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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10

965

2

The Web We Have to Save

760

3

Twitter Contest Winning as a Service

578

4

ClojureScript 1.7: ClojureScript can compile itself

536

5

Hawaii Bans Non-Compete and Non-Solicit Clauses in High-Tech Employment

533

6

The Unemployable Programmer

513

7

Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

497

8

461

9

LLVM for Grad Students

439

10

Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture

427

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (August 2015)

504

2

What are your best “soft skill” resources?

164

3

How are some people exceptionally productive?

156

4

What was Usenet's ultimate demise?

135

5

$8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?

124

6

I'm looking for the self-proclaimed “last private web hosting” site

109

7

Who wants to be hired? (August 2015)

105

8

Why and how is Hacker News so fast?

98

9

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2015)

62

10

I feel that my submissions are severely underrated. What to do?

49

Top Show HN

1

My SSH server knows who you are

836

2

Image Processing for Everybody

451

3

JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack

375

4

Print iconic patents for your walls

241

5

Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor

151

6

Mycli – A CLI for MySQL with auto-completion and syntax highlighting

106

7

Learn Magic Tricks Online

99

8

Rockets – Reddit and websockets

98

9

Download the first 10,002,378 HN comments/stories as one archive

90

10

Pandashells – Bringing the Python data stack to the shell prompt

89

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

“The Dream of Internet Freedom Is Dying”

136

2

Nasty Truths About U.S. Fintech

131

3

Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity and Paternity Leave Program

130

4

Microsoft Expands Its Parental Leave, Bolsters Paid Time Off And 401k Matching

119

5

How baseball’s tech team built HBO Now

103

6

How the Witcher 3’s economy was saved by polynomial least squares

99

7

The Internet Archive Wants to Digitize 40,000 VHS and Betamax Tapes (2014)

99

8

Ironclad (YC S15) Is an Automated Legal Assistant for Companies

95

9

Twitter’s stock falls toward IPO-level prices

77

10

Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to send other people updates

75

News [?]

1

In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions

243

2

India and Bangladesh have begun the exchange of over 160 enclaves

225

3

What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea

222

4

A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared

178

5

Supercomputers: Obama orders world's fastest computer

163

6

A 390-year-old bonsai tree survived an atomic bomb

159

7

German prosecutor sacked over Netzpolitik treason probe

146

8

An Ex-Cop's War on Lie Detectors

144

9

Thirteen Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex

141

10

California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It

136

Scientific publications [?]

1

Let's Build a Global Power Grid

44

2

Shut up and calculate (2007)

35

3

Buzz: An Extensible Programming Language for Self-Organizing Robot Swarms

30

4

An Exact Mapping Between the Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning

30

5

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Confirms Closest Rocky Exoplanet

28

6

How to Compute with Data You Can’t See

22

7

Capturing Information Flows inside Android and Qemu (2013) [pdf]

10

8

Building a Single-Molecule Transistor from Scratch

8

9

On the Displacement for Covering a Unit Interval with Randomly Placed Sensors

7

10

World's quietest gas lets physicists hear faint quantum effects

6

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

497

2

Guido on Python

263

3

Decentralization for the web

177

4

Django Girls one year later

151

5

EFF, AdBlock and Others Launch New “Do Not Track” Standard

120

6

IBM to Open Source 50 Projects

112

7

A deep look at BIND9 CVE-2015-5477

83

8

Shooting Down Drones

77

9

No Surprises (2009)

67

10

LibreOffice 5.0 released

45

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google to France: We Won't Forget It for You Wholesale

132

2

EFF Tells Federal Appeals Court: Google Subpoena Threatens Online Speech

71

3

EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Do It with a Computer

70

4

Analyzing Intel-Micron 3D XPoint: The Next Generation Non-Volatile Memory

23

5

The Intel 6th Gen Skylake Review: Core I7-6700K and I5-6600K Tested

11

6

Hackaday and Tindie = Awesome

9

7

Leading the Computer Revolution in a Totalitarian State

9

8

DHS Agrees with EFF: Senate's CISA “Cybersecurity” Bill Will Damage Privacy

9

9

Movie Studios Seek SOPA Power Through Broad Site-Blocking Order

7

10

IBM to purchase up to 200,000 Macs annually

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft's homepage circa 1994

39

2

16

3

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned – The Myth of the Objective

