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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

792

2

Pixar in a Box – Khan Academy

753

3

Google’s look, evolved

683

4

Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

683

5

Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk – they come from families with money

553

6

Hack: A typeface designed for source code

521

7

OS X Command Line Utilities

517

8

Oliver Sacks has died

495

9

New React Developer Tools

487

10

The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my worst job ever

464

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (September 2015)

436

2

How to Find the Best Info on Cancer Treatments?

188

3

Who wants to be hired? (September 2015)

112

4

How to get started with VR?

76

5

What's the best ad-blocking, privacy-enhancing extension set up?

67

6

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2015)

47

7

What are some cheap idyllic places with lots of nature?

45

8

What do Erlangers think of Elixir?

32

9

How Many Applications Received from Who's Hiring Posts?

28

10

Part-time, remote jobs?

27

Top Show HN

1

Flarum – Delightfully simple open-source forum software

163

2

How I know what my neighbors uploaded on YouTube

102

3

Forms – Easy custom database applications

82

4

Javvy – A fun way to learn Java on iOS and Android

77

5

Neural network turns photos into a specific style of painting

75

6

Hitcount.me – Live Website Popularity

67

7

Creators selling files from their own host, Dropbox etc.

63

8

Private Forms: PGP-Encrypted Webforms for Privacy-Conscious Receipients

60

9

Rei – Process lists easily

44

10

Littlelogs, a social journal of progress on your projects

43

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

683

2

Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk – they come from families with money

553

3

Tesla’s Model S P85D Scores 103 Out of 100 on Consumer Reports’ Ratings System

215

4

Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud

188

5

Google OnHub Review

157

6

Minecraft creator Notch shares the darker side of life after a big exit

155

7

Facebook's New Spam-Killer Hints at the Future of Coding

139

8

A former Google exec on how to make tough decisions quickly

134

9

A Cartographer Who’s Transforming Map Design

131

10

India turned off mobile internet for 63M citizens amid protests in Ahmedabad

112

News [?]

1

Oliver Sacks has died

495

2

To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emotions Involved

338

3

China Sells U.S. Treasuries to Support Yuan

301

4

A Case That Has Microsoft, Apple and Amazon Agreeing

245

5

How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive

228

6

Government officials in Amherst, VA can now require employers to fire ex-cons

181

7

Ashley Madison founder steps down

149

8

13,000 fall into homelessness every month in L.A. County

148

9

How fixed-gear bikes can confuse Google’s self-driving cars

135

10

Amazon Curtails Development of Consumer Devices

117

Scientific publications [?]

1

Brazilian wasp venom kills cancer cells by opening them up

190

2

Scalable Bayesian Optimization Using Deep Neural Networks

63

3

A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style [pdf]

56

4

Towards universal neural nets: Gibbs machines and ACE

47

5

Boosting Java performance using GPGPU [pdf]

41

6

The psychedelic state in light of integrated information theory

35

7

A numerical analysis of Quicksort: How many cases are bad cases? [pdf]

35

8

Why there is something rather than nothing – The finite, infinite and eternal [pdf]

16

9

Airbnb’s Pricing Algorithms

13

10

A Cambrian Explosion of Robotics?

9

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video

200

2

A Look at HP's “The Machine”

114

3

Tuning Java Servers (2014)

40

4

Using Samsung's Internet-Enabled Refrigerator for Man-In-the-Middle Attacks

7

5

Atomic mode setting design overview, part 1

7

6

FBI: $1.2B Lost to Business Email Scams

6

7

Working with xdg-app application bundles

6

8

Six Nabbed for Using LizardSquad Attack Tool

6

9

Building a Decentralized, Bitcoin-Powered Reddit

4

10

AMD's Open-Source Support Might Be Caught Up for Next-Gen GPUs

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Stupid Patent of the Month: A Drink Mixer Attacks the Internet of Things

