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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources
1841
2
Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
1423
3
They Used To Last 50 Years
1359
4
Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)
1015
5
US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules
992
6
Distill: a modern machine learning journal
930
7
VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering
899
8
Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symantec-Issued Certificates
762
9
Beautiful Online SICP
762
10
2038: Only 21 years away
682

Top Ask HN

1
Competitor is successful with black hat SEO
255
2
What are your app monetisation strategies?
242
3
Anybody who left IT?
191
4
Please AWS team, make links work with control-click
144
5
Do you have a side project you want to sell?
98
6
Do you think there is an opportunity for a better alternative to Upwork?
75
7
What is the most important publicly unknown fact in your industry?
64
8
I got duped into working on legacy code, should I leave?
62
9
Why is BSD becoming more popular in embedded devices?
60
10
One website that isn't popular but is your favourite?
55

Top Show HN

1
How to write a recursive descent parser
347
2
Aeneas – a Python audio/text aligner
188
3
Ctxt.io – share context of whatever you see with others in seconds
174
4
Caster – Screencasts Manager in Elixir, Phoenix and Vue
121
5
Codewich – A live-updating TypeScript/CSS/HTML playground
114
6
A new way of blogging about Lua
111
7
tmuxp – session manager for tmux
109
8
Marta – A fast and minimalistic file manager for macOS
106
9
OS – GitHub issues to help beginners make their first pull request
97
10
A utility for running exhaustiveness checks on “sum types” in Go
75

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
GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources
1841
2
“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US
499
3
Apple has acquired Workflow, an automation tool for iPad and iPhone
499
4
Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM
325
5
Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives loses appeal
319
6
Author of ‘Sapiens’ on how meditation made him a better historian
222
7
The ‘Terminator’ of startups says he’s seeing two to four wind-downs a week
222
8
An ancient memorization strategy might cause lasting changes to the brain
215
9
Spotify is gaining leverage over record labels
184
10
Apple says recent Wikileaks CIA docs detail old, fixed iPhone and Mac exploits
177

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
US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules
992
2
'My life was ruined by a typo'
389
3
Thanks for Submitting Your Résumé to This Black Hole
366
4
Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures
354
5
The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess
329
6
Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting started
310
7
How to Learn New Things as an Adult
296
8
What makes gambling wrong but insurance right?
294
9
Most Electronics Being Banned on Certain US-Bound Flights
249
10
David Rockefeller has died
226

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
Sea Ice Extent Sinks to Record Lows at Both Poles
255
2
Failures of Deep Learning
210
3
AlphaGo Is Not AI
181
4
Taking the SCiO Food Analyzer Grocery Shopping
95
5
The Bunny, the Witch, and the War Room
58
6
Nematus: A Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation
40
7
End to End Prediction of Buffer Overruns from Code via Neural Memory Networks
39
8
New research supports the creation of more marine reserves
22
9
Mask R-CNN
18
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Recurrent Neural Networks with Deep Memory Access
5

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
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2038: Only 21 years away
682
2
Complexity and Strategy
219
3
Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex
152
4
Google Team Refines GPU Powered Neural Machine Translation
93
5
Can FPGAs Beat GPUs in Accelerating Next-Generation Deep Learning?
76
6
JavaScript vs. Python in 2017
65
7
Open Hardware Pushes GPU Computing Envelope
43
8
Google investing $50M for tech-based education
15
9
Mozilla Proposes “Obsidian” Low-Level Graphics API for the Web, Based on Vulkan
15
10
Phoronix reviews ARM SBCs
10

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
The US Supreme Court is hearing a case about patent law’s “exhaustion doctrine”
284
2
Dell’s 32-inch 8K UP3218K Display Now for Sale
229
3
German Space Center has constructed the world’s largest artificial Sun
190
4
A plan to build a ship tunnel
146
5
Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?
111
6
ARM Launches DynamIQ: big.Little to Eight Cores Per Cluster
56
7
WikiLeaks’ latest Vault 7 documents profile CIA’s exploits for Mac and iPhone
24
8
Tag Heuer Connected Modular 45
23
9
Call Your Senators Thursday Morning to Save Your Privacy
21
10
The New Laptop Ban Adds to Travelers' Lack of Privacy and Security
15

