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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
AMA: NY AG Schneiderman on net neutrality and protecting our voice in government
1126
2
The Big Vitamin D Mistake
756
3
Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin
675
4
Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle
660
5
Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
572
6
Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps
556
7
Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
539
8
Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
527
9
Oregon punished an engineer for criticizing red-light cameras. He fought and won
518
10
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf]
516

Top Ask HN

1
Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code
513
2
CS and programming books of 2017
205
3
What to do if you hate working for someone else and arent an entrepreneur?
180
4
Who hires mathematicians?
165
5
I'm a solopreneur and I feel demoralised
137
6
Which skills are essential for a developer to join a blockchain startup?
111
7
What is your Golang web-dev tech stack?
98
8
In your company, how important is code quality vs. getting things done
94
9
What should I know before I invest fully in CSS grid?
76
10
How do you get better at coding?
60

Top Show HN

1
Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music
273
2
SeKey: An SSH Agent for OS X, Using Secure Enclave and TouchID, in Rust
169
3
A New, Clean Geolocation API
167
4
Misocoin – A barebones Bitcoin-like protocol implemented in Python 3.6
151
5
Effects of House and Senate Bill on California Residents
140
6
Counting Foot Traffic Over IP Webcams
133
7
Go Freaking Do It – Smart contract for reaching your goals
128
8
Echo Podcasts – Goodreads for podcasts
116
9
Tax plan impact calculator
114
10
A proxy service for debugging HTTP/S traffic
74

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
Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say
419
2
Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons
410
3
Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV
332
4
Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section
268
5
I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor
263
6
A Spectator Who Threw a Wrench in the Waymo/Uber Lawsuit
260
7
FCC won’t delay vote, says net neutrality supporters are “desperate”
245
8
How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop
239
9
Zeta Global acquires Disqus (YC S07)
217
10
People have spent over $1M buying virtual cats on the Ethereum blockchain
165

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
Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
572
2
Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps
556
3
Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
527
4
Oregon punished an engineer for criticizing red-light cameras. He fought and won
518
5
I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it
478
6
The compelling case for working less
461
7
Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows
423
8
Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating
397
9
Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy
388
10
Japan eyes startup visa program
372

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
The Big Vitamin D Mistake
756
2
Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
539
3
Behind the Scenes at Xerox Parc’s Futures Day – 40 Years Ago
93
4
Learning Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms Over Graphs
88
5
Safe Pointers in SPARK 2014
70
6
Microwave Towers Bring the Internet to Remote Alaska Villages
52
7
MRAM-Like Device Could Make Logic Run Backwards
46
8
A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
42
9
Will humans write code in 2040?
42
10
Grasshopper problem yields insight into quantum theory
21

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
Web Assembly now supported across all browsers
240
2
Mozilla Files Cross-Complaint Against Yahoo Holdings and Oath
239
3
Android 8.1 Oreo
152
4
Google for India: Building India-first products and features
139
5
Power9 to the People
125
6
Reinventing the FPGA Programming Wheel
66
7
The Booming Server Market in the Wake of Skylake
64
8
CSS Grid is better than Bootstrap for creating layouts
59
9
Make SSL boring again
44
10
My most common code review suggestions
44

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Microsoft launches Windows 10 on ARM
374
2
Nvidia Announces “Titan V” Video Card: GV100 for $3000
154
3
The FCC Still Doesn’t Know How the Internet Works
73
4
Protect Your Right to Repair and Control the Devices in Your Life
14
5
Apple begins selling unlocked and SIM-free iPhone X in the U.S
11
6
The FCC Still Doesn’t Know How the Internet Works
9
7
Court Recognizes First Amendment Right to Anonymity After Speakers Lose Lawsuits
8
8
Coinbase becomes the most downloaded iPhone app in the U.S
5
9
AMD Makes a Surprise Appearance: Ryzen Mobile with Qualcomm LTE
3
10
0day iOS HomeKit vuln allowed remote access to smart accessories including locks
3

