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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Apple Stole My Music
1259
2
Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
1085
3
WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
972
4
Infinit announces Project Dropboxe
830
5
The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
756
6
TTIP Leaks
752
7
A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing
641
8
Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
639
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Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say
636
10
Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto
584
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (May 2016)
553
2
Can the “Who is Hiring?” post include a bit about the interview process?
328
3
What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality?
147
4
My side project is ramen-profitable. What do I do now?
134
5
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2016)
107
6
Who wants to be hired? (May 2016)
79
7
How do you write concepts? (Structure / Tools / Howto)
63
8
Where can I learn how to build a recommender system?
48
9
Good throw-away email service?
32
10
What are some challenging web apps I can build?
30
Top Show HN
1
Task-Based Electron Web Browser
148
2
TeachCraft – Learning Python Through Minecraft
129
3
Go Actor Model, fast distributed actors for Golang
115
4
Discover new music through an infinite suggestion graph (React/Redux)
108
5
Writing Streak – write fiction every day
75
6
Gratefulness.io – Learning to be grateful, one text reminder at a time
56
7
Optimizing Higher Order Functions with Hypothetical Inverses
55
8
Larder, bookmarking for developers
52
9
Curabase – Curate a list of links for yourself, your team, or the world
51
10
Destructible.io – Self-destructing, human-readable file storage
44
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Microsoft no longer allows admins to block Windows Store access in Win10 Pro
297
2
Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
280
3
Facebook rewarded a 10-year-old for finding Instagram security flaw
233
4
Google rolls out “If This Then That” support for its $200 OnHub router
193
5
Handcuffed to Uber
174
6
AdBlock Plus teams up with Flattr to help readers pay publishers
159
7
New example of rare Etruscan writing found
132
8
Tesla’s bioweapon mode is a stroke of genius for developing markets
116
9
Why the NRA hates smart guns
115
10
US surveillance court reportedly rejected zero spying requests last year
94
News [?]
1
WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
972
2
Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
639
3
Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say
636
4
Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'
399
5
New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutting Coal
367
6
FBI Told Cops to Recreate Evidence from Secret Cell-Phone Trackers
310
7
After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight
305
8
Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
291
9
Scientists say sudden oak death epidemic is no longer stoppable
288
10
Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry
241
Scientific publications [?]
1
Why now is the best time to study quantum computing (2014)
195
2
Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory
166
3
Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy encoding (2013)
36
4
Pocket-Sized Lab's Killer App: Analyzing Illegal and Semi-Legal Drugs
13
5
Claude Shannon's 100th Birthday. Father of Information Theory
10
6
Single-world interpretations of quantum theory cannot be self-consistent
4
7
NASA Makes Dozens of Patents Available in Public Domain to Benefit U.S. Industry
4
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The Death of Moore’s Law Will Spur Innovation (2015)
4
9
Climate-Exodus Expected in the Middle East and North Africa
4
10
Microsoft Buys into DNA Data Storage
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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The curious case of slow downloads
207
2
iOS Supporting IPv6-Only Networks
205
3
Everybody gets WebSockets
193
4
The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
134
5
I'm Writing a Book on Security
120
6
WebExtensions in Firefox 48
106
7
Yet Another Padding Oracle in OpenSSL CBC Ciphersuites
54
8
How the Pwnedlist Got Pwned
30
9
Introducing CloudFlare Origin CA
19
10
Persistent-memory error handling
16
Tech blogs [?]
