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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
G is for Google
2228
2
“It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”
645
3
“Stop reverse engineering our code”
613
4
Presumption of stupidity
510
5
Unix Toolbox
491
6
The Hamburger Menu Doesn't Work
484
7
Relay Technical Preview
474
8
Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cover the plane
472
9
Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president in an unconventional way
446
10
The magic of the Kalman filter, in pictures
443
Top Ask HN
1
I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay
584
2
Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?
266
3
Books with a high signal to noise ratio?
260
4
Best resources on webapp security?
165
5
The Internet is getting lame. What's next?
139
6
How do you deal with getting older?
108
7
Where can I find “unsolved problems” for various industries?
106
8
What are the tax implications of exercising startup options?
93
9
Best Linux sandbox?
83
10
Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?
77
Top Show HN
1
Big List of Naughty Strings for testing user-input data
514
2
Is it vulnerable? Drag-n-drop your Gemfile.lock to check
175
3
NaSC – Do maths like a normal person
127
4
Find a home close to work
94
5
A toy ray tracer in Rust
77
6
AWS S3 outage test from across the world
77
7
Tmux plugin manager
73
8
Drive – a tiny program to pull or push Google Drive files
69
9
Free Company Autocomplete API
53
10
Pyexperiment
49
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Ohm (YC S15) is a smarter, lighter car battery that works with your existing car
274
2
DigitalOcean Teams Up with Bitnami, Install Over 100 Web Apps with a Few Clicks
182
3
Octopus’ sophistication driven by hundreds of previously unknown genes
108
4
Lenovo announces laptops using new mobile Xeon processors
107
5
An Oakland shooting reveals how cops snoop on cell phones
105
6
Lenovo modifying Windows OS files from BIOS to install Lenovo software
82
7
When running for exercise was for weirdos
77
8
The Brain Is Particularly Vulnerable to Trauma at Two Distinct Ages
74
9
A Conversation with Sam Altman
74
10
Google Shares Spike 6% After ‘Alphabet’ Restructuring
74
News [?]
1
Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cover the plane
472
2
Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president in an unconventional way
446
3
Tesla unveils new car-charging robo-snake
401
4
Google’s $6B Miscalculation on the EU
245
5
The pressure to achieve academically is a crime against learning
232
6
U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high
224
7
For only the second time in our history the ownership of The Economist changes
180
8
How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code
173
9
Algorithmic Trading: The Play-at-Home Version
166
10
Court rules drug dog barely more accurate than a coin flip is good enough
165
Scientific publications [?]
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From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth
437
2
New design could finally help to bring fusion power closer to reality
127
3
Caltech announces discovery in fundamental physics
70
4
Observational Signatures of Self-Destructive Civilisations
53
5
Do Open Source Software Developers Listen to Their Users?
40
6
Building Bloodhound: The Fastest Car in the World
28
7
Geography of Emotion: Where in a City Are People Happier?
22
8
Bin Packing Problem: Two Approximation Algorithms
17
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5B light years across–the largest feature in the universe
11
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New model describes decision making as the collapse of a quantum superstate
10
Dev Blogs [?]
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Firefox exploit found in the wild
415
2
Removing the 140-character limit from Direct Messages
166
3
Fuzzing a DNS parser written in Go
165
4
Go and Rust – objects without class (2013)
105
5
Google plans monthly security updates for Nexus phones
59
6
Filesystem mounts in user namespaces
47
7
Tech Firm Ubiquiti Suffers $46M Cyberheist
45
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The $100M ‘Business Club’ Crime Gang
44
9
Tokyo Court: Bitcoin Not Subject to Ownership
16
10
CloudFlare's Middle Eastern Network Expansion
7
Tech blogs [?]
