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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

John Nash Has Died

1282

2

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

913

3

Solved by Flexbox

671

4

Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat

605

5

Unfortunately, we have renewed our ICANN accreditation

604

6

Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

491

7

Unhappy Birthday

479

8

Rearchitecting GitHub Pages

477

9

447

10

442

Top Ask HN

1

Where can I buy real software companies?

485

2

What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

224

3

Do you feel like you're missing out?

104

4

I wrote a Slack compatible server. Can I open source it?

101

5

Why is it so hard to find remote jobs in Europe?

101

6

Software developers, What happened when you were fired/laid off?

72

7

A coding test or working for free?

69

8

Anyone else planning to head back to Microsoft?

54

9

Which cloud do you use, and why?

53

10

What's your backup setup? Manual or Automated?

50

Top Show HN

1

Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

582

2

An Isomorphic JavaScript Framework Faster Than React

337

3

JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

328

4

An old rotary phone converted into a mobile phone

222

5

InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail

176

6

Typedetail.com – featuring Apple's new typeface San Francisco

137

7

Multiplayer NES Server in 77 Lines of Go

127

8

Compass that points you to a photo's EXIF location

120

9

My reply to LinkedIn recruiters

117

10

IPC between multiple Java processes/JVMs with nanosecond latency

114

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The mystery of the power bank phone taking over Ghana

326

2

Reid Hoffman on the relationship between employers and employees

231

3

White House Sides with Oracle, Tells Supreme Court APIs Are Copyrightable

200

4

Pebble Time review: an underdog among smartwatches

199

5

Mozilla overhauls Firefox smartphone plan to focus on quality, not cost

136

6

I quit working full-time years ago–here’s why I recommend it highly

128

7

Emmy Noether changed the course of physics

120

8

Apple Names Jony Ive Chief Design Officer

79

9

No more dieting and other things we do differently after reporting on healthcare

65

10

My Struggle with the Last Great Taboo: Admitting My Salary

64

News [?]

1

FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S

405

2

Why PowerPoint should be banned

284

3

The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole

261

4

Senate Blocks Patriot Act Extension

227

5

SpaceX cleared for US military launches

197

6

Vox Media Acquiring ReCode

178

7

Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace

175

8

EU dropped pesticide laws due to US pressure over TTIP, documents reveal

162

9

Why do people waste so much time at work?

162

10

After Senate vote, NSA prepares to shut down phone tracking program

156

Scientific publications [?]

1

Quantum computer emulated by a classical system

31

2

DopeLearning: A Computational Approach to Rap Lyrics Generation

24

3

Resveratrol and Clinical Trials (2013)

23

4

Researchers first to create a single-molecule diode

17

5

Squeezed quantum cats

10

6

Linking superconductivity and structure

10

7

Alan M. Turing: The Applications of Probability to Cryptography

5

8

End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies [pdf]

5

9

Are You Talking to a Machine? Image question answering with neural networks

4

10

Kira Radinsky, the Prophet of the Web

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The end for Mandriva

236

2

PostgreSQL: the good, the bad, and the ugly

177

3

Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU

163

4

Ext4 encryption

105

5

Logjam: the latest TLS vulnerability explained

92

6

Help Test Changes to New Tab in Firefox Beta

29

7

Quantifying the Effects of Firefox’s Tracking Protection (2014)

28

8

Suggested sites in Firefox based on browsing history

23

9

Head-Scratching Begins on Proposed Wassenaar Export Control Rules

7

10

An introduction to Clear Containers

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Africa's Worst New Internet Censorship Law Could Be Coming to South Africa

189

2

Report on FBI’s Use of Patriot Act Highlights Need for Intelligence Reform

122

3

Why Mitch McConnell Cannot Be Allowed to Decide the Fate of the Patriot Act

104

4

Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Expand Patent Liability, but Limits Defenses

76

5

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Review

41

6

TISA: Another Treaty You've Never Heard of Makes Secret Rules for Internet

23

7

Apple drops discoveryd in latest OS X beta following months of network issues

13

8

Logjam, part 1: Why the Internet is Broken Again (an explainer)

12

9

iOS 9 will better support older hardware, including the iPad mini and iPhone 4S

10

10

Jonathan Ive promoted to Chief Design Officer, 2 new execs to lead design depts

8

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Loft Program Expands to NYC

11

2

Login and Pay with Amazon releases new SDKs, code samples, and docs

5

3

Amazon PrimeNow

2

4

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

1

5

Amazon CloudFront Makes It Easier to Invalidate Multiple Objects

1

6

Common Lisp Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

1

7

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Mountains Aren't the Shape You Think

71

2

Do we really want to fuse our minds together?

