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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
IBM acquires Red Hat
2611
2
Carbon Removal Technologies
1187
3
Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms
1064
4
iPhones are hard to use
976
5
In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Electronics Is Legal
924
6
Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim
819
7
Hubble is back
768
8
Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem
714
9
Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”
697
10
The Periodic Table of Data Structures [pdf]
598

Top Ask HN

1
How to get started developing with FPGA?
247
2
How do you monitor your websites?
143
3
Lost $10k as my email was hacked. Any ways to recover it?
109
4
What's your favorite code practice site?
109
5
How do I stop being resentful towards other devs
91
6
4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?
83
7
Is Google is broken for discovery?
82
8
What is the one habit that you adopted and it changed your life?
79
9
How do you pay remote employees in different countries?
73
10
Best alternate client to web-based Gmail? Now that it sucks
51

Top Show HN

1
Websites in 2018
595
2
Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview
484
3
Algojammer – an experimental Python code editor inspired by Bret Victor
309
4
TeXMe – Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX Documents
209
5
A note-taking web app that won't ever betray you
156
6
Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code
151
7
I wrote a BASIC interpreter in Go
144
8
Relica – Cross-platform local, remote, and multi-cloud file backups
132
9
Turtle.audio – a music sequencer inspired by turtle graphics
126
10
I made a script to generate self-signed SSL certs for local development
107

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
Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”
697
2
Night Sight for Pixel phones
455
3
List of 600 free online courses launched by 190 universities
298
4
Turns Out Wearing a Hi-Vis Vest Gets You into Everything for Free
274
5
DRM for chargers? Google Pixel 3 locks fast Qi charging to its own stand
274
6
Blood money
256
7
Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of ‘Rift 2’ headset
225
8
Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare
200
9
Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k
187
10
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket seems to be a hit with satellite companies
184

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 paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim
819
2
Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months
535
3
A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
527
4
AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of Chinese spy chip story
461
5
Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a dermatology journal
449
6
For back pain, the subtle moves of the Feldenkrais Method can help some people
347
7
IBM Nears Deal to Acquire Red Hat
294
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How a Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Exploited Android Phones to Steal Millions
268
9
Texans say voting machines changing straight-ticket choices
266
10
My phone is spying on me, so I decided to spy on it
261

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
Hubble is back
768
2
Zip Trees
301
3
Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
234
4
Person Retrieval in Surveillance Video using Height, Color and Gender
45
5
90% of apps on Google Play contain third-party trackers
22
6
Automatic Compilation of Julia Programs and Generic ML Models to Cloud TPUs
7
7
Compiling Julia to TPUs [pdf]
7
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Automatic Full Compilation of Julia Programs and ML Models to Cloud TPUs
7
9
Memory Model Verification at the Trisection of Software, Hardware, ISA (2017)
6
10
Location of large mystery source of banned ozone depleting substance uncovered
5

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
Top lawyers beaten by legal AI
237
2
The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA (Variable-Length Array) Free
216
3
Mozilla Announces Experimental Partnership with ProtonVPN
167
4
Why Netflix Rolled Its Own Node.js Functions-As-a-Service Runtime
139
5
As a female engineer, I am not diversity
104
6
Linus Torvalds is back in charge of Linux
75
7
DevOops, some common anti-patterns
74
8
Btrfs to Ship Multiple Performance Improvements in the Next Linux Kernel
12
9
Linus Torvalds Shows His New Polite Side While Pointing Out Bad Kernel Code
11
10
AMD Inches Up Server Share on the Way to Rome
11

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
AMD Responds to Intel's 9th Gen Benchmarks
96
2
The BNC Connector and How It Got That Way
71
3
Sidney Darlington, inventor of the Darlington transistor
44
4
VoiceOver bug lets hackers bypass lockscreen, view and send iPhone photos
23
5
Psilocybin therapy for depression granted Breakthrough Therapy status by FDA
23
6
IBM open sources Mac-at-IBM code
9
7
Corporate Speech Police Are Not the Answer to Online Hate
9
8
SSD Prices Could Drop Over 50 Percent in 2019
8
9
That Time Atari Cracked the Nintendo Entertainment System
8
10
Appeals Court Tells Georgia: State Code Can’t Be Copyrighted
7

