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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A Protocol for Dying

1610

2

The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install

857

3

Being a Developer After 40

854

4

BYOT: Bring your own team

826

5

Dropbox Project Infinite

743

6

Introducing MIR

736

7

Node.js v6.0 Released

728

8

Dark Patterns by the Boston Globe

726

9

Xamarin Open-Sourced

581

10

Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases

542

Top Ask HN

1

How do you decide what to learn next?

128

2

How do you deal with so many project management systems?

101

3

Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?

62

4

Books to learn advanced C programming

45

5

Do wellness incentives help employers save money on taxes and insurance?

26

6

$10k in cryptos stolen off my desktop from an encrypted folder, how?

25

7

How do you harmonize user data?

25

8

How to become a more powerful man?

24

9

What are the most promising/interesting new programming languages?

23

10

Canadian visa woes. Should I try Australia?

22

Top Show HN

1

Jam API, turn any site into a JSON api using CSS selectors

300

2

QBE – a new compiler back end

241

3

Hindley-Milner Type Inference Algorithm in OCaml

136

4

126

5

A Chrome extension to remind you why you opened Facebook

122

6

Raspberry Pi3 cluster with Docker/Kubernetes

86

7

TinyRave – SoundCloud for JavaScript Music

68

8

rqlite v2.2.2, replicating SQLite via Raft consensus

66

9

Passbolt – open-source password manager for teams

62

10

A HN desktop app for reading links and comments next to each other

54

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs

447

2

Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet

211

3

Megacities, not nations, are the world’s dominant, enduring social structures

184

4

Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OS

179

5

Ex-Reddit exec launches 'Imzy,' a warmer, fuzzier Reddit

170

6

130

7

These states let police take your stuff even if you haven't committed a crime

122

8

UK intel agencies spy indiscriminately on millions of innocent folks

112

9

Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft (2014)

110

10

The FBI is working hard to keep you unsafe

93

News [?]

1

Half Your Brain Stands Guard When Sleeping in a New Place

501

2

The Science of Making Friends

411

3

The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science (2015)

398

4

Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone

388

5

iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

386

6

Email privacy bill unanimously passes U.S. House

338

7

SpaceX undercut ULA rocket launch pricing by 40 percent: U.S. Air Force

318

8

Boaty McBoatface and the False Promise of Democracy

272

9

Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revelations

260

10

The Arctic Suicides: It's Not the Dark That Kills You

242

Scientific publications [?]

1

223

2

NASA to begin historic new era of X-Planes

152

3

Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake

122

4

Type III Societies (Apparently) Do Not Exist

65

5

London’s Crossrail Is a $21B Test of Virtual Modeling

46

6

Insects can teach us about the origins of consciousness

26

7

Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory

15

8

ConvNet-Based “End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars”

13

9

Dialog-Based Language Learning [arXiv:1604.06045] (by Jason Weston @ fb ai)

5

10

Ancient Peruvian Mystery Solved from Space

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

BYOT: Bring your own team

826

2

/dev/random – a new approach

265

3

Capacitor, BigQuery’s next-generation columnar storage format

133

4

Empty DDoS Threats: Meet the Armada Collective

65

5

Stripe BYOT (Bring Your Own Team)

40

6

Announcing Support for HTTP/2 Server Push

15

7

SMTP Strict Transport Security

12

8

ZFS on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

12

9

OpenAI Gym Beta for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms

9

10

Stripe: Bring Your Own Team

8

Tech blogs [?]

1

Secret Court Takes Another Bite Out of the Fourth Amendment

253

2

The MakerBot Obituary

146

3

AMD licences x86 tech to Chinese company

142

4

Understanding the 9.7" iPad Pro's Display: How DCI-P3 and True Tone Work

123

5

Intel Proposes to Use USB Type-C Digital Audio Technology

105

6

A Disappointing Ruling on National Security Letters, but Not the Last Word

86

7

Searching for USB Power Supplies That Won't Explode

78

8

EFF and ACLU Expose Government’s Secret Stingray Use in Wisconsin Case

75

9

Ruling Unsealed: National Security Letters Upheld as Constitutional

50

10

Swift on Android?

