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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
2031
2
Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair
1903
3
Thinkpad X210
1005
4
Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s
936
5
Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users
932
6
Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
888
7
Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, Killed in Christchurch
870
8
Give Me Back My Monolith
861
9
Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics
815
10
Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
811

Top Ask HN

1
How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?
440
2
Startup failed after years of work – Can I even get a job now?
302
3
How can I learn how to paint?
238
4
What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile?
235
5
What is the best “dumb” phone?
221
6
Is Someone Hijacking Google Images?
173
7
Any chronically ill founders here? How do you balance your life?
75
8
Has anyone successfully been able to completely quit using Google?
66
9
Articles like Sam Altman's startup playbook?
55
10
Tricks to Avoid Eye Problems?
52

Top Show HN

1
A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time
2690
2
A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets
510
3
This Question Does Not Exist
274
4
Stuff – An Alternative to Facebook Events
201
5
Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator
173
6
A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3
149
7
Graph Processing with Postgres and GraphBLAS
106
8
Tinkersynth, a whimsical generative art machine
105
9
Applying Machine Learning to March Madness
97
10
Graphql2chartjs: Realtime Charts Made Easy with GraphQL and ChartJS
96

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
Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users
932
2
Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts
487
3
Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
370
4
Suse is once again an independent company
364
5
Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web
354
6
Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)
340
7
Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version
329
8
Tumblr has lost 30 percent of web traffic since December
304
9
A world of hurt after GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue 1M certificates
267
10
737 MAX crashes “linked” by satellite track data, FAA says
228

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 Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
811
2
U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8
716
3
How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger
611
4
Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox
535
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Online activists are silencing us, scientists say
503
6
Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
498
7
FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery scheme
393
8
California declared drought free for first time in seven years
391
9
The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’
355
10
E.U.’s Biggest Economies Ban Boeing Max 8 Jets
350

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
Experimental rejection of observer-independence in the quantum world
187
2
Arrow of time and its reversal on IBM quantum computer (2018)
141
3
Physicists reverse time using quantum computer
107
4
India's starry dwarf frog, lone member of newly discovered ancient lineage
57
5
Mammoth moves: frozen cells come to life, but only just
31
6
Global Initiative Mines Retired Hard Disk Drives for Materials and Magnets
29
7
Challenges in Search on Streaming Services: Netflix Case Study
14
8
Processing Data Where It Makes Sense: Enabling In-Memory Computation
8
9
Dormant viruses activate during spaceflight
7
10
Charles Babbage and the Turk
7

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
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Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
2031
2
New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception
213
3
RFC8482 – Saying Goodbye to ANY
162
4
Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP
129
5
Leaderless Debian
119
6
Programming in Rust: the good, the bad, the ugly
70
7
Stop the Bots: Practical Lessons in Machine Learning
56
8
EU takes major step forward on government vulnerability disclosure processes
53
9
Google Blog: With Lookout, discover your surroundings with the help of AI
14
10
Connecting the Dots on Why Nvidia Is Buying Mellanox
8

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
The debate over privacy can't rely on tech giants
71
2
Our Thoughts on the New Zealand Massacre
52
3
It’s Raining Brand-New Commodore 64s
8
4
Magnetic nano-probe explores individual cells from the inside
6
5
Fix it already: nine steps that companies should take to protect you
5
6
The Patent Office Can’t Ignore Law It Dislikes
3
7
Microsoft Brings DirectX 12 to Windows 7
3
8
United Airlines takes down poster that revealed Apple is its largest client
3
9
A Mechanical Harmonic Analyzer
2
10
Apple Store down – iPad/iMac updates, AirPower rumored
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Addressing Spotify’s Claims
733
2
New iPad Air and iPad Mini
236
3
Higher-Order Type-Level Programming in Haskell [pdf]
155
4
AWS Joins the GraphQL Foundation
7
5
Apple Just Released a New iPad
4
6
Towards Universal Language Embeddings
3
7
AWS Joins the GraphQL Foundation
2
8
Getting Started with the A1 Instance
2
9
Apple to Host Annual Worldwide Developers Conference June 3-7 in San Jose
2
10
Advancing Human-Centered AI
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
Japan’s elaborate, colorful manhole covers
329
2
To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars
297
3
Where Warren’s Wrong
222
4
Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line in the World
176
5
Home of Strategic Command and Some of the USAF's Most Prized Aircraft Flooded
88
6
How rats became an inescapable part of city living
87
7
Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap’n Crunch Cereal Boxes
66
8
Book Summary: Radical Candor by Kim Scott
54
9
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ (2017)
44
10
Jailed researchers trying to protect threatened cheetahs in Iran await verdict
41

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
The rise and fall of scientific authority, and how to bring it back
197
2
Cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing
153
3
With single gene insertion, blind mice regain sight
151
4
How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games (2017)
141
5
Against Willpower (2017)
132
6
Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal brain development
86
7
Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Polarized Crowds
84
8
Math Duo Maps the Infinite Terrain of Minimal Surfaces
68
9
28,000-year-old mammoth cells have shown reactivity in mouse egg cells
68
10
Report examines origins and nature of 'math anxiety'
56

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
737 Max Explanation by a Software Engineer
759
2
Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users
620
3
Amazon makes 14 cents from every Lyft ride
221
4
Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has begun
170
5
“HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”
147
6
4chan has been blocked in NZ “for security reasons”
121
7
Altimir: Life in the depopulated Bulgarian countryside [video]
66
8
The Comdyna GP-6 analogue computer that I use daily at work
64
9
Boléro: Sergiu Celibidache (1971) [video]
59
10
Marcel Duchamp Interview on Art and Dada (1956) [video]
56

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Simple script to analyse your PostgreSQL database config, give tuning advice
276
2
VS Code on a Remote Server
264
3
KeyDB: A Multithreaded Redis Fork
186
4
Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python
183
5
Construct-JS – A library for creating byte level data structures
163
6
Lem: A Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility
159
7
Face detection library with speed of 1500FPS
137
8
Picotorrent: a tiny, hackable BitTorrent client
113
9
A Pwn2Own Exploit Chain
99
10
Start a side project, says GitHub founder (2008)
92

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Hadacol
38
2
Broad Arrow
30
3
Unreal Mode
27
4
Surveillance Capitalism
14
5
The Overton Window
10
6
Black Perl
10
7
Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi
6
8
Rubber Duck Debugging
6
9
Magic Roundabout
6
10
Greenland Was Once in the EU, the original Grexit
6

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Types Are Moving to the Right
167
2
Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol
154
3
How to Make $80k per Month on the Apple App Store (2017)
109
4
Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet (2015)
34
5
The worst bugs (C++)
24
6
Object detection ensembles as graph cliques
23
7
Building Blockchain Games with Confidentiality
18
8
The 737Max and Why Software Engineers Might Want to Pay Attention
12
9
Why I’m Publishing My First Novel in a Format You’ve Never Heard Of
11
10
The 737Max and Why Software Engineers Might Want to Pay Attention
11

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
StackOverflow Is Down
8
2
Why is the Lisp community so fragmented?
7
3
What's the difference between an argument and a parameter?
2
4
JavaScript Reduce an Empty Array
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Beam Newsletter #11
1