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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
1558
2
Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide
1473
3
The Machine Fired Me
1471
4
Twitter ‘smytes’ customers
1422
5
Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cellphone
1301
6
YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More
1129
7
Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
822
8
How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite (2008) [video]
813
9
Certificates for localhost
684
10
Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
682

Top Ask HN

1
What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
897
2
What is the first thing you implement at a new company?
331
3
Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverless” architecture?
329
4
Solo app devs, how do you do user testing?
262
5
How can I become more eloquent?
170
6
What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the US?
165
7
How to start working as a contractor?
119
8
What’s your “Everyone has a price” experience?
95
9
Has Google search becomes particularly poor in past few months?
85
10
How to stop worrying and start enjoying?
82

Top Show HN

1
Open Logos – Free logos for open source projects
680
2
Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination
611
3
Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4, React, Angular, Vue.js
436
4
I trained a neural network to write Kanji
166
5
Instagram-scraper – Scrape instagram photos by tags, without API
165
6
Posthook – Job Scheduling as a Service
162
7
MRuby-Zest – A Scriptable Audio GUI Framework
78
8
Optical stripe reading and floppy disk imaging attempt
71
9
UnityShell, a “shell” for the Unity Editor
55
10
FireHydrant – A simple incident response tool
53

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
Twitter ‘smytes’ customers
1422
2
Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Xbox Empire and Went Too Far
515
3
Big fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us
262
4
Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking, theft, and leaking to the press
254
5
BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron
251
6
Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Contract
233
7
Nintendo and Microsoft team up to promote cross-play, while Sony remains silent
219
8
Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant
206
9
The US startup is disappearing
180
10
Uber is experimenting with letting riders wait longer for a cheaper fare
174

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
Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cellphone
1301
2
Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
822
3
European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
675
4
States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules
541
5
Facebook’s patents show a commitment to collecting personal information
539
6
Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging sabotage' by employee
472
7
Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In an Underslept State'
431
8
Amazon shareholders demand it stop selling facial recognition to governments
401
9
The Legend of Nintendo
394
10
Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts
392

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
AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New Chip Network Scheme
192
2
Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
137
3
Wi-fi is an important threat to human health
94
4
Why NASA Projects Miss Deadlines and Blow Budgets
92
5
Learning Cognitive Models Using Neural Networks [pdf]
65
6
Strange New Ways to Compute (2017)
51
7
Charon at 40: Four Decades of Discovery on Pluto’s Largest Moon
50
8
Flying Dragon Robot Transforms Itself to Squeeze Through Gaps
36
9
On the path to an artificial cell
25
10
Researchers find last of universe's missing ordinary matter
11

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
Towards a fully reproducible Debian
145
2
Improving Deep Learning Performance with AutoAugment
132
3
The Current State of Java Value Types
83
4
Partnership between Unity and Google
73
5
How Events Are Reshaping Modern Systems [video]
58
6
Common security gotchas in Python and how to avoid them
24
7
AMD’s Epyc Return to the Datacenter Ring
23
8
Mozilla grant for machine learning projects [pdf]
21
9
Why the Java community should embrace GraalVM
8
10
DroneDeploy and Cloudflare Workers
8

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Samsung Kicks Off Mass Production of 8 TB NF1 SSDs with PCIe 4 Interface
179
2
Fatalities vs. False Positives: The Lessons from the Tesla and Uber Crashes
116
3
Popular Mac Developer Slams Apple for 'Sad State of Macintosh Hardware'
109
4
Volkswagen Claims Ownership of an Entire Group of Insects
48
5
EU committee voted to break the Internet: Berliners take to the streets
26
6
Linux Fu: The Great Power of Make
25
7
Apple Launches Repair Program for Faulty MacBook Keyboards
16
8
This Wednesday, an EU committee voted to break the Internet
10
9
Supreme Court Opens Door to Worldwide Patent Damages
5
10
70+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal
5

