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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department
778
2
Mercury Spill
764
3
The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
667
4
Twitter announces layoffs
582
5
Flux is the new WndProc
532
6
The Little Printf
529
7
Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014
484
8
Guide to Your Equity
442
9
LogMeIn acquires Lastpass
422
10
A global movement to ban urban billboards
399
Top Ask HN
1
How can you tell if you are insane?
88
2
Resources for learning manual software testing?
54
3
How do you answer the question “what salary do you expect?”
30
4
FBI showed up at my house this morning. What to do?
29
5
How did people bake before thermometers?
28
6
Looking for robot toys/kits for young ones
23
7
Do the monthly 'Who wants to be hired?' posts get anyone hired?
21
8
Outside of HN and Reddit what discussion communities are you a part of?
21
9
Do you vote?
20
10
Recommendations for a book about algorithms and data structures?
20
Top Show HN
1
Exposé – a static site generator for photos and videos
548
2
Download any song without knowing its name
321
3
Micro web framework for low-resource systems – live example on ESP8266
146
4
Wriber – Idea Generator
128
5
Rune.js – Graphic design systems with SVG in the browser or Node.js
92
6
Lexika – Search Engine for Spoken Words/Phrases in YouTube Videos
85
7
Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers
76
8
FoxType – Using NLP to help you write more politely
73
9
A simple bare-metal Forth for the PDP-10
71
10
CPU simulator in 60 lines of code
60
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision
328
2
Profile of Margaret Hamilton, programmer of the Apollo software
255
3
Engineer builds 'working' Thor's hammer that only he can lift
243
4
Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University
212
5
Appeals court hits largest public patent troll with $1.4M fee
186
6
Why police could seize a college student's life savings without charging him
182
7
How a small streaming site became the Netflix for indie film
158
8
Fixed, App That Fixes Parking Tickets, Gets Blocked in SF, Oakland and L.A
124
9
Segment (YC S11) Raises $27M for Its “One API to Rule Them All”
90
10
MakerBot lays off 20% of its staff for the second time this year
86
News [?]
1
Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014
484
2
A global movement to ban urban billboards
399
3
Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters Expansion
374
4
'Great Pause' Among Prosecutors As DNA Proves Fallible
292
5
'Extreme poverty' to fall below 10% of world population for first time
283
6
The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade for young people
217
7
If You're Not Paranoid, You're Crazy
209
8
Volkswagen's U.S. head: individuals engineered emissions cheating
206
9
Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B
201
10
Microsoft’s Very Good Day
190
Scientific publications [?]
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Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration [pdf]
127
2
The first photograph taken from the surface of Mars (1976)
75
3
New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto
20
4
Scientists Control a Fly's Heart with a Laser
17
5
NASA research on how zero gravity affects the Brain
5
6
Research reveals robot flaws are key to interacting with humans
5
7
AtomNet: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Drug Discovery
5
8
First conclusive evidence of a global subsurface ocean on Enceladus
3
9
From Seed AI to Technological Singularity with Recursively Self-Improving Software
3
10
NASA Releases Plan Outlining Next Steps in the Journey to Mars
2
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base
285
2
Filtering millions of packets per second on commodity NICs
145
3
Doubling the speed of jpegtran with SIMD
117
4
NPAPI Plugins in Firefox
55
5
Proposed Principles for Content Blocking
10
6
Estimating the costs of open-source development
9
7
Building a Streaming Data Hub with Elasticsearch, Kafka and Cassandra
8
8
Hacker who sent Brian Krebs heroin faces charges in US
8
9
Filtering millions of packets per second on commodity NICs
7
10
SHA-1 Freestart Collision
6
Tech blogs [?]
1
The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
667
2
There's No DRM in JPEG – Let's Keep It That Way
224
3
Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors
200
4
Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit
130
5
ARMing a Breadboard – Everyone Should Program an ARM
130
6
Judge to DOJ: Not All Writs
124
7
Gov. Brown Signs CalECPA, Requiring Police to Get a Warrant for Your Data
111
8
Where Do Major Tech Companies Stand on Encryption?
