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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

My Business Card Runs Linux

2595

2

Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

1246

3

Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused

1236

4

What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

863

5

Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

781

6

Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code

685

7

How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure

633

8

Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]

626

9

Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016)

618

10

T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)

595

Top Ask HN

1

Best books you read in the past decade?

873

2

Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?

485

3

Solo devs, how do you plan your development?

338

4

What do top engineers you know do that others don't?

326

5

Best solutions for keeping a personal log?

238

6

Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?

226

7

Ex-Employer gossiping I “hacked” their platform – what to do?

177

8

Any Pebble Alternatives?

143

9

2020 goals and resolutions?

135

10

Making a mobile app as a back-end developer?

124

Top Show HN

1

Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console

406

2

Eschersket.ch – a symmetry drawing app to design custom wrapping paper

386

3

Made this with my daughter to help kids ages 2 to 4 learn logic

367

4

CoreUI Icons – open-source icons with marks in SVG, Webfont and raster

238

5

Dating Site Without Pictures

127

6

Rewtro plays tiny videogames encoded in origami GameBoy cartridges

117

7

MassCode – a code snippets manager for developers

115

8

Linkding, a self-hostable bookmark service

114

9

Art Resources and Tutorials Website

109

10

An experimental distributed SQL database from scratch in Go

104

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar

355

2

French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold

352

3

A Twitter app bug was used to match 17M phone numbers to user accounts

301

4

88% of Americans use a second screen while watching TV

291

5

What's Next for R?

189

6

Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Is Leaving the Company’s Board of Directors

183

7

Lawmakers Warn Against Private Equity Firm's .Org Takeover

140

8

I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and write about it

120

9

Rivian's platform approach to electric vehicles helped it raise $3B this year

90

10

Are Humans Fit for Space? A ‘Herculean’ Study

81

News [?]

1

Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $3.7B bet on electric

376

2

French cities trying to ban public adverts

324

3

Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age

272

4

Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines

266

5

I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams

231

6

The Basic Problem of Democracy (1919)

206

7

Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet

187

8

How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster

181

9

An art dealer disappeared with $50M. 17 years later a documentary crew found him

161

10

Americans are retiring to Vietnam

156

Scientific publications [?]

1

Breast cancer detection in mammography using deep learning approach

190

2

Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus

128

3

Bacteria can 'outsmart' programmed cell death

116

4

YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf]

115

5

A Robot That Explains Its Actions

78

6

Emergent dynamics of neuromorphic nanowire networks

74

7

Chimpanzees Spontaneously Dance to Music

73

8

New discoveries set to reveal the geology of planets outside our solar system

43

9

Play Sports for a Quieter Brain: Evidence from Division I Collegiate Athletes

36

10

Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits

6

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Build Your Own WebAssembly Compiler

144

2

Network.framework: A Modern Alternative to Sockets (2018)

124

3

Designing accessible color systems

23

4

How the U.S. Air Force Deployed Kubernetes and Istio on an F-16 in 45 Days

10

5

Debian Developers Decide on Init System Diversity: “Proposal B” Wins

7

6

Donald Knuth's Christmas Tree lecture explores pi's use in his books

5

7

Kubernetes and Istio on an F16

4

8

No More UIWebView in the AppStore

4

9

Deterministic Aperture: A distributed, load balancing algorithm

4

10

Thinking in Data

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Dive into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance

120

2

Information teleported between two computer chips for the first time

43

3

Optical illusions of 2019 will melt your mind

18

4

EFF Enters the Competition Fray

6

5

Adversarial Interoperability

4

6

Possible fifth force of nature found

3

7

An Interview with AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster: ‘There’s More Room at the Top’

3

8

3D printed pulsejet uses Tesla Valve

2

9

80-Core N1 Next-Gen Ampere, ‘QuickSilver’: The Anti-Graviton2

2

10

The Year in Corporate Speech Controls

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Top Architecture Blog Posts of 2019 (AWS)

