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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
1252
2
Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook
916
3
Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
808
4
Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed to Make Money
723
5
Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
712
6
How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
701
7
Apple announces Apple Card credit card
690
8
Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
620
9
Scientists rise up against statistical significance
616
10
Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake
586

Top Ask HN

1
Resources/Steps for Becoming a Consultant?
497
2
Best way to test accessibility of a website?
233
3
As a freelancer, what's the best app to track finances?
211
4
What happened to server-side rendering?
117
5
Company is firing all employees – should I still exercise my options?
60
6
Why does Paypal still exist?
49
7
Can I offer different prices to different users for the same product?
46
8
Makes sense to do Masters in Computer Science after 13 years experience?
41
9
Seemingly unable to recover from burnout. Please advise
40
10
What do you think of the Google Stadia?
39

Top Show HN

1
A Color Picker I Made
591
2
Everything I Know Wiki
431
3
Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service
423
4
Editable, royalty-free SVG illustrations
293
5
A raycaster that renders to random dot stereogram (like Magic Eye)
277
6
Drogon – A C++14/17 based high performance HTTP application framework
189
7
I made a database of remote companies
171
8
Harmopark – Web tool to visually build chords and progressions
153
9
Songcraft – Online Songwriting Platform and Guitar Tab Builder
152
10
DropCSS – A simple, thorough and fast unused-CSS cleaner
134

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
Apple announces Apple Card credit card
690
2
Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
553
3
Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service
538
4
AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds
340
5
I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me
329
6
Firefox now automatically blocks autoplaying audio and video
231
7
Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments
214
8
A look at an original iPhone prototype
184
9
AT&T CEO interrupted by a robocall during a live interview
174
10
Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide
166

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
Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising
540
2
Stomach of Dead Whale Contained 'Nothing but Nonstop Plastic'
430
3
There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train, but I did it anyway
417
4
At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard
400
5
Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users’ Batteries By Running Hidden Video Ads In Android
394
6
Procrastination Has Nothing to Do with Self-Control
371
7
China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do
338
8
Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 on the Day Before Deadly Crash
327
9
Cockpit voice recorder of Lion Air jet depicts pilots' frantic search for fix
304
10
Tesla sues former employees for allegedly stealing data, Autopilot source code
274

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
A new Einstein cross is discovered
259
2
Graphene Device Sops Up Sunlight, Heats to 160 Degrees Celsius in Seconds
230
3
Oracle Swings the Layoff Axe
207
4
How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs (2007)
191
5
Why Is It So Hard to Build Profitable Robot Companies?
160
6
In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in skills
148
7
Lumotive Says It Has a Practical Solid-State Lidar
130
8
DNA Computer Shows Programmable Chemical Machines Are Possible
64
9
Deaf Men Helped Shape Nasa's Human Spaceflight Program
61
10
Prenatal testosterone linked to long-term effects in females with male twin
54

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
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
1252
2
Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
808
3
I Don't Like Debuggers (2000)
186
4
Three Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Languages
158
5
Phone Numbers Stink as Identity Proof
155
6
Android users in Europe will be asked which browser and search engine they want
155
7
Today’s Firefox Aims to Reduce Your Online Annoyances
150
8
Swift 5 Release Notes for Xcode 10.2
68
9
Clarifying the Future of Firefox Screenshots
62
10
Writing an API at the Edge with Workers and Cloud Firestore
34

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13
192
2
Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?
181
3
The U.S. Desperately Needs a “Fiber for All” Plan
28
4
Congress Has a Chance to Finally End the NSA’s Mass Telephone Records Program
17
5
HP Reveals Envy X360 15 Laptops with AMD's Latest Ryzen APUs
14
6
New research indicates we transition between 19 brain phases when sleeping
12
7
The European Copyright Directive: What Is It, and Why Has It Drawn Controversy?
10
8
You Can’t Trust What Cops About Automated License Plate Readers
5
9
Can’t Trust What Cops and Companies Claim About Automated License Plate Readers
5
10
The CD Is 40, the CD Is Dead
4

