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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Kite – Programming Copilot

1138

2

YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader

989

3

Visual Studio Code 1.0

966

4

Leaving Beta, New Sponsors

896

5

Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser

855

6

SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast

845

7

Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11

799

8

Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2 VPS

695

9

Congratulations You’ve Been Fired

679

10

Vim 8.0 is coming

649

Top Ask HN

1

What are some good React tutorials?

144

2

Is it worth paying for a Coursera course?

138

3

What to do when a Chinese startup clones your website?

131

4

Is there evidence regarding PG's theory about powerful languages?

80

5

Can you show me how fast coding is in vim?

60

6

SEO impact of HN's URL “itemid” vs. an actual title?

51

7

Getting harassed at work for my sexuality, what should i do?

48

8

What ever happened with the Rap Genius/Heroku routing controversy?

36

9

Average Salary for PHP Dev in London?

33

10

How do I share equity with a sales partner?

28

Top Show HN

1

The first issue of Compelling Science Fiction

311

2

GoldenLayout – JavaScript layout manager with multi-screen support

193

3

Wit.ai Bot Engine beta

174

4

Min – web browser with better search and built-in ad blocking

151

5

Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

143

6

Botlist – An App Store for Bots

128

7

Alphasheets – Write Python, R, and SQL in your spreadsheets

72

8

Gridfolio – Lightweight and simple portfolio generator

68

9

gofeed, a robust RSS and Atom Parser for Go

68

10

How to Setup Node.js App Automated Deployment and CI with PM2 for MVP's

66

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites

447

2

SpaceX just landed a rocket on a drone ship for the first time

337

3

The murky history of moderation and how it’s shaping the future of free speech

263

4

NES classic ‘Punch-Out’ has an Easter egg that went undiscovered for 29 years

239

5

Building a 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC for Cheaper Than a Haswell-E Core I7

168

6

Lawyers who won Happy Birthday copyright case sue over “We Shall Overcome”

159

7

Google will warn users when sites contain social engineering ads

151

8

Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it?

136

9

A year after launch, it’s now clear that pretty much no one needs an Apple Watch

133

10

Micro-engraver who works between heartbeats to keep his hand steady

131

News [?]

1

The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam

581

2

The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt our democracy

542

3

A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 Light-Years Away

492

4

Microsoft Sues Justice Department Over Secret Customer Data Searches

399

5

Senate encryption bill draft mandates 'technical assistance'

389

6

What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?

383

7

Uber says it gave U.S. agencies data on more than 12M users

372

8

Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium

346

9

Goldman Sachs Finally Admits It Defrauded Investors During the Financial Crisis

333

10

40 year old study could have reshaped American diet, was never fully published

300

Scientific publications [?]

1

Metal foam obliterates bullets

327

2

118

3

Physicists discover flaws in superconductor theory

117

4

NASA, Japan Make ASTER Earth Data Available at No Cost

96

5

Supermassive black holes may be lurking everywhere in the universe

72

6

Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services

21

7

Katherine Johnson: The Girl Who Loved to Count

17

8

Solution to one of the “Millennium Prize Problems”

13

9

Effect of Neck Retraction Taping on Forward Head Posture in Computer Work (2013)

12

10

Kepler recovered from emergency

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Future Google Rackspace Power9 System

136

2

I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

134

3

Distribution-friendly tactics in the desktop wars

50

4

The linux-stable security tree project

47

5

An introduction to last branch records

28

6

IBM Unfolds Power Chip Roadmap Out Past 2020

19

7

OpenAI, Hyperscalers See GPU Accelerated Future for Deep Learning

18

8

The curious case of slow downloads

10

9

Brick Apple Devices via WiFi

7

10

New Threat Can Auto-Brick Apple Devices

7

Tech blogs [?]

