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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says
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Otto, the successor to Vagrant
772
3
Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
755
4
Two HN Announcements
698
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The Case of Richard Glossip
595
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Amazon Flex
593
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Give Google Contributor a try: Pay to remove ads
549
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Google Nexus 5x and 6P
495
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Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter
493
10
Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a Prophet
474
Top Ask HN
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What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
157
2
Can you give me some advice on writing essays?
50
3
What podcasts are you listening to?
44
4
How do you automate logging bugs in your product?
33
5
Google recruiting – Asking for current compensation
24
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Why post about site outages?
18
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YC Fellowship first impressions?
16
8
Why are we more productive, have more workers, but still working more?
14
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Scala or Elixir, What would you recommend me?
14
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Will being an engineer at a nonprofit reduce your longterm earnings?
14
Top Show HN
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I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
681
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Caramel – a modern syntax for the lambda calculus
130
3
Free database of geographic place names and geospatial data
108
4
A Lisp compiler and environment in Go
76
5
Promise Visualization Playground
61
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Muki, music streaming from MIDI and chiptunes
57
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An interactive map of restaurants reviewed by the New Yorker
49
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Fictionhub, a place to share fiction
46
9
A game about the Snowden leaks played by email
43
10
Folio for Mac – Simple version control app for designers based on Git
42
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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A tumor stole every memory I had – what happened when they came back
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Forcing suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitutional, court says
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The real anti-Facebook is good old email
255
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Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
249
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Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
231
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New Campaign to Help Surveillance Agents Quit NSA or GCHQ
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Oculus’ New $99 Samsung Gear VR Makes Serious Virtual Reality Affordable
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How social networks can create the illusion that something rare is common
153
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OS X 10.11 El Capitan: Review
144
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Medium Raises $57M
122
News [?]
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Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says
1011
2
Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a Prophet
474
3
From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities
450
4
Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute
390
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Boredom is not a problem to be solved, it's the privilege of a free mind
377
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Crystal, iOS ad blocker, to accept money to let ads through
306
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Paris city centre goes car-free for a day
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The drug industry wants us to think Martin Shkreli is a rogue CEO, but he isn't
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When Schools Overlook Introverts
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Obama administration quietly explored ways to bypass smartphone encryption
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Scientific publications [?]
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Women view professional advancement equally attainable, but less desirable [pdf]
153
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Twitter's Tips for Making Software Engineers More Efficient
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Perplexing Pluto: New ‘Snakeskin’ Image and More from New Horizons
95
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The Real Price of Oil
50
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How a Microscopic Supercapacitor Will Supercharge Mobile Electronics
46
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In social networks, group boundaries promote the spread of ideas, study finds
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Spinning ring on a table found to behave more like a boomerang than a coin
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An architecture for encoding sentence meaning in left temporal cortex
33
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Highway Will Recharge Your Batteries as You Drive
33
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NASA to Announce Mars Mystery Solved
33
Dev Blogs [?]
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Volkswagen and Cheating Software
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Mobile Ad Brokers as DDoS Distribution Vectors: A Case Study
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Akka Streams: Streaming Data Transformation à la Carte
28
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Help Test Private Browsing with Tracking Protection in Firefox Beta 42
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Bidding for Breaches, Redefining Targeted Attacks
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Using the KVM API
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Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing
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Mobile Ad Networks as DDoS Vectors: A Case Study
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ATM Skimmer Gang Firebombed Antivirus Firm
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Google Cloud Shell
8
Tech blogs [?]
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Senator Wants to Make the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Even Easier to Abuse
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2
iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Preliminary Results
101
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Patent Owner Insists the “Integers” Do Not Include the Number One
47
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Taken Offline: Years in Prison for a Love of Technology
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Massachusetts Court Rules Cell Tracking Requires a Warrant
21
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This is what a real bomb looks like
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Adblockers and Innovative Ad Companies Are Working Together
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Adblockers and Innovative Ad Companies Are Working Together
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Today's safely encrypted data is tomorrow's open book
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Tiny, Tiny Bluetooth Chips
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FAANG+ [?]
