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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)
1724
2
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
1663
3
Ebola Is Now Curable
1232
4
Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’
1181
5
NULL license plate not such a bright idea
999
6
What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
986
7
Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut
953
8
Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic
879
9
Python Is Eating the World
879
10
Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye
838
Top Ask HN
1
What Neural Networks/Deep Learning Books Should I Read?
275
2
Configuration Management for Personal Computer?
198
3
The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?
122
4
Is Google Secretly Undermining Firefox?
106
5
Just found out that I’m gonna be a dad
92
6
Why are pay-walled articles allowed on Hacker News
82
7
What is the state-of-the-art environment for developing Erlang code?
76
8
Anybody running serious Rust web application in production?
45
9
Does dang read every HN comment?
44
10
Why do such strong opinions exist in our industry?
42
Top Show HN
1
I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me
397
2
Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript
369
3
We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics
232
4
I wrote a book on Python regular expressions
193
5
Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS
181
6
I built a poker site with Haskell
157
7
Personal Management System
153
8
Retool Templates – Custom internal tools with drag-and-drop components
144
9
A time tracker that asks you every 10 min what you're doing
132
10
JSON Pizza – Beautify your JSON quickly
112
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Ebola Is Now Curable
1232
2
Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut
953
3
Python Is Eating the World
879
4
US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers
822
5
Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
440
6
A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787's Guts
391
7
Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires
335
8
Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain
264
9
Big Pharma is using faux generics to keep drug prices high, critics say
260
10
Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again
257
News [?]
1
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
1663
2
Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic
879
3
AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip
837
4
Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone
773
5
New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
683
6
Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate
425
7
Toni Morrison Has Died
414
8
Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data
397
9
Anxiety Looks Different in Men
395
10
MoviePass Worked Out Great
372
Scientific publications [?]
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Swiss Post Suspends Drone Delivery Service After Second Crash
155
2
The Last Working Olivetti Mainframe Sits In a Tuscan High School
148
3
Recursive language and modern imagination acquired 70k years ago: hypothesis
120
4
Disney Research Makes Dynamic Robots Less Wiggly, More Lifelike
93
5
Are We Making Much Progress? Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
86
6
Nuclear Reactor for Mars Outpost Could Be Ready to Fly by 2022
36
7
Disentangling Propagation and Generation for Video Prediction
13
8
The Argument Against Quantum Computers by Gil Kalai [pdf]
12
9
The slower Gulf Stream is raising sea levels and causing a hotter Florida
9
10
ArXiv Is Down
7
Dev Blogs [?]
1
GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
680
2
Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
424
3
Racket: Lisp for Learning
221
4
Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do
204
5
AMD EPYC processors come to Google, and to Google Cloud
197
6
DEF CON and Stack Overflow: What Our Traffic Says About Cybersecurity
147
7
SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp
89
8
HTTP Desync Attacks: Request Smuggling Reborn
75
9
Red Hat Joins the RISC-V Foundation
74
10
Nvidia Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation to Help Open-Source Drivers
48
Tech blogs [?]
1
AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
525
2
Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
271
3
Electric motor design claims remarkable improvements
164
4
We may not be running out of helium after all (2015)
87
5
In Ecuador, Political Actors Must Step Away From Ola Bini’s Case
39
6
Bypassing Face ID on an 'Unconscious' Victim's iPhone Using Glasses and Tape
14
7
EFF: ICANN Expands Role with Speech Regulation
13
8
Galaxy Note 10+ to cost $1100
6
9
Acoustic Lens Show Sound Focused Like Light
5
10
CBP’s Social Media Surveillance Poses Risks to Free Speech and Privacy Rights
5
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Card
48
2
Build Highly Available MySQL Applications Using Amazon Aurora Multi-Master
48
3
Microsoft updates all on-prem licenses for AWS, GCP
5
4
Elasticsearch 7.1.1 Opendistro 1.1 with free SQL, Security and alerting released
5
5
Amazon Aurora Multi-Master Is Now Generally Available
4
6
AWS Lake Formation
3
7
Multi-Objective Interactive Program Synthesis
3
8
Trustworthy AI through user interface design
2
9
Local Mocking and Testing with the Amplify CLI
2
10
Bad Gamer Attitude T-Shirt
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study
797
2
Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
589
3
The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look
237
4
How the Pentagon Comes Up with Code Words and Secret Project Nicknames
116
5
2019 Hyundai Kona EV Explodes When Parked
94
6
A Framework for Moderation
72
7
Air Force Reveals Tests of Supposed Record-Setting Scramjet from N. Grumman
70
8
It’s All Greek to You and Me, So What Is It to the Greeks?
