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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Let's Encrypt is Trusted
1260
2
How is NSA breaking so much crypto?
1005
3
Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA
658
4
Ogo, a new take on personal transportation
588
5
Page Weight Matters (2012)
556
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The Hostile Email Landscape
544
7
The Drone Papers
543
8
OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo
529
9
The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
515
10
Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing
510
Top Ask HN
1
How to Be a Good Technical Lead?
520
2
What visa do foreign YC founders use to stay in US beyond 3 months?
191
3
Discuss burnout with boss?
153
4
Any advice for a programmer who has hit rock bottom?
39
5
Inexpensive dedicated servers for testing Skylake?
31
6
Technical interviews went amazing but HR is not answering my emails now?
29
7
Someone offered to buy my browser extension from me. What now?
28
8
The best app to keep a work diary
28
9
Why have none of the ~940 YC companies ever gone public via IPO?
28
10
How do you find remote jobs?
27
Top Show HN
1
Metabase, an open-source business intelligence tool
287
2
Clojure for the Brave and True – now free online
224
3
Arguman – Argument Analysis Platform
170
4
CloudScrape – Cloud-based web scraping platform
116
5
Mechanical clock simulation in WebGL
109
6
Apifier – hosted web crawler for developers
101
7
Minimal freestanding C runtime for bare-metal/embedded PC projects
97
8
TinyPress – A GitHub Blogging Platform
93
9
A Platform For Self-Experimentation
79
10
Microphone – Self-Announcing .NET Services on Top of Consul
54
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers
474
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YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music
338
3
Red Hat is buying Ansible
336
4
YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its Red Subscription Deal
286
5
X-Ray Scans Expose Chip-And-Pin Card Hack
185
6
Paper is Dropbox's new vision for how teams can work together
179
7
Teen Who Hacked CIA Director’s Email Tells How He Did It
153
8
Jack Dorsey giving up 30% of his stake in Square to help underserved communities
143
9
The porn industry is in a bind
125
10
“Tomato” versus “#FF6347” – the tragicomic history of CSS color names
108
News [?]
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The Drone Papers
543
2
The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
515
3
Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project
374
4
Apple tells U.S. judge 'impossible' to unlock new iPhones
328
5
Larry Lessig: I'm All In
324
6
TPP could thwart computer security research and tinkering
287
7
Hillary Clinton Is Wrong About Edward Snowden
242
8
The Trading Game
235
9
Academics sharing paywalled papers with a codeword on Twitter
234
10
Tesla shares dive after Consumer Reports yanks recommendation for Model S
223
Scientific publications [?]
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Neuroscientists decode the brain activity of the worm
100
2
Several types of types in programming languages
84
3
Overcomplexifying, Underdelivering
57
4
"Memory foam" approach to unsupervised learning
42
5
The staggering impact of IT systems gone wrong
34
6
Elevated levels of diesel compounds in groundwater derive from surface activity
28
7
Neural Implementation of Probabilistic Models of Cognition
26
8
Remembering George Mueller, Leader of Early Human Spaceflight
22
9
Common sense violation in airline pricing
16
10
NASA Studying 2015 El Niño Event
12
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S
124
2
DNSSEC is Open for Beta
73
3
Fedora opens up to bundling
70
4
IBM Runs World’s Worst Spam-Hosting ISP?
62
5
Introducing Twitter polls
32
6
Maximizing Throughput on Multicore Systems
24
7
Strscpy() and the hazards of improved interfaces
22
8
Join the CloudFlare DNSSEC Beta
15
9
OpenBSD's source tree just turned 20 years old
12
10
A Look at the New WordPress Brute Force Amplification Attack
5
Tech blogs [?]
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How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
284
2
Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review
197
3
Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You (2005)
97
4
Ultrasonic Power Transfer Investigated Using Data from uBeam Patent Filings
63
5
Tech Industry Trade Groups Are Coming Out Against CISA
18
6
FASTR Ensures That Publicly Funded Research Belongs to the Public
5
7
Congress Introduces Provision That Could Make Vehicle Security Research Illegal
5
8
Amendments to CISA “Cybersecurity” Bill Fail in All Regards
4
9
Let's Encrypt Enters Private Beta
4
10
Government Must Come Clean About Exports of American-Made Spying Tools
3
FAANG+ [?]
