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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Indie Hackers: Learn how developers are making money
971
2
Zero-cost futures in Rust
930
3
This JPEG is also a webpage
833
4
Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
649
5
Hello from Orkut
643
6
Everyone is quitting
599
7
What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
563
8
“I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body”
536
9
I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation
494
10
Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum
483

Top Ask HN

1
How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
406
2
What book have you given as a gift?
360
3
What are good reads for designing APIs?
319
4
8 years working, now 3-4 months off to learn. Looking for advice
218
5
What book impacted your life the most and how?
120
6
Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos from Facebook?
110
7
Technology stall
100
8
Chances for mature newbie
74
9
How much job hopping is acceptable?
68
10
Do employers care how long it took you to finish a degree?
61

Top Show HN

1
Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration
1004
2
Give 7B people an instant physical address
415
3
Gping.io – Like TinyURL for your car
184
4
Cuckoo Filter Implementation in Go, Better Than Bloom Filters
181
5
Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat
160
6
Book about writing web apps in Go without a framework
158
7
Set of trained deep learning models for computer vision
127
8
Knuckleball – An in-memory data structure server
100
9
JSON.is
100
10
Publish blog post with a simple Git push
96

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • techcrunch.com
  • venturebeat.com
  • gizmodo.com
  • arstechnica.com
  • theverge.com
  • wired.com
  • vice.com
  • zdnet.com
  • engadget.com
  • technologyreview.com
  • cnet.com
  • vox.com
  • fastcompany.com
  • protocol.com
  • wired.co.uk
  • therecord.media
  • qz.com
  • techradar.com
  • techspot.com
  • pcgamer.com
  • thenextweb.com
  • restofworld.org
  • bleepingcomputer.com
1
Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
479
2
Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
435
3
Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash
429
4
Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years
357
5
AI’s Language Problem
309
6
Amazon launches Prime Air, its own dedicated cargo planes to speed delivery
277
7
Carnegie Mellon’s Mayhem AI Wins DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge
166
8
FCC loses court battle to let cities build their own broadband
145
9
How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead
122
10
Backyard telescopes and amateur eyes see where “pro” astronomers can’t
109

News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nytimes.com
  • theguardian.com
  • edition.cnn.com
  • bloomberg.com
  • bbc.com
  • wsj.com
  • reuters.com
  • washingtonpost.com
  • cnbc.com
  • theatlantic.com
  • bbc.co.uk
  • theregister.com
  • npr.org
  • economist.com
  • ft.com
  • cnn.com
  • forbes.com
  • newyorker.com
  • apnews.com
  • axios.com
  • businessinsider.com
  • finance.yahoo.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • msn.com
  • thehill.com
  • independent.co.uk
  • nypost.com
  • dw.com
  • lite.cnn.com
  • slate.com
  • scmp.com
  • politico.com
  • latimes.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • fortune.com
  • news.yahoo.com
  • aljazeera.com
  • asia.nikkei.com
  • time.com
  • sfchronicle.com
  • abc.net.au
  • cbsnews.com
  • euronews.com
  • telegraph.co.uk
  • reason.com
  • cbc.ca
  • dailymail.co.uk
  • theintercept.com
  • sfgate.com
  • politico.eu
  • buzzfeednews.com
1
How the Arab World Came Apart
306
2
Sheriff Raids House to Find Anonymous Blogger Who Called Him Corrupt
299
3
Google Outpaces Facebook on Getting India Connected to Internet
262
4
Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users
241
5
Trial by Jury, a Hallowed American Right, Is Vanishing
215
6
WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder
199
7
We’re in a Low-Growth World. How Did We Get Here?
180
8
The fight to cheat death is heating up
175
9
Airbnb Files to Raise $850M at $30B Valuation
169
10
Five languages that came from English
159

Scientific publications [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • arxiv.org
  • phys.org
  • spectrum.ieee.org
  • space.com
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • pnas.org
  • nasa.gov
1
MIT and DARPA Pack Lidar Sensor onto Single Chip
261
2
DeepRegex: Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language
145
3
Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (2000)
98
4
Scientists discover light could exist in a previously unknown form
26
5
Gravity in the Quantum Lab
22
6
Bitcoin not money, judge rules in victory for backers
20
7
Unethical Research: How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
9
8
KIC 8462852 Faded Throughout the Kepler Mission
6
9
NASA HDR Slow-Motion Rocket Plume Footage
6
10
Scientists discover light could exist in a previously unknown form
4

Dev Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • phoronix.com
  • lwn.net
  • thenewstack.io
  • hackernoon.com
  • blog.twitter.com
  • blog.mozilla.org
  • openai.com
  • engineering.fb.com
  • stripe.com
  • krebsonsecurity.com
  • coindesk.com
  • blog.google
  • brendangregg.com
  • threatpost.com
  • stackoverflow.blog
  • github.blog
  • infoq.com
  • portswigger.net
  • betterprogramming.pub
  • ai.googleblog.com
  • blog.cloudflare.com
  • devblogs.microsoft.com
  • cloud.google.com
  • schneier.com
  • nextplatform.com
  • developer.apple.com
1
I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation
494
2
Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects
441
3
Frequent Password Changes Is a Bad Security Idea
130
4
GDB Debugging Full Example: Ncurses
97
5
Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Found to Be Very Unsafe and Will Likely Require a Rewrite
87
6
The DAO Hacker Is Getting Away
64
7
Data Breach at Oracle’s MICROS Point-Of-Sale Division
7
8
Deep Learning Chip Upstart Takes GPUs to Task
6
9
Philip Wadler: Category Theory for the Working Hacker
6
10
Deep Learning Chip Upstart Takes GPUs to Task
5

