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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules

872

2

Drug Goes from $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight

830

3

When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup

767

4

What Happens Next Will Amaze You

753

5

Researchers Could Have Uncovered Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat If Not for DMCA

641

6

Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss

561

7

Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama

543

8

Tech companies lobbying for CISA are abandoning their users' privacy

470

9

Just doesn’t feel good

449

10

441

Top Ask HN

1

Best books or videos to get better at sales?

147

2

How do you manage and structure a team?

136

3

First time working remote, what do I need to know?

74

4

What is your best side project / passive income in 2015?

70

5

Any good Angular open source projects for looking at their code?

64

6

How do you remember syntax?

61

7

Share an industry secret

50

8

Do companies need commercial support for open source software?

33

9

How to read faster

33

10

What are your opinions and experiences coding on a 13“ or 15” laptop?

26

Top Show HN

1

%%30%30: A Game

608

2

Hacker News Simulator

572

3

Turn a Google Spreadsheet into an API

357

4

162

5

Build, run and share React Native apps in your browser

124

6

Live Simple – Tiny homes

80

7

A stack-based pure functional language for touch devices

77

8

Sshync – Auto-sync files over SSH

65

9

Eslisp – Minimal JavaScript S-expression syntax and macro system

51

10

MIDI.space – WebMIDI and Audio Mashup for Finger Drumming

50

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Countries

337

2

“This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”

302

3

AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers

260

4

The world's fastest human-powered vehicle tops 85 mph

218

5

One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs

198

6

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows a higher-quality internet is possible

159

7

Tower purifies a million cubic feet of air per hour

87

8

Cruise Raises $12.5M for Self-Driving Cars, Poaches Tesla’s Lead on Autopilot

80

9

Encryption might be the reason why we haven't heard from aliens

77

10

Telegram Now Seeing 12B Daily Messages, Up from 1B in February

75

News [?]

1

'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules

872

2

Drug Goes from $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight

830

3

Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over Emissions Software

353

4

312

5

Bitcoin Is Officially a Commodity, According to U.S. Regulator

296

6

How David Hume Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis

259

7

How Norway Created Salmon Sushi

244

8

Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare

223

9

Efficiency up, turnover down: Sweden experiments with six-hour working day

177

10

Volkswagen Chief Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal

176

Scientific publications [?]

1

Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama

543

2

A Critique of the CAP Theorem

100

3

The Erdos discrepancy problem

83

4

Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals

80

5

First draft of the “tree of life” for the 2.3M named organisms released [pdf]

76

6

On the Expressive Power of Deep Learning: A Tensor Analysis

59

7

Testing for common sense violation in airline pricing

47

8

Interpretations of quantum theory: A map of madness

46

9

Functioning 'mechanical gears' seen in nature for the first time (2013)

31

10

Repairing Reed-Solomon Codes

25

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Bcc: Taming Linux 4.3+ Tracing Superpowers

122

2

Validating Your Version of Xcode

87

3

Swift 2 Apps in the App Store

80

4

79

5

Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts with Twitter data

52

6

How Debian managed the systemd transition

51

7

Child Arrested Because Adults Are Stupid

27

8

A status update on Debian's reproducible builds

27

9

The Timeless Way of Building Erlang Apps

21

10

Steam Crosses 1,500 Games Natively Available for Linux

16

Tech blogs [?]

1

Researchers Could Have Uncovered Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat If Not for DMCA

