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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Responsive Pixel Art

1622

2

Announcing SQL Server on Linux

1344

3

AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches

1085

4

How to Pass a Programming Interview

1020

5

AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5

942

6

Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware

895

7

CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs

826

8

One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent

759

9

Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments

736

10

How We Build Code at Netflix

624

Top Ask HN

1

What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

320

2

Moving Out of Silicon Valley because of housing? Where to?

191

3

Which successful startups were rejected by YC?

159

4

Who's making $300k to $1m as a cloud engineer?

111

5

Book Recommendations?

98

6

Why are there so few reviews for coding bootcamps?

52

7

Should engineering jobs have a nap time?

47

8

What will IPV6 migration actually look like?

43

9

How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

40

10

What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

37

Top Show HN

1

Host your status page on GitHub

248

2

GitHub News, using a peak detection algorithm to detect trending repos

184

3

Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs

179

4

Sway, a tiling window manager and compositor for Wayland

163

5

Start a pair programming session over WebRTC by just sharing a link

131

6

Security Training for Developers

128

7

Libquiet – transmit data using sound

127

8

Marginotes, quick and elegant side notes for your paragraphs

111

9

SSHTron – Play Tron/lightcycle over SSH

104

10

CSS3 art book for babies

92

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Ray Tomlinson, Inventor of Email, Has Died

451

2

Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug

415

3

Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine

378

4

Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus on Skype instead

329

5

Man hacks Tesla firmware, finds new model, has car remotely downgraded

239

6

Biggest patent troll of 2014 gives up, drops appeal

223

7

Amazon confirms it has dropped device encryption support for its Fire Tablets

172

8

How a new emulator generates 3D scenes from 2D NES games

168

9

Life and death in the App Store

137

10

F-35 radar system has bug that requires hard reboot in flight

124

News [?]

1

NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing

492

2

Apple VP: The FBI wants to roll back safeguards that keep us ahead of criminals

321

3

Legal marijuana is taking a bite out of drug cartels' profits

300

4

Jeff Bezos Lifts Veil on His Rocket Company, Blue Origin

275

5

FBI quietly changes its privacy rules for accessing NSA data on Americans

269

6

Tim Sweeney: Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC

260

7

Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N.S.A. Intercepts

210

8

Eating chocolate is associated with improved brain function

207

9

Poor Sleep Gives You the Munchies, Study Says

166

10

New Procedure Allows Kidney Transplants from Any Donor

158

Scientific publications [?]

1

What the IBM Layoffs Look Like

186

2

Quantum Computer Comes Closer to Cracking RSA Encryption

123

3

Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering

122

4

Implementing Human-Like Intuition Mechanism in Artificial Intelligence

94

5

SRI's Micro Robots Can Now Manufacture Their Own Tools

62

6

Learning Physical Intuition of Block Towers by Example

39

7

EUV Lithography's Prospects Are Brightening

26

8

373K superconductors

8

9

Did LIGO detect dark matter?

7

10

Quantum Computer Comes Closer to Cracking RSA Encryption

6

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Bitcoin transaction processing takes up to 10 hours

272

2

The persistent memory “I know what I'm doing” flag

115

3

400Gbps: Winter of Whopping Weekend DDoS Attacks

109

4

A Deep Dive into DNS Packet Sizes

68

5

Power, minimal detectable effect, and bucket size estimation in A/B tests

22

6

IRS Suspends Insecure ‘Get Identity Protection PIN’ Feature

18

7

Data Is a Toxic Asset

13

8

Raspberry Pi 3 Benchmarks vs. Eight Other ARM Linux Boards

10

9

Linux kernel: PostgreSQL pain points (2014)

9

10

Toronto Stock Exchange Moves Toward Blockchain with Ethereum Founder Hire

7

Tech blogs [?]