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Meccano Differential Analyzer
47
2
Qualcomm Firmware Vulnerabilities Expose 900M Devices
34
3
The First Evil Maid-Proof Computer
16
4
Lessons in Small Scale Manufacturing from the Othermill Shop Floor
13
5
DRM: You have the right to know what you're buying
10
6
California Court Asserts Jurisdiction Over Non-Resident Internet Publisher
3
7
Weird CPU
3
8
FCC Settlement Requires TP-Link to Support 3rd-Party Firmware
3
9
Malware Linked to Kazakhstan Gov Targets Journalists, Activists, Lawyers
2
10
Editor Wars: The Revenge of Vim
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
AWS Application Load Balancer
371
2
IPv6 Support for Amazon S3
153
3
Usage Plans for AWS API Gateway
47
4
New Update to the Microsoft Services Agreement
43
5
Introducing Amazon One
35
6
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Update
30
7
Process Streaming Data in Real Time with SQL
18
8
New – AWS Application Load Balancer
14
9
New AWS Application Load Balancer
4
10
Powerful AWS Platform Features, Now for Containers
3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • thedrive.com
  • atlasobscura.com
  • electrek.co
  • aeon.co
  • lesswrong.com
  • hbr.org
  • torrentfreak.com
  • nationalgeographic.com
  • docs.google.com
  • web.archive.org
  • stratechery.com
  • archive.org
1
What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
563
2
Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine Says Farewell
385
3
Software Library: Amiga
243
4
Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women
221
5
Fear and Loathing in Linux, or Who Needs /etc/motd (2010)
137
6
The Miracle of the Modern Banana
72
7
America's First Medal at the Nazi Olympics Was for Town Planning
70
8
'Library Anxiety' and What Librarians Do to Help
45
9
Tesla Autopilot 2.0: next gen Autopilot powered by more radar, new triple camera
25
10
Torrentz Gone, KAT Down, Are Torrent Giants Doomed to Fall?
13

Science News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nature.com
  • livescience.com
  • techxplore.com
  • interestingengineering.com
  • science.org
  • medicalxpress.com
  • quantamagazine.org
  • scientificamerican.com
  • theconversation.com
  • nautil.us
  • sciencealert.com
  • smithsonianmag.com
  • news.mit.edu
  • sciencedaily.com
  • sciencedirect.com
  • scitechdaily.com
  • newscientist.com
  • sciencemag.org
  • eurekalert.org
  • bmj.com
1
Tabby's star is dimming at an incredible rate
375
2
New “Leaf” Is More Efficient Than Natural Photosynthesis
336
3
What No New Particles Means for Physics
189
4
Greenland shark found to be at least 272 years old
151
5
The brain's reward circuitry regulates immunity
136
6
A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature: Ball Lightning
107
7
Beyond CRISPR: A guide to the many other ways to edit a genome
106
8
New Measurement Deepens Proton Puzzle
101
9
Trans-Neptunian object discovered in the outer solar system
88
10
The bandwidth bottleneck that is throttling the Internet
60

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
“Please note, the hashtag is for our paying advertisers”
160
2
AMA: We Are the Google Brain Team
130
3
My Airbnb Nightmare Reality
45
4
Essence of linear algebra – YouTube video series by 3Blue1Brown
37
5
Philips Hue app disables light control until users accept updated firmware, T&Cs
24
6
Reddit is down
24
7
OpenBSD just added initial support for the RaspberryPi 2 and 3 devices
19
8
New California digital currency bill requires $5k license to run a Bitcoin node
18
9
Yelp CEO Accuses Google of Manipulating Search Results
17
10
Write Modern Asynchronous JavaScript Using Promises, Generators, and Coroutines
16

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Fuchsia, a new operating system
384
2
The Linux kernel hidden inside Windows 10
333
3
Top Deep Learning Projects
217
4
React Fiber Architecture
162
5
Hitchhiker trees: functional, persistent, off-heap sorted maps
150
6
Cjdns: a secure non-anonymous P2P network
135
7
Can NAT traversal be Tor's killer feature? (2014)
117
8
Bubblewrap: Unprivileged sandboxing tool
91
9
Implementation of various string similarity and distance algorithms in Java
88
10
RDL: a lightweight system for adding contracts to Ruby
81

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Dyson sphere
79
2
Western Union Splice
4
3
List of all 27 seasons of How It's Made episodes
3
4
Ninja rocks
3
5
List of TCP and UDP Port Numbers
3
6
List of films considered the best
3
7
ATLAS-I (EMP generator)
2
8
Steemit
2
9
List of cognitive biases
2
10
Old school: x86 task state segments
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
How does gdb work?
320
2
What are Bloom filters? (2015)
202
3
The meeting that showed me the truth about VCs
127
4
Notes on concurrency bugs
103
5
A Letter to My Daughter About Young Men
65
6
I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory And You Won’t Believe What Happened Next
39
7
I Peeked into My Node_Modules Directory and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next
31
8
The Meeting That Showed Me the Truth about VC’s and How They Don’t Make Money
30
9
Letter of Resignation from the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission
23
10
Letter of Resignation from the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission
21

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Can you add noise to a CSS gradient?
2
2
How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using cURL in PHP? (2013)
2
3
How to Detect Adblock on Your Site?
1
4
Modulo Bias
1
5
[2012] Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com