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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Swift is Open Source
1824
2
Instagram's Million Dollar Bug
1562
3
In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
1457
4
SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video]
1284
5
Entering Public Beta
1249
6
Introducing OpenAI
1107
7
Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
990
8
The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
949
9
Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona
905
10
Leaving the Mac App Store
884
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (December 2015)
260
2
Struggling to pay rent this month. Can I help you with a gig?
251
3
Papers you read in 2015?
193
4
Novelty addiction is ruining my life and career. What should I do?
174
5
Books you read in 2015?
171
6
Planning to leave. How best to handle stock options?
154
7
What was your best passive income in 2015?
120
8
What is a way of making residual income with $5K a month?
105
9
What are your predictions in technology for 2016?
99
10
So I'm being let go
85
Top Show HN
1
Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
1093
2
Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.
410
3
FuckFuckAdblock
353
4
Fieldbook: Lightweight Database with a Spreadsheet UI and a REST API
335
5
Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme
332
6
Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams
281
7
Acme-tiny, a tiny 200-line Let's Encrypt client
280
8
A fireplace for Emacs
257
9
Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, laser-cut Stainless Steel
211
10
I redesigned the USPS package delivery slip
156
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Congress has added CISA to the federal budget bill
580
2
Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones
529
3
Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client
444
4
Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius?
395
5
DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
385
6
Most violence in the world is motivated by moral sentiments
383
7
Bank of America trying to load up on patents for the technology behind Bitcoin
367
8
Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors
338
9
Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber
325
10
I analyzed 250 SaaS pricing pages
299
News [?]
1
The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
949
2
NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated
597
3
Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
570
4
Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era
427
5
Flint, MI: So much lead in children’s blood, state of emergency declared
405
6
Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law
379
7
Martin Shkreli Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges
379
8
Dear Architects: Sound Matters
363
9
When a Unicorn Startup Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt
344
10
Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses
328
Scientific publications [?]
1
Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises
245
2
Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team
232
3
On Learning to Think: Algorithmic Information Theory
155
4
The Relationship Between Intelligence and Anxiety
137
5
Scientific publications should be anonymous
128
6
New Horizons Returns First of the Best Images of Pluto
124
7
Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014)
117
8
It's a Trap: Emperor Palpatine's Poison Pill
116
9
Deep Speech 2: End-To-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin
105
10
The Alzheimer Pandemic: Is Paracetamol to Blame? (2013)
88
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Introducing OpenAI
1107
2
Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
446
3
Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt
354
4
HTTP/2 is here. Goodbye SPDY? Not quite yet
267
5
Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox
225
6
Why it’s harder to forge a SHA-1 certificate than to find a SHA-1 collision
180
7
When Undercover Credit Card Buys Go Bad
161
8
WebExtensions in Firefox 45
148
9
Tools for debugging, testing and using HTTP/2
101
10
SHA-1 Deprecation: No Browser Left Behind
99
Tech blogs [?]
1
Stupid Patent of the Month: Microsoft’s Design Patent on a Slider
320
2
Court: Breaking Your Employer's Computer Policy Isn't a Crime
293
3
Cell-Site Simulators Aren’t Secret Anymore
262
4
No Matter What the FBI Says, Compromising Encryption Is a Technical Issue
245
5
Google Deceptively Tracks Students’ Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint
214
6
The Loading Screen Game Patent Finally Expires
191
7
How AMD Won, Then Lost
144
8
TPP Threatens Security and Safety by Locking Down US Policy on Source Code Audit
137
9
EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth Amendment
128
10
Open Source FPGA Toolchain Builds CPU
109
FAANG+ [?]
1
EC2 Update – T2.Nano Instances Now Available
180
2
Amazon Prime Photos
79
3
New Managed NAT Gateway for AWS
57
4
Amazon full of sponsored reviews
35
5
Managed NAT (Network Address Translation) Gateway for AWS
17
6
AWS Announces Microsoft Active Directory Single Sign On Services
16
7
Route 53 Traffic Flow
10
8
Encrypted EBS Boot Volumes
9
9
Introducing T2.nano: The Smallest, Lowest Cost Amazon EC2 Instance
8
10
AWS Price List API
8
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
The cold fusion horizon
248
2
Let's Create a Better Product Hunt
223
3
"Free Basics" - Myths and Facts
119
4
C.S. Lewis' Greatest Fiction: Convincing Kids That They'd Like Turkish Delight
117
5
Men at work
103
6
The genetic code now has a workable text editor
83
7
How the Universal Symbols for Escalators, Restrooms, and Transport Were Designed
68
8
How Hollywood Caught the UK's Most Prolific Movie Pirates
67
9
I feel therefore I am
64
10
BitTorrent Still Dominates Internet’s Upstream Traffic
62
Science News [?]
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Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice
452
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Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
403
3
Graph Isomorphism Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse
222
4
Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science
216
5
Hierarchy Is Detrimental for Human Cooperation
208
6
What Your Microbiome Wants for Dinner
204
7
Tardigrades turn into glass when they dry out
194
8
A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
193
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Ketamine’s effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness
181
10
Amazon rainforest was home to millions of people before European arrival
180
Social [?]
1
Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics
804
2
A letter to our daughter
790
3
Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about climate change
367
4
Fai0verflow: Linux on the PS4 [video]
342
5
Pricing Programmers
162
6
MongoDB 3.2: Now powered by Postgres
120
7
Bug Bounty Ethics
114
8
In Search of Tomorrow: On the Future of Eve IDE [video]
113
9
Donald Knuth's 21st Annual Christmas Lecture: Universal Commafree Codes [video]
97
10
Uninstall Notepad++ if you have voted for FN
82
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Koel: A personal music streaming server
499
2
PHP 7 Released
449
3
About those lava lamps
360
4
Survey of popular Node.js packages reveals credential leaks
355
5
Free Springer math books
322
6
Pebble Seizure Detect
301
7
Super small Docker image based on Alpine Linux
261
8
HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
255
9
Vuvuzela – Private messaging system that hides metadata
243
10
Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X
239
Wikipedia [?]
1
E-Prime: English without the verb 'to be'
221
2
The "Bush hid the facts" bug
139
3
The Pip
120
4
Oberon System, an OS Written in Oberon
104
5
Erdstall
75
6
Virtual queue
73
7
Sayre's law
65
8
Hotelling's law
57
9
Sand Cat
47
10
Toba catastrophe theory
46
Blogs [?]
1
How to be like Steve Ballmer
763
2
Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation
730
3
How Product Hunt really works
695
4
How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal
631
5
Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain
559
6
Files Are Hard
451
7
Do the math on your stock options
445
8
Jury Duty
378
9
How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over
344
10
Introducing d3-scale
328
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
5
2
What does !-- do in JavaScript?
4
3
Performance anomaly on the Intel Broadwell processor
4
4
Stack Overflow Jobs
3
5
Animated icons in email subject lines
3
6
Conditionally apply a to a method in JavaScript
2
7
Any method to predict the n° of examples for good performance in deep learning
2
8
JavaScript inheritance without using prototype
2
9
'Just stop it' profiling
2
10
How can I dynamically connect LightTable to an external browser from console?
2
Substack [?]