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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer

1271

2

Leaving the Mac App Store

884

3

Kazakhstan to MitM all HTTPS traffic starting Jan 1

803

4

A letter to our daughter

790

5

How to be like Steve Ballmer

763

6

A Decade-Old Gag Order, Lifted

737

7

This Is Not a Day Care. It’s a University

729

8

Pirated Courses on Udemy

701

9

The secret message hidden in every HTTP/2 connection

600

10

Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit

579

Top Ask HN

1

What's your favorite online course?

395

2

Who is hiring? (December 2015)

260

3

Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?

247

4

How do develop a side project when you have a 40hr/week job?

153

5

What is your job? Do you like it? What was your favorite job?

106

6

Company is growing and the culture shift is uncomfortable. What do I do?

81

7

Wouldn't a “Who is hiring” thread requiring a salary range be nice?

79

8

How do you handle customer support on your site?

77

9

Losing interest

75

10

I don't like my new job, now what?

44

Top Show HN

1

Something pointless I made

747

2

162

3

122

4

LaTeX Boilerplates – Plain-Text Document Production System

104

5

Mmm – manual memory management for Go

72

6

Video calls and web browsing in Minecraft.

53

7

Real Time Black Friday Dashboard – using Perl, Postgres, Geckoboard

46

8

Adblock Analytics

42

9

AutoAnimations – Animate all inserted and removed DOM elements

41

10

Open-source Telegram bot for music sharing

41

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More

495

2

Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

444

3

Cards Against Humanity Has Made Over $54K Selling Nothing on Black Friday

156

4

Study: Rich are less generous when they think there’s high economic inequality

116

5

Judge: There’s no proof Yelp manipulates reviews

109

6

My Life as a Robot

95

7

Skilled devs, low costs: Cluj-Napoca emerging as a tech hub

95

8

Caffeine could limit damage of chronic stress

83

9

We don't need a thinner iPhone if that means killing the headphone jack

75

10

Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates Join Forces to Invest in Clean Energy Technology

74

News [?]

1

Shrinking to Zero: The Raspberry Pi Gets Smaller

480

2

Addicted to Distraction

263

3

The New Atomic Age We Need

258

4

The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech world insiders

213

5

Pirate needs 200k video views to avoid being sued

192

6

Paris Attacks Plot Was Hatched in Plain Sight

165

7

How ARM got so successful without the public really noticing

156

8

Chennai floods: The Hindu not published for first time since 1878

156

9

Bacteria on the Brain

156

10

How to Prosecute Abusive Prosecutors

153

Scientific publications [?]

1

On Learning to Think: Algorithmic Information Theory

155

2

Researchers find new phase of carbon, make diamond at room temperature

98

3

A Roadmap Towards Machine Intelligence

59

4

Incremental Query Processing on Big Data Streams

45

5

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Power Spectrum as a Random Bit Generator

36

6

Large-Scale Simple Question Answering with Memory Networks

30

7

Embarrassingly Parallel Time Series Analysis for Large Scale Weak Memory Systems

25

8

Deep Learning on Spatio-temporal graphs

16

9

Details on Gremlin's new "Quantum Walks" graph algorithm [pdf]

14

10

MazeBase: A Sandbox for Learning from Games [pdf]

7

Dev Blogs [?]

1

A look at Darktable 2.0

64

2

A Look Inside Intel's Future Knights Landing Systems

33

3

Software Freedom Conservancy Launches 2015 Fundraiser

23

4

Embedded Devices Share, Reuse Private SSH Keys, HTTPs Certificates

21

5

How Hypernetes Brings Multi-Tenancy to Microservice Architectures

14

6

Cloud Vision API

10

7

How Hypernetes Brings Multi-Tenancy to Microservice Architectures

5

8

Linux security: A new Mindcraft moment?

5

9

Mozilla backs off on validating Firefox Add-on code

4

10

Tracking Someone Using LifeLock

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google Deceptively Tracks Students’ Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint

214

2

Superfish 2.0: Now Dell Is Breaking HTTPS

81

3

More on Apple’s A9X SoC: 147mm2TSMC, 12 GPU Cores, No L3 Cache

30

4

FERMIAC: The Computer That Advanced Beyond the Manhattan Project

10

5

The TPP State of Play: How We Defeat the Largest Trade Deal in History

6

6

Form 18 Is Dead. What’s Next for Patent Trolls?

