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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Google’s GDPR Workaround
1868
2
Sunsetting Python 2
1616
3
How to do a code review
1471
4
94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
1430
5
Questions to ask a company during a job interview
1388
6
9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not violate the CFAA [pdf]
1136
7
How to learn D3.js
895
8
Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
806
9
Stripe Capital
804
10
Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer
745
Top Ask HN
1
What things do you wish you discovered earlier?
332
2
Who is hiring? (September 2019)
326
3
What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?
290
4
Good Remote Work Literature?
255
5
What Have You Learned at Google as a Software Engineer?
246
6
What is the ops architecture like for AAA multiplayer game servers?
234
7
Compiler Engineers, what would you advise new grads/students to learn?
182
8
How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?
176
9
What is key to good technical documentation?
165
10
Those making $500/month on side projects in 2019 – Show and tell
114
Top Show HN
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Cyberpunk web design made easy, really easy
775
2
A Senior Engineer's CheckList
662
3
Array with Constant Time Access and Fast Insertion and Deletion
300
4
A simple Unix-like operating system that runs Doom
233
5
Ackee – Self-hosted website analytics
214
6
Fullstack ML – From Notebooks to Deployment
198
7
Enter your URL and view CVEs affecting your stack over last 6 months
144
8
wehatecaptchas – we’ll keep the bots out without annoying your users
136
9
I made a mind map tool meant for large, detailed node hierarchies
120
10
fast visual-inertial odometry/SLAM for AR/VR/Robotics
102
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
679
2
A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online
649
3
CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads
338
4
Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times
331
5
Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
297
6
Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft
285
7
China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
224
8
Whatever happened to Six Sigma?
219
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Real-Time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons and riot police
186
10
Was Etsy too good to be true?
143
News [?]
1
Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
806
2
Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill
608
3
50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google
492
4
Google, YouTube to Pay $170M Penalty over Collecting Kids' Personal Info
479
5
M.I.T. Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
468
6
Apple has copied some of the most popular apps in the App Store
465
7
Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
442
8
India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
361
9
A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)
360
10
Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs
359
Scientific publications [?]
1
India to Attempt Moon Landing at the Lunar South Pole Today
179
2
Squirrels listen in to birds' conversations as signal of safety
143
3
It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Responsibly Fly a Drone
114
4
Top Programming Languages 2019
95
5
The Spaceline: a space elevator alternative achievable with current technology
90
6
Radio emission from neutron star's magnetic pole revealed by general relativity
49
7
Saturn – Software Deobfuscation Framework Based on LLVM
30
8
'Radical' wrinkle in forming complex carbon molecules in space
19
9
A Study of Riders' Noise Exposure on Bay Area Rapid Transit Trains
10
10
Employees who are treated rudely get their revenge with the silent treatment
10
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Stripe Capital
804
2
Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
703
3
Spam in Your Calendar? Here’s What to Do
275
4
Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ
266
5
What’s Next in Making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default
139
6
App Updates for HTML5 Apps
64
7
Grsecurity: Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix
25
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Today’s Firefox Blocks Third-Party Tracking Cookies and Cryptomining by Default
18
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Realistic Approaches to Kubernetes RBAC
13
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Announcement of the 2019 Fellowship Awardees and Highlights from the Google PhD
11
Tech blogs [?]
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Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype
441
2
Forth: The Hacker’s Language (2017)
122
3
Artificial leaf produces first drugs using sunlight
111
4
Report says Apple to release new ‘iPhone SE’ with 4.7-inch display in 2020
100
5
Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC Approach, Integrated 5G
69
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Exploit Market ‘Flooded’ with iOS Vulnerabilities
61
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Intel to Launch Core I9-9900KS Next Month: 5 GHz on All Cores
44
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Taking Apart a Tesla Battery
12
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Facebook's Dating Service Is Full of Red Flags
8
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AMD Ryzen 3000 Can't Tell Time Properly So Its Benchmarks Are Skewed
7
FAANG+ [?]
