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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4
1395
2
I made my own clear plastic tooth aligners and they worked
943
3
I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was as bad as you'd think
928
4
Trackers
874
5
Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
830
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A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case
795
7
A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
794
8
AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol in Final Game
708
9
Neural Networks Demystified
686
10
Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud
671
Top Ask HN
1
What are some examples of beautiful software?
345
2
Who else uses adblockers for safety?
128
3
What's the most useful online course you have watched?
99
4
How do you manage your SSH keys?
93
5
Helping a dev who drinks?
78
6
Must you have no life, at least early on, to run a successful startup?
64
7
What's your primary development laptop?
59
8
What books do you wish your manager would read?
50
9
Who is most likely to develop true AI?
39
10
Are Online Courses Enough to Become a Full Stack Web Developer?
32
Top Show HN
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Podcat – Imdb for podcasts
401
2
Using Google AMP to build a Medium-style Jekyll site that loads in 65ms
279
3
Zube 1.0 – Powerful project management for GitHub Issues
206
4
CodeMill – a marketplace for pull requests
169
5
Automated algorithm translation for Python, C++, C#, JS
142
6
Procedural Voxel Rendering in WebGL
141
7
Scalable reverse image search built on Kubernetes and Elasticsearch
139
8
Live streaming SVG plot microservice that just works
114
9
Turn NPM installs into a Space Invaders style game in your terminal
105
10
A multi-syntax programming language with bidirectional grammars
96
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case
795
2
Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud
671
3
Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
498
4
Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hijacked a thermostat
399
5
Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come with Ubuntu preinstalled
345
6
UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors
280
7
GM to Acquire Autonomous-Vehicle Technology Developer Cruise Automation (YC W14)
255
8
Western Digital makes a $46, 314GB hard drive just for the Raspberry Pi
219
9
US government pushed tech firms to hand over source code
204
10
PlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399
192
News [?]
1
Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
830
2
Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism
647
3
Should All Research Papers Be Free?
644
4
Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet
492
5
Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer
471
6
Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist
468
7
Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
453
8
Unmasking Startup L. Jackson
357
9
Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Terrorists Do
331
10
Obama at SXSW: ‘Absolutist view’ on digital privacy cannot prevail
212
Scientific publications [?]
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Mediterranean Sea filled in less than two years: study
149
2
Newly discovered bacteria can eat plastic bottles
97
3
AIs Have Mastered Chess. Will Go Be Next? (2014)
76
4
Spacecraft Fire Experiment I
69
5
Hoaxy: A Platform for Tracking Online Misinformation
13
6
Special Relativity Theory and Cellular Automata: Light as a CA Process
6
7
DARPA is calling on hackers
4
8
What’s Frying the Electrical Systems on BART Trains?
4
9
Silicon Valley Mourns a Pioneer in Computer Graphics and Gaming Hardware
4
10
Optimus Ride Wants Autonomous Ride-Sharing Without Human Drivers
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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Data is a Toxic Asset
180
2
Intel Marrying FPGA, Beefy Broadwell for Open Compute Future
146
3
Jigsaw Finally Arrives in JDK 9
96
4
Mozilla Pushes the Web to New Levels as a Platform for Games
77
5
From Stolen Wallet to ID Theft, Wrongful Arrest
73
6
Managing heterogeneous environments with ManageIQ
49
7
Possible government demand for WhatsApp backdoor
19
8
Ethereum Blockchain Project Launches First Production Release
18
9
Coverage-guided kernel fuzzing with syzkaller
10
10
Former Microsoft CEO No Longer Negatively Attacks Linux
6
Tech blogs [?]
