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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Jessica Livingston
1740
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VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
1368
3
Visual Studio Code is now open source
1325
4
Gene Amdahl has died
740
5
Don't copy paste from a website to a terminal
665
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Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror Attack
643
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Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say
623
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f.lux for iOS is no longer available
616
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Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements
582
10
The Advertising Bubble
551
Top Ask HN
1
How to form deep friendships later in life?
145
2
How best to break up with cofounder?
142
3
Leaving as founder, what happens with equity?
82
4
How do you search for an appropriate English word?
35
5
What is the best book to learn probability through self study?
28
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After the Paris Attack, have your feelings changed on NSA surveillance?
27
7
How to improve spoken and written English skills rapidly?
25
8
How do you fire a “B Player?”
24
9
As an entry-level developer, what's expected of me on the first job?
23
10
Minimum legal setup to do software consulting
20
Top Show HN
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Nixar – New design of Linux command line
130
2
Real-Time Collaborative Watercolor Painting Using Twitch
109
3
Interviews can be stressful – give take-home projects instead
96
4
A React.js yearly calendar component
94
5
ied – an alternative package manager for Node
86
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ClojureScript REPL within Excel
83
7
Play Go Against a Deep Neural Network
77
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TensorFlow for AWS on a Real GPU
77
9
Birdseed – A silly way to get random numbers by hashing tweets
68
10
Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop
59
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements
582
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Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC
473
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Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Will Shutter Service
374
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Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections
299
5
Mac Store Apps Stopped Working Due to Expired Security Certificate
295
6
Google and ASUS Launch the $85 Chromebit, a Chrome OS Desktop on an HDMI Stick
292
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Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier
283
8
What happened to Microsoft's Midori operating system project?
164
9
Rocket Fiber Launches 100GB/s Internet Service in Downtown Detroit
157
10
The Tech Talent Shortage Is a Lie
141
News [?]
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Gene Amdahl has died
740
2
Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say
623
3
State of emergency declared across France after Paris shootings and explosions
464
4
The Space Doctor’s Big Idea
409
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John McCain wants to outlaw encryption that the US government can't crack
285
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U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks
269
7
Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects
226
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The world is entering a third stage of a rolling debt crisis
216
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Humans are not unitary individuals but superorganisms
197
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The Supreme Court could soon deliver a blow to the Sixth Amendment
181
Scientific publications [?]
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Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012)
115
2
Teaching a 3-Year-Old to Program Without a Computer Screen
97
3
Experts Still Think UBeam’s Through-The-Air Charging Tech Is Unlikely
53
4
Increased intelligence is a myth so far (2014)
42
5
Call for an urgent rethink of the ‘health at every size’ concept
42
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Reasoning About LLVM Code Using CodeWalker
35
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Pacemaker explosions in crematoria
33
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Device can theoretically trap a light 'bit' for an infinite amount of time
32
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ARMageddon: Last-Level Cache Attacks on Mobile Devices
27
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520M-year-old arthropod brains turn paleontology on its head
23
Dev Blogs [?]
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Firefox for iOS now available
548
2
The Expanding Ecosystem For GPU Computing
58
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The Benefits of 'Mob Programming'
29
4
Copenhagen, Denmark: CloudFlare's 65th data center
20
5
The Lingering Mess from Default Insecurity
14
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Did Carnegie Mellon Attack Tor for the FBI?
8
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Rebuild or Refactor, what to choose?
6
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Paris Attacks Blamed on Strong Cryptography and Edward Snowden
6
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Firefox Users Can Now Choose Their Favorite Browser on iOS
5
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Inside EBay’s Shift to Kubernetes and Containers Atop OpenStack
4
Tech blogs [?]
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Suspension Bridges of Disbelief
152
2
California’s DNA Law Violates Privacy Protections Guaranteed by State
103
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Resurrecting Duckhunt
66
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AMD announces CUDA support
43
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Android Devices Vulnerability: Baidu Wrote the Code, but Google Made It Possible
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Improving wifi throughput with fm radio
4
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Casualty of YouTube’s “Contractual Obligations”: Users’ Free Speech
4
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Some Mac App Store Apps 'Damaged' Due to Expired Security Certificates
3
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EFF files brief calling for greater law enforcement transparency
3
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Why Is Facebook Inspecting Your Private Videos?
3
FAANG+ [?]
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The 21 Bitcoin Computer
4
2
AWS Webinars for November 2015 – Learn About New Services and Best Practices
1
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Effective Renewable Energy Policies Spur Investment and Economic Growth
1
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Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python (Book)
1
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New AWS public data sets: TCGA and ICGC (large cancer data sets)
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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English is not normal
56
2
What the world eats (2014)
50
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The Forgotten Midwest Craze for Palaces Made Out of Grain
40
4
Tensorflow and monetizing intellectual property
11
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What a Year of Job Rejections Taught Me About Pitching Myself
7
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React vs. Angular 2 – constructive comparison
6
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Largest BitTorrent tracker, Demonii, shut down
4
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The Story Trap
4
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TensorFlow and Monetizing Intellectual Property
4
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Is Sustainability Sold at Supermarkets or Farmers Markets?
3
Science News [?]
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Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
416
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The Western diet has nearly killed our ancestral microbiome
211
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The quantum source of space-time
179
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MIT team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water
179
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Mindfulness meditation trumps placebo in pain reduction
137
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NIH to retire all research chimpanzees
81
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Can a Wandering Mind Make You Neurotic?
77
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Usernames reveal the age and psychology of game players
63
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How Walter Murch Merged “Apocalypse Now” and “Ride of the Valkyries”
53
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The Case for Making Humans Smaller
45
Social [?]
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“f.lux has been ready to ship for iOS for four years, but we need Apple's help.”
184
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The Birth of ZFS [video]
152
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Cutting a Klein Bottle in Half [video]
150
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Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video]
133
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Run containers on bare metal already [video]
131
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Delia Derbyshire – Sculptress of Sound [video]
72
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The Paris Attacks and the Abuse of History
69
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Differential Topology – Lecture 1 by John W. Milnor (1965) [video]
63
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Reviving Smalltalk-78 [video] (2014)
46
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Tutorial on Geometric Calculus [video]
31
Github repos and gists [?]
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Dockercraft: Manage Docker containers from Minecraft
462
2
Modern Java – A Guide to Java 8
404
3
Postgres high-availability cluster with auto-failover and cluster recovery
215
4
State of emergency in France
178
5
A new look for repositories
176
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Desk: A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
124
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Golang on ARM
105
8
Investigating npm3 performance
76
9
SQL interface for Elasticsearch
76
10
Emulators written in JavaScript
68
Wikipedia [?]
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Xv6
350
2
Turing Tarpit
65
3
TRIZ – Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
58
4
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
52
5
Chomski virtual machine
49
6
Polybolos
30
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Bovril
29
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Early 20th Century Technocracy Movement
29
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Sudbury School
29
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OSCAR 1
28
Blogs [?]
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Jessica Livingston
1740
2
The bug that almost killed Google's Pac-Man doodle
219
3
How I Quit My Job and Built My First App
172
4
How I Work with Color
119
5
How to destroy Bitcoins?
95
6
Biking The Ho Chi Minh Highway
68
7
I’ve been delivering for Postmates and DoorDash
67
8
Auto companies are lacking key ingredients for the future of the automobile
53
9
The use of JIRA is (often) a symptom of a Management problem
43
10
Spreadsheets are dreams
37
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What's the rationale for null terminated strings?
1
2
What is the need for normalizing a vector?
1
Substack [?]