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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
YC Research
1776
2
Let's Encrypt is Trusted
1260
3
Free Lossless Image Format
1254
4
Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
1121
5
How is NSA breaking so much crypto?
1005
6
New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
875
7
Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
809
8
Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department
778
9
Mercury Spill
764
10
EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software
730
Top Ask HN
1
How to Be a Good Technical Lead?
520
2
Who is hiring? (October 2015)
368
3
What visa do foreign YC founders use to stay in US beyond 3 months?
191
4
Discuss burnout with boss?
153
5
How can you tell if you are insane?
88
6
Implementing a graph database using Postgres tables for nodes and edges?
87
7
Looking to purchase a software-defined radio, any advice?
85
8
What are the alternatives to Amazon Lambda?
83
9
Should I deploy my code and lay off 80 people?
82
10
Beyond CRUD and ETL – How to Grow Professionally?
71
Top Show HN
1
Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
802
2
Exposé – a static site generator for photos and videos
548
3
Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes
386
4
Download any song without knowing its name
321
5
Metabase, an open-source business intelligence tool
287
6
Dtab – Spreadsheet for Data Science
229
7
Clojure for the Brave and True – now free online
224
8
Arguman – Argument Analysis Platform
170
9
Freeze – Amazon Glacier GUI Client for Mac OS X
160
10
Someone.io – Task management for teams made easy
151
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers
474
2
The FCC has voted to end exorbitant phone fees for prison inmates
379
3
Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business
378
4
Why the Internet Needs IPFS
341
5
YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music
338
6
Red Hat is buying Ansible
336
7
Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision
328
8
EFF asks appeals court to “shut down the Eastern District of Texas”
292
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YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its Red Subscription Deal
286
10
Profile of Margaret Hamilton, programmer of the Apollo software
255
News [?]
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Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices
716
2
The Drone Papers
543
3
The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
515
4
Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android
510
5
Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014
484
6
Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached
478
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The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease
427
8
A global movement to ban urban billboards
399
9
Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project
374
10
Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters Expansion
374
Scientific publications [?]
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Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets
446
2
First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor in Two Decades to Begin Fueling in Tennessee
129
3
Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration [pdf]
127
4
Tinnitus in relation to neck/head muscle tension
107
5
Neuroscientists decode the brain activity of the worm
100
6
Several types of types in programming languages
84
7
In unexpected discovery, comet contains alcohol, sugar
82
8
The first photograph taken from the surface of Mars (1976)
75
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Collections of ants are both solid-like and liquid-like
64
10
A Tower of Molten Salt Will Deliver Solar Power After Sunset
63
Dev Blogs [?]
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Linux TCP will have lockless listener processing 3.5M SYNs per sec
334
2
Google Cloud Shell
325
3
Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base
285
4
What’s in a Boarding Pass Barcode?
151
5
Filtering millions of packets per second on commodity NICs
145
6
The Internet of Criminal Things
134
7
Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S
124
8
Doubling the speed of jpegtran with SIMD
117
9
What's new in TeX
95
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The Dotty experimental compiler for Scala now bootstraps
75
Tech blogs [?]
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The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
667
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Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal
335
3
How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
284
4
CISA passes Senate
281
5
Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dangerous for your users
256
6
There's No DRM in JPEG – Let's Keep It That Way
224
7
Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors
200
8
Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review
197
9
No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans' Privacy
188
10
France's Government Aims to Give Itself Carte Blanche to Spy on the World
164
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Snowball
384
2
Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS
344
3
Introducing AWS WAF
229
4
Microsoft Surface Book
190
5
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
147
6
Apply for the Microsoft Hololens Development Edition
122
7
Amazon EC2 Container Registry
119
8
AWS IoT Beta
113
9
Apple Reports Record Fourth Quarter Results
102
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EC2 Instance Update – X1 (SAP HANA) and T2.Nano (Websites)
94
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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From Python to Go and Back Again
366
2
Twitter's Moment
110
3
A Language Is More Than a Language
74
4
Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Recordings of K-Mart In-Store Music from 1992
66
5
The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (1956)
66
6
Banknotes for a Japanese-occupied Hawaii
55
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Free will is back, and maybe we can measure it
47
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Productivity Is Soaring at Top Firms and Sluggish Everywhere Else
45
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The Doomed Effort to Make Videos Go Vinyl
40
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A Sixteenth Century Pope Buried His Pet Elephant Under the Vatican
35
Science News [?]
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Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease
338
2
Kilogram conflict resolved at last
294
3
Study: CEO effect on firm performance could be mostly due to chance
143
4
Cancer-fighting viruses win approval
140
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Nobel Prize goes to modest woman who beat malaria for China
130
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New general-purpose optimization algorithm promises order-of-magnitude speedups
126
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To save on weight, a detour to the moon is the best route to Mars
123
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China’s plan to give every citizen a social credit score
102
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Life is a braid in spacetime
101
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How scientists fool themselves and how they can stop
96
Social [?]
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Tesla autopilot stops a collision [video]
275
2
Down the Rabbit Hole of the Ol' Reddit Switcharoo
145
3
Memory and C++ Debugging at Electronic Arts [video]
143
4
ElixirConf 2015 Keynote by José Valim [video]
121
5
Alan Kay: Power of Simplicity [video]
120
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Alan Kay: Computer Applications – A Medium for Creative Thought (1972) [video]
113
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C++17 progress update
107
8
Things you can do with ZFS [video]
95
9
Facebook Reactions
92
10
Edward R. Murrow Interviews Robert Oppenheimer (1955) [video]
91
Github repos and gists [?]
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El Capitan and Homebrew
540
2
Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing
510
3
Guide to Your Equity
442
4
Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy
408
5
IPFS Pics
330
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An update to UBlock Origin was rejected by the Chrome Web Store
323
7
Flux Challenge
285
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Node.js 5.0 Released
278
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Git Large File Storage 1.0
276
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Rust-Doom: A Doom renderer in Rust, with no unsafe code
262
Wikipedia [?]
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FE-Schrift – forgery-impeding typeface
143
2
Self-tiling tile set
139
3
Getting to “Philosophy”
101
4
Agloe, New York
101
5
Braess' paradox: adding a new road to a city can slow down traffic
98
6
Gotthard Base Tunnel
97
7
BitTorrent's DHT
97
8
The Cobra Effect
61
9
Peer-to-Peer Insurance
57
10
HeLa, the oldest and most commonly used human cell line
54
Blogs [?]
1
Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
1121
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Write like you talk
647
3
Why Homejoy Failed
421
4
How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?
420
5
What The New York Times Didn’t Say About Amazon
343
6
How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
326
7
Default Alive or Default Dead?
322
8
System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance
287
9
A Way to Detect Bias
282
10
Early employees take the most risk today
227
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
19
2
Student disqualified for using stackoverflow, on stackoverflow
6
3
Are || and ! operators sufficient to make every possible logical expression?
4
4
The case against checked exceptions
4
5
CPU Privilege Rings: Why rings 1 and 2 aren't used?
3
6
Why Did Facebook Pick OCaml to Build Hack and Flow
3
7
Do DOM tree elements with ids become global variables?
3
8
Software complexity, goals of Services and role of DTOs
2
9
Do I cast the result of malloc?
2
10
Why is this a valid perl program? I was trying to create a syntax error
2
Substack [?]