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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
2873
2
GitLab sees huge spike in project imports
1736
3
Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
1361
4
AI winter is well on its way
993
5
Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal
805
6
Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox
757
7
UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?
757
8
De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
733
9
MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)
709
10
How to get rich without getting lucky
647

Top Ask HN

1
What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?
542
2
Who is hiring? (June 2018)
450
3
What companies are using probabilistic programming?
251
4
Which YouTube channels do you watch regularly?
233
5
How to blog things I've learnt in graduate school?
213
6
Recommendations on books and documentaries on tech companies/people?
190
7
Do I place the fan so that it blows air inwards or outwards?
190
8
How do security researchers know where to look for vulnerabilites?
164
9
When is federation a better solution than decentralization?
121
10
How has working remotely for long periods affected your social skills?
83

Top Show HN

1
Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies
581
2
Write every day, measure your progress, achieve your writing goals
262
3
Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch
250
4
Domain-tailored CRDTs for collaboration without server involvement
158
5
JQBX – Social Listening Web/Mobile App
120
6
An Example Microservice Back End for Kubernetes, Bazel, Go, Java, GRPC
119
7
A Hacker News Reader App with Tabs
108
8
An Almost Ideal React Image Component
106
9
Sucrase, 20x faster smaller-scoped alternative to Babel
88
10
Smooth UI, a React UI Library for Humans
87

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
Google quits selling tablets
398
2
Canon has sold its last film camera
296
3
Microsoft is now worth more than Alphabet
209
4
China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup, closes $620M round
184
5
Loot boxes are obviously gambling
181
6
Google admits brainteasers were useless for hiring (2013)
179
7
Vermont passes first law to crack down on data brokers
159
8
Imgur launches video
158
9
How Apple Programmer Sal Soghoian Got Apps Talking to Each Other
155
10
Google Won't Renew Contract for Project Maven, Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program
152

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
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
2873
2
Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal
805
3
Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
535
4
I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare
467
5
American tech giants are making life tough for startups
455
6
America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
435
7
Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
426
8
Telegram App Says Apple Is Blocking Updates Over Dispute with Russia
413
9
Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition for its U.S. workers
363
10
The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure?
362

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
Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)
332
2
How microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft
223
3
Deep learning: a critical appraisal
147
4
A 'self-eating' rocket engine could put satellites in orbit more easily
145
5
Ocean waves play greater role in trapping CO2 than previously understood
142
6
Playing hard exploration games by watching YouTube
127
7
Why We Engage in FLOSS: Answers from Core Developers
103
8
Drone Delivery Becomes a Reality in Remote Pacific Islands
74
9
Unsupervised Predictive Memory in a Goal-Directed Agent
63
10
If you’re a software engineer, where should you live to maximize your income?
62

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 outage explanation
459
2
The Open Home Lab Stack (2017)
98
3
When an implementation monoculture might be the right thing
86
4
Linux 4.17 I/O Scheduler Tests on an NVMe SSD Yield Surprising Results
35
5
Introducing Machine Learning Practica
34
6
Working on Compiler-Assisted Performance Analysis on GCC
30
7
Broadcast Ethereum Events with Web3.js and PubNub
9
8
Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Appointment Scheduling
8
9
How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)
7
10
Systemd Introduces “Portable Services” Functionality, Similar to Containers
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 Announces Optane DIMMs
446
2
ARM Details “Project Trillium” Machine Learning Processor Architecture
127
3
The Raspberry Pi 3B+ as an SDR, Without the SDR
116
4
Samsung Unveils 32 GB DDR4-2666 SO-DIMMs
69
5
Apple Releases iOS 11.4 with Messages in iCloud and AirPlay 2
64
6
Telegram Gets First Update After Six Week App Store Lockout
10
7
Amazon, Stop Powering Government Surveillance
9
8
“Nvidia’s Next Generation Mainstream GPU” Preso Briefly Listed for Hot Chips
6
9
How the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Will Lock Up Online Video
5
10
Arm's Cortex-A76 CPU Unveiled: Taking Aim at the Top for 7nm
5

