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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan
1336
2
Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
1119
3
How to assess the quality of garments (2014)
991
4
How is it like to be a dev in Iran
745
5
Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
740
6
HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide
709
7
YouTube video has its own URL in it
681
8
YouTube was launched as a dating site
680
9
At what time of day do famous programmers work?
651
10
Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation
645

Top Ask HN

1
How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?
329
2
Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
275
3
What have the past 12 months taught you?
181
4
Best way to relearn basic math?
137
5
Anyone Using CockroachDB in Production?
121
6
Why is programming editing text?
89
7
What are some terminal tricks you wish you knew sooner?
66
8
What is the best chair for developers?
59
9
Why is Google search different on mobile Firefox compared to Chrome?
55
10
Have you been on a meditation retreat? How has it changed your life?
53

Top Show HN

1
I built a service to discover rapidly growing Google search topics
446
2
Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners
359
3
OctoSQL – Query and join multiple databases and files, written in Go
310
4
Turn your fzf into a live REPL
190
5
PCBs with Full-Color Graphics
140
6
Graph Processing with Python and GraphBLAS
122
7
LessPhone – A minimal Android launcher to reduce phone use
103
8
Ciao – HTTP checks and tests monitoring
77
9
Sinuous – Small, fast, reactive UI library
76
10
GraphQL Zeus – Autocomplete GraphQL Queries in JavaScript and TS
67

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
Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project
356
2
Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems
342
3
Firefox to Warn When Saved Logins Are Found in Data Breaches
312
4
AT&T to Face EFF Class Action for Selling Customers’ Location to Bounty Hunters
270
5
The helicopter team that films the Tour de France
263
6
EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation
244
7
Microsoft to Explore Using Rust
224
8
A Rust-based TLS library outperformed OpenSSL in almost every category
214
9
Amazon Warns Customers: Those Supplements Might Be Fake
186
10
DoNotPay's new service auto-cancels free trials
178

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
Why wasn't this page found?
622
2
Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew
494
3
GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely
370
4
FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names
355
5
Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee
333
6
Google Protest Leader Leaves
265
7
Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China
264
8
India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try
263
9
Foreign purchases of American homes plunge as Chinese buyers flee the market
235
10
Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem Chip Business
222

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 Differentiable Programming System to Bridge ML and Scientific Computing
381
2
A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
245
3
NASA’s Lunar Space Station Is a Great/Terrible Idea
129
4
A simulation of the insurance industry: The problem of risk model homogeneity
120
5
Math Invented for Moon Landing Helps Your Flight Arrive on Time
117
6
Alaska’s Engineering Colleges Prepare to Slash Programs, Lay Off Faculty
112
7
Google’s Equiano Cable Will Extend to the Remote Island of Saint Helena
86
8
Neural Decipherment via Minimum-Cost Flow: from Ugaritic to Linear B
76
9
Manticore: A Symbolic Execution Framework for Binaries and Smart Contracts
53
10
Girls’ advantage in reading can largely explain the gender gap in STEM
46

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
Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
1119
2
What's Coming in Python 3.8
638
3
Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors
270
4
QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack
254
5
Building the New Twitter.com
207
6
A moonlit tribute to a moon landing icon
122
7
What a bad day at work taught me about building Stack Overflow’s community
79
8
Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?
78
9
Kernel analysis with bpftrace
74
10
Byteboard assesses for on-the-job engineering skills
69

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
A New Motherboard for Amiga, the Platform That Refuses to Die
59
2
Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8284 CPU: When 300 MHz Cost $5,500
58
3
Traces of two unknown archaic human species turn up in modern DNA
52
4
A Bad Copyright Bill Moves Forward with No Serious Understanding of Its Dangers
28
5
FaceApp raises concern about how photos are being used to create aging effect
20
6
Hacking Shelters and Swimming Pools
11
7
EFF Sues AT&T, Data Aggregators for Selling Customers’ Real-Time Location
8
8
Neural Network in Glass Requires No Power, Recognizes Numbers
5
9
Israeli surveillance tool silently collects all cloud and communications data
4
10
Israeli Security Firm Claims Spyware Tool Can Harvest iCloud Data
4

