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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

1608

2

Console.mihai();

1445

3

The days are long but the decades are short

1163

4

Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

915

5

Apple now rejecting apps with Pebble Smartwatch support

702

6

Docker without Docker

681

7

Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps

594

8

Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

533

9

494

10

Jq – A Command-line JSON processor

451

Top Ask HN

1

What are the best product landing pages you've stumbled upon?

333

2

Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?

247

3

How do you log application events?

221

4

I am about to be fired. What should I do?

195

5

How does a beginner best spend one week of learning machine learning?

107

6

Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

84

7

How to keep yourself prepared for potential interviews?

82

8

Brag about open-source projects you're proud of

76

9

Are there any startups making desktop apps?

71

10

Does anyone have an old computer laying around unused in Brisbane, AU?

71

Top Show HN

1

A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example

764

2

A random startup generator

607

3

Ramjet.js – Morph DOM elements into each other

309

4

Caddy, a cross-platform HTTP/2 web server

208

5

Startup Timelines

111

6

Feature voting for GitHub

108

7

Betty, Open Source Google Voice with Receptionist Abilities

91

8

A virtual machine designed for programming workshops

64

9

Continous Heart Rate for Android Wear and Apple Watch

62

10

Effective java – A tool to explore your Java code written in Clojure

60

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

1608

2

Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac

915

3

Secret Shuts Down

417

4

Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10

281

5

Microsoft Announces Continuum, Turning Windows 10 Phones into Desktops

272

6

Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop

238

7

TV maker Vizio may finally get paid after beating 17th patent troll

181

8

Facebook Is Shutting Down Its API for Giving Your Friends’ Data to Apps

149

9

Cheaper bandwidth or bust: How Google saved YouTube

147

10

Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pilots’ iPads crashed

130

News [?]

1

Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day

315

2

“Cheating teachers go to jail. Cheating Wall Streeters don’t. What’s up?”

307

3

Amazon Finally Discloses Cloud Services Sales, Showing 49% Jump

301

4

Comcast Plans to Drop Time Warner Cable Deal

272

5

The Engineer’s Lament

248

6

This Is How Fast America Changes Its Mind

243

7

Wi-Fi hack creates 'no iOS zone' that cripples iPhones and iPads

224

8

Declassified Report Shows Doubts About Value of NSA’s Warrantless Spying

203

9

A web-reading bot made millions on the options market

200

10

Deleting the Family Tree – Ancestry.com erased 10 years of correspondence

190

Scientific publications [?]

1

DNA is a fractal antenna in electromagnetic fields (2011)

67

2

Scientists achieve critical steps to building first practical quantum computer

34

3

A Cheap, Ubiquitous Earthquake Warning System

33

4

Rosemary tea consumption results in anti-depressant-like behavior in mice

32

5

Study finds we think better on our feet, literally

30

6

Levodopa enhances explicit new-word learning in healthy adults

22

7

The Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors

17

8

Game theory elucidates the collective behavior of bosons

10

9

To Make a Robot Secure: An Analysis of Security Threats Against Surgical Robots

8

10

Russian ISS-Cargo Spacecraft Spinning Out of Control

6

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Python without an operating system

219

2

CloudFlare's New Dashboard

80

3

Welcoming TellApart to Twitter

53

4

A Day in the Life of a Stolen Healthcare Record

46

5

Obstacles for kdbus

38

6

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Shares Nine Patterns of Cloud Adoption

15

7

Of Phishing Attacks and WordPress 0days

12

8

The Further Democratization of QUANTUM

12

9

Introducing Multi-User Organizations: Share an Account Without Sharing a Login

9

10

An Incredibly Insecure Voting Machine

7

Tech blogs [?]