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon Macie: A machine learning service to discover and protect sensitive data
117
2
Amazon Route 53 Releases Auto Naming API for Service Name Management/Discovery
88
3
Amazon Prime Video arrives on Apple TV in over 100 countries
27
4
Amazon Sample Boxes
5
5
Explore AWS Data Centers
4
6
Access Multiple AWS Accounts with AWS SSO
3
7
T2 Unlimited – Going Beyond the Burst with High Performance – AWS News Blog
3
8
Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep Learning
3
9
All AWS Re:Invent 2017 Product Annoucements on One Page
3
10
AWS Educate Now Available to Students Ages 14 and Up
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
How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom
122
2
The Last Death-Defying Honey Hunter of Nepal
108
3
Notes Towards an Emularity
25
4
How to Stay Focused When You’re Working from Home
16
5
The mystery of the blend (2009)
12
6
The Most and Least Digital Jobs – And How Well They Pay
9
7
Elon Musk confirms that Tesla is working on its own new AI chip
7
8
How to fight work bullshit (and keep your job and your dignity)
6
9
Black holes are simpler than forests and science has its limits
5
10
The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl’s Apples
4

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
Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and play more creatively
468
2
Nations agree to ban fishing in Arctic Ocean for at least 16 years
293
3
Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
255
4
‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem (2015)
160
5
Bat cave solves mystery of SARS virus
96
6
The Resulting Fallacy Ruins Decisions: An Interview with Annie Duke
57
7
Use machine learning to find energy materials
56
8
Capgras syndrome gives us a unique insight into the digital age (2016)
53
9
Taking a Second Look at the Learn-To-Code Craze
48
10
The microscope makers
40

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”
424
2
Steve Jobs on how to hire, manage, and lead people [video]
235
3
Lisp at the Frontier of Computation [video]
202
4
Don't Talk to the Police (2012)
190
5
The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ milliseconds is exactly 1 day
184
6
Why Are Data Science Leaders Running for the Exit?
116
7
Lectures from Princeton on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
102
8
Integration tests are a symptom of poor design
71
9
7th RISC-V conference videos
52
10
Universal Basic Income Explained – Free Money for Everybody? [video]
31

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Kubeflow – Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes
203
2
Barliman – real-time program synthesis to make the programmer's life easier
186
3
Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models
179
4
A TensorFlow implementation of Baidu's DeepSpeech architecture
156
5
Mal Lisp for TempleOS
120
6
Nix-build freezes system on macOS High Sierra with multi-user install
116
7
Zbox – Zero-knowledge, privacy-focused embeddable file system written in Rust
112
8
2KB JavaScript animation library
59
9
Essential Guide to keep up with AI/ML/CV
35
10
Save net neutrality in the US
29

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Parsons code
85
2
AlphaSmart
67
3
Merkle Tree
6
4
Mancala
3
5
Ponzi schemes caused the Albanian Civil War of 1997
3
6
Est! Est!! Est!!!
3
7
Decision Fatigue
3
8
Apple III – a fascinating failure with lessons for today
2
9
Chesterton's fence
2
10
Student Boilersuits
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle
660
2
Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting
250
3
Microsoft leaks TLS private key for cloud ERP product
210
4
Is there data on the quality of management decisions?
178
5
1.4B Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database
155
6
Taking a sabbatical to work on Ruby profiling tools
128
7
Normalization of deviance in software: broken practices become standard (2015)
125
8
The Dark Underbelly of Women Who Code and Google Women Techmakers
103
9
Could the Nuclear Family Be the Reason We’re All Miserable?
102
10
What's Happening with Bitcoin Prices
93

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
StackOverflow breaks 15M questions
11
2
Using HTML5/Canvas/JavaScript to take in-browser screenshots
2
3
“243,583,606,221,817,150,598,111,409x more entropy”
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com