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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1248

2

The Pixel Factory

739

3

The Website That Got Me Expelled

639

4

Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web

632

5

Stripe: Open Source

581

6

How we ended up with microservices

479

7

Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business

476

8

Apple Unveils the iPad Pro

446

9

Immersive Linear Algebra – A free interactive online book

434

10

How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Few Hours

430

Top Ask HN

1

What are the latest and greatest books on your favorite language?

81

2

I have a mental block designing software. Time to quit?

56

3

What's your favorite CLI or ncurses program?

55

4

Do you think we'll see any Twitter/Facebook real-competitor?

42

5

What books are you reading?

36

6

I have lost all interest in my life. Not sure what to do?

32

7

Are 4K monitors worth it?

30

8

How do you feel about ad blockers?

29

9

CTM gave CS the “kernel language”. Is there a “kernel database”?

27

10

What is the best recommended domain name registration site?

26

Top Show HN

1

HTML5 version of StarCraft

320

2

Light Bootstrap Dashboard

170

3

Libsoundio 1.0.0 – cross-platform audio input and output

129

4

A game engine for the terminal in Go

109

5

My father's letters as a diplomatic courier from 1960-66

91

6

Continuo, a simple activity tracker for iPhone

60

7

Neural network that impersonates writers

48

8

Libcox – A C Library for Cross-Platform System Calls

47

9

46

10

ReadThisThing – One piece of journalism in your inbox daily

45

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple Unveils the iPad Pro

446

2

The Founder of Firefox Wrote His Own Screenplay for HBO’s Silicon Valley

223

3

ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month

198

4

Apple Introduces the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus

181

5

Apple Unveils a More Powerful Apple TV

154

6

Why I'm walking away from one of the best jobs in academia

101

7

What Makes Uber Run

91

8

“Thank You For Playing” film review

71

9

New Discoveries Could Explain What Happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke

59

10

How Far Can a Motorcycle Lean in a Turn?

52

News [?]

1

The Internet of Way Too Many Things

393

2

Better and worse ways to spot a liar

256

3

Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit

237

4

Public defender: it’s impossible for me to do a good job representing my clients

233

5

We Need the Right to Repair Our Gadgets

220

6

Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy

216

7

Decline of play and rise of sensory issues in preschoolers

192

8

Solitary Confinement Is Cruel and All Too Common

179

9

The Myth of Quality Time

160

10

How Germany abolished tuition fees

150

Scientific publications [?]

1

Poison-Injecting Robot Submarine Kills Sea Stars to Save Coral Reefs

84

2

Electronic Noise Is Drowning Out the Internet of Things

52

3

Interdisciplinary and physics challenges of Network Theory

31

4

Using a Power Law Distribution to Describe Big Data

19

5

Evidence that Earth's first mass extinction was not caused by catastrophe

18

6

Via handwriting analysis, scholar discovers unknown Magna Carta scribe

15

7

Researcher Hacks Self-Driving Car Sensors

5

8

Importance Weighted Autoencoders

4

9

Towards Biologically Plausible Deep Learning

4

10

Assassin Robot Submarine Poisons Sea Stars to Save Coral Reefs

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe: Open Source

581

2

TSA Master Keys

299

3

Bypassing the Linux kernel for high-performance packet filtering

179

4

TvOS for Developers

165

5

Firefox for iOS Now Available for Preview in New Zealand

85

6

Porting Linux to a new processor architecture, Part 1

70

7

CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed (2012)

57

8

Improving Security for Bugzilla

56

9

Copyright assignment and license enforcement for Debian

26

10

Diffy: Testing services without writing tests

12

Tech blogs [?]

1

Orange is the new $15 Raspberry Pi

9

2

EFF Applauds Apple’s Refusal of Government Demand for iMessage Backdoor

5

3

Real-Time Motion Capture Firm Faceshift May Have Been Acquired by Apple

4

4

iPad Pro: ‘Monster screen’ runs full-sized side-by-side apps, LTE models

3

5

DOJ Reverses Course and Requires Warrants for Stingrays

2

6

EFF Shines a Light on the NSA’s Plans for Disclosing Software Weaknesses

2

7

Apple is upping its AI game but can it become smart as Google without tracking?

