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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Announcing Rust 1.0
1363
2
B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89
647
3
Get Your Shit Together
635
4
Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet
633
5
Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla
503
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Microsoft TouchDevelop
500
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“I'm wiping this repository away”
485
8
Fish shell
451
9
JavaScript at 20
427
10
Improve your touch typing
413
Top Ask HN
1
How do I put together a computer for my blind mom?
339
2
Am I missing out by not being in sillicon valley?
148
3
How do I get my first contracting client?
142
4
I just got $100k in AWS credits, how should I use it?
109
5
What are some of the best HN comments that you've read?
104
6
What makes a good hackathon?
69
7
A startup runs at a loss for 6+ years, gets acquired. Was it a success?
54
8
Why don't websites have 'text only' backup versions?
53
9
How do you use Reddit daily?
46
10
Why is IE8 usage growing?
33
Top Show HN
1
Twenty
666
2
Hydrogen Brings Light Table to Atom
190
3
Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac
141
4
Realtime Server-Sent Events in Go
118
5
Akepa – Our HN App
91
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MCServer – A FOSS Minecraft server in C++, with Lua plugins
64
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Pubmail.io
54
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Watermark.js – Functional ES6 lib for watermarking in the browser
46
9
My first portfolio site - Full Stack Engineer
44
10
Simple Hash Table Implementation for C
42
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Meteor Raises $20M
256
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Clinkle Implodes as Employees Quit in Protest of CEO
225
3
Engineers of addiction
125
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Algolia (YC W14) raises a $18.3M Series A
123
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Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before
106
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A Developer’s Guide to the Wild West of App Discovery
93
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How a drug dealer’s IP was found out by package tracking
93
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Most children are happy, but material deprivation catches up eventually
88
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The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 2: The Fall
86
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Highways gutted American cities. So why did they build them?
72
News [?]
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B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89
647
2
Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla
503
3
PayPal penalised for 'deceptive' practices
380
4
In Flight
318
5
RadioShack Sold Consumer Data to Pay Off Its Debts
299
6
CEO Wanted University Scientists Dismissed Over Link Between Fracking and Quakes
226
7
Start doing more things alone
199
8
Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin
185
9
Fake Diplomas, Real Cash: Pakistani Company Axact Reaps Millions
184
10
GoPro's CEO honors a costly promise
146
Scientific publications [?]
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Zoox, a Robo-Taxi Start-Up Taking on Google and Uber
82
2
Alan Turing: The Applications of Probability to Cryptography [pdf]
47
3
A Tunable Liquid Metal Antennas for Tuning in to Anything
44
4
Topology looks for the patterns inside big data
40
5
Are random trading strategies more successful than technical ones? (2013) [pdf]
17
6
The Statistics of Repetitions – Alan M. Turing [pdf]
7
7
A Room with the Lowest Magnetic Field in the Solar System
7
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Container Relocation Problem: Approximation, Asymptotic, Incomplete Information
5
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Computing at the speed of light: Team takes big step toward faster computers
4
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What it would really take to reverse climate change (Post mortem of Google's RE
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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Reasons for Python async/await
135
2
Python Coroutines with Async and Await
101
3
Improving kernel string handling
38
4
eBPF: One Small Step
19
5
CloudFlare Supports the Passage of the USA Freedom Act
14
6
Firefox Beta now integrates Pocket
13
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A new way to discover Tweets
10
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New York Stock Exchange Launches Bitcoin Price Index
9
9
EBPF: One Small Step
8
10
Lean Startup, and How It Almost Killed Our Company
6
Tech blogs [?]
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Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet
633
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Inside OCZ's Factory: How SSDs Are Made
26
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EFF Joins 150 Companies to Urge President Obama to Support Strong Encryption
20
4
Apple Objects to Customer Information Being Included in Sale of RadioShack
10
5
EFF and Gamers to Copyright Office: Multiplayer Matters (of Course)
8
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Senate Intelligence Chair to Constituents: I Don't Care What You Think
7
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Google Will Soon Limit Mac Chrome Extensions to Web Store to Curb Malware
5
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The Senate’s Excuses for Reauthorizing Section 215
5
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Senate Reverses Course and Advances TPP Fast Track Bill
4
10
iOS and OS X to get new font
4
FAANG+ [?]