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Apple’s approach to privacy
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XcodeGhost Q&A
52
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Receive and Process Incoming Email with Amazon SES
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Apple Announces Record iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Sales
4
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Elastic Beanstalk Support for Go and Java
4
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AWS HIPAA Compliance FAQs
4
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Receive and Process Incoming Email with Amazon SES
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How to create a custom scheduler for Amazon ECS
3
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A Parent's Survival Guide to Common Core Math – Kindle Edition Free This Weekend
3
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AWS Public Data Sets
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Zzyzx, California, or the Biggest Health Spa Scam in American History
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Modafinil user survey (2015)
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Disconfirming Ebooks
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Moonstruck: How moon phases affect life on Earth
17
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An Edo-Era Japanese World Map
14
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How the Mollusks of Fangataufa Came Back AFter a Nuclear Blast
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Walking to School [video]
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The new world order of Césaire and Senghor
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Pirate Bay Founder Finally Free After 3 Years
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The Rise and Fall of the Cash Railway
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Science News [?]
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Terence Tao solves the Erdős Discrepancy Problem
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Why the Human Brain Project Went Wrong and How to Fix It
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Leading mathematician launches arXiv 'overlay' journal
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Where are the missing gravitational waves?
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Virtual human built from more than 5000 slices of a real woman
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A New Map Traces the Limits of Computation
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The Man Who Created Second Life Thinks We Can Make an Earth-Sized Virtual World
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Alternative CRISPR system could improve genome editing
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Let’s Play War: Could war games replace the real thing?
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Visions of Future Physics
38
Social [?]
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Full Reddit Submission Corpus now available for 2006 thru August 2015
250
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Musk Says Tesla Cars Will Go 620 Miles per Charge in 2 Years, Autonomous in 3
220
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“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
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John Carmack's VR Script Live Coding Session at Oculus Connect [video]
135
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TempleOS: x86_64 HolyC Compiler/Assembler/Unassembler [video]
110
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Facebook was down
101
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@Snowden
60
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Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities [video]
33
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How I Got and Lost a VC Job Offer in 72 Hours
24
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Make the Back-End Team Jealous: Elm in Production
24
Github repos and gists [?]
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Clipboard.js: Modern Copy to Clipboard
304
2
Elixir v1.1.0 Released
266
3
Utron: Go MVC framework for fast, scalable and robust database-driven web apps
205
4
Redox: A Rust Operating System
194
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Servo WebRender Overview
191
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Vim setup for Go
130
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Architectural patterns of resilient distributed systems
124
8
VOC: A transpiler that converts Python bytecode into Java bytecode
121
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Thoughts on RethinkDB and GraphQL
112
10
Gatsby – Static Site Generator with React and Webpack
88
Wikipedia [?]
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Against Method
133
2
Uckers
40
3
Kee Bird
28
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The Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED), an analog video disc playback system
16
5
Balance in game design
13
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ABA Problem
6
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Human Interference Task Force
6
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CAP Theorem
5
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Victimless Leather
4
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Elwetritsch
4
Blogs [?]
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Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards
327
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How Chromium Works
290
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I Have Read Prop F
238
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Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts
192
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Why Quirky Failed
144
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Why I’m not enabling Bitcode
123
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Building Analytics at 500px
94
8
BC Startups: The Government Is Not Your Friend
72
9
Small Data: Tinder-like apps are the way of the future
70
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Recruitment to Resignation: My Four Months at Microsoft
48
Stackoverflow [?]
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Is Python strongly typed?
38
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C++ default_random_engine generates same number in Linux, but not in Windows
3
3
Optimize Breakeven Point Python iterate over set many times or make list first
2
4
How do malloc and free work?
2
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How is linux kernel tested?
2
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What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?
1
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Animate width with fixed center swift
1
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gcc: “Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges”
1
Substack [?]