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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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OnHub
984
2
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
708
3
Bootstrap 4 alpha
655
4
Eve Version 0
590
5
AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic
568
6
Go 1.5 is released
559
7
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket
533
8
We are barely halfway done
487
9
I made a cell phone [video]
487
10
Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to Microsoft
453
Top Ask HN
1
What would you want in an ideal web browser?
104
2
Why did literate programming not catch on?
101
3
How did you migrate to the country you are living in now?
57
4
Ask HN : What side project are you working on?
46
5
Starting a web project in 2015. What stack to use?
39
6
Best treadmill to turn an existing standing desk into a treadmill desk?
38
7
Is This Enough to Get a Job?
34
8
(married founders): How did you save your marriage?
32
9
Which job should I choose?
30
10
Tools of the trade
25
Top Show HN
1
Tonic – A data visualizing REPL for Node.js
342
2
Find your competitors that Google can't
189
3
Guess which government programs work
184
4
Git-remote-dropbox – use Dropbox as a true Git server
174
5
Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text
137
6
Perseids meteor shower from space
136
7
Algebra.js – Build, display, and solve algebraic equations
132
8
Intuitive nutrition information
89
9
Stackie – A tiny stack machine for texture generation
81
10
Hasp – A minimal CSS preprocessor using the M4 macro language
72
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
My husband needed therapy after working for Amazon
437
2
Samsung unveils 2.5-inch 16TB SSD
292
3
The Toddler at Y Combinator
167
4
Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windows 10
108
5
Startups That Launched at YC S15 Demo Day 1
100
6
Markhor (YC S15) Takes the Middleman Out of Designer Shoemaking
79
7
IBM has built a digital rat brain that could power tomorrow’s smartphones
77
8
Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO
77
9
A successful strategy to get college students thinking critically
74
10
How DuckDuckGo Rode a Wave of Post-Snowden Anxiety to Massive Growth
73
News [?]
1
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
708
2
AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic
568
3
Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)
445
4
VW Has Spent Two Years Trying to Hide a Big Security Flaw
309
5
Google loses data as lightning strikes
307
6
We should host the Olympics in the same place every time
288
7
A Simple Fix for Drunken Driving: Modest, Immediate Penalties
229
8
GPS Trackers in Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route
224
9
Oliver Sacks: Sabbath
197
10
Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees
194
Scientific publications [?]
1
MergeShuffle: A Very Fast, Parallel Random Permutation Algorithm
70
2
The limited, and hence reasonable, effectiveness of mathematics in physics
46
3
Healthy mood spreads through social contact, depression doesn't
20
4
Earliest 'modern' hand nearly two million years old
19
5
Molding CNNs for text: non-linear, non-consecutive convolutions
16
6
UW team wins AI prize for optimization approach
15
7
Pattern Recognition with Magnonic Holographic Memory Device
12
8
Lexical shifts, changes and continuity in State of the Union discourse, 1790–2014
6
9
Locality-Preserving Allocations Problems and Coloured Bin Packing
5
10
Natural Neural Networks
4
Dev Blogs [?]
1
The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
363
2
Running three hours of Ruby tests in under three minutes
287
3
Mozilla's Servo Engine Now Capable of Rendering GitHub
251
4
“Big data” features coming in PostgreSQL 9.5
226
5
Webmaker for Android
129
6
Frege: A Haskell-Like Language for the JVM
111
7
I No Longer Have Any Trust in the Nest Protect
81
8
Ensuring that the web is for everyone
46
9
Facebook: MVC Does Not Scale, Use Flux Instead (2014)
32
10
Introducing a Powerful Way to Purge Cache on CloudFlare: Purge by Cache-Tag
10
Tech blogs [?]
