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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Lily – Drone camera
1397
2
Be Kind
1198
3
Postgres gets support for upsert
1003
4
Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation
794
5
U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: appeals court
653
6
How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without charging him with a crime
602
7
Class action lawsuit filed against Lenovo over Superfish
579
8
Facebook PathPicker
538
9
Wait, Google Sent Me
502
10
NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Their Heartbeats
473
Top Ask HN
1
If I were your dream hire, would you hire me? I live in Somalia
139
2
How to talk smart?
111
3
How much money does an average VC make?
106
4
Why are there so few law startups?
68
5
Why are Silicon Valley interviews such a drag now?
66
6
Where did you meet your significant other?
57
7
I feel like I'm in a filter bubble. How can I “expand my horizons”?
56
8
Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
52
9
What are your hobbies, and why are they cool?
48
10
Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial?
45
Top Show HN
1
This page exists only if someone is looking at it
803
2
Deck of Cards – A playing card API
255
3
Turn GNU command line tools into SaaS – Stupid Hackathon Project
160
4
Recurrent neural net plays 'neural slime volleyball' in JavaScript
147
5
Pyre – A command-line interface for Tinder
107
6
I made a command-line Slack chat client
90
7
Website launch checklist
78
8
CSS Filter Effects
63
9
OhMyPocket – Open-source version of getpocket.com
62
10
How to make your own glowing notification cube
55
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Their Heartbeats
473
2
FTC Officials Back Tesla’s Right to Sell Cars Direct to Consumers
428
3
Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules
332
4
Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support
259
5
The CHIP Is a $9 Computer That Can Almost Do It All
164
6
Russia now selling home-grown CPUs with Transmeta-like x86 emulation
152
7
Harj Taggar Is Building a New Technical Hiring Pipeline with TripleByte
115
8
Flickr redesigns web and mobile apps to create a powerhouse in photo storage
93
9
Microsoft Invests in 3 Undersea Cables to Improve Data Center Connectivity
91
10
On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech war on rats
81
News [?]
1
U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: appeals court
653
2
How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without charging him with a crime
602
3
210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum
425
4
House Votes to End N.S.A.’s Bulk Phone Data Collection
368
5
Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B
298
6
The Mind of Marc Andreessen
281
7
Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb
241
8
How Eve Online went to the edge of apocalypse and back
225
9
The last male northern white rhino
193
10
Why so many Dutch people work part time
181
Scientific publications [?]
1
NASA Announces Journey to Mars Challenge
84
2
Gallium Nitride Power Transistors Priced Cheaper Than Silicon
74
3
Scientists develop atomic-scale hardware to implement natural computing
63
4
Magnetic field applied to brain increases acceptance of false statements (2008)
40
5
Highway Networks
24
6
Sentinel’s Mission to Find 500,000 Near-Earth Asteroids
18
7
Non-Computability of Consciousness (2007)
18
8
Language Models for Image Captioning: The Quirks and What Works
14
9
Poker Pros Battle Artificial Intelligence to a Statistical Draw
11
10
A new tool to aid in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model
11
Dev Blogs [?]
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Go crypto: bridging the performance gap
211
2
CloudFlare “Interview Questions”
150
3
Weak Homegrown Crypto Dooms Open Smart Grid Protocol
142
4
First Firefox OS Smartphones in Africa
91
5
System call conversion for year 2038
76
6
Google PageSpeed Service customers: migrate to CloudFlare for acceleration
18
7
Deploying Microservices to AWS at Gilt: Introducing ION-Roller
17
8
Update on Digital Rights Management and Firefox
12
9
Amateurs Produce Amateur Cryptography
9
10
Firefox Beta now integrates Pocket
8
Tech blogs [?]
1
UN Experts Say TPP and Fast Track Threaten Human Rights
271
2
EFF Asks Patent Office to Focus on Protecting Public from Bad Patents
103
3
The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer?
