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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Apple open-sources FoundationDB
2136
2
1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
1895
3
Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
1368
4
Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
1302
5
Facebook Container for Firefox
1274
6
Productivity
1264
7
You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts
1075
8
Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook
1075
9
I wandered off and built an IDE
1053
10
Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours
1048

Top Ask HN

1
How to self-learn electronics?
1681
2
What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
1665
3
What is your favourite tech talk?
701
4
Who is hiring? (April 2018)
612
5
Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?
472
6
My startup has basically failed. What now?
463
7
What are some tech companies that do not use an open floor plan?
409
8
Anyone making money through algorithmic trading?
389
9
What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?
383
10
Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?
320

Top Show HN

1
Intuitive Linear Algebra and 3D Geometry
402
2
I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
385
3
Watch Stanford CS Lectures Together
360
4
ReLaXed – High-quality PDFs using web technologies
344
5
Giving a Broken Barcode Scanner a New Life with Elixir and Nerves
330
6
AI Grant – Get $2,500 for your AI project in minutes
323
7
Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app
277
8
A site that lets you search and subscribe to “Who is hiring?”
255
9
A curated library of free music for content creators
239
10
Travel spontaneously on a budget
238

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
Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B
692
2
How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS
531
3
France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994
491
4
RSS is undead
458
5
Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sustainable business model
448
6
Facebook has auto-enrolled users into a facial recognition test in Europe
440
7
Impersonators who are paid to flirt on dating apps
371
8
Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica researcher
365
9
Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material
362
10
'Demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides Inside Computer Chip
360

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
Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
1368
2
Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
1302
3
Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook
1075
4
EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
1022
5
Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online
1015
6
Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative
874
7
Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
793
8
Two Koreas Agree to End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization
673
9
Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
642
10
Apple Hires Google’s A.I. Chief
628

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
After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?
311
2
PowerHammer: Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers Through Power Lines
298
3
Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space
239
4
Boltzmann Encoded Adversarial Machines
205
5
The aging mind: neuroplasticity in response to cognitive training (2013)
204
6
Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners
191
7
Context Is Everything: Finding Meaning Statistically in Semantic Spaces
135
8
FCC Issues Warning in Wake of Swarm's Unauthorized Launch
135
9
New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins
122
10
When algorithms surprise us
112

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
1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
1895
2
Stripe Billing
620
3
Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
558
4
Don't give away historic details about yourself
532
5
Stripe Home
496
6
Panerabread.com leaks millions of customer records
403
7
Stripe Atlas for LLCs
403
8
Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth
369
9
How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018
273
10
PostgreSQL Begins Adding LLVM JIT Support For Faster Performance
269

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse
290
2
The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's phone without Apple
252
3
Intel's 10nm Is Broken, Delayed Until 2019
242
4
Intel brings a six-core i9 CPU to laptops
238
5
TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips
237
6
AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive
205
7
To Delete Facebook or Not to Delete Facebook? That Is Not the Question
187
8
Transparent ceramics made with aluminum
169
9
Another Reason to Learn Morse Code: Kidnapping
134
10
User Privacy Isn't Solely a Facebook Issue
124

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
AWS Secrets Manager – Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely
384
2
Apple says it’s now powered by renewable energy worldwide
274
3
Get Started with Blockchain Using the New AWS Blockchain Templates
114
4
13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement Program
98
5
Node.js 8.10 runtime now available in AWS Lambda
91
6
AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and offline capabilities
39
7
How to Be the Startup Hero by Tim Draper (free on Kindle for 24 Hours)
28
8
Introducing in-car delivery
20
9
AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Implementation Is Now Open-Source
10
10
AWS Blockchain Templates
9

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 End of Windows
583
2
Publisher Gets Carte Blanche to Seize New Sci-Hub Domains
297
3
Soviet-Era Industrial Design
245
4
To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM
165
5
A Food Shortage Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease
132
6
Not your Tibetan Buddhism
122
7
Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food?
104
8
The Facebook Current
103
9
Solved: A Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery
86
10
Escape the echo chamber
83

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
Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
492
2
Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes
403
3
Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention (2015)
359
4
Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos
272
5
How Dyson Saw Feynman
262
6
A manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene
257
7
How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons from Madagascar
241
8
The enemy within: Gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease
232
9
The myopia boom (2015)
199
10
Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire
190

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ
745
2
My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app
557
3
A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet
526
4
"@" on Twitter
504
5
Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
484
6
Simone Giertz on her brain tumour [video]
453
7
How to build a house alone [video]
450
8
Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier
433
9
Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides
373
10
A thread on on the beauty of procedurally generated maps
293

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties
840
2
TextQL: Execute SQL Against CSV or TSV
658
3
Make your own sourdough
619
4
OpenSimpleLidar
605
5
A Workshop on Linux Containers: Rebuild Docker from Scratch
568
6
System Shock 1 source code released under GPL
568
7
Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Apple Object to W3C Fork of DOM Spec
549
8
Vipassana for Hackers [pdf]
461
9
Mermaid: Markdown-like generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text
453
10
List of command line tools for manipulating CSV, XML, HTML, JSON, INI, etc.
389

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Illegal prime
267
2
Kasparov versus the World
256
3
Gravitation water vortex power plant
227
4
Conway's Law
134
5
Great Vowel Shift
129
6
Molyneux's problem
122
7
Eroom's law
120
8
Dunbar's Number
108
9
Gruen transfer
105
10
Microsoft v MikeRoweSoft
96

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS
860
2
Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
727
3
Life is Short (2016)
568
4
Designing very large JavaScript applications
434
5
Netflix FlameScope
389
6
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)
383
7
How to Easily Detect Objects with Deep Learning on Raspberry Pi
308
8
Systems built on trust, norms, and institutions function better than blockchain
303
9
Interactive Go programming with Jupyter
292
10
The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
270

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Build an Android app from a to Z without opening AndroidStudio even once
15
2
Quack Overflow, Stack Overflow's new rubber ducky debugging feature
3
3
How and when to align to cache line size
3
4
How to tell Git to ignore individual lines; gitignore for specific lines of code
2
5
Stack Overflow for Teams
2
6
Is 0 an octal or a decimal in C? (2014)
2
7
400 vs. 422 response to POST of data
2
8
Cycles in Family Tree Software
2
9
StackOverflow is down
2
10
QuackOverflow – StackOverflow's Listening Duck Assistant This April First
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing
11
2
Order: creating flow and comprehension
4
3
Your reader will try to infer your intentions anyway, so help them get it right
3
4
Misrepresenting opinions for facts and other dangers of communication
2
5
Proof of Work 18 – Weekly Updates from Curated Crypto Projects
2
6
The Label Is Not the Object
1
7
Reader: the hidden dictator of your writing
1
8
Rapport: building trust through familiarity
1