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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Ubuntu on Windows

2049

2

NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?

1725

3

Responsive Pixel Art

1622

4

We only hire the trendiest

1615

5

I've Just Liberated My Modules

1573

6

Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4

1395

7

1356

8

Announcing SQL Server on Linux

1344

9

Andy Grove has died

1333

10

He Always Had a Dark Side

1304

Top Ask HN

1

How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon

1213

2

Who is hiring? (March 2016)

488

3

What are some examples of beautiful software?

345

4

What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

320

5

How much do you make at Google?

193

6

Moving Out of Silicon Valley because of housing? Where to?

191

7

Which successful startups were rejected by YC?

159

8

Why is there a black bar added on top?

149

9

Can we add collapsing boxes to comments?

143

10

A spammer is spoofing my email address; what do I do?

143

Top Show HN

1

Podcat – Imdb for podcasts

401

2

Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours

314

3

Using Google AMP to build a Medium-style Jekyll site that loads in 65ms

279

4

Host your status page on GitHub

248

5

MapHub – A Google My Maps Alternative, Based on OpenStreetMap Data

244

6

Flexbox Defense – learn CSS flexbox by playing a tower defense game

243

7

Flat – Music notation software: Web-based and Real-time collaboration

207

8

Zube 1.0 – Powerful project management for GitHub Issues

206

9

GitHub News, using a peak detection algorithm to detect trending repos

184

10

Teleport – SSH for Clusters and Teams

183

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced

944

2

A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case

795

3

Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud

671

4

Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

535

5

Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack

498

6

Ray Tomlinson, Inventor of Email, Has Died

451

7

Boom (YC W16) signs $2B letter of intent with Virgin, $5B total

428

8

Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug

415

9

Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hijacked a thermostat

399

10

Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine

378

News [?]

1

Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award

1272

2

Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat

830

3

U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing iPhone

746

4

Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition

655

5

Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism

647

6

Should All Research Papers Be Free?

644

7

Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time, killing 1M people

522

8

NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing

492

9

Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet

492

10

Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study

486

Scientific publications [?]

1

Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S.

333

2

Linux at 25: Q&A with Linus Torvalds

304

3

What the IBM Layoffs Look Like

186

4

Mediterranean Sea filled in less than two years: study

149

5

Google Wants to Solve Robotic Grasping by Letting Robots Learn for Themselves

125

6

Quantum Computer Comes Closer to Cracking RSA Encryption

123

7

Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering

122

8

Towards Machine Intelligence by IBM Research

111

9

Celebrating Claude Shannon

100

10

SCAMP Robot Can Climb Straight Up Walls

100

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Google launches Public Datasets program

423

2

The Trouble with Tor

323

3

Bitcoin transaction processing takes up to 10 hours

272

4

Etsy CTO: We Need Software Engineers, Not Developers

196

5

Data is a Toxic Asset

180

6

Microservices Ending Up as a Distributed Monolith

154

7

Intel Marrying FPGA, Beefy Broadwell for Open Compute Future

146

8

141

9

The persistent memory “I know what I'm doing” flag

115

10

A Decade of Container Control at Google

113

Tech blogs [?]

1

Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available

1106

2

Let's Encrypt has issued its first million certificates

443

3

FBI Breaks into iPhone. We Have Some Questions

323

4

The Next Front in the New Crypto Wars: WhatsApp

318

5

Why Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Violates the First Amendment

249

6

Report: Apple building its own servers to prevent snooping

231

7

Launching the Electronic Frontier Alliance

170

8

White House's Claims That the TPP Would Curb Internet Censorship Are Fantasy

153

9

Arguments Supporting Warrantless Surveillance Wither When Exposed to Sunlight

144

10

Obama Has Gotten 3,000+ Tweets about Encryption. Let’s Double That

141

FAANG+ [?]

1

567

2

Amazon Echo Dot

351

3

Microsoft Cognitive Services

150

4

AWS Database Migration Service

141

5

iPad Pro – 9.7-inch

120

6

Apple March 2016 Keynote – 10am PDT

81

7

Critical Software Update for Kindle E-Readers

72

8

Ray Tracing: The Next Week – free eBook

70

9

Ten Years in the AWS Cloud

70

10

54

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

663

2

VPN Comparison Chart

510

3

The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence

259

4

Internet Archive Seeks to Defend Against Wrongful Copyright Takedowns

255

5

GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in

203

6

Andy Grove and the iPhone SE

166

7

The 1980s Media Panic Over Dungeons and Dragons

162

8

Play: A P2P distributed torrent site that's impossible to shut down

120

9

83

10

The Voters Decide

81

Science News [?]

1

A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers

794

2

Unexpected evidence of a new particle at LHC

310

3

Ontario announces that it will begin a basic income trial in 2016

292

4

Elimination of HIV-1 Genomes by CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing

255

5

South Korea announces $860M AI fund after AlphaGo 'shock'

254

6

Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions

218

7

Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?

213

8

Why AlphaGo Is Such a Big Deal

192

9

Study finds negative association between empathizing and calculation ability

189

10

The nanolight revolution is coming

167

Social [?]

1

AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches

1085

2

Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report

941

3

784

4

An 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe [video]

653

5

AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]

566

6

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Encryption [video]

331

7

Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI

322

8

Wow, Perl 6 [video]

320

9

Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade

260

10

Why is Google allowing this popular app to violate so many Google Play rules?

211

Github repos and gists [?]

1

CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs

826

2

Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments

736

3

Require-from-Twitter

701

4

React Native for OS X

637

5

This should never happen

626

6

More code review tools

624

7

Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

548

8

BMW Australia Refusing to Comply with Terms of GNU Public License

534

9

System Bus Radio

499

10

Netdata – Linux performance monitoring, done right

477

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Clipper Chip

244

2

90 percent of everything is crap

112

3

Mammalian diving reflex

73

4

70

5

64

6

Wuppertal Suspension Railway

62

7

Project West Ford

51

8

Outer Space Treaty

33

9

31

10

Hofstadter's Law

10

Blogs [?]

1

We only hire the trendiest

1615

2

I've Just Liberated My Modules

1573

3

Tcpdump is amazing

567

4

State of the Art JavaScript in 2016

550

5

D'Oh My Zsh – How I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project

380

6

Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors

362

7

Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access

293

8

What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable

266

9

The Way of the Gopher: Making the Switch from Node.js to Golang

260

10

How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?

254

Stackoverflow [?]

1

2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

318

2

Concurrency vs. Parallelism – What is the difference?

5

3

Ftp trivia for $1000 please alex, it's the daily double

5

4

Results of the 2016 StackOverflow Developer Survey

4

5

Chrome page actions hell is already here

3

6

Why Is Node.js Single Threaded? (2013)

3

7

Plain English explanation of Big O

2

8

I have created a JavaScript game that breaks iOS, help?

2

9

Parse HTML with Regex (2014)

2

10

Golang best practice question

2

Substack [?]