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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
1331
2
Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact
1314
3
Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions
973
4
GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
755
5
82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding
709
6
Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)
617
7
$36k Google App Engine RCE
602
8
I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned
563
9
Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS
555
10
Getting Google to ban our entire company
538

Top Ask HN

1
Why is nearing completion so demotivating?
534
2
What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
305
3
What's one book that changed your life?
214
4
Which non-programming books are a beneficial read for programmers?
209
5
"Creative" ways to handle abusive http traffic?
179
6
How are you building cross-platform (mobile and browser) apps?
158
7
Learning multiple languages vs. mastering one
157
8
What is good business advice for independent mobile app developers?
154
9
Is WebDav still relevant?
80
10
What are some technical topics I can blog about?
76

Top Show HN

1
Wired-elements – UI web components with a hand drawn, sketchy look
650
2
HyperApp – 1k JavaScript framework for building web applications
303
3
Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming
291
4
Clippi.io lets you collect your visual inspiration from any video
208
5
NimForum – A lightweight alternative to Discourse
186
6
Chromely – Lightweight Alternative to Electron for .NET and .NET Core
143
7
Grayscale the Web – A Chrome extension to help avoid mindless browsing
119
8
Improved Seam Carving Using Forward Energy
99
9
Anon – A Unix Command to Anonymise Data
79
10
Nighthawk: A stealthy, simple, unobtrusive music player
64

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
Jeff Bezos announces Amazon is picking up 'The Expanse'
446
2
Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’
442
3
FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices
403
4
Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction Support Groups
325
5
Instapaper is temporarily shutting off access for European users due to GDPR
252
6
A New Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture
213
7
Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app
212
8
Zuckerberg didn’t make any friends in Europe today
209
9
Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance
208
10
Intel AI open-sources library for deep learning-driven NLP
183

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
Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone
386
2
GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
361
3
Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See Surveillance Risk
342
4
Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws
329
5
Japan's secret spy agency
312
6
U.S. Launches Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation
308
7
What's Going on in Your Child's Brain When You Read Them a Story?
308
8
Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
291
9
FBI repeatedly overstated encryption threat figures to Congress, public
287
10
Apple Signs Deal with Volkswagen for Driverless Car
286

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
Unifying Theories of Psychedelic Drug Effects
250
2
Is Information in the Brain Represented in Continuous or Discrete Form?
198
3
Chip Hall of Fame: Zilog Z80 Microprocessor (2017)
118
4
What really happened to that melted NASA camera?
112
5
Learning to Optimize Tensor Programs
106
6
A simple mechanism could have been decisive for the development of life
106
7
Mathematical Education (1990)
95
8
Psychopathy to Altruism: Neurobiology of the Selfish–Selfless Spectrum
91
9
Generative Adversarial Examples [pdf]
79
10
Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory: Quality and Quantity of Retention
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
Things to know about the GDPR, Mozilla and Firefox
430
2
Why Is Location Data No Longer Private?
378
3
Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack
192
4
GCP and Confluent partner to deliver a managed Apache Kafka service
102
5
How Stack Overflow for Teams Fits into the Community
62
6
Y Not? – Adventures in Functional Programming (2012)
47
7
GIMP 2.10.2 Released with HEIF Image Format Support
36
8
You Don’t Want to Work from Home
27
9
New York Times: Using AI to Host Better Conversations
19
10
It's totally reasonable to chalk it up to cosmic rays (2007)
14

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Assessing Cavium’s ThunderX2: The Arm Server Dream Realized
99
2
EFF's Fair Use Petition to the Copyright Office
97
3
Apple Rejects Valve's Steam Link App Due to 'Business Conflicts'
90
4
Command Line and Windows Subsystem for Linux – The Windows 10 April Update
71
5
Apple Knew About iPhone 6 Bendgate/Touch Disease Months Before Repair Programs
29
6
EFF Wins Final Victory Over Podcasting Patent
23
7
Apple’s Secret Star Project Revealed
18
8
How to build a “stealth” computer display
12
9
Making the Case for Slackware in 2018
5
10
CPUs Assessing Cavium's ThunderX2: The Arm Server Dream Realized at Last
5

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers
3
2
Fusing effectful comprehensions [pdf]
2
3
EnclaveDB – A Secure Database Using SGX
2
4
Quantum Development Kit
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 Bill Gates Line
477
2
The History of the Philips CD-I, Failed PlayStation Ancestor
140
3
The World’s Best Violins Sing Like Humans
59
4
Caribbean-Americans Searching for Their Chinese Roots
46
5
On doppelgängers and perception
45
6
Why Is New Zealand So Often Left Off World Maps?
44
7
The ‘Pedestrian’ Who Became One of America’s First Black Sports Stars
40
8
We Have Probably Been Imagining Pterosaurs Wrongly
39
9
Is it really a Leonardo?
23
10
Prolog Basics Class by SWI-Prolog
6

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
We May First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets
281
2
How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer
164
3
A new experiment hints at surprising hidden mechanics of quantum superpositions
89
4
A Classical Math Problem Gets Pulled into the Modern World
86
5
How Brain Waves Surf Sound Waves to Process Speech
76
6
What Is Spacetime?
64
7
Was the Cause of Cambrian Explosion Terrestrial or Cosmic?
58
8
My Own Personal Nothingness: From childhood hallucination to theoretical physics
52
9
The surprising anthropology of group identity
26
10
Muons: the little-known particles helping to probe the impenetrable
20

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned
563
2
Getting Google to ban our entire company
538
3
GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
466
4
Ghostery exposed everyone's email address in its GDPR email by not using BCC
286
5
Doug Engelbart's advice to a young software developer [video]
183
6
Civ 5 AI battle – All 43 Civs on same map [video]
182
7
Unexploded Ordnance found in Server Room
175
8
The emotional journey of creating anything great
127
9
Publish everything you write (pretty much)
78
10
A megathread on breaking away from Google
62

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Algorithms and Data Structures Explained and Implemented in JavaScript
483
2
Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter
447
3
How to write efficient matrix multiplication
400
4
DigitalMars C/C++ Compiler
286
5
Continuous Domain Game of Life in Python with Numpy
174
6
Opa – An open-source, general-purpose policy engine
157
7
A self-driving toy car using end-to-end learning
156
8
Comparing the C FFI overhead in various programming languages
141
9
SHCL – An unholy union of Posix shell and Common Lisp
97
10
Infection Monkey – An automated pentest tool
89

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Soundex
95
2
Mandaeism
83
3
Mississippi River Basin Model
57
4
Fluidics
37
5
Sure-thing principle
31
6
Human-powered helicopter
28
7
One electron universe
17
8
Neo-Luddism
9
9
Rosewood massacre
6
10
Max Schrems
5

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migrated to Mix
279
2
The GDPR blog post
163
3
How Voxels Became ‘The Next Big Thing’
159
4
Hidden Sheep and Typography Archaeology
139
5
Growing up with AI
130
6
Instant Netty Startup using GraalVM Native Image Generation
61
7
30+ Machine Learning Resources
59
8
The Node.js Ecosystem Is Chaotic and Insecure
48
9
Mainframe on the Macbook
41
10
American Failure: top 0.1% owns as many assets as bottom 90%. And it’s worsening
41

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Is crypto money?
5
2
Style rules for good writing will make your writing worse
1
3
New crypto email newsletter from APompliano
1