6

4

CloudWatch Logs Subscription Consumer, Elasticsearch, and Kibana Dashboards

5

5

PCI Compliance for Amazon CloudFront and Other Services

3

6

JavaScript at Scale

2

7

AWS Device Farm Has Added iOS

2

8

The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'

1

9

Amazon Launchpad

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Ethereum: what’s about to happen

107

2

Computer Chronicles: a complete archive

63

3

New Yorkers Have Been Illicitly Cracking Open Fire Hydrants For Centuries

56

4

Reinventing Performance Management

51

5

iTunes Is Illegal Under UK Copyright Law

18

6

What lies beneath

14

7

The Internet Archive's sites are offline

9

8

The Calibrated Cosmos (2013)

8

9

Can we design the ideal city or must it evolve

8

10

Knock, Knock, Nokia's Heavy Fall (2010)

4

Science News [?]

1

The boom in mini stomachs, brains, breasts, kidneys and more

172

2

Inside the Goth Chicken: Black Bones, Black Muscle and a Black Heart

102

3

Physicists announce graphene’s latest cousin: stanene

93

4

Humans accidentally created hidden carbon sink in the desert

68

5

Teeth Whitening and the Hygiene Hypothesis

57

6

Neanderthals had outsize effect on human biology

51

7

First proof that infinitely many prime numbers come in pairs (2013)

21

8

Sweet revenge against superbugs

19

9

Interactive: What Is Space?

16

10

Theories of Everything, Mapped

16

Social [?]

1

I am Mt. Gox's first employee – AMA

189

2

DynaFlash: High-speed 8-bit image projector at 1,000fps with 3ms delay [video]

176

3

Facebook completes construction of first full-scale aircraft, Aquila [video]

176

4

Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing [video]

133

5

Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video]

93

6

Fermat's Little Theorem (2013) [video]

77

7

The Banach–Tarski Paradox [video]

51

8

The many ways of parallel computing with Julia [video]

49

9

The WSJ was accidentally too honest about Uber in print

41

10

Demonstration of Reversibility of Laminar Flow [video]

36

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Linus Torvalds did not commit this

301

2

Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK

232

3

Emacs X Window Manager

199

4

RobotJS – Node.js Desktop Automation

198

5

Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

181

6

159

7

AtomPair – Pair-programming plugin for Atom, now with multi-tab syncing

117

8

Fast Ruby – A collection of common Ruby idioms

111

9

Serve2d – A protocol detecting server

103

10

Cljs2go – A ClojureScript to Go compiler

98

Wikipedia [?]

1

Preferred number

272

2

219

3

100

4

Cuisenaire rods

43

5

Olbers' paradox

40

6

Functional Fixedness

34

7

Jensen's Device

14

8

9

9

Pedigree Collapse

8

10

Base rate fallacy

7

Blogs [?]

1

The Web We Have to Save

760

2

The Post-Mac Interface

129

3

You May Have Seen My Face on BART

87

4

How Not to Die (2007)

80

5

You May Have Seen My Face on BART

78

6

Recreating Megaman 2 Using JavaScript and WebGL

75

7

My Slow Internet vs. Docker

68

8

Bright (YC W15) raises $4M to bring solar to the developing world

51

9

The Value of Content

49

10

Startup Stock Option Changes

48

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Scheme: Procedures that return another inner procedure

43

2

Adding a Method to an Existing Object in Python

2

3

Gcc -flto modifies symbol visibility

2

4

Slf4j.helpers.SubstituteLogger can't be cast to logback.classic.Logger

1

5

What is the intended use of the optional else clause of the try statement?

1

6

How does this decorator work?

1

Substack [?]