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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth

851

2

Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win

704

3

In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me

600

4

Using Google without a Google+ profile

589

5

GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

569

6

Stop pushing the web forward

569

7

I am an 18-year-old techie/student. I have leukemia and need your help

549

8

GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'

542

9

Receiving Weather Satellite Images With An £8 Dongle

509

10

Airbnb, My $1B Lesson

504

Top Ask HN

1

Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you think about it?

190

2

I am 30+ and bored with life and the software industry, what do I do?

175

3

I know how to reset any Nexmo.com account, but nobody cares

131

4

Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

109

5

What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?

85

6

What are some good resources on the history of programming languages?

75

7

What skills would you invest in learning?

67

8

What data visualisation tools do data scientists and developers use?

65

9

How's your drinking problem?

57

10

How do you keep your multiple workstations in sync?

48

Top Show HN

1

Spot the Drowning Child

1215

2

Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

281

3

A Hand-Drawn QR Code Alternative

270

4

Flexbox.io – a free video series on learning CSS Flexbox

236

5

File.io – Ephemeral file sharing

155

6

Walk around unusual geometries

149

7

Intro to Machine Learning in Interactive D3.js Visualizations

128

8

AppCanary – Keep vulnerable software off your servers

108

9

A career test for people who want to have a social impact

73

10

Iosevka Open Source Programming Typeface

67

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

LinkedIn quietly removes option to export contacts

313

2

New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google

270

3

Filmmakers fighting “Happy Birthday” copyright find their “smoking gun”

234

4

YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks

224

5

Startups and The Big Lie

126

6

The 'impossible' EmDrive could reach Pluto in 18 months?

105

7

Dear Unicorn, Exit Please

101

8

Annoyed by Mobile Sites That “Ask” You to Download Their App? You’re Not Alone

92

9

Razer Acquires Ouya’s Software, Tech and Dev Teams in All-Cash Deal

80

10

Google Straps Aclima Sensors to Street View Cars to Map Air Pollution

79

News [?]

1

In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me

600

2

GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

569

3

Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text

399

4

A Renegade Trawler, Hunted for 10,000 Miles by Vigilantes

295

5

How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment

293

6

Fiat Chrysler recalls 1.4M cars after Jeep hack

251

7

‘Sea Slaves’: The human misery that feeds pets and livestock

236

8

The Singular Mind of Terry Tao

218

9

China stocks drop over 8%

213

10

Amazon details its plan for how drones can fly safely over U.S. skies

189

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth

851

2

NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98

410

3

New model may explain emergence of self-replication on early Earth

66

4

An Overview of Curcumin in Neurological Disorders

38

5

Star-Mapping Algorithm for Hubble Helps Researchers Keep Tabs on Rare Animals

8

6

Optimal self-assembly of finite shapes at temperature 1 in 3D

7

7

Kepler-452b: Earth's Bigger, Older Cousin – Briefing Materials

7

8

New Horizons Discovers Flowing Ices on Pluto

6

9

Rowhammer.js: A Remote Software-Induced Fault Attack in JavaScript [pdf]

6

10

We Should Not Ban 'Killer Robots', and Here's Why

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Why Debian returned to FFmpeg

265

2

214

3

Android Stagefright Flaws Put Estimated 950M Devices at Risk

42

4

Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi with Contacts

14

5

Shashlik: A New Way to Run Android Apps on Linux

11

6

MDN celebrates 10 years of documenting Your Web

11

7

Hacking Team's Purchasing of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

10

8

An introduction to Clear Containers

8

9

Don’t Get Too Caught Up with Containers and Microservices

8

10

IBM to Open Source 50 Projects

7

Tech blogs [?]

1

The Copyright Office Belongs in a Library

190

2

Secret TPP Talks Continue as the Deal Grows More Controversial

166

3

Anatomy of a Copyright Coup: Jamaica's Public Domain Plundered

9

4

The Factory of the World – Hackaday Documentary on the Shenzhen Ecosystem

9

5

TPP Undermines User Control and That's Disastrous for Accessibility

6

6

Is Canada Set to Cave on Copyright Term Extension in the TPP?

