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Top stories
1
Jessica Livingston
1740
2
TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence
1559
3
Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work
1524
4
VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
1368
5
Visual Studio Code is now open source
1325
6
Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
1271
7
Startup Playbook
1202
8
Reconsider
906
9
Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
886
10
Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
755
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (November 2015)
512
2
New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
497
3
What's your favorite online course?
395
4
Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?
247
5
How do develop a side project when you have a 40hr/week job?
153
6
How to form deep friendships later in life?
145
7
How best to break up with cofounder?
142
8
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2015)
117
9
How do I stop comparing myself to others?
109
10
What is your job? Do you like it? What was your favorite job?
106
Top Show HN
1
Something pointless I made
747
2
Parinfer – a simpler way to write Lisp
674
3
React for Beginners
178
4
HackerCouch
162
5
Nixar – New design of Linux command line
130
6
WOPR – A markup for rich terminal reports
125
7
Administrate – Rails framework for creating flexible admin dashboards
124
8
Easy Forth
122
9
Real-Time Collaborative Watercolor Painting Using Twitch
109
10
Interviews can be stressful – give take-home projects instead
96
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements
582
2
Google Launches Android Studio 2.0
532
3
Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More
495
4
Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC
473
5
How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service
430
6
Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Will Shutter Service
374
7
Why people keep trying to erase the Hollywood sign from Google Maps (2014)
370
8
Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections
299
9
Mac Store Apps Stopped Working Due to Expired Security Certificate
295
10
Google and ASUS Launch the $85 Chromebit, a Chrome OS Desktop on an HDMI Stick
292
News [?]
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Gene Amdahl has died
740
2
Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say
623
3
Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
586
4
I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil
498
5
Shrinking to Zero: The Raspberry Pi Gets Smaller
480
6
State of emergency declared across France after Paris shootings and explosions
464
7
Dentists reveal new tooth decay treatment
439
8
The Space Doctor’s Big Idea
409
9
Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program
400
10
Ireland to 'decriminalise' small amounts of drugs for personal use
348
Scientific publications [?]
1
NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station
593
2
Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client
259
3
Robot gets rid of weeds automatically and without herbicides
193
4
Post-human mathematics
175
5
Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter
149
6
NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater Than Losses
148
7
Sense2vec – A Fast and Accurate Method for Word Sense Disambiguation
131
8
Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012)
115
9
Toyota to Invest $1B in AI and Robotics R&D
101
10
Researchers find new phase of carbon, make diamond at room temperature
98
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Firefox for iOS now available
548
2
Firefox Now Offers a More Private Browsing Experience
303
3
If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free software in practice
230
4
Hearts on Twitter
191
5
I rewrote Firefox's BMP decoder
148
6
Universal DNSSEC: Secure DNS for Every Domain
145
7
RoboVM Is No Longer Open-Source
130
8
C11 atomic variables and the Linux kernel (2014)
120
9
What every programmer should know about memory (2007)
119
10
Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone
94
Tech blogs [?]
1
Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynical Pattern
375
2
Release of the Full TPP Text Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights
246
3
The Government Uses Zero Days for “Offense”
217
4
The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review
184
5
Suspension Bridges of Disbelief
152
6
FBI Returns Seized Devices to EFF Client
142
7
The IBM POWER8 Review: Challenging the Intel Xeon
141
8
The Microsoft Surface Book Review
109
9
California’s DNA Law Violates Privacy Protections Guaranteed by State
103
10
Hurricane LTE-U: Don’t Let Wi-Fi Get Blown Away
97
FAANG+ [?]
1
Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work
1524
2
Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
402
3
Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone with Hybrid Design
281
4
EC2 Dedicated Hosts
176
5
The AWS SDK for Go is now 1.0
142
6
WDC Re-releases Classic 1986 6502/65816 manual “Programming the 65816”
17
7
Heads-Up – Longer EC2 and EBS Resource IDs Coming in 2016
5
8
Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection Between Violent Extremism and Education
4
9
The 21 Bitcoin Computer
4
10
AWS Region to be opened in South Korea
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
React vs. Angular 2
160
2
Atari Star Raiders Source Code (1979)
145
3
Robber barons bought dozens of medieval European buildings – where are they now?
98
4
English is not normal
56
5
How Capicola Became Gabagool – The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained
50
6
What the world eats (2014)
50
7
Flashcards the Stasi used for facial recognition
49
8
Selling Feelings
47
9
The economic environment is becoming less favorable for large Western companies
46
10
Nintendo 64 Sound Tools
46
Science News [?]
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Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
416
2
The Western diet has nearly killed our ancestral microbiome
211
3
Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first
192
4
The quantum source of space-time
179
5
MIT team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water
179
6
Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation
145
7
Mindfulness meditation trumps placebo in pain reduction
137
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Thinking positively: The genetics of high intelligence
136
9
Bilingual people are twice as likely to recover from a stroke, study finds
132
10
Einstein was no lone genius
118
Social [?]
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Jeff Dean explains TensorFlow [video]
383
2
Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign
330
3
“f.lux has been ready to ship for iOS for four years, but we need Apple's help.”
184
4
The Birth of ZFS [video]
152
5
Cutting a Klein Bottle in Half [video]
150
6
Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land (1959) [video]
134
7
Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video]
133
8
Building a credit card issuer in Brazil using Clojure and Datomic (2014) [video]
132
9
Run containers on bare metal already [video]
131
10
The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer [video]
119
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers
645
2
MagSpoof – wireless credit card/magstripe spoofer
541
3
Dockercraft: Manage Docker containers from Minecraft
462
4
Modern Java – A Guide to Java 8
404
5
Webtorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC
362
6
LittleD – SQL database for IoT, can run queries in 1KB
244
7
Neovim public release 0.1.0
233
8
A Python tutorial on Bayesian modeling techniques
218
9
Postgres high-availability cluster with auto-failover and cluster recovery
215
10
Dive into Machine Learning with Jupyter and Scikit-Learn
204
Wikipedia [?]
1
Xv6
350
2
Garden path sentence
185
3
Socialist millionaire protocol
170
4
Non-photo blue
138
5
Sortition
108
6
White Coke
103
7
The Fixed Price of Coca-Cola from 1886 to 1959
103
8
Russian Domesticated Red Fox
96
9
Iron law of oligarchy
72
10
M-Pesa – a mobile-phone based money transfer and microfinancing service
70
Blogs [?]
1
Jessica Livingston
1740
2
Reconsider
906
3
Pirated Courses on Udemy
701
4
What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money
669
5
First Timers Only
510
6
Facebook M – The Anti-Turing Test
438
7
The End of the Internet Dream
356
8
Math.random in V8 is broken
310
9
How a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential
299
10
Things the media does to manufacture outrage
290
Stackoverflow [?]
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Are pointers considered a method of calling by reference in C?
3
2
What is the dollar sign in JavaScript, if not jQuery
2
3
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi (2011)
2
4
Weird table's data in SQL server
2
5
Text-indent does not work while text-align: right
2
6
How to play with Control.Monad.Writer in haskell?
1
7
What's the rationale for null terminated strings?
1
8
What is the need for normalizing a vector?
1
9
The definitive guide to form-based website authentication
1
10
The characters “U+” are an ASCIIfied version of the MULTISET UNION “⊎” character
1
Substack [?]