107

2

Intel Skylake Launch, with Architecture Analysis

102

3

The Mobile CPU Core-Count Debate: Analyzing the Real World

60

4

Google gives developers code to disable iOS 9 app security

9

5

Russia's Wikipedia Ban Buckles Under HTTPS Encryption

8

6

Apple TV 4: Gaming and Siri will be major focuses

6

7

Save WiFi: Act now to save WiFi from the FCC

4

8

Apple Hires Microsoft HoloLens's Engineer Nick Thompson

3

9

New Spear Phishing Campaign Pretends to Be EFF

3

10

Amendments to CISA “Cybersecurity” Bill Fail in All Regards

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS SDK for C++

14

2

“Hey Siri, give us a hint.” – Apple event on September 9 at 10 a.m. PDT

11

3

Amazon is bribing Android users into constantly running analytics with free apps

8

4

Apple and Cisco Partner to Deliver Fast Lane for iOS Enterprise Users

6

5

Download Amazon Prime Movie and Shows for Offline Viewing

5

6

Resource-Oriented Bidding for EC2 Spot Instances

4

7

Apple event on Sept. 9th officially viewable on Windows 10

3

8

Microsoft Launches Matter Center-Boosting Productivity for Legal Professionals

2

9

Apple stopped security guides with OS X 10.6

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The xkcd survey

349

2

Radar Made Easy (1974)

64

3

Reason as memetic immune disorder

36

4

An Interview with Karsten Nohl, Cryptography and Internet Security Expert

31

5

The End of Walking

28

6

From Pony Express to Amazon Drone: The History of Delivering Packages

14

7

Rural Chemistry: Dick's Encylopedia of Practical Recipes (1872)

13

8

The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies

9

9

Tech Giants Want to Punish DMCA Takedown Abusers

8

10

Practical Advice for Good and Happy Programming

7

Science News [?]

1

Reliably measuring IQ through commercial puzzle games

93

2

P values are not as reliable as many scientists assume (2014)

83

3

We Can’t Get Over Ourselves: Reasons we fail to understand others

82

4

Scientists Replicated 100 Psychology Studies,Fewer Than 50% Got the Same Results

74

5

Can we ever really know another person?

63

6

The Supervolcano Under Yellowstone Is Alive and Kicking

58

7

To Predict Turbulence, Just Count the Puffs (2014)

58

8

John Conway's Life in Games

56

9

Room temperature quantum transfer in biological systems

54

10

Quantum ‘spookiness’ passes toughest test yet

53

Social [?]

1

“I have [bash] history back to ~2003”

239

2

“One billion people used Facebook in a single day”

193

3

OCamlers' critiques of Haskell

177

4

Simplicity Matters – Rich Hickey (2012) [video]

126

5

Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 [video]

54

6

“I confirm that I am not a resident of Iran, Syria, North Korea or State of NY”

25

7

IBM Devs did an AMA on Reddit and it got ugly, fast

20

8

Drop Zone: A Decentralized Marketplace Layer Written Fully on Top of Bitcoin

18

9

Guy Steele: Growing a Language (1998)

17

10

Slow Motion Contact Explosive – Nitrogen Triiodide [video]

14

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Linux workstation security checklist

376

2

Slack Poker Bot

318

3

OS X Yosemite Security and Privacy Guide

262

4

Office UI Fabric

233

5

C Programming Guidelines

176

6

Toxy, a hackable HTTP proxy to simulate failure scenarios

130

7

Docker isn't perfect – Issue #216

120

8

Vy – A Vim-like in Python made from scratch

116

9

Profiling and Optimizing in Go

116

10

ProseMirror has been open-sourced

114

Wikipedia [?]

1

86

2

72

3

54

4

N8VEM – Homebrew Computing Project

52

5

49

6

10

7

8km2 massive pyramid over Tokyo Bay in Japan

9

8

Norwegian butter crisis

8

9

Criticism of advertising

4

10

List of unsolved problems in computer science

3

Blogs [?]

1

Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice

400

2

Reviewing Steve Yegge's Prediction Record

303

3

GitHub: Scaling on Ruby, with a nomadic tech team

176

4

Best practices for a new Go developer

153

5

Using DTrace to measure Erlang dirty scheduler overhead

87

6

I’m a white guy in Silicon Valley and I’m done buying the meritocracy myth

67

7

Tokyo vs. the Bay Area

58

8

Interview with Nenad Rakocevic about Red, a Rebol-inspired programming language

54

9

Where Are Chernobyl’s Children?

50

10

Yelp: Slow Growth Lessons

31

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Fastest way to sort 10 numbers? (numbers are 32 bit)

33

2

Why is NaN – NaN == 0.0?

3

3

10M questions on Stack Overflow

3

4

Linux kernel: How to perform a partial drop_caches operation

1

5

Learning Regular Expressions

1

Substack [?]