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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access

1743

2

Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)

1269

3

We Need Chrome No More

1011

4

Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News

855

5

$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now

785

6

The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

771

7

SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station

755

8

Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset

705

9

Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men

614

10

Redesigning GitHub Repository Page

614

Top Ask HN

1

Tools or sites you use to scope out a workplace before taking a job?

448

2

Who is hiring? (March 2019)

398

3

What made you change your mind about a programming language/paradigm?

338

4

Has anyone curated a list of hidden interview questions?

160

5

Who wants to be hired? (March 2019)

123

6

Successful projects that weren't received well on HN?

95

7

Anyone Using Elm in Production?

88

8

How to cope with job hunting and depression?

78

9

What is your burnout story?

67

10

Finding tech talent is getting harder. It's not a Bay Area problem only

62

Top Show HN

1

I wrote a book about WebAssembly

410

2

Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

250

3

Zero Server – Zero configuration web framework

206

4

Beautiful Python List Prompts Package

171

5

My shell script for HTTP/HTTPS troubleshooting and profiling

155

6

An Easy Programming Language – Built with WebAssembly

144

7

Hack Club Bank – A Bank for Student Hackers

141

8

Visual Studio Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi

136

9

Tile38 – Realtime geofencing and geospatial index

130

10

REDasm Disassembler 2.0

128

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting

586

2

Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B investment in Apple

325

3

Revolut CFO resigns following money laundering controversy

311

4

W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins

300

5

Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%

273

6

Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%

265

7

USB 3.2 is going to make the current USB branding even worse

249

8

Florida prisons sued for erasing $11M worth of prisoner music purchases

175

9

Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates

171

10

Dow Jones’ watchlist of 2.4M high-risk clients has leaked

170

News [?]

1

SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station

755

2

Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men

614

3

YouTube bans comments on all videos of children

610

4

Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search

557

5

Square Inc. Co-Founder Tristan O’Tierney Dies at 35

457

6

Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie

280

7

The periodic table is 150 years old this week

274

8

Cancer Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls

265

9

Let’s Destroy Robocalls

240

10

U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years

227

Scientific publications [?]

1

China’s Plan to Build the World’s Biggest Supergrid

177

2

500M-year-old worm 'superhighway' discovered in Canada

130

3

The Shutdown Problem: How Does a Blockchain System End?

101

4

Writing User Space Network Drivers

83

5

Is fasting safe? A review of adverse events during water-only fasting (2018)

69

6

Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms

49

7

Asteroids are stronger, harder to destroy than previously thought

17

8

Nasa Goes Quiet over Galveston for Flight Series

17

9

Nasa Study: Human Activity in China and India Dominates the Greening of Earth

7

10

How Do Mixture Density RNNs Predict the Future?

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset

705

2

Building Fast Interpreters in Rust

547

3

Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier

114

4

Long-Range Robotic Navigation via Automated Reinforcement Learning

73

5

Memory-mapped I/O without mysterious macros

70

6

Early Indicators of a Toxic Workplace

40

7

Decision-Making: The Most Undervalued Skill in Software Engineering

40

8

One Way to Not Piss Off Interview Candidates

22

9

Python in Visual Studio Code – February 2019 Release

18

10

We Solved Blockchain Application User Experience

15

Tech blogs [?]

1

USB4 Specification Announced: Adopting Thunderbolt 3 Protocol for 40 Gbps USB

308

2

German Data Privacy Commissioner Says Article 13 Inevitably Leads to Filters

152

3

Nasa Is Building a Space Station in a Weird Orbit

110

4

Be Vewy Vewy Quiet, We’re Hunting Baofengs

90

5

ETS Isn't TLS and You Shouldn't Use It

67

6

A Raspberry Pi Grimoire For The Command Line Wizard

61

7

Database Leak Gives Us a Window into China’s Digital Surveillance State

39

8

Consumer Data Privacy Hearings Without Enough Consumer Data Privacy Advocates

10

9

If You Want to Tackle “Fake News,” Consider Free Expression First

10

10

Apple Is Working on Future Products That Will Blow Your Away--Tim Cook

8

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Personalize: Real-Time Recommendation

