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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
1080
2
Explaining React's license
978
3
Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
857
4
Essential Phone, available now
818
5
I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity
791
6
U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data
779
7
Vue.js vs. React
732
8
Why PS4 downloads are so slow
713
9
An Intro to Compilers
687
10
Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
684

Top Ask HN

1
Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It?
489
2
What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?
451
3
What's your spectacular burnout story?
195
4
Anyone else scratching their heads about coin offerings?
121
5
Self-taught developers, what repo helped land your first job?
116
6
How do you deal with piracy?
84
7
HN censoring Facebook licencing controversy?
79
8
What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?
71
9
Does coding give you brain fog?
71
10
What costly inefficiency do you see at work?
43

Top Show HN

1
A stop-motion video of an engine
845
2
Mathcha – Online Mathematics Editor
358
3
Product Graveyard – Commemorating the most memorable dead products
265
4
One hostname to rule them all
111
5
Minimal build system using just /bin/sh
100
6
Appster – Free Bootstrap 4 App Landing Page Template
79
7
SQLCheck – Automatically identify anti-patterns in SQL queries
61
8
Chaotic Life – deterministic behavior from unsynchronized threads
58
9
Freeciv WebGL with Anaglyph 3D support
54
10
Delaware Public Benefit Corporations on Clerky (YC S11)
47

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
Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund
470
2
Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain
277
3
Bezos should put his billions in public libraries
247
4
MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO
206
5
Superhuman is what Gmail would be if built today
189
6
Our Minds Have Been Hijacked by Our Phones
178
7
My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
166
8
iOS 11 has a feature to temporarily disable Touch ID
162
9
Snap sold fewer than 42K Spectacles, down 35% in Q2
157
10
GOP lawmakers shamed on billboards for trying to repeal net neutrality rules
134

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
U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data
779
2
Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial
479
3
Gates Makes Largest Donation Since 2000 with $4.6B Pledge
447
4
Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation
321
5
A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M
287
6
Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users
270
7
GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath To Step Down After Finding Replacement
264
8
A big, successful trial of probiotics
260
9
What Happens to Creativity as We Age?
254
10
Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF
253

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
A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
662
2
Text Messages Between Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski
164
3
An Introduction to Quantum Computing, Without the Physics
149
4
A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing (2015)
134
5
qBitcoin – Proposal for a decentralized online quantum cash system
88
6
Automatic Mapping of NES Games with Mappy
71
7
When the Cookie Meets the Blockchain [pdf]
14
8
Diagnose irregular heart rhythms better than a cardiologist
13
9
“Alexa, I'm Ready to Walk.”
4
10
How East Germany Fabricated the Myth of HIV Being Man-Made
4

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
Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
857
2
Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
684
3
APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning
498
4
64-bit Firefox is the new default on 64-bit Windows
253
5
Unsupervised machine learning with basket clusters
83
6
How Hardware Drives the Shape of Databases to Come
66
7
How Hardware Drives the Shape of Databases to Come
11
8
Build Your Own Container Using Less Than 100 Lines of Go
9
9
Turn around, bright eyes… and experience the total solar eclipse with Google
9
10
Power outage hits the island of Taiwan. Here’s what we learned
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
Intel Reveals Post-8th Gen. Core Architecture 10nm+ Ice Lake
326
2
Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression
233
3
Concrete-free washing machines are lighter to transport, just as good in a spin
154
4
Living on Mars: The Stuff You Never Thought About
123
5
Thai activist jailed under lese majeste laws for sharing an article on Facebook
112
6
The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 Review: Vega Burning Bright
95
7
Retesting AMD Ryzen Threadripper’s Game Mode: Halving Cores for More Performance
59
8
Tom's Hardware Italy editor killed in Barcelona islamic terror
17
9
Five Actions Californians Can Take Right Now to Promote Digital Civil Liberties
10
10
Retesting AMD Ryzen Threadripper’s Game Mode: Halving Cores for More Performance
5

