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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)
1724
2
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
1663
3
Introducing nushell
1477
4
Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
1400
5
Ebola Is Now Curable
1232
6
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
1230
7
I Miss Microsoft Encarta
1198
8
Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’
1181
9
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
1116
10
Terminating Service for 8Chan
1098

Top Ask HN

1
How Do You Read?
686
2
How can we destroy AMP?
486
3
Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
480
4
Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory?
408
5
Best resources to gain math intuition?
389
6
Who is hiring? (August 2019)
370
7
What book to read to get a footing in CS theory?
306
8
What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?
277
9
What Neural Networks/Deep Learning Books Should I Read?
275
10
How do you handle logging?
268

Top Show HN

1
CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file
640
2
Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator
511
3
Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library
435
4
I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me
397
5
Wave-based non-line-of-sight computational imaging in Julia
375
6
Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript
369
7
Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry
303
8
ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading
285
9
I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
280
10
I made a CRM system to make sales fun
275

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
Ebola Is Now Curable
1232
2
Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut
953
3
8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
910
4
Python Is Eating the World
879
5
US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers
822
6
16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
567
7
Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability
539
8
Researcher banned on Valve's bug bounty program publishes second Steam 0-day
465
9
Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected
440
10
NPM Bans Terminal Ads
424

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
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
1663
2
Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic
879
3
AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip
837
4
Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone
773
5
Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore
731
6
Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality
684
7
New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
683
8
Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers
604
9
We Have Ruined Childhood
571
10
The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist
536

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
Software Engineering Grads Lack the Skills Startups Need
209
2
Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher carbon dioxide
165
3
Swiss Post Suspends Drone Delivery Service After Second Crash
155
4
The Last Working Olivetti Mainframe Sits In a Tuscan High School
148
5
Chemists discover water microdroplets spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide
138
6
Recursive language and modern imagination acquired 70k years ago: hypothesis
120
7
30 years ago: Voyager 2's historic Neptune flyby
119
8
Machine Learning That’s Light Enough for an Arduino
115
9
How to Teach an Iris Scanner That the Eye It’s Looking at Is Dead
108
10
DDSketch: A fast, fully-mergeable quantile sketch with relative-error guarantees
107

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
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
1116
2
GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
680
3
IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set
587
4
Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment
569
5
Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
494
6
Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
424
7
Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan
388
8
Linux kernel drivers in Rust might become an option in the future
372
9
Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp?
361
10
Attorney General Barr and Encryption
328

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 Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
525
2
Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
271
3
Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips
237
4
Electric motor design claims remarkable improvements
164
5
Court Rules That “Patent Troll” Is Opinion, Not Defamation
162
6
Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to New iOS 12.4 Jailbreak
134
7
Hydrophilic disc uses solar power to separate salt from water
126
8
How to stop Apple from listening to your Siri recordings
109
9
Ninth Circuit Goes a Step Further to Protect Privacy in Border Device Searches
97
10
The death of a weather satellite as seen by SDR
92

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses
586
2
PartiQL: One query language for all your data
241
3
Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances
141
4
Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain
115
5
Apple Card launches today for all US customers
109
6
Improving Siri's Privacy Protection
92
7
Apple’s US job footprint grows to 2.4M
87
8
Apple Card
48
9
Build Highly Available MySQL Applications Using Amazon Aurora Multi-Master
48
10
Apple Special Event – September 10
24

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
Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study
797
2
Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
589
3
WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company
292
4
The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America
253
5
The WeWork IPO
246
6
The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look
237
7
How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness
212
8
The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines (2017)
165
9
Privacy Fundamentalism
126
10
How the Pentagon Comes Up with Code Words and Secret Project Nicknames
116

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 extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
541
2
Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
457
3
Big Coal Plants Begin to Close
289
4
High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism
253
5
New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity (2016)
229
6
The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure
214
7
Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter
202
8
Possible detection of a black hole with a mass that was thought to be impossible
189
9
The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis
185
10
A parrot has a question for humans
185

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?
1041
2
John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]
741
3
I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market”
701
4
A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers
558
5
Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)
497
6
I feel like im talking to the borg
492
7
Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server
425
8
Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong
394
9
My Sudden Trip to Hell
273
10
A Year Ago I Put Saltwater in a Jar [video]
273

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation
813
2
Banned C standard library functions in Git source code
502
3
TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files
467
4
I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code
450
5
Super Mario 64 has been decompiled
445
6
Anime4K: Real time high quality video upscaling
387
7
Rest-client gem is hijacked
332
8
The design of littlefs: A fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
278
9
Python rounds float values by converting them to string and then back
268
10
Pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors
264

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Hy
850
2
Ha-ha wall
592
3
Anna Karenina Principle
299
4
Creeping normality
218
5
Levenshtein Distance
215
6
Michael Cicconetti
201
7
The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925
200
8
Dyson Tree
176
9
Alcohol Belts of Europe
166
10
Moravec's Paradox
155

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
1400
2
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
1230
3
The Horror of Microsoft Teams
544
4
GitHub stars won’t pay your rent
426
5
Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team
357
6
Get your work recognized: write a brag document
347
7
Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything
338
8
Misconfigured Jira instances exposed data of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies
322
9
Curl exercises
273
10
Flutter looks good, but is painful
208

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why is strlen so complex in C?
63
2
Why is the result of ('b'+'a'+ + 'a' +'a').toLowerCase() 'banana'?
11
3
Why is the result of ('b'+'a'+ + 'a' + 'a').toLowerCase() 'banana'?
8
4
Restrict/noalias completely broken in newer GCC and clang when inlined
3
5
Why is there a 'null' value in JavaScript?
3
6
Illuminating discussion about jar files
2
7
Singleton by Jon Skeet
2
8
How and when to align to cache line size (2011)
2
9
StackOverflow Is Offline
2
10
What is the optimal algorithm for the game 2048? (2014)
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Private Equity Should Not Exist
68
2
Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
43
3
Andy Sparks, CEO of Holloway, on Living a More Conscious Life
6
4
Novelist Vikram Chandra on writing and building software for writers
5
5
Ignore the Pain
4
6
Jeff Bezos Mocks France
3
7
A Few Things I Learned from My First “Unicorn” Investment
3
8
Gitlab- Story of a Pioneer in Remote Work
3
9
Why Ceasar Bautista Wrote His Own Personal Encyclopedia
3
10
Life After Reading “The Uninhabitable Earth”
2