1
New TPP Leaked Text Reveals Weakening Resistance to Copyright Proposals
133
2
Facial Recognition Shows Why We Need Records on Police Use of Biometrics
23
3
Arduino (PCI) Express
4
4
Raspberry Pi and Windows 10 IoT Core: A Huge Letdown
4
5
Deep Dive: Why We Need Venue Reform to Restore Fairness to Patent Litigation
3
6
NSA Spying: Government’s Latest Delay Tactic Fails
3
7
Raspberry Pi and Windows 10 IoT Core: A Huge Letdown
3
8
New 15TB SSD fits world’s highest-capacity 2.5-inch hard drive
3
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At It Again: Law Enforcement Officials’ Anti-Encryption New York Times Op-Ed
2
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Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto would never have qualified for a license
2
FAANG+ [?]
1
OnHub Wireless Router from Google and TP-LINK
4
2
Amazon DynamoDB: Elasticsearch Integration
3
3
Apple’s 2015 Diversity Report
2
4
Linux Forensics Book
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
What does it take to make Google work at scale?
247
2
Chairs of SFO
118
3
Go 1.6 GC improvements
115
4
A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (2011)
102
5
The Myth of Chastity Belts
82
6
The Startup Founder Wealth Survey
69
7
Beyond Bash: Shell scripting in a typed, OO language
49
8
The Emotions That Make Us More Creative
42
9
How Netflix Reinvented HR (2014)
28
10
Police Arrest Men for Spreading Popcorn Time Information
27
Science News [?]
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Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish
167
2
Modified yeast produce opiates from sugar
102
3
Octopus genome holds clues to uncanny intelligence
102
4
Superconductivity record sparks wave of follow-up physics
93
5
Why You’re Biased About Being Biased
82
6
Solid Electrolyte Paves the Way for Batteries with Almost Indefinite Lifetimes
70
7
LA is dumping millions of plastic balls into its reservoir to tackle the drought
51
8
Why Calorie Counts Are All Wrong
49
9
The Surprising Problem of Too Much Talent
38
10
How Symmetry Shapes Laws of Physics [video]
34
Social [?]
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I made a cell phone [video]
487
2
How “oldschool” graphics worked [video]
434
3
I Will Kill You [video]
159
4
Brian Kernighan on C [video]
103
5
An Amazonian's Response to the NYT's “Inside Amazon” Article
75
6
Will Unix become the next MS-DOS? (1985) [video]
68
7
Building CircleCI's Front End with Om [video]
63
8
2008 letter to Jeff Bezos from employee
15
9
QKSMS, beautiful SMS app for Android wit 250k+ downloads, has been open sourced
13
10
NASA Documentary: Suit Up – 50 Years of Spacewalks [video]
13
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Gotty – Share your terminal as a web application
442
2
Edward Snowden at IETF 93
442
3
Things to commit just before leaving your job
379
4
OS X 10.10.5 kernel local privilege escalation
278
5
WordPress base configuration files on GitHub
165
6
Disable Windows 10 Tracking
148
7
State of the Haskell ecosystem
148
8
My Amazon Burnout Experience
120
9
Sorting out graph processing
107
10
Terminal Window Manager for OS X
106
Wikipedia [?]
1
Cybiko
122
2
Ship of Theseus
46
3
Zellige
37
4
Project Habakkuk
18
5
Charles Babbage
17
6
Heat-assisted magnetic recording
14
7
Holographic Data Storage
10
8
Laffer curve
9
9
The Osborne Effect
9
10
Unethical Human Experimentation in the United States
8
Blogs [?]
1
How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button
298
2
Gravity's Oldest Puzzles
186
3
The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code
161
4
Why is Bitcoin forking?
134
5
14 Police Officers Take Down a One-Legged Homeless Black Man Outside Twitter HQ
87
6
Why is Bitcoin forking?
68
7
How I ended up working illegally in the UK
62
8
Streaming Music Is Ripping You Off
42
9
Periscope by the Numbers
32
10
The End of the Internet Dream?
31
Stackoverflow [?]
1
JavaScript's Date() function breaks for my birthday in Safari
1
2
Are Scala actors like Go goroutines?
1
3
How to get instance method's next-in-line parent class from `super()` in Python
1
4
RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
1
Substack [?]