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
682
2
AWS automated reasoning to achieve security at scale
4
3
Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
3
4
Functional Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones
3
5
Apple’s iOS 12 securely and automatically shares emergency location with 911
2
6
Announcing Microsoft Research Open Data, datasets now available in the cloud
2
7
Alexa Skill with FT, Bloomberg, and Business Insider Audio Articles
1
8
Automated Reasoning for Cloud Security
1
9
How AWS uses automated reasoning to help you achieve security at scale
1
10
Amazon DynamoDB Announces 99.999% Service Level Agreement for Global Tables
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
YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More
1129
2
One Island Grows 80% of the World’s Vanilla
367
3
PeerTube: A ‘Censorship’ Resistent YouTube Alternative
259
4
Performance patches in Go 1.11
200
5
AT&T, Time Warner, and the Need for Neutrality
173
6
A New Accent Is Developing in Southwest Kansas
169
7
Surprising Findings About How People Actually Buy Clothes and Shoes
101
8
Particle physics experiments have stopped answering to grand theories
97
9
Beans Were an Ancient Egyptian Emblem of Death
43
10
Envy’s hidden hand
31

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
Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital
311
2
Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait
245
3
Methane leaks from US gas fields dwarf government estimates
207
4
Study reveals how, when a synapse strengthens, its neighbors weaken
194
5
Eugene Debs Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against WWI, 100 Years Ago This Week
175
6
Judges sentence youth offenders to chess, with promising results
174
7
Scavenging Russia’s Rocket Graveyard Is Dangerous and Profitable
142
8
A Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve
84
9
Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish
82
10
Observations of the missing baryons in the warm–hot intergalactic medium
61

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite (2008) [video]
813
2
Two Vortex Rings Colliding in Slow Motion [video]
231
3
Plastic Injection Molding (2015) [video]
199
4
Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer (1979) [audio]
199
5
Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video]
149
6
Seximal: A better way to count [video]
123
7
People are ‘ghosting’ at work, and it's driving recruiters crazy
60
8
DuckDuckGo will “examine the extent of Google's filter bubble.”
56
9
After 6 years of lawsuits, we've won the war on magnets is over
41
10
Ethereum's “Fee Market” Has Surpassed Bitcoin
21

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game
656
2
DensePose – Dense Human Pose Estimation in the Wild
298
3
LibreSprite – fork of last open-source release of Aseprite pixel art editor
204
4
Gluon – A static, type-inferred and embeddable language written in Rust
203
5
Linux: Introduce restartable sequences system call
197
6
Synergy-core: Open source core of Synergy, the keyboard and mouse sharing tool
162
7
Sniper – An efficient multi-scale object detection algorithm
156
8
Hand-drawn graphics library Rough.js has new fill styles
98
9
A Git protocol parser written in Go
97
10
Want free VS Code? Build it from source
84

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Kola Superdeep Borehole
57
2
Trachtenberg System for Rapid Mental Calculation
31
3
Dilbert Principle
19
4
The free, traffic-requiring TLD: .tk
16
5
Space Invaders was launched forty years ago today
7
6
Falun Mine
4
7
Hedonic Treadmill
4
8
Gombe Chimpanzee War
3
9
S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats
3
10
Kardashev Scale
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
How I use Wireshark
552
2
React Native at Airbnb
498
3
Demand for Ruby on Rails is Still Huge
242
4
Convergence to Kubernetes
207
5
Announcing Flutter Release Preview 1
180
6
Attacking Private Networks from the Internet with DNS Rebinding
115
7
Reverse Shell from an OpenVPN Configuration File
112
8
The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
108
9
Stripe Atlas is nothing but a bad marriage
107
10
Using some good old obsolete HTML to create JavaScript-free animations
106

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
What happens to country specific TLD's in a war involving that country?
180
2
What's your most controversial programming opinion?
3
3
What is the significance of 1/1/1753 in SQL Server?
2
4
What is a retpoline and how does it work?
2
5
How much of the Git SHA is generally required to avoid collisions? (2013)
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Governments are trying to use ICOs to fund development
2
2
Focus - Avoid distractions in your text
1