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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
1065
2
Robinhood launches 3% checking account
972
3
Firefox 64 Released
954
4
Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares
938
5
CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to
830
6
An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth
790
7
DigitalOcean launches its container service
765
8
Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards
629
9
UCLA asked faculty to consider declining to review for Elsevier journals
619
10
Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space
592

Top Ask HN

1
Books you read in 2018?
578
2
What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
542
3
How did you decide where to live?
229
4
How to incorporate machine learning into day job?
169
5
Best Centralized Backup Solution
133
6
What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?
90
7
How do I become a better team lead for a small, junior dev team?
60
8
Help me weave in STEM topics for a children's book
56
9
How do you guys develop mental toughness?
53
10
Learning tech leadership vs. growing as a developer?
53

Top Show HN

1
Minimal Google Analytics Snippet
171
2
Free and open-source home for art made with code
144
3
Strength News – An HN-inspired website for sport and gym enthusiasts
137
4
Vaex - Out of Core Dataframes for Python and Fast Visualization
126
5
CHIP-8 console implemented in FPGA
120
6
Egeria, a multidimensional spreadsheet for everybody
113
7
A mobile-friendly, web-based, countries of the world game
112
8
Failory 2.0 – Learn How to Build a Profitable Startup
104
9
Single-header C++11 HTML document constructor
87
10
High-performance ahead-of-time compiler for Machine Learning
83

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
Robinhood launches 3% checking account
972
2
DigitalOcean launches its container service
765
3
Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead
561
4
FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than was thought
333
5
Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Across the Tech Industry
315
6
Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak
261
7
After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning
220
8
Netflix’s biggest competition isn’t sleep, it’s YouTube
199
9
Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation
188
10
Is Windows 10 still telling what you're doing even if you don't want it to?
171

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
Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards
629
2
Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space
592
3
Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users
512
4
SIPC Says It Has Serious Concerns About Robinhood's New Product
480
5
Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds
448
6
Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel
419
7
Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System'
405
8
China’s Economy Slows Sharply
389
9
How the 0.001% invest
388
10
Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless
347

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
Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
465
2
Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
240
3
Systematic Parsing of X.509: Eradicating Security Issues with a Parse Tree
146
4
Java’s Forgotten Forebear (2009)
122
5
Hubble finds far-away planet vanishing at record speed
80
6
A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks [pdf]
78
7
Memristors for Curious Outsiders
67
8
The U.S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for Quantum Computing
58
9
MiniRHex: a surprisingly capable six-whegged robot
52
10
Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide
47

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
Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support
174
2
Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping
106
3
Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods
105
4
Page Views on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
89
5
Rare Datasets for Computer Vision Every Machine Learning Expert Must Work With
63
6
NeurIPS 2018 Recap
10
7
More consistent LuaJIT performance
6
8
Intel Working on Open-Sourcing the FSP
6
9
Red Hat, Google, IBM, and SAP Go Knative for Serverless
6
10
The Vital Engines of Commerce
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
UC Berkeley to build open-source secure enclave using RISC-V
160
2
Forrest Mims, Radio Shack, and the Notebooks That Launched a Thousand Careers
139
3
Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track
103
4
The Future of Core, Intel GPUs, 10nm, and Hybrid x86
95
5
Samsung Kills Headphone Jack in Latest Smartphone After Years of Mocking Apple
23
6
20 Node Pi Cluster
22
7
Samsung Kills Headphone Jack in Latest Smartphone After Years of Mocking Apple
11
8
The EFF Gift Guide: What’s Creeping Us Out
9
9
Intel unveils new 10nm Sunny Cove CPUs, possibly destined for future Macs
4
10
In the New Fight for Online Privacy and Security, Australia Falls
4

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple to build campus in Austin and sites in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City
191
2
Now Open – AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
13
3
AWS eu-north-1
4
4
How to solve common challenges faced while migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL
2
5
Serverless: Nested Apps for AWS SAM and AWS Serverless Application Repository
2
6
Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
2
7
Micro-Optimization: Activity-Based Costing for Digital Services?
2
8
Building an Android App with AWS Amplify – Part 2
1
9
Z-Order Indexing for Multifaceted Queries (2017)
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
Archive.org donations are currently matched by a generous supporter 2-to-1
494
2
Why Design Thinking Works
218
3
Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars as It Drifted Across Midwest Remains a Mystery
99
4
Abandoned Cities from Around the World
71
5
Tesla says someone fired a bullet into battery pack of Model S that caught fire
32
6
The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology
26
7
Why giving birth in the U.S. is surprisingly deadly
18
8
Gender is not a spectrum (2016)
9
9
The Manipulated Man (1971)
5
10
The State of Technology at the End of 2018
5

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
China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tribunal
460
2
Ant Colonies Retain Memories That Outlast the Lifespans of Individuals
395
3
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft
370
4
Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research
344
5
A New Connection Between the Gut and Brain
165
6
A ‘Self-Aware’ Fish Raises Doubts About a Cognitive Test
162
7
An experiment in controlling how much of Scrabble is luck
72
8
China introduces ‘social’ punishments for scientific misconduct
71
9
Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself
61
10
Dracula ants possess fastest known animal appendage: the snap-jaw
54

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth
790
2
I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options?
393
3
GoDaddy is a scam
281
4
Fragmentation Is Why Desktop Linux Failed [video]
109
5
How your life changes at different levels of wealth (2015)
69
6
Banned from a meeting because of GDPR by the Romanian Ministry of Education
62
7
Ways of seeing (1972) [video]
54
8
Let There Be Light, and Thus, Time (2015) [video]
41
9
What is your least popular but deeply held opinion on personal productivity?
34
10
None of these faces are real. All made up by AIs
22

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs
444
2
PracticalAI – A practical approach to learning machine learning
335
3
Pytext: A natural language modeling framework based on PyTorch
219
4
How to Grow Software Architecture out of Jupyter Notebooks
189
5
DevHub: TweetDeck for GitHub – Android, iOS and Web with 99% Code Sharing
149
6
Microsoft Edge
145
7
Open Location Code
137
8
9cc: A Small C Compiler
132
9
Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python
126
10
Make photomosaics, GIFs, and murals from pictures in Python with ML/OpenCV
126

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
The Onion Futures Act
260
2
Project A119
150
3
Berkson's Paradox
87
4
MU puzzle
83
5
$100 Billion USD oops
18
6
The fire that has been burning for 56 years
12
7
DNA Computing
11
8
When you talk about a country you never visited, consider Paris syndrome
7
9
History of Wikipedia
7
10
Attention Economy
6

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The Titanic Was on Fire for Days Before the Iceberg Hit
334
2
I was scammed by a celebrity influencer
114
3
Machine Learning Often a Complicated Way of Replicating Simple Forecasting
101
4
The End of the Ad-Supported Web
100
5
Flutter will change everything, and is an excellent choice for iOS development
54
6
User retention at Pinterest: tackling an ambiguous problem
43
7
Huawei Is China’s Black Mirror Corporation
24
8
Netflix – Our learnings from adopting GraphQL
22
9
State of Python in 2018
19
10
Salesforce embraces standards with new Lightning Web Components
19

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Joel Spolsky's Answer to “Why do I need an IoC container?”
4
2
Stack Overflow for Enterprise
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Failure happens in technology. Just ask Mark Twain
3