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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers

645

2

Introducing the Shift Card: Use Bitcoin where Visa is accepted

632

3

NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station

593

4

Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter

556

5

MagSpoof – wireless credit card/magstripe spoofer

541

6

Google Launches Android Studio 2.0

532

7

The Yale Problem Begins in High School

525

8

First Timers Only

510

9

What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)

476

10

ARRIS Cable Modem Has a Backdoor in the Backdoor

471

Top Ask HN

1

“If you build it, they will come” doesn't work. How do we market our app?

85

2

How do you track issues, todos, features?

75

3

How did you get to your current job/startup?

72

4

Is it possible to find remote job on C/C++?

61

5

Is it possible to start a successful tech non-profit?

59

6

What have the USDS and 18F accomplished so far?

30

7

Am I the only one outraged by Twitter shutting down share counts?

28

8

How do you motivate yourself?

21

9

If Evernote goes out of business, what happens to all our notes?

20

10

How can I leverage my Open-Source contributions to further my career?

15

Top Show HN

1

BestRuby – Ruby Tricks, Idioms, Refactorings and Best Practices

92

2

Commandcar – a CLI tool that can easily communicate with any API

82

3

Simulacra.js – one-way data binding for web applications

82

4

HtmlPy – HTML5-CSS3-JavaScript Based GUI Library in Python

79

5

Bot that mentions potential reviewers on pull requests

72

6

Wox – an open source launcher for windows inspired by Alfred and Launchy

54

7

Gitnonymous – Contribute anonymously to Git repositories over Tor

46

8

Microm – JavaScript library to convert microphone to mp3 in the browser

46

9

1Post – HN-like site with markdown and syntax highlighting

43

10

First Commit – find the first commit of any GitHub project

42

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Launches Android Studio 2.0

532

2

Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook for Paternity Leave

248

3

Square Prices Its IPO at $9, giving it a $2.7B valuation

175

4

I Want to Run Stateful Containers, Too

152

5

Google Launches Mortgage Shopping Tool in California

144

6

Why has WhatsApp accessed my contacts 23,709 times?

142

7

Baffling Web Trackers by Obfuscating Your Movements Online

131

8

I worked in a video store for 25 yrs – what I learned as the industry died

99

9

Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk again

95

10

I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week

94

News [?]

1

Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It

333

2

New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight

333

3

File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance Program

216

4

Dream of New Kind of Credit Union Is Extinguished by Bureaucracy

190

5

A blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see

190

6

We know the city where HIV first emerged

185

7

Tesla recalling 90,000 Model S sedans to check seat belts

182

8

Google Picks Diane Greene to Expand Its Cloud Business

175

9

I believed we would face an antibiotics apocalypse, until now

165

10

Why it’s so hard to keep up with how the U.S. gov't is spying on its own people

160

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station

593

2

Robot gets rid of weeds automatically and without herbicides

193

3

Post-human mathematics

175

4

Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter

149

5

Sense2vec – A Fast and Accurate Method for Word Sense Disambiguation

131

6

DRAM chip failures reveal surprising hardware vulnerabilities

91

7

Recurrent Neural Networks Hardware Implementation on FPGA

54

8

Quantum entanglement achieved at room temperature in semiconductor wafers

42

9

Master of Puppets: Analyzing and Attacking a Botnet for Fun and Profit

32

10

Researchers Study Motivations of Open-Source Programmers

30

Dev Blogs [?]

1

If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free software in practice

230

2

C11 atomic variables and the Linux kernel (2014)

120

3

What every programmer should know about memory (2007)

119

4

Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone

94

5

Broken Performance Tools [pdf]

74

6

Java: Missing Features

35

7

Convergence Coming for Supercomputing, Machine Learning

33

8

A New Age in Cluster Interconnects Is Dawning

22

9

Paris Terrorists Used Double ROT-13 Encryption

14

10

The story of one latency spike

10

Tech blogs [?]

