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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

2444

2

Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

2101

3

Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

1668

4

On Being a Principal Engineer

892

5

Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

799

6

Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

774

7

HTTP/3 explained

716

8

PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years

676

9

What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?

668

10

Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code

603

Top Ask HN

1

What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

2009

2

What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?

308

3

What company environment has enabled your best work?

293

4

Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?

276

5

Did offering a money-back guarantee help your business?

215

6

How are you getting through (and back from) burning out?

212

7

Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?

188

8

Resources for engineers new to system design

180

9

Alternative HN-Like Communities?

175

10

How do you get over the initial fear of learning something hard or new?

133

Top Show HN

1

Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

1214

2

Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file

407

3

Learn C and its lower levels interactively, in the browser

356

4

Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

288

5

Nevod is easier and faster than RegExp

150

6

Simple way to share state using React Hooks and Context

131

7

AskData – API to Translate Natural Language-2-Sql

111

8

My Implementation of "Quick, Draw", a Game Developed by Google

92

9

Search icons visually

87

10

Zero-Knowledge Proofs in WebAssembly

81

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

799

2

Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

774

3

Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code

603

4

Google Docs gets an API for task automation

594

5

Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting

444

6

The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

420

7

Amazon is buying Eero

318

8

Many popular iPhone apps are recording user sessions without asking

270

9

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year parental leaves

198

10

Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues

154

News [?]

1

Undercover spy exposed in NYC was one of many

464

2

Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

433

3

Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work

388

4

How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death

366

5

Instacart and DoorDash’s Tip Policies Are Delivering Outrage

344

6

Crunching 200 years of stock, bond, currency and commodity data

308

7

Mars One, which offered 1-way trips to Mars, declared bankrupt

284

8

Apple to contribute to U.S. teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug

256

9

Raspberry Pi Opens First High Street Store in Cambridge

246

10

Cheap and simple medical devices have to overcome deeply rooted biases

217

Scientific publications [?]

1

What insects can tell us about the origins of consciousness (2016)

150

2

The Hanabi Challenge: A New Frontier for AI Research

150

3

Runtime verification in Erlang by using contracts

138

4

Scientists discover new type of magnet

87

5

Differentiating SSA-Form Programs in Julia (2018) [pdf]

87

6

A Manually-Curated Dataset of Fixes to Vulnerabilities of Open-Source Software

56

7

Colloquium: A Century of Noether's Theorem

55

8

AlphaStar: An Evolutionary Computation Perspective

37

9

New Horizons' Evocative Farewell Glance at Ultima Thule

37

10

Complexity, contingency, and criticality (1994) [pdf]

30

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Kenya Government mandates DNA-linked national ID, without data protection law

109

2

Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe

105

3

The Era of General Purpose Computers Is Ending

80

4

Running TensorFlow at Petascale and Beyond

77

5

Researcher Won't Disclose MacOS Keychain 0 Day Without Apple Bug Bounty Program

66

6

Using Gmail “Dot Addresses” to Commit Fraud

46

7

Google releases Chrome extension that alerts users of breached passwords

16

8

Static vs. Dynamic Website – What’s the Difference in 2019?

10

9

The Era of General Purpose Computers Is Ending

10

10

The Era of General Purpose Computers Is Ending

6

Tech blogs [?]

1

What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?

668

2

Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless

255

3

AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X CPU Review

114

4

The Thrill of Building Space Hardware to Exceptionally High Standards

93

5

AMD Radeon VII Review: An Unexpected Shot at the High End

92

6

The Apple iPhone XR Review

91

7

AMD Market Share Gains Accelerate in Desktop PCs, Servers and Notebooks

14

8

Apple Sued Over Not Letting Customers Disable Two-Factor Auth After Two Weeks

12

9

Security researcher won't share MacOS exploit details with Apple out of protest

11

10

MacOS Keychain Security Flaw Discovered by Researcher

9

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Names Deirdre O’Brien Senior Vice President of Retail and People

