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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
I Miss Microsoft Encarta
1198
2
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
1116
3
How to Build Good Software
1016
4
Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender
937
5
Cloudflare S-1
915
6
Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%
865
7
WeWTF
840
8
OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation
813
9
Tech Interview Handbook
760
10
Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
755
Top Ask HN
1
What book to read to get a footing in CS theory?
306
2
Is there a project based book or course on Go for writing web APIs?
131
3
Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp?
125
4
What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?
114
5
How do you scale salary for part-time work?
102
6
Where do you find new music to listen to online?
90
7
Affordable, online university for getting a degree to quit programming?
77
8
What's the point of the TM and (R) symbols?
64
9
Where do the real hackers hangout?
63
10
Hackable external wireless SSD storage?
49
Top Show HN
1
Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator
511
2
Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library
435
3
Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry
303
4
ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading
285
5
Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More
246
6
StoryTime – Create stories about your code instead of documentation
193
7
I made online community for unusual people
117
8
Crawlab: Open-Source Web Crawler Admin Platform That Runs Any Language
116
9
Homer – A Text Analyzer in Python
110
10
A little web app for playing around with colors
106
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability
539
2
AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans
410
3
WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
352
4
Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
255
5
Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Black at Google’
239
6
In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels
238
7
YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims
236
8
Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters
231
9
Cerebras Systems unveils a 1.2T transistor chip for AI
227
10
One of the greatest science fiction magazines is now available online (2017)
193
News [?]
1
We Have Ruined Childhood
571
2
The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist
536
3
Scientists Discover a Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis
511
4
Yield Curves Invert in U.S., U.K
395
5
Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos calls GE a ‘bigger fraud than Enron’
297
6
Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents
295
7
U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss
267
8
Japan surpasses China as largest foreign holder of US Treasurys
260
9
FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights
251
10
Danish bank launches negative interest rate mortgage
248
Scientific publications [?]
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New Electric Motor Could Boost Efficiency of EVs, Scooters, and Wind Turbines
104
2
Counterintuitive physics property found to be widespread in living organisms
101
3
The lunar laser ranging experiment is still going 50 years later
101
4
Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change
85
5
Volcanoes on the Moon May Have Erupted During the Dinosaur Age (2014)
67
6
Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Atari
58
7
Tiny lensless endoscope captures 3-D images of objects smaller than a cell
42
8
Douglas-Quaid – Open-Source Image Matching Library
27
9
Interactive coin offerings (2017)
19
10
Why does deep and cheap learning work so well? (2017)
16
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
1116
2
Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment
569
3
Attorney General Barr and Encryption
328
4
Updating our advertising policies on state media
185
5
Highlights from Git 2.23
168
6
A Deep Dive into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture
135
7
Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (2017)
92
8
Crokage: A New Way to Search Stack Overflow
90
9
Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
90
10
The Moderators Who Keep Hacker News Focused on Intellectual Curiosity
85
Tech blogs [?]
1
The death of a weather satellite as seen by SDR
92
2
Homemade Liquid Nitrogen with the Joule-Thompson Effect
60
3
Great Artificial Daylight via Broken TVs
25
4
AMD Renoir APUs Could Arrive with Zen 2 Cores and Vega 10 Graphics
13
5
Snap launches Spectacles 3 with dual HD cameras for 3D capture
10
6
California Supreme Court Blocks Sweeping Search of Minors’ Electronic Devices
7
7
Apple Sues Virtualization Company Corellium for Replicating iOS and Apps
4
8
In-Memory Processing on DRAM
4
9
Bike mounted synthetic aperture radar
4
10
Cramming Dual Sims and a Micro SD Card into Your Phone
3
FAANG+ [?]
