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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Sir Terry Pratchett has died
1019
2
Bidding farewell to Google Code
880
3
SQLite developer must have received a lot of phone calls
792
4
Why Spotify Pays So Little
613
5
I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode
610
6
Reasons not to use Facebook
605
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Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without drivers or modification
523
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MSBuild is now open source on GitHub
520
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Carbon3D – 3D Printing via Continuous Liquid Interface Production
517
10
Google Makani – Wind Energy Kites
495
Top Ask HN
1
The rising “Hackathon Hackers” culture
251
2
Favorite podcasts?
239
3
What is wrong with Reserve Bank of India?
145
4
Mobile site
97
5
How Do You Maintain Security When Working Remotely?
63
6
Digital nomad taxes – which country to pay in?
55
7
Which problems can we build an MVP for in a week?
48
8
I just got my Stackoverflow Python gold badge - is it worth anything?
47
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Your lead developer got bored. What to do?
44
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Review my startup, www.getmustapp.com
38
Top Show HN
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Textures.js, SVG Patterns for Data Visualization
404
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GraphQL for Postgres
195
3
Wget-finder
130
4
New IDE and GUI for R language
122
5
RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve
122
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Moltin – eCommerce Back End as a Service
116
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Custom New Tab page for Firefox
73
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WIP C compiler in Go, inspired by 8cc
60
9
JedLang, my first attempt at a language
59
10
SpendTree – A tool to analyze income properties
50
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else
233
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Twitter Gave Meerkat Two Hours’ Notice before Cutting Access
177
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App Submissions On Google Play Now Reviewed By Staff, Include Age-Based Ratings
149
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The best interface is no interface
143
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The Dark Web’s Top Drug Market, Evolution, Just Vanished
134
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Why Y Combinator Funded a Radical Political Party in Argentina
127
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Dell’s Linux PC sequel still just works, but adds 4K screen and rough edges
120
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ReadMe (YC W15) Creates Crisp Documentation for Developers Using Your APIs
115
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Pinterest Raises $367M at $11B valuation
109
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Google will eventually open the Google Now API to app developers
101
News [?]
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Sir Terry Pratchett has died
1019
2
The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty
472
3
California has about one year of water left
320
4
Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to become an informant
257
5
The Church of TED
236
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Tardigrades are so tough, they can survive outer space
227
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Julian Assange case: Sweden offers to question him in UK
217
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Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
200
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Fuzzy Math That's Creating Many Billion-Dollar Tech Valuations
157
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Housing markets: The spectre haunting San Francisco
155
Scientific publications [?]
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A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
129
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The Spy in the Sandbox: Practical Cache Attacks in JavaScript
85
3
Geotagging 100M Twitter accounts, independent of location-sharing preferences [pdf]
79
4
Text Understanding from Scratch [pdf]
53
5
Can recursive neural tensor networks learn logical reasoning? [pdf]
38
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RAPTOR: Routing Attacks on Privacy in Tor
38
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Detection of black holes at the LHC could indicate parallel universes
31
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Mitsubishi Quiets Car Noise with Machine Learning
26
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First Manganese-Based Superconductor Discovered
23
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Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens (2009)
22
Dev Blogs [?]
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Linux Performance Analysis: New Tools and Old Secrets
173
2
How the CIA Might Target Apple's XCode
52
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Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges
18
4
The Desks of Mozilla WebDev
13
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What Do We Know about Software Development in Startups?
9
6
FreeBSD Off-CPU Flame Graphs
8
7
Most GitHub repositories are not open source
6
8
Door Skimmer and Hidden Camera = Profit
6
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Introducing Masche: memory scanning for server security
6
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The Modern JavaScript Developer’s Toolbox
5
Tech blogs [?]
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Will the U.S. Senate Allow Big Media to Hold Blind People for Ransom?
