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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week

1630

2

1247

3

Building Jarvis

1164

4

Cat-proofing a cat feeding machine

1107

5

Developers’ side projects

1052

6

Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts

1046

7

OpenAI Universe

1021

8

Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team

1009

9

Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

929

10

How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with data

921

Top Ask HN

1

What was your best passive income in 2016?

779

2

What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

658

3

Who is hiring? (December 2016)

458

4

How do I get freelance developer jobs?

433

5

Books you read in 2016?

414

6

What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?

402

7

Where is AI/ML actually adding value at your company?

385

8

What do you want to learn in 2017?

357

9

Are there any systematic and scientific ways to develop a habit?

334

10

Maybe I kind of suck as a programmer – how do I supercharge my work?

328

Top Show HN

1

Rocket – Web Framework for Rust

484

2

Hire an Oldster

475

3

The Road to learn React – Build a Hacker News App on the Way

339

4

Wick – A free and open-source creation suite

322

5

U.S. Legal Concepts for Founders – Online Handbook

309

6

ThreadTone – Halftone images made of thread

303

7

Handicareers.com – A simple job board for disabled people

303

8

8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600

289

9

Fun tool that cut my family and friends tech support time in half

285

10

Learn how to build electronics with monthly kits

272

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

AngelList acquires Product Hunt

656

2

Carrie Fisher has died

428

3

Fitbit is reportedly buying Pebble for around $40M

419

4

Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business

400

5

Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

400

6

Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras

320

7

Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets

309

8

Bill Gates et. al. launch massive clean-energy fund to fight climate change

305

9

German judges explain their decision that ad-blocking software is legal

290

10

Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC

289

News [?]

1

Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017

861

2

Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off

812

3

World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind

785

4

Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline

632

5

To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)

618

6

Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income

610

7

Why time management is ruining our lives

552

8

GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

540

9

Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports

507

10

China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017

481

Scientific publications [?]

1

ALPHA observes light spectrum of antimatter for first time

199

2

Neurogenesis Deep Learning

197

3

George Hotz Is Giving Away Self-Driving Software

179

4

Operational calculus on programming spaces and generalized tensor networks

166

5

Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial

128

6

Still no violation of Lorentz symmetry, despite strongest test yet

125

7

Galileo, Europe's own satnav, to go online

121

8

Register-based VMs have a higher performance than stack-based VMs

119

9

A neural link between affective understanding and interpersonal attraction [pdf]

119

10

Salto – UC Berkeley’s Agile Jumping Robot

108

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Update on Multi-Process Firefox

498

2

Starting a real business

458

3

Google Trusted Contacts

406

4

Things I learnt making a fast website

385

5

Sharing National Security Letters with the Public

340

6

My Priorities for the Next Four Years

251

7

Function multi-versioning in GCC 6

210

8

Linux on the Mac – state of the union

208

9

Linux 4.9 is out

208

10

BigQuery public datasets now include Stack Overflow Q&A

190

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD Gives More Zen Details

290

2

The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able to Cut Off Your Internet Access

280

3

U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages

274

4

Qualcomm Demos 48-Core Centriq 2400 Server SoC in Action, Begins Sampling

119

5

Law Enforcement Uses Border Search Exception as Fourth Amendment Loophole

113

6

Apple removing battery life estimates following MacBook Pro complaints

110

7

Microsoft: Mac Users Switching to Surface at Record Rates

103

8

The Crime of Speech: How Arab Governments Use Law to Silence Expression Online

97

9

Team behind Mac image editor Pixelmator plays David to Adobe's Goliath (2015)

95

10

Dubai Police now using Crime Prediction software

94

FAANG+ [?]

1

1247

2

uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge

296

3

IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances in Virtual Private Clouds

255

4

AirPods are now available

244

5

AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System

238

6

AWS Shield – Managed DDoS Protection

233

7

AWS announces new region in Canada

220

8

AWS Snowmobile – Move Exabytes of Data to the Cloud in Weeks

142

9

Amazon Polly – Lifelike Text-To-Speech

137

10

AWS CodeBuild – Build and test code with continuous scaling

126

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree

327

2

How I use Anki to learn mathematics

256

3

Opendoor, a startup worth emulating

223

4

The First Female Doctor in Britain Spent 56 Years Disguised as a Man

167

5

How to run a meeting (1976)

147

6

The AI Unemployment Anti-FAQ (2013)

140

7

The Last Resort, Robert De Niro's Forgotten '90s Adventure Game

96

8

Krugman: Internet’s Economic Impact No Greater Than Fax Machine (1998)

84

9

Tesla's new radar tech predicts an accident caught on dashcam a second later

79

10

The queen does not rule

79

Science News [?]

1

What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics?

362

2

Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator’s magnetic field

340

3

Let your kids lose: Success inhibits preschoolers’ selective trust

276

4

All of Richard Feynman’s physics lectures are now available free online (2014)

271

5

LIGO black hole echoes hint at general-relativity breakdown

254

6

Why a Post-Nuclear World Would Look Nothing Like “Mad Max”

204

7

Stack identical flat objects so they project over an edge as far as possible

179

8

Six more radio signals from deep space deepen mystery

178

9

System loads web pages 34 percent faster by fetching files more effectively

177

10

Hans Rosling doesn’t consider himself an optimist or pessimist but ‘possibilist’

164

Social [?]

1

Building Jarvis

1164

2

I am not a self-made man

785

3

Amazon seller’s account suspended after changing profile name on Kindle Fire

576

4

Tesla footage of braking before crash ahead [video]

351

5

“AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure browser.”

315

6

Spec-ulation – Rich Hickey [video]

283

7

15 years trying to make everyone separate HTML, JavaScript, CSS – and then

254

8

A map of the entire internet as of May 1973

235

9

I am an investor in The Style Club. Or, at least, I thought I was

227

10

Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems by Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport

208

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox

381

2

A Git query language

352

3

333

4

The Crystal Programming Language

306

5

Single-file C/C++ public-domain/open source libraries with minimal dependencies

303

6

Cancelable Promises: Why was this proposal withdrawn?

296

7

AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse

281

8

Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released

278

9

Atom-in-orbit: Putting Atom in the browser

255

10

Top-down learning path: Machine Learning for Software Engineers

250

Wikipedia [?]

1

385

2

Burned house horizon

180

3

Vasili Arkhipov – Soviet Navy Officer Who Prevented Nuclear Strike in 1962

92

4

List of virtual communities with more than 1 million users

68

5

Inventors killed by their own inventions

67

6

The German tank problem

64

7

The Great Stirrup Controversy

44

8

Moving sofa problem

38

9

37

10

Wikipedia blocks T-Mobile's entire IPv6 /32 from editing

33

Blogs [?]

1

Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch

735

2

Modern garbage collection

434

3

Dear JavaScript

429

4

Harassment at Apple: A personal perspective

406

5

Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction

365

6

Learning from a Year of Security Breaches

327

7

Why I Only Work Remotely

316

8

How to ask good questions

309

9

From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way

256

10

227

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does 128==128: false but 127==127: true when converting to Integer wrappers?

13

2

What is difference between memoization and dynamic programming?

6

3

Can Hash Tables really be O(1)?

3

4

Pairing socks algorithm

2

5

0.1 Million views on creating folders inside GitHub's repo without using git

2

6

What special training do engineers working on mission-critical software receive?

2

7

Why is infinity printed as “8” in the Windows 10 console?

2

8

Is a code that produces deep call stacks considered an anti-pattern?

2

9

C – How can I use a macro, in a macro, to transform a macro's arguments?

2

10

How to fix “Requested array size exceeds VM limit” error in Java?

1

Substack [?]