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Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances
141
2
Apple’s US job footprint grows to 2.4M
87
3
Amazon Prime Day 2019 – AWS Metrics
15
4
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning [pdf]
5
5
Amazon Prime Day 2019 – Powered by AWS – AWS News Blog
3
6
Apple brings contactless student IDs on iPhone and Apple Watch to more
2
7
Searching for gold with habitat restoration in mind
1
8
Amazon allows sellers to sell scam “Anti EMF stickers”
1
9
AWS DeepLens – Now Orderable in Seven Additional Countries
1
10
I wrote a book on hiring engineers – would appreciate feedback from HN
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America
253
2
Indigenous Women Are Publishing the First Maya Works in over 400 Years
109
3
Arctic permafrost is thawing fast
41
4
Found: A Stash of Mystical Charms and Amulets in Pompeii
33
5
Reddit, with wigs and ink
22
6
Tesla launches solar rental service – solar panel system for $50 per month
21
7
On the Hunt for National Treasures with America’s Archive Detective
16
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Project BillVision (1995)
16
9
Turn your Tesla into a CIA-like counter-surveillance tool with this hack
13
10
Newly discovered organ may be lurking under your skin
4
Science News [?]
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Big Coal Plants Begin to Close
289
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The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure
214
3
A parrot has a question for humans
185
4
Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon
157
5
Scientists reverse aging process in rat brain stem cells
105
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Drinking fluoridated water during pregnancy may lower IQ in sons
88
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What Fruits and Vegetables Looked Like Before We Domesticated Them
87
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New Proof Settles How to Approximate Numbers Like Pi
56
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Using Wall Street secrets to reduce the cost of cloud infrastructure
55
10
Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago
53
Social [?]
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I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market”
701
2
I feel like im talking to the borg
492
3
Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong
394
4
Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends them through the mail
182
5
Datacenter Locations Driven by 19th Century Politics
157
6
US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In
144
7
WeWork’s 17th employee: I was not offered options
138
8
Rachmaninoff – Little Red Riding Hood [video]
98
9
Inside a Poundland computer mouse [video]
97
10
Bill Hader Channels Tom Cruise – DeepFake [video]
94
Github repos and gists [?]
1
OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation
813
2
I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code
450
3
Anime4K: Real time high quality video upscaling
387
4
Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code
213
5
Ruffle – An Adobe Flash Player Written in Rust Compiled to WebAssembly
206
6
Nixery: Transparently build and serve containers using Nix
192
7
HTTP/2 Denial of Service Advisory
191
8
Pokemonsay: Pokemon Version of Cowsay
127
9
MesaPy: A Memory-Safe Python Implementation based on PyPy (2018)
119
10
All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox on Aug 21
114
Wikipedia [?]
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Michael Cicconetti
201
2
Moravec's Paradox
155
3
Yoda conditions
133
4
The Invincible – 1964 novel
102
5
Kevinism
91
6
Q-Learning
88
7
Deep Operation
41
8
Kostroma Moose Farm
30
9
Tunnel of Eupalinos
20
10
Ad Creep
20
Blogs [?]
1
GitHub stars won’t pay your rent
426
2
Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team
357
3
The interviewer skills ladder for high growth companies
182
4
The Nightmare of Valve’s self-organizing “utopia” (2018)
74
5
What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble
60
6
The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With
30
7
Welcome to Feiba Peveli: Procedurally Generated Place Names from the 1820s
28
8
Automating capture of airplane pics with Raspberry Pis, ADS-B and IoT software
16
9
Pierre Lamond On Cerebas' New Deep Learning Chip
15
10
Why Alibaba Will Be Bigger Than Amazon
14
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why is the result of ('b'+'a'+ + 'a' +'a').toLowerCase() 'banana'?
11
2
Why is the result of ('b'+'a'+ + 'a' + 'a').toLowerCase() 'banana'?
8
3
How and when to align to cache line size (2011)
2
4
Is CSS Turing Complete?
1
5
What does it mean that quicksort in Ruby is not stable?
1
Substack [?]
1
Andy Sparks, CEO of Holloway, on Living a More Conscious Life
6
2
A Few Things I Learned from My First “Unicorn” Investment
3
3
Do you love 'Data' Science? I mean, the Data part
2
4
The Strange Attraction of Beats1
2
5
How Monopolies Broke the Federal Reserve
2
6
Clogging Earth's Heat Drain
2
7
How YouTube Came to Promote Fascism
2
8
WeWork and the 2010s
2
9
Andy Sparks, CEO of Holloway, on Living a More Conscious Life
1
10
The Rule of 140
1