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New ResearchKit Studies for Autism, Epilepsy and Melanoma
67
2
Lytro Light Field Camera: $69
2
3
Thoughts on the new Windows 10 devices for Developers
1
4
Sender ID Framework SPF Record Wizard
1
5
The Magic of Math: Solving for X and Figuring Out Why: Arthur Benjamin (Books)
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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From Python to Go and Back Again
366
2
The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (1956)
66
3
Banknotes for a Japanese-occupied Hawaii
55
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Free will is back, and maybe we can measure it
47
5
Inviolability of Telegraphic Correspondence (1879)
29
6
From Python to Go, and back again (slides)
11
7
Interactive Visualization of Amazonia Várzea (Water) Forest
6
8
MPAA asks government to facilitate private anti-piracy deals
5
9
Rape of the Mind – Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, Brainwashing (1956)
4
10
In Defense of the New York Times
3
Science News [?]
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Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease
338
2
To save on weight, a detour to the moon is the best route to Mars
123
3
The tantalizing links between gut microbes and the brain
86
4
The World's Most Inspirational Iceberg Is a Fake
82
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Similarities between the behavioural effects of oxytocin and alcohol
65
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The Galaxy That Got Too Big
64
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Brain structure generates pockets of sleep within the brain
63
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Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs
62
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Should cars be fully driverless? No, says an MIT engineer and historian
57
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Neurological evidence for chaos in the nervous system is growing (2014)
56
Social [?]
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ElixirConf 2015 Keynote by José Valim [video]
121
2
Notifications for targeted attacks
79
3
8088 MPH, partially working under emulation
68
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Hardware requirements for running AltaVista search engine in 1996
63
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A Better Scala REPL? [video]
52
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Autocomplete hand-drawn animations [video]
44
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How Oldschool Sound/Music worked [video]
34
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Demystifying Floating Point [video]
21
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Magic Leap Demo [video]
18
10
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer #3
12
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing
510
2
React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10
207
3
MagicStack: Python syntax highlighter for Sublime Text and Atom
130
4
Khan Academy's React style guide
128
5
Chrome DevTools extension for ClojureScript
113
6
Hacking Servo for Noobs
85
7
Reader macros in Common Lisp
80
8
Nucleon, a dynamic TCP load balancer written in Rust
78
9
Siberite: A Simple LevelDB-Backed Message Queue in Go
77
10
Structural Typing for Clojure
63
Wikipedia [?]
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Braess' paradox: adding a new road to a city can slow down traffic
98
2
Arachne: a self-contained graphical web browser for DOS and Linux
41
3
Programma 101, the first commercial “desktop computer”
40
4
Cell (microprocessor)
40
5
Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
26
6
Whitespace programming language
21
7
Spiral of silence
7
8
Tuckman's stages of group development
6
9
Back to the Future Day
6
10
Arachne: a GPL self-contained web browser
5
Blogs [?]
1
How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?
420
2
What The New York Times Didn’t Say About Amazon
343
3
How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
326
4
Default Alive or Default Dead?
322
5
Libraries Used in the Top 100 iOS Apps
163
6
The spreadsheet as a minimum viable CMS
122
7
CS183C Session 8: Eric Schmidt
113
8
Dean Baquet Responds to Jay Carney’s Medium Post
101
9
Product Design of the Stripe Dashboard for iPhone
84
10
Venmo Five Years Ago
83
Stackoverflow [?]
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Student disqualified for using stackoverflow, on stackoverflow
6
2
Are || and ! operators sufficient to make every possible logical expression?
4
3
Why Did Facebook Pick OCaml to Build Hack and Flow
3
4
Simple proof that GUID is not unique
2
5
Understanding Cache line invalidation and striped locks for Concurrent HashMap
2
Substack [?]