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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property

1425

2

Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

1240

3

Leukemia Has Won

1010

4

Public protest against Amazon

918

5

A Heavily-Commented Linux Kernel Source Code [pdf]

699

6

Practical Go: Real-world advice for writing maintainable Go programs

675

7

Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)

671

8

COI – Chat Over IMAP

655

9

Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees

642

10

Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output

634

Top Ask HN

1

What VPN service are you currently using?

305

2

Why is there no activity indicator when an iPhone's camera is on?

116

3

Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2019?

111

4

Which companies are improving recruiting?

92

5

How Can I Sell My Project?

85

6

Leaving a Job at Big Tech Giants for Startup

73

7

Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?

71

8

What do productive people do on weekends?

68

9

Before We Spend Millions, What Do You Think of This Blockchain Use Case?

65

10

Advice for Hosting and Deploying My Side Project

51

Top Show HN

1

Automatically synchronize subtitles with video

522

2

Commento: a fast, privacy-focused alternative to Disqus

267

3

Chrome Extension to See IMDB Ratings Directly on Netflix

232

4

ICONSVG – Customize and Generate Common SVG Icons

223

5

GitNews Web – Trending Repositories from GitHub, HackerNews and Reddit

181

6

Material Kit – Open Source UI for Bootstrap, React, Vuejs, React Native

175

7

Summarized Finance / Tech Newsletter Using Natural Language Processing

92

8

Fltrdr – A TUI Text Reader for the Terminal

78

9

Simple Webapp to Play with Open AI Transformer (Smaller Version)

75

10

We Got Sick of Giving Out 'Ballpark Estimates' So We Built This

72

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees

642

2

Why a Grape Turns into a Fireball in the Microwave

305

3

Facebook moderators in America

291

4

Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset for the factory

283

5

Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again

282

6

Prominent D.C. media firm implicated in fake FCC comments

277

7

New flaws in 4G, 5G allow attackers to intercept calls and track phone locations

259

8

Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’

239

9

Redis Labs Raises a $60M Series E Round

188

10

Redis Labs Changes Its Open-Source License Again

180

News [?]

1

U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property

1425

2

Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)

671

3

Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output

634

4

Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D

568

5

Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago

556

6

Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret

488

7

Hayabusa-2: Japan Spacecraft Touches Down on Asteroid

435

8

New York governor orders probe into Facebook access to data from other apps

393

9

America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Miserable

287

10

Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child Videos

253

Scientific publications [?]

1

GradientFlow: Training ImageNet in 1.5 Minutes on 512 GPUs

89

2

Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor

65

3

When does the concept of equilibrium work in economics?

54

4

Holographic Neural Architectures (2018)

36

5

Dynamics at the Boundary of Game Theory and Distributed Computing (2017)

35

6

Researchers Peer Inside the Mind of the Worm for Clues on How Memories Form

21

7

China and India Account for One-Third of the Greening

20

8

Navy Files for Patent on Room-Temperature Superconductor

18

9

The Accelerator Wall: A New Problem for a Post-Moore’s Law World

10

10

Transfusion:Understanding Transfer Learning with Applications to Medical Imaging

8

Dev Blogs [?]

1

France Enters the Matrix

376

2

20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience

140

3

Announcing workers.dev

122

4

First .dev Domains Go Live

122

5

Is a shared database in microservices actually an anti-pattern?

120

6

Patent Exhaustion and Open Source

69

7

Git 2.21 Highlights

68

8

Cloudflare's RPKI Toolkit

65

9

New Breed of Fuel Pump Skimmer Uses SMS and Bluetooth

57

10

Containers as Kernel Objects – Again

56

Tech blogs [?]