1

WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to Its Over 1B Users

330

2

Apple Reportedly Using Chinese Server Supplier to Migrate iCloud Service

40

3

22

4

The Burr-Feinstein Proposal Is Simply Anti-Security

12

5

Law Requiring Sex Offenders to Report Internet Activity Violates Free Speech

4

6

4

7

IBM's Power9 Receives Boost from Google and Nvidia

4

8

Apple's Swift Programming Language May Be Adopted by Google for Android

4

9

New Version of 'January 1, 1970 Bug' Can Brick Pre-IOS 9.3.1 Devices Over Wi-Fi

3

10

Texas Prison System Unveils New Inmate Censorship Policy

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Introducing Kindle Oasis

164

2

Introducing Kindle Oasis

152

3

FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS

77

4

Building Enterprise Level Web Applications on AWS Lambda

7

5

5

6

AWS Lambda Supports Node.js 4.3

3

7

Amazon Kindle Oasis

3

8

CURB Home Energy Monitoring System (Solar Ready)

2

9

Amazon Launchpad: Unique Food Products from Startups

1

10

Amazon Tap: Alexa Enabled Portable Speaker

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Famous Photo of Chernobyl's Most Radioactive Material Was a Selfie

252

2

How the Commodore Amiga Powered the Prevue Channel

85

3

WTL (Wave Threshold Logic) Primer

47

4

Hail the maintainers

9

5

A Modest Proposal: Eliminate Email

9

6

Correlation between religion and programming language preference?

6

7

Why programmers can’t make any money

5

8

The Malware Museum

4

9

An Afternoon with MIT's Most Important Invention

4

10

Hail the maintainers – maintenance is more important than innovation

4

Science News [?]

1

Brain scans reveal how LSD affects consciousness

376

2

There’s Plenty of Space for One Trillion More Trees

156

3

HIV overcomes CRISPR gene-editing attack

152

4

Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?

130

5

How to Avoid Empathy Burnout

92

6

The remarkable accuracy of the Trinity College clock

70

7

Mutations in Y Chromosome made us separate species from Neanderthals

42

8

A Strange Ecosystem in the Sea: Dead Whales

20

9

Debate Intensifies Over Dark Disk Theory

12

10

Rescued Japanese spacecraft delivers first results from Venus

11

Social [?]

1

SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast

845

2

USB power supply puts 220 Mains power out on USB jack

369

3

John Oliver on the ugly state of credit reporting and background checks

190

4

Space X lands Falcon 9 stage 1 on drone ship (picture)

172

5

John Carmack's BAFTA Introduction, Speech and Interview [video]

167

6

Undisrupted: HubSpot's Reflections on “Disrupted”

91

7

SpaceX lands first stage on Drone Ship

57

8

Should All Locks Have Keys? Phones, Castles, Encryption, and You [video]

53

9

Redditor discovers pywallet “mirror” on Sourceforge steals Bitcoin wallet files

50

10

Early Impacts of Certificate Transparency

44

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Vim 8.0 is coming

649

2

Hack-petya mission accomplished – Petya ransomware decryptor

451

3

Proposal: Go should have generics

355

4

Top Hacker News Submissions by Year: 2009–2015

264

5

Voltron: A hacky debugger UI for hackers

260

6

Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust

216

7

Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

170

8

Linux QoS for humans

138

9

Support of OpenBSD pledge(2) in programming languages

136

10

Websites That Feed Hacker News: Top Sources of Submissions by Median Score

134

Wikipedia [?]

1

158

2

NeWS – Network Extensible Window System

86

3

Dreyfus model of skill acquisition

10

4

Vostok 1 – 55 years since the first man went into space

6

5

A language designed to be understandable by intelligent extraterrestrial life

5

6

4

7

4

8

Googie architecture

3

9

WTF-8 character encoding

3

10

Autonomous spaceport drone ship

2

Blogs [?]

1

Frog and Toad are Cofounders

387

2

Notes on Google's Site Reliability Engineering Book

383

3

How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub

332

4

Why ContentEditable Is Terrible, Or: How the Medium Editor Works (2014)

155

5

Bye – Why I'm leaving Medium

131

6

Developing for the Amazon Echo

81

7

Rendering React without browser JavaScript

67

8

How three connected hardware companies killed their devices

61

9

The Internet of things you inherit or leave behind

60

10

We don’t know how to build conversational software yet

59

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Node.js – Node Js ECONNRESET – Stack Overflow

2

2

SO: redis pipeline question

1

3

Stackoverflow.com/admin.php

1

Substack [?]