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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Introducing nushell

1477

2

What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?

1041

3

Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection

918

4

Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer

849

5

Software Architecture Guide

803

6

Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

762

7

Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore

731

8

How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night

685

9

Consume less, create more

668

10

Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)

630

Top Ask HN

1

Best resources to gain math intuition?

389

2

What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?

277

3

How to be less argumentative online?

221

4

What are you learning in 2019?

188

5

Best Linux Laptop Replacing a Macbook Pro?

97

6

Best Blogging Platform

92

7

A colleague is leaving. How to investigate what went wrong?

80

8

Why is Bluetooth audio always so bad?

58

9

What are your favorite educational non-tech podcasts?

53

10

What still sucks about remote work?

50

Top Show HN

1

CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file

640

2

I made a CRM system to make sales fun

275

3

Zero-Config Documentation Websites for Python

233

4

Sourcery – get a free, self-updating website

230

5

YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 10 years ago

168

6

Scarf – Platform to help open-source developers monetize their work

167

7

Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more

140

8

SponsorBlock – Skip sponsorship segments of YouTube videos

139

9

A few simple games not only for kids

102

10

IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

96

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines

567

2

Researcher banned on Valve's bug bounty program publishes second Steam 0-day

465

3

VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B

402

4

Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’

331

5

Moscow's blockchain voting system cracked a month before election

301

6

Yubico launches its dual USB-C and Lightning two-factor security key

263

7

Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature

256

8

Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B

213

9

Experimental USAF space plane breaks record for orbital spaceflight

212

10

Facebook emails show internal concerns being raised about Cambridge Analytica

201

News [?]

1

Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore

731

2

Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers

604

3

15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete

502

4

Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids

403

5

Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests

302

6

Cooling a house without air conditioning

296

7

Now Bigger Than eBay, Shopify Sets Its Sights on Amazon

265

8

Monsanto Effort to Defund Cancer Researchers

261

9

Opioid crisis: Johnson and Johnson hit by landmark ruling

261

10

Singapore Says Musk's Electric Cars Are About 'Lifestyle,' Not Climate

261

Scientific publications [?]

1

Chemists discover water microdroplets spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide

138

2

30 years ago: Voyager 2's historic Neptune flyby

119

3

A 127-year-old physics riddle regarding the Kelvinangle in boat wakes solved

102

4

Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time

98

5

New saltwater electrical generation could power submarines or medical devices

82

6

LogicENN: A Neural Based Knowledge Graphs Embedding Model with Logical Rules

79

7

Programming shape using kirigami tessellations

58

8

Maglev Heart Could Keep Cardiac Patients Alive

57

9

Device vanishes on command after military missions

53

10

Quantum Gravity's Tangled Time

18

Dev Blogs [?]

1

IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set

587

2

Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization

494

3

Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan

388

4

Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web

266

5

Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your Git repos to GCP

241

6

GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addressed VM instances

236

7

Making containers safer

211

8

GitHub Supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for Security Keys

206

9

On-disk format robustness requirements for new filesystems

192

10

GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up

160

Tech blogs [?]

1

Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips

237

2

Court Rules That “Patent Troll” Is Opinion, Not Defamation

162

3

Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to New iOS 12.4 Jailbreak

134

4

Hydrophilic disc uses solar power to separate salt from water

126

5

Ninth Circuit Goes a Step Further to Protect Privacy in Border Device Searches

97

6

Browsers Take a Stand Against Kazakhstan’s Invasive Internet Surveillance

85

7

Apple's New WebKit Policy Takes a Hard Line for User Privacy

33

8

Dell Unveils Updated XPS 13 with Intel’s 10th Gen Core CPUs and 4K Panel

33

9

iPhones RF emissions above safe levels?