1

Let's Encrypt has issued its first million certificates

443

2

Why Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Violates the First Amendment

249

3

White House's Claims That the TPP Would Curb Internet Censorship Are Fantasy

153

4

EFF Opposes McCaul-Warner Encryption Commission

80

5

California Prisons Are Deleting Records of Social Media Censorship

49

6

California Has a Bill That Would Disable Encryption on All Phones

17

7

VTech: We Are Not Liable If We Fail to Protect Your Data, EFF: Oh Yes You Are

4

8

Google Is Building a 100kW Radio Transmitter at a Spaceport and No One Knows Why

4

9

Thanks for the Memories: Touring the Awesome Random Access of Old

4

10

FOIA Docs Confirm FBI Used Dirtboxes on Planes Without Legal Guidance

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Ray Tracing: The Next Week – free eBook

70

2

54

3

Move from Oracle to SQL Server

3

4

2

5

Rdio's Aether Cone is still on sale at Amazon

2

6

The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait but Why

2

7

1

8

AWS EC2 T2.nano Instances Available in EU (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney)

1

9

#AskGaryVee [book]

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence

259

2

The 1980s Media Panic Over Dungeons and Dragons

162

3

Naughty words: What makes swear words so offensive?

66

4

Narcissistic Students Get Better Grades from Narcissistic Professors

44

5

Why Microsoft's reorganization is a bad idea (2013)

26

6

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

22

7

Our Economy Is Obsessed with Efficiency and Terrible at Everything Else

9

8

Elon Musk,other tech execs secret meetin to discuss stop Donald Trump – Electrek

6

9

Could machines have become self-aware without us knowing it?

4

10

Google asked to remove 100,000 'pirate links' every hour

4

Science News [?]

1

Unexpected evidence of a new particle at LHC

310

2

The nanolight revolution is coming

167

3

How cancer cells fuel their growth

163

4

Collective Memory Discovered in Bacteria

137

5

Commuting Takes Its Toll

126

6

DIY Neurostimulation on the rise

71

7

Should we strive to simplify neural models?

47

8

Prehistoric Art Found to Contain Stenciled Lizard Hands

43

9

Singles are strengthening society’s social bonds

40

10

Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind

38

Social [?]

1

AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches

1085

2

Building a Distributed Hypervisor on FreeBSD (2015) [video]

108

3

A look at the Technology behind the 4D Game Miegakure [video]

94

4

Video Room 1000 – A video uploaded to YouTube 1,000 times (2010) [video]

67

5

Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo. Google DeepMind Challenge Match #1 Livestream

24

6

Kay Mauchly and ENIAC: Girl figures out how to program giant computer [video]

19

7

Google DeepMind Challenge Match: Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo

16

8

Manage Flow: In Search of Flow Efficiency (2014) [video]

15

9

Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Safari vs. Servo WebRenderer

14

10

AT&T's 1993 “You Will” ads were remarkably accurate

12

Github repos and gists [?]

1

CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs

826

2

Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments

736

3

Leaf: Machine learning framework in Rust

379

4

Turning two-bit doodles into fine artworks with deep neural networks

327

5

There are no acceptable ads

226

6

Distributed systems in an alternative universe

199

7

Image Analogies using Neural Networks

186

8

Frege – a Haskell for the JVM

177

9

Push notifications from Go with Apple's new HTTP/2 protocol

134

10

Lave: eval in reverse

133

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wuppertal Suspension Railway

62

2

6

3

Codex Seraphinianus

5

4

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model

4

5

Privacy issues of social networking sites

4

6

Bloop (Wikipedia)

3

7

David Johnson has left us.

3

8

Parkinson's law

3

9

Crooked forest in Poland

2

10

The Tetris effect

2

Blogs [?]

1

State of the Art JavaScript in 2016

550

2

Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors

362

3

What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable

266

4

How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?

254

5

What Makes Software Good?

128

6

How I rolled my own explainer video for my Saas in a weekend

100

7

The Watney Rule for Startups and the Return to the ‘Old Normal’

21

8

How I increased my conversion rate 56% on Shopify. Hint: Image Optimization

14

9

3 Reasons Why It Is Time to Onboard Users with GIFs

14

10

Where ORMs go wrong

13

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Concurrency vs. Parallelism – What is the difference?

5

2

Results of the 2016 StackOverflow Developer Survey

4

3

Chrome page actions hell is already here

3

4

I have created a JavaScript game that breaks iOS, help?

2

5

Parse HTML with Regex (2014)

2

6

[A] How to do a GitHub pull request?

1

Substack [?]