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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Introducing OpenAI
1107
2
The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
949
3
How Product Hunt really works
695
4
Congress has added CISA to the federal budget bill
580
5
Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights
561
6
Stockfighter is live
549
7
Move Fast and Fix Things
538
8
Bullshit Startup Experiences
530
9
Koel: A personal music streaming server
499
10
Plan to throw one away
492
Top Ask HN
1
Novelty addiction is ruining my life and career. What should I do?
174
2
What was your best passive income in 2015?
120
3
What is a way of making residual income with $5K a month?
105
4
Good programmable robot kit for teens?
51
5
Making $3000+ residual income monthly? Any tips/advice for a beginer?
40
6
Why did OS X win out over Linux for so many developers?
33
7
Will you pay 1$/month for?
29
8
Does Hacker News make you overwhelmed or frustrated or worried?
27
9
Can I have heterogenous lists in a Lisp while preserving type inference?
21
10
Can we have a “read later” for the posts?
18
Top Show HN
1
FuckFuckAdblock
353
2
Ponzi.es – Startup sticker ponzi scheme
332
3
Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams
281
4
TDB: A Visual Debugger for TensorFlow
144
5
A few years ago my Type'o'Shooter went viral – here's the new version
143
6
Swifty – Learn to code in Swift
108
7
Lescript – Simple PHP client library for Let's encrypt
96
8
Convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs
73
9
Numerai – A global AI tournament to predict the stock market
68
10
Decentralised Twitter – Microblogging on the Ethereum Blockchain
63
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Congress has added CISA to the federal budget bill
580
2
UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own
255
3
Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition
166
4
Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-focused Librem 13 laptop
154
5
The Pixel C was probably never supposed to run Android
142
6
Akatsuki probe successfully enters Venus orbit, returns images
139
7
Google has quietly launched a CDN
132
8
Bad reviews for Taser documentary seem to come from Taser employees
119
9
Google Begins Rolling Out Google Play Music Family Plan
103
10
Baidu says it's developed China's first fully autonomous self-driving car
91
News [?]
1
The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
949
2
Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era
427
3
Flint, MI: So much lead in children’s blood, state of emergency declared
405
4
US to ban soaps and other products containing microbeads
293
5
Atlassian gets IPO share price of $27
285
6
New Style of Police Training Aims to Produce Guardians, Not Warriors
278
7
Email made me miserable, so I decided to build my own email app from scratch
273
8
ReactOS, a 17-year quest for an open-source Windows, has a new release candidate
229
9
Dow and DuPont to merge
200
10
He Blew the Whistle at JPMorgan Chase, Then Came the Blowback
173
Scientific publications [?]
1
Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team
232
2
It's a Trap: Emperor Palpatine's Poison Pill
116
3
Comparative Study of Caffe, Neon, Theano, and Torch for Deep Learning
73
4
Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
47
5
Women Like Being Valued for Sex, as Long as it is by a Committed Partner
17
6
Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time
16
7
Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time (Babai's Preprint)
7
8
Determinants of Meme Popularity [pdf]
5
9
New results from world's most sensitive dark matter detector
4
10
Predicting Depth, Surface Normals and Semantic Labels with a Single Model
4
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Introducing OpenAI
1107
2
The GPU Clusters That Power Baidu's Neural Networks
67
3
Firefox OS Pivot to Connected Devices
62
4
DHS Giving Firms Free Penetration Tests
55
5
Designing C# 7 [video]
44
6
BUS1: A new Linux kernel IPC bus being made by systemd developers
23
7
Bruce Schneier: Wanted: Cryptography Products for Worldwide Survey
19
8
The Role of Phony Returns in Gift Card Fraud
12
9
13M MacKeeper Users Exposed
11
10
HTTP/2 for Web Developers
10
Tech blogs [?]
1
Cell-Site Simulators Aren’t Secret Anymore
262
2
No Matter What the FBI Says, Compromising Encryption Is a Technical Issue
245
3
Florida Court Deliberates Manual Recount Problems with Touchscreen Voting
44
4
FBI’s “National Security Letters” Threaten Online Speech and Privacy
19
5
Theremin's Bug: How the Soviet Union Spied on the US Embassy for 7 Years
10
6
Thomas Midgley, GM, and the Dark Side of Progress
6
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Apple shuts down analytics company Topsy two years after its acquisition
4
8
EFF Publishes “Pwning Tomorrow,” a Speculative Fiction Anthology
4
9
A Victory for Privacy and Transparency: HRW V. DEA
3
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The $250 iPhone-based ‘chemistry lab in your pocket’ is on the way
3
FAANG+ [?]
