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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1678

2

David Bowie Has Died

1484

3

How to C in 2016

1145

4

TrendMicro Node.js HTTP server listening on localhost can execute commands

1030

5

The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

961

6

ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

758

7

People Call Me Aaron

701

8

Aaron Swartz died three years ago today

635

9

OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777

617

10

Japan Keeps This Defunct Train Station Running for Just One Passenger

606

Top Ask HN

1

Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?

205

2

How does a 1990s web developer get back on track?

166

3

Blacklist Forbes?

164

4

Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable drone?

131

5

What is your company's on-call rotation like?

82

6

I'm a dull person since software doesn't excite me anymore. What to do?

76

7

Working with a monolithic codebase

57

8

Getting back to the tech industry after a three-year break

44

9

How do I deal with my engineering team and motivate myself?

40

10

What sucks in the project management software you use?

39

Top Show HN

1

I've made a tool to generate beautiful gradient background images

448

2

3D shooter in your terminal using raycasting in Awk

350

3

I'm a professor who has developed an interactive Powerpoint alternative

244

4

A decentralized social network with end-to-end encryption

167

5

Patchwork – Real-time notifications for OSS vulnerabilities

122

6

Libconcurrent – Coroutines in C

91

7

A Machine Learning Model for Salary Estimation

83

8

Dockerized GPU Deep Learning Solution (Code and Blog and TensorFlow Demo)

80

9

ReactNativeAutoUpdater – support dynamic updates for React Native apps

68

10

Kloudsec, Our Bootstrapped Anycast CDN with LetsEncrypt for Your Site

64

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Forbes asked readers to turn off adblockers then immediately served them malware

365

2

Two months after FBI debacle, Tor Project still can’t get an answer from CMU

285

3

US Intelligence director’s personal e-mail, phone hacked

237

4

Tesla Model S can now park itself

236

5

Push notifications when you have 8M followers [video]

151

6

John Legere asks EFF, “Who the f**k are you, and who pays you?”

130

7

T-Mobile CEO Apologizes for “Offending” EFF and Its Supporters

123

8

John Ioannidis has dedicated his life to quantifying how science is broken

108

9

Mixpanel Lays Off 18 Employees

104

10

How a Game-Playing Robot Coded “Super Mario Maker” onto an SNES

102

News [?]

1

Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

475

2

Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have to Fix Copyright Law

475

3

Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April

382

4

Private messages at work can be read by EU employers

224

5

Nest Thermostat Glitch Leaves Users in the Cold

217

6

New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed everything

217

7

52 Places to Go in 2016

209

8

H.265/HEVC vs. H.264/AVC: 50% bit rate savings verified

187

9

Lyft defies predictions by continuing to grow as a rival to Uber

179

10

You Don’t Need More Free Time

170

Scientific publications [?]

1

Planetary Defense

107

2

‘X’ Marks a Curious Corner on Pluto’s Icy Plains

79

3

Power Laws, Pareto Distributions and Zipf’s Law

13

4

Extending Landauer's Bound from Bit Erasure to Arbitrary Computation

6

5

No Need for Black Chambers: Testing TLS in the E-mail Ecosystem at Large

6

6

Quanergy Announces $250 Solid-State LIDAR for Cars, Robots, and More

5

7

Star KIC 8462852's puzzling fading behavior

4

8

Polynomial-Time Solution to an NP-Hard Problem with Digital Memcomputing Machine

4

9

SparkNet: Training Deep Networks in Spark

3

10

Space Launch System: Tooling Up to Build the World's Largest Rocket (2013)

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe now supports ACH payments

424

2

X.Org Might Lose Its Domain Name

174

3

GCC 6 Will Warn You About Misleading Code Indentations

162

4

Google Genomics: store, process, explore and share genomic data

162

5

Emergent Chip Vastly Accelerates Deep Neural Networks

139

6

Reverse engineering the VW electronic control unit

123

7

Replacing Judgment with Algorithms

79

8

Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives (2011)

62

9

Questions Linger as Juniper Removes Backdoored Dual_EC RNG

40

10

A Look Inside Cybercriminal Call Centers

37

Tech blogs [?]

