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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A Message to Our Customers

5771

2

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right

2011

3

1659

4

Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

1302

5

Apple’s declining software quality

1282

6

Introducing the Keybase filesystem

1252

7

Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

1126

8

LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

1012

9

903

10

Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case

888

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (February 2016)

455

2

How happy are you working as a programmer?

349

3

Your Passive Income Suggestions?

327

4

Is Python dying?

240

5

Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

156

6

Is it possible to live off technical writing?

148

7

Does this old horse have a few years of useful work left?

139

8

How to handle 50GB of transaction data each day? (200GB during peak)

137

9

What's going on at IBM?

128

10

Best curated newsletters?

127

Top Show HN

1

I've been writing daily TILs for a year

819

2

Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

613

3

3D Vector Graphics

441

4

Windows 98 in browser

356

5

Find the best recipe for any two foods, based on over 600k recipes

337

6

Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

322

7

Deepstream.io – open-source real-time server with pub/sub and data sync

301

8

how2 – stackoverflow.com from the terminal

272

9

The Deadlock Empire – Slay dragons, master concurrency

269

10

Simple and elegant Markdown-based resumes

255

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World

720

2

Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China

501

3

Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal

467

4

Google is banning Flash from its display ads

446

5

Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Valley

444

6

Apple Apologizes and Updates iOS to Restore iPhones Disabled by Error 53

400

7

Laura Poitras Reveals Her Own Life Under Surveillance

325

8

AT&T sues Louisville to stop Google Fiber from using its utility poles

296

9

Snowden lawyer: Bill of Rights was meant to make government’s job more difficult

284

10

SSD reliability in the real world: Google's experience

264

News [?]

1

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right

2011

2

LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

1012

3

Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case

888

4

GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

808

5

What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

667

6

Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

641

7

Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones

636

8

Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack

620

9

Umberto Eco has died

546

10

German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens

520

Scientific publications [?]

1

ZeroDB white paper: An end-to-end encrypted database

171

2

Principal Component Projection Without Principal Component Analysis

117

3

Plasma physicist discusses the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator

99

4

Practical Attacks against Deep Learning Systems using Adversarial Examples

98

5

Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment (2006)

98

6

Drones learn to search forest trails for lost people

92

7

Winning a competition predicts dishonest behavior

91

8

Curiosity Self-Portrait at Martian Sand Dune

77

9

Gradient-Based Hyperparameter Optimization Through Reversible Learning

58

10

Website-Targeted False Content Injection by Network Operators

46

Dev Blogs [?]

1

1659

2

Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised

472

3

Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks

461

4

This is why people fear the Internet of Things

404

5

The curse of the gifted programmer (2000)

381

6

Introducing CloudFlare Registrar: Designed for Security, Not the Masses

229

7

History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google

204

8

Encryption is a necessity

196

9

LLVM Patches Confirm Google Has Its Own In-House Processor

165

10

Twitter's new timeline feature

162

Tech blogs [?]

1

Patent Owners Can Prevent You from Owning Anything

301

2

How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights (2015)

299

3

A Technical Perspective on the Apple iPhone Case

176

4

Sneaky Change to the TPP Drastically Extends Criminal Penalties

157

5

The UK's Proposed Spy Law Would Force Apple to Secretly Hack its Phones Too

132

6

Trade Officials Sign the TPP but It's Still Up to Lawmakers to Reject It

88

7

Revisiting the Google Pixel C – Better, but Not There Yet

79

8

Content ID and the Rise of the Machines

78

9

EFF to Apple Shareholders: Your Company Is Fighting for All of Us

73

10

How an Immigrant from Bangladesh Became America's Master Builder

67

FAANG+ [?]

1

A Message to Our Customers

5771

2

Answers to your questions about Apple and security

545

3

Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration

441

4

Amazon Free Shipping minimum is now $49

281

5

AWS and Zombies

122

6

Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS

114

7

Amazon introduces a new free game engine – Amazon Lumberyard

36

8

Access Resources in a VPC from Your AWS Lambda Functions

10

9

FirefoxOS GSM factory unlocked Fx0 for ~$60

9

10

Amazon Attention to Detail in TOS

7

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Malware Museum

472

2

PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services

296

3

Building a business, not just an app

170

4

James Burke: Connections, Episodes 1-10 (1978) [video]

159

5

The Reality of Missing Out

147

6

The NASA Rocket Countdown Came from a 1929 Fritz Lang Film

114

7

The Windows 3.x Showcase

101

8

What I’ve learned so far from living in a Mars simulation dome

85

9

Galaxy Magazine (1950-80)

78

10

Forward error correction in QUIC

62

Science News [?]

1

New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors

258

2

Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer

205

3

Amgen publishes failures to replicate high-profile science

193

4

Destroying worn-out cells makes mice live longer

186

5

Love Resembles Addiction

177

6

Wild gorillas compose songs that they hum during meals

163

7

She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not

143

8

Scientists have found a way to help learn skills faster

143

9

What We’ll Do in Space by 2116

137

10

CRISPR-like ‘immune’ system discovered in giant virus

131

Social [?]

1

Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case

643

2

Atlas, the Next Generation [video]

509

3

Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices

337

4

What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jumper cable

313

5

Jan Koum: “I couldn't agree more with everything [Apple] said”

255

6

React.js Conf live stream [video]

167

7

J.C.R. Licklider on the History of Personal Workstations (1986) [video]

154

8

Guy spotted wandering London Tube skimming contactless cards with POS device

148

9

Sundar Pichai Responds to Apple and the FBI Hacking Request

146

10

Why Do Employers Rarely Offer Explanations to Rejected Candidates?

139

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter

763

2

Issue and Pull Request templates

520

3

Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your files without actually doing it

515

4

Investigate switching away from GitHub

498

5

January 28th Incident Report

451

6

Dragula: Drag and drop so simple it hurts

307

7

PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT network

288

8

React Makes You Sad?

288

9

Upload files to your repositories

276

10

Adblock via /etc/hosts

273

Wikipedia [?]

1

299

2

EURion constellation

155

3

List of failed and over-budget custom software projects

154

4

Old Tjikko, the oldest living clonal Norway Spruce

98

5

Phantom Time Hypothesis

54

6

49

7

BBC Domesday Project

47

8

Atbash – Ancient Hebrew Cryptography

43

9

Senet: board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt

33

10

Negative income tax

31

Blogs [?]

1

I no longer understand my PhD dissertation

682

2

Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory

365

3

What’s Next in Computing?

300

4

An introduction to IPFS

279

5

Internet Access Is Finally Permanently Tax Free in the U.S.

266

6

Dead Men Write No Code

260

7

Linux kernel bug delivers corrupt TCP/IP data

221

8

217

9

Just Landed Is Shutting Down

215

10

LinkedIn dark patterns, or why your friends keep spamming you to sign up for it

211

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Bash command line tricks

3

2

Why does the statement “2i;” Not cause a compiler error?

2

3

Twitter image encoding challenge

2

4

Disturbing Job Ad (Wanted: PHP Wiz with Photoshop Skills Who Lives Online ())

2

5

1

6

Angular2: extract array element form http.get response

1

7

What does a Ajax call response like 'for (;;); { json data }' mean?

1

8

Java String.split pass in precompiled regex for performance reasons

1

9

2½ steps towards accurate project estimates

1

10

Message Queue vs. Web Services?

1

Substack [?]