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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
1543
2
“I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”
458
3
Bernie Sanders' 404 page
434
4
WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
431
5
Real Life First Person Shooter, Chatroulette Version [video]
423
6
Who Hacked Ashley Madison?
410
7
John Carmack's son's game in Racket
402
8
Bcachefs – A general purpose COW filesystem
385
9
Unity Comes to Linux: Experimental Build Now Available
377
10
China Stock Market Drops 8.5%
373
Top Ask HN
1
What does the percentage next to posts mean?
166
2
After 20 years of programming, what do I do now?
110
3
Why is HN not mobile friendly yet?
97
4
Which recruiters do you like?
78
5
What do developers earn on toptal.com?
75
6
Has anyone else noticed Stack Overflow clones in Google search results?
71
7
What's a good real-time stock trading platform?
56
8
Staying focused on your project
55
9
When compensation includes equity, can I ask proof of valuation?
43
10
How to apply agile to a team of 5-7 without annoying the talented?
41
Top Show HN
1
Ear training using midi.js
230
2
Nihongo – Study Japanese using authentic text from games, songs, etc.
139
3
Generate React forms from JSON form schemas
107
4
SpaCy – Build tomorrow's language technology products with Python
93
5
A collection of algorithmic art generated with POV-Ray
90
6
Robot that copies artist's exact strokes to replicate a painting in 3D
73
7
EtherPot – A decentralized, autonomous, provably fair lottery
61
8
Siderly – Get remote work with your side project
54
9
Who Cares? – Professions in the NHS
52
10
sql_firewall – SQL Firewall Extension for PostgreSQL
47
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger
324
2
Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politicians' deleted tweets
179
3
Porsche 911: 52 years of staying true to its roots
163
4
How security flaws work: the buffer overflow
154
5
Rovio to Cut 260 Jobs as the Angry Birds Franchise Becomes Irrelevant
109
6
Twitter shuts down 30 sites dedicated to saving politicians' deleted tweets
96
7
Uber Plans to Go Public in 18-24 Months, According to Leaked Presentation
84
8
What would happen if a massive solar storm hit the earth?
84
9
Tesla owner drives 452 miles on single charge
76
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Unraveling the enigma of Nintendo's Virtual Boy
74
News [?]
1
Stocks Off Sharply as Market Upheaval Grows
322
2
Finland considers basic income to reform welfare system
256
3
Apple Loses German Top Court Case on Swipe-to-Unlock Patent
250
4
How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks
249
5
Trucks Are Killing Us
213
6
Banksy Dismaland Show Revealed at Weston's Tropicana
207
7
Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth
194
8
A new Stephen Hawking presentation about black holes
169
9
Why Introverts Make Great Entrepreneurs
167
10
You Do Not Have to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day
141
Scientific publications [?]
1
Towards Neural Network-based Reasoning
134
2
AirBnB's Pricing Algorithm
106
3
Calculus on Graphs (2004)
80
4
The Z1: Architecture and Algorithms of Konrad Zuse's First Computer (2014) [pdf]
71
5
Dawn Sends Sharper Scenes from Ceres
61
6
Neural Transformation Machine: Sequence-To-Sequence Learning
49
7
Researchers show that an iron bar is capable of decision-making
38
8
On the orientation of Roman towns in Italy (2007) [pdf]
28
9
Quantum Game of Life (2012)
20
10
Quantifying Controversy in Social Media
11
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Who Hacked Ashley Madison?
410
2
The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
281
3
What Does the OS X Activity Monitor’s “Energy Impact” Actually Measure?
137
4
Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds
57
5
Stripe Checkout in more languages
53
6
Thunderbird and end-to-end email encryption – should this be a priority?
39
7
Bitcoin in China: An Insider’s View
18
8
Leaked AshleyMadison Emails Suggest Execs Hacked Competitors
16
9
The Future of Developing Firefox Add-Ons
14
10
WebObjects 4.0 Developers Guide (1998) [pdf]
13
Tech blogs [?]
1
Windows 10 Review
146
2
Obama Administration Supports Privacy-Invasive “Cybersecurity” Bill
119
3
Will Hollywood's Whining Thwart Better TPP Copyright Rules?
