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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Tell HN: New features and a moderator
2381
2
Why I’m Suing the US Government
1855
3
Master Plan, Part Deux
1851
4
Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
1126
5
LastPass autofill exploit
1008
6
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
929
7
We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated
910
8
A practical security guide for web developers
894
9
Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem
862
10
Pokemon Go is a huge security risk
780
Top Ask HN
1
What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
630
2
Who is hiring? (July 2016)
566
3
Why don't companies hire programmers for fewer hours per day?
498
4
Anonymous person sent proof of SSH access to our production server
450
5
Single Person startup/company?
390
6
What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
382
7
When you feel stuck in life
381
8
Insider history of the demise of Kodak?
341
9
Considerations when asked to write a book?
288
10
How do you create productive habits?
253
Top Show HN
1
Web Design in 4 minutes
1624
2
Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
388
3
Riko – A Python stream processing engine modeled after Yahoo! Pipes
283
4
OpenGL in super slow motion – visualising Z-buffering
276
5
Randomly generated metal riffs using Web Audio API and React
275
6
AutoMicroFarm Is Ready for Shipping
203
7
Free and open source page builder for WordPress
202
8
Dependency CI – Continuous testing for your dependencies
198
9
Kubernetes Certificate Manager – Native Let's Encrypt Integration
186
10
A simple infinite world in WebGL
181
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its first week ever
422
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Security experts have cloned all seven TSA master keys
413
3
Atlassian Acquires StatusPage
384
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Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
382
5
Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested
378
6
UK surveillance bill includes powers to limit end-to-end encryption
365
7
Reddit is still in turmoil
335
8
Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation
312
9
NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over
298
10
Mercedes-Benz shows off the first fully electric heavy urban transport truck
268
News [?]
1
No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down
471
2
Coup attempt underway in Turkey
453
3
How we're scammed into eating phony food
439
4
Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon
426
5
U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating Labs for Two Years
418
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America uses stealthy submarines to hack other countries’ systems
363
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SoftBank Group Nears Deal to Buy ARM Holdings
357
8
Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed
351
9
Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong?
346
10
How Trees Calm Us Down
345
Scientific publications [?]
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Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins
281
2
A Wait-Free Stack
281
3
Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion that Regulates to Ensure Protection (2012)
247
4
Integer percentages as fingerprints of electoral falsification
225
5
Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music
213
6
NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth for 2nd Time in a Year
199
7
Critical Behavior from Deep Dynamics: A Hidden Dimension in Natural Language
175
8
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View
173
9
Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification
169
10
Live coverage of Juno's Jupiter Orbit Insertion [video]
165
Dev Blogs [?]
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Apple Open-Sources its Compression Algorithm LZFSE
340
2
Why we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack
254
3
Replacing Google with microG
236
4
Special projects
235
5
Reducing Adobe Flash Usage in Firefox
235
6
Porting Python to GRUB: “Networking without an operating system”
186
7
Linux USB charging, part 1: requirements
125
8
The Security of Our Election Systems
95
9
Safari Tech Preview 8 achieves 100% ES6 support
87
10
Linux: Controlling access to the memory cache
86
Tech blogs [?]
1
Don Eyles Walks Us Through the Lunar Module Source Code
235
2
The Dual-Core, ARM-Powered Commodore 64
124
3
Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Little Endian
119
4
DIY Scanning Electron Microscope
87
5
EFF Lawsuit Takes on DMCA Section 1201
81
6
Russia Asks for the Impossible with Its New Surveillance Laws
43
7
Nvidia GTX 1080 video card review
34
8
Apple Helped FBI Identify Alleged Owner of KickassTorrents
29
9
Stupid Patent of the Month: Solocron Education Trolls with Password Patent
22
10
Use Someone Else's Password, Go to Jail (EFF)
22
FAANG+ [?]
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Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
262
2
Devastating Amazon hardware review of a wireless power switch
118
3
Apple celebrates one billion iPhones
116
4
Preview the Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
19
5
Create and Deploy a Chat Bot to AWS Lambda in Five Minutes
10
6
AWS Dashboard – 500 Service Unavailable Error
8
7
Amazon WorkMail
7
8
Amazon.com: Fun Finds
7
9
Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
6
10
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results: $42.4B / net income of $7.8B
5
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Coursera courses preserved by Archive Team
513
2
How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics
284
3
The Public Shaming of England’s First Umbrella User
244
4
Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything
237
5
Maths notation is needlessly complex [video]
195
6
Great Mathematicians on Math Competitions and "Genius" (2010)
191
7
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment (2005) [pdf]
178
8
Go Packaging Proposal Process
171
9
How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Comedy Sensation
145
10
Scottish Tech Map
140
Science News [?]
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We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated
910
2
The Fight for the “Right to Repair”
704
3
Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
586
4
Let’s make peer review scientific
279
5
Why Feynman Diagrams Are So Important
255
6
Rats free each other from cages (2011)
222
7
Nasal Bacteria Pump Out a Potential New Antibiotic That Kills MRSA
195
8
People can sense single photons
194
9
Hyperuniformity Found In Birds, Math And Physics
174
10
Fresh work on the mathematics of bicycles in motion
165
Social [?]
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Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
1126
2
“I built a fusion reactor in my bedroom – AMA”
434
3
Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
319
4
Philae Lander: “It’s time for me to say goodbye”
254
5
John Carmack: Steps to Avoid Aliasing in VR
213
6
SpaceX: “First stage landing confirmed at LZ-1”
170
7
Grace Hopper explains nanoseconds [video]
152
8
Minnesota woman broadcasts police stop and shooting on Facebook Live
138
9
Repairing the only known prototype of Nintendo PlayStation [video]
121
10
How to be a wizard programmer
113
Github repos and gists [?]
1
A practical security guide for web developers
894
2
Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
652
3
CSS is powerful, you can do a lot of things without JS
493
4
Wire open-sourced
488
5
Felony – An open-source PGP keychain
469
6
Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of PC DOS
468
7
Corrode: C to Rust translator written in Haskell
387
8
Microsoft REST API Guidelines
339
9
Functional Programming Jargon
339
10
ThinkPwn: System Management Mode arbitrary code execution
338
Wikipedia [?]
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Wireworld
290
2
Zenzizenzizenzic
258
3
Superformula
176
4
The Diolkos: an ancient Greek paved trackway enabling boats to be moved overland
121
5
Company town
69
6
The Battle of Palmdale
60
7
Boltzmann Brain
58
8
Closed-eye hallucination
54
9
An Atlas of Fantasy
52
10
Flux pinning
32
Blogs [?]
1
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
929
2
I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court
779
3
Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
537
4
Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer
534
5
Graal and Truffle could accelerate programming language design
478
6
Habits of highly mathematical people
429
7
Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack?
427
8
How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server
423
9
Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming
377
10
What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold
305
Stackoverflow [?]
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Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?
112
2
Stack Overflow Salary Calculator – how much you make working at Stack Overflow
57
3
How does Linux's perf utility understand stack traces?
37
4
Extend the life of threads with synchronization (C++11)
16
5
New features in C++17
15
6
How do you fix a bug you can't replicate?
4
7
HTML5 Selenium Automation: How to Access the Shadow DOM Tree
3
8
Browser downloaded this unobfuscated PHP script. What is it doing?
3
9
A 2011 stackoverflow post on Diablo AI, updated with technological advances
3
10
Why don't people use base128?
2
Substack [?]