1

Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynical Pattern

375

2

Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynical Pattern

18

3

Wall-O-Tron, the Interactive Rock Climbing Wall

11

4

Stronger Locks, Better Security

9

5

Onlinecensorship.org Tracks Content Takedowns by Facebook and Twitter

7

6

Suspension Bridges of Disbelief

4

7

Building the Infinite Matrix of Tamagotchis

3

8

Has the TPP Ended the Crypto Wars? Hardly

3

9

EFF Joins Broad Coalition of Groups to Protest the TPP in Washington D.C

2

10

Building the Infinite Matrix of Tamagotchis

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016

402

2

EC2 Dedicated Hosts

176

3

The AWS SDK for Go is now 1.0

142

4

WDC Re-releases Classic 1986 6502/65816 manual “Programming the 65816”

17

5

The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS

3

6

Q for Mortals Version 3 released

2

7

Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer

2

8

Google Launches ASUS OnHub Router with "Hand Wave"

2

9

The Eternaut (Argentine Science Fiction Comic in English)

1

10

AWS Device Farm adds support for web apps – Test against real devices

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

React vs. Angular 2

160

2

Selling Feelings

47

3

The Telharmonium Was the Spotify of 1906

44

4

If the internet is addictive, why we don't regulate it?

41

5

There is no language instinct (2014)

37

6

The Infocom Cabinet: Binders and Folders of Infocom

32

7

Better babies: The long and peculiar history of the designer human

24

8

Evolved Virtual Creatures (1994) [video]

23

9

Steel In The Field: A Farmer’s Guide to Weed Management Tools (1997)

15

10

Hellerstein's Progressive Systems Project Ideas

14

Science News [?]

1

Einstein was no lone genius

118

2

‘Outsiders’ who cracked the 50-Year-Old Kadison-Singer Problem

108

3

What Happens When You Can’t Talk to Yourself?

79

4

Biomedical imaging at one-thousandth the cost

70

5

Topology looks for the patterns inside big data

66

6

The Information Theory of Life

62

7

Benefits of Sarcasm

55

8

Astronomers Indirectly Spot Neutrinos Released 1 Second After the Big Bang

47

9

Leap-second decision delayed by eight years

40

10

Pigeons taught to diagnose breast cancer on X-rays

35

Social [?]

1

How to succeed in language design without really trying [video]

110

2

My car was damaged with FlightCar and they don't care – here's the 3-month story

78

3

Slow Deployment Causes Meetings

62

4

Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (2014) [video]

34

5

Dell ships laptops with a rogue root CA

31

6

1000W (90,000 Lumens) LED Flashlight

28

7

new ArrayBuffer(3*1024*1024*1024) crashes the page in Google Chrome

14

8

Making music with a C compiler (2013) [video]

13

9

Elon Musk hiring team to make Teslas fully autonomous

13

10

Twitter.com is down: 503 OK

12

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers

645

2

MagSpoof – wireless credit card/magstripe spoofer

541

3

Webtorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC

362

4

LittleD – SQL database for IoT, can run queries in 1KB

244

5

A Python tutorial on Bayesian modeling techniques

218

6

Web login using SSH

203

7

140

8

Hugo v0.15 releasedL Higher performance, Jekyll import, template improvements

122

9

Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks

115

10

IonDB: A key-value store for microcontroller and IoT applications

104

Wikipedia [?]

1

Garden path sentence

185

2

138

3

The Fixed Price of Coca-Cola from 1886 to 1959

103

4

M-Pesa – a mobile-phone based money transfer and microfinancing service

70

5

62

6

General purpose analog computer

41

7

Capacitance Electronic Disc

20

8

Wikipedia and open source contributor Bassel Khartabil sentenced to death by Syria

18

9

Electro Gyro-Cator (1981)

9

10

Theory Z of Ouchi

8

Blogs [?]

1

First Timers Only

510

2

The End of the Internet Dream

356

3

Math.random in V8 is broken

310

4

How a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential

299

5

My bank has an API so I built online banking

164

6

The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps

153

7

How I’m Handling My Depression Using an App

145

8

What's Worked in Computer Science

135

9

What I’ve learned from sitting next to a pro salesman

134

10

The Dribbblisation of Design

122

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Weird table's data in SQL server

2

2

The definitive guide to form-based website authentication

1

3

The characters “U+” are an ASCIIfied version of the MULTISET UNION “⊎” character

1

4

Relation of Prolog and SQL [Stackoverflow Question](2010)

1

Substack [?]