1

Congress: Stop Trying to Limit EFF’s Ability to Challenge Patents

264

2

Aaron’s Law Reintroduced: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Didn’t Fix Itself

196

3

EFF's Updated SSL Configuration

113

4

The Next Generation Open Compute Hardware: Tried and Tested

37

5

Apple bans Watch apps “whose primary function is telling time”

14

6

Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection

7

7

Help EFF Defend the Right to Tinker with Your Car

7

8

Your Apple Watch can now open your hotel room door at over 100 Starwood Hotels

7

9

House of Representatives Passes Cybersecurity Bills Without Fixing Core Problems

5

10

Tim Cook: Component Cost Breakdowns on Apple Products Are Nowhere Near Accurate

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Business

135

2

Apple Reports Record Second Quarter Results

57

3

Apple's Research Kit

17

4

AWS Summits 2015 – London: Session Recordings and Slides

7

5

Strength in Microsoft Cloud Highlights Q3 Results

6

6

Amazon's 17th top reviewer is clearly not buying the items being reviewed

6

7

Scaling Amazon ECS Services Automatically Using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda

4

8

Amazon Business is finally here

3

9

Amazon Business

3

10

AWS and the Square Kilometer Array Launch Astrocompute in the Cloud Grants

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Forgotten Corners of World of Warcraft

307

2

Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks

259

3

What will C++17 be?

122

4

The art of butchery

66

5

Here’s How Managers Can Be Replaced by Software

18

6

Why did the chicken cross the world?

12

7

Griffith Observatory's Tesla Coil

10

8

America's largest collection of early tavern signs

10

9

Would you describe today's web browsers as “innovative?”

9

10

Twitter needs new leadership

5

Science News [?]

1

Lake Michigan Is So Clear Right Now Its Shipwrecks Are Visible from the Air

243

2

Tiny robots climb walls carrying more than 100 times their weight

121

3

A systems theorist explains what’s wrong with standard models of intelligence

109

4

How Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time

78

5

Is the Universe a Hologram?

77

6

Lenin's Body Improves with Age

74

7

The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze

45

8

Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox

30

9

Why the Flash Crash Really Matters

30

10

Network maps reveal hidden molecular connections between disparate diseases

28

Social [?]

1

The Mahler Project – The ZX Spectrum Orchestra [video]

52

2

This is what you sound like when refusing to address technical debt

49

3

Plain Threads are the GOTO of todays computing [video]

41

4

Under the Influence: New York Hardcore

38

5

Almost all websites redirecting China users to http://wpkg.org/

15

6

Visual Studio Announced for Mac OS X and Linux

13

7

Bootstrap 4 will be in SCSS

11

8

Elon Musk Teases Mysterious Tesla Box

9

9

Dart Developer Summit 2015 Live Stream

8

10

Gabe Newell is doing an AMA regarding paid Steam mods

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Disque – a distributed message broker

420

2

Microsoft .NET CoreCLR is now running on FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64)

393

3

Pure Python Vim clone

255

4

C# 7 Work List of Features

246

5

An App Launch Guide for Indie Developers

181

6

176

7

Explained Visually is now open source

161

8

Rodeo – A data-centric IDE for Python

149

9

FOAM: New JavaScript Framework by Google Engineers

145

10

Query your local network for Chromecasts and have them play media

128

Wikipedia [?]

1

19

2

14

3

Unexpected Hanging Paradox

13

4

12

5

10

6

7

7

Evolved antenna

5

8

Seattle windshield pitting epidemic

5

9

4

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

Why can’t we read anymore?

329

2

Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later

180

3

Why we are leaving Dropbox

136

4

High Frequency Trading on the Coinbase Exchange

111

5

The 2048 guys stole my iPhone game

88

6

82

7

That Way We’re All Writing Now

68

8

Living with Being Dead

56

9

Why Americans Are Going Abroad

49

10

Are we all born with perfect pitch?

48

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why can python-requests send GET request with body but NSURLSession can't?

3

2

How do you merge two Git repositories?

3

3

The best way to learn Lisp

3

4

ViewSet/ModelViewSet feature in Java-based framework

2

5

2015 Developer Survey by Stack Overflow

2

6

Expand a random range from 1–5 to 1–7 (SO)

2

7

Butterfly mode in emacs

1

8

GAE unable to resolve server's DNS address for custom pages

1

9

Copy-swap idiom [C++]

1

10

How trustworthy is JavaScript's random implementation in various browsers?

1

Substack [?]