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Macie: Automatically Discover, Classify, and Secure Content at Scale
104
2
Amazon's Lumberyard (CryEngine fork) now available on GitHub
6
3
AWS Glue Now Generally Available
6
4
AWS Summit New York – Summary of Announcements
4
5
Synchronizing Amazon S3 Buckets Using AWS Step Functions – AWS Compute Blog
3
6
Amazon Launchpad: a marketing program to showcase innovative startup products
3
7
AWS Migration Hub
3
8
Amazon Macie
3
9
Launch – AWS Glue Now Generally Available
3
10
Building the Population of Future Engineers with AWS and Girls Who Code
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
The Uber Dilemma
301
2
Life Aboard the Longest Train Ride Through India
141
3
Boring Company to use Tesla’s technology for its tunnel project under LA
139
4
Show/Ask HN: Anonymous Global Product Manager Salary List
68
5
What SimpliFlying learned from forcing staff to take regular vacation time
40
6
Porn Producer Says He’ll Prove That AMC TV Exec Is a BitTorrent Pirate
26
7
BYTE Magazine's Smalltalk issue (1981)
22
8
Cloudflare Kicking ‘Daily Stormer’ Is Bad News for Pirate Sites
4
9
Human evolution is more a muddy delta than a branching tree
4
10
#1 YC marketing mistake (request for feedback)
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
Why the Brain Needs More Downtime (2013)
436
2
Dilution of whisky – the molecular perspective
134
3
The Art of Teaching Math and Science
120
4
Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon
107
5
We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance
104
6
Where the Wild Things Go: The remarkable travel itineraries of animals
91
7
Scientists Find Record 2.7M-Year-Old Ice Core in Antarctica
74
8
Symmetry, Algebra and the Monster
66
9
China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions
45
10
Record-shattering 2.7M-year-old ice core reveals start of the ice ages
20

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
John Carmack on Functional Programming (2013) [video]
258
2
Draw.io releases open source desktop versions
184
3
Python Threading Beginners Tutorial [video]
90
4
A trick to visualizing higher dimensions [video]
76
5
Cloudflare has dropped the Daily Stormer
74
6
Giving up on Venture Capital raising
60
7
I spent 21 years in prison for a murder I didn’t commit. [Reddit AMA]
52
8
A hypothesis about how you might discover the next Twitter
50
9
GoDaddy tells the Daily Stormer to move their domain for TOS violation
43
10
97 Year Old in a Tesla
27

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node API
406
2
Effective Tensorflow
372
3
Passive event listeners
235
4
Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQ
188
5
Concurrency in Swift: One possible approach
188
6
Reasonable Scala Compiler
183
7
Native Encryption for ZFS on Linux
169
8
Inception movie explained programmatically with C and assembly
165
9
Functions as a Service: Serverless Framework for Docker and Kubernetes
160
10
PyGraphistry – A library to extract, transform, and visually explore big graphs
125

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
COVFEFE Act
113
2
United States Camel Corps
70
3
Hokkaido characters
57
4
Nuclear Football
15
5
Conrad Heyer (1749–1856), earliest-born person ever to be photographed
9
6
Gyrojet (rocket propelled ammunition)
9
7
Paradox of tolerance
8
8
Ocular dominance
6
9
The Paradox of tolerance
6
10
Paradox of Tolerance
5

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity
791
2
I’m 35 and I may suddenly have lost the rest of my life
354
3
Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfortable
287
4
Text Is Keeping Kids from Coding
156
5
Machine Learning for Humans: A Beginner's Guide to AI/ML
149
6
Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice (2015)
121
7
An 80s Girl Talks About Computers: A Reminiscence
114
8
Trezor hardware Bitcoin wallet – Security glitches reveal private keys
83
9
The ZX80 manuals and inserts
81
10
Tech companies: make remote work part of your diversity and inclusion efforts
80

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Sorting 1M 8-digit numbers in 1 MB of RAM
8
2
Why do all the C files written by my lecturer start with a #?
5
3
How 0Auth2 Works
3
4
Finding indexes in deeply nested data structure in Clojure
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com