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Top stories
1
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]
937
2
Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default
931
3
Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
862
4
7 Rejections
720
5
If you've nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear
658
6
React.js Introduction for People Who Know Just Enough JQuery
614
7
The Really Big One
612
8
Pure UI
603
9
Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2
592
10
The Icy Mountains of Pluto
591
Top Ask HN
1
How do I keep child porn out of my site?
252
2
Why don't transistors in microchips fail?
194
3
How do you deal with social media pressure on your GitHub project?
155
4
I'm going to have to lay people off, and want your advice
141
5
How do you stay sharp?
113
6
Talk me through the acquihire process
110
7
Do you get impatient when learning new things?
96
8
Is it possible to create a Saas for passive income while working a job?
90
9
Freelancers in the US: What do you do for health insurance?
65
10
Examples of startups that failed due to moving slowly?
64
Top Show HN
1
Density – Anonymous People Counter and API
258
2
Democracy.io by EFF – Write to your representatives
144
3
Durat.io
119
4
Actor Messaging platform
110
5
Nestor – Your team's intelligent assistant on Slack
87
6
A paperless 401k with automated advising built-in
83
7
GoWork – A Go Distributed Work Library
68
8
HomeControl – HomeKit implementation in Go
66
9
Markdown-UI – Write UI/UX with Markdown Syntax
65
10
Bubblin – Next-generation books
65
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Match Group Buys PlentyOfFish for $575M
246
2
Hacking Team orchestrated brazen BGP hack to hijack IPs it didn’t own
152
3
Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything
152
4
Google’s Eddystone – a flexible, open-source iBeacon alternative
146
5
Driving for Uber as an Iraq War Vet
146
6
Denmark’s wind farms generated 140% of the country’s electricity needs yesterday
143
7
A $200 privacy device has been killed, and no one knows why
119
8
Telegram Suffers DDOS, Criticism For Enabling Human Rights Lawyers In China
110
9
Jopwell (YC S15) Is Building the Missing “Pipeline” of Diverse Candidates
94
10
After Moore's Law: how phones are becoming open-source
92
News [?]
1
Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
862
2
The Really Big One
612
3
New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto
558
4
The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
473
5
New Horizons phones home
325
6
Iran Nuclear Deal Reached
283
7
The military tested bacterial weapons in San Francisco in 1950
279
8
IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
239
9
Japan’s New Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every Ten Minutes
237
10
How Big is Space?
220
Scientific publications [?]
1
The Icy Mountains of Pluto
591
2
New Image of Pluto
366
3
NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005)
88
4
ReWalk Robotics's New Exoskeleton Lets Paraplegic Stroll the Streets of NYC
38
5
A Faster Pseudopolynomial Time Algorithm for Subset Sum
34
6
The Icy Mountains of Pluto
28
7
Charon’s Surprising Youthful and Varied Terrain
15
8
Inside an MRI, a Non-Metallic Robot Performs Prostate Surgery
10
9
Mobile Robots and RFID Tags Internet-Of-Things-Ify the Outdoors
8
10
Flashristors: Getting the Best of Memristors and Flash Memory
7
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Solving multi-core Python
166
2
Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice (2009)
155
3
An unexpected benefit of open-sourcing our code
154
4
Using Emacs and Git with Magit 2.1
143
5
Restartable sequences
43
6
0-day Adobe Flash remote code execution exploit. No patch is available
31
7
An Inside Look at Google BigQuery [pdf]
16
8
Delay-gradient congestion control
13
9
Dharma – A grammar-based fuzzer
9
10
Stripe: Amex Express Checkout
9
Tech blogs [?]
