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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Instagram's Million Dollar Bug

1562

2

SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video]

1284

3

Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation

730

4

BetterExplained: Math Lessons That Explain Concepts

666

5

The best icon is a text label

603

6

'New' Python modules of 2015

591

7

My positive experience as a woman in tech

520

8

Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice

452

9

What You Believe Affects What You Achieve

428

10

Why Python 3 Exists

418

Top Ask HN

1

Papers you read in 2015?

193

2

Books you read in 2015?

171

3

So I'm being let go

85

4

What is your most profitable side project?

59

5

What book that you read in 2015 significantly affected how you think?

51

6

11 days off for Christmas vacation – What would you learn?

47

7

ICANN charges only 18¢ per domain name, why am I paying $10?

31

8

How to get involved with AI as a non-AI programmer?

30

9

What does the future hold for developers?

28

10

Things you created in 2015?

26

Top Show HN

1

Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

1093

2

Fieldbook: Lightweight Database with a Spreadsheet UI and a REST API

335

3

A fireplace for Emacs

257

4

I redesigned the USPS package delivery slip

156

5

I spent 6 years making a cool free game

151

6

Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

116

7

A Werewolf bot for Slack

96

8

A high-tech floating Christmas tree with more than 2000 RGB LED's

94

9

Mongo DB management and GUI, built using Electron

88

10

Ampache – Self-hosted personal music and video streaming server

58

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year

385

2

Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors

338

3

I analyzed 250 SaaS pricing pages

299

4

Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp for 48 Hours

221

5

What we learned about SSDs in 2015

179

6

The long process of creating a Chinese font

153

7

A Deep Learning Dissenter Thinks He Has a More Powerful AI Approach

146

8

Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast

125

9

Chinese cities use “mist cannon” to shoot pollution from the sky

115

10

Apple Promotes Jeff Williams to COO, Puts Phil Schiller in Charge of App Store

114

News [?]

1

Martin Shkreli Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges

379

2

Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law

379

3

When a Unicorn Startup Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt

344

4

The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam

266

5

Juniper hack has U.S. fearing foreign infiltration

226

6

Sheryl Sandberg Says an MBA Doesn't Matter in Tech

218

7

The Secret Surveillance Catalogue

199

8

NSA Helped British Spies Find Security Holes in Juniper Firewalls

189

9

Japanese Bookshop Stocks Only One Book at a Time

173

10

Ericsson, Apple Settle Patent Dispute

168

Scientific publications [?]

1

Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises

245

2

The Relationship Between Intelligence and Anxiety

137

3

Scientific publications should be anonymous

128

4

Deep-Spying: Spying Using Smartwatch and Deep Learning

84

5

What Is the Big Bang Theory?

17

6

The “verb second constraint” could explain how people acquire language

13

7

Costa Rica boasts 99% renewable energy in 2015

4

8

Leonardo's rule, self-similarity and wind-induced stresses in trees (2011)

3

9

How Many Universes Do There Need to Be? (2007)

3

10

Engineers demo first processor that uses light for ultrafast communications

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt

354

2

Why it’s harder to forge a SHA-1 certificate than to find a SHA-1 collision

180

3

WebExtensions in Firefox 45

148

4

SHA-1 Deprecation: No Browser Left Behind

99

5

Firefox Users Can Now Watch Netflix HTML5 Video on Windows

96

6

What's inside net/http: Late binding in the Go standard library

87

7

Google Cloud Shell – Free until end of 2016

64

8

Partial kernel bypass merged into netmap master

44

9

Partial kernel bypass merged into netmap master

6

10

A Different Kind of POP: The Joomla Unserialize Vulnerability

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth Amendment

128

2

Open Source FPGA Toolchain Builds CPU

109

3

EFF, Access Now, and the White House Sat Down to Talk About Encryption

108

4

Government Succeeds in Stalling Again, but Jewel V. NSA Goes On

108

5

EFF Publishes “Pwning Tomorrow,” a Speculative Fiction Anthology

62

6

AMD GPUOpen: Doubling Down on Open-Source Development

11

7

The Scientific Implausibility of Starkiller Base

8

8

A Scam of Galactic Proportions

6

9

Do we need a replacement for C?

