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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Stephen Hawking has died
6015
2
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
2968
3
Paul Allen has died
2901
4
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
2873
5
IBM acquires Red Hat
2611
6
Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off
2585
7
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
2493
8
Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies
2364
9
Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
2361
10
Why I’m done with Chrome
2357

Top Ask HN

1
How to self-learn electronics?
1681
2
What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
1665
3
What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
1322
4
Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?
1139
5
What has HN given you?
1095
6
Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
911
7
What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
897
8
Best alternative to Gmail?
867
9
What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?
850
10
Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?
842

Top Show HN

1
Six Degrees of Wikipedia
1176
2
RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript
1087
3
I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
1072
4
I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
968
5
Browsh – A modern, text-based browser
967
6
Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text
935
7
My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
867
8
Hacker News Classics
864
9
Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations
767
10
Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book
700

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
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
2968
2
EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
1737
3
US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
1630
4
It's time to head back to RSS?
1501
5
Twitter ‘smytes’ customers
1422
6
Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook
1390
7
Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information
1359
8
AMP for email is a terrible idea
1151
9
WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
1086
10
Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe
1034

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
Stephen Hawking has died
6015
2
Paul Allen has died
2901
3
Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
2873
4
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
2493
5
Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
2361
6
Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users
1677
7
Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
1562
8
Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
1368
9
EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019
1367
10
Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
1302

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
Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness
851
2
Hubble is back
768
3
FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites
581
4
Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI
570
5
Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell
468
6
Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
465
7
John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google
455
8
David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Languages
444
9
Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort-Of Cheap
444
10
Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
434

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
1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
1895
2
Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
1875
3
Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
1613
4
Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
1360
5
Goodbye, EdgeHTML
1178
6
Ending Bitcoin Support
989
7
Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking
858
8
Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked
854
9
The Business of SaaS
845
10
Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux
819

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
John Perry Barlow has died
1485
2
With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good intentions from bad law
715
3
Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime
689
4
ISPs Say They Don’t Make Enough Money
634
5
Sen. Wyden Confirms Cell-Site Simulators Disrupt Emergency Calls
518
6
EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border
469
7
China Begins Production Of x86 Processors Based On AMD's IP
458
8
Intel Announces Optane DIMMs
446
9
Sony Finally Admits It Doesn’t Own Bach
438
10
Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back
433

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros
889
2
Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers
686
3
Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
682
4
Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a counterfeit
639
5
AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites
598
6
New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
480
7
iPad Pro
480
8
iOS 12 released
457
9
Apple introduces macOS Mojave
441
10
EC2 Instances Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors
420

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
Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up
1207
2
YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More
1129
3
The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
823
4
Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says
781
5
How Smart People Sabotage Their Success
737
6
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
711
7
How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
704
8
The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light
591
9
The End of Windows
583
10
AWS icon quiz
580

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
Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm
824
2
For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain
814
3
Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research
697
4
Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts
662
5
Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
606
6
Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access
603
7
Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought
531
8
Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
509
9
With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit
503
10
Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
492

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies
2364
2
EU copyright law proposal rejected
1847
3
“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”
1155
4
Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
1108
5
Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
996
6
Things I Regret About Node.js [video]
994
7
Found hooked up to my router
965
8
Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
948
9
Please stop asking me to use the app
929
10
Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
902

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store
1620
2
Please do not attempt to simplify this code
1552
3
Blocklist Facebook domains
1349
4
Learn how to design large-scale systems
1273
5
Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration
1105
6
Backdoor in event-stream library dependency
1034
7
Safe ways to do things in bash
892
8
Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties
840
9
My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
814
10
Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
803

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Timeline of the far future
696
2
Dry Water
543
3
A True Story
525
4
List of oldest companies: Before 1300
416
5
Hair Ice
405
6
Gell-Mann amnesia effect
361
7
Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to analyze public spending in Brazil
342
8
100 prisoners problem
324
9
List of screw drives
303
10
Beverly Clock
289

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
1652
2
Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate
948
3
Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)
910
4
Medium is a poor choice for blogging
909
5
Why you should not use Google Cloud
895
6
DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS
860
7
Who Killed the Junior Developer?
803
8
Modern CSS Explained
762
9
Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
727
10
Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites
720

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why is 2 * (i * i) faster than 2 * i * i in Java?
424
2
How to run a program without an operating system?
394
3
iOS 12 Safari Array reverse bug
333
4
Stack Overflow for Teams
274
5
What happens to country specific TLD's in a war involving that country?
180
6
Can (a ==1 && a== 2 && a==3) ever evaluate to true?
180
7
“Column Tetris” – Calculating and Saving Space in PostgreSQL
61
8
New StackOverflow code of conduct
59
9
What Are the Differences Between Clojure, Scheme/Racket and Common Lisp?
58
10
Learning to write a compiler
30

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Payday loans are coming for everyone
56
2
Thirty Years After Manufacturing Consent, How Mass Media Keeps Thought Inbounds
25
3
The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing
11
4
The MTA spends about $836M every 19 days
9
5
Cheap electricity is king
5
6
Bitcoin is under attack in India
5
7
Is crypto money?
5
8
Malta Stock Exchange is building a tokenized security exchange
4
9
Order: creating flow and comprehension
4
10
EOS raised $4B but booked everything as non-dilutive revenue
3