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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
“It's The Future”
1323
2
The Dropbox hack is real
1313
3
Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup
1311
4
Why we lost Uber as a user
1234
5
PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
1217
6
Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay
1195
7
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
1187
8
NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender
1055
9
Indie Hackers: Learn how developers are making money
971
10
Japanese writing system basics
961
Top Ask HN
1
Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?
648
2
Who is hiring? (August 2016)
534
3
Best passive income method for a solo developer?
427
4
How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
406
5
Failed interview, feeling unemployable and depressed – what do I do?
377
6
What book have you given as a gift?
360
7
What are good reads for designing APIs?
319
8
How do I write a resume after five years of a startup?
245
9
How Did You Escape 9 to 5?
226
10
What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?
223
Top Show HN
1
Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration
1004
2
Carbide – A New Programming Environment
628
3
Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git
508
4
Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News
463
5
Give 7B people an instant physical address
415
6
Sharingbuttons.io – Fast and easy social media sharing buttons
350
7
1M rows/s from Postgres to Python
296
8
Learn Functional Programming Using Haskell
220
9
A Multiplayer Geography Game Using WebSockets
220
10
Workq – Job Server in Go
185
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers
479
2
Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
435
3
Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash
429
4
Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple
387
5
Breaking a myth: Data shows you don’t actually need a co-founder
380
6
Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years
357
7
Apple announces bug bounty program
344
8
AI’s Language Problem
309
9
Dropbox employee’s password reuse led to theft of 60M+ user credentials
294
10
Amazon launches Prime Air, its own dedicated cargo planes to speed delivery
277
News [?]
1
Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay
1195
2
Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons
859
3
Nasa just made all its research available online for free
776
4
Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service
596
5
University of Chicago: ‘We Do Not Support So-Called Trigger Warnings’
439
6
Uber to Sell China Business to Rival Didi After Losing Billions
396
7
July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa
381
8
Gene Wilder Has Died
379
9
Everything I Am Afraid Might Happen If I Ask New Acquaintances to Get Coffee
379
10
Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA
378
Scientific publications [?]
1
There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
294
2
MIT and DARPA Pack Lidar Sensor onto Single Chip
261
3
FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
161
4
Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
157
5
DeepRegex: Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language
145
6
Scientists find 3.7B-year-old fossil, oldest yet
136
7
A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype
132
8
Nasa Establishes Contact with STEREO Mission
124
9
SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship splashes down in Pacific
113
10
Is Earthly life premature from a cosmic perspective?
111
Dev Blogs [?]
1
The Cuban CDN
832
2
I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation
494
3
Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects
441
4
Some news from LWN
424
5
How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow
423
6
What’s Next for Multi-Process Firefox
355
7
Talk of a Split from Docker
323
8
Python JITs are coming
318
9
Infrastructure for Deep Learning
278
10
Automatically closing FIN_WAIT_2 is a violation of the TCP specification
238
Tech blogs [?]
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With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy
465
2
Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking from Windows 8 and Above
233
3
AMD Zen Microarchitecture: Dual Schedulers, Micro-Op Cache and Memory Hierarchy
190
4
We Shouldn’t Wait Another 15 Years for a Conversation About Government Hacking
165
5
The FCC Can't Save Community Broadband, But We Can
95
6
Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning
94
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iMessage's 'End-To-End' Encryption Hardly Better Than TLS
91
8
Killed by a Machine: The Therac-25
89
9
New steel treatment could enable lighter, stronger, cheaper cars (2015)
85
10
ARM v8-A with Scalable Vector Extensions: Aiming for HPC and Data Center
69
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Vehicles
472
2
AWS Application Load Balancer
371
3
A Message to the Apple Community in Europe
316
4
Amazon Launchpad for Startups
275
5
IPv6 Support for Amazon S3
153
6
Amazon EC2 Beta (2006)
119
7
Hololens Commercial Suite
113
8
Usage Plans for AWS API Gateway
47
9
Apple Event on September 7th
44
10
New Update to the Microsoft Services Agreement
43
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
563
2
What Great Listeners Actually Do
521
3
Lake Nyos suffocated over 1,700 people in one night
472
4
Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine Says Farewell
385
5
Software Library: Amiga
243
6
Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women
221
7
A Soccer Con Man Who Couldn't Play the Game
183
8
How America Converted Its 1980 Olympic Village into a Prison
146
9
The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’ Is Not What You Think
142
10
Fear and Loathing in Linux, or Who Needs /etc/motd (2010)
137
Science News [?]
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Tabby's star is dimming at an incredible rate
375
2
New “Leaf” Is More Efficient Than Natural Photosynthesis
336
3
In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to Sci-Hub
330
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A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013)
279
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Loneliness Is a Warning Sign to Be Social
225
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Age differences in learning from an insufficient representation of uncertainty
200
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What No New Particles Means for Physics
189
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Majority of mathematicians hail from 24 scientific ‘families’
171
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New batteries could make phones, drones, and electric cars last twice as long
171
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Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain
165
Social [?]
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Not Saying Winter Is Coming, but Where’s Your Coat?
454
2
Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publication of the take is
387
3
BitFinex down due to Bitcoin security breach - 120k BTC stolen
226
4
Paint drip people, a successor to T-shaped people
185
5
Streetfoto founder Ken Walton arrested at gunpoint
164
6
“Please note, the hashtag is for our paying advertisers”
160
7
AMA: We Are the Google Brain Team
130
8
Unreal: The Backstory
125
9
NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video]
112
10
Guiding a Venture-Backed Startup to a Felony
86
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Machine Learning and Ketosis
706
2
Optimism
617
3
Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' aliases from PowerShell
475
4
Types
445
5
Fuchsia, a new operating system
384
6
React Native for Ubuntu
380
7
The Linux kernel hidden inside Windows 10
333
8
Jailbreaking the Kindle
306
9
A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor multi-core machines
280
10
Simpler GitHub Pages publishing
275
Wikipedia [?]
1
Zhou Qunfei
124
2
List of unsolved problems in physics
119
3
The Traitorous Eight
117
4
List of languages by time of extinction
98
5
Closed city
84
6
Dyson sphere
79
7
Higher-order abstract syntax
76
8
PACELC theorem for distributed databases – improves on CAP theorem
38
9
Interactive EasyFlow
34
10
Systems of Survival
30
Blogs [?]
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Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup
1311
2
What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone
625
3
Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
615
4
This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley
480
5
Inside font-rs, a font renderer written in Rust
430
6
How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools
391
7
How does gdb work?
320
8
Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?
308
9
Startups in 13 Sentences (2009)
306
10
NoSQL Databases: A Survey and Decision Guidance
297
Stackoverflow [?]
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Huge no. of files for Angular 2
110
2
Lonely programmer detective uncovers the Mozilla JavaScript coercion conspiracy
29
3
JavaScript – How does Trello access the user's clipboard? – Stack Overflow
29
4
Regular expression to match line that doesn't contain a word?
9
5
OAuth is really about a Dutch and a donut
4
6
How does Facebook disable the browser's integrated Developer Tools?
4
7
Why is the JVM stack-based and the Dalvik VM register-based?
3
8
Can you add noise to a CSS gradient?
2
9
StackOverflow Documentation
2
10
Check synchronously if file/directory exists in Node.js
2
Substack [?]