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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Earliest images of the moon were better than people realised
976
2
GitLab Web IDE
776
3
U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani
701
4
Why you should learn just a little Awk (2010)
684
5
The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official
633
6
Habits of Highly Miserable People
603
7
Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say
574
8
Neural scene representation and rendering
545
9
Forgotten Employee (2002)
520
10
Id Software
516

Top Ask HN

1
Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?
1139
2
Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?
317
3
Who has started a business because they couldn't get hired for work?
316
4
How to find a mental health professional?
287
5
How do you manage your manager?
242
6
Elizabeth Holmes has 200 patents – if tech didn't work, why not noticed?
207
7
How to not fail on coding interview questions?
206
8
What has the past 12 months taught you?
203
9
I started a company in Japan but I'm in over my head
193
10
If I Close My Data Centers, What About the People/Jobs Lost?
181

Top Show HN

1
Plot modern addresses on Earth 240M years ago
384
2
Dilay – A free 3D sculpting application
227
3
Fo: An experimental language which adds generics on top of Go
165
4
World Cup API for 2018
141
5
T2b – A wicked-powerful text macro language for building binary files
117
6
One Click Pose Estimation
84
7
22 top US newspapers in an RSS OPML list
83
8
A SIMD-accelerated noise library in Rust
73
9
Node-android – Run Node.js on Android
70
10
An infinite runner for the command line, because why not
65

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
Eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist
437
2
Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast
389
3
White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech goods
354
4
American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults
325
5
Backdoored images downloaded 5M times removed from Docker Hub
283
6
FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
211
7
App Maker, Google’s low-code tool for building business apps, comes out of beta
203
8
The rise and fall of Sugru
163
9
Judge says ‘literal but nonsensical’ Google translation isn’t consent for search
161
10
Ctrl-labs’ armband lets you control computer cursors with your mind
134

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
U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani
701
2
The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official
633
3
Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say
574
4
Psychedelics could heal brain cells in people suffering from depression: study
367
5
Solar Surpasses Gas and Wind as Biggest Source of New U.S. Power
362
6
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Wins Chicago Airport High-Speed Train Bid
361
7
Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies
343
8
Lasik’s Risks Are Coming into Sharper Focus
339
9
Wells Fargo Bans Cryptocurrency Purchases on Its Credit Cards
332
10
Apple to Close iPhone Security Hole That Police Use to Crack Devices
297

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
Dank Learning: Generating Memes Using Deep Neural Networks
172
2
Text Normalization using Memory Augmented Neural Networks
152
3
Are real numbers really real?
147
4
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
113
5
New form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table
109
6
A seed that could bring clean water to millions
104
7
The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009)
101
8
A Connectome-Based Convolutional Network Model of the Drosophila Visual System
88
9
Prediction of the FIFA World Cup 2018 – A random forest approach
48
10
Does a narcissism epidemic exist in modern western societies?
32

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
Twitter meets TensorFlow
206
2
Mozilla Discloses Past Relationships with Facebook
39
3
Getting Started with IPFS, Python, and Jupyter Notebooks
17
4
Russian Censorship of Telegram
13
5
AI Chip Startup Wave Computing Acquires MIPS, Delivers First Silicon
13
6
Breaking Down the Perfect Sign Up Flow
12
7
Ballerina: An API-First Programming Language
10
8
Alternative Private Search Engines to DuckDuckGo
6
9
Don't Lose Your Head with iTerm2
6
10
13 sidechain projects every blockchain developer should know about
5

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Stanford research turns human blood cells into functional neurons
131
2
Apple Maps has been down for hours, users unable to search for places/directions
63
3
California Can Lead the Way in Open Access
62
4
Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card in 2020
58
5
Intel CEO Bracing for EPYC Impact
21
6
Making Electronics Just Got 25% More Expensive in the US
20
7
Lenovo Crammed a Hexa-Core CPU and 128GB of Memory into a Laptop
19
8
Psychedelic Medicine 101: Psilocybin and the magic of mushrooms
12
9
Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive Threatens the Internet [pdf]
9
10
Cost-effective method of extracting uranium from seawater
8

