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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?

1516

2

Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

1454

3

Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

1415

4

Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

1320

5

Dotfile madness

1146

6

If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source

1138

7

MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools

1028

8

New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking

953

9

Ending our Medium integration

936

10

Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps

882

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (February 2019)

407

2

Highest paying remote companies?

356

3

Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?

319

4

Top three questions for a startup before accepting a job offer?

301

5

What tech stack would you use to build an open-source Google Keep clone?

190

6

If my company bills me out at $165/hr what should my salary be?

118

7

Why is it easier to get a raise with a new job?

88

8

Are side-projects still a good way to generate passive income?

85

9

What have you found the most useful interview question to be?

80

10

Are there any online lawyer services?

77

Top Show HN

1

Learn React fundamentals

509

2

Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories

475

3

GuiLite – Tiny UI framework, runs on MCU without OS

355

4

The operating system I built as my high school project (2016)

220

5

Deep Learning GUI to Create, Train and Visualize Models in a Browser

216

6

Apprise – A lightweight all-in-one notification solution

163

7

Linjat, a small puzzle game

122

8

Gitin – a minimal commit/branch/workdir explorer for Git

107

9

E3Dos – A 3D engine I wrote when I was a teen

83

10

Gita – a CLI tool to manage multiple Git repos

79

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

1454

2

Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps

882

3

Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps

735

4

Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door

640

5

Sex censorship killed the internet we love

627

6

Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL

417

7

Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug last week

361

8

Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach

293

9

A Coder Who Became a Crime Boss

291

10

Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe

291

News [?]

1

One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI

677

2

EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone

604

3

Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch

559

4

Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public

500

5

U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers

469

6

'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes

423

7

Let Children Get Bored Again

419

8

If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed

405

9

More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision

387

10

Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism for Iran

317

Scientific publications [?]

1

Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics

419

2

Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code

250

3

Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay

215

4

TensorFlow.js: Machine Learning for the Web and Beyond

192

5

A Mini-Introduction to Information Theory

136

6

Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

128

7

Unusual sugar from cyanobacteria acts as natural herbicide

77

8

The 'stuff' of the universe keeps changing

76

9

Drones Help Rid Galapagos Island of Invasive Rats

68

10

Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015)

49

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Systemd as tragedy

288

2

Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA

283

3

Mozilla Raises Concerns Over Facebook’s Lack of Transparency

249

4

Helping to Build Cloudflare, Part 2: The Worst Two Weeks

158

5

Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)

149

6

A proposed API for full-memory encryption

149

7

Transformer-XL: Unleashing the Potential of Attention Models

73

8

Ubuntu vs. Debian vs. OpenSUSE on the POWER9 Raptor Talos II

10

9

Building a Remote-Friendly Company at Webflow (YC S13)

7

10

Real-Time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe

7

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, the Last of the Itaniums

193

2

Samsung Unveils 15.6-Inch Ultra-HD OLED Display for Laptops

184

3

A science lab in your pocket?

47

4

The Intel Xeon W-3175X Review: 28 Unlocked Cores, $2999

25

5

Apple employee accused stealing ‘Titan’ trade secrets for a Chinese competitor

25

6

Linux Fu: Easier File Watching

23

7

PCIe 5.0 Is Ready for Prime Time

10

8

Facebook Enterprise Certificates Restored

7

9

Google Screenwise: An Unwise Trade of All Your Privacy for Cash

7

10

Apple Disables Group FaceTime as Temporary Workaround to Major Privacy Bug

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Financial Results – Q1 2019 Conference Call LIVE

57

2

Microsoft announces record earnings on strong cloud growth

21

3

Amazon Corretto: No-Cost, Multiplatform Distribution of OpenJDK

18

4

Apple iOS Security Overview: Secure by Design [pdf]

6

5

Daemon by Daniel Suarez

4

6

Apple Disables Group FaceTime Server Side

3

7

Component manufacturing drives Apple’s US job creation

3

8

Amazon Corretto 8 (OpenJDK 8) Now Generally Available

3

9

iPhone SE Makes Another Appearance in the Apple Store

2

10

Amazon Corretto 8 Now Generally Available

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Time Running Out for Beloved Mechanical Horse-Race Game in Vegas

76

2

Where do Google's flaky tests come from?

61

3

Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six minutes

28

4

Believing without evidence is always morally wrong

20

5

YouTube Strikes Now Being Used as Scammers’ Extortion Tool

11

6

Pirate Bay ‘Promotion’ Increases Post-Release Box Office Revenue, Study Shows

7

7

Magnetic north just changed. Here's what that means

6

8

Mutant blue-eyed coyotes spreading through California

5

9

The marvel of the human dad

5

10

Foodie Localism Loves Farming in Theory but Not in Practice

4

Science News [?]

1

What Impossible Meant to Feynman

325

2

Machine learning leads mathematicians to unsolvable problem

197

3

Forget everything you know about 3D printing – the ‘replicator’ is here

186

4

Our Language Affects What We See

143

5

'Metallic wood' has the strength of titanium and the density of water

126

6

Studies Shoot Down Tech’s Harmful Effects on Kids – So Now What?

119

7

Solar Farms Shine a Ray of Hope on Bees and Butterflies

99

8

Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks

79

9

The first synthetic element

77

10

A model to simulate how ideas move from one academic institution to another

52

Social [?]

1

A Design Flaw Behind MacBook Pro’s “Stage Light” Effect [video]

260

2

I have chosen the wrong flight dates because your date picker is broken

239

3

God Mode Unlocked – Hardware Backdoors in Via C3 CPUs (2018) [video]

162

4

Table-Saw Kickback on Camera (2012) [video]

159

5

Amazon has forced attrition rates (someone has to go every year)

152

6

I'm not 54. I'm 22 with 32 years experience

137

7

Created a fake account and Facebook still figured out who I am. How?

129

8

Something is happening on Reddit

62

9

Visiting the Anderton Boat Lift on My Narrowboat (2017) [video]

41

10

Mozilla developer fixes Chromium bug caused by Google breaking the spec

40

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A Python Interpreter Written in Rust

430

2

Z.lua – A new cd command that navigates faster by learning your habits

163

3

Istio – An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices

163

4

Asterius – Haskell to WebAssembly Compiler

156

5

Public APIs: A collective list of free APIs

141

6

Ledger Live: A mobile companion app for Ledger hardware wallets

75

7

ASCII generator: image to text, image to image, video to video

67

8

Why Semantic Versioning Isn't (2015)

61

9

Consolas is now open source

60

10

GPU-sentry: Flask-based package for monitoring utilisation of GPUs

53

Wikipedia [?]

1

124

2

60

3

Scramble for Africa

26

4

Bloom's Taxonomy

16

5

The Cuckoo's Egg

14

6

Fundamental theorem of software engineering

13

7

Comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch

11

8

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo

4

9

Brazil (1985 film)

4

10

My Way Killings

4

Blogs [?]

1

Lessons learned scaling a PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month

259

2

Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps

256

3

Is There a Fourth Neutrino Out There in the Universe?

128

4

I abused 2FA to maintain persistence after a password change

113

5

Become CEO of this sexy startup for just $1 a month

65

6

Movies Get Chess Wrong

45

7

Munchery swindled a group of women and minority owned companies out of over $50k

44

8

Vue 2.6 released

32

9

We’re Building the Holodeck with Andreessen Horowitz

25

10

In the Future, Senior Citizens Will Play Video Games All Day

20

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to stop 'uninterruptible' process on Linux?

2

2

Docker commit and docker push (Swarm)

2

Substack [?]