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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
G is for Google
2228
2
“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
1543
3
OnHub
984
4
Phoenix 1.0
792
5
The Web We Have to Save
760
6
Pixar in a Box – Khan Academy
753
7
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
708
8
Bootstrap 4 alpha
655
9
“It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”
645
10
“Stop reverse engineering our code”
613
Top Ask HN
1
I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay
584
2
Who is hiring? (August 2015)
504
3
Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
266
4
Books with a high signal to noise ratio?
260
5
How to Find the Best Info on Cancer Treatments?
188
6
What does the percentage next to posts mean?
166
7
Best resources on webapp security?
165
8
What are your best “soft skill” resources?
164
9
How are some people exceptionally productive?
156
10
The Internet is getting lame. What's next?
139
Top Show HN
1
My SSH server knows who you are
836
2
Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data
514
3
Image Processing for Everybody
451
4
JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack
375
5
Tonic – A data visualizing REPL for Node.js
342
6
Print iconic patents for your walls
241
7
Ear training using midi.js
230
8
Find your competitors that Google can't
189
9
Guess which government programs work
184
10
Is it vulnerable? Drag-n-drop your Gemfile.lock to check
175
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
My husband needed therapy after working for Amazon
437
2
M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger
324
3
Samsung unveils 2.5-inch 16TB SSD
292
4
Ohm (YC S15) is a smarter, lighter car battery that works with your existing car
274
5
Tesla’s Model S P85D Scores 103 Out of 100 on Consumer Reports’ Ratings System
215
6
Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud
188
7
DigitalOcean Teams Up with Bitnami, Install Over 100 Web Apps with a Few Clicks
182
8
Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politicians' deleted tweets
179
9
The Toddler at Y Combinator
167
10
Porsche 911: 52 years of staying true to its roots
163
News [?]
1
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
708
2
AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic
568
3
Oliver Sacks has died
495
4
Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cover the plane
472
5
Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president in an unconventional way
446
6
Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)
445
7
Tesla unveils new car-charging robo-snake
401
8
Stocks Off Sharply as Market Upheaval Grows
322
9
VW Has Spent Two Years Trying to Hide a Big Security Flaw
309
10
Google loses data as lightning strikes
307
Scientific publications [?]
1
From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth
437
2
Towards Neural Network-based Reasoning
134
3
New design could finally help to bring fusion power closer to reality
127
4
AirBnB's Pricing Algorithm
106
5
Calculus on Graphs (2004)
80
6
The Z1: Architecture and Algorithms of Konrad Zuse's First Computer (2014) [pdf]
71
7
MergeShuffle: A Very Fast, Parallel Random Permutation Algorithm
70
8
Caltech announces discovery in fundamental physics
70
9
Dawn Sends Sharper Scenes from Ceres
61
10
A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style [pdf]
56
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Firefox exploit found in the wild
415
2
Who Hacked Ashley Madison?
410
3
The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
363
4
Running three hours of Ruby tests in under three minutes
287
5
The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
281
6
Mozilla's Servo Engine Now Capable of Rendering GitHub
251
7
“Big data” features coming in PostgreSQL 9.5
226
8
Removing the 140-character limit from Direct Messages
166
9
Fuzzing a DNS parser written in Go
165
10
What Does the OS X Activity Monitor’s “Energy Impact” Actually Measure?
137
Tech blogs [?]
1
Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers
322
2
EFF Guide to Street Level Surveillance
166
3
Windows 10 Review
146
4
New TPP Leaked Text Reveals Weakening Resistance to Copyright Proposals
133
5
Google to France: We Won't Forget It for You Wholesale
132
6
Obama Administration Supports Privacy-Invasive “Cybersecurity” Bill
119
7
Intel Skylake Review
102
8
Will Hollywood's Whining Thwart Better TPP Copyright Rules?
80
9
EFF Tells Federal Appeals Court: Google Subpoena Threatens Online Speech
71
10
Facial Recognition Shows Why We Need Records on Police Use of Biometrics
23
FAANG+ [?]
1
Amazon Underground
350
2
AWS Device Farm adds support for iOS
66
3
Microsoft's homepage circa 1994
39
4
“Hey Siri, give us a hint.” – Apple event on September 9 at 10 a.m. PDT
11
5
Amazon Underground
9
6
Amazon is bribing Android users into constantly running analytics with free apps
8
7
Apple and Cisco Partner to Deliver Fast Lane for iOS Enterprise Users
6
8
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned – The Myth of the Objective
6
9
Amazon Underground – Amazon's Android App Store
6
10
Apple kills store.apple.com
5
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Oracle’s license agreement as it pertains to reverse engineering
349
2
How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos
291
3
What does it take to make Google work at scale?
247
4
The Container Ship Tourism Industry
145
5
Quantum weirdness is everywhere in life
137
6
Ignition: V8 Interpreter
131
7
Chairs of SFO
118
8
Go 1.6 GC improvements
115
9
A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (2011)
102
10
The Myth of Chastity Belts
82
Science News [?]
1
A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013)
226
2
Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish
167
3
A metabolic master switch underlying human obesity
131
4
Modified yeast produce opiates from sugar
102
5
Inside the Goth Chicken: Black Bones, Black Muscle and a Black Heart
102
6
Octopus genome holds clues to uncanny intelligence
102
7
Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language
97
8
Reliably measuring IQ through commercial puzzle games
93
9
Physicists announce graphene’s latest cousin: stanene
93
10
Superconductivity record sparks wave of follow-up physics
93
Social [?]
1
I made a cell phone [video]
487
2
How “oldschool” graphics worked [video]
434
3
Real Life First Person Shooter, Chatroulette Version [video]
423
4
Beyond PEP 8 – Best practices for beautiful intelligible code [video]
262
5
“One billion people used Facebook in a single day”
193
6
I am Mt. Gox's first employee – AMA
189
7
OCamlers' critiques of Haskell
177
8
I Will Kill You [video]
159
9
Code Rush – The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla (2000) [video]
142
10
Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing [video]
133
Github repos and gists [?]
1
“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
1543
2
Edward Snowden at IETF 93
442
3
Gotty – Share your terminal as a web application
442
4
Windows Bridge for iOS
417
5
Things to commit just before leaving your job
379
6
Linux workstation security checklist
376
7
Linus Torvalds did not commit this
301
8
GitHub Desktop is now available
293
9
OS X 10.10.5 kernel local privilege escalation
278
10
Hackpad source code
265
Wikipedia [?]
1
Cybiko
122
2
142857
100
3
National Raisin Reserve
100
4
DRAKON – An algorithmic visual programming language
86
5
Gray Code
86
6
IBM System/360 Model 67
73
7
Finger Binary
72
8
Printer's key
66
9
Theremin
61
10
Essentially contested concept
60
Blogs [?]
1
The Web We Have to Save
760
2
“I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”
458
3
Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
400
4
Change Your Name
355
5
How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button
298
6
Work Hard, Live Well
235
7
What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers?
231
8
Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?
209
9
BEAM languages, Hindley–Milner type systems, and new technologies
202
10
Gravity's Oldest Puzzles
186
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Stack Overflow Hits 10M Questions
75
2
How to search for a commit message in GitHub?
50
3
Scheme: Procedures that return another inner procedure
43
4
Fastest way to sort 10 numbers? (numbers are 32 bit)
33
5
Ten. Million. Questions
31
6
Stackoverflow Developer Survey 2015
11
7
Tim Berners-Lee on StackOverflow
7
8
Why is NaN – NaN == 0.0?
3
9
10M questions on Stack Overflow
3
10
Optimizing tail-recursion in Python
2
Substack [?]