1
EC2 Update – T2.Nano Instances Now Available
180
2
Amazon full of sponsored reviews
35
3
Route 53 Traffic Flow
10
4
Encrypted EBS Boot Volumes
9
5
AWS Price List API
8
6
EC2 Run Command Update – Now Available for Linux Instances
8
7
New – AWS Price List API
3
8
Apple – iPhone Upgrade Program
3
9
Active Directory Single Sign-On (SSO) on AWS with Bitium
3
10
The Reviews of This Amazon Product Are Epic
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Let's Create a Better Product Hunt
223
2
How the Universal Symbols for Escalators, Restrooms, and Transport Were Designed
68
3
Did the Utopian Pirate Nation of Libertatia Ever Really Exist?
35
4
Possessed by a mask: Is being online the ultimate masquerade?
21
5
The Great Failure of Andrew Carnegie's Simplified Spelling Lobby
13
6
I'm Creating a Remote Worker Starter Kit – Please Help
7
7
Is OpenAI Solving the Wrong Problem?
7
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An inconvenient child
4
9
Why physics needs art to help picture the universe
3
10
Why startup founders have mood swings (and why they may have uses)
3
Science News [?]
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Graph Isomorphism Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse
222
2
What Your Microbiome Wants for Dinner
204
3
A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
193
4
“Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing
112
5
When the Soviets Banned Rock Music, Teens Used X-rays to Bootleg Records
111
6
Scott Aaronson on Google’s new quantum-computing paper
106
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Biggest mystery in mathematics in limbo after cryptic meeting
106
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Human-level concept learning through probabilistic program induction
96
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How Poverty Changes Kids’ Brains
85
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Deep-learning algorithm predicts photos’ memorability at “near-human” levels
53
Social [?]
1
In Search of Tomorrow: On the Future of Eve IDE [video]
113
2
Andrew Ng on What's Next in Deep Learning [video]
76
3
John Searle: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence [video]
71
4
Geoffrey Hinton: Introduction to Deep Learning, Deep Belief Nets (2012) [video]
61
5
Unfolding the 8-Bit Era: 8 players, 8 projectors, and one NES [video]
55
6
Physical explanation of Dijkstra's algorithm (2011) [video]
51
7
Burrows-Wheeler Transform [video]
34
8
PlayStation 4 jailbroken
16
9
Don't buy Coin. Here's my experience
15
10
Building Graph Databases on AWS [video]
11
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Koel: A personal music streaming server
499
2
Pebble Seizure Detect
301
3
Git-appraise: Distributed code review system for Git repos
189
4
Gaffer: Large-scale graph database by GCHQ
172
5
Yahoo open sources Anthelion web crawler for parsing structured data
159
6
Pybind11 – Seamless operability between C++11 and Python
121
7
Shem: A Haskell-Derived Compile-to-JavaScript Lisp
117
8
A Collection of CSS Tips
112
9
Rediscovering MVC
92
10
Support for ChaCha20-Poly1305 released in OpenSSL 1.1.0
91
Wikipedia [?]
1
Erdstall
75
2
Sayre's law
65
3
Milwaukee Protocol
31
4
The Oh-My-God particle
11
5
Mechanical television
10
6
tsort
7
7
Curse of knowledge
6
8
200 years ago today Ada Lovelace was born [Wikipedia]
5
9
Phantom vibration syndrome
4
10
Winamp's Old Gone Advanced Visualization Studio
4
Blogs [?]
1
How Product Hunt really works
695
2
Files Are Hard
451
3
How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over
344
4
Don't bother creating a mobile app
242
5
The Jacob’s Ladder of Coding
201
6
How I started in web security
185
7
How I became a morning person
167
8
A simple explanation of Chinese characters
127
9
Inside Google's Deep Dreams project
121
10
Sundar Pichai: Let’s not let fear defeat our values
96
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Animated icons in email subject lines
3
2
Every time you draw a tree with a PC you make Don Knuth happy
2
3
Java integer ++i not changing the value
2
4
Using a library without using it in C++
1
Substack [?]