58
4
House Overwhelmingly Passes USA Freedom Act Without Amendments
52
5
A Look at Altera's OpenCL SDK for FPGAs
41
6
EFF Joins New Global Campaign to Save the Link
18
7
EFF Case Analysis: Appeals Court Rules NSA Phone Records Dragnet Is Illegal
6
8
EFF Urges Appeals Court to Shut Down Attempt to Use Copyright to Censor
5
9
The Next Generation Open Compute Hardware: Tried and Tested
4
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EFF Hails Court Ruling Rejecting NSA Bulk Collection of Americans' Phone Records
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Microsoft Surface Hub
215
2
New – VPC Endpoint for Amazon S3
9
3
E-book (FREE Today): Fake It Make It, How to Make an App Prototype in 3 Hours
4
4
Dynamic GitHub Actions with AWS Lambda
3
5
Apple announces creation of two 20-megawatt solar farms to power stores in China
2
6
Amazon STEM Toys and Games
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers
353
2
Game theory’s cure for corruption
246
3
The internet’s own boy: the story of Aaron Swartz [video]
140
4
Twitter Needs New Leadership
95
5
Has Cosmology Run into a Creative Crisis?
65
6
Dart's Macro Language
36
7
Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest
27
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Omens
10
9
Farmers Unable to Repair Tractors Because Copyright
7
10
India orders piracy blackout of Vimeo, Pirate Bay and more
7
Science News [?]
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In Mathematics, Mistakes Aren’t What They Used to Be
126
2
Autonomous truck cleared to drive on US roads for the first time
121
3
Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds
115
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Chicken embryos have been altered so that the birds grow dinosaur-like snouts
68
5
Human Eyes Are Wired Backwards
56
6
Daredevil’s Powers Are More Realistic Than You Think
48
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Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet?
44
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The Family That Couldn’t Say Hippopotamus
39
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Microbiomes raise privacy concerns
33
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Does long term use of psychiatric drugs cause more harm than good?
26
Social [?]
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Computational Hydrographic Printing [video]
225
2
Using Go at The New York Times [video]
140
3
Don Knuth – Constraint Based Music Composition
107
4
Kids hack their Dad's computer on her Raspberry Pi [video]
93
5
BBS the Documentary (2013) [video]
73
6
ARM Processor – Sowing the Seeds of Success [video]
54
7
Seymour Cray: Cray-1 Introduction (1976) [video]
54
8
Google recommends not to use end-to-end encryption for GMail. Why?
18
9
“I charge 30k-60k for WordPress websites with a simple marketing plan”
17
10
Hackers and Phreakers (1994) [video]
13
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation
794
2
GitHub and Jupyter IPython Notebooks
199
3
Temporary fork enables Node.js to optionally use the Chakra JavaScript engine
170
4
Anko – Pleasant Android development in Kotlin
158
5
Keras: Fast Deep Learning Prototyping for Python
151
6
Gonix – Unix tools written in Go
148
7
Linux kernel initialization, part 8
88
8
FFI from Go to Rust
87
9
Toolz: A functional standard library for Python
84
10
ZeroBrane Lua IDE v1.00 released
74
Wikipedia [?]
1
Alberto Santos-Dumont
76
2
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959)
67
3
List of Algorithms
9
4
Synthetic molecular motor
7
5
Decentralized trust model (web of trust)
4
6
Pseudo Democracy
4
7
Glass delusion
3
8
Capacitor plague
3
9
The Apollo Affair
3
10
The Phantom time hypothesis
3
Blogs [?]
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The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car
265
2
Accepting payments is getting harder
225
3
Join the Engineering Leisure Class
220
4
Scaling Secret: Real-Time Chat
136
5
Four Years of Success and Failure on the App Store
91
6
Smart watches are dumb
89
7
We used to build steel mills near cheap power, now that's where we put servers
63
8
How Zenefits just lost an engineer
54
9
A programmable controller for connected devices (YC S13)
31
10
How to Survive 80+ Hours of Programming Every Week
28
Stackoverflow [?]
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JavaScript DIY Heredocs
3
2
The StackOverflow 2015 Developer Survey
2
3
Why would one use the Publish/Subscribe pattern (in JS/jQuery)?
2
4
Java lock-free concurrent dictionary in 13 lines
2
5
Why is string '+' faster than array join with JS?
2
6
Why does HTML think that Chuck Norris is a color
2
Substack [?]