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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
2119
2
Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language
944
3
Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads
903
4
Georgia Tech's free math textbook collective
834
5
After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface
776
6
Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens
776
7
Your own company? You can do it (2011)
701
8
Teller – API for your bank account
609
9
Debian 9 Stretch released
595
10
My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
588

Top Ask HN

1
What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?
352
2
Passive income ideas for solo developers?
254
3
How was your experience with AWS Lambda in production?
215
4
Who's running a profitable newsletter?
187
5
What was it like to quit your job and focus on your successful startup?
162
6
Assistive Devices for recently quadriplegic dad
158
7
How secure is the encryption offered by OS X's Disk Utility?
98
8
What has happened to YC's residential development research project?
97
9
What personal finance advice would you give your 25yo self ?
93
10
How to manage my bookmarking habit?
87

Top Show HN

1
Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to modern JS
361
2
Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
354
3
Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code
328
4
Algorithm Cookbook in Rust
320
5
Copyfish – Extract text from images, videos or PDF
292
6
NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
286
7
3D Packing for 3D Printing
260
8
GoldenLayout – build multi-screen webapps
201
9
Crown – A flexible game engine written from scratch in C++
193
10
Fast C-based HTML 5 parsing for Python
169

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
Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy
538
2
Comcast accused of cutting competitor’s wires to put it out of business
499
3
Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality
355
4
Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-sports events
230
5
Waymo filing says Travis Kalanick knew engineer had Google info
226
6
Etsy slashes almost a quarter of its staff
213
7
Female founders accuse VC Justin Caldbeck of making unwanted advances
203
8
How FireWire came to market and ultimately fell out of favor
189
9
Cable lobby tries to stop state investigations into slow broadband speeds
186
10
An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard
154

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
Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
2119
2
Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads
903
3
Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens
776
4
A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For'
400
5
How to Call B.S. On Big Data: A Practical Guide
360
6
14 People Make 500K Tons of Steel a Year in Austria
303
7
Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook
299
8
Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule
288
9
Crony capitalism may be cannibalizing productive capitalism in the U.S.
245
10
My Father, in Four Visits Over Thirty Years
223

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
Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids
224
2
Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor
223
3
How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died (2009)
115
4
NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates
65
5
On the time lags of the LIGO signals
65
6
Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers
56
7
New catalyst paves way for carbon neutral fuel
41
8
Capacity and Trainability in Recurrent Neural Networks
41
9
Shut Up About the Batteries: The Key to a Better Electric Car Is a Lighter Motor
40
10
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook [pdf]
33

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
How to use BeyondCorp to ditch VPN, improve security and go to the cloud
441
2
Google Jobs Search
406
3
Connect: behind the front-end experience
273
4
Mozilla and NSF offer $2M prize to decentralize the web
255
5
Why So Many Top Hackers Hail from Russia
142
6
Four steps we’re taking today to fight online terror
111
7
Google VR180
88
8
Digital security and due process: A new legal framework for the cloud era
72
9
The PMCs of EC2: Measuring IPC
60
10
How to Bootstrap Your SaaS Company to $1M ARR Before Raising Venture Capital
55

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
AMD's Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched and EPYC Analysis
365
2
Intel discontinues Joule, Galileo, and Edison product lines
360
3
Help EFF Track the Progress of AI and Machine Learning
238
4
Tools from EFF’s Tech Team
122
5
The Intel Skylake-X Review: Core i9-7900X, i7-7820X and i7-7800X Tested
122
6
GlobalFoundries Details 7 nm Plans: Three Generations, 700 mm², HVM in 2018
83
7
Nvidia Announces PCIe Tesla V100
52
8
European Parliament Recommends End-To-End Encryption for All Communications
34
9
An Attack on Net Neutrality Is an Attack on Free Speech
23
10
Saved by Alice
14

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Getting compilers right: a reliable foundation for secure software
87
2
Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM [pdf]
27
3
Using Amazon Rekognition to Identify Persons of Interest for Law Enforcement
3
4
50+ PR Hacks for Startups to Find, Pitch and Stay in the Media
3
5
Auto Scaling for Amazon DynamoDB – AWS Blog
3
6
Amazon Prime Wardrobe
3
7
DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Now Generally Available
2
8
Manage Instances at Scale Without SSH Access Using EC2 Run Command
2
9
New AMI Patch for Stack Clash Vulnerability
2
10
Keyboard Ghosting Explained
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
Amazon’s New Customer
293
2
Medieval Scholars Believed in the Possibility of Parallel Universes
96
3
New HN data dump available with over 14.5m entries
79
4
How totalism works
68
5
Uber Can’t Be Fixed – It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down
52
6
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan [pdf]
42
7
Soviet research of the 1920s on whether dogs can be psychic
33
8
Lion-Shaped Maps That United a Nation
16
9
US Embassy Threatens to Close Domain Registry Over 'Pirate Bay' Domain
10
10
Sci-Hub Ordered to Pay $15M in Piracy Damages
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
Algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3D structure
371
2
A Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist
130
3
Geophysicists are ramping up their efforts to monitor major undersea faults
65
4
The Strength of Us Versus Them
60
5
Native Intelligence (2005)
58
6
US court grants Elsevier millions in damages from Sci-Hub
47
7
Man with tiny brain shocks doctors (2007)
44
8
The Multiverse of 1686
28
9
Causes of differences in model and satellite tropospheric warming rates
26
10
Rainer Weiss, Remembering the Little Room in the Plywood Palace
22

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Chris Lattner: “Turns out that Tesla isn't a good fit for me”
239
2
My biggest mistake as an F1 engineer
219
3
The trouble I had trying to contact Twitter support about a security issue
139
4
Is Basho dead?
67
5
Backblaze lost over 13TB of my data
58
6
Jonathan Oxer Needs a Job
34
7
Hacker writes a script to flood phone lines of telephone scammers [video]
32
8
12 Most Influential Books Every Software Engineer Needs to Read
13
9
Super Mario Bros Recreated as Life Size Augmented Reality Game [video]
9
10
John Grisham on his regimented writing routine
8

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
TensorFlow-World: Simple and ready-to-use tutorials for TensorFlow
276
2
GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7
267
3
pREST – A fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database writting in Go
176
4
Front End Development Guide for Large Engineering Teams
172
5
Goism – Use Go instead of Emacs Lisp inside Emacs
164
6
Competitive Programming Curriculum
142
7
Julia 0.6 is out
88
8
Ways to Invoke a Function in JavaScript
79
9
Wondrous, tailor-made Pokémon themes for your Hyper terminal
52
10
Awesome-Fuzzing
46

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Zugzwang: when a game player is at a disadvantage because they must make a move
12
2
List of cognative biases
6
3
Panopticon
4
4
Oligodynamic effect
4
5
Johari window
4
6
Outline of Cryptography
3
7
Glass Cliff
3
8
Culture Industry
3
9
Zeigarnik effect – remember uncompleted tasks better
3
10
Food preservation
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers
216
2
AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum
195
3
Introducing Dash – Reactive Web Apps for Python
175
4
Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/classical computing
173
5
Ten Weeks with Y Combinator’s Startup School
144
6
Copy What You Like (2006)
129
7
Webpack 3: Official Release
97
8
Leveling up as a Junior Engineer
90
9
Provider Fighting Secret Surveillance Order Denied Access to Relevant Law
85
10
How to become better at software estimations
67

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Is a HashMap thread-safe for different keys?
3
2
GitHub satanically messing with my README
2
3
Optimize deployment to regions for minimum latency and maximum cost savings?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com