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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
4107
2
Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
3238
3
Announcing the first SHA-1 collision
3030
4
Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth
2256
5
List of Sites Affected by Cloudflare's HTTPS Traffic Leak
914
6
Starting an Internet Service Provider
912
7
Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets
907
8
Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
892
9
API Design Guide
824
10
Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?
821

Top Ask HN

1
What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
597
2
What's your backup setup?
127
3
Needs advice on learning NLP
127
4
How can I volunteer my software skills online?
121
5
What’s it like working at Facebook as a Software Engineer?
117
6
How do you version your data?
114
7
I work for consulting firm that's illegally moving bank code to GitHub
80
8
What are the best interview questions you've been asked?
52
9
How to handle bookmarks so you can find them again?
49
10
How to implement an NLP grammar parser for a new natural language?
48

Top Show HN

1
Generate a quiz from a Wikipedia page
388
2
PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text while keeping the layout
283
3
Hasura – A Postgres BaaS and Kubernetes PaaS on Your Own Infrastructure
259
4
GraphQL Voyager – Represent Any GraphQL API as an Interactive Graph
163
5
Plot directly in your terminal with matplotlib
160
6
Does it use Cloudflare?
141
7
Get a Slack message when your brand is mentioned on HN
132
8
Git-dit – a distributed issue tracker for git
129
9
A microservice that makes adding authentication to your app easy
89
10
Booknshelf – Discover great books on different topics
89

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
FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger rollbacks
550
2
Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
490
3
Google and Mozilla's message to AV and security firms: Stop trashing HTTPS
226
4
Bees can train each other to use tools
225
5
A self-driving Uber ran a red light last December, contrary to company claims
202
6
The Google project to put an aquarium full of water bears inside a phone
175
7
Tips to Improve Your Mental Math Ability
153
8
FCC chief wants smartphones’ hidden FM radios turned on
148
9
Problems with Android Studio
142
10
Draft law to require warrants for border device searches
139

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
Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets
907
2
Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee
678
3
White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
660
4
Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'
535
5
Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture
434
6
How to Be a Stoic
416
7
The Future of Not Working
387
8
Kim Jong-Nam Was Killed by VX Nerve Agent, Malaysians Say
329
9
As Leaks Multiply, Fears of a ‘Deep State’ in America
324
10
Tesla Says Model 3 on Track as Quarterly Loss Beats Estimates
315

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
Fasting leads to stress resistance, self-renewal, and regeneration (2014)
359
2
Paralyzed Man Uses Brain Implant to Type Eight Words per Minute
220
3
Acute exercise increases expression of telomere protective genes in heart tissue
202
4
Beating the World’s Best at Super Smash Bros. with Deep Reinforcement Learning
202
5
Want an energy efficient datacenter? Build it underwater
199
6
DeepCoder: Learning to Write Programs
183
7
NASA to Host News Conference on Discovery Beyond Our Solar System
151
8
NASA Telescope Reveals Record-Breaking Exoplanet Discovery – NASA
117
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NASA to Unveil New Exoplanet Discovery Tomorrow
110
10
Self-Driving Cars Have a Bicycle Problem
68

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
API Design Guide
824
2
APIs, robustness, and idempotency
280
3
ECMAScript 2016+ in Firefox
260
4
Linux 4.10 is out
250
5
Do Developers Need College Degrees?
160
6
Expanding Fact Checking at Google
148
7
Google Research and Daydream Labs: Seeing eye to eye in mixed reality
137
8
Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug
115
9
Men Who Sent Swat Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced
66
10
IBM Wants to Make Mainframes Next Platform for Machine Learning
15

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Chrome 57 Will Permanently Enable DRM
216
2
Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, Servers, Vehicles
107
3
AMD Launches Ryzen: 52% More IPC, Eight Cores for Under $330
10
4
We're Halfway to Encrypting the Entire Web
8
5
Cheap DIY Microscope Sees Individual Atoms
7
6
Apple Cut Ties with Supplier Super Micro Computer Over Server Security Concerns
7
7
Apple Acquires Israeli Firm RealFace Specializing in Facial Recognition
6
8
Fair Use: Journalism Can’t Succeed Without It
5
9
Sen. Wyden: Border Searches of Digital Devices Should Require a Warrant
4
10
Chrome 58 includes Touch Bar support
3