111

2

Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction by Microsoft Research [pdf]

4

3

Some Thoughts on Facial Recognition Legislation

3

4

Demystifying ENTRYPOINT and CMD in Docker

3

5

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (2006) [pdf]

2

6

Cross-Device Taxonomy: Survey, Opportunities and Challenges of Interactions…

2

7

DynamoDB Local Adds Support for Transactional APIs, On-Demand Capacity Mode

2

8

AWS CloudFormation: 2018 in review

2

9

Develop and Test AWS Step Functions Workflows Locally

1

10

AWS X-Ray Support for .Net Core Is GA

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play

107

2

Flying squirrels glow pink, thanks to fluorescence

35

3

Pongmechanik (video)

28

4

Fastest Speeding Tickets in Texas in 2018

25

5

Dear Dawn: How a Nasa robot messed up our science fiction, “The Expanse”

14

6

The Era of “Move Fast and Break Things” Is Over

10

7

In China and Japan, a copy is just as good as an original

8

8

GET LAMP Archives: ~70 interviews with text adventure luminaries, 2006-08

5

9

Tesla Model 3 cost surprised Porsche and Audi after reverse-engineering

5

10

Hours worked vs. GDP (data from 2017)

4

Science News [?]

1

New pill can deliver insulin

564

2

We need to talk about systematic fraud

325

3

Thousands of scientists run up against Elsevier’s paywall

281

4

The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Creates Conceptual Spaces in the Mind

275

5

A Strange Grid Reveals Hidden Connections Between Simple Numbers

163

6

Our physiological processes become increasingly simple as we age

93

7

Artificial Intelligence Study of Human Genome Finds Unknown Human Ancestor

91

8

Doing Good Makes It Easier to Be Bad

78

9

An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita

70

10

Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile

64

Social [?]

1

Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline

550

2

38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using types

358

3

Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation

290

4

John Carmack: writing Rust code feels wholesome

211

5

Patreon is about to eat itself

204

6

A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what’s the problem?

203

7

Why do I need a 4Ghz quadcore to run Facebook?

70

8

“Git Tower” revokes licenses when discussing bugs/feedback on Reddit

68

9

Switching to Firefox, Concerned with UBlock Origin Changes

56

10

Explaining Docker and Containers

44

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Rant – An all-purpose procedural text engine

302

2

Orca – Live Programming Environment

290

3

Brave browser can inject headers in HTTP requests

267

4

Why Swift for TensorFlow?

212

5

Exwm – Emacs X Window Manager

184

6

Inter – open source and legible typeface

176

7

Nginx quick reference

172

8

Forge – Work with Git forges from the comfort of Magit

141

9

PDP-1 FPGA Implementation in Verilog, with CRT, Teletype and Console

133

10

Marker: A terminal command palette

90

Wikipedia [?]

1

311

2

List of stories set in a future now past

186

3

58

4

Vantablack, one of the darkest substances known

12

5

List of topics characterized as pseudoscience

7

6

Ignaz Semmelweis

6

7

List of placeholder names by language

5

8

Apple sued GEM (a popular window manager) for making its windows to overlap

5

9

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

2444

2

Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

2101

3

So you want to be a wizard

282

4

Jabra: we know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops

249

5

How to fight the surveillance economy

150

6

We Also Failed to Build a Billion Dollar Company

132

7

Writing Documents at Amazon

79

8

What happens when Google says “we aren’t going to pay your fines”?

35

9

Goodbye Python Virtual Environments

30

10

Google and Apple Enable Saudi Arabia’s Male Guardianship Policy

27

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Does the C++ standard allow for an uninitialized bool to crash a program?

2

2

Should OLAP databases be denormalized for read performance?

2

3

Drawing Siri's waveform

2

Substack [?]

1

Blumhouse, not Netflix, is the film production innovator to watch

3

2

Substack for audio

1

3

Beam Newsletter – Week 5

1