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Top stories
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All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
1230
2
Terminating Service for 8Chan
1098
3
8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
910
4
Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning [pdf]
883
5
Hy
850
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Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
820
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Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules
802
8
Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts
750
9
Build Your Own Text Editor
711
10
Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
692
Top Ask HN
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How can we destroy AMP?
486
2
Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
480
3
Who is hiring? (August 2019)
370
4
Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)
139
5
Germans, how to work legally remote?
109
6
How did you automate your day job?
96
7
Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (August 2019)
87
8
If your job was remote, which city would you choose to live in?
76
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Why are non-technical managers paid more than engineers?
74
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Don't want to write CRUD apps for the rest of my career, what to do?
69
Top Show HN
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Bild – A collection of parallel image processing algorithms in Go
138
2
Purely Functional Scripting
131
3
Generate a fake app to replace any addictive app
117
4
Drag and drop page building for any site
109
5
Beatboxing for Kids – Teach Your Child to Beatbox Using Everyday Words
102
6
Lagukan, a highly personalized music service
95
7
Everything asked – organized recaps of 'ask me anything' interviews
74
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Codelines – Create Coding Articles from Visual Studio Code
45
9
FunctorFlow – An attempt to re-imagine Python libraries
40
10
A Mood Tracker on the Web
37
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
910
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Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax
467
3
Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
324
4
Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company
284
5
Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Women in Viral Memo
226
6
Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns
210
7
Graph database reinvented: Dgraph gets $11.5M to pursue unique, opinionated path
189
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New bill would ban autoplay videos and endless scrolling
169
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AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is such a hit it almost outsold Intel’s entire CPU range
160
10
StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data
142
News [?]
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Employee happiness and business success are linked
690
2
Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality
684
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Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US
483
4
Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app
433
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Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change
389
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U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator
357
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Administration Using the Full Power of the Surveillance State on Whistleblowers
318
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Insured price $2,758, cash price $521
305
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Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet
304
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Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
302
Scientific publications [?]
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Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and tracking on porn sites
348
2
Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher carbon dioxide
165
3
Music Recommendations in Hyperbolic Space
136
4
The Moon is older than previously believed
123
5
Machine Learning That’s Light Enough for an Arduino
115
6
First Programmable Memristor Computer
95
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The “Terrascope”: On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens
93
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A chemical clue to how life started on Earth
89
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An Ancient Egypt-to-Black Sea Route? Adventurers to Test Theory
57
10
KiloGrams: Large N-Grams for Malware Classification
51
Dev Blogs [?]
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Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp?
361
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Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines
221
3
Capital One attacker may have breached other major corporations
205
4
Rome Is the Fulcrum of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot
123
5
Why Developers Hate Coding Skills Tests and What Hiring Managers Can Do
115
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The Risk of Weak Online Banking Passwords
84
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More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp
81
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VDSO, 32-bit time, and seccomp
53
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How are BitBlt raster opcodes calculated? (2018)
24
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DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Update – Detecting Managed Networks and User Choice
21
Tech blogs [?]
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How to stop Apple from listening to your Siri recordings
109
2
C++20 Is Feature Complete; Here’s What Changes Are Coming
78
3
Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
78
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Google’s Plans for Chrome Extensions Won’t Help Security
42
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Someone Is Suing Companies for Using SMS Messages in 2019
10
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AMD’s Epyc Potential Win: Google May Ditch Intel
6
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Steam Proposes Linux Kernel Changes to Improve Multi-Threaded Games
5
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The Ice Lake Benchmark Preview: Inside Intel's 10nm
4
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Fake Graphics Cards and How to Fix Them
4
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A Trillion Trees – How Hard Can It Be?
4
FAANG+ [?]