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
iPad 9.7‑inch
378
2
iOS 10 Security White Paper [pdf]
273
3
iPhone 7 “Product Red” Special Edition
79
4
Apple releases snapchat-like app Clips
26
5
The Apple Store is down
19
6
Apple Store MacBook “We've got something special in store”
18
7
Instance Size Flexibility for EC2 Reserved Instances
4
8
Apple announces Clips
4
9
Protecting Web Apps Against DDoS Attacks Using Amazon CloudFront and Route 53
3
10
Specs of new MacBook Pros (2017, today 08:01 PST)
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
How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on a Resume (2016)
420
2
The Antidesktop (2002)
196
3
What do slaveholders think?
108
4
The real Casanova
75
5
A Russian Poetry Scandal That Ended in a Duel
40
6
How morale changes as a startup grows
36
7
The 1960's elegance behind Go's regexp
32
8
Could we reboot a modern civilisation without fossil fuels?
11
9
What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care
5
10
Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill
5

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
A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise
298
2
Losing a dog can be harder than losing a relative or friend
155
3
3D printing with cellulose
127
4
Yves Meyer, Wavelet Expert, Wins Abel Prize
122
5
Survival of the Friendliest
103
6
Using GPS navigation turns off brain's spatial navigation regions
13
7
Why fatigue isn’t just about sleep
9
8
Lamar Smith lays out political strategy at climate doubters’ conference
9
9
Why Australia is home to one of the largest language families in the world
7
10
A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold
7

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Sellers printing counterfeit books and selling under Amazon's brand
590
2
How Braintree destroyed a successful taxi startup from Serbia
308
3
Uber is charging passengers a $10 cancellation fee even when the driver cancels
190
4
Reddit Is Being Manipulated by Professional Shills [video]
171
5
Sketchpad III Demo [video] (1963)
70
6
XPS 15: how I set up dual boot, GPU switching and multitouch gestures on Ubuntu
29
7
If you want to hire an experienced data scientist, be prepared to pay
26
8
Tavis Ormandy reports new LastPass bug affecting 4.1.42
23
9
Competition Is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5)
18
10
Uber Self-Driving Vehicle Involved in Arizona Crash
12

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering
899
2
The beginning of Git supporting other hash algorithms
427
3
SHA-1 Collision Detection on GitHub.com
374
4
Text Editor Performance Comparison
330
5
Alpaca – Functional programming inspired by ML for the Erlang VM
217
6
Recurrent Neural Networks - A Short TensorFlow Tutorial
194
7
JSCaml: A compile-time transformation from JavaScript to OCaml
134
8
Tunnel TCP Through WebSockets (CLI Tool)
101
9
Rpmalloc – A lock-free memory allocator
95
10
SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core
86

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Tamil Bell
374
2
Calling card
45
3
Happy Nowruz
43
4
The Calutron Girls
11
5
List of journalists killed in Russia under Putin
10
6
Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
3
7
Trojita – QT based IMAP email client
3
8
London Can Take It!
3
9
Value engineering
2
10
Monkey selfie
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet
432
2
Opening a new chapter of my work in AI
247
3
Hackers Stole My Website
147
4
Why I Dissented
129
5
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of the Yahoo Hack
124
6
The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby’s Regular Expressions
99
7
How to answer the “What’s your current salary?” job interview question
85
8
Opening a new chapter of my work in AI
83
9
Growth in Ethereum
36
10
How to Make Sure Your Idea Doesn’t Suck Before You Waste a Million Dollars on It
31

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017
342
2
Clojure tops list of worldwide best-paying programming languages
6
3
Stack Overflow DOCUMENTATION
3
4
Say 'no' to ORM
3
5
React-native no longer supported by Facebook?
2
6
Algorithm to prove that an event occurred before a point of time
2
7
How to write a generator class?
2
8
What is the (not not) operator in JavaScript?
1
9
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017: Most Loved, Dreaded, and Wanted Languages
1
10
Why use a stack-oriented language?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com