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
AWS DeepLens Now Shipping
3
2
Introducing Amazon API Gateway Private Endpoints
3
3
New – Redis 4.0 Compatibility in Amazon ElastiCache
2
4
How to create a fast and globally available user profiling system
1
5
The Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices [pdf]
1
6
Apple Books, all new for iPhone and iPad, celebrates reading
1
7
Fire TV Cube – Hands-Free with Alexa and 4K Ultra HD – Streaming Media Player
1
8
Story Time, a story generating skill to create new story EVERY time, guaranteed
1
9
Combine Transactional and Analytical Data Using Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift
1
10
Sequent Calculus as a Compiler Intermediate Language (2016) [pdf]
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
Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company
311
2
How Ceiling Fans Allowed Slaves to Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners
111
3
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (1944)
103
4
The Scooter Economy
79
5
Suffering, not just happiness, weighs in the utilitarian calculus
76
6
Anti-Piracy lawyers sentenced to prison for defrauding copyright holder clients
65
7
What caused the Black Death and could it strike again? (2016)
63
8
First look at Tesla Model S using George Hotz’s semi-autonomous driving tech
35
9
Tesla shorts take an estimated $2 bil of losses in Elon Musk’s ‘next level burn’
15
10
GitLab.com is down
7

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 Should Teach Music History Backwards
339
2
EU copyright reforms draw fire from scientists
256
3
Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub leaves some scientists uneasy
197
4
Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s
141
5
Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study
130
6
Massive Martian dust storm endangers NASA rover
111
7
How the belief in beauty has triggered a crisis in physics
105
8
Braces Have Made Snoring a Modern Health Problem
89
9
Saving the ‘god of ugly things’: NZ battles to restore its rodent-sized insects
83
10
In an age of all-knowing algorithms, how do we choose not to know?
47

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
393
2
CopperheadOS has imploded
289
3
“All accredited journalists at the #KimTrumpSummit get a free USB fan.”
189
4
CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit
135
5
Recommended path to read the Lua source code by the author of LuaJIT (2007)
89
6
Macintosh Startup Sound History [video]
83
7
A former Theranos employee's account of life inside the company
77
8
Office 365, Skype, MS Teams, and VS Code Are All Being Rewritten in React Native
55
9
Vue Passes React's Star Count on GitHub
54
10
8K 13.3'' OLED laptop screen [video]
42

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Id Software
516
2
Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi
368
3
ActorDB – Distributed SQL database
284
4
Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system
269
5
Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode
209
6
GitPub: An extenstion to ActivityPub for web-based Git services federation
168
7
Neovim 0.3 released
167
8
Usql – Universal command-line interface for SQL databases
160
9
USB Product ID Allocations for Free Software / Open Hardware
132
10
FBG – Lightweight C Linux framebuffer graphics with parallelism
128

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Hair Ice
405
2
Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
229
3
List of common misconceptions
94
4
Price revolution
33
5
Weber–Fechner law
32
6
Fan death
11
7
Using Wikipedia for Mathematics Self-Study
11
8
Agnotology: the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt
8
9
Square of opposition
4
10
List of important publications in computer science
4

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment?
422
2
The Trouble with D3
350
3
In MySQL, don’t use “utf8”, use “utf8mb4” (2016)
244
4
The End of Video Coding?
204
5
Do VCs really add value?  Founders say sometimes
184
6
Go code refactoring: the 23x performance hunt
177
7
What It Was Like to Write a Full-Blown Flutter App
153
8
Faster Natural Language Processing in Python
103
9
A Bitter Guide to Open Source
90
10
Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source
76

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Apache Pulsar vs. Apache RocketMQ: the next generation messaging and streaming?
2
2
Stackoverflow redesinged with side navigation bar
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
On emails, say “please”
1