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PartiQL: One query language for all your data
241
2
Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain
115
3
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
37
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Amazon Polly Introduces Neural Text-to-Speech and Newscaster Style
15
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The New AWS Region in the Middle East
4
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Now Open – AWS Middle East (Bahrain)
3
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Licensing Terms for Dedicated Hosted Cloud Services
3
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Apple Card
2
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Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness [audio]
2
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Amazon PartiQL: One query language for all your data
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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An F-22 Raptor’s Crumbling Radar Absorbent Skin
194
2
The Origin of Most Coal on Earth (2016)
111
3
The Enduring Mystery of ‘Jawn,’ Philadelphia’s All-Purpose Noun (2016)
82
4
Thamugadi, a Roman outpost in Algeria, was saved by the Sahara
57
5
Potosí: the mountain of silver that was the first global city
57
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In Turkey, a power play will leave ancient towns underwater
41
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Zibaldone, the 14th Century’s Answer to Tumblr (2016)
37
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Rome’s border walls were the beginning of its end
17
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The ‘balance of nature’ is an enduring concept. But it’s wrong
15
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How to Respond to Ageism in a Job Interview
14
Science News [?]
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High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism
253
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Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered
215
3
Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter
202
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The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis
185
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Goals and Rewards Redraw the Brain’s Map of the World
145
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Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws
101
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Iron Age Celtic Woman Was Buried in a Hollowed-Out Tree Trunk
99
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Researchers create personalised sound projector with $12 webcam
94
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Massive ‘ocean’ discovered towards Earth’s core (2014)
90
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Alaska’s scientists despair over plan to shrink state universities
84
Social [?]
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Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millions submitted claims
600
2
Google search takes 7 seconds on certain queries
254
3
Why does unsubscribing from a newsletter take “a few days”?
246
4
Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video [video]
212
5
JuliaCon 2019 Videos
144
6
Why we ground electrical systems (2015)
119
7
Roaring glacial melt under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland
89
8
MakerLisp Machine: An EZ80 CPU Card Running Bare-Metal Lisp [video]
55
9
Scientific AI: Domain Models with Integrated Machine Learning
31
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DNA sequencing progress has stagnated
27
Github repos and gists [?]
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BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
588
2
Artichoke – A Ruby made with Rust
234
3
DSVPN – VPN using TCP at port 80 and 443
195
4
LF: Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store
191
5
ZipCPU – A small, lightweight, RISC soft core in Verilog
118
6
Simple RPC framework in 300 lines of Go
115
7
Solving differential equations on a 6502 with Woz's floating point code
112
8
Anyone who looks at this code instantly becomes insane
112
9
Jupiter: RISC-V Assembler and Runtime Simulator
112
10
Serverless Components
83
Wikipedia [?]
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Hy
850
2
Kriegspiel
291
3
Homomorphic encryption
106
4
Vickrey–Clarke–Groves Auction
82
5
Habitat (video game)
76
6
Kardashev Scale
74
7
Long time nuclear waste warning messages
65
8
The Broomway
60
9
Battle for Castle Itter
55
10
Nipkow disk
42
Blogs [?]
1
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
1230
2
Misconfigured Jira instances exposed data of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies
322
3
Flutter looks good, but is painful
208
4
‘No Way to Prevent This’ Says Development Community Where This Regularly Happens
81
5
Dreaming about Better Sleep: Dreem, Oura and the Rest
68
6
Climate Winners and Losers
53
7
The Crash of Turkish Airlines flight 1951
40
8
What Is RISC? (1993)
34
9
Brief thoughts on getting hired as a senior coder
30
10
Learn to code for free at Stanford and make $170k+ in under 1 year
26
Stackoverflow [?]
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Stackoverflow is down
33
2
Why does Rust not optimize code assuming that mutable references cannot alias?
13
3
Stack Overflow Is Down
11
4
Restrict/noalias completely broken in newer GCC and clang when inlined
3
5
How would you pick a uniform random element in linked list with unknown length?
2
6
Prefer Composition over Inheritance?
2
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Why does Rust not optimize code assuming that mutable references cannot alias?
1
8
When and why are database joins expensive?
1
Substack [?]
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Private Equity Should Not Exist
68
2
Why Private Equity Should Not Exist
3
3
Why Ceasar Bautista Wrote His Own Personal Encyclopedia
3
4
Private Equity Should Not Exist
2
5
Delete Your Tweets
2
6
Memes, Brands, and Missions
2
7
Coke Theory/Weed Theory, and Some Possible Alternatives
1
8
Spotify Rap (How to Get Permission)
1
9
Coke Theory/Weed Theory, and Some Possible Alternatives
1
10
Can Artificial Intelligence Outsmart Artificial Stupidity?
1