2

8

Russia's Wikipedia Ban Buckles Under HTTPS Encryption

1

9

More than 1M Apple Watches in use in China

1

10

Snapdragon 820, 2x better battery life, 2x better performance than 810

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microservices without the Servers

273

2

Apple September 2015 Keynote

63

3

8

4

Amazon EC2 Container Service

5

5

iPhone Upgrade Program

4

6

Amazon EC2 Container Service (Docker)

3

7

iPhone 6s: The Only Thing That's Changed Is Everything

2

8

Swift OS X Programming for Absolute Beginners (Amazon)

1

9

Slice Harvester: A pizza memoir

1

10

The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Notes on a tour of an Amazon distribution facility (2014)

145

2

The Alternate Universe of Soviet Arcade Games

114

3

Proposal for a Go Interpreter

114

4

The Timeless Way of Building (1979)

84

5

The “Hitler at Home” stories of the pre-WWII American press

75

6

The dangerous idea that life is a story

75

7

We are sacrificing the right to walk

45

8

You can't defend public libraries and oppose file-sharing

40

9

Is it OK for psychologists to deceive?

22

10

Religions Claim to Be Nondisprovable

6

Science News [?]

1

Why human intelligence and AI will co-evolve

125

2

Ada Lovelace: Enchantress of abstraction

58

3

The Speakularity, Where Everything You Say Is Transcribed and Searchable

49

4

Hawaii First to Harness Deep-Ocean Temperatures for Power

46

5

A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption

37

6

Meet Me at the Automat (2001)

25

7

The Beckoning of the Ice Worlds: Europa

25

8

In Search of Life’s Smoking Gun: Ocean volcanoes where life may have erupted

18

9

Sticky tape generates X-rays (2008)

17

10

The Seeds That Sowed a Revolution

15

Social [?]

1

“This week, I resigned from my position at Duke University”

279

2

John McAfee AMA

146

3

I found the AirBnB logo in Trademarks and Symbols of the World published in 1988

70

4

Literate Devops with Emacs [video]

66

5

Adobe CEO desperately tries to avoid answering a simple question (2013)

55

6

Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign (1969) [video]

47

7

The 2000 Year-Old Computer – Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism (2012) [video]

45

8

Adobe CEO avoids a question about why its priced $1400 more in Australia

34

9

Hans Rosling: Don't use news media to understand the world (english subtitles)

31

10

Oracle may have let their Java Evangelists go

27

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron

215

2

Open-source Playstation 4 SDK

166

3

Node.js v4 Release Timeline

145

4

Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project

132

5

CIL (.NET bytecode) to WebAssembly compiler

123

6

A FAT32 fragmenter

110

7

Protected branches and required status checks

109

8

Sshmuxd: SSH proxy to replace jump hosts

108

9

Code to transform Hillary's emails from raw PDF documents to a SQLite database

94

10

tiDB – Scalable RDBMS Inspired by Google F1 with Support for MySQL Protocol

88

Wikipedia [?]

1

St. Petersburg paradox

144

2

Narcissistic Number

27

3

List of multiple discoveries

12

4

Oblique Strategies

10

5

Project MKUltra – CIA Mind Control Program

4

6

Mushroom management

4

7

SWESS: Nuclear dead-man's switch on B-52's

3

8

3

9

Gordon Welchman

3

10

1934 West Coast waterfront strike

3

Blogs [?]

1

San Francisco Should Always Have a Subway Under Construction

175

2

Confirmed: The Last Great Prediction Of The Big Bang

106

3

Fun with Software-Defined Radios: Mapping the Spectrum in the Mission, SF

67

4

An open letter to Notch

32

5

Practical Recursion Schemes

29

6

The British Perfected the Art of Brewing Tea Inside an Armored Vehicle

27

7

What if states earned their Electoral College votes based on turnout?

22

8

Swift: What Apple Missed in Xcode

22

9

Bored People Quit

19

10

How to write a great error message

19

Stackoverflow [?]

1

The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List

5

2

Does Functional Programming Replace GoF Design Patterns?

2

3

What is the maximum length of a URL in different browsers?

2

4

What exactly is metaprogramming?

1

5

What's the difference between `git diff --patience` and `git diff --histogram`?

1

6

Language bigots exist even in the .Net world

1

7

Enable XDebug with a single line in OS X

1

8

Stackoverflow 10M

1

Substack [?]