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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms

1121

2

Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

1066

3

Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

1001

4

This person does not exist

871

5

Flightradar24 – how it works

870

6

I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

865

7

SQL: One of the most valuable skills

819

8

You probably don't need a single-page app

815

9

My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8

810

10

Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission

728

Top Ask HN

1

How to find profitable side project idea?

471

2

What's it like to work in the same company for decades?

144

3

How to get better in advanced SQL

131

4

Is it practical to create a software-controlled model rocket?

106

5

How do I earn more as a developer?

98

6

Tools for rational decision making?

87

7

What is your failure story?

66

8

Environmental Cost of Semiconductors?

54

9

Best textbooks for learning operating systems

47

10

How do you fight through the monotony of daily life?

38

Top Show HN

1

DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview

318

2

Open source balloon simulation with Three.js

306

3

I implemented Pong as a cellular automaton

225

4

Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers

174

5

Inlets – Expose your local endpoints to the Internet

146

6

Scannable Chess Scoresheets

117

7

Cortex – machine learning infrastructure for developers

85

8

Spase.io – A new kind of planner

81

9

Compiler Fundamentals – Closure Conversion

70

10

Radio station WWV audio simulation

64

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results

365

2

Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers

315

3

Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

274

4

Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs

242

5

Google warns about two iOS zero-days 'exploited in the wild'

189

6

US iPhone users spent, on average, $79 on apps last year, up 36% from 2017

172

7

Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle

165

8

Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups is too big for one Demo Day stage

156

9

Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages

130

10

“Catastrophic” hack wipes out email provider’s entire infrastructure

116

News [?]

1

Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

1066

2

Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission

728

3

I Bought a House with Solar Panels

416

4

Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021

414

5

FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' over robocalls

382

6

Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks women

334

7

Two Large Chinese Borrowers Miss Bond Payments, Sources Say

275

8

Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger

242

9

The Colgan Air disaster was a milestone in aviation safety

231

10

Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing transactions: WSJ

225

Scientific publications [?]

1

Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications

167

2

Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution

162

3

Meaningful life at older ages – relationship with prosperity, health, biology

133

4

Robot Melts Its Bones to Change How It Walks

46

5

Running an LED in reverse could cool future computers

46

6

Where is the universe hiding its missing mass?

43

7

Learning how to learn

25

8

Integrated magnonic half-adder

24

9

Silent speech recognition using surface electromyography

7

10

ELF OpenGo: An Analysis and Open Reimplementation of AlphaZero

6

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Winning the Blackbird Battle

619

2

Introducing draft pull requests

331

3

Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems

211

4

Intel Starts Publishing Open-Source Linux Driver Code for Discrete GPUs

209

5

SOCKMAP – TCP splicing of the future

124

6

Blockchain and Trust

116

7

Create Desktop Apps with HTML5 and Go

115

8

Dopamine framework: Fast prototyping of reinforcement learning algorithms (2018)

81

9

GitHub Classroom and Travis CI Improved Students’ Grades

70

10

PlaNet: A Deep Planning Network for Reinforcement Learning

42

Tech blogs [?]

1

The Tech Behind SpaceX’s New Engine

442

2

A RISC-V CPU for $8

229

3

You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3

120

4

New experimental drug rapidly repairs age-related memory loss and improves mood

100

5

Huawei Targets Apple Trade Secrets

83

6

The Final Version of the EU's Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet

53

7

16 Inch MacBook Pro and Other Apple Products predicted coming in 2019

49

8

Western Digital’s RISC-V “SweRV” Core Design Released for Free

43

9

Apple Said to Launch 16-Inch MacBook Pro with All-New Design in 2019

42

10

Kerosene Lantern Becomes a Compact Bioreactor

32

FAANG+ [?]

1

Five New EC2 Bare Metal Instances

5

2

The Haskell School of Music: From Signals to Symphonies

5

3

Five New Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances

4

4

AWS DeepRacer: Fully Autonomous RL Toy Car by AWS

4

5

Infrequent Access Storage Class for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

3

6

What are the biases in my data?

