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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
1121
2
EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software
730
3
A story about <input>
693
4
Write like you talk
647
5
Do you know how much your computer can do in a second?
557
6
Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Just 10 Days
546
7
Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe browsing turned off
450
8
Why Homejoy Failed
421
9
Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy
408
10
Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore
379
Top Ask HN
1
Should I deploy my code and lay off 80 people?
82
2
How can I tell if I have programming aptitude?
49
3
What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?
45
4
What are the best remote-friendly job sites for engineers?
41
5
How to raise a hacker?
35
6
Are startups diluting their own market?
27
7
Do you listen music while programming??
22
8
How do I earn money?
21
9
What to do about free trial abuse?
20
10
What's a good book on modern Linux application programming?
18
Top Show HN
1
Freeze – Amazon Glacier GUI Client for Mac OS X
160
2
SVG Path Builder
95
3
Desk – lightweight workspace management for the shell
94
4
PDFx – Extract Metadata and URLs from PDFs, and Download Referenced PDFs
93
5
NotCRUD – Hacker News of India
70
6
Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what you read
69
7
A curated list of great puzzles
59
8
CV Boilerplate – Easing the Process of Building a CV Using LaTeX
53
9
Tabli – A Tab Manager for Google Chrome
52
10
Wunderbrain – Indie iOS app to train your brain in a few minutes a week
50
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
The FCC has voted to end exorbitant phone fees for prison inmates
379
2
Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business
378
3
Paternal stress in mice given to offspring via RNA packed into sperm
192
4
Indonesia's palm oil fires emitted more greenhouse gases in a day than the U.S.
137
5
Theranos didn’t work with the huge drug company it supposedly made money from
124
6
A Superconductor That Works at -70 °C
122
7
Judge tosses Wikimedia’s anti-NSA lawsuit because Wikipedia isn’t big enough
121
8
Decline in the labor share of income in the U.S.
117
9
ADP Drops Lawsuit Against Human Resources Startup Zenefits
111
10
Amazon’s $50 Fire tablet reviewed
101
News [?]
1
Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered in copy of Lord of the Rings
325
2
IBM to Acquire the Weather Company
306
3
Morocco poised to become a solar superpower with launch of desert mega-project
297
4
A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease
251
5
A debtors’ prison in Mississippi
229
6
Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
212
7
Dolphins often seem to want to befriend us
203
8
Why too much choice is stressing us out
193
9
The Thirty-Seven Basic Plots, According to a Screenwriter of the Silent Film Era
171
10
Google Launches a Developer Boot Camp, Promising Jobs for Graduates
169
Scientific publications [?]
1
First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor in Two Decades to Begin Fueling in Tennessee
129
2
In unexpected discovery, comet contains alcohol, sugar
82
3
Collections of ants are both solid-like and liquid-like
64
4
A Tower of Molten Salt Will Deliver Solar Power After Sunset
63
5
A small British firm shows that software bugs aren't inevitable (2005)
55
6
Physicists uncover novel phase of matter
53
7
A Survey: Time Travel in Deep Learning Space: Intro to Deep Learning Models
31
8
Modeling the Evolution of Programming Languages
22
9
Yeloha Brings Solar into the Sharing Economy
21
10
Ancient wild ox genome reveals complex cow ancestry
11
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Fuzzing with american fuzzy lop
67
2
Ben Fathi: Why I Joined CloudFlare
26
3
Why Is the NSA Moving Away from Elliptic Curve Cryptography?
17
4
The Doxing Trend
17
5
The what and why of product experimentation at Twitter
13
6
Results of experimenting with Brotli for dynamic web content
11
7
Comparison Of Nvidia and AMD Graphics Cards On SteamOS For Steam Linux Gaming
9
8
Results of experimenting with Brotli for dynamic web content
9
9
Mozilla Launches Open Source Support Program
7
10
Streamlining Elasticsearch Deployments with ELK and the Cloud
6
Tech blogs [?]
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CISA passes Senate
281
2
The Samsung 950 Pro PCIe SSD Review
84
3
Closing the Loopholes in Europe's Net Neutrality Compromise
80
4
Virtual Reality Basics
59
5
California Leads the U.S. in Digital Privacy
40
6
Not Your Father’s FORTRAN
39
7
Apple's EULA Gives It License to Invade Your Privacy, Government Claims
25
8
Warrantless Searches of Controlled Substance Prescription DB Threaten Privacy
18
9
Closing the Loopholes in Europe's Net Neutrality Compromise
12
10
Why Should You Get a Ham Radio License? [video]
7
FAANG+ [?]