1
Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers
322
2
EFF Guide to Street Level Surveillance
166
3
Intel Skylake Review
102
4
EFF releases Privacy Badger an addon that algorithmically blocks online trackers
20
5
Lenovo Launches New P50 and P70 Mobile Workstations with First Mobile Xeon Chips
15
6
A License to Kill Innovation: Why California’s Bitcoin License Is Bad
8
7
Orthodontics Company's Patent Strategy Threatens the Open Internet
7
8
All the Unofficial Electronic Badges of DEF CON
6
9
Lenovo Launches New P50 and P70 Mobile Workstations with First Mobile Xeon Chips
5
10
Old skool display driver made of 74xx logic chips
4
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS Device Farm adds support for iOS
66
2
Apple kills store.apple.com
5
3
Elastic Beanstalk adds support for enhanced application health monitoring
4
4
Writing AWS Lambda Functions in Clojure
3
5
Why there's nothing quite like iPhone
2
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Simple Async Await Example for Asynchronous Programming
2
7
AWS Activate – $500 in AWS Promotional Credit
2
8
Apple.com is now responsive
2
9
PCI Compliance for Amazon CloudFront
2
10
Microsoft Translator
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Oracle’s license agreement as it pertains to reverse engineering
349
2
How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos
291
3
The Container Ship Tourism Industry
145
4
Quantum weirdness is everywhere in life
137
5
Ignition: V8 Interpreter
131
6
Anti-Piracy Group Hits Indie Creators for Using the Word ‘Pixels’
22
7
Android apps that fail to validate SSL
15
8
Do You Trust Larry Page?
8
9
What Angel Investors Value Most When Choosing What to Fund
4
10
Design Thinking Comes of Age
3
Science News [?]
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Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language
97
2
A Submerged Monolith Near Sicily: Evidence for Mesolithic Human Activity
91
3
Artificial Intelligence Is Already Weirdly Inhuman
86
4
Watch: Richard Feynman on why he can't tell you how magnets work
71
5
War in Space May Be Closer Than Ever
69
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Graphs That Showed Landmark Discoveries but Were Later Debunked
38
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The Connoisseur of Number Sequences
23
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The First Hand-Painted Films
19
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Postcards from the Edge of Consciousness
12
10
Non-magnetic metals turned into magnets
12
Social [?]
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Beyond PEP 8 – Best practices for beautiful intelligible code [video]
262
2
High precision air bearing CNC lathe and grinder [video]
125
3
Netflix – Chasing 60fps [video]
100
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Compilers Are Databases [video]
84
5
The Impact of MINIX (2014) [video]
41
6
JVMLS 2015 – Multi-Language Runtime [video]
34
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How to do backpropagation in a brain [video]
27
8
A guy literally “#tweeting” on the cover of an Amiga World from 1988
23
9
TempleOS: Version 3.09 Release News
15
10
Does Motorola have a legal right to force OTAs?
14
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Windows Bridge for iOS
417
2
GitHub Desktop is now available
293
3
X86 rootkit
256
4
Comparison of machine learning libraries used for classification
193
5
A curated list of data science blogs
176
6
Proof of linearizability in Raft using Coq
173
7
A collection of postmortems
152
8
An interactive Python profiler
108
9
Movfuscator: A single-instruction C compiler
100
10
Future Node.js releases will be from the io.js repo
98
Wikipedia [?]
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National Raisin Reserve
100
2
Printer's key
66
3
Essentially contested concept
60
4
Drexler–Smalley debate on molecular nanotechnology
24
5
User:82.148.97.69 – This is the IP address for the entire nation of Qatar
20
6
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaki
9
7
Rhumbline network
6
8
Mountain Man
5
9
Fifth generation computer
4
10
Simpson's paradox
4
Blogs [?]
1
Change Your Name
355
2
BEAM languages, Hindley–Milner type systems, and new technologies
202
3
Miyazaki's Beautiful Anti-War Dreams
179
4
Hand-Coded Assembly Beats Intrinsics in Speed and Simplicity
96
5
Improving Equity Compensation at Coinbase
93
6
Building a desktop application with Electron
75
7
Implementing a Sticky Input Field in iOS
58
8
Zirtual: What Happened and What’s Next
32
9
Internet for All
29
10
Not Everyone Can Program: As Seen in Pixar’s Ratatouille
19
Stackoverflow [?]
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How to search for a commit message in GitHub?
50
2
Optimizing tail-recursion in Python
2
Substack [?]