199

2

AWS Ground Station

4

3

Image Classification Using Python and Tech of Computer Vision and Machine Learn

4

4

Action Recognition Using Python and Recurrent Neural Network

3

5

Scripting COM Components in Haskell [pdf]

3

6

Add data to Excel directly from a photo

2

7

Microsoft Quantum Network

2

8

Action Recognition Using Python and Recurrent Neural Network

2

9

High Performance Container Networking

1

10

RISC-V Support in the FreeRTOS Kernel

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose

388

2

Life of a Pixel 2018

109

3

Why American Revolutionaries Admired the Rebels of Mysore (2016)

51

4

Tesla driver again dies in crash with trailer, Autopilot not yet ruled out

42

5

Tesla owners protest over drastic price cuts

40

6

Hacker School and How we Learn (2014)

30

7

GBPPR Non-Linear Junction Detector

27

8

Tesla finally launches base Model 3 for $35,000 with shorter range

25

9

Google Earth shows that cow and deer herds align like compass needles

22

10

Khirret: Pollen-based candy comes from the marshes of southern Iraq

19

Science News [?]

1

Widespread and sometimes drastic marine oxygen declines

165

2

Scientists brew cannabis using modified beer yeast

137

3

Additively manufacturable micro-mechanical logic gates

120

4

Why neutrons and protons are modified inside nuclei

90

5

Ocean Microphones May Have Recorded Lost Malaysian Jet's Crash

89

6

The Physics Still Hiding in the Higgs Boson

46

7

Will A.I. Ever Be Smarter Than a Four-Year-Old?

43

8

A formal assessment of domestic pet and shelter cat preferences (2017)

29

9

Taking census of physics

27

10

The Math That Takes Newton into the Quantum World

19

Social [?]

1

The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times

771

2

China's social network surveillance databases are apparently leaked to Internet

369

3

The CEO of RevolutApp on Slack: “Why Aren’t You Working on Weekends?”

185

4

Finnish breaks natural language processors

185

5

Let’s LISP like it’s 1959 [video]

183

6

An Alternative to the American Way of Innovation [video]

175

7

Facebook claimed phone number was only for 2FA. Now it's searchable

156

8

A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card

142

9

VFX, Amiga and Babylon 5 [video]

142

10

We hired a Japanese moving company [video]

129

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

492

2

Python Data Science Handbook: Full Text in Jupyter Notebooks

396

3

A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job interviews

369

4

An introduction to distributed systems (2017)

318

5

Universal Binaries Using WASM

253

6

Session Types for Rust

232

7

A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust

230

8

Gif2xlsx – Convert GIFs to Excel files

193

9

Gomacro: Interactive Go interpreter and debugger with generics and macros

189

10

Cheap Kubernetes Cluster on AWS with Kubeadm

180

Wikipedia [?]

1

Story of a Stolen Boeing

65

2

Risch Algorithm for Symbolic Integration

40

3

24

4

22

5

6

6

Twenty-three Skidoo (Phrase)

5

7

Source-to-Source Compiler (Transpiler)

5

8

4

9

Skypix: Amiga BBS Interactive Graphics

4

10

4

Blogs [?]

1

Everyone should read support emails

504

2

Vice Media Had YouTube Shut Down My Gaming Channel Without Contacting Me

148

3

You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Infrastructure

136

4

Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier

42

5

Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent

39

6

34

7

Trial claimed to show a 4 and 5-day work week are equally productive. It didn’t

31

8

The Fountainhead and Software Engineering

17

9

How to learn new things fast

16

10

The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You

14

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Spark Perfomance in Scala vs. Python

2

2

.toBinaryString implementations in Scala std lib inconsistent

1

Substack [?]

1

Shared scooters don't last long

15

2

Shared scooters don't last long

6

3

How would a foldable iPhone look like?

4

4

Shared scooters don't last long

2

5

Shared scooters don't last long

2

6

Shared scooters don't last long

1

7

Beam Newsletter – 2019 Week #9

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