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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour
1832
2
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
1612
3
Introducing unlimited private repositories
1576
4
Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
1423
5
Moving Forward on Basic Income
1330
6
Apple Stole My Music
1259
7
All European scientific publicly funded articles to be freely accessible by 2020
1167
8
Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser
1083
9
WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
972
10
Did I just win?
950
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (May 2016)
553
2
How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?
401
3
What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
331
4
Oldest code you have written that is still in use?
233
5
Relationship between OO and functional programming?
194
6
Do I have to go through recruiters nowadays, how do you find new jobs?
185
7
Passive Income Suggestions 2016
169
8
What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality?
147
9
Anyone making a living off of desktop applications?
137
10
My side project is ramen-profitable. What do I do now?
134
Top Show HN
1
Automatic private time tracking for OS X
429
2
BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
384
3
Kajero – Interactive JavaScript notebooks
217
4
I built an AI that recognizes food
202
5
Serverless meets Microservices
191
6
Speech Coaching App – Stop Saying 'Umm', 'Like', 'Uhh'
176
7
Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch
168
8
Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
164
9
Run your own OAuth2/OpenID Connect provider
161
10
Hydrogen, a multithread non-blocking Linux server framework in Rust
154
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
501
2
Prison phones are a predatory monopoly – One family fought back and won
371
3
Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time
338
4
Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News
320
5
Microsoft no longer allows admins to block Windows Store access in Win10 Pro
297
6
The TSA is a waste of money that doesn't save lives and might actually cost them
258
7
Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project
252
8
Stanford quantifies the privacy-stripping power of metadata
251
9
A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a visit to a subsea cable site
251
10
House tells NASA to start planning two Europa missions
242
News [?]
1
WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
972
2
A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years
889
3
Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
639
4
Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say
636
5
Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs
472
6
Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know
452
7
Startup Employees Invoke Obscure Law to Open Up Books
424
8
Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes Pills
411
9
Tesla Announces $2B Public Offering to Accelerate Model 3 Ramp Up
401
10
Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'
399
Scientific publications [?]
1
SpaceX lands rocket at sea second time after satellite launch
814
2
Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide
229
3
Why now is the best time to study quantum computing (2014)
195
4
Deep API Learning
188
5
The Controlled Natural Language of Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer [pdf]
176
6
Ethereum’s $150M DAO Opens as Researchers Call for a Halt
170
7
Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory
166
8
Autonomous Robot Surgeon Bests Humans
165
9
Engineer and Investor in Spat About Wireless Charging Startup UBeam
160
10
1,284 Newly Validated Kepler Planets
145
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Academics Make Theoretical Breakthrough in Random Number Generation
389
2
Open-Sourcing Twitter Heron
289
3
Linux 4.6 is out
228
4
The curious case of slow downloads
207
5
iOS Supporting IPv6-Only Networks
205
6
Everybody gets WebSockets
193
7
Did the Clinton Email Server Have an Internet-Based Printer?
175
8
Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters
139
9
The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
134
10
OpenAI Team Update
125
Tech blogs [?]
1
Save Firefox
702
2
NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series
408
3
An Open Letter to Members of the W3C Advisory Committee
260
4
Rule 41 Proposes to Grant New Hacking Powers to the Government
230
5
HP Unveils Premium Chromebook: 3K Display, Intel Core M, 16 GB of RAM and USB-C
229
6
Yes, All DRM
221
7
Judge Grants Search Warrant Forcing Woman to Unlock iPhone with Touch ID
218
8
Announcing Certbot: EFF's Client for Let's Encrypt
165
9
Software Update Destroys $286M Japanese Satellite
156
10
Stakes Are High in Oracle v. Google, But the Public Has Already Lost
132
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory
340
2
AWS IoT Button
285
3
I love my Amazon Workspace
135
4
NET Core and ASP.NET Core RC2 Released
97
5
Service Discovery: An Amazon ECS Reference Architecture
55
6
Amazon Fire 7 $49 – Is this worth hacking?
19
7
X1 Instances for EC2 – Ready for Memory-Intensive Workloads
13
8
New AWS Community Heroes Announced
11
9
New AWS Quick Start Reference Deployment – Standardized Architecture for PCI DSS
4
10
Amazon Redshift – Up to 2X Throughput and 10X Vacuuming Performance Improvements
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
756
2
Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
450
3
Fox 'uses' a gameplay video from YouTube, and removes the original with DMCA
363
4
Tesla crash after flying 82 feet in the air shows importance of a crumple zone
296
5
A Small London Company That Makes Beautiful Globes
232
6
A Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing
220
7
The Curse of Culture
203
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The Delightful Perversity of Québec's Catholic Swear Words
193
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The attention economy
170
10
Doom on GLium, in Rust
149
Science News [?]
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Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians
303
2
Nine years of censorship
302
3
Has a Hungarian physics lab found a new force of nature?
264
4
Learning Chess at 40
242
5
Magic Mushroom Drug Lifts Depression in Human Trial
223
6
Why Aging Isn’t Inevitable
219
7
Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide
214
8
How do food manufacturers calculate the calorie count of packaged foods? (2003)
214
9
Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support
206
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Scientists discover potentially habitable planets
172
Social [?]
1
Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour
1832
2
Did I just win?
950
3
WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete
755
4
Flappy Bird Clone Code Injected into Super Mario World for SNES by Hand
566
5
“We're considering banning domains that require users to disable ad blockers”
521
6
SpaceX: “Landing confirmed”
398
7
Zach Holman joins GitLab as advisor
342
8
Gavin Andresen's commit access to Bitcoin revoked, hacking suspected
297
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9/14/14: Sold 500 edu copies of Air Display 2. 4/25/16: All 500 refunded
291
10
Craig Wright's signature is worthless
283
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Introducing unlimited private repositories
1576
2
Pastejacking
722
3
Electron 1.0 is here
679
4
A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript
517
5
CryEngine out on GitHub
506
6
Blocklist of all Facebook domains
499
7
Scala Native
466
8
A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch
392
9
500 Lines or Less
377
10
Libui: GUI library in C
373
Wikipedia [?]
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Qanat
186
2
Pauli Effect
109
3
Mpemba effect: warmer water can freeze faster than colder water
91
4
Shamir's Secret Sharing
66
5
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
63
6
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
52
7
Linguistic purism in English
43
8
MD6 Message-Digest Algorithm
30
9
Mafia (party game)
29
10
IBM 5100
24
Blogs [?]
1
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
1612
2
The void left by the parallel port
496
3
That'll do, pig, that'll do
409
4
Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency
340
5
The Quiet Crisis Unfolding in Software Development
263
6
Monument Valley in Numbers: Year 2
252
7
Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (1979)
237
8
I’m a black man – What happened when I booked an Airbnb
233
9
Improving Angular performance with 1 line of code
221
10
The Secret of Billions
199
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Deoptimizing a C++ program
151
2
4 out of the 6 SO most voted questions are common Git issues
11
3
PANIC Stack Overflow Is Down
9
4
Reordering of reads in Java
8
5
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
4
6
Selenium Automation: Accessing Elements in the Shadow DOM
4
7
Why is the standard session lifetime 24 minutes (1440 seconds)?
3
8
If nullptr_t isn't a keyword, why are char16_t and char32_t?
3
9
What is dependency injection?
3
10
Why is char[] preferred over String for passwords in Java?
2
Substack [?]