1

Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human Rights Abuses

331

2

You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs. DRM, Round Two

216

3

China Shows How Surveillance Leads to Intimidation and Software Censorship

126

4

Hackers and Heroes: Rise of the CCC and Hackerspaces

111

5

Twitter’s Policy Reboot: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

89

6

Aaron Swartz: The Boy Who Could Change the World

25

7

The NSA Seizes More Than Just Your Conversations with Israeli Leaders

13

8

You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs. DRM, Round Two

12

9

Stallman's one mistake

11

10

Teenager blames Wi-Fi Assist for $2,000 bill as he racks up 144GB of data

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

iOS 9.3 Preview

323

2

In the Works – AWS Region in Canada

140

3

Slack Integration Blueprints for AWS Lambda

12

4

CloudWatch Events – Track and Respond to Changes to Your AWS Resources

7

5

Amazon Finally Renamed Amazon Mom to Amazon Family in US

6

6

Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends today

4

7

New – Scheduled Reserved Instances

4

8

iOS in Education (iOS 9.3)

3

9

CloudFront Update – HTTPS and TLS v1.1/v1.2 to the Origin, Add/Modify Headers

2

10

Longer EC2 and EBS Resource IDs

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

No More Pirated Games in Two Years, Cracking Group Warns

28

2

Google cars would have caused 10 accidents without test drivers taking control

15

3

Archaeologists Find Wooden Prosthetic for a Medieval Foot

13

4

Cars and the Future

9

5

The Commoditization of Scale (2012)

9

6

An epic database of almost 600 academic research papers on Bitcoin

4

7

Huge currency zones don’t work – we need one per city

3

8

Angular 2 will provide “desktop install infrastructure” using Electron

3

9

Estimate the Cost of a Meeting with This Calculator

2

10

Pirate Party Offers Uncensored DNS to Bypass Pirate Bay Blockade

2

Science News [?]

1

Time’s Almost Reversible Arrow

118

2

The physics of life

81

3

MesoGlue Is a Metallic Glue That Replaces Hot Solder

77

4

Beauty Is Physics’ Secret Weapon

63

5

How 3D printing threatens our patent system

39

6

Why we shouldn’t worry about leaving print behind

24

7

First ever pictures of single proteins thanks to graphene sheet

22

8

Scientists bust myth that our bodies have more bacteria than human cells

21

9

Neuronal Networks: Flip-Flops in the Brain (2005)

21

10

Study: Developing and Testing a Scale to Measure Need for Drama

19

Social [?]

1

AMA: the OpenAI research team

130

2

“My tires have RFID tags in them. Yours probably do also”

118

3

The Road to Running Haskell at Facebook Scale [video]

101

4

Smashing the Z/OS LE "Daisy" Chain for Fun and Cease and Desist Letters

99

5

Are Computers Still Getting Faster? [video]

87

6

Mandrake Linux commercial (1999) [video]

47

7

What happens when you stand for 5 years

39

8

Production Haskell [video]

33

9

Baggage Handling System – Schiphol Airport [video]

32

10

Telescope Building with John Dobson (2014) [video]

21

Github repos and gists [?]

1

1678

2

Open Guide to Equity Compensation

482

3

So You Think You Can Program an Elevator

407

4

Lodash 4.0.0 is out

303

5

The password hash Argon2, winner of PHC

270

6

IBM ported Go to s390x mainframes

220

7

Atom text editor 1.4 released

183

8

Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin

137

9

TAPIR: A new high-performance, transactional key-value store

134

10

Course materials for Malware Analysis

99

Wikipedia [?]

1

The pirate game

298

2

Grapefruit–drug interactions

19

3

Commons-based peer production

13

4

Forest swastika

8

5

On being sane in insane places

8

6

Average is Over

7

7

A town appeared on Google Maps that doesn't actually exist

5

8

Information-theoretic death

4

9

2007 United States Air Force Nuclear Weapons Incident

3

10

Today is a 3 years anniversary of passing of Aaron Swartz

3

Blogs [?]

1

The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

961

2

People Call Me Aaron

701

3

Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down

491

4

Facebook and How UIs Twist Your Words

252

5

Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (1974)

208

6

Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable

205

7

Intel CPU Bugs of 2015 and Implications for the Future

204

8

An Easy Way to Learn Hard Stuff

186

9

Why I'm joining the Dart Team

157

10

The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb

144

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the performance impact of using int64_t on 32-bit systems?

72

2

What are good abstractions for complex animations?

2

3

Why isn't String class subclassed correctly in ES6?

1

4

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

1

5

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

1

Substack [?]