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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
1213
2
How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community
1014
3
18yo arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system
874
4
Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed
632
5
Pev: Postgres ‘Explain’ Visualizer (2016)
612
6
Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't Inform Customers About
594
7
How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit
577
8
Here be dragons: the same 3D scene implemented with 10 different 3D APIs
574
9
Petition to open source Flash
560
10
Computational Linear Algebra
537

Top Ask HN

1
What programming blogs do you follow?
407
2
How do you find clients when you have no network and can only do remote?
383
3
What books had the greatest effect on how you structure your code?
332
4
Best-architected open-source business applications worth studying?
296
5
HNers who got their “Show HNs” on homepage, how is your site doing now?
279
6
How do you start giving tech talks?
222
7
Share Your Raspberry Pi Project
166
8
How is your standing desk working for you?
154
9
What do people use to prevent crawlers?
122
10
What language/framework do you plan to use in your next project?
119

Top Show HN

1
The JavaScript Way, a book for learning modern JavaScript from scratch
545
2
Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda
385
3
Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server
340
4
I built a database of tech conferences to know what to attend to next
296
5
Hacking an ultrasound probe with a Raspberry Pi and low-cost hardware
227
6
AI Grant – Non-profit, distributed AI research lab
213
7
Teachcraft – Learn Python through Minecraft
212
8
Dharma – Programmable Peer-To-Peer Loans Using Ethereum Smart Contracts
156
9
Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams
133
10
A 2D Physics Simulator in JavaScript
126

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
First Human Embryos Edited in U.S
444
2
Bollinger B1: An electric truck with 360HP and up to 200 mile range
315
3
Millennials are keeping libraries alive
255
4
Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome in the dust
230
5
The ImageNet dataset transformed AI research
198
6
Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Platform
196
7
How Microsoft brought SQL Server to Linux
190
8
Sweden Leaks the Personal Information of Millions of Its Own Citizens
175
9
I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12 (2016)
171
10
Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder
159

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
Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
462
2
Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship
433
3
SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies
423
4
Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
399
5
Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm
373
6
The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills
337
7
P&G Cuts More Than $100M in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads
326
8
Robot cracks open safe live on Def Con's stage
325
9
Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
299
10
Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year
257

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
Buying time promotes happiness
188
2
42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S
167
3
Deep Learning in Robotics: A Review of Recent Research
121
4
U.S. Defense Budget May Help Fund “Hacking for Defense” Classes at Universities
106
5
Robust Physical-World Attacks on Machine Learning Models
97
6
Telescope design promises to revolutionize amateur astronomy
68
7
Optical lens can transfer digital information without loss
54
8
Densely Connected Convolutional Networks: CVPR 2017 Best Paper Award Winner
29
9
Eclipse balloons to study effect of Mars-like environment on life
22
10
New York eyes 'textalyzer' to bust drivers using phones
3

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
Bitcoin Cash: Why It's Forking the Blockchain and What That Means
170
2
Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-Of-Life
165
3
Delaware Governor Signs Blockchain Legislation into Law
25
4
Google Cloud Now Available in Sydney and Singapore
14
5
Helping people in a crisis
14
6
LedgerX to Begin Trading Cryptocurrency Derivatives
11
7
Forget frameworks, become a versatile hacker
10
8
Payable is joining Stripe
9
9
High-reliability OCSP stapling and why it matters
8
10
The SEC Called About Our ICO, I Answered – Hacker Noon
7

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 End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market
256
2
AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and Ryzen 3 1200 CPU Review
154
3
Kalashnikov’s new autonomous weapons and the “Terminator conundrum”
56
4
Apple Apparently Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle
53
5
Smart gun beaten by dumb magnets
37
6
EFF Asks Court to Strike Down Unconstitutional Restraint on Our Speech
18
7
Crossing the U.S. Border? Here’s How to Securely Wipe Your Computer
8
8
Apple Plans to Build Three 'Big' Factories in the United States
5
9
How Threats Against Domain Names Are Used to Censor Content
5
10
Throttling on Mobile Networks Is a Sign of Things to Come
3