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Microsoft FY19 Q4 Earnings
9
2
Pointer Tagging for Memory Safety
5
3
Apple offers a look at new emoji coming to iPhone this fall
4
4
Announcing AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
4
5
Amazon Introduces Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider (ACCP)
3
6
Amazon Introduces Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider (ACCP)
3
7
Apple Selling Exclusive Satechi USB-C Adapter
2
8
It’s 1985 and the future of STEM is radical
2
9
PacificA: Replication in Log-Based Distributed Storage Systems [pdf]
2
10
Get Windows 1.11
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
YouTube was launched as a dating site
680
2
Game Source Code Collection
405
3
Lockheed's Skunk Works Building Bigger Fusion Reactor
175
4
Tesla Enters “Whistleblower Hell”
129
5
PL/I as a Tool for System Programming (1969)
49
6
The Great CEO Within (Formerly: Founder to CEO)
37
7
Naomi Wu Arrested by Chinese Police?
31
8
Tesla reveals revolutionary new wiring architecture to help robots build cars
25
9
Marxism and Buddhism complement each other
6
10
North Korea Got Kim Jong Un His New Armored S600 Mercedes Maybach Limos
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
Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died
400
2
Gorillas have developed humanlike social structure, controversial study suggests
137
3
A plan to mine the world’s research papers
114
4
If this type of dark matter existed, people would be dying of unexplained wounds
97
5
Anaxagoras Was Exiled for Claiming the Moon Was a Rock
95
6
What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life (2018)
74
7
Arrow of time and its reversal on the IBM quantum computer
64
8
The Invasion of Giant Pythons Threatening Florida
62
9
Leonardo da Vinci’s laboratory: studies in flow
53
10
Scientists Debate the Origin of Cell Types in the First Animals
44

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
YouTube video has its own URL in it
681
2
Neuralink Live Stream [video]
390
3
Let's talk about peeing in space
294
4
Drug cartels use dollar bill serial numbers as random keys for delivery receipts
242
5
Anyone made the jump from MySQL to PostreSQL? It is worth it?
152
6
Saving the World from Spreadsheets [video]
142
7
A Chapter from the FBI's History with OpenBSD and an OpenSSH Vuln
127
8
Protesters in Hong Kong are getting attacked by masked thugs
83
9
Reddit AMA: I'm a Former Amazon Fulfillment Center Employee
80
10
Oral History of Donald Knuth (2007) [video]
54

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Declined Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, “try”
474
2
Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive
438
3
Windows 10 Debloat Script
174
4
Flakes – Proposed mechanism to package Nix expressions into composable entities
164
5
Issue: find a new home for repos including Requests
162
6
Opmsg – A GPG Alternative
121
7
Jeison – An Emacs library for declarative JSON parsing
117
8
FRT – A Godot “platform” targeting single-board computers
81
9
Raytracer.jl: A Differentiable Renderer That Supports Parameter Optimization [pdf]
77
10
Programming as a medium for poorly understood, sloppily-formulated ideas (1967) [pdf]
77

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Inferno Operating System
188
2
Apollo 11 50th Anniversary
135
3
FE-Schrift
111
4
Wikipedia's robots.txt
105
5
Azolla Event
104
6
The Great Stink
97
7
Webvan
84
8
Symmetry Minute
84
9
Out-of-Place Artifact
77
10
Carthago delenda est
64

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
289
2
King – Man + Woman = King?
256
3
Fsyncgate: Errors on fsync are unrecoverable (2018)
219
4
PEG Parsers
151
5
Remove Moving Objects from Video
132
6
The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős
121
7
Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects
115
8
Software design is also about relationships
100
9
Understanding IPFS in Depth(5/6): What Is Libp2p?
82
10
New NASA Images Show Location of the Lunar Library
73

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Can We Make a “Class Level Relationship” in Laravel? (vs. Object Level)
1
2
Is there a way to figure out poetry style of text on a text/markdown file?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Is a Boeing Bailout Taking Shape?
62
2
Substack (YC W18) Raises $15.3m from Andreessen Horowitz
5
3
New Free Logos
3
4
Software Eats Itself
2
5
Amazon's Ad Copy
2
6
Cancer Vaccines
2
7
23andMe
1
8
Stanford Life Sciences Research
1
9
Adimab
1
10
Arvinas
1