1
Apple Reports Record Fourth Quarter Results
102
2
New AWS Public Data Set – Real-Time and Archived NEXRAD Weather Data
5
3
EC2Run Command for Remote Instance Management
3
4
MLB.com Statcast Debuts at the World Series – Powered by AWS (2014)
2
5
Apple TV Available
2
6
New EC2 Run Command
2
7
Mac to Surface Book: Making the Switch from Mac
2
8
Apple Launches New Clean Energy Programs in China
2
9
Making the Switch: MacBook to Microsoft Surface Book
2
10
Amazon Prime Now One-Hour Delivery
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
A Sixteenth Century Pope Buried His Pet Elephant Under the Vatican
35
2
Tales from TCP Towers (1996)
32
3
The regional phenomenon of tarantism: tarantula-bitten women cured by dance
17
4
Tales from TCP Towers (1996)
7
5
Popcorn Time Chaos Leads to Shutdown
6
6
The Past and Future of Magnetic Poetry
6
7
Popcorn time chaos leads to shutdown
5
8
The End of Cancer – Vincent DeVita and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
4
9
Orwell Estate Sends Copyright Takedown Over the Number “1984”
4
10
Climate change is here
4
Science News [?]
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Study: CEO effect on firm performance could be mostly due to chance
143
2
Cancer-fighting viruses win approval
140
3
New general-purpose optimization algorithm promises order-of-magnitude speedups
126
4
The Surprising Power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
79
5
Did Humans Evolve to See Things as They Really Are?
72
6
Biomedical superstars are signing on with Google
70
7
Science papers rarely cited in negative ways
64
8
A new model, “The Big Splat”, explains the strange asymmetry of the moon
51
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Could Iran be the next country to legalise cannabis and opium?
48
10
The Physical Origin of Universal Computing
42
Social [?]
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C++17 progress update
107
2
Jack Dorsey gives 1% Twitter stock to employee equity pool
81
3
Facebook iOS App Battery Explanation
76
4
Google Dataflow: A Unified Model for Batch and Streaming Data Processing [video]
35
5
Magic Leap Demo
18
6
The Birth of ZFS [video]
17
7
2M concurrent clients on Phoenix (Elixir) benchmark (40 core, 128GB)
12
8
Jony Ive Sighted Driving the Apple Car Through SOMA
12
9
Coding is for girls
12
10
Richard Feynman on fire
12
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy
408
2
IPFS Pics
330
3
Pivotal Greenplum Database has been open sourced
195
4
CSSgram: CSS library for Instagram filters
176
5
Webwatch
105
6
Quill – A cross browser rich text editor with an API
100
7
Deep learning for NLP resources
91
8
Souper – A Superoptimizer for LLVM IR
84
9
Brainstorm – Deep Learning library, successor to PyBrain
78
10
Om Next Quick Start
71
Wikipedia [?]
1
FE-Schrift – forgery-impeding typeface
143
2
Getting to “Philosophy”
101
3
Gotthard Base Tunnel
97
4
Arne Næss: Recommendations for Public Debate
22
5
R v Dudley and Stephens – British murder case of 1884
12
6
Kula Ring
9
7
Micrographia by Robert Hooke
7
8
Theia (planet)
6
9
The Manchester Baby
4
10
Betteridge's law of headlines
4
Blogs [?]
1
Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
1121
2
Write like you talk
647
3
Why Homejoy Failed
421
4
System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance
287
5
Early employees take the most risk today
227
6
Deploying a Django App with No Downtime
184
7
Copy-Pasting URLs from Google Search Can Leak Previous Searches
176
8
Java 8’s new Optional type doesn't solve anything
174
9
Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale
168
10
How to Get Press for Your Startup
151
Stackoverflow [?]
1
CPU Privilege Rings: Why rings 1 and 2 aren't used?
3
2
Regular expression to match a regular expression
1
3
Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?
1
4
Why does ++ have poor performance on big numbers in JavaScript?
1
5
Why `const int main = 195;` is a valid program
1
Substack [?]