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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour

1832

2

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds

1612

3

Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel

1423

4

E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display

763

5

722

6

My time with Rails is up

716

7

Flappy Bird Clone Code Injected into Super Mario World for SNES by Hand

566

8

React Tutorial: Cloning Yelp

521

9

CryEngine out on GitHub

506

10

Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

501

Top Ask HN

1

Passive Income Suggestions 2016

169

2

Why do browsers still support pop up dialogs and other bad behavior?

133

3

Why is it still so hard to host your own email/calendar that just works?

91

4

Has all interesting desktop software already been written?

78

5

How do you encrypt your laptops?

78

6

Disabling paste in password boxes - why is it practiced?

62

7

What is an open-source alternative to Google Home?

50

8

What is wrong with Twitter?

35

9

Will everyone but Docker make money off of Docker?

32

10

Found a way to fraud my bank thru a loophole, how to disclose properly?

18

Top Show HN

1

Automatic private time tracking for OS X

429

2

Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups

164

3

I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com

143

4

Chatbots made easy – Build, train, and deploy bots

131

5

Texttop – Interactive desktop rendered in TTY with ASCII

114

6

Illustrio – Search, customize and download illustrations

112

7

I built a bot to automatically apply to jobs

109

8

Family.scss – a set of 20 smart SASS mixins

88

9

Wsta – a CLI for working with WebSockets written in Rust

85

10

Export HN saved links (upvotes) as JSON or CSV

82

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

501

2

A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a visit to a subsea cable site

251

3

House tells NASA to start planning two Europa missions

242

4

Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to trust the machine

206

5

Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in the US

187

6

Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round

185

7

How Windows Everywhere finally happened

182

8

Patent troll asks judge to turn off FaceTime and iMessages

157

9

Project Ara Lives: Google's Modular Phone

141

10

Why you should bet big on privacy

107

News [?]

1

Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs

472

2

Startup Employees Invoke Obscure Law to Open Up Books

424

3

China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works

345

4

Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'

344

5

Forty Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today

321

6

LinkedIn called me a white supremacist because I happen to share a name with one

320

7

Person carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort found in U.S.

304

8

Nigerians Dominate Scrabble Tournaments Using Five-Letter Word Strategy

295

9

An industry that helps Chinese cheat their way into and through US colleges

281

10

Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War with Gawker

262

Scientific publications [?]

1

Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide

229

2

Deep Learning Without Poor Local Minima

123

3

How I designed a practical electric plane for a NASA competition

119

4

Java Generics Are Turing Complete

112

5

One-shot Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks

103

6

Do Police Body Cameras Really Work?

100

7

Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter

97

8

Memories of unethical actions become obfuscated over time

82

9

Quantum Nonlocality, and the End of Classical Spacetime [pdf]

68

10

Neural Turing Machines (2014)

55

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Open-Sourcing Twitter Heron

289

2

Did the Clinton Email Server Have an Internet-Based Printer?

175

3

Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters

139

4

OpenAI Team Update

125

5

Safename: restricting “dangerous” file names

15

6

Machine Learning on Intel’s Platform

7

7

Lustre to DAOS: Machine Learning on Intel's Platform

6

8

It is exactly what you'd expect from OpenBSD now unfortunately

5

9

Google Takes Unconventional Route with Homegrown Machine Learning Chips

5

10

In-Memory Breathes New Life into NUMA

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Canary Watch, One Year Later

108

2

Zendesk and the Art of Trademark Trolling

98

3

Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30% Locally Sourced Goods

94

4

EFF Applauds Jury Verdict in Favor of Fair Use in Oracle V. Google

19

5

Apple Offers to Replace iPads with MacBooks in Maine State Classrooms

11

6

Learn Funcional Reactive Programming on Your Arduino

9

7

John Blankenbaker and the Story of the KENBAK-1

5

8

Senate Committee Must Pass the Email Privacy Act Without Weakening Amendments

5

9

Emulate Raspberry Pi on your computer

4

10

Will Rhode Island Double Down on the CFAA's Faults?

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Fire 7 $49 – Is this worth hacking?

19

2

New AWS Quick Start Reference Deployment – Standardized Architecture for PCI DSS

4

3

Amazon Redshift – Up to 2X Throughput and 10X Vacuuming Performance Improvements

3

4

Apple Opens Development Office in Hyderabad

1

5

MS Affordable Access Initiative: Meet the Winners

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Fox 'uses' a gameplay video from YouTube, and removes the original with DMCA

363

2

A Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing

220

3

The Curse of Culture

203

4

Peter Thiel, Comic Book Hero

46

5

JavaScript Cancelable Promises Proposal

25

6

Tesla Model S driver crashes into a van while on Autopilot [video]

24

7

A Pattern Language

16

8

Tesla reveals new details of Autopilot: 780M miles of data, 100M miles driven

8

9

Google's Go to Market Gap

5

10

AWS Products page in October 2008 – cloud computing infancy

5

Science News [?]

1

Has a Hungarian physics lab found a new force of nature?

264

2

Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide

214

3

The pressure to publish pushes down quality

96

4

Blogging cells tell their stories using CRISPR gene editing

72

5

Grandparents raising children is in line with human biology

69

6

Take Light, Not Drugs: On Light Therapy

54

7

Why women earn less: Just two factors explain post-PhD pay gap

46

8

An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

43

9

The productive, bizarre career of Nobel laureate Elie Metchnikoff

41

10

Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide

11

Social [?]

1

Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour

1832

2

Flappy Bird Clone Code Injected into Super Mario World for SNES by Hand

566

3

Zach Holman joins GitLab as advisor

342

4

Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]

148

5

Tesla Model S adaptive cruise control crashes into van

77

6

A former Facebook engineer on algorithmic ranking for Facebook Trending

57

7

BlueCoat now has a CA signed by Symantec

32

8

Chrome DevTools in 2016

12

9

Theo de Raadt – Privilege Separation and Pledge [video, ~15min]

10

10

Game Boy, a hardware autopsy – Part 2: memory mapping [video]

9

Github repos and gists [?]

1

722

2

CryEngine out on GitHub

506

3

Libui: GUI library in C

373

4

306

5

289

6

How to become the sole owner of your PC [pdf]

254

7

162

8

Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

138

9

What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?

132

10

Dumb-jump: an Emacs “jump to definition” package

131

Wikipedia [?]

1

11

2

Low doses of ionizing radiation benificial?

6

3

Doors – A special file for inter-process communication

5

4

List of Cognitive Biases

4

5

Security flaw in Hotmail permits anybody to login with the password 'eh' (1999)

4

6

4

7

Comics Code Authority

3

8

Laser Geodynamics Satellite

3

9

Molyneux's problem

3

10

Ikigai – “a reason for being”

3

Blogs [?]

1

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds

1612

2

Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency

340

3

Monument Valley in Numbers: Year 2

252

4

The Secret of Billions

199

5

How one announcement damaged the .NET ecosystem on Windows

157

6

Autoencoding Blade Runner: reconstructing films with artificial neural networks

119

7

A Current List of Use Cases for Ethereum

119

8

One Month on the World’s Longest Train Ride for $1,000

77

9

Agile is not a Fucking Noun

64

10

What disturbed me about the Facebook meeting

60

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Deoptimizing a C++ program

151

2

PANIC Stack Overflow Is Down

9

3

SO: How do you keep Rails 4 test db in sync?

2

4

Why use redux over Facebook flux?

1

Substack [?]