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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Pardon Snowden
2553
2
Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
2123
3
Philae Found
1238
4
EU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020
1205
5
Announcing new tools, forums, and features
1142
6
Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
1106
7
Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
1054
8
How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac
1037
9
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
986
10
You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]
957
Top Ask HN
1
Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
822
2
What's your favorite HN post?
692
3
Who is hiring? (September 2016)
521
4
What are the must-read books about economics/finance?
446
5
What are the best practises for using SSH keys?
306
6
What's the best way to learn about the blockchain?
259
7
When are you considered a “senior” programmer?
218
8
What do you wish someone would build?
186
9
Is it possible for someone to not be cut out for software engineering?
183
10
Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?
183
Top Show HN
1
Wave function collapse algorithm
1226
2
Primitive Pictures
894
3
A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, and Freshbooks
396
4
InstaPart – Build circuit boards faster with instant parts
309
5
A flask app to make dashboards, easily
302
6
Build your first real world React.js application
261
7
G9.js – Automatically Interactive Differentiable Graphics
237
8
Open-source search engine with 2bn-page index
229
9
Postacard – Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on Earth for $3
218
10
An Open Retro RPG Game Maker in Python
215
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
986
2
Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity
579
3
Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI
573
4
Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness
572
5
It Costs $30 to Make a DIY EpiPen
506
6
Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal
505
7
To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they're right
489
8
Adblock Plus now sells ads
381
9
Municipal ISP forced to shut off fiber-to-the-home Internet after court ruling
330
10
Uber starts self-driving car pickups in Pittsburgh
323
News [?]
1
Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
853
2
How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
816
3
How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead
694
4
Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany
658
5
Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack
658
6
Washington Post Is First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source
588
7
Tesla Wins Contract to Help Power the California Grid
540
8
Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row escalates
488
9
ITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down
487
10
House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server
458
Scientific publications [?]
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Jupiter’s North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System
237
2
Google’s Neural Machine Translation System
236
3
Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs
206
4
Neglected Food Bubbles: The Espresso Coffee Foam
158
5
Time crystals might exist after all
143
6
Mercury found to be tectonically active
134
7
The bumpy road towards iPhone 5c NAND mirroring
129
8
Stacked Approximated Regression Machine: A Simple Deep Learning Approach
123
9
Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play StarCraft
116
10
A novel brewing process via controlled hydrodynamic cavitation
116
Dev Blogs [?]
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The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
556
2
Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
344
3
The decline of Stack Overflow (2015)
322
4
Lesser known Git commands
262
5
Why Learning Angular 2 Was Excruciating
204
6
Remembering Vernon Adams, creator of KDE's user-interface font Oxygen
196
7
The Democratization of Censorship
182
8
Data denormalization is broken
171
9
Instant Payouts for Marketplaces
164
10
A Rare Tour of Microsoft’s Hyperscale Datacenters
153
Tech blogs [?]
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The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM
457
2
A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
351
3
The ESP32 has been released
267
4
What HP Must Do to Make Amends for Its Self-Destructing Printers
230
5
Playpen: The Story of the FBI’s Unprecedented and Illegal Hacking Operation
176
6
EFF to Court: Government Must Inform People That It’s Accessing Their Data
158
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European Court Allows Copyright Owners to Demand Open Wifi Networks be Secured
157
8
Apple Surveying MacBook Pro Users About Headphone Jack and Other Ports
143
9
How Police and Courts are Misusing Unreliable IP Address Information [pdf]
105
10
The biggest surprises from living in a simulated Martian habitat for a full year
103
FAANG+ [?]
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iPhone 7
756
2
Microsoft Pix
514
3
Swift Playgrounds – Learn to code on your iPad
296
4
New P2 Instance Type for Amazon EC2 – Up to 16 GPUs
223
5
Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2
194
6
Introducing Amazon Wind Farm Texas
144
7
Project Springfield – Microsoft’s service for finding security-critical bugs
68
8
Amazon Aurora: Parallel Read Ahead, Faster Indexing, NUMA Awareness
63
9
MacOS Sierra
56
10
AirPods
53
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion
608
2
Pirates Plunder 4K Hateful Eight, but Did They Crack DCP?
207
3
Oracle’s Cloudy Future
195
4
EU Court: Open WiFi Operator Not Liable for Pirate Users
185
5
The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'
175
6
Advice I Wish I'd Been Told (1999)
170
7
Companies and Billionaires
158
8
How do you use HN?
147
9
The MI6 Spy Who Perfected the Art of the 'Honey Trap'
127
10
Esoteric Topics in Computer Programming (2002)
126
Science News [?]
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Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
490
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The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition
343
3
How the FDA Manipulates the Media
221
4
Fungus in humans identified for first time as key factor in Crohn's disease
155
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Lessons from a 45-year study of super-smart children
153
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Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning
149
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Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed
147
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The Limits of Machine Learning
129
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“Infinitely Rich” Mathematician Richard Guy Turns 100
124
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Is artificial intelligence permanently inscrutable?
124
Social [?]
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Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
1054
2
You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]
957
3
What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]
502
4
Faking your death
384
5
Hillary's IT guy asking Reddit how to cover up emails
266
6
How to Overthrow a Government [video]
243
7
In Norway, everyone can know how much you earn [video]
124
8
“We’re winding down Starfighter”
112
9
Yandex Mail Success Story [video]
110
10
AMD’s Virtualization Memory Encryption Technology [video]
99
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Announcing new tools, forums, and features
1142
2
UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
688
3
Code that is valid in both PHP and Java, and produces the same output in both
405
4
Neural Photo Editor
337
5
Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux
267
6
Skypeopensource2 – Skype client based on reversing Skype 5.5
250
7
V86 – An x86-compatible CPU and hardware emulator
221
8
Teleport – Modern SSH server for clusters and teams
218
9
Best practice examples of data journalism and visualization projects
214
10
Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers
213
Wikipedia [?]
1
Burning Ship Fractal
252
2
Room 641A
207
3
Open Cola
146
4
Bogdanov affair
131
5
Guanxi
125
6
Przybylski's Star
96
7
Fire balloon
69
8
Turtles All the Way Down
57
9
Vega program
54
10
Unethical human experimentation in the United States
24
Blogs [?]
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Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box
568
2
Two years spent spamming spammers back
457
3
Pixels and voxels, the long answer
435
4
Linux debugging tools you'll love
400
5
Getting things done
362
6
Machine Learning in a Year
359
7
Inclusivity Is a Joke
320
8
How I learned to program
308
9
iTunes will never work well
305
10
On Phone Numbers and Identity
301
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (2014)
324
2
SVG changes color when rotated in Safari 10
102
3
Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?
24
4
Simple caret (^) at end of Windows batch file consumes all memory
14
5
Lua vs. XML for data storage
12
6
5000 Rust questions on Stackoverflow
4
7
Call a function named in a string variable in C
4
8
Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm in plain English?
3
9
Open CSV files correctly with Excel on both Mac and Windows? (2011)
3
10
Java thread executing integer division blocks all other threads
3
Substack [?]