5

7

Open Source FPGA Toolchain Builds CPU

5

8

The Apple Watch review

3

9

The 2TB Samsung 850 Pro and EVO SSD Review

3

10

Stop CISA: Join EFF in a Week of Action Opposing Broad Surveillance Legislation

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Aurora Now Available

342

2

12

3

Windows 10 ISO Download Tool

11

4

Amazon Launchpad

4

5

BitLocker recovery key is now *automatically* backed up to OneDrive

4

6

Windows 10 released

3

7

Why there's nothing quite like iPhone

2

8

5 Common Mistakes Made in Unity5 (from Microsoft UK Developers)

2

9

Amazon Launchpad

2

10

Upgrade to Windows 10 for free

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Brazil Is An Alternate Video Game Universe Where Sega Beat Nintendo

157

2

What It Was Like to Seek Asylum in Medieval England

106

3

Why I love the nothingness inside a float tank

87

4

Functional Programming in C++ (2013)

78

5

Humans are not Automatically Strategic (2010)

57

6

Japanese-Style Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Softbank’S CEO

42

7

39

8

Big-Bang Disruption

17

9

The Founder's Dilemma (2008)

16

10

EU Starts Geo-Blocking Antitrust Case Against U.S Movie Studios

9

Science News [?]

1

Leader of China’s genomics powerhouse steps down to pursue AI research

60

2

Decoding the Remarkable Algorithms of Ants

42

3

The Rise of Computer-Aided Explanation

36

4

A cellular puzzle: The weird and wonderful architecture of RNA

31

5

Newfound Bacteria Expands Tree of Life

26

6

The Ambiguous Colors of Nanotechnology

24

7

A Fluid New Path in Grand Math Challenge (2014)

23

8

Huygens synchronization of two clocks

13

9

Genomics pioneer Jun Wang on his new AI venture

9

10

"Computing resources for genome data soon exceeds those of Twitter and YouTube"

7

Social [?]

1

GopherCon 2015 videos

145

2

The Factory of Ideas: Working at Bell Labs [video]

88

3

Stephen Hawking AMA

80

4

Taming Complexity with Reversibility

66

5

The Evolution of V8 and the Challenges of Research in a Billion User VM [video]

53

6

What if anything have we learned from C++? [video]

46

7

Google Translate vs. “La Bamba”

15

8

Change-Making at the Largest Public Interest Startup [video]

15

9

De-Anonymizing Alt.Anonymous.Messages (2013) [video]

14

10

Google is deleting accounts with no warning. Back up your data now

13

Github repos and gists [?]

1

I am an 18-year-old techie/student. I have leukemia and need your help

549

2

GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'

542

3

Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

304

4

Vantage.js: A new take on interactive CLI for Node

187

5

JSCity – JavaScript code visualizations using Three.js

129

6

CoreCLR building on ARM

127

7

Differential Line

123

8

113

9

Go-fuzz: Randomized testing for Go

111

10

Linux kernel compilation

102

Wikipedia [?]

1

354

2

Ousterhout's Dichotomy

26

3

Long and short scales

18

4

OS-9: real-time, multi-user, Unix-like OS developed in the 1980s

15

5

Hyperbolic Discounting

11

6

9

7

8

8

International Cospas-Sarsat Programme

7

9

5

10

5

Blogs [?]

1

Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (2013)

305

2

How Apple Influenced The Labels To Shut Down My Music Streaming Startup

303

3

Database expert on why NoSQL mattered – and SQL still matters

132

4

Detecting VPN (and its configuration) and proxy users on the server side

118

5

Sleeping Through a Revolution

102

6

Think women in tech is just a pipeline problem?

67

7

Bootstrapping in Saigon

51

8

Browserify vs. Webpack – Configuration isn't evil

46

9

The Rise and Fall of a Global Start-Up

39

10

Redesigning Chrome Android. Part 1 of 2

37

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How Racket Evaluates Modules

11

2

Why do we need monads?

7

3

Parsing HTML with regexes

2

4

REST: Isn't resource-oriented really object-oriented? (2008)

2

5

How do you call an instance of a class in Python?

1

Substack [?]