59

3

The Internet Archive Petabox Storage System

57

4

The Great Decoupling

35

5

The Meanings of Life

30

6

A Strong Mode for JavaScript

18

7

Google Fiber Sends Automated Piracy 'Fines' to Subscribers

15

8

Backyard evolution: Evolution in the bat of a butterfly wing

10

9

Google Fiber Sends Automated Piracy 'Fines' to Subscribers

9

10

How to build a fake ancient city in 5 years

6

Science News [?]

1

Scientists reverse aging in human cell lines and give theory of aging a new life

136

2

Deep Learning – Review by LeCun, Bengio, and Hinton

128

3

Ancient Scrolls Blackened by Vesuvius Are Readable at Last

105

4

Why the Battle of Waterloo was fought

75

5

Walking Through a Doorway Makes You Forget (2011)

74

6

Tracing the life story of a Bronze Age female

73

7

Military technology: Laser weapons get real

62

8

A multifaceted program causes lasting progress for the very poor

56

9

A Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical People Are

46

10

New human ancestor discovered near fossil of ‘Lucy’

45

Social [?]

1

P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo (2014) [video]

190

2

MenuetOS 1.0 – 1.5 MB OS written entirely in assembly [video]

92

3

Arduino-based backyard aquaponics (2013) [video]

53

4

Snowden is doing a Reddit AMA

39

5

Quake 3 on a 16Mhz Atari Falcon

24

6

iPhone message security vulnerability crashes iOS

9

7

[video] The Soul of Software – Avdi Grimm

9

8

Elixir Conf 2015 videos

8

9

The button of Reddit finally reached 0

7

10

The Air Force Has Certified SpaceX's Falcon 9

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Underscore and Lodash Merge Thread

208

2

Cryptographic Right Answers

187

3

“The benchmark numbers are completely wrong for both databases”

165

4

Yahoo Open-Sources MySQL Performance Analyzer

139

5

Metascala – A JVM written in Scala

139

6

Mach7: Pattern Matching for C++

109

7

LaZagne – An open source application used to retrieve lots of passwords

104

8

Macros in Python: quasiquotes, case classes, LINQ and more

93

9

91

10

Scrape: A simple, higher level interface for Go web scraping

79

Wikipedia [?]

1

105

2

London Bridge (Lake Havasu)

43

3

22

4

8

5

8

6

8

7

7

8

"lp0 on Fire doesn't reliably indicate whether printer is actually aflame"

6

9

Oh-My-God particle

4

10

List of newspapers in the United Kingdom by circulation

3

Blogs [?]

1

Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger

391

2

I Let IBM’s Watson Tell Me What to Cook for a Week

280

3

Zero Downtime with HAProxy

90

4

Why I am happy downgrading from a $500 to a $75 smartphone

82

5

How containers became a tech darling, and why Docker became their poster child

68

6

What Good Are C, C++, and Java?

32

7

Please Stop Blocking Everything but Googlebot in Robots.txt

28

8

Time, People and Money: Exactly Why ‘Hardware Is Hard’

26

9

The Proof of Wagner's Conjecture and Why It Matters

24

10

23

Stackoverflow [?]

1

JavaScript: Why does 00.0 cause a syntax error?

7

2

2015 Dev Survey – Stack Overflow

1

3

Need help for school project ASP.NET

1

4

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

1

5

C++ implementation of XML schema XSD 1.1?

1

6

Why are delimited continuation primitives named “shift” and “reset”?

1

7

iOS 8.3 Interactive Transition Bug

1

Substack [?]