1
Rule 41 Proposes to Grant New Hacking Powers to the Government
230
2
HP Unveils Premium Chromebook: 3K Display, Intel Core M, 16 GB of RAM and USB-C
229
3
Yes, All DRM
221
4
Judge Grants Search Warrant Forcing Woman to Unlock iPhone with Touch ID
218
5
Intel's Changing Future: Smartphone SoCs Broxton and SoFIA Officially Cancelled
217
6
The Crime of Speech
126
7
Why Releasing Text Isn't Enough: Behind the Scenes of TTIP
121
8
Who Has Your Back? Government Data Requests 2016, Sharing Economy Edition
96
9
Seagate Begins Volume Shipments of Helium-Filled HDDs, Reveals Their Final Specs
47
10
Defend Innovation: How to Fix Our Broken Patent System (2015)
36
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Cloud Drive Offers
2
2
Amazon EC2 t2.nano costs $4.75 per month
2
3
Cumulus – the present day Orwellian novel based on a SV tech giant
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
756
2
Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
450
3
Tesla announces new Model 3 production plans
95
4
Correlation implies Causation (2009)
68
5
Physics is on the verge of an Earth-shattering discovery?
58
6
U.S. Labels Switzerland an Internet Piracy Haven
39
7
The Neurofix
36
8
Elon Musk: people have to revolt against propaganda of the fossil fuel industry
16
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Elon Musk works at a desk at the end of the Model X assembly line
10
10
The medieval model of the senses as transmitters
9
Science News [?]
1
Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
1085
2
Nine years of censorship
302
3
Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft
175
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Scientists discover potentially habitable planets
172
5
Dolphins have been observed chattering while cooperating to solve a puzzle
144
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Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data
124
7
Humans are the highest energy apes, making us smarter but also fatter
95
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Could Cats and Dogs Feel the Same Emotions We Do?
75
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If You Can't Smell Him, Can You Love Him?
65
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What’s Inside a Black Hole?
43
Social [?]
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Gavin Andresen's commit access to Bitcoin revoked, hacking suspected
297
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9/14/14: Sold 500 edu copies of Air Display 2. 4/25/16: All 500 refunded
291
3
Craig Wright's signature is worthless
283
4
WhatsApp is back online in Brazil
209
5
Pre-Touch Sensing for Mobile Interaction [video]
141
6
“Has something ever failed in the field due to a bug in a CAD tool?”
132
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Poetic Harmony [video]
119
8
SpaceX's spacesuits are getting design input from Ironhead Studio
65
9
Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz vs. Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz (2001)
51
10
Artistic style transfer for videos [video]
51
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Lavabit code open sourced
458
2
.NET framework ported to NetBSD
263
3
Waybackpack: download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a given URL
261
4
OS X app in plain C
249
5
Hogwatch – a bandwidth monitor that shows per process network transfer
195
6
Refined Twitter
179
7
Angular 2 Release Candidate
177
8
A Path to Programming Language Theory
174
9
Inline assembly in Linux
158
10
LLVM Backend for the VideoCore4, Raspberry Pi 2 VPU
129
Wikipedia [?]
1
List of games that Buddha would not play
7
2
Impossible color
7
3
Solomon W Golomb has left us
4
4
Blue field entropic phenomenon
3
5
Overview effect
3
6
Python for S60
3
7
List of selfie-related injuries and deaths
3
8
Operation Mockingbird
3
9
Probabilistic Database
3
10
Collatz Conjecture
2
Blogs [?]
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The void left by the parallel port
496
2
I installed Windows 95 on my Apple Watch
287
3
Improving Angular performance with 1 line of code
221
4
Target=”_blank” is an underestimated vulnerability
183
5
Life Lessons from a Lifestyle Business: Interview with founder of Metafilter
159
6
Down and out in the magic kingdom – A tale of software consulting in the midwest
102
7
It's Charisma, Stupid (2004)
92
8
Thoughts on Business Insider
83
9
How my company is lowering the bar to increase diversity
67
10
Introducing Project Include
46
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
4
2
Python progression path – From apprentice to guru
3
3
The Definitive Guide to Form-Based Website Authentication
1
4
Php spaceship operator (PHP7 feature)
1
5
[Question] Node.js Request – Can`t Decode HTML Page
1
6
SO: How do I fix my PEM block in ssl certificate?
1
Substack [?]