can We Make a “Class Level Relationship” in Laravel? (vs. Object Level)

1

2

Is there a way to figure out poetry style of text on a text/markdown file?

1

Substack [?]

1

Is a Boeing Bailout Taking Shape?

62

2

Substack (YC W18) Raises $15.3m from Andreessen Horowitz

5

3

3

4

Software Eats Itself

2

5

Amazon's Ad Copy

2

6

Cancer Vaccines

2

7

1

8

Stanford Life Sciences Research

1

9

1

10

1