3

7

Five New Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances: M5, M5d, R5, R5d, and Z1d

3

8

AWS announces 5 new bare metal EC2 instance types

2

9

Configurable Cloud-Scale DNN Processor for Real-Time AI [pdf]

2

10

Apple announces Health Records feature coming to veterans

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived

235

2

Innovative Cultures

125

3

When Divorce Was Off the Table, English Couples Dissolved Marriages with Beer

65

4

Japanese Newspaper for Recluses, by Recluses

54

5

EU Commission Deletes Article 13 Post Because 'Mob' Understood It Incorrectly

13

6

If Many-Worlds Had Come First (2008)

13

7

An earthquake in Turkey lasted 50 days, but no one felt it

12

8

EU deleted post blaming critics of copyright directive of russian influence

6

9

The Cost of Apple News

6

10

Why Highly Efficient Leaders Fail

4

Science News [?]

1

A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

580

2

Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma

235

3

How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past

188

4

Most Americans don’t realize what companies can predict from their data

165

5

Exposure to Glyphosate-Based Herbicides Increases Risk for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

128

6

What principal investigators taught me about my failure to land tenure

115

7

Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think

79

8

We are not nearly as determined by our genes as once thought

79

9

Why Do the Northern and Southern Lights Differ?

76

10

When Gravity Breaks Down

69

Social [?]

1

I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

865

2

A Newly-Generated Create-React-App 2.1.5 App Has 1,568 Dependencies

273

3

Anti-Application video for YC120

194

4

VPNSecure moves company from Australia to Hong Kong due to anti-encryption regs

113

5

Web page service workers bypass ad-blockers after Chrome 72 upgrade?

111

6

Tiny meteorites are everywhere. Here's how to find them [video]

81

7

Micro HTML and CSS Only Framework for Slides/Presentations

37

8

DIY Spot Welder [video]

28

9

YouTube Is Facilitating the Sexual Exploitation of Children, Being Monetized

22

10

StyleGAN Trained on Anime Faces (Japanese)

19

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use

549

2

Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency

517

3

Build your own old-school 3D shooter in a weekend

375

4

How to Secure a Linux Server

350

5

Leon: An open-source personal assistant

329

6

Github restricts public Faceswap repo to logged-in users

299

7

The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

253

8

Sample cloud-native application with microservices

231

9

Startup Credits – Free/discounted plans for startups

212

10

Handling 1M websocket connections in Go

207

Wikipedia [?]

1

124

2

Shunting-yard algorithm

74

3

Great Stirrup Controversy

58

4

List of National Emergencies in the United States

19

5

Unintended consequences

10

6

6

7

Project Cybersyn

5

8

Hostile architecture

4

9

A programming language called MUMPS

4

10

Wikipedia list of matrices

4

Blogs [?]

1

The memory safety problem isn't bad coders

250

2

Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU? (2014)

234

3

Classic Mathematics Books for Lifelong Learners

190

4

Microsoft’s New MT-DNN Outperforms Google BERT

121

5

Rust’s standard library was vulnerable for years and nobody noticed

118

6

My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27

115

7

Design Without Color First

105

8

Tech tips for people who are going to die someday (2015)

96

9

Everything is broken (2014)

84

10

GAN – Generative Adversary Networks (2018)

84

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Google.com Ranks Slow Using New Google PSI Speed Rank

48

2

Java 11 client with HTTP/2 and TLSv1.3 can lead to endless loop

4

3

We do not use C to build web apps

3

4

Why does the PSI v5 API label google.com as slow?

2

5

Time Complexity of reading a file from a Linux filesystem

2

6

HTML – RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

1

Substack [?]

1

Union Forever: Parallels Between Citizen Kane and Jeff Bezos

3

2

Differential privacy: an easy case

2

3

Beam Newsletter – Week 7

1