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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

998

2

Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014)

988

3

Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

922

4

847

5

Dear Google Mail Team

719

6

Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet

699

7

Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway

691

8

613

9

Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort

535

10

How a car works (2012)

508

Top Ask HN

1

Good Python codebases to read?

278

2

How do I stay motivated to learn?

110

3

Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?

104

4

How did you deal with depression?

90

5

What is the best way to learn Machine Learning in Python?

87

6

Is non-adjustable mobile font size a real problem?

86

7

Is physics moving forward?

85

8

What equivalents of Erlang/OTP exist for other languages?

81

9

What is it like working at Netflix?

55

10

Do you struggle to sleep after coding all day?

53

Top Show HN

1

Bocker – Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash

662

2

FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

184

3

Discover new, trending, and highest-earning creators on Patreon

119

4

Hnwatch – Linux x64 terminal-based real-time HN watcher/reader

102

5

Termux – Terminal emulator and Unix environment for Android

94

6

ZomboDB – Postgres extension for indexes backed by Elasticsearch

88

7

InstaDocker – Run any Docker container on the cloud instantly

54

8

FriendsTonight – Meet new people nearby with your friends

54

9

Motif – Scala-like pattern matching with Java 8

51

10

Buttermilk Supply – knives from Japanese masters

49

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway

691

2

What happens when you talk about salaries at Google

330

3

Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds

266

4

Uber has defeated Bill de Blasio’s plan to rein them in

174

5

Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers

171

6

How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry

158

7

How spyware peddler Hacking Team was publicly dismantled

156

8

Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App

115

9

Fonticons (YC S15) Is A Subscription Icon Service From The Maker Of Font Awesome

97

10

Feds bust through huge Tor-hidden child porn site using questionable malware

96

News [?]

1

Sandra Bland arrest video has continuity problems, anomalies

267

2

The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town

247

3

United Airlines awards hackers millions of miles for revealing risks

228

4

Sorry to burst your bubble

219

5

Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention

201

6

LAX becomes largest U.S. airport to allow Uber, Lyft pickups

173

7

Getting too little sleep can have serious health consequences (2013)

168

8

A French Scrabble champion who doesn't speak French

165

9

U.S. Embassy in Cuba Reopens After More Than 50 Years

164

10

Intel delays chip-making changes

145

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’

246

2

A Polynomial Time Bounded-Error Quantum Algorithm for Boolean Satisfiability

148

3

HORNET: High-speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer

116

4

Airless Tires Roll Towards Consumer Vehicles

66

5

Speed of light and Moon distance from an occultation of Mars by the Moon

47

6

Software Use in Astronomy: An Informal Study [pdf]

13

7

NASA Is Having a Conference Tomorrow Regarding Latest Kepler Discovery

8

8

NASA Captures “EPIC” Earth Image: first image of the whole Earth in decades

6

9

Philae Comet Lander Phones Home to Earth Again

5

10

After 85-year search, massless particle with promise for electronics found

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

208

2

Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style

66

3

Troubleshooting the Internet

22

4

Rebuilding Uber's Dispatching Platform

12

5

Firefox Polaris Privacy Initiative

10

6

Hyper, a Hypervisor-Agnostic Docker Engine

9

7

Java 9's New HTTP/2 and REPL

4

8

A preview of PostgreSQL 9.5

3

9

Why Bitcoin Should Embrace Stupidity

3

10

Charges Against Colorado Bitcoin Trader Dismissed

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Artificial Killing Machine

191

2

Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance

191

3

Buenos Aires Censors and Raids the Technologists Fixing Its E-Voting System

143

4

Charges Against Netzpolitik.org Are an Attack on the Free Press

54

5

More details in Knights Landing Xeon Phi and OmniPath 100-110ns port2port latency

8

6

Jeep Hack Shows Why DMCA Must Get Out of the Way of Vehicle Security Research

5

7

The Apple Watch Review

5

8

Imagination Creates PowerVR GR6500 Low-Power Real-Time Ray Tracing GPU

4

9

TPP's Copyright Trap

4

10

Let's Encrypt Launch Plan: Week of September 14, 2015

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Reports Record Third Quarter Results