5

10

FAA's Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

New Managed NAT Gateway for AWS

57

2

Managed NAT (Network Address Translation) Gateway for AWS

17

3

Introducing T2.nano: The Smallest, Lowest Cost Amazon EC2 Instance

8

4

AWS ECS Private Registry Announced

5

5

Amazon EC2 Container Registry Now Generally Available

5

6

Amazon Container Registry Now Available

4

7

If you have an Airbnb and can't market for shit, this is for you

4

8

Gzip Compression Support for Amazon CloudFront

4

9

“Learn Ruby on Rails” is free on Amazon until December 25

4

10

Ec2 container registry now GA

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The cold fusion horizon

248

2

The Poisonous Beauty Advice Columns of Victorian England

36

3

The Noise-Arch Archive: Underground cassette tape collection

32

4

In Praise of Defiance

21

5

Apple II Library: The 4am Collection

15

6

Cox Is Liable for Pirating Subscribers, Ordered to Pay $25M

6

7

Why the Humanities Are Booming

5

8

An Alien God (2007)

3

9

Pirate Bay founder builds the ultimate piracy machine

3

10

Is OpenAI Solving the Wrong Problem?

3

Science News [?]

1

Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice

452

2

Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science

216

3

Hierarchy Is Detrimental for Human Cooperation

208

4

Ketamine’s effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness

181

5

Hope Rekindled for ABC Conjecture Proof

71

6

Why I Captured This MRI of a Mother and Child

58

7

The Admiral of the String Theory Wars

51

8

Humans Caused a Major Shift in Earth's Ecosystems 6,000 Years Ago

51

9

Red Tape and Installation Prove Biggest Challenge to Solar Today

42

10

Don’t Believe the Hype: Winter Did Not Begin Yesterday

40

Social [?]

1

Bug Bounty Ethics

114

2

Creating a Virtual Printer Using Node.js [video]

75

3

Snowden: Apple's defense of digital rights highlights Google's absence

28

4

Mathematical gift wrapping [video]

27

5

Mathematicians are insane. Q.E.D.

18

6

Falcon 9 stage 1 rocket lands successfully

13

7

Immutable.js 2016 Roadmap

11

8

“now every Rails install requires redis, eventmachine, celluloid and faye”

8

9

Telegram gains over 500.000 users from Brazil within the last three hours

7

10

Coinbase bans user after allegedly helping them fix major exploit

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

About those lava lamps

360

2

Super small Docker image based on Alpine Linux

261

3

Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

239

4

Real-time GIF images

211

5

F-Secure has open-sourced its Sandboxed Execution Environment

138

6

MariOCaml: HTML5 Mario, written exclusively in OCaml

110

7

Go/types, the Go type checker: a tutorial

107

8

Chlorine: Dead Simple GPGPU

104

9

Common Lisp Koans

100

10

Binaryen: Compiler infrastructure and toolchain library for WebAssembly, in C++

98

Wikipedia [?]

1

Goethe's Theory of Colors

34

2

33

3

Schwartzian Transform

21

4

ACT-R: A cognitive architecture

20

5

Red Deer Cave people

4

6

Lavarand – using lavalamps for random numbers (1997)

4

7

3

8

The De Havilland Law

3

9

The Voynich Manuscript

3

10

Indian Numbering System

2

Blogs [?]

1

Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation

730

2

12 Fractured Apps

146

3

Let’s continue to build Product Hunt, together

94

4

Baghdad's First Coding Bootcamp

66

5

How Do You Beat iPhone?

38

6

Java's Cover (2001)

21

7

I’m down to two candidates for my first hire, and one of them is A.I

18

8

Why We Created the Yelp Elite Squad

14

9

Most people won’t. Which means those that do change everything

14

10

Unlocking VR’s true potential by focusing on UX

12

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What does !-- do in JavaScript?

4

2

Stack Overflow Jobs

3

3

Conditionally apply a to a method in JavaScript

2

4

What is the difference between bower and npm?

1

5

Hidden Features of Python

1

6

Interactive Interpreter Tab Completion in Python

1

Substack [?]