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog
357
2
S2n Is Now Handling 100 Percent of SSL Traffic for Amazon S3
248
3
Apple Park Opens to Employees in April
142
4
New AWS I3 Instances for Demanding, I/O Intensive Applications
84
5
S2n Is Now Handling 100 Percent of SSL Traffic for Amazon S3
8
6
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches Support for Custom Platforms
3
7
Introducing Amazon EC2 I3 Instances – Storage Optimized High-I/O
2
8
AWS startups blog: the Israeli recipe
1
9
Explore/Create – New Book by Richard Garriott (aka Lord British)
1
10
Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of T.Kaczynski, “The Unabomber”
1

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
Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?
821
2
Norway: 37% of new vehicles sold in January were electric
327
3
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (2013)
239
4
Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs
211
5
Pirate site with No Traffic attracts 49m bogus DMCA notices
158
6
Manifestos and Monopolies
133
7
“Neuromancer” read by William Gibson
46
8
“We Won't Block Pirate Bay,” Swedish Telecoms Giant Says
24
9
A Million People Live in These Underground Nuclear Bunkers
20
10
Tensorflow and deep leanrning, without a PhD – part 2
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
Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth
2256
2
AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other programs
199
3
WWII Propaganda Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark
151
4
Harvey Friedman bringing incompleteness and infinity out of quarantine
141
5
LSD 'microdosing' is trending in Silicon Valley
95
6
Giant neuron found wrapped around entire mouse brain
83
7
Therapy Experience Associated with Negative Changes in Personality
82
8
The Holocaust’s Great Escape
81
9
Long-awaited mathematics proof could help scan Earth's innards
51
10
The Hidden Twist to Making a Möbius Strip
50

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
My CAD software called home, and no-one answered, so it shut down
199
2
Electromagnetic Levitation Quadcopter [video]
152
3
Peter Todd (Bitcoin core dev) set up a SHA-1 “Pinata” and it's been claimed
130
4
SpaceX: CRS-10 Hosted webcast
124
5
What does it feel like to invent math? (2015) [video]
106
6
118 Uber employees in SF have resigned/put in notice since the weekend
97
7
Susan Fowler fears she's now the target of a smear campaign
90
8
Let's Encrypt appears to issue a certificate for a domain that doesn't exist
80
9
Shar: One year with Rust
39
10
Multiple Google users are being signed out randomly
30

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
List of Sites Affected by Cloudflare's HTTPS Traffic Leak
914
2
Machine Learning from scratch: Bare bones implementations in Python
694
3
Signal can now be used without Google Play Services
469
4
Development content accidentally shipped on a DOS CD-ROM game from 1993
385
5
Code.mil – An experiment in open source at the Department of Defense
378
6
Dear Apple
291
7
A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins and resources
266
8
Universal Radio Hacker: investigate wireless protocols like a boss
236
9
Jess Frazelle
207
10
Cmd/compile: Go 1.8 regression: sync/atomic loop elided
194

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Ant–fungus mutualism
45
2
Unix philosophy
20
3
Kenneth Arrow has died (1921-2017)
9
4
Microsoft v MikeRoweSoft (2003)
3
5
James while John had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
2
6
Functionalism versus intentionalism
2
7
SHA-3
2
8
Cryptomnesia
2
9
Clathrate gun hypothesis
2
10
AVE Mizar
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
An Open Letter to the Uber Board and Investors
648
2
The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career
382
3
Deleting Uber is the least you can do
355
4
Post-Olympic Abandonment
210
5
How copying an int made my code 11 times faster
168
6
Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons
89
7
A practical guide to having a remote company
59
8
The Real Reason Women Quit Tech (and How to Address It) (2016)
39
9
Latest DevOp Blogs, Boards and Books to Check Out Today
28
10
I've never experienced sexual harassment in the tech industry
25

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Huge number of files generated for every AngularJS 2 project
4
2
What is the “--” operator in C++?
2
3
How would Git handle a SHA-1 collision on a blob?
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com