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor
142
2
Project Snowflake: Non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET
126
3
Griffin: Guarding Control Flows Using Intel Processor Trace [pdf]
43
4
Apple's Hypercard website redirects to the Wikipedia article
41
5
Amazon has a sarcastic comment problem
5
6
Project Snowflake: Non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET
4
7
Implementing Algebraic Effects in C
4
8
Microsoft Announces Deep Neural Network AI Coprocessor
4
9
Microsoft's new messaging app
4
10
New – GPU-Powered Streaming Instances for Amazon AppStream 2.0
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
The quitting economy
274
2
Microsoft’s Monopoly Hangover
149
3
Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’
70
4
The Business of Artificial Intelligence
50
5
Pigs are smart and sensitive, yet we continue to justify killing them for food
44
6
Asking the Tough Questions with an 18th-Century Debate Society
20
7
The Clay Models Used to Analyze Entrails in the Ancient World
7
8
The hard problem of consciousness is a distraction from the real one
7
9
Why the Amish Are Building America’s RVs
4
10
Remembering Hair-Raising Landings at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport
3

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
Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed
632
2
Sperm Count Dropping in Western World
232
3
Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide
157
4
Neural Stem Cells in the Hypothalamus Shown to Control Rate of Aging in Mice
129
5
It will be much harder to call findings ‘significant’ if a team gets its way
128
6
First Support for a Physics Theory of Life
98
7
A new theory sheds light on the emergence of life’s complexity
90
8
A Sculpture Controlled by Live Honeybees
41
9
Physicists Just Generated a Particle That Acts as Its Own Antiparticle
39
10
Neuromorphic Computing with Nanoscale Spintronic Oscillators
35

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly
305
2
Facebook with Adblocker makes 2000+ requests
169
3
MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy [video]
129
4
What are potential disadvantages of functional programming?
119
5
AWS is having widespread issues
111
6
Composing Software in an Age of Dissonance [video]
48
7
Someone is massively registering multiple *.eth domains
35
8
Mark Karpeles: BTC-E Admin Was Mt. Gox Thief
34
9
Voltage vs Power vs Energy [video]
30
10
My job title is “Quality Assurance Tester”
24

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Here be dragons: the same 3D scene implemented with 10 different 3D APIs
574
2
Petition to open source Flash
560
3
Elixir 1.5 released
479
4
Crack WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi Routers with Aircrack-Ng and Hashcat
475
5
Sandsifter: find undocumented instructions and bugs on x86 CPU
447
6
A list of public JSON APIs for use in web development
270
7
Cicada: A Distributed Direct Democracy and Decentralized Application Platform
190
8
Addict: An Active Directory REST API
168
9
Ivy: a minimalist static site generator in Python
164
10
SQL on Ethereum Blockchain with Presto
153

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Petoskey stone
113
2
The Colditz Glider
47
3
Judit Polgár
9
4
Centralia, Pennsylvania
6
5
Lemniscate
3
6
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research supported research topics
2
7
True name
2
8
Professor Yash Pal
2
9
Hayabusa_2
2
10
Opaque forest problem
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit
577
2
Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web
370
3
Ten Years of Worthless Side Projects
353
4
Successful Solo Founders
302
5
Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack
275
6
The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010)
229
7
Tech is the best industry for women
218
8
The case against Kotlin
142
9
Most open-source software is libraries or frameworks
123
10
Artificial Intelligence, Poker, and Regret
120

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why does Rust check array bounds at runtime, not compile time?
3
2
Efficient database query for ancestors on an acyclic directed graph
2
3
“How can I read and parse CSV files in C++?”
1
4
Extracting from .bib file with Perl 6
1
5
Awk: fetching seconds since the epoch with srand()
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com