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
New AWS EC2 / EBS Pricing Calculator
5
2
Microsoft Earnings Release FY19 Q1
4
3
Amazon RDS now supports MySQL 8.0
3
4
AI for Imperfect-Information Games: Beating Top Humans in No-Limit Poker
2
5
AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface
2
6
Amazon EC2 Now Offers On-Demand Capacity Reservations
2
7
New Garage Project Earth Lens Pairs AI with Aerial Imagery
1
8
Brief Narrative of Enterprise IT Transformation Anti-Patterns
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
In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts
161
2
Eugene Shoemaker Is Still the Only Man Buried on the Moon
141
3
How Curry Became a Japanese Naval Tradition
115
4
How a Brewer and the Government Killed Colombia’s Ancestral Drink (2017)
87
5
Study Links Uber and Lyft to Increase in U.S. Traffic Deaths
71
6
The Problem with Facebook and Virtual Reality
69
7
VW CEO says they’ll have ‘EVs as good as Tesla’s for half the price by 2020’
42
8
How to stop saying “um”, “ah”, and “you know”
24
9
Model 3 best-selling car by revenue delivers surprisingly high gross margin
14
10
Crowdsourced database of Augmented Reality developers and makers
10

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
First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings
415
2
“Stress Hormone” Cortisol Linked to Early Toll on Thinking Ability
373
3
Perceptual Illusions
184
4
Electrical properties of dendrites help explain our brain’s computing power
180
5
‘Two-faced’ membrane can create electricity from salty and fresh water
156
6
Why Are Japan’s Cherry Blossom Trees Blooming in Fall?
142
7
How to build a Moon base
131
8
How working memory gets you through the day
109
9
A Proof About Where Symmetries Can’t Exist
102
10
Lowly Moss-Like Plant Seems to Copy Cannabis
94

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem
714
2
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video]
265
3
How I made my own RFID tag [video]
176
4
Compiling to Categories (2017) [video]
84
5
Gab.com banned from PayPal
81
6
The Future of Java SE [video]
76
7
ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector [video]
67
8
Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account
63
9
What are some Unix design decisions that proved to be wrong or short sighted?
48
10
Joyent drops Gab's web hosting
36

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
378
2
What I Learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD
292
3
TypeScript support added to Create React App
280
4
Gophish: An open source phishing toolkit
235
5
Proposal: Go 2 transition
206
6
Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family
167
7
C++: Associative map containers with compile-time lookup
155
8
Up: tool for writing Linux pipes in a terminal-based UI interactively
122
9
Django zero-downtime migrations for Postgres that respect database locks
122
10
First-Class Automatic Differentiation in Swift
111

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Raising of Chicago
216
2
Friendly Floatees
216
3
Saddle chair
97
4
Basel Problem
23
5
Catullus 16
22
6
Gauge blocks, a system for producing precision lengths
12
7
Timsort: Fastest Sorting algorithm
10
8
Antikythera Mechanism
9
9
Init
7
10
Nifty Fifty – 50 Blue-chip stocks from the 60s and 70s
6

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Do the Rich Capture All the Gains from Economic Growth?
329
2
What I Learned From Making Hot Sauce at Scale in China
281
3
How to Raise Money (2013)
168
4
Open-Sourcing Subzero: Square’s Bitcoin Cold Storage Solution
165
5
The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code
140
6
Why I switched sides: From bootstrapping to VC
61
7
I Know the Salaries of Thousands of Tech Employees
50
8
The Ad-Based Internet Is a Threat Against Human Rights and Democracy
37
9
Why the NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code
33
10
No More “Struggle Porn”
27

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
19
2
How does newly introduced arrays parallelprefix in java-8 work
1
3
How to get terminating or terminated event,when UWP app is closed by the system?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com