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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Get started making music
2106
2
Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack
1981
3
A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
1450
4
Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool
1248
5
Wikimedia Foundation spending
1054
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Net neutrality is in jeopardy again
928
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A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss a GPL enforcement case
853
8
CockroachDB 1.0
811
9
Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS
692
10
Solar Roof
690

Top Ask HN

1
What's your working day like?
377
2
How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?
340
3
How do you manage SSH keys and SSL certificates in your company?
220
4
Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?
156
5
Who's using Clojure, and to do what?
109
6
Remote Employees Double-Dipping?
70
7
Secure automated backup?
62
8
How much time per week do you spend on side projects?
58
9
Freelance Management Services/Apps
57
10
Freelancing? How's Work?
52

Top Show HN

1
100M Books – Open a new tab, discover a new book
289
2
Insomnia REST Client now open-source
218
3
Howmanypeoplearearound – Use wifi to calculate number of people around
199
4
SQueaLy – Fast track analytics for business
163
5
Gitorials – Tutorials as Git Repos
147
6
Verb Master – A site for practising Spanish verbs
124
7
Ora.pm – New task management service
122
8
I wrote a book about Design Ethics called Tragic Design
113
9
Spotter – Search for copies of videos on the internet
90
10
Compressed directories on Linux
70

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
A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss a GPL enforcement case
853
2
Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules
483
3
Apple Watch can detect arrhythmia with 97% accuracy, study says
342
4
Europe is living under Microsoft’s digital killswitch
322
5
The hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips is worse than anyone thought
208
6
Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit
206
7
Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test their apps on Windows
193
8
Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL
180
9
FCC’s comment system targeted by DDoS during filing period for net neutrality
168
10
Google acquires Owlchemy Labs
167

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
Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job
662
2
President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey
594
3
Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem
428
4
The great British Brexit robbery
364
5
Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack
322
6
Unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane lands after secret, two-year mission
294
7
Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger problem than corporate taxes
249
8
Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City
238
9
How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful
233
10
EPA dismisses half of its scientific advisers on key board
232

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
Drone Uses AI and 11,500 Crashes to Learn How to Fly
462
2
Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013)
351
3
Computer Games That Teach Assembly Language
306
4
How standard portfolio theory changes when assets are technologies
105
5
Lecture Notes on General Relativity (1997)
105
6
Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching
59
7
Quantum entanglement between a single photon and a trillion rubidium atoms
55
8
Scientists solve 400-year-old mystery of Prince Rupert's drops
41
9
Hacking Android Smartphones with NFC Tags
19
10
Plastics–not simply garbage
18

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
Net neutrality is in jeopardy again
928
2
CPU Utilization is Wrong
624
3
Thunderbird’s Future Home
298
4
Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP
266
5
Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll
194
6
How Cloudflare analyzes 1M DNS queries per second
180
7
REST Anti-Patterns (2008)
174
8
Using Ultrasonic Beacons to Track Users
44
9
How Macron just changed cyber security forever
43
10
Introducing Stack Overflow Trends
37

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, users need a way to disable it
56
2
Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, and users need to disable it
19
3
Intel's “Management Engines” are a security hazard; they need an “off” button
15
4
Community Control of Police Spy Tech in Oakland
8
5
EFF on the Government’s Plan for Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communication
6
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JavaScript Art is in the URL
5
7
EFF Statement on the Troubling Firing of FBI Director Comey
4
8
Leaked: UK's mass spying fantasies (1984?)
4
9
Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, users need a way to disable it
4
10
Intel’s Itanium Takes One Last Breath: Itanium 9700 Series CPUs Released
4

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon Echo Show
390
2
How to shoot on iPhone 7
376
3
Multiple Byte Processing with Full-Word Instructions (1975) [pdf]
31
4
Amazon and Nvidia Announce New Volta-Based GPU
9
5
Amazon Echo Show
5
6
Amazon Alexa Calling and Messaging
4
7
Introducing Echo Show
3
8
Volta is coming to AWS
2
9
Redundant Bit Vectors for Quickly Searching High-Dimensional Regions (2005) [pdf]
2
10
AWS Chatbot Challenge
2

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
110M-year-old dinosaur discovered with skin and soft tissue
479
2
The Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus
348
3
Gallery of programming UIs
316
4
Authentication Techniques for APIs
257
5
Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay
123
6
Report warns computers may threaten constitutional rights (1982)
113
7
Doodles in the Margins of Medieval Books
69
8
What’s so new about news?
31
9
The Local News Business Model
9
10
How the Cold War led the CIA to promote human capital theory
8

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
Lake Michigan Is So Clear Its Shipwrecks Are Visible from the Air
193
2
Every neuron potentially has a different genome than those it's connected to
177
3
Researchers Find Gut Bacteria Can Lead to Strokes
153
4
Where have all the insects gone?
149
5
How Heat Kills Cells
83
6
What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest? (2014)
72
7
Can Darwinian Evolution Explain Lamarckism?
65
8
The shock tactics set to shake up immunology
46
9
How number words may have changed us from zeroes to heroes
37
10
The Multiverse as Muse
31

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
1450
2
Fixing a bug in “Airwolf” code from 1984 [video]
250
3
Linear Algebra Done Right Video Series
196
4
600 Watt, 3d-printed, Halbach Array, Brushless DC Electric Motor [video]
147
5
Jonathan Blow “Making Game Programming Less Terrible” Talk Reboot Develop 2017
36
6
Tokyo lowers subway line underground in one night without service disruption
31
7
New Essence of calculus
30
8
What should I use when Duolingo isn't sufficient anymore?
26
9
Stanford adopts JavaScript, drops Java for its intro to CS curriculum
23
10
Myki Security Report – Weekly cyber-security news videos
16

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Kubernetes clusters for the hobbyist
321
2
Interactive Mind Map for learning
293
3
Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer
265
4
Sinatra 2.0 released
259
5
Git 2.13
240
6
Quest-driven OpenStreetMap editing for Android
156
7
Reed-Solomon coder computing one million ECC blocks at 1 GB/s
151
8
Vy – A Vim-like in Python made from scratch
129
9
The new ASP.NET Core 2.0 packages can no longer be used on .NET Desktop
124
10
Julia 0.6.0-rc1 new language features
90

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Wikimedia Foundation spending
1054
2
Raising of Chicago
10
3
Boeing X-37
9
4
The 3x and 1 problem
7
5
Cjdns
5
6
Kill them all; let God sort them out.
5
7
Stanford marshmallow experiment
4
8
United States free speech exceptions
4
9
Otoacoustic emission
3
10
Reform of the date of Easter
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Quotes
225
2
Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected
224
3
Startup CTO – Premature Scaling
159
4
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to D3.js
128
5
Scaling Mobile Messaging at Airbnb
78
6
The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data
75
7
A small website mystery
64
8
Diet Drinks are not killing you
60
9
Alexa Calling doesn’t allow any numbers in the phone’s contacts to be blocked
58
10
Automated Machine Learning – A Paradigm Shift Airbnb
58

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
2
2
Why QWERTY keyboard built this way?
2
3
Nginx “server” directive with multiple “server_name” entries
2
4
JavaScript Closures as a fairy tale
2
5
HashMap Java 8 implementation
2
6
Need answer: How to use Apple's new .p8 certificate for APNs
1
7
Newest 'sql' Questions – Stack Overflow
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com