45

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

76

2

Apple Legal Process Guidelines [pdf]

40

3

Startup Field Guide: Mistakes to Avoid, Tips to Get Ahead

3

4

Dear Amazon Prime, I don't want to watch the ads for your original series

3

5

Longer EBS and Storage Gateway Resource IDs Now Available on AWS

3

6

Apple Q2 Financial Results Conference Call

2

7

Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems, and Data Analysis at Cloud Academy

2

8

Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems, and Data Analysis at Cloud Academy

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Rise of Pirate Libraries

132

2

H.P. Lovecraft – Against the World, Against Life (2004) [pdf]

80

3

Musk: Tesla’s Autopilot lowers probability of having an accident by 50%

23

4

The Feeback Loop is a better symbol of life than the helix

7

5

Status Quo Effects Upon Hiring Bias

6

6

Kurzweil predicts solar industry growth of 2^6 in 12 years

6

7

The Rise of Pirate Libraries

3

8

Apple's organizational crossroads

3

9

Why is death bad?

3

10

The Military Base Hidden in Chernobyl's Irradiated Forest

3

Science News [?]

1

Japanese Priests Collected Almost Seven Centuries of Climate Data

243

2

Not All Practice Makes Perfect

153

3

New debugging method found undetected security flaws in popular web apps

134

4

How Big Data Creates False Confidence

101

5

The Paradox of the Elephant Brain

100

6

Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food: How the Chili Pepper Got to China

78

7

Devastating wheat fungus appears in Asia for first time

58

8

One Gene, Many Proteins: Flexibility Found in Life’s Blueprints

32

9

New protein injection reverses Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice in one week

23

10

Robotic consensus

10

Social [?]

1

1M People Use Facebook Over Tor

388

2

Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind

194

3

Stanford CS 224D Video: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

129

4

Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]

126

5

121

6

SpaceX on Twitter: “Planning to Send Dragon to Mars as Soon as 2018”

85

7

Agile Is Dead – Pragmatic Dave Thomas [video]

84

8

Great video to help OO programmers begin to think functionally

82

9

How to panic a current grsecurity kernel as any user

41

10

“it seems that Fenix finally reached Twitter tokens limit”

31

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Chez Scheme is now free

453

2

Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics

359

3

Xi editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust

274

4

GitHub has 11,995,200 open issues

262

5

Postgraphql: A GraphQL schema created by reflection over a PostgreSQL schema

217

6

Most popular links in Hacker News comments, 2006–2015

210

7

RouterSploit – Router Exploitation Framework

188

8

Use OpenGL to get more RAM

149

9

GitHub has 20,927,907 closed issues

142

10

CareKit Framework

131

Wikipedia [?]

1

Bremermann's limit

57

2

43

3

Immanentize the eschaton

9

4

Icelandic names: children have different last names to their parents

6

5

Wikipedia categorises Jogging as “Activities by jihadist groups”

5

6

Low-background steel

5

7

Jimmy Carter UFO incident

5

8

Quote of the day protocol (QOTD)

5

9

Fsn: an experimental application to view a file system in 3D

5

10

The Mother of All Demos

4

Blogs [?]

1

Being a Developer After 40

854

2

Do not talk about pricing

489

3

Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry

376

4

Docker for Mac Beta Review

304

5

Programming blogs

286

6

Announcing Vue.js 2.0

187

7

F*** You, I Quit – Hiring Is Broken

175

8

Java garbage collection can be really slow

161

9

121

10

I returned home from Silicon Valley and built a failed startup

120

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Compiling an application for use in highly radio-active environments

507

2

Cycles in Family Tree Software

4

3

UTF-8 Continuation bytes

2

4

SO: really good answer to golang pointer question

1

Substack [?]