5

7

Amazon Dash Button Pwn3d

4

8

Bulk Call Details Records Collection Ends: What That Means

4

9

A Deeper Look Inside the PECB, Pakistan’s Terrible Cyber-Crime Bill

3

10

Swallow the Doctor – The Present and Future of Robots Inside Us

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone with Hybrid Design

281

2

Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection Between Violent Extremism and Education

4

3

Apple Pay Launches in Canada

2

4

Hackers and Painters for Kindle – On Sale for $2.99

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

I feel therefore I am

64

2

Flashcards the Stasi used for facial recognition

49

3

Nintendo 64 Sound Tools

46

4

The Bankrupt Irishman Who Created the Dollar Sign

22

5

Huge Security Flaw Can Expose VPN Users' Real IP-Adresses

9

6

How the Hidden Track Faded from Recorded Music

8

7

A Short History of Martians

5

8

7 Ways to Thank People in Your Network

5

9

Pirates Can Now Rip 4K Content from Netflix and Amazon

4

10

Insurer Refuses to Cover Cox in Massive Piracy Lawsuit

3

Science News [?]

1

Bilingual people are twice as likely to recover from a stroke, study finds

132

2

Tardigrade genome has been sequenced – most foreign DNA of any animal

115

3

Beyond the Bell Curve, a New Universal Law (2014)

115

4

Ways to start eating insects

70

5

Native Intelligence: The Indians who feasted with the English colonists (2005)

52

6

Brain connections predict how well you can pay attention

46

7

Hilde Proescholdt discovered how an embryo organizes itself into an adult form

43

8

Identity Is an Inside Joke: Why we laugh with our friends

36

9

Are Domestic and Wild Salmon Still the Same Species?

21

10

Golden ratio discovered in quantum world (2010)

20

Social [?]

1

A letter to our daughter

790

2

Building a credit card issuer in Brazil using Clojure and Datomic (2014) [video]

132

3

Amiga – The Deathbed Vigil (1994) [video]

40

4

Still can't get udemy to remove my pirated courses they're selling

37

5

John Carmack Reviews Bazaar on GearVR

33

6

Whatsapp playing low, really low. (Can't click/copy Telegram URL's)

32

7

Americapox: The missing plague [video]

16

8

Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks (2012)

13

9

Software-Defined Networking at the Crossroads (2013) [video]

13

10

Some things I'm doing with X right now that aren't possible on Wayland (yet)

13

Github repos and gists [?]

1

449

2

Panicparse: Crash your Go app in style

163

3

KnightOS – an open-source operating system for TI calculators

158

4

ES6 Overview in Bullet Points

146

5

Please petition GitHub to support HTTPS on GitHub pages

141

6

IncludeOS: C++ unikernel now free and open source

136

7

Automated Cat feeder powered by Node.js

117

8

The dissection of a simple “hello world” ELF file

109

9

Visual question answering using CNN+RNN

108

10

Grow Your Own Type System

105

Wikipedia [?]

1

120

2

103

3

Iron law of oligarchy

72

4

Williams tube – cathode ray tube used as computer memory

57

5

Anton (computer)

54

6

47

7

39

8

The Lofstrom Loop

30

9

Human-based computation games

20

10

Sortes Vergilianae

8

Blogs [?]

1

How to be like Steve Ballmer

763

2

Pirated Courses on Udemy

701

3

378

4

Things the media does to manufacture outrage

290

5

Someone left my Gmail in debug mode

285

6

Launching a Mac App and Becoming the Top Paid App Globally

192

7

188

8

Metabase: Why we picked Clojure

179

9

Must-See JavaScript Dev Tools

177

10

The Utopian UI Architect

174

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Text-indent does not work while text-align: right

2

2

How does C# know what type the literal is?

1

3

Highest Voted Questions on stackoverflow

1

Substack [?]