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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
1534
2
Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
1527
3
Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry
1158
4
How to Be Successful
894
5
KABOOM in 180 lines of bare C++
854
6
AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II
805
7
Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers
749
8
Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)
707
9
Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
707
10
Practical Linux Hardening Guide
683
Top Ask HN
1
What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?
548
2
Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?
499
3
What kind of information do you look for before learning/using new tech?
171
4
Do you enjoy working in a coworking space?
148
5
Best online courses for machine learning?
65
6
What is your favorite tool to build web startup?
50
7
How to learn to write a compiler and interpreter?
46
8
How do I stop caffeine intake without losing productivity?
46
9
Does Scrum work?
42
10
What are some examples of 'sell shovels in a gold rush'?
42
Top Show HN
1
X-spreadsheet – A JavaScript canvas spreadsheet for web
347
2
Simple Opt Out – Makes it easier to opt out of data sharing
233
3
Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS
198
4
I wanted to measure CO2 in my office, so I build a C++ WebServer/App
146
5
Deep Learning in TensorFlow – The Roadmap for Study and Learning
146
6
Notepin – Extremely simple blogging platform
144
7
Esy – fast and simple package management for native ReasonML/OCaml
134
8
Queueing theory intro for software developers
126
9
CloudQuery – Turn any website to serverless API with SPA support
117
10
Bon – programming language designed for simplicity, performance, safety
99
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Oslo made its city center basically car-free
488
2
Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize
483
3
Dropbox buys HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M
346
4
Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees
334
5
Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time
222
6
Google gives Wikimedia millions
207
7
BuzzFeed employees demand it pay out earned PTO to all laid-off U.S. staffers
203
8
Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards
196
9
“The Linux of social media” – How LiveJournal pioneered, then lost, blogging
195
10
Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China
163
News [?]
1
Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry
1158
2
Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers
749
3
Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
707
4
Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
474
5
US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages
430
6
Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
363
7
U.S. Accuses Huawei of Stealing Trade Secrets, Defrauding Banks
336
8
Big Cities No Longer Deliver for Low-Skill Workers
336
9
64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken seriously as a job applicant
327
10
Undercover Agents Target Citizen Lab
321
Scientific publications [?]
1
Seneca Valley Virus has earned a reputation as a potent oncolytic agent
248
2
Geometric Understanding of Deep Learning (2018)
164
3
Demand and Salaries for Data Scientists Continue to Climb
134
4
Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)
131
5
What are the limits of deep learning?
102
6
An elementary introduction to the geometry of quantum states with a picture book
57
7
Scientists bring new insight into how animals see
42
8
Testing Hawking radiation in laboratory black hole analogues
41
9
CT-Wasm: Type-Driven Secure Cryptography for the Web Ecosystem
24
10
High-Assurance Separation Kernels: A Survey on Formal Methods (2017)
23
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud
680
2
Oracle v. Google and the future of software development
372
3
HTTP/3: from root to tip
340
4
The worst career advice I ever received
172
5
Stackoverflow 2019 Developer Survey Is Open
121
6
Adiantum: encryption for the low end
63
7
Troubled legacy of Terry Davis, ‘God’s lonely programmer’
60
8
Elevating user trust in our API ecosystem
46
9
Swift 5 Release Notes for Xcode 10.2 beta
33
10
The Linux Kernel Likely to See a Hardware Accelerator Subsystem
28
Tech blogs [?]
1
FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
1534
2
Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point
344
3
1859 Carrington Event
101
4
Detecting Ghosts by Reverse Engineering: Who Ya Gonna Call?
42
5
Carbon capture system turns CO2 into electricity and hydrogen fuel
18
6
A Guided Tour of the Data Facebook Uses to Target Ads
18
7
Macintosh Turns 35
13
8
Washington Post Tries to Take Down Parody Site Announcing Trump's Resignation
9
9
Macintosh Turns 35
6
10
Marvell's Wi-Fi Security Flaw Affects Microsoft Surface, Xbox One and More
4
FAANG+ [?]