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The Blurred Lines Copyright Verdict Is Bad News for Music
24
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EFF Asks PTO to Stop Issuing Abstract Software Patents
17
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John Gruber: Apple Invented USB Type C
14
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EFF Asks PTO to Stop Issuing Abstract Software Patents
4
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Rowhammer Explained: fast RAM writes are a vulnerability
4
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More on Arduino LLC vs. Arduino SRL
4
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Nvidia is all in on Deep Learning
4
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Apple Planning to Launch Streaming TV Service
3
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EFF, ACLU in Court to Fight for Release of Los Angeles License Plate Reader Data
3
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon RDS PostgreSQL 9.4.1 support
13
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Apple Watch App Store Apps
8
3
A History of Pi by Petr Beckmann
2
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An Entrepreneur's Tale: The Last Days in Monaco
1
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Microsoft Content Moderator
1
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The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
1
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Recombinant Human GDF-11 Protein, 5ug
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Web Development as a career – the realities
97
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BitTorrent-Style Updates Revealed in Windows 10
67
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U.S. Net Neutrality Has a Massive Copyright Loophole
39
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GM’s Stock Buyback Is Bad for America and the Company
21
5
How History Forgot Its Role in Public Debate
18
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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power
15
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Improving SSL Warnings
6
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Turn Google Drive into a DAM System for Organization
6
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Granny pirate busted
3
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Your Late-Night Emails Are Hurting Your Team
3
Science News [?]
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The myopia boom
311
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A self-fueled liquid metal motor
80
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The war between the city of Los Angeles and its mountains
38
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British Isles mapped out by genetic ancestry
36
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Whiskey Can’t Hide Its Age Either
28
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Wealth and power may have played a stronger role than 'survival of the fittest'
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Saharan 'carpet of tools' is earliest known human-made landscape
21
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Mathematicians Chase Moonshine’s Shadow
12
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Steven Weinberg on the History of Physics
10
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New Urbanist: Off-World Colonies of the Canadian Arctic
10
Social [?]
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“Your monthly rent .. shall increase from $2145 to $8900”
491
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John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”
402
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Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video]
230
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UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue
137
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What Satoshi Didn't Know [video]
71
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I have moved to naming global singletons with a The* prefix
56
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The Enigma Machine Explained (2013) [video]
31
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Let's Make a Song in SunVox [video]
13
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$50M Transacted for 6 cents with Bitcoin
11
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The Four Horsemen: Amazon/Apple/Facebook/Google
11
Github repos and gists [?]
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SQLite developer must have received a lot of phone calls
792
2
Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without drivers or modification
523
3
Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat
409
4
Resume in C
291
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Jvm.go: A JVM written in Go
284
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Drop millions of allocations by using a linked list
223
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PDF Viewing
192
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Sirius: An Open Intelligent Personal Assistant
165
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GitHub's Game Off is back
157
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Best Linux server backup system?
152
Wikipedia [?]
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Pi Day
67
2
Naming law in Sweden
30
3
Graham Island (Sicily)
14
4
Aerospike engine
7
5
The Night Battles
3
6
Dyatlov Pass incident
3
7
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
2
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Natural nuclear fission reactor
2
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Zero stroke
2
10
Motivated forgetting
2
Blogs [?]
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Things I've learned about writing software after 12 years
298
2
Programmer Passion Considered Harmful
224
3
Five Years’ Time
212
4
Where the Real Skyscrapers Are (Hint: North Dakota)
118
5
Dear Packaging, I Hate You
87
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Please stop breaking the build
72
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Enterprise software vendors have no taste
70
8
Gigaom: The Life and Death of a Venture-Funded Media Startup
61
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Algorithm Clones Facial Expressions and Pastes Them onto Other Faces
59
10
An Infinite Regress. Of Dumb: More Reflections on “Market Efficiency”
54
Stackoverflow [?]
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How do BitTorrent magnet links work?
9
2
Reserved Keywords in JavaScript
4
3
“Least Astonishment” in Python: The Mutable Default Argument
2
4
JavaScript parseInt() with leading zeros
2
5
Rendering a SceneKit scene to video output
2
6
Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?
2
7
Ruby on Rails Server options
2
8
A poem made out of reserved JavaScript keywords
2
9
The reason why a module level return statement works in Node.js
1
10
Upgrade to pg v0.18.1 If Using Ruby v2.2
1
Substack [?]