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Look Before You Leap – The Coming Leap Second and AWS
170
2
Apple Releases new MacBook Pros with Force Touch Trackpad
91
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Amazon now requiring Prime membership to buy popular Blu-rays
20
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EC2 Spot Fleet API
9
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Apple Introduces 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch Trackpad $1,999
4
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AWS Directory Service
3
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O'Reilly book on Rust available for pre-order
3
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AWS Educate: Credits, Training, Content and Collaboration for Students and Educators
2
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AWS Pop-up Lofts
2
10
Apple iOS Security Guide: iOS 8.3 or later [pdf]
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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We Need to Ditch Generational Labels
44
2
The Evolution of Diet
33
3
McDonald’s Has to Do More Than Manipulate Its Stock Price
27
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Does Life End at 35?
17
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'eztv' shuts down after hostile takeover
13
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ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se have been seized
11
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Instead of elections, let's use lotteries
10
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Why Tesla Won’t Be Able to Scale
7
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Tesla’s New Strategy Is Over 100 Years Old
5
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EZTV Shuts Down After Hostile Takeover
5
Science News [?]
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Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math?
110
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A wave of experiments is probing the root of quantum weirdness
98
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Top Design Flaws in the Human Body: Our bodies are full of hack solutions
98
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We Need More Autopsies, to Help Save the Living
72
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The Data That Threatened to Break Physics
65
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Panda guts not suited to digesting bamboo
54
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Drug perks up old muscles and aging brains
46
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The Particle That Broke a Cosmic Speed Limit
38
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Aid burst lifts people out of extreme poverty
36
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Pill of super-protective 'heavy' fat may treat degenerative diseases
33
Social [?]
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Jeri Ellsworth, self-taught engineer, talks about her career (2011) [video]
129
2
Squarepusher virtual reality music video – WASD to look around
71
3
Lessons from Erlang VM [video]
68
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Inside the D-Wave Fridge [video]
51
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A brief history of fighting spam at Pinterest
49
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Atari's Cyan Engineering – Splendor in the Grass (1982)
20
7
SIGGRAPH 2015 – Technical Papers Trailer
19
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Rand Paul Is Filibustering Senate of Patriot Act Renewal
9
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Crypto optimizations for Go from CloudFlare/Intel blocked by licensing issues
9
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Meteor Is the Best/Easiest Reactive Back End for React
8
Github repos and gists [?]
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Microsoft TouchDevelop
500
2
“I'm wiping this repository away”
485
3
Julia issue #8839 closed
273
4
Asmttpd – Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly
159
5
Snake: Full Python Scripting in Vim
154
6
Wego: a weather app for the terminal
153
7
H2O – an optimized HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2
104
8
Clojure Development Environment for Excel
78
9
Linux kernel initialization, part 9: RCU initialization
70
10
A simple UI framework for Rust
69
Wikipedia [?]
1
Norwegian butter crisis (2011)
176
2
The Machine Stops
93
3
Atomic gardening
22
4
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
10
5
Wikipedia: Unusual Articles
8
6
Lucky iron fish
4
7
Personal rapid transit (AKA podcar)
4
8
Acoustic Kitty
3
9
Cat righting reflex
3
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Kardashev Scale
3
Blogs [?]
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Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck
260
2
Interview with Eric Brewer
186
3
A Bitcoin miner in every hand
167
4
Advantages of Monolithic Version Control
92
5
Training for Discontent
52
6
What happens to light when it hits the sun?
47
7
Weird thing happening when touching a Nexus 5 and a MacBook
31
8
“Cameras Were Invented for Inarticulate Photographers Like Me”
27
9
What Passes for Excellence in Silicon Valley
23
10
How to be polite
19
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python?
5
2
India has highest percentage of female developers – Stack Overflow Survey 2015
2
3
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color
2
4
Why [] is faster than list()
1
Substack [?]