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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work

1524

2

906

3

Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects

886

4

My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

667

5

Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

638

6

Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?

586

7

The Tech Bust of 2015

562

8

Computer, Respond to This Email

562

9

GTA V – Graphics Study

516

10

Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android

510

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (November 2015)

512

2

New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

497

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2015)

117

4

Is it possible to transition from corporate job to self contractor?

89

5

What are the alternatives to Amazon Lambda?

83

6

Beyond CRUD and ETL – How to Grow Professionally?

71

7

Who wants to be hired? (November 2015)

42

8

Real odds of making a living off a web app

35

9

What are you currently learning in your spare time?

32

10

In what order did the best and worst periods in your career come?

30

Top Show HN

1

Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

802

2

React for Beginners

178

3

Vertexshaderart.com

145

4

WOPR – A markup for rich terminal reports

125

5

Administrate – Rails framework for creating flexible admin dashboards

124

6

Code4Startup - Learn to code by cloning real life startups

113

7

Blabr – Scientific Computing for the Web

106

8

Invoice Boilerplate – Simple automated LaTeX invoicing system

72

9

Parachuting robots – a programming puzzle

60

10

A new general-purpose API solving common and complex problems

60

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service

430

2

EFF asks appeals court to “shut down the Eastern District of Texas”

292

3

Expedia Acquires Airbnb Rival HomeAway for $3.9B

236

4

Federal appeals court says NSA phone metadata collection can continue

180

5

What’s Really Killing Digital Health Startups

175

6

After guilty plea, judge confused why prosecutors still want iPhone unlocked

149

7

Police Stingray Tools Can Indeed Record Calls

134

8

Stuffy offices can halve cognitive scores

105

9

Baidu found China’s “ghost cities” but is keeping their locations mostly secret

99

10

How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult

79

News [?]

1

Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?

586

2

Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android

510

3

I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil

498

4

China to begin two-child policy

349

5

Ireland to 'decriminalise' small amounts of drugs for personal use

348

6

New species combining wolf, coyote, and dog emerges in eastern North America

323

7

‘The Senator Be Embezzling’

309

8

Norway: photographs taken of the same places separated by long periods of time

269

9

E.P.A. Finds More VW Cheating Software, Including in Porsches

257

10

NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks

254

Scientific publications [?]

1

Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets

446

2

NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater Than Losses

148

3

Klout Score: Measuring Influence Across Multiple Social Networks

38

4

Understanding Openness

22

5

On End-To-End Program Generation from User Intention by Deep Neural Networks

20

6

Use of video games in physical therapy

15

7

Relativity explains fundamental properties of gold

10

8

Understanding Openness

9

9

56153 is the largest number factored on a quantum device (2014)

5

10

'Bubble piano' plays bubbles in sync with Beethoven symphony

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Linux TCP will have lockless listener processing 3.5M SYNs per sec

334

2

Hearts on Twitter

191

3

RoboVM Is No Longer Open-Source

130

4

What's new in TeX

95

5

Abuse is indefensible

83

6

How Carders Can Use EBay as a Virtual ATM

82

7

The Dotty experimental compiler for Scala now bootstraps

75

8

Cryptographic Libraries

57

9

Genomics Marks the Next Sequence for FPGA's

42

10

The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm (1999)

39

Tech blogs [?]

1

The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

184

2

License Plate Readers Exposed – How Public Safety Agencies Responded

85

3

Librarian of Congress Renews and Expands Protections for Fair Uses

76

4

The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

7

5

No Pascal, not a SNOBOL's chance. Go Forth!

6

6

Browser-Based iOS 9.1/9.2 Jailbreak Wins $1M Bounty, Will Be Sold

5

7

Apple could be forced to stop completely encrypting iPhones under UK law

4

8

More Private Browsing Experience: Mozilla Ships Tracking Protection for Firefox

3

9

Consumer Review Freedom Act Would Protect Customers’ Right to Post Reviews

3

10

Second Circuit Refuses to Stop NSA's Telephone Records Program

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work

1524

2

The Go Programming Language shipping on Amazon next week

5

3

Heads-Up – Longer EC2 and EBS Resource IDs Coming in 2016

5

4

Using Amazon EFS to Persist Data from Amazon ECS Containers

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The economic environment is becoming less favorable for large Western companies

46

2

Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

41

3

Case study: Can retailers win back shoppers who browse then buy online?

32

4

Model S owners are already reporting that Tesla’s Autopilot is self-improving

19

5

YIFY/ YTS Shuts Down Forever – The End of a Piracy Icon – TorrentFreak

12

6

That Alien Message

8

7

Model S owners are already reporting that Tesla’s Autopilot is self-improving

7

8

MPAA: We Shut Down YTS/YIFY and Popcorn Time

6

9

Why can't the world just pick one design for plugs?

5

10

Model S owners are already reporting that Tesla’s Autopilot is self-improving

4

Science News [?]

1

Thinking positively: The genetics of high intelligence

136

2

The astronomer and the witch – how Kepler saved his mother from the stake

81

3

Why Virtual Classes Can Be Better Than Real Ones

81

4

Canada creates science-minister post

70

5

The Contest Between Gravity and Quantum Physics

65

6

A Genocide in Colonial Africa Finally Gets Recognition

65

7

Remote Mexican village uses solar power to purify water

59

8

Large analysis finds that low-fat diets have low impact

47

9

Researchers show that memories reside in specific brain cells (2012)

37

10

The Power Laws of Ecosystems

37

Social [?]

1

Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign

330

2

Tesla autopilot stops a collision [video]

275

3

Facebook is able to identify music and TV when writing status update

118

4

Watch an AI bot play Go [video]

75

5

Using Topological Data Analysis to Solve Complex Problems (2013) [video]

42

6

Alan Kay at MIT Media Lab 30 [video]

38

7

Botnet Controls “Twitch Installs Arch Linux”

33

8

YouTube Red is live

29

9

Apparatus: A Hybrid Graphics Editor / Programming Environment [video]

20

10

Start-up storytime: How we got to $2m+ in revenue

19

Github repos and gists [?]

1

An update to UBlock Origin was rejected by the Chrome Web Store

323

2

Node.js 5.0 Released

278

3

Rust-Doom: A Doom renderer in Rust, with no unsafe code

262

4

Neovim public release 0.1.0

233

5

Dive into Machine Learning with Jupyter and Scikit-Learn

204

6

Legofy – Python program to make an image to look as if it was created with Legos

131

7

JSLinux rewritten to be human readable, hand deobfuscated and annotated

110

8

18F micro-purchase experiment bid down to $1

101

9

Curio: A Modern Library for Reliable Concurrent I/O Using Python Coroutines

95

10

74

Wikipedia [?]

1

BitTorrent's DHT

97

2

HeLa, the oldest and most commonly used human cell line

54

3

Refal programming language

33

4

31

5

16

6

Impossible colors

10

7

Victor Lustig – Man who sold the Eiffel tower

7

8

5

9

Lagrange Point Colonization

4

10

Billion laughs attack

3

Blogs [?]

1

906

2

A Way to Detect Bias

282

3

How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things

186

4

System design implications of declining network latency vs. disk latency

155

5

Ten years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment

112

6

Twitter's only black engineer in leadership quits

106

7

Pondering Homejoy’s Failure

82

8

A better way to profile multithreaded programs

80

9

The Black Box of Product Management

71

10

What would the taxes be if I exercise my startup options?

63

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Do DOM tree elements with ids become global variables?

3

2

What is the dollar sign in JavaScript, if not jQuery

2

Substack [?]