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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Quora User Data Compromised
1254
2
Goodbye, EdgeHTML
1178
3
Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver
1081
4
Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
1061
5
JIRA is an antipattern
1012
6
Facial recognition: It’s time for action
877
7
Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI
874
8
Firefox desktop market share now below 9%
824
9
Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says
781
10
A well-known URL for changing passwords
749

Top Ask HN

1
What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
1322
2
What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?
687
3
Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
478
4
Who is hiring? (December 2018)
421
5
How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?
402
6
What should an ideal developer interview process look like?
261
7
What awesome stuff have you come across lately?
114
8
Who wants to be hired? (December 2018)
106
9
How to get a job while having a job?
99
10
What is the best practice for reading large pieces of C code?
74

Top Show HN

1
Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world
565
2
Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website
369
3
Stock Trading from Google Spreadsheet
281
4
AlphaZero Science paper
200
5
Next Browser native on Linux
198
6
Supportify – Support your top Spotify artists by buying on Bandcamp
141
7
McFly, a smart Bash history search CLI in Rust with a neural network
130
8
Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API
108
9
A UI That Lets Readers Control How Much Information They See
100
10
Mission Emission – Calculate the emissions a vehicle produces
81

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
JIRA is an antipattern
1012
2
Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0
545
3
Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
472
4
Google personalizes search results even when you’re logged out, new study finds
350
5
Microsoft and Docker team up to make packaging cloud-native applications easier
276
6
Fortnite dev launches Epic Games Store that takes 12% of revenue
274
7
Udacity lays off 125 people in global strategy shift
182
8
After 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using Waymo's service
165
9
Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features
161
10
Coinbase is exploring the addition of new currencies
159

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
Facebook's seized files published by MPs
738
2
Lyft Files for IPO
546
3
The Friendship That Made Google Huge
532
4
Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data'
456
5
Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages
443
6
Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over
439
7
The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted
388
8
Gut bacteria may offer a treatment for autism
378
9
Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended
365
10
Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside homes to steal vehicles
345

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
China prepares mission to land spacecraft on moon's far side
149
2
Deepmind Produces a General-Purpose Games-Playing Machine
134
3
Maxwell's fluid model of magnetism (2015)
91
4
Anthropologists Say Gladiators and Soldiers in Ancient Rome Were Vegetarian
83
5
Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages
50
6
Protection Against Reconstruction and Applications in Private Federated Learning
48
7
Scientific communication in a post-truth society
34
8
MIT TabulaROSA: Tabular OS Arch for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Comp Engine
33
9
Enabling Heterogeneous-ISA Research with RISC-V and SPARC FPGA Soft-cores
33
10
Experience Report on Formally Verifying Parts of OpenJDK's API with KeY
31

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
Goodbye, EdgeHTML
1178
2
Guide to scaling engineering organizations
664
3
The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts
283
4
A history of the distributed transactional database
105
5
Ktask: optimizing CPU-intensive kernel work
63
6
Nvidia Makes PhysX Open-Source
34
7
The EXT4 Corruption Issue on Linux 4.19 Is Caused by BLK-MQ
27
8
Kubernetes Pioneer Tim Hockin on What’s Real and What’s Not
7
9
Qualtrics $8B Takeover Promises Great Opportunities for Insights Network
6
10
Stripe: Guide to scaling engineering organizations
6

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction
266
2
Serial Port SDR
205
3
LG Releases Gram 17 Laptop: An Ultra-Thin Notebook with a 17.3in Display
168
4
Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities
156
5
Tell Senate Not to Put the Register of Copyrights in the Hands of the President
23
6
Nvidia Uses AI to Render Virtual Worlds in Real Time
14
7
Skype offering live transcriptions from today, PowerPoint from January 2019
10
8
New Documents Show That Facebook Has Never Deserved Your Trust
8
9
A Patent on Using Mathematical Proofs
7
10
Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech Is Supposedly on Track
5

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source
215
2
Amazon Linux 2
11
3
Across the Border: A Short Story
10
4
EC2 Instances with 8x V100 GPU and 100 Gbps Network
6
5
Shared VPCs in AWS
4
6
Microsoft Connect(); 2018 Livestream
4
7
Breathing life into IoT devices with an innovative algorithmic approach
2
8
AWS DeepRacer – the fastest way to get rolling with machine learning
2
9
Whole Enchilada (Choose Your Own Adventure 1-40) Paperback – December 5, 2018
2
10
AWS DeepRacer
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
Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says
781
2
How Myst Taught a Generation of Gamers to Explore New Worlds
150
3
Aggregators and Jobs-to-be-Done
30
4
Audi e-tron first drive review: a solid electric SUV
22
5
The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology
16
6
How to Decide Which Data Science Projects to Pursue
5
7
For Sale: Pre-Prohibition Whiskey, Once Hidden in a Vault Behind a Bookcase
4
8
Aggregators and Jobs-to-be-Done
4
9
Alaska fixes earthquake destroyed roads in days
4
10
SK Innovation announces the largest scale EV battery plant in the US
3

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
'Dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe
409
2
Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB
248
3
China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls
217
4
Scientists Find Gut Bacteria in the Human Brain
147
5
How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space
113
6
Why Black Hole Interiors Grow Almost Forever
99
7
A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises
95
8
A study on the willful regulation of autonomic function during cold exposure
94
9
Why Robot Brains Need Symbols
88
10
Retiring Retirement
46

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen
357
2
Commandeering Australian citizens to become spies
141
3
Heading to a cardiologist
127
4
Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (2013) [video]
107
5
Coding for the World's Trickiest Chip – SEGA's Saturn DSP [video]
87
6
Creating Things That Matter [video]
83
7
Paul M. Romer: Lecture in Economic Sciences 2018 [video]
65
8
Fortnite addiction and parenting in the age of screens
60
9
Duck Duck Go is tracking and personalizing results
36
10
Building a Eurorack Mechanical Sequencer [video]
32

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
A well-known URL for changing passwords
749
2
PyTorch 1.0 is out
470
3
UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released
418
4
Jupyter Notebook Tutorial – Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning in PyTorch
218
5
JAX: Numpy with Gradients, GPUs and TPUs
132
6
Portable Text – JSON rich text specification for content editing platforms
123
7
Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language
116
8
PC/GEOS
115
9
What do you dislike about React Native?
110
10
Stripe open-sources Skycfg, a configuration builder for Kubernetes
97

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Macsyma
9
2
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor (77 Years Ago Today)
7
3
Bubble memory
6
4
Yield Curve
5
5
List of countries by taxes, corporate, income and vat/gst
4
6
Dancing plague of 1518
4
7
Chaos theory
4
8
James Harrison (blood donor)
3
9
IBM 5100
3
10
Mycorrhizal networks – The Wood Wide Web and how trees talk to each other
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey
327
2
On Self-Publishing “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”
163
3
Ham Radio – CQ: Personal Mastery Through Hobbies
98
4
Reliable Webhooks Using Serverless Architecture
57
5
Writing a GDB Frame Filter
49
6
POLA Would Have Prevented the Event-Stream Incident
38
7
How We Grew Our SEO to 70K+ Visitors a Month (Step-By-Step Guide) – Fiix
38
8
The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper
36
9
XS-Searching Google’s bug tracker to find out vulnerable source code
36
10
The road of running Nginx with WebAssembly
28

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
In python being cool is more important than AsYMpTOtic aNAlysIS
2
2
How to check if an integer is within a range?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
HQ2 isn't the problem
3
2
YouTube comments are the last sincere space online
1