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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Request For Research: Basic Income
1876
2
Dear GitHub
1678
3
David Bowie Has Died
1484
4
Amazon's customer service backdoor
1447
5
Marvin Minsky dies at 88
1259
6
Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion
1207
7
Facebook is closing Parse
1202
8
How to C in 2016
1145
9
Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL
1144
10
The Website Obesity Crisis
1122
Top Ask HN
1
What sites do you use to find contract work?
358
2
Who is hiring? (January 2016)
347
3
What should we fund at YC Research?
316
4
Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?
263
5
Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?
205
6
How do prolific programmers go about their daily lives?
196
7
Do you use an old or 'unfashionable' programming language?
187
8
How does a 1990s web developer get back on track?
166
9
Blacklist Forbes?
164
10
What are you currently building?
145
Top Show HN
1
Super Mail Forward, an HTML email that evolves as you forward it
454
2
I've made a tool to generate beautiful gradient background images
448
3
3D shooter in your terminal using raycasting in Awk
350
4
GPU text rendering with vector textures
334
5
I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos
310
6
Nodal. Next-Generation Node.js Server and Framework
288
7
I'm a professor who has developed an interactive Powerpoint alternative
244
8
Ship – A fast, native issue tracker for software projects
219
9
“Nim in Action” is now available
181
10
Wired Logic – a pixel-based logic simulator
176
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Newegg sues patent troll that dropped its case
595
2
China Has Released True Color HD Photos of the Moon
464
3
Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
408
4
Forbes asked readers to turn off adblockers then immediately served them malware
365
5
Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++
319
6
IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment
310
7
Two months after FBI debacle, Tor Project still can’t get an answer from CMU
285
8
Docker Acquires Unikernel Systems as It Looks Beyond Containers
279
9
This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday
277
10
US Intelligence director’s personal e-mail, phone hacked
237
News [?]
1
Marvin Minsky dies at 88
1259
2
Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion
1207
3
The NICAM Codec replacement project
519
4
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years
493
5
G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft
477
6
Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have to Fix Copyright Law
475
7
Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
475
8
Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement
401
9
Facebook's “free internet” programme hits a roadblock in India
394
10
Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April
382
Scientific publications [?]
1
The brain functional connectome is robustly altered by lack of sleep
156
2
Jewish problems (2011)
120
3
Planetary Defense
107
4
Recurrent Neural Nets for Speech Synthesis
88
5
‘X’ Marks a Curious Corner on Pluto’s Icy Plains
79
6
COGENT: Certified Compilation for a Functional Systems Language
60
7
A Theory of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Feature Extraction
51
8
Research backs human role in extinction of mammoths, other mammals
47
9
How to Build an Electronic Bee Counter
42
10
Lomonosov’s Discovery of Venus Atmosphere in 1761
40
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Stripe now supports ACH payments
424
2
Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite Sites
203
3
X.Org Might Lose Its Domain Name
174
4
GCC 6 Will Warn You About Misleading Code Indentations
162
5
Google Genomics: store, process, explore and share genomic data
162
6
Emergent Chip Vastly Accelerates Deep Neural Networks
139
7
Gas Theft Gangs Fuel Pump Skimming Scams
132
8
Updated Firefox Security Indicators
129
9
Reverse engineering the VW electronic control unit
123
10
Unikernel Profiling from dom0
109
Tech blogs [?]
1
Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human Rights Abuses
331
2
“No Cost” License Plate Readers Are Turning Texas Police into Debt Collectors
285
3
T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately
261
4
You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs. DRM, Round Two
216
5
Google Pixel C Review
176
6
25 Civil Liberties Orgs Call for Open Hearings on Section 702 Surveillance
132
7
China Shows How Surveillance Leads to Intimidation and Software Censorship
126
8
EFF Pries More Information on Zero Days from the Government
124
9
Hackers and Heroes: Rise of the CCC and Hackerspaces
111
10
The Apple iPad Pro Review
95
FAANG+ [?]
1
AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
350
2
iOS 9.3 Preview
323
3
EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and R3 Instances)
174
4
In the Works – AWS Region in Canada
140
5
Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results, Slowing Growth in iPhone Sales
132
6
Microsoft Cloud Strength Highlights Second Quarter Results
105
7
Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
88
8
Mass recall of Apple AC Wall Plug Adapters 2003-2015 due to shock hazard
34
9
AWS Certificate Manager – Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS – AWS Official Blog
31
10
Slack Integration Blueprints for AWS Lambda
12
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
An introduction to Machine Learning
302
2
World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
244
3
Taco Bell Programming (2010)
172
4
Renaissance Florence Was a Better Model for Innovation Than Silicon Valley Is
172
5
Cars and the Future
42
6
Google's self-driving technology is real, but the car itself is vaporware
40
7
Tesla Hires Jim Keller as Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Engineering
38
8
Writing Assembly on OpenBSD (x86) (2012)
38
9
How Facebook squashed Twitter
33
10
No More Pirated Games in Two Years, Cracking Group Warns
28
Science News [?]
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Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all
172
2
More evidence emerges for 'transmissible Alzheimer's' theory
171
3
The unsung heroes of scientific software
151
4
Why Understanding Space Is So Hard
148
5
How to Discover a Galaxy with a Telephoto Lens
142
6
Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors as its predecessors
137
7
Time’s Almost Reversible Arrow
118
8
Babylonians Were Using Geometry Centuries Earlier Than Thought
117
9
It's Time to End the War on Salt (2011)
114
10
Why boredom is anything but boring
110
Social [?]
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Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a summer intern
666
2
Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement
544
3
Breakup, as captured by my fitbit
251
4
Building AI
175
5
Andrei Alexandrescu: Writing Fast Code [video]
172
6
The Amiga Demoscene Mixtape Vol. 1 [video]
132
7
AMA: the OpenAI research team
130
8
“My tires have RFID tags in them. Yours probably do also”
118
9
Cord drill and Pump drill [video]
106
10
The Road to Running Haskell at Facebook Scale [video]
101
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Dear GitHub
1678
2
Kinto by Mozilla – An open-source Parse alternative
537
3
Open Guide to Equity Compensation
482
4
GitHub Outage
420
5
So You Think You Can Program an Elevator
407
6
List of high-quality open datasets in public domains
388
7
BitBar: put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar
385
8
The Command Line Murders
364
9
Enable Node.js to Run with Microsoft's ChakraCore Engine
346
10
ES6 Cheatsheet
324
Wikipedia [?]
1
Peter Naur has died
570
2
Wikipedia Turns 15
441
3
The pirate game
298
4
The China GPS shift problem
205
5
Flyby anomaly
153
6
Rithmomachy
142
7
Plankalkül
56
8
A History of the World in 100 Objects (2010)
53
9
Lowest temperature recorded on Earth
28
10
OpenDoc
27
Blogs [?]
1
Amazon's customer service backdoor
1447
2
Life is Short
970
3
The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
961
4
The Refragmentation
852
5
Three Years as a One-Man Startup
718
6
People Call Me Aaron
701
7
I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
639
8
Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley
634
9
Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down
491
10
Angular 2 versus React
424
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What is the performance impact of using int64_t on 32-bit systems?
72
2
Should I use Vagrant or Docker for creating an isolated environment?
6
3
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi. (2011)
4
4
How and when to align to cache line size
3
5
Redux-saga vs. redux-thunk
3
6
1M Java questions have now been asked on StackOverflow
3
7
So this is why JavaScript is being mocked
2
8
Any Swift Devs that can help?
2
9
What are good abstractions for complex animations?
2
10
Making sure to always run the dnvm and dnu commands
2
Substack [?]