4

2

Microsoft Research 2019 Reflection – Progress on Tech’s Toughest Challenges

4

3

Cheaters Always Win: The Story of America

2

4

Witcher writer Andrzej Sapkowski Tops Amazon Author Rank

2

5

MS Research 2019 reflection–a year of progress on technology’s challenges

1

6

The Unicorn Project – Gene Kim's Novel

1

7

Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball (2011) [pdf]

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

What happens when your career becomes your whole identity

544

2

Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Design (1983)

156

3

Principles of the American Cargo Cult (2003)

151

4

144

5

A New York railroad uses lasers to stay on schedule

108

6

Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior

100

7

Type systems and the future of programming languages

74

8

How writing began, and other unexpectedly funny stories about cuneiform [video]

65

9

Apple Computer: Scorpius Architectural Specification (1988)

63

10

The Soviets Sponsored a Doomed Expedition to a Hollow Earth Kingdom (2016)

54

Science News [?]

1

Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials

218

2

How Microbiomes Affect Fear

146

3

Lego Block Structures as a Sub-Kelvin Thermal Insulator

85

4

The Year in Math and Computer Science

81

5

Pathways to Cellular Supremacy in Biocomputing

52

6

The Joy of Cosmic Mediocrity

42

7

Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes

38

8

Intermittent fasting: live ‘fast,’ live longer?

36

9

Federal Toxmap Shutters, Raising the Ire of Pollution Researchers

24

10

The Year in Math and Computer Science

21

Social [?]

1

Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused

1236

2

Windows 95 UI Design

555

3

Shopify CEO says long hours aren't necessary for success

552

4

Slack have blocked using the website on mobile

492

5

A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server

398

6

Go through your family's phone settings and turn on all the privacy features

323

7

BSD vs. Ubuntu motd(5)

251

8

Cheating in Programming

244

9

A Breakthrough in Graph Theory [video]

226

10

Functional programming design patterns (2015) [video]

180

Github repos and gists [?]

1

What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

863

2

T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)

595

3

Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool

466

4

Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf]

403

5

Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player

301

6

Ffmpeg-Python: Python bindings for FFmpeg – with complex filtering support

220

7

219

8

CapOneMe – a vulnerable cloud environment to demonstrate the Capital One breach

146

9

Publish – A static site generator for Swift developers

143

10

Eris – A better way to handle, trace, and log errors in Go

137

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wisdom (albatross)

147

2

141

3

101

4

Kahan Summation Algorithm

80

5

Esterel – Synchronous programming language for complex, reactive systems

56

6

The Dyatlov Pass Incident

52

7

Ostrich Algorithm

14

8

Silicon drift detector

13

9

6

10

SpiNNaker – A Massively Parallel, Manycore Supercomputer

6

Blogs [?]

1

Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software?

302

2

The Two Kinds of Moderate

165

3

Conclusions from analyzing Y Combinator’s investing history

164

4

Emulating the Original Gameboy’s CPU

132

5

Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018)

82

6

Designing a service for password-less temporary access to resources

69

7

Implementing a Cuckoo Filter in Go

66

8

Infiltrating Python’s Software Supply Chain

54

9

Programming reminds me of my stand up comedy days (2018)

44

10

What’s in Store for Kubernetes Operators in 2020?

14

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Which Scheme Is Used in This Paper

4

2

C# – Visual studio long compilation when replacing int with double

3

3

Answer: Any Way to Test EventEmitter in Angular2?

1

Substack [?]

1

Console #15: Spying Tools and Risk Sharing

16

2

How I Use Notion

3

3

On betting, predictions, and the language we use to forecast

3

4

Yasha Levine's Twitter account locked after tweet criticising US foreign policy

3

5

24 Breakout Startups going into 2020

3

6

Real-Time Animation for Cartoons

2

7

WASM: A Universal Bytecode

2

8

Ranking Crypto Assets by Auditability

2

9

Building your product like it's a game

1