1
Victory for CloudFlare Against SOPA-like Court Order
155
2
XKeyscore Exposé Reaffirms the Need to Rid the Web of Tracking Cookies
129
3
How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East
128
4
Three of Ethiopia's Zone 9 Bloggers Released from Prison, Cleared of All Charges
12
5
Lenovo to Ship Laptops with Ubuntu Linux in India
6
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Apple Launches Public Betas of iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan
3
7
European Parliament Blazes a Path for Overdue Copyright Reform
3
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EFF Seeks Records About 'Hemisphere' Phone Call Collection Program
3
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In Memoriam: Caspar Bowden
2
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American Fights Ethiopian Government’s Illegal Use of Spyware in Court Tuesday
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
403
2
AWS CodePipeline
217
3
AWS Device Farm
185
4
AWS CodeCommit
136
5
New iPod touch
49
6
AWS Service Catalog
37
7
AWS Budgets
10
8
AWS Device Farm
5
9
Windows Server 2003 extended support officially ends today
5
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Apple Pay is now live in the UK
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted in Criminal Copyright Case
265
2
Why Web Pages Suck
114
3
Chrome Blocks Major Torrent Sites Over "Harmful Programs"
103
4
The Disney Recipe (2013)
69
5
Netflix and the Conservation of Attractive Profits
67
6
What to do about sun.misc.Unsafe
48
7
Earth’s aliens
42
8
The Rise and Suspiciously Rapid Fall of Freedomland U.S.A.
38
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CloudFlare Forced to Censor Anti-Censorship Site
28
10
Curation and Algorithms
16
Science News [?]
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New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
142
2
Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz (2011)
57
3
The Girl Who Smelled Pink: Are we are all born with synesthesia?
41
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Before Moby-Dick, There Was “Two Years Before the Mast”
29
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The Colors We Eat: Food color changes the experience of taste
21
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Can Science Tell Us What Beauty Is? The Neurology of Creativity
14
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Water and Vice: Producing Intoxicants in an Era of Extreme Drought
14
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Red-Eyed Magpies, White-Speckled Ravens and Other Genetic Mutations
13
9
Solar activity predicted to fall 60% in 2030s, to 'mini ice age' levels
10
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The New Laws of Explosive Networks
10
Social [?]
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You cannot start a tweet with “D. Tusk”
211
2
The biggest leak of TTIP documents yet: more than 100 confidential papers
108
3
The Mill CPU Architecture – The Compiler [video]
96
4
I Am Sam Altman, Reddit Board Member and President of Y Combinator. AMA
65
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PolyConf 15: Unikernels [video]
40
6
Bits of Advice for VM Writers [video]
29
7
WebRTC being used on nytimes.com to report visitors' local IP addresses
29
8
This animated map shows how religion spread across the world
28
9
The Promise of Relational Programming [video]
28
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Ellen Pao resigns from Reddit
28
Github repos and gists [?]
1
React UI Builder
391
2
Echochamber.js
196
3
Hack.chat – A minimal, distraction-free chat application
183
4
DeepDreamVideo
145
5
Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming in JavaScript
114
6
Replete – a standalone ClojureScript REPL for iOS
106
7
Gevent now supports Python 3
92
8
An open source Xilinx Spartan 6 miniPCIe development board
92
9
Leaked Hacking Team code to edit browser history?
77
10
A formalization in Coq of the Haskell pipes library
73
Wikipedia [?]
1
Potato paradox
559
2
Cincinnati Subway
94
3
Seikilos epitaph
62
4
Floyd–Hoare logic
36
5
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
18
6
Dagen H
7
7
Brooks–Baxter War
7
8
Signalling System No. 7
6
9
WD-40
5
10
Baker-Miller Pink
5
Blogs [?]
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7 Rejections
720
2
Wealthfront: Silicon Valley Tech at Wall Street Prices
313
3
The anatomy of a credit card form
226
4
Why we maintain desktop apps for OS X, Windows, and a web application
129
5
A first GraphQL Server
119
6
A Cynic’s Guide to Fintech Business Models
88
7
Go 1.5's vendor/ experiment
80
8
The Web We Have to Save
79
9
The Biggest Tech Problems So Obvious We Aren’t Fixing Them
68
10
The F-35 Can’t Fight at Long Range, Either
58
Stackoverflow [?]
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How should you deal with auth and sharing Users info across microservices?
15
2
Why Does “not(True) in [False, True]” Return False?
6
3
Crazy performance deviations after replacing 32-bit loop counter with 64-bit
3
4
10 year old bug in Visual Studio C++ compiler
2
5
Interesting viewpoint on parsing HTML with regex
2
6
Why binary and not ternary computing?
1
7
How can this code print Hello World without any print statement
1
8
32-bit VS 64-bit loop count variable introduces performance deviations
1
9
Crazy performance deviations after replacing 32-bit loop counter with 6
1
Substack [?]