80
4
Qualcomm Details Hexagon 680 DSP in Snapdragon 820: Accelerated Imaging
12
5
EFF Announces 2015 Pioneer Award Winners
5
6
MIT’s Glass 3D Printer
4
7
Intelligent Energy's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology Can Now Fit Inside an iPhone
4
8
Twitter Axes Accountability Projects, Sparing Politicians Embarrassment
4
9
Tim Cook assures investors, via Jim Cramer email, about China growth
3
10
Hollywood Finally Gets Hacking Right with Mr. Robot
3
FAANG+ [?]
1
Amazon Underground
350
2
Amazon Underground
9
3
Amazon Underground – Amazon's Android App Store
6
4
Amazon Underground
4
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Store and Process Graph Data Using the DynamoDB Storage Back End for Titan
3
6
Future Cities: 42 Insights and Interviews with Influencers, Startups, Investors
2
7
Amazon Underground | Free apps, developers paid based on app usage
2
8
Amazon Underground
2
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Apple Music Festival Brings Live Performances to Fans Worldwide
1
10
Koding Launches Windows App
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Cybersecurity’s Human Factor: Lessons from the Pentagon
16
2
The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies
9
3
How to Stop Overplanning (Even If You’re a Perfectionist)
7
4
The End of Walking
6
5
75,000 Popcorn Time Users in Crosshairs of Anti-Piracy Group
5
6
Complexity and Intelligence (2008)
5
7
How to Stop Micromanaging Your Team
4
8
Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently
4
9
When Hiroshima Happened--and No One Remembered
3
10
Design for Action
2
Science News [?]
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A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013)
226
2
A metabolic master switch underlying human obesity
131
3
Five Ways to Lie with Charts
87
4
Mr. Wizard, Television's Original Science Guy
84
5
Legendary Deep-Sea Fish Sighting Continues to Be Debated After 60 Years
52
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The ratio of boys to girls at conception has been misunderstood
40
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Crash-tolerant data storage
40
8
The unique ecology of human predators
40
9
The Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Never Truly Ate the South
34
10
The Caveman Guide to Parenting
33
Social [?]
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Real Life First Person Shooter, Chatroulette Version [video]
423
2
Code Rush – The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla (2000) [video]
142
3
Silicon Brain: 100,000 ARM cores [video]
119
4
Prune: A Tree-Based, Home-Row-Oriented Code Editor
118
5
LLVM Meets the Truly Alien: Mill CPU Architecture [video]
117
6
Making Robots [video]
68
7
Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel in China [video]
38
8
How to Destroy a Laptop with Top Secrets [video]
31
9
Twenty years ago today, Windows 95 was released. Here's the ad that was used
27
10
Prune: A Code Editor That Is Not a Text Editor
22
Github repos and gists [?]
1
“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
1543
2
Hackpad source code
265
3
A heads up display for git
242
4
An example Python machine learning notebook for newcomers
174
5
Sandstorm App Market
171
6
A collection of debugging stories
155
7
Lazy load responsive images
124
8
Linux-insides: Introduction to system calls
115
9
Convert any Python file into a single line of code
108
10
Ritzy – A collaborative web-based rich text editor
100
Wikipedia [?]
1
DRAKON – An algorithmic visual programming language
86
2
IBM System/360 Model 67
73
3
Theremin
61
4
Post-quantum cryptography
50
5
Mundaneum
31
6
Icon (programming language)
21
7
List of military nuclear accidents
9
8
Quorum sensing
6
9
Psychological effects of Internet use
6
10
Channel 37
3
Blogs [?]
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“I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon”
458
2
Work Hard, Live Well
235
3
What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers?
231
4
Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?
209
5
AirBNB why did you terminate my account? – An Open Letter to AirBNB
181
6
The Glium Library – Safe OpenGL in Rust
163
7
Lessons Learned from Reading Post Mortems
156
8
Are Japanese Intestines Longer?
151
9
An honest guide to the San Francisco startup life
99
10
The Fundamental Limits of Knowledge
91
Stackoverflow [?]
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Stack Overflow Hits 10M Questions
75
2
Ten. Million. Questions
31
3
Stackoverflow Developer Survey 2015
11
4
Tim Berners-Lee on StackOverflow
7
5
What does “use strict” do in JavaScript, and what is the reasoning behind it?
2
6
Question about Android RecyclerView
2
7
What's your favorite “programmer” cartoon?
2
8
Bug in Clang function-like macro parsing with Objective C variadic method call?
1
Substack [?]