641

2

Nothing Is Agreed Yet – We Can Still Stop the TPP's Copyright Trap

143

3

EFF Urges State Appeals Court to Protect Twitter Parodies

16

4

New Surveillance Self-Defense Playlist for Academic Researchers

7

5

What You Need to Know About iOS Malware XcodeGhost

5

6

With Little Fanfare, FBI Ramps Up Biometrics Programs (Yet Again)–Part 1

4

7

Hardware Virtualization in Microcontrollers

3

8

Apple’s ‘Move to iOS’ app gets blasted with 2700 1-star reviews by Android users

3

9

With Little Fanfare, FBI Ramps Up Biometrics Programs (Yet Again)–Part 2

3

10

New Letter calls on TPP Negotiators to Stand Up This Week for User Safeguards

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption

190

2

Lower Cost S3 Storage Option and Glacier Price Reduction

170

3

Amazon Fire TV Gaming Edition

37

4

Amazon's New $50 Fire Tablet

35

5

iOS 9 installed on over 50% of users' devices

13

6

Amazon release new Fire TV with 4K support

9

7

Pebble Time Round

4

8

AWS Grants for Research and Education

2

9

3000 Rice genomes are publicly available on AWS

2

10

Hacker's Delight

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why is light so fast?

66

2

French thought once dazzled the world. Where did it go wrong?

39

3

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (2013)

25

4

When Treasure Hunting is the Family Business

19

5

A theory of jerks

18

6

The logic of Buddhist philosophy (2014)

13

7

The Perpetually Dying Art of the Small-Town Obituary

10

8

Pirate Bay: What Raid? Police Never Got Our Servers

9

9

Setting the Record Straight on Switching Jobs

3

10

In the Age of Loneliness, Connections at Work Matter

3

Science News [?]

1

Analysis of Antidepressant Paxil Finds Data on Teen Risk Was Held Back

110

2

Happiness May Lie in Our Relationships

103

3

Unhackable Kernel?

57

4

Chinese scientists row over long-sought protein that senses magnetism

49

5

Researchers wrestle with a privacy problem

44

6

The Search for Eclipses as Perfect as Earth’s (2013)

24

7

Global number of trees is order of magnitude higher than the previous estimate

22

8

For Preventing Disease, Data Are the New Drugs

22

9

Work to make suspended animation into a life-saving medical procedure

21

10

The Chemistry and Psychology of Turning Water into Wine

20

Social [?]

1

Cable Robot Simulator [video]

261

2

Imgur is being used to create a botnet and DDOS 8Chan

47

3

The Martin Shkreli $750 pill story is a setup to short sell biotech stocks

27

4

Bitcoins from Feb 3, 2009 just moved for the first time

18

5

Firefox 42’s Tracking Protection, before/after screenshot

14

6

AMD will release Vulkan Open Source graphic driver for Linux

14

7

Go Will Dominate the Next Decade

13

8

Introducing Gnome 3.18

13

9

Collaborative live coding in VR with three.js

11

10

Snowlife: Playing with cellular automata B3/S1237

11

Github repos and gists [?]

1

C++ Core Guidelines

268

2

Better Java – Resources for Writing Modern Java

202

3

170

4

Making Cython as easy as Python

141

5

Writing Good C++14 by Default [pdf]

121

6

PeachPy: Assembly Code Generation in High-Level Python

116

7

Introduction to getting started with Linux kernel development

115

8

OpenRTS: A 3D Real-Time Strategy Game Engine

112

9

103

10

The seL4 microkernel

102

Wikipedia [?]

1

Pugachev's Cobra

36

2

Windows 3.1 beta crashed on 3rd-party DOS

11

3

List of music considered the worst

10

4

9

5

9

6

The oldest recognizable recording of a human voice in existence

7

7

Eugène François Vidocq

7

8

6

9

Canny edge detector

4

10

List of selfie-related injuries and deaths

4

Blogs [?]

1

When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup

767

2

Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss

561

3

“We don’t do autism”

177

4

Ben Horowitz’s Best Startup Advice

139

5

The 21 Bitcoin Computer

129

6

Runtime.js – JavaScript library OS

116

7

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Forests

111

8

One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in my career

95

9

Building a better WordPress

92

10

A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires

79

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How are Software License Keys generated?

6

2

How to count the number of set bits in a 32-bit integer?

3

3

Some approaches to hard instances of set partition problem

1

4

File locking in android. How to?

1

5

Stackoverflow 404

1

Substack [?]