42
9
Intel-Micron 3D XPoint at Xroads
35
10
Remember Milkymist or NeTV? New Open FPGA for HDMI and DisplayPort Video Signal
11
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon EC2 Container Registry
119
2
AWS IoT Beta
113
3
EC2 Instance Update – X1 (SAP HANA) and T2.Nano (Websites)
94
4
Apple: Magic Accessories
51
5
EC2 Container Service Update – Container Registry, ECS CLI, AZ-Aware Scheduling
32
6
AWS Mobile Hub – Build, Test, and Monitor Mobile Applications
26
7
CloudWatch Dashboards – Create and Use Customized Metrics Views
23
8
AWS Lambda Supports Python, Versioning, Scheduled Jobs, and 5 Minute Functions
20
9
Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics
16
10
AWS IoT Button
9
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Twitter's Moment
110
2
Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Recordings of K-Mart In-Store Music from 1992
66
3
Productivity Is Soaring at Top Firms and Sluggish Everywhere Else
45
4
The Doomed Effort to Make Videos Go Vinyl
40
5
A Thorough Study of Chromium Blink's Memory in Real-World Websites
32
6
How Rivalry Propels Creativity
12
7
Banknotes for a Japanese-occupied Hawaii
6
8
How Introverts Can Make the Most of Conferences
4
9
RIAA sues 'Popcorn Time for Music'
4
10
Does every creative genius need a bitter rival?
3
Science News [?]
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Kilogram conflict resolved at last
294
2
China’s plan to give every citizen a social credit score
102
3
How scientists fool themselves and how they can stop
96
4
Quantum effects in relatively large systems
66
5
CERN prepares to test revolutionary mini-accelerator
64
6
China's telescope on the moon
61
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The Case for Fewer Dimensions
51
8
Strong placebo response thwarts painkiller trials, but only in US
49
9
Supernovas and the history of life on Earth
35
10
Archaeologists ousted by ISIS return to ancient Iraqi cave
31
Social [?]
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Down the Rabbit Hole of the Ol' Reddit Switcharoo
145
2
Things you can do with ZFS [video]
95
3
Facebook Reactions
92
4
I've been impacted by Twitter's layoffs. This is how I found out this morning
33
5
Data Center Computers: Modern Challenges in CPU Design [video]
32
6
My HP laptop transmits built-in mic audio on ~38 MHz, also with deactivated mic
21
7
Amiga Walker Prototype
13
8
Google Docs Down
12
9
Trigger your IFTTT recipes by voice command
12
10
Coding Bootcamps Don't Need Accreditation, So Why Are They Chasing It?
10
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Guide to Your Equity
442
2
Smartcrop.js – content-aware image cropping in JavaScript
244
3
Transit: JSON Data Interchange Format
164
4
Python wats
123
5
Slouchy – a small Python script that warns you if you're slouching
99
6
Clef's company handbook
99
7
Bqplot: Plotting library for IPython/Jupyter Notebooks
94
8
Vorpal: a framework for interactive CLIs in Node.js
81
9
Drool: automated memory leak detection in JavaScript
69
10
Blip: A bytecode compiler for Python 3
63
Wikipedia [?]
1
Self-tiling tile set
139
2
Method of loci
49
3
Canal Defence Light
33
4
Seam carving
30
5
Great Molasses Flood
16
6
N. W. Ayer and Son
14
7
Diverging Diamond Interchange
10
8
Tanenbaum – Torvalds Debate
6
9
Astroturfing
5
10
Intelligent Dance Music
5
Blogs [?]
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Node.js: Some quick optimization advice
203
2
A Culture Against Dropouts, Deviants and Troubled Young Adults
97
3
Exploring Apple's 3D Touch
91
4
Why Is Stoicism Having a Cultural Moment?
83
5
Your company is not “too far along” for YC
69
6
Getting started with Erlang: a new way to look at Erlang's syntax
54
7
Scholarship, Security and ‘Spillage’ on Campus
54
8
The simplicity and power of Elixir: the ws2048 case
51
9
Inside the lab: Why Apple still sweats the details on iMac
51
10
A look at how Macintosh accessories are prototyped and tested
47
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
19
2
Hidden features of Python
1
3
They removed part of the ripple effect in Android Marshmallow
1
Substack [?]