13

10

France says 'crazy' that Apple and others get 'permanent tax haven status'

12

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Card launches today for all US customers

109

2

Apple Card launches today for all US customers

18

3

Automatically Indexing Millions of Databases in Microsoft Azure SQL Database

5

4

AWS Amazon Forecast

4

5

Serving Deep Learning at Curalate with MXNet, AWS Lambda and Elastic Inference

4

6

Amazon Forecast Is Now Generally Available

3

7

One simple action you can take to prevent 99.9% of attacks on your accounts

2

8

Amazon Forecast – Now Generally Available

2

9

2

10

Amazon Is Listing the 4th Edition of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company

292

2

246

3

The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines (2017)

165

4

A Telegram bug that disclose phone numbers of any users in public groups

116

5

Why the U.S. Army Owns So Many Fossils

116

6

Portugal’s Marmelada Tastes Nothing Like Marmalade (2018)

107

7

A literary prank that ‘Hansel and Gretel’ was based on a real story

46

8

Tesla gets stolen with keyfob hack on camera in seconds

46

9

How a fusion of at least four cuisines created crab rangoon

45

10

Fighting forest crime in Guatemala

20

Science News [?]

1

Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database

541

2

New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity (2016)

229

3

How to become a great impostor

169

4

Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950 (2010)

138

5

Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

118

6

How the brain 'approximates' without counting

109

7

New Species May Evolve from Cancers

106

8

A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision

98

9

The New Treasures of Pompeii

89

10

A Chunk of Trinitite Reminds Us of the Power of the Atomic Bomb

86

Social [?]

1

What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?

1041

2

Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)

497

3

A Year Ago I Put Saltwater in a Jar [video]

273

4

My Sudden Trip to Hell

273

5

Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics?

180

6

YouTube blocks recording of public domain Schubert/Liszt composition

176

7

A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]

174

8

Off-Facebook Activity

166

9

28Gbps Microstrip with Pepper Jack Cheese as Substrate (2016)

140

10

Soon all the voting machines in U.S. will be powered by FreeBSD/RISC-V

67

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Banned C standard library functions in Git source code

502

2

Super Mario 64 has been decompiled

445

3

Rest-client gem is hijacked

332

4

PacVim – PacVim is a game that teaches you vim commands

190

5

Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses

184

6

Standard JS: npm install funding

168

7

Machine Learning and Data Science Applications in Industry

167

8

Airframe – Open-Source Dashboard Template

144

9

SuperSQLite: SQLite library for Python (2018)

135

10

Osquery: SQL-powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics

132

Wikipedia [?]

1

592

2

Levenshtein Distance

215

3

176

4

Chicken Hypnotism

153

5

Wikipedia contributions from IP address 127.0.0.1

138

6

130

7

List of military tactics

123

8

103

9

Chorded keyboard

97

10

66

Blogs [?]

1

Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything

338

2

OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too

201

3

Static Type Checking in Common Lisp

161

4

Dart nullability syntax decision: a?[b] or a?.[b]

65

5

Left-Recursive Peg Grammars

52

6

No, You Won’t Get It Done over the Weekend

32

7

Soft skills are as important, if not more important, than technical skills

32

8

Tupelo as it relates to IPLD and IPFS

23

9

Errudite: Scalable, Reproducible, and Testable Error Analysis

19

10

On Me, and the Media Lab

16

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is strlen so complex in C?

63

2

StackOverflow Is Offline

2

3

What is the optimal algorithm for the game 2048? (2014)

2

4

What should interactive shells do in orphaned process groups?

1

5

How to update a submodule to a specified commit via GitHub rest API?

1

Substack [?]

1

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

43

2

Ignore the Pain

4

3

Why New York City Is on the Verge of Disaster

2

4

How A Pro Soccer Player Turned VC Stays Organized

2

5

Internet Security and Stability Aren’t Tied to VeriSign’s Profit Margin

2

6

Life After Reading “The Uninhabitable Earth”

2

7

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

1

8

My Top Six Picks from YC S19 Demo Day 1

1