1

WiFi Hides Inside a USB Cable

380

2

Trolls Are Real

293

3

Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls

282

4

TSMC's Photoresist Material Incident: $550M Loss

115

5

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Review

109

6

Apple Falls from First to 17th Spot in 'World's Most Innovative Company' Ranking

35

7

Cyber-Mercenary Groups Shouldn't Be Trusted in the Browser or Anywhere Else

16

8

Intel Expecting Apple to Transition to Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting in 2020

15

9

Intel Confirms Apple Macs Will Switch to Arm CPUs by 2020, Says Report

10

10

Landmark Research Creates “Universal” Stem Cells Using Crispr Gene Editing

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (free book)

3

2

Apple selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store (Again)

3

3

Amazon EFS Now Supports Tag-on-Create

1

4

Microsoft Hololens 2

1

5

Project Tuva: Richard Feynman’s Messenger Lecture Series

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

My Notes on How to Start a Startup by YC

371

2

A Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material (2016)

206

3

Growing a Compiler: Getting to Machine Learning from a General Purpose Compiler

178

4

Improve your privacy in the age of mass surveillance (2017)

91

5

A psychiatrist who didn’t believe in mental illness (2013)

91

6

The Surprising Power of Online Experiments (2017)

80

7

Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn’t Pay (1990)

49

8

Early South Dakota Thrived by Being a Divorce Colony

42

9

Why the Last Words of Anne Boleyn Remain a Mystery (2016)

26

10

The Empty Brain

17

Science News [?]

1

Four new DNA letters double life’s alphabet

262

2

US Cities Are Becoming More Dangerous for Cyclists and Pedestrians

220

3

Is Matter Conscious? (2017)

212

4

Neuroscientists Say They've Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communication

134

5

Impossible Mathematics of the Real World (2017)

103

6

De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation

89

7

Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-Time Science After First Child

87

8

Using Artificial Intelligence to Engineer Materials’ Properties

76

9

How the 1918 Flu Spread Across America (2017)

63

10

Explore France’s Loire Valley in the Footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci

49

Social [?]

1

Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default

388

2

Sam Altman: Bay Area is no longer the obvious place for startups

330

3

Travis CI Is Laying Off Senior Engineer Staff

300

4

Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes

276

5

AMA: Steven Pruitt, a Wikipedian with 3M edits

239

6

C++20 Design Is Complete: Modules, Coroutines in C++20

236

7

AMA: Bill Gates

200

8

Facebook Planned to Spy on Android Phone Users, Internal Emails Reveal

186

9

Jeff Bezos at YC Startup School 2008 [video]

170

10

Google Maps: Bird Mode

148

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Simdjson – Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second

587

2

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)

444

3

A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

428

4

Halley: Lightweight Game Engine Written in C++14

247

5

Lightweight versions of websites without all the bloat

181

6

Ledger's Advanced Side Channel Analysis Repository

141

7

Ramses – A distributed system for rendering 3D content

135

8

Sparta: High-Performance Static Code Analyzers Based on Abstract Interpretation

127

9

PlotNeuralNet: Latex Code for Drawing Neural Networks

113

10

A Curated List of Falsehoods Programmers Believe In

88

Wikipedia [?]

1

Cessna 188 Pacific Rescue

205

2

Uncleftish Beholding

186

3

143

4

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

54

5

48

6

Butlerian Jihad

14

7

11

8

John Von Neumann

7

9

Wikipedia: List of Long-Term Abusers

7

10

The Peter Principle

5

Blogs [?]

1

My Twitch Live Coding Setup

584

2

Overwatch Randomized Trial on Gender

202

3

What I've Learned from Hacker News (2009)

101

4

Don’t Lead by Example

67

5

We Can’t Have Efficiency, Good Incentives and No Deficit

47

6

An Open Letter to the FB Recruiter Who Gets Ordered, Every Quarter, to Email Me

44

7

Millennial-Bashing Is Class Warfare

41

8

Lessons from 6 Software Rewrite Stories

25

9

BodyPix: Real-Time Person Segmentation in the Browser with Tensorflow.js

17

10

New NSFW Dataset for Content Filtering

17

Stackoverflow [?]

1

The Most Reputable Stack Overflow User

27

2

Can Regex Be Used to Parse HTML?

3

3

How Would the Lambda Calculus Add Numbers?

1

4

Is This a Huge Flaw of Service Workers?

1

5

Why Can't C++ Be Parsed with a LR(1) Parser?

1

6

Improve Insert-per-Second Performance of SQLite?

1

Substack [?]

1

Why Hip-Hop Can Help Venture Capital Navigate Changes in the Industry

1

2

Beam Newsletter Week#8 2019

1