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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

2475

2

Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test

1764

3

Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript

1714

4

RethinkDB is shutting down

1674

5

DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

1563

6

All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware

1493

7

Open Guide to Amazon Web Services

1362

8

I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

1361

9

Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence

1346

10

Shame on Y Combinator

1280

Top Ask HN

1

What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

1081

2

What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

1036

3

How to get started with machine learning?

950

4

What's your favorite tech talk?

848

5

Who is hiring? (October 2016)

620

6

Any other blind devs interested in working on dev tools for the blind?

530

7

What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

516

8

$1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you did to market it?

494

9

Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

373

10

Good books or articles on UI design?

363

Top Show HN

1

Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

911

2

Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages

727

3

416

4

A new decentralized microblogging platform

364

5

TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager

361

6

A fork of sudo with Touch ID support

347

7

Killing Procrastination by Making Everything Fit

301

8

I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination

277

9

Get encrypted data from people that don’t know how to encrypt

275

10

CSS ICON, an icon set crafted by pure CSS

250

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

A decentralized web would give power back to the people online

710

2

651

3

Microsoft Surface Studio

599

4

Police complaints drop over 90% after deploying body cameras

597

5

“Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit

483

6

Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products

452

7

Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase

435

8

A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors

421

9

WTF is a container?

366

10

Barack Obama on A.I., Autonomous Cars, and the Future of Humanity

317

News [?]

1

Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years

822

2

Suspicious court cases, missing defendants, aim to get webpages taken down

819

3

Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'

782

4

Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

745

5

White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many workers

667

6

Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

606

7

FCC Vote Means Internet Providers Need Permission to Share Your Data

540

8

A Man Who Stood Up To Facebook

495

9

MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs

489

10

Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny

487

Scientific publications [?]

1

ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency

273

2

Robot Can Do More Push-Ups Because It Sweats

269

3

A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

212

4

Hubble Finds 10 Times More Galaxies Than Thought

186

5

Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing

143

6

Inside the Development of Light, the Tiny Digital Camera That Outperforms DSLRs

127

7

Universal adversarial perturbations

108

8

Discovery of peculiar modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars

108

9

Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System

103

10

Intel, TSMC and other chipmakers weigh extreme ultraviolet lithography

99

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

499

2

DTrace for Linux 2016

482

3

How 2K Killed Irrational Games

351

4

Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras

336

5

Why kernel development still uses email

294

6

Radar – A new set of integrated tools to help prevent fraud

293

7

Phasing Out SHA-1 on the Public Web

197

8

How to speed up the Rust compiler

185

9

Systemd programming, 30 months later

168

10

Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system

158

Tech blogs [?]

1

More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold on Amazon are fake

284

2

Images of New MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar Leaked in MacOS Sierra 10.12.1

250

3

Apple Sucks Now, Here’s a ThinkPad Buyer’s Guide

238

4

Facial Recognition’s Threat to Privacy Is Worse Than Anyone Thought

194

5

How to Make a Handheld EMP Jammer

134

6

OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces

133

7

A cheap 555-based Geiger counter

127

8

Germans React to UK’s micro:bit

126

9

Samsung Sets Its Reputation on Fire with Bogus DMCA Takedown Notices

124

10

IEEE P802.3bz Approval for 2.5G/5G Ethernet

103

FAANG+ [?]

1

861

2

Debunking Misleading Benchmarks Of Redshift vs BigQuery

168

3

Going Serverless: Migrating an Express App to AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda

145

4

A Cloud-Scale Acceleration Architecture: FPGAs in Microsoft’s Datacenters

112

5

Adaptive Hardware: Context Aware Interfaces (2013)

111

6

Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

98

7

68

8

October Special Event Keynote [video]

46

9

Inclusive Design Toolkit

46

10

AWS IPv6 Support Update – CloudFront, WAF, S3 Transfer Acceleration

27

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious

447

2

George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’

330

3

RethinkDB needs a new home

302

4

London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211

223

5

Inside the New York Public Library's Last, Secret Apartments

168

6

4os – An operating system written completely in Forth

141

7

The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car Industry

126

8

Monks Who Spent Years Turning Themselves into Mummies While Alive

125

9

Why Women Pretended to Be Rocks and Trees in NYC Parks During WWI

106

10

Web2Web: Serverless Websites Powered by Torrents and Bitcoin

102

Science News [?]

1

Farm grows vegetables in a desert using sun and seawater

543

2

The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless

261

3

Young, talented and fed-up: scientists tell their stories

248

4

New 'Dead Sea Scrolls' Revealed

208

5

Elephants without tusks are a response to the selective pressure of poaching

186

6

Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight

161

7

Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (2012)

160

8

Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory

153

9

The Problem with Modern Romance Is Too Much Choice

150

10

MIT launches new venture for world-changing entrepreneurs

146

Social [?]

1

I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

1361

2

Buttery Smooth Emacs

651

3

There's no easy way to say this

570

4

Museu de la Tècnica

444

5

Facebook seems not to be paying app developer $160K in ad revenue

317

6

Elon Musk SpaceX AMA

299

7

Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video]

286

8

1177 BC – The Year Civilization Collapsed [video]

280

9

“Julian Assange’s internet link has been intentionally severed”

231

10

“No, I'm the ex-CEO of Reddit because eventually there was too much bullshit.”

204

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Open Guide to Amazon Web Services

1362

2

The Remote Freelancer: A list of remote work alternatives to Upwork

494

3

Deep learning papers reading roadmap

421

4

Noms – A versioned, forkable, syncable database

399

5

Angular 1.x Banned from Firefox Addons

384

6

Step-by-step tutorial to build a modern JavaScript stack from scratch

366

7

2017 Rust Roadmap

332

8

Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become a Google engineer

327

9

Begin LaTeX in minutes

263

10

262

Wikipedia [?]

1

Microsoft Chrome

148

2

132

3

Honey Encryption

75

4

Bitmessage: a decentralized, encrypted, trustless communications protocol

70

5

Pieter Hintjens

62

6

Salisbury cathedral clock

57

7

Wirth's Law - Software gets slower more quickly than hardware gets faster

40

8

29

9

List of countries by tax rates

25

10

19

Blogs [?]

1

Why you should never use Upwork

1175

2

Programming books you might want to consider reading

1019

3

HN comments are underrated

733

4

Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend

712

5

Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement

572

6

A Quantum Leap for the Web

495

7

How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

452

8

Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app

451

9

Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

450

10

Developer hiring and the market for lemons

448

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stackoverflow needs redesign

18

2

Why html thinks 'chucknorris' is a color

11

3

Can GNU Make handle filenames with spaces?

3

4

Use PHP as a C preprocessor

3

5

What is the relationship between the Python data model and built-in functions?

3

6

The new features in C++17

3

7

Why doesn't C# have local static variables like C?

3

8

Why is the size of a lambda 1 in C++?

2

9

Performance cost using std::move vs. using a pointer to the thread in c++?

2

10

What is the accepted way to send 64-bit values over JSON?

2

Substack [?]