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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
2735
2
Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
2280
3
It’s time to give Firefox another chance
1674
4
Sublime Text 3.0
1653
5
Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
1345
6
China Blocks WhatsApp
1174
7
DuckDuckGo vs Google
1140
8
Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
1111
9
Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home
1107
10
Facebook recruiting and Unix systems
1091

Top Ask HN

1
What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?
692
2
Who is hiring? (September 2017)
573
3
How to start afresh in a new domain after years of expertise in another?
389
4
Companies who adopted React Native over a year ago, do you regret it?
363
5
Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?
354
6
What are your favourite developer blogs?
302
7
Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell
292
8
Resources for building a programming language?
239
9
What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?
200
10
Learning modern web design and CSS
194

Top Show HN

1
A coloring book of data structures and algorithms
523
2
I'll mail Equifax your arbitration opt-out for free
431
3
Build A Personal Power Plant for $200
373
4
Logo Crunch – Multi-resolution logo maker
328
5
Doogie – A Chromium-Based Browser with Tree-Style Pages
264
6
No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners
254
7
1 KB JavaScript library for building front end apps
242
8
Redox Rust OS – v0.3.3 release
232
9
Moocha.io – A search engine for MOOCs
231
10
Nulis – Open Source Tree Editor for Writers
231

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
It’s time to give Firefox another chance
1674
2
Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound
670
3
Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like
605
4
The Equifax breach may be the worst leak of personal info ever
559
5
Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
440
6
The SEC has charged two initial coin offerings with defrauding investors
427
7
The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
418
8
Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony?
401
9
Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB
399
10
Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving
339

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
Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
1345
2
China Blocks WhatsApp
1174
3
A “right to repair” movement tools up
928
4
New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains
829
5
Top medical experts say we should decriminalize all drugs (2016)
687
6
Uber London loses licence to operate
672
7
Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed
650
8
Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime
572
9
Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed
560
10
Mystery of sonic weapon attacks in Cuba deepens
523

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
Efficient Air-Conditioning Beams Heat into Space
404
2
Super-Accurate GPS Chips Coming to Smartphones in 2018
354
3
Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley
348
4
Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (2011)
317
5
Privacy Loss in Apple's Implementation of Differential Privacy on MacOS 10.12
180
6
Sorting with GPUs: A Survey
148
7
PassGAN: A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing
148
8
Hypercomputation: Computing more than the Turing machine (2002)
143
9
Inception Drive: A Compact, Infinitely Variable Transmission for Robotics
136
10
Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function (2008)
132

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
Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
896
2
Firefox Multi-Account Containers
850
3
Giving you more characters
576
4
Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
564
5
Solaris to Linux Migration 2017
440
6
Google signs agreement with HTC
437
7
The Incredible Growth of Python
333
8
Equifax Argentinian portal secured with admin/admin
331
9
Learn Blockchains by Building One
328
10
Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge
327

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent
645
2
EFF, ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at U.S. Border
549
3
Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased
433
4
EFF, ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at U.S. Border
314
5
Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
235
6
Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers
203
7
A smaller, cheaper RISC V board
182
8
LimeSDR Mini – An open, full-duplex, USB stick radio for femtocells and more
171
9
Western Digital Ships 12 TB WD Gold HDD: 8 Platters and Helium
168
10
EFF to Court: The First Amendment Protects the Right to Record First Responders
150

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
iPhone X
995
2
MacOS High Sierra
551
3
Privacy
446
4
Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America
300
5
AWS Network Load Balancer
287
6
Our Approach to Privacy
237
7
iPhone 8
206
8
AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging
181
9
Connecting a Git Repository to Amazon S3 and AWS Services
140
10
Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second
117

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
Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
389
2
The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant
334
3
We're learning more about the craving that fuels self-defeating habits
263
4
To treat back pain, look to the brain not the spine
212
5
VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries
158
6
The N-Queens completion problem is NP-hard
122
7
The Memories of Plants
109
8
Canada's 'Great Trail' Is Finally Connected
107
9
Reducing isolation at work is good for business
98
10
Return of the city-state
98

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
Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving
323
2
Redefine statistical significance
303
3
Friends Are Genetically Similar (2014)
280
4
US government halts study on health effects of coal mining
266
5
Exceptionally Preserved Ancient Ships Discovered in the Black Sea
257
6
Gut Germs Appear to Play Role in Multiple Sclerosis
249
7
Tulipmania: More Boring Than You Thought
207
8
The only safe email is text-only email
198
9
Fossils from Morocco complicate the story of modern humans
192
10
Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuously Run Libraries
179

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
753
2
Equifax linked customers to my fake phishing version of their site by accident
499
3
Little UI Details
495
4
30-Day Timelapse at Sea [video]
477
5
Equifax security freeze PINs are the timestamp of when you request the freeze
471
6
VLC maintainer has refused “several tens of millions of Euro”
446
7
SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video]
438
8
Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos
389
9
How I Fixed a 10-Year-Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code [video]
383
10
SpaceX BFR [video]
372

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
A collection of things software developers should know
589
2
Darwin-xnu: The Darwin Kernel
375
3
Why I left
349
4
Eclipse OpenJ9 – Open-source JVM
322
5
Linear Algebra for AI
318
6
Jaeger – A Distributed Tracing System
311
7
Building multiplayer games with Socket.io and HTML5 Canvas
308
8
GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues
301
9
Ultrafast single TCP packet audio/visual experience
265
10
Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding interview
259

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Jerry Pournelle has died
322
2
FE-Schrift: forgery-impeding typeface
227
3
BerkShares
214
4
Von Neumann-Landauer limit
183
5
Simulacra and Simulation
139
6
Sleeping barber problem
119
7
Law of Jante
87
8
Fulton Surface to Air Recovery System
63
9
Salmon Protocol
63
10
A hypercane is a hypothetical class of extreme tropical cyclone
61

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
HSBC is killing my business, piece by piece 
739
2
Tell me what your company does
478
3
General and Surprising
417
4
What every software engineer should know about search
368
5
Interesting Codebases
344
6
How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
305
7
It’s Okay to “Forget” What You Read
275
8
Bad UX: How Booking.com deceives clients
263
9
A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the BSD + Patents license
259
10
Relicensing the GraphQL specification
221

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)
329
2
How to compare two functions for equivalence, as in (λx.2*x) == (λx.x+x)?
176
3
2017 Average Software Developer Salary
7
4
Reflection in C++ in under 100 LOC
6
5
Valgrind Is Broken on Mac OS Sierra
3
6
Salary Calculator
3
7
Racket: N-Queen Problem and Parallelization
3
8
Search and Replace with incremented values in Vim
2
9
2017 Average Software Developer Salary – Stack Overflow
2
10
Efficient Clojure workflow
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com