69
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US Rules Airlines Must Allow Miniature Horses to Fly as Service Animals
60
10
Study shows e-bike riders get more exercise than cyclists
53
Science News [?]
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Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
457
2
Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?
158
3
Don't forget randomness is still just a hypothesis (2006)
152
4
Divers Find Remains of Ancient Temple in Sunken Egyptian City
114
5
Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live (2013)
113
6
Effects of a glyphosate-based herbicide on soil ecosystem
109
7
Scientists must rise above politics and restate their value to society
79
8
Palaeoenvironmental and archaeological evidence of total warfare among the Maya
61
9
Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 °C target
60
10
In Brain’s Electrical Ripples, Markers for Memories Appear
59
Social [?]
1
A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers
558
2
History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of |
152
3
20th anniversary of José Bové’s 'attack' on a McDonald's in rural France
90
4
HK police fires rubber bullet at protesters and civilians at point blank range
81
5
UK Politicians Disapprove of DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
78
6
Baking bread from a 4,500-year-old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery
67
7
A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
53
8
Google Employees Should Be “Pissed Off” Their Leadership Is Misleading Congress
37
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I've given up trying to talk to friends about how their privacy is being abused
32
10
Dev.to is scraping whoishiring posts to spam their platform
31
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Kubernetes Security Assessment [pdf]
255
2
Personal Website for Programmers
169
3
Social share buttons that don't allow the social sites to track your users
166
4
Tiny Toy TOTP Generator in 18 Lines of Python
142
5
Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally
138
6
Open list of GDPR fines so far
126
7
Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard
115
8
Mc.js: A Minecraft clone built entirely with JavaScript
109
9
C-mera – Lisp syntax with C semantics
59
10
Experimental PlayStation 4 Emulator
55
Wikipedia [?]
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Creeping normality
218
2
Finnair Flight 915
152
3
TV detector van
151
4
Wine-dark sea
150
5
Hostile Architecture
104
6
Shepard Tone
99
7
Emperor Norton
92
8
Japanese addressing system
80
9
M44 (Cyanide Device)
70
10
British Expedition to Abyssinia
60
Blogs [?]
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The Horror of Microsoft Teams
544
2
Get your work recognized: write a brag document
347
3
Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein or Hilbert?
146
4
Analyzing the Facebook ads placed by the US presidential candidates
139
5
From Two Guys Building Their own Browser
44
6
EasyOCR for Paperless Office
42
7
Don’t Cheat on Interviews. It’s Obvious When You Do
34
8
I don’t hire Junior data-scientists
31
9
Why our team cancelled our move to microservices
27
10
Bug-Free Code That Speaks for Itself: Principles of State Management
20
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why is there a 'null' value in JavaScript?
3
2
Illuminating discussion about jar files
2
3
Singleton by Jon Skeet
2
4
Stack over Flow's How to Design a Good Question
1
Substack [?]
1
Novelist Vikram Chandra on writing and building software for writers
5
2
What Happened on Tech Twitter in July
2
3
When a company's biggest strength becomes its biggest weakness
2
4
The Illusion of Zero Marginal Costs
2
5
Breakout Companies Memo #5- Outschool
1
6
Google's War on Publisher Paywalls
1
7
Nine Bomb Attacks in Denmark Since February 2019
1