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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
A Protocol for Dying
1610
2
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
1373
3
My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
1296
4
Kite – Programming Copilot
1138
5
Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
1085
6
WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete
1055
7
YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
989
8
Visual Studio Code 1.0
966
9
Leaving Beta, New Sponsors
896
10
How I Hacked Facebook and Found Someone's Backdoor Script
865
Top Ask HN
1
Pick startups for YC to fund
867
2
Describe your first enterprise sale
496
3
Who is hiring? (April 2016)
427
4
How do you review code?
357
5
How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment when interviewing?
356
6
Can't concentrate to focus, until it's last minute or later
351
7
Can the “Who is Hiring?” post include a bit about the interview process?
328
8
Best linux laptop right now?
185
9
Who wants to be hired? (April 2016)
154
10
How did you learn about stocks and the market?
150
Top Show HN
1
I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet
847
2
What every browser knows about you
553
3
Barnacl.es, a community news site for never-funded bootstrappers
382
4
I made a Hacker News for podcasts
367
5
The first issue of Compelling Science Fiction
311
6
Jam API, turn any site into a JSON api using CSS selectors
300
7
QBE – a new compiler back end
241
8
Open source colorizing grayscale images with NN
219
9
GoldenLayout – JavaScript layout manager with multi-screen support
193
10
FIND – an indoor positioning system for smartphones and laptops
183
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Arduino in the size of a AA battery
528
2
The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs
447
3
WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites
447
4
Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster
435
5
SpaceX just landed a rocket on a drone ship for the first time
337
6
Sci-Hub, spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz, angering publishers all over again
308
7
Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
280
8
Dwarf Fortress' creator on how he's 42% towards simulating existence
267
9
The murky history of moderation and how it’s shaping the future of free speech
263
10
Slack raises $200M at $3.8B valuation for business messaging
246
News [?]
1
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
1373
2
Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Forecast Misses Amid PC Blight
637
3
The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam
581
4
The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt our democracy
542
5
Half Your Brain Stands Guard When Sleeping in a New Place
501
6
A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 Light-Years Away
492
7
Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes
491
8
Canada to introduce legislation to legalize recreational cannabis
458
9
Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak
451
10
The Sugar Conspiracy
413
Scientific publications [?]
1
Metal foam obliterates bullets
327
2
Whatup
223
3
A programming language for living cells
216
4
MIT Turns Wi-Fi into Indoor GPS
194
5
Advanced Economies Must Still Make Things
167
6
NASA to begin historic new era of X-Planes
152
7
How fast can we make interpreted Python? (2013)
125
8
Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake
122
9
Brane Craft
118
10
Physicists discover flaws in superconductor theory
117
Dev Blogs [?]
1
BYOT: Bring your own team
826
2
Hidden latency in the Linux network stack
388
3
/dev/random – a new approach
265
4
The Future Google Rackspace Power9 System
136
5
I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience
134
6
Capacitor, BigQuery’s next-generation columnar storage format
133
7
I'm Writing a Book on Security
120
8
WebExtensions in Firefox 48
106
9
Empty DDoS Threats: Meet the Armada Collective
65
10
It takes two to ChaCha (Poly)
63
Tech blogs [?]
1
Save Netflix
813
2
Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
735
3
WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to Its Over 1B Users
330
4
House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality
313
5
Amnesty International: Encryption Is a Human Rights Issue
287
6
Secret Court Takes Another Bite Out of the Fourth Amendment
253
7
Intel's Changing Future: Smartphone SoCs Broxton and SoFIA Officially Cancelled
217
8
Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses
178
9
The MakerBot Obituary
146
10
AMD licences x86 tech to Chinese company
142
FAANG+ [?]
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Introducing Kindle Oasis
164
2
Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
164
3
Introducing Kindle Oasis
152
4
FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS
77
5
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
76
6
More answers to your questions about Apple and the environment
44
7
Apple Legal Process Guidelines [pdf]
40
8
AWS Lambda Supports Node.js 4.3
21
9
My third and last ray tracing mini book free for 5 days
15
10
Apple Updates MacBook with Latest Processors, Longer Battery Life
10
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
It's a Tesla
344
2
Famous Photo of Chernobyl's Most Radioactive Material Was a Selfie
252
3
Apple’s Organizational Crossroads
176
4
The Rise of Pirate Libraries
132
5
The ages of distraction
99
6
How the Commodore Amiga Powered the Prevue Channel
85
7
H.P. Lovecraft – Against the World, Against Life (2004) [pdf]
80
8
New SSA Back End for the Go Compiler (2015)
78
9
Physics is on the verge of an Earth-shattering discovery?
58
10
How blockchain will revolutionise far more than money
55
Science News [?]
1
Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
1085
2
Brain scans reveal how LSD affects consciousness
376
3
Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]
364
4
Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe
269
5
Japanese Priests Collected Almost Seven Centuries of Climate Data
243
6
Dolphins as a model for alien intelligence
196
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Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft
175
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There’s Plenty of Space for One Trillion More Trees
156
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Not All Practice Makes Perfect
153
10
HIV overcomes CRISPR gene-editing attack
152
Social [?]
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SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast
845
2
Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps
703
3
Free “Deep Learning” Textbook by Goodfellow and Bengio Now Finished
603
4
1M People Use Facebook Over Tor
388
5
USB power supply puts 220 Mains power out on USB jack
369
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Over $700k selling a premium mobile game
332
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Google has started a video series on machine learning and I can understand it
281
8
When It Comes to Age Bias, Tech Companies Don’t Even Bother to Lie
248
9
Reddit for iOS and Android
234
10
The Internet Archive truck has been stolen
229
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Squash your commits
702
2
I decided to make a graphics card for my Amiga 2000
651
3
Vim 8.0 is coming
649
4
Lavabit code open sourced
458
5
Chez Scheme is now free
453
6
Hack-petya mission accomplished – Petya ransomware decryptor
451
7
Browse Hacker News Like a Haxor
413
8
GPG signature verification
378
9
Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangable, typed JSON-superset
359
10
Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
359
Wikipedia [?]
1
Massachusetts Right to Repair Initiative
264
2
Wire of Death
158
3
Angel Problem
128
4
NeWS – Network Extensible Window System
86
5
Bremermann's limit
57
6
CMS Pipelines
43
7
Ram air turbine
37
8
Bang Bang Control
30
9
Tendril perversion – spontaneous symmetry breaking, uncoiling helical structures
23
10
List of people named in the Panama Papers
18
Blogs [?]
1
Being a Developer After 40
854
2
How an Army of Ocean Farmers Are Starting an Economic Revolution
585
3
Do not talk about pricing
489
4
Frog and Toad are Cofounders
387
5
Notes on Google's Site Reliability Engineering Book
383
6
Bill – by Ben Horowitz
378
7
Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry
376
8
How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
332
9
Docker for Mac Beta Review
304
10
I installed Windows 95 on my Apple Watch
287
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Compiling an application for use in highly radio-active environments
507
2
I have coded an if statement spanning a few thousand lines
13
3
Why processing a sorted array is faster than processing an unsorted array
8
4
Cycles in Family Tree Software
4
5
Stack Overflow Unikong game
3
6
Python progression path – From apprentice to guru
3
7
Instagram undocumented API changes
2
8
UTF-8 Continuation bytes
2
9
C++ – What is the name of the '-->' operator?
2
10
How do JavaScript closures work?
2
Substack [?]