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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL
1144
2
The Website Obesity Crisis
1122
3
Netflix Is Now Available Around the World
1015
4
The Refragmentation
852
5
Three Years as a One-Man Startup
718
6
Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant
697
7
Magic+
687
8
Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a summer intern
666
9
PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data
660
10
Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app
601
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (January 2016)
347
2
What are you currently building?
145
3
What are the best developer conferences in 2016?
129
4
Courses like Coursera or Udemy but without the videos?
108
5
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2016)
100
6
Why have most tech and startup-related bloggers moved to Medium?
81
7
I find all every single idea I come up with is already tried by someone
49
8
Is Facebook still a good place for Software Engineers?
49
9
How can I stop forgetting “things”?
40
10
Who wants to be hired? (January 2016)
38
Top Show HN
1
GPU text rendering with vector textures
334
2
Nodal. Next-Generation Node.js Server and Framework
288
3
Plain text for the web
151
4
A friendship-centric journal
96
5
GitBook Editor Beta – Markdown WYSIWYG, TeX
92
6
Penny, an easy way to track your spending
89
7
Coderust 2.0 – Visual Guide for Programming Interview Preparation
75
8
Searchkit – React components for elasticsearch
74
9
Tufte's discrete sparklines using D3.js
70
10
Use Slack for Everything
60
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment
310
2
This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday
277
3
Evernote’s 5% problem offers a cautionary lesson to tech companies
218
4
Japanese scientists have created a new type of hologram that you can feel
167
5
Paul Graham accidentally explained everything wrong with SV world view
165
6
The concept of “learning styles” is one of the greatest neuroscience myths
116
7
Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Version of Android
109
8
David Chaum Has a Plan to End the Crypto War
99
9
North Korea makes more sense when you know its roots
94
10
Facebook's Free Basics Shuts Down in Egypt
87
News [?]
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G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft
477
2
Facebook's “free internet” programme hits a roadblock in India
394
3
Working fewer hours would make us more productive
312
4
Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error
245
5
North Korea announces successful hydrogen bomb test
229
6
The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare
204
7
How the Daily Fantasy Sports Industry Turns Fans into Suckers
178
8
Microsoft reveals details of Windows 10 usage tracking
169
9
Flexible working can make you ill, experts say
166
10
Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick?
163
Scientific publications [?]
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The brain functional connectome is robustly altered by lack of sleep
156
2
A Theory of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Feature Extraction
51
3
The point of no return in vetoing self-initiated movements
35
4
The Emergence of the Concept of an “Antipsychotic” Drug (2013)
18
5
Towards Energy Consumption Verification via Static Analysis
17
6
Why too much evidence can be a bad thing
8
7
Chinese drone maker unveils human-carrying drone
6
8
Radiation-Proof Robot’s Terrifying Safety Demonstration
4
9
IT experts say Ukraine blackout caused by a cyberattack
4
10
Testing a neural coding hypothesis using surrogate data
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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Gas Theft Gangs Fuel Pump Skimming Scams
132
2
Man-In-the-Middle Interfering with Increased Security
97
3
Using Redis as a Time Series Database: Why and How
8
4
Fraudsters Automate Russian Dating Scams
6
5
Linode Resets Customer Passwords After Breach, DDoS Attack
5
6
Read-mostly research in 2015
5
7
Netty Apple: Large Scale Deployment/Connectivity
4
8
The Seven Deadly Sins of Microservices
4
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Deadly Sins of Microservices
3
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Twitter to re-allow Politiwoops
3
Tech blogs [?]
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T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately
261
2
Friends, Please Tell T-Mobile’s CEO About EFF
95
3
Lenovo Launches ThinkPad X1 Yoga at CES with OLED Display
72
4
Encryption in the Balance: 2015 in Review
56
5
Federico Musto of Arduino SRL Shows Us New Products and New Directions
3
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Open Access Movement Demands More: 2015 in Review
3
7
iPhone's Wi-Fi Assist blamed for $2,000 bill
3
8
AMD Polaris GPU Architecture
2
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AMD Reveals Polaris GPU Architecture: 4th Gen GCN to Arrive in Mid-2016
2
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HTC Unveils the Vive Pre Dev Kit
2
FAANG+ [?]