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Office 365 is now on Mac App Store
239
2
TLS Termination for Network Load Balancers
117
3
Introducing Amazon WorkLink
6
4
Apple Pay coming to Target, Taco Bell and more top US retail locations
3
5
Amazon WorkLink: Provide secure mobile access to your internal websites/web apps
2
6
[Ebook] Data Structures from Scratch (Free Until Next Tuesday (Jan/29/2019))
2
7
(ICYMI) Data Structures from Scratch – Free Until Next Tuesday (Jan/29/2019)
2
8
AWS Serverless ICYMI Q4
1
9
Scientists discover how bacteria use noise to survive stress
1
10
Introducing AWS Backup
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Netflix Flexes
189
2
The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica (2017)
124
3
The Buzzfeed Lesson
121
4
HN on second day from launch
120
5
Cars People Keep for 15 Years or More
80
6
Luggage found stuffed with 5,000 leeches
68
7
We need to be wary of narratives of economic catastrophe
34
8
Netflix flexes
18
9
Australia’s beloved kangaroos are now controversial pests
14
10
The Era of “Move Fast and Break Things” Is Over
11
Science News [?]
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A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar eclipse
600
2
A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think
122
3
Gum disease–causing bacteria could spur Alzheimer’s
116
4
Surprising importance of spontaneous order and noise to how we think
99
5
1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)
95
6
Mockingbirds show heightened aggression after lead exposure
88
7
A Child’s Puzzle Has Helped Unlock the Secrets of Magnetism
81
8
CRISPR-baby scientist fired by university
76
9
Cause of Alzheimer’s: gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease
67
10
What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics? (2016)
66
Social [?]
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Facebook is the worst thing that's ever happened to the internet
258
2
Making C Less Dangerous in the Linux Kernel [video]
149
3
Israel airport security stole my laptop
124
4
iOS 12.2 Beta: Progressive Web App Capabilities
97
5
Let’s Create a Speech Synthesizer in C++17 [video]
95
6
Everytime Employee 2 walks by a cubicle, one of the screens blacks out
69
7
“I just started writing some Rust”
64
8
Kotlin is now an official language for Android development inside Google
34
9
Google DeepMind StarCraft Demonstration (Scheduled 1pm EST)
33
10
Donald Knuth – Fun with Binary Decision Diagrams (2008) [video]
32
Github repos and gists [?]
1
KABOOM in 180 lines of bare C++
854
2
Practical Linux Hardening Guide
683
3
AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
505
4
Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond
380
5
Revery – Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps
350
6
Verilog sources for Western Digital's open source RISC-V core
320
7
Snark Barker: A 100% compatible replica of the famed SB 1.0 soundcard
312
8
Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K concurrent connections on
288
9
WasmWinforms – .NET WinForms in a browser
229
10
Movfuscator – Single instruction C compiler
197
Wikipedia [?]
1
University of the Third Age
119
2
Jiggle syphon
14
3
Blissymbols, an Ideographic Writing System
13
4
List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
11
5
Windows Vista startup process
9
6
Falun Gong
6
7
Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners in China
6
8
Monster Study
5
9
“Not proven” is a verdict available to a court in Scotland
4
10
Ontonagon Boulder
4
Blogs [?]
1
Ten minutes a day
355
2
We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees
85
3
The TypeScript Tax
67
4
Lessons Learned from Kaggle’s Airbus Challenge
62
5
Notes on 4 years of starting up
56
6
The Legacy of Firefox OS
54
7
What the Flow team has been up to
44
8
HTTP/1 should die; HTTP/2 can do everything HTTP/1 could, only faster
38
9
Risk of Discovery (2017)
38
10
What Makes a Great Logo – Four Critical Qualities That Nobody Talks About
31
Stackoverflow [?]
1
In CSS Flexbox, why are there no “justify-items” and “justify-self” properties?
2
2
Code Loops Without Any Loop Statement or 'goto' or Recursion
2
3
Where does 'Hello world' come from?
1
Substack [?]
1
A week of privacy backlash against some of the US's largest tech corporations
1