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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

1174

2

“Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered

870

3

Whiteboard Clock

784

4

Now, I can see wifi signals

695

5

The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up

552

6

Stop Using LinkedIn

534

7

Deleting any Facebook album

506

8

Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program

437

9

437

10

How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life

401

Top Ask HN

1

The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma

806

2

What up with these startup salaries?

421

3

Thoughts on Rich Hickey's advice on becoming a better developer?

225

4

TrueCrypt audit status?

185

5

As a young developer, how can I launch a successful freelancing career?

70

6

Working through burnout?

63

7

Best practices for OS X dev environments

61

8

Studying large code bases

57

9

Did you use Dokku or Flynn in 2014? Was it worth it?

51

10

Bootstrappers, what do you do during down time?

50

Top Show HN

1

A Unixy approach to WebSockets

421

2

Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams

350

3

Littlebox, a pure CSS icon library – worth continuing?

192

4

NomadHouse – A network of houses around the world for nomads

127

5

Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go

94

6

Portal - Run apps on your own easy to use cloud server

86

7

A Sierpinski Valentine in 4 equations

72

8

JavaScript Application Design book

66

9

Hacker Slides – Open-source presentation app on Sandstorm

55

10

OWebl – An OCaml Web Framework

55

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

1174

2

“Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered

870

3

How one man made 22 games in 22 years, mostly from his basement

254

4

The Gig Economy Is Being Sued to Death

173

5

Expedia Buys Orbitz for $1.6B in Cash

161

6

Google Is Shutting Down Google Helpouts, Its Expert Video Chat Service

148

7

Why Is My Smart Home So Dumb?

146

8

Microsoft Officially Launches Azure Machine Learning Platform

97

9

Yik Yak Systematically Downvotes Mentions of Competitors

95

10

A Crypto Trick That Makes Software Harder to Reverse-Engineer

93

News [?]

1

The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up

552

2

Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program

437

3

How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life

401

4

Sergey Aleynikov Sues FBI Agents Who Arrested Him

391

5

Apple CEO Tim Cook challenges Obama with impassioned stand on privacy

345

6

New Tesla battery could power your home, and maybe the electric grid too

288

7

Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple

245

8

David Carr Dies at 58

240

9

Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware

212

10

Google's Vint Cerf Warns of 'digital Dark Age'

199

Scientific publications [?]

1

Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training [pdf]

134

2

Deep Speech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition

63

3

NASA ISS 2015 Calendar [pdf]

55

4

DeepWalk: Online Learning of Social Representations

39

5

FAA Unveils Drone Rules: Autonomy Is In, Drone Delivery Is Out

29

6

PowerSpy: Location Tracking Using Mobile Device Power Analysis

27

7

DRAW: A Recurrent Neural Network For Image Generation [pdf]

26

8

How iron feels the heat

21

9

Multi-View Face Detection Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

17

10

Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention [pdf]

15

Dev Blogs [?]

1

React.js in Real Life at Codecademy

111

2

What does “asm.js optimizations” mean?

101

3

Apple Increases Maximum App Size from 2GB to 4GB

69

4

Lack of CSPRNG Threatens WordPress Sites

36

5

John McCarthy on Elephant 2000, Lisp, Ruby and the Computer Industry (2008)

26

6

Handling five billion sessions a day – in real time

19

7

Simplifying F# Type Provider Development

14

8

Scalar typing in the PHP world

8

9

Samsung Television Spies on Viewers

6

10

Docker Shows Maturity in Latest Release with IPv6 Support, Read-Only Containers

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Facebook's Name Policy Strikes Again, This Time at Native Americans

87

2

Hundreds of South Carolina Inmates Sent to Solitary Confinement Over Facebook

65

3

FBI's “Suicide Letter” to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

37

4

Understanding Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810: Performance Preview

