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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles
946
2
Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind
827
3
Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster
810
4
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
711
5
µBlock for Firefox
707
6
A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs
624
7
Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user
603
8
SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”
598
9
Matter.js – A 2D rigid body physics engine for the web
545
10
A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Scalable Web App on AWS
542
Top Ask HN
1
How do you find freelance/contract gigs?
275
2
What's the best way to write an API spec?
170
3
Why are there never any job postings for non web positions?
66
4
If you're “ridiculously in love with Python”, do you even know it well?
46
5
How do we find an investor in the EU/UK for something very technical?
41
6
If an AI had slipped into the world would we notice?
40
7
My son wants to make side money programming
39
8
Screencasts of skilled developers?
30
9
How do you politely refuse to disclose previous salary information?
25
10
How do people with successful careers play the game?
22
Top Show HN
1
Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”
401
2
Adopted a dog, had no clue what meds she needed, did some research
252
3
Run SSH and HTTP(S) on the same port
165
4
C#-to-JavaScript compiler powered by Microsoft Roslyn
154
5
The Silicon C++14 Web Framework
140
6
Timeline.com
123
7
A ReactJS Grid Component with infinite scroll, customization, and more
122
8
tld-list.com – 818 Top Level Domains and Their Cheapest Registrars
101
9
Jetpack, a FreeBSD Jail/ZFS-based container runtime
96
10
What do you think of my new startup ProductChart.com?
79
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles
946
2
Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums
268
3
Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack on Tor?
194
4
Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Speed Transport Tests
193
5
How automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking”
187
6
Activist pulls off clever Wi-Fi honeypot to protest surveillance state
151
7
Why I Hope Congress Never Watches “Blackhat”
119
8
Republican net neutrality bill would gut FCC’s authority over broadband
112
9
Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative
111
10
Why Kim Dotcom hasn’t been extradited 3 years after the US smashed Megaupload
95
News [?]
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Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX
474
2
Google Glass sales halted
444
3
SpaceX Sells 10% Stake to Google, Fidelity for $1B
339
4
Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with police
306
5
How the 'John Oliver Effect' Is Having a Real-Life Impact
296
6
The Whole Haystack: The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records
247
7
Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars
242
8
India's tiger population sees 30% increase
238
9
New Revelations U.S. Tracked Americans’ Calls for Over a Decade
222
10
The rise of fake engine noise
217
Scientific publications [?]
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Darpa Unveils Upgraded Atlas Robot, Now Completely Unplugged
105
2
Photons that travel in free space slower than the speed of light
58
3
Deep Image: Scaling Up Image Recognition
21
4
New analysis shows a way to self-propel subatomic particles
18
5
Understanding the group dynamics and success of teams (2014) [pdf]
12
6
Flying Selfie Bots: Tag-Along Video Drones Are Here
10
7
Deep Image: Scaling up Image Recognition [pdf]
8
8
Long-lost British space probe found on Mars
6
9
Atoms can be in two places at the same time
5
10
A real-time fast radio burst: polarization detection
5
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Working at Netflix
337
2
Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC
135
3
Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (2009)
118
4
Tighter Control Over Your Referrers
79
5
Smarter saved cards
74
6
The Security of Data Deletion
41
7
Lizard Kids: A Long Trail of Fail
31
8
IBM Reveals Proof of Concept for Blockchain-Powered Internet of Things
23
9
One-stop performance analysis using atop
13
10
Google plans to bootstrap Go 1.5 (with short interview to Google's Russ Cox)
9
Tech blogs [?]
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How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
505
2
HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites
346
3
Cory Doctorow Rejoins EFF to Eradicate DRM Everywhere
86
4
Asset Forfeiture and the Cycle of Electronic Surveillance Funding
70
5
Cory Doctorow Rejoins EFF to Eradicate DRM Everywhere
15
6
Where Copyright Fails, New Laws and Guidelines Help Secure Your Right to Tinker
14
7
Who Will Own the Internet of Things? (Hint: Not the Users)
9
8
iOS developers share their earnings and the lessons they’ve learned
3
9
Security Is Not a Crime–Unless You're an Anarchist
3
10
EFF: Which apps do (and don't) stop Verizon and Turn's zombie tracking?