70

2

Earnings Release FY15 Q4

37

3

DynamoDB Triggers, Streams, and Cross-Region Replication

8

4

6th Generation iPod Touch Is Out

1

5

Free ebook only today: Manage your life like Google

1

6

Windows 10: A more human way to do

1

7

Most of Apple's cloud services are down

1

8

How Not to Be Hacked: The Definitive Guide for Regular People – NON-TECHIE

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Art of Quitting

116

2

On the Foundations of Geometry by Henri Poincaré (1898)

66

3

Content Is King (1996)

48

4

Constructor Theory Solves the Riddle of Life

37

5

Dark Crystal: The Secrets of Swarovski

35

6

If You Can’t Take a Vacation, Get the Most Out of Minibreaks

17

7

State of Georgia sues Public Resource for posting their state laws

14

8

Obsessive Interactive Map of Famous Literary Roadtrips

13

9

UTorrent Flagged as Harmful by Anti-Virus Companies and Google

5

10

Popcorn Time Taken Down by Domain Name Seizure

5

Science News [?]

1

Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET

288

2

Famous Fluid Equations Are Incomplete

103

3

Electric life forms that live on energy

53

4

The Quest to Mimic Nature’s Trickiest Colors (2014)

20

5

The First Hand-Painted Films: The silent screen alive with color

18

6

A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics (2013)

17

7

Newfound ‘Tetraquark’ Fuels Quantum Debate (2014)

13

8

A Butterfly’s Beauty Comes from Organized Chaos (2013)

11

9

Oxford University Is Older Than the Aztecs (2013)

5

10

How Did Life Begin on Earth?

5

Social [?]

1

Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet

699

2

“Let's talk about a hypothetical public-facing service”

439

3

Woah that is some wild postgresql

341

4

SpaceX CRS-7 Failure Investigation Teleconference Thread

151

5

Let's talk content. AMA

117

6

Richard Feynman on the Challenger disaster (1986) [video]

94

7

Types for an Untyped World: Bracha vs. Felleisen [video]

57

8

Comparing the hallucinations of four similarly trained neural nets [video]

54

9

Growing a Language (1998) [video]

49

10

Telegram to open server sources?

39

Github repos and gists [?]

1

PostgREST – REST API from any PostgreSQL database

486

2

Dragula: Simple drag and drop

339

3

Rockstar lib will make you a Rockstar programmer in 2 lines of code

327

4

Opal-native – React Native in Ruby

82

5

Snappy-start: Tool for launching a Linux process from a snapshot

78

6

Fuzzysearch: Tiny, fast fuzzy searching for JavaScript

67

7

Bonsai-c: C to asm.js compilation for humans

56

8

IronNode – Debug Node.js code with Chrome Developer Tools

44

9

An Adaptive Replacement Cache Written in Go

42

10

Pig – A packet crafting tool

37

Wikipedia [?]

1

72

2

The Unreality of Time

39

3

Curta: a mechanical calculator

28

4

Banach–Tarski Paradox

11

5

Mathematics of paper folding

9

6

One-electron universe

9

7

The Mother of All Demos

7

8

Outside Context Problem

4

9

The Great Filter

4

10

Tony Hoare – the billion dollar problem

4

Blogs [?]

1

How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity

337

2

Want a better pitch? Watch Elon Musk’s presentation for the Tesla Powerwall

133

3

The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car, Chapter 2

109

4

Currying in JavaScript

85

5

My Two Years as an Anthropologist on the Photoshop Team

77

6

What are Bloom filters?

76

7

Banner “Fraud” Doesn’t Matter

66

8

How a former addict uses Reddit to save drug users’ lives

52

9

Schematic for a Generosity Engine

46

10

Selecting the Next Librarian of Congress

25

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How does C compute sin() and other math functions?

7

2

Difference between INNER and OUTER joins

7

3

Design Principles, Best Practices and Design Patterns for C

6

4

Why does 2+ 40 equal 42?

4

5

Simple explanation about SOAP and REST

4

6

Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()?

2

7

Java Arraylist to Map speed comparison

2

8

Where did the name `atoi` come from? (2010)

2

9

The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List

2

10

How to decide when to use Node.js

2

Substack [?]