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The Next Front in the New Crypto Wars: WhatsApp
318
2
DRM Non-Aggression on the Table at W3C
101
3
The Origin of QWERTY
90
4
Engineer Humanity's Future: The 2016 Hackaday Prize
29
5
The Apple Fight Is About All of Us
8
6
EFF: Tell Us Your DRM Horror Stories about Ebooks, Games, Music, Movies and IoT
8
7
President Obama: 'You Cannot Take an Absolutist View' on Encryption Issue
5
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Intel's Skull Canyon NUC is official: $650, shipping in May
5
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Coleco Chameleon Is a Kickstarter Scam
4
10
So, You're Scared of Surface Mount
3
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS Database Migration Service
141
2
Ten Years in the AWS Cloud
70
3
Postgres for ladies
3
4
Critical Software Update for Kindle E-Readers
2
5
Developer Preview of AWS SDK for C++ Is Now Available
2
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3D Print Your Own Docking Station Adapter
2
7
“Legend of the Galactic Heroes” Translated in English
1
8
AWS Database Migration Service Is Now Generally Available
1
9
Amazon ranked #1 for corporate reputation
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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VPN Comparison Chart
510
2
Half-Earth
83
3
The Quest for the Real-Life Treasures of Atari’s Swordquest
57
4
The Amazon Tax
14
5
Private Tracker Member Data Leaked via BBCode Exploit
6
6
The Amazon Tax
6
7
Unums: A Radical Approach to Computation with Real Numbers
4
8
The Amazon Tax
3
9
Text-To-Speech in 1846 Involved a Talking Robotic Head with Ringlets
2
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Crossing Over: How Science Is Redefining Life and Death
2
Science News [?]
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A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
794
2
Ontario announces that it will begin a basic income trial in 2016
292
3
Study finds negative association between empathizing and calculation ability
189
4
Why the German language has so many great words
162
5
Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize
159
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The Powerful Emotional Pull of Old Video Games (2014)
109
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Why Neuroscientists Need to Study the Crow
88
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Peculiar pattern found in 'random' prime numbers
85
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‘Shocking’ unification reduces disparate spin models to just one
68
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MRSA superbug's resistance to antibiotics is broken
52
Social [?]
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AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]
566
2
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Encryption [video]
331
3
Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
322
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Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade
260
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Google Cloud Dev Advocate Jailed at SXSW
112
6
Lee Sedol beats AlphaGo in game 4 (result is now 1-3)
72
7
MongoDB: The Frankenstein Monster of NoSQL Databases
54
8
AlphaGo and the Future of Computer Games: Conversation at U. of Alberta [video]
53
9
Hard Problems – The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest (2006) [video]
43
10
Doug Crockford's Seif Project – how to save the web [video]
35
Github repos and gists [?]
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More code review tools
624
2
How OpenGL works: software renderer in 500 lines of code
363
3
Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development
312
4
UBlock vs. ABP: efficiency compared
193
5
Alchemy Micro-Service Framework: Using RabbitMQ Instead of HTTP
149
6
Croteam releases Serious Sam Classics engine under GPL
146
7
Hannibal: An AI/bot for 0 A.D
144
8
Golang: channels are not enough
138
9
Jo - JSON output from a shell
138
10
D3 heatmap representing time series data similar to GitHub's contribution chart
128
Wikipedia [?]
1
The Clipper Chip
244
2
Bloomberg Terminal
5
3
Milankovitch cycles
4
4
Wikipedia:Unusual articles
3
5
Laser broom – clearing orbits of space junk
3
6
Esoteric Programming Languages
3
7
1953 Iranian coup d'état
3
8
To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles
3
9
Bc
3
10
Secretary Problem
3
Blogs [?]
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Tcpdump is amazing
567
2
Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access
293
3
Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?
238
4
Emac’s Org Mode will improve your software engineering
210
5
JSX is no longer my friend
200
6
A better offer letter
152
7
FinTech is the worst
81
8
How does perf work? (in which we read the Linux kernel source)
78
9
Lesson Learned Running a Side Project for One Month
70
10
A Micropayments Marketplace
62
Stackoverflow [?]
1
2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
318
2
Golang best practice question
2
3
How to cast sockaddr_storage and avoid breaking strict-aliasing rules
1
Substack [?]