17

5

Show Me the Data: Growing the Social Network for Hackers and Makers

16

6

Samsung Announces 14nm FinFET for Exynos 7

6

7

Go to Prison for Sharing Files? What Hollywood Wants in the Secret TPP Deal

5

8

Apple Recruiting Automotive Experts to Work in 'Top-Secret Research Lab'

4

9

Photo Hobbyist Attacked by Patent Bully

4

10

White House Announces Apple Pay Support for Federal Payment Cards

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

JavaScript Application Design

2

2

Set Preferred Payment Currency for Your AWS Account

2

3

Some paid apps free today in Amazon Appstore

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Whiteboard Clock

784

2

How to Machine Learn

136

3

Go Escape Analysis Flaws

82

4

The Importance of Anxiety

52

5

Thebroken – Kevin Rose (2003)

8

6

What do you think about my summer internship application? (open for comments)

6

7

Visualizing Sun Tzu’s the Art of War

6

8

Megaupload programmer sentenced to a year in prison

5

9

Too Many Worlds

5

10

How a Private ‘Anime’ Torrent Tracker Became an Essential Tool for Facebook

4

Science News [?]

1

U.S. Droughts Predicted to Be the Worst in 1,000 Years

141

2

How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music

95

3

Possible unconventional computing techniques of the future

53

4

48

5

Game Theory Calls Cooperation Into Question

38

6

Science behind common anti-depressants appears to be backwards, researchers say

32

7

Large ancient-DNA study uncovers population that moved westwards 4,500 years ago

31

8

Brains Make Decisions the Way Alan Turing Cracked Codes

28

9

An extremely high-altitude plume seen at Mars’ morning terminator

25

10

Nature journals offer double-blind review

25

Social [?]

1

“A spambot barfed its post recipe on my blog”

353

2

The Worst Way to Fire Someone: I Was There

191

3

How to kill your Google account: Access it via Tor

35

4

Front end dev is getting exhausting

30

5

Pharrell Williams and Will Ferrell have reverse names

11

6

JavaScript PDP-11 Emulator Running Unix V6

11

7

Secret service exploits phones of people near president as he gives cyber speech

9

8

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Tobacco (HBO)

9

9

Intro to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies [video]

9

10

Slack isn't interested in remote workers

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Play Breakout while you pull to refresh

195

2

Git-Stats – A local GitHub-like contributions calendar

176

3

7GUIs – A Notational Usability Benchmark for GUI Programming

160

4

BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emissions of mining bitcoin

159

5

The Elm Architecture

156

6

Author of “Unix in Rust” Abandons Rust in Favour of Nim

149

7

Toxic – A distributed, secure, command-line based instant messenging client

127

8

A summary of ECMAScript 6 features

124

9

Another Game Boy emulator for your terminal

73

10

OpenGenera 2.0 Virtual Machine Environment

71

Wikipedia [?]

1

258

2

Graham's Number

52

3

Mills' constant

44

4

List of unsolved problems in computer science

11

5

Cargo cult programming

10

6

Vacuum Catastrophe

4

7

3

8

Schleicher's fable, a text in the reconstructed language Proto-Indo-European

3

9

Abstract Syntax Notation One

3

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

How Roy Baumeister challenged the idea of self-esteem (2014)

141

2

How Misaligning Data Can Increase Performance 12x (2013)

98

3

Fix conflicts only once with Git rerere

95

4

When Grandmasters Blunder: Even the best make mistakes

92

5

Post Series A Life

82

6

Microsoft is interesting again

71

7

Writing Code for Humans

55

8

Anatomy of a code tracer

54

9

Bringing Transit to Nairobi's Streets

46

10

The Two Big Bangs

45

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why Java Streams once-off

2

2

Lodash – difference between .extend() / .assign() and .merge()

2

3

StackOverflow: Disable personalized predictions

2

4

Is it possible to get 0 by subtracting two unequal floating point numbers

1

5

How does JavaScript print 0.1 with such accuracy?

1

6

Stack Overflow thread on changing order of execution of JavaScript using Deferred

1

Substack [?]