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep Learning
233
2
Simplify Login with Application Load Balancer Built-In Authentication
93
3
iOS 11.4 brings stereo pairs and multi-room audio with AirPlay 2
8
4
Amazon Neptune Generally Available
3
5
Z-order indexing for multifaceted queries in Amazon DynamoDB: Part 2
2
6
Re-Hosting Mainframe Applications to AWS with NTT DATA Services
2
7
Amazon Neptune Generally Available – AWS News Blog
2
8
New – Pay-Per-Session Pricing for Amazon QuickSight
2
9
Amazon Neptune GraphDB Generally Available
2
10
Amazon says sorry not sorry about face recognition
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
Why read Aristotle today?
166
2
Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk
144
3
Michael Jackson Estate Turns the 'Fair Use' Tables on Disney
126
4
Large Tesla Powerpack project quietly deployed at new solar project in Arizona
73
5
Tesla Model 3 teardown points to $28k in potential material and production cost
64
6
Do platforms work?
54
7
Tesla is building up in-house insurance as Model S tops most expensive to insure
18
8
Workers of the world unite on distributed digital platforms
15
9
Ringing the chords of the Universe: how music influenced science
12
10
“Fight Club” Author Chuck Palahniuk Apologizes for Piracy Rants
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
Secret to longevity may lie in the microbiome and the gut
154
2
The Slippery Math of Causation
124
3
Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis
85
4
Evidence Found for a New Fundamental Particle
80
5
Cells Talk and Help One Another via Tiny Tube Networks
80
6
The Trouble with Theories of Everything (2015)
63
7
A Brief History of America’s Appetite for Macaroni and Cheese
62
8
Japanese Whalers Killed 122 Pregnant Whales and 114 Babies Last Summer
51
9
To Predict Turbulence, Count the Puffs (2014)
27
10
Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions (2016)
25

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-controlled nodes
304
2
ReactOS can finally build itself
248
3
Facebook moving away from React Native?
159
4
Zig: programming language designed for robustness optimality and clarity [video]
136
5
Facebook Location History View
78
6
Ray Dalio AMA
78
7
Simone Giertz is out of surgery and her doctors are very pleased
78
8
Leaked screenshots of Xcode 10 on macOS 10.14
70
9
Traffic flow measured on different 4-way junctions [video]
67
10
The1975..com (very odd glitch)
57

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
OpenDUNE – An open-source recreation of the game Dune II
450
2
WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal
334
3
Mastodon 2.4.0
294
4
NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot
294
5
An embedded database written in Rust
277
6
Nebulet: A microkernel that runs WebAssembly in Ring 0
248
7
Windows gifski.exe with a digital signature
230
8
Learn cryptographic engineering by example
210
9
Odyssey – Scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler
203
10
Cervus: A WebAssembly subsystem for Linux
198

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Three-sided Football
146
2
Veblen goods
83
3
M.2
17
4
Codd's 12 rules
5
5
The Chinese Room Theory
4
6
Latin Wikipedia
3
7
Bruno Tesch – major supplier of Zyklon B to the Nazi concentration camps
3
8
List of defunct hard disk manufacturers
3
9
Last universal common ancestor
3
10
Sundial cannon
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Stripe is building a Ruby typechecker
351
2
The History of the Processing Programming Language
81
3
Startups are Financial Suicide
58
4
Why I won’t run another startup
54
5
A Fresh Perspective on Seed Investing
34
6
Phishing Protection – Comparing DNS Security Filters
31
7
A better way to fund SaaS companies: Pingboard's $5mm Seed Round
26
8
Fractal is a new messaging app for the Gnome desktop, powered by Matrix
21
9
How Apple store all your email metadata for years on their servers
20
10
ASCII Dashboards
19

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why is javafx mangling my semi-transparent cursors?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Concision
3