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EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and R3 Instances)
174
2
Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
88
3
Welcome to the AWS Developer Blog for Python
6
4
Free Amazon Cloud Drive Access
6
5
Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
6
6
Record-Breaking Holiday Season for the App Store
2
7
[Book] Hustle: The Life Changing Effects of Constant Motion
1
8
Cal Newport's new book, Deep Work, is now available
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Taco Bell Programming (2010)
172
2
Google's self-driving technology is real, but the car itself is vaporware
40
3
No More Pirated Games in Two Years, Cracking Group Warns
18
4
Diversity Policies Don’t Help Women, Minorities, Make White Men Feel Threatened
17
5
NCSA's What's New List (1993)
7
6
Your Algorithms Are Not Safe from Hackers
5
7
Warner Bros and Intel sue 4K content protection “stripper”
5
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A POLITICS FOR TECHNOLOGY
5
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Dropbox gets patent for peer-to-peer syncing
4
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No more pirated games in two years
3
Science News [?]
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The unsung heroes of scientific software
151
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How the Survivor Bias Distorts Reality
94
3
Alien life could thrive in ancient star clusters
84
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Are Flat-Earthers Being Serious?
37
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Cognitive enhancement through real-time fMRI neurofeedback
37
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Wired for gaming: Brain differences in compulsive video game players
32
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Giant ape went extinct 100,000 years ago, due to its inability to adapt
30
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How to Clock a Glacier
19
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These Tricks Make Virtual Reality Feel Real
17
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A New Thermodynamics Theory of the Origin of Life (2014)
11
Social [?]
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Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a summer intern
666
2
GNU Radio Tools for Radio Wrangling and Spectrum Domination [video]
97
3
Jack Dorsey addresses Twitter's character limit
85
4
TempleOS: Naughty Fun with OS Internals [video]
68
5
Donald Trump is coming after my domain name, claiming trademark infringement
68
6
CEO of T-Mobile asks EFF “Who the f*** are you?”
53
7
Mark Zuckerberg's 2016 personal challenge
53
8
Replication Prohibited – 3D printed key attacks [video]
37
9
Knowledge Navigator by Apple Computer (1987) [video]
24
10
The Smallest Distributed System [video]
22
Github repos and gists [?]
1
BitBar: put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar
385
2
Elixir 1.2.0 Released
270
3
BitTorrent file system
231
4
Spacemacs 0.105.0 released
212
5
Pymux: a tmux clone in pure Python
157
6
The Elements of Python Style
147
7
Trails – Modern MVC Web Framework for Node.js
142
8
Android++, native development and debugging for Visual Studio, now open-source
124
9
FreeBSD on the raspberry pi
121
10
OCamlScript – a JavaScript back end for OCaml
94
Wikipedia [?]
1
Peter Naur has died
570
2
Lowest temperature recorded on Earth
28
3
NAR 2: Serbian Assembly Language
25
4
Band-e Kaisar – “Caesar's dam”
16
5
Estonian ID card
9
6
Deutsch limit
5
7
Eurocopter X³
5
8
Diversi-Dial
4
9
Cyclone (programming language)
4
10
Eugene Bullard – a life unbelievable
4
Blogs [?]
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The Refragmentation
852
2
Three Years as a One-Man Startup
718
3
Angular 2 versus React
424
4
Economic Inequality
399
5
Paypal froze our funds, then offered us a business loan
299
6
How Paul Graham Gets It Wrong in “Economic Inequality”
207
7
Steam Sales 2015
192
8
Netflix is on Fire
185
9
Ditching Scrum for Kanban - The best decision we’ve made as a team
173
10
Reverse Engineering the GoPro Cineform Codec
167
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi. (2011)
4
2
So this is why JavaScript is being mocked
2
3
Why size_t exists in C/C++ and could/should it be replaced?
1
4
SO: Useful question detected. Initiating closing procedure ...
1
Substack [?]