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A Message about iOS Security
432
2
Static TypeScript: A Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language
269
3
Improved VPC Networking for AWS Lambda
158
4
IAM Roles for EKS Pods
6
5
Rocket-fast TypeScript raises the microcontroller game
4
6
Microsoft Research: “The Bw-Tree: A B-Tree for New Hardware Platforms”
4
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Project Everest: Advancing the science of program proof
4
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Microsoft releases Wunderlist replacement called To Do
3
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Apple’s Largest Store in Japan Opens Saturday in Tokyo
2
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Microsoft Icecaps: Open-Source Intelligent Conversation Engine
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1M miles
252
2
What Is a Tech Company?
245
3
The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)
230
4
Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Climate Strike
160
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Metaphysics and JavaScript
95
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Eros at Play
66
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We are not edging up to a mass extinction
46
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Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale
41
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The American Aristotle
26
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VW unveils production version of ID.3 electric car
19
Science News [?]
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Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
671
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Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 into liquid fuel
379
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In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’
253
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The growing science of memory manipulation
251
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The effects of Portal 2 and Lumosity on cognitive and noncognitive skills
231
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Japanese Settlement Found in Forests of British Columbia
182
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Mathematician Wins $3M Prize for 'Magic Wand Theorem'
175
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Map Shows How a Location Has Changed over the Past 750M Years
142
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Ancient Turing Pattern Builds Feathers, Hair and Now Shark Skin
120
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MSI-1436 stimulates regeneration of heart and multiple other tissues
116
Social [?]
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94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
1430
2
42 is found to be the sum of three cubes
552
3
Troubles with the AWS web console
359
4
OpenBSD was right to disable hyperthreading [video]
265
5
Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a factor of about 3x
230
6
Amazon AWS had a power failure, their backup generators failed
227
7
25 Years of PHP [video]
181
8
NYC Subway is replacing printed maps with low-resolution digital maps
151
9
Basecamp's Protest Google Ad
107
10
Elasticsearch is a great example of a modern monolithic application
104
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Questions to ask a company during a job interview
1388
2
Daytripper
727
3
Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
507
4
Sites with dumb password rules
485
5
ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks
453
6
Google Feedback on TypeScript 3.5
396
7
Tiler: Build Images with Images
374
8
DeepFaceLab: A tool that utilizes ML to replace faces in videos
347
9
PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
343
10
Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash (2001)
307
Wikipedia [?]
1
TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol
174
2
Rekursiv
143
3
Mach kernel
139
4
Gombe Chimpanzee War
138
5
Smoke point of cooking oils
125
6
Kleroterion
99
7
IBM 7030 Stretch
59
8
Gödel's Completeness Theorem
55
9
List of countries by mobile phones in use
54
10
Phaistos Disc
44
Blogs [?]
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Appwrite: A New Open-Source Back End Server for Mobile and Web Developers
93
2
I just don’t want to be a software developer anymore (2017)
75
3
Human Rights Implications of IBM Watson’s ‘Personality Insights’ Tool
50
4
On Joi and MIT
41
5
America’s Electronic Voting System Is Corrupted to the Core
32
6
So you want to write a package manager (2016)
29
7
Go: Overview of the Compiler
28
8
VS Code Extension for Web Dev Productivity
27
9
JavaScript Grew Up and Became a Real Language
22
10
What a Prehistoric Monument Reveals about the Value of Maintenance
20
Stackoverflow [?]
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Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression?
376
2
What's the Point of This Macro?
2
3
How to zip directories of a current folder in Python?
1
4
What's the point of “#define PROTOTYPE(s) s” that merely expands its arguments?
1
Substack [?]
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Can You Solve This? 1B Records per Second Data Streaming Challenge
16
2
How A Jeopardy! Champion Remembers Everything
3
3
My bet on causal reinforcement learning
2
4
An Ode to Privacy Normalcy
2
5
O whatever God or whatever ancestor that wins in the next life
2
6
Frntier- identifying the narratives, trends and shifts in every sector
2
7
Clearbit- AWS of Data
1
8
Corporate Social Media Intelligence Problems
1
9
Charismatic Technologies
1
10
Monopolies Broke the Federal Reserve
1