3
FAANG+ [?]
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Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2
167
2
Microsoft HoloLens
26
3
Amazon Web Services Wind Farm
6
4
Amazon EC2 Container Service Documentation
3
5
AWS Lambda Now Avaliable to All Customers
2
6
Uranium on Sale on Amazon
2
7
Samsung Curved 105“ 4K Ultra HD 120Hz 3D Smart LED TV, $119,999.99 Free Delivery
2
8
Remebering AWS Evangelist Mike Culver
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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On Artificial Intelligence
49
2
Will online anonymity win out?
7
3
Building Your Company’s Vision (1996)
3
4
The Internet Would Never Have Existed Without the Copyright Monopoly
2
5
How we feel about robots taking our jobs
2
6
Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time
2
7
Viaweb (1997)
1
8
Compact Analog Thumbstick concept (2007)
1
9
Oscar Screener Piracy 2003-2015
1
10
First Annual Google Programming Contest (2002)
1
Science News [?]
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To Be More Creative, Cheer Up
122
2
Discovery: Fish Live Beneath Antarctica
84
3
A Photographer Who Tinkers with Time
64
4
Why It’s Good to Be Wrong
46
5
The Best Way yet to Talk to Aliens, If They’re out There (2013)
42
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Is the World Making You Sick?
39
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Mummy mask may reveal oldest known gospel
37
8
How to Recreate a Sloppy Ancient Greek Drinking Game
32
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Extroverts may have stronger immune systems
26
10
Researchers eliminate the HIV virus from cultured human cells
22
Social [?]
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Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video]
106
2
Servo: Building a Parallel Browser [video]
100
3
How to mod a toaster to control PC games [video]
58
4
Why Bitcoin Is and Isn't Like the Internet
50
5
Modern web browsers are the emacs of this decade
17
6
Machine learning best practices [video]
17
7
The C++ Memory Model [video]
14
8
Creating a Doom-style 3D engine in C
10
9
Film Chemistry: “The Alchemist in Hollywood” (1940)
9
10
Node + JS, not Node.js
8
Github repos and gists [?]
1
µBlock for Firefox
707
2
Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user
603
3
“What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?”
489
4
Conception – An experimental modern IDE written in Go
215
5
Front End Developer – Interview Questions
172
6
A list of cool features of Git and GitHub
163
7
Let's Encrypt Developer Preview
141
8
Shellfire – A repository of namespaced, composable shell function libraries
123
9
Linux kernel booting process, part 2
90
10
C to Go translation tool supporting Go toolchain migration
85
Wikipedia [?]
1
Padonkaffsky jargon
36
2
Implicate and explicate order
29
3
Correlations between creative occupations and mental illnesses
7
4
Indus script
6
5
How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?
4
6
Co-Creator of Tetris killed his family for his business woes [1998]
3
7
Jefferson Disk
3
8
Segmented Sleep
3
9
IQ classification
2
10
Theory of Constraints
2
Blogs [?]
1
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
711
2
The Ronco Principle
311
3
The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google
283
4
Robert Morris: All About Programming
173
5
Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History of the 1980s
146
6
Debug your programs like they're closed source
126
7
Google's Deep Learning Blitz to Make Search Smarter
118
8
Why you should not use AngularJS
48
9
How Stevie Wonder Helped Create Martin Luther King Day
46
10
How PAPER Magazine's web engineers scaled their back end for Kim Kardashian (SFW)
36
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed?
314
2
Stack Overflow's design has been updated
3
3
The definitive guide to form based website authentication
2
4
Why Garbage Collect in web apps?
1
5
Fastest possible grep
1
Substack [?]