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again
378
2
AirPods with Wireless Charging Case
331
3
Apple updates its iMac line
250
4
MS TextWorld: open-source engine that both generates and simulates text games
238
5
Apple Arcade – Game subscription service
159
6
AWS DeepRacer League
145
7
AirPods
109
8
Apple Special Event Livestream [video]
82
9
Web Application Firewall
27
10
AWS Redis goes multi-threaded
8

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
Data Science Teams Need Generalists, Not Specialists
176
2
Betrayed by the Android UI [slides]
158
3
Kubernetes Learning Resources
59
4
Artyping (1939)
59
5
Lost in Migration: Walter Benjamin's Black Suitcase
10
6
How many times can Silicon Valley be wrong about cars?
7
7
Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine (2012)
5
8
State Trooper Teaches Hwy Driving 101, Tells Left-Lane Squatters to Beat It
5
9
The Producer Playbook: Guidelines and Best Practices for Producers and PM's
4
10
The Restaurant Reconstructing Recipes That Died with the Ottoman Empire
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
Scientists rise up against statistical significance
616
2
The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says
432
3
South Korea accepts geothermal plant probably caused destructive quake
321
4
Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Abel Prize
309
5
Majority of health apps on Android tested shared personal health data
184
6
Rotating Black Holes May Serve as Gentle Portals for Hyperspace Travel
154
7
Aging Is a Communication Breakdown
134
8
The Priest of Abu Ghraib
113
9
“Medieval” Diseases Flare as Unsanitary Living Conditions Proliferate
108
10
Scientists Watch as Heat Moves at the Speed of Sound
94

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake
586
2
Google terminated our startup's developer account – what do we do?
464
3
“Every minute I spent thinking about competitors was a minute wasted”
442
4
KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS
434
5
Operable Erlang and Elixir [video]
200
6
UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
153
7
Clojurists Together: $3000 USD/month grants for Clojure open source projects
149
8
“Nobody at Tesla has ever seen rain before.”
50
9
Chomsky on having a job (“living in a totalitarian system”)
35
10
Google's GDC 2019 Streaming
29

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
x86 Bare Metal Examples
513
2
Fyne: Cross-Platform GUI in Go Based on Material Design
360
3
Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schemaless search back end in Rust
236
4
EFI Boot Application in C#
217
5
Pyright: Static type checker for Python
213
6
Qri: A global dataset version control system built on the distributed web
204
7
Fluent Terminal – Open-source, native Windows 10 tabbed terminal
187
8
OpenDroneMap – Simple Images into 3D
179
9
Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
160
10
CVE-2019-5418 – File Content Disclosure on Rails
133

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Gall's Law
328
2
German Wikipedia blacked out in protest against EU copyright reform
123
3
Marvin Pipkin, inventor of the frosted light bulb
86
4
German Wikipedia shuts down for 24 hour protest
20
5
HTTP 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons
18
6
Nunchi
10
7
Dunning–Kruger Effect
9
8
Acorn Archimedes
7
9
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
5
10
Convergent Evolution
5

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The cortex is a neural network of neural networks
297
2
Terminal latency (2017)
181
3
Expressing Business Flows Using an F# DSL
95
4
Handling thousands of image upload per second with Amazon S3
53
5
Is WSL actually ready for developers?
36
6
Why Do We Murder the Beautiful Friendships of Boys? (2017)
35
7
Alternative Funding Calculus: A Quant Comparison of Tiny, Indie, and Earnest
31
8
What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5? (2014)
30
9
Full Cycle Developers at Netflix – Operate What You Build
20
10
How I wrote a technical book in under 200 hours
20

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Java Equivalent of Lisp Trace
3
2
A Usecase of CSS Variables
2
3
What is the maximum length of a URL (in different browsers)?
2
4
How, in general, does Node.js handle 10k concurrent requests?
1
5
How, in general, does Node.js handle 10k concurrent requests?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
201
2
Spotify vs. Apple Tax
1
3
Walgreens Enabled Theranos
1
4
Beam Newsletter Week 12
1