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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Moving Forward on Basic Income

1330

2

All European scientific publicly funded articles to be freely accessible by 2020

1167

3

672

4

Alan Kay's reading list

575

5

Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free

565

6

Blocklist of all Facebook domains

499

7

The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do

479

8

HyperDev – Developer Playground for Full-Stack Web Apps

473

9

Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know

452

10

A Facebook Sixth Sense

410

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (June 2016)

644

2

Relationship between OO and functional programming?

194

3

Who wants to be hired? (June 2016)

137

4

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2016)

136

5

How many of you gave up working as a professional coder?

101

6

What's the biggest risk you took in your career that paid off?

96

7

How many of you non-tech people wanted to learn to code and gave up

71

8

Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows?

70

9

Do you use FreeBSD as web server? Why or why not?

69

10

How do you handle large Python projects?

69

Top Show HN

1

Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writing Common Lisp apps

338

2

Run your own OAuth2/OpenID Connect provider

161

3

Reactpack – one command to build your React front end

108

4

Assembly to C code Decompiler

98

5

Arc – secure file archiver

72

6

Spreadsheet_server

64

7

RaftLib – Easy, productive parallel programming in C++

62

8

Visualising London, ward by ward

53

9

Highscore.money – Pay your way into the highscore

50

10

Yet another Sublime Text plugin for C++ completion

49

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

SpaceX successfully lands a Falcon 9 rocket at sea for the third time

199

2

Simply Hired is shutting down June 26

168

3

The Estonian president wants a more digitally-integrated Europe

153

4

Amazon search was down

153

5

Intel knows it's no longer inside

130

6

Mars may be emerging from an ice age, according to a new study

122

7

I defeated a long-broken fridge and became a household hero through 3D printing

120

8

BBC Micro:bit computer now available to all for £13

112

9

Minecraft sales top 100M

98

10

William Gibson has written a comic

89

News [?]

1

Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know

452

2

Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

376

3

Michael Dell Bought His Company Too Cheaply

335

4

World's longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland

311

5

Thiel shows why tech billionaires are the new robber barons

262

6

Britain is the most corrupt country in the world?

239

7

Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a 'public service'

233

8

Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion

230

9

King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms

223

10

Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites

215

Scientific publications [?]

1

Deep API Learning

188

2

Ethereum’s $150M DAO Opens as Researchers Call for a Halt

170

3

Observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with Smartphones (2014)

66

4

Super Mario as a String: Platformer Level Generation via LSTMs

52

5

Scientist suggests possible link between primordial black holes and dark matter

46

6

Bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres continue to puzzle researchers

46

7

Skin anti-aging strategies

23

8

Loop quantum gravity theory offers glimpse beyond the event horizon

11

9

Theft behind Planet 9 in our solar system

5

10

Hijacking Bitcoin: Large-Scale Network Attacks on Cryptocurrencies

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

An introduction to Clear Containers (2015)

78

2

Intel Lines Up ThunderX ARM Against Xeons

65

3

Reddit CTO: Stick to Boring Tech When Building Your Startup

58

4

Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake – Tony Hoare (2009) [video]

48

5

Bug Bounty, two years in

45

6

Amazon Debuts Flourish, a Runtime Application Model for Serverless Computing

7

7

Large-Scale Weather Prediction at the Edge of Moore’s Law

6

8

The Age of the GPU Is Upon Us

6

9

Samsung Experts Put Kubernetes Through the Paces

5

10

Log4j 2.6 Goes Garbage-Free

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Samsung Demos Its First BGA SSD: 1500 MB/s Read Speed and Tiny Package

144

2

The ARM Cortex A73 – Artemis Unveiled

118

3

Intel Broadwell-E Review

65

4

Copyright Doesn't Mean Unlimited Control

63

5

AMD Radeon RX 480: June 29th for $199

35

6

It’s Time to Shut Down the Most Prolific Patent Troll in the Country

27

7

FBI Wants to Remove Privacy Protections from Its Massive Biometrics Database

21

8

Samsung Announces 512GB NVMe SSD That's Smaller Than a Stamp

20

9

Apple readying new external 5K Display, may feature integrated GPU

17

10

Caltech Accuses Apple of Violating Its Patented Wi-Fi Technologies

10

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple cloud services outage

242

2

Amazon now loads over HTTPS

6

3

AWS Certificate Manager now available in more regions

4

4

Amazon.com now uses HTTPS by default

3

5

3

6

Amazon.com search is down

2

7

Amazon Career Choice

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Delightful Perversity of Québec's Catholic Swear Words

193

2

The Lost Sign Language of Sawmill Workers

191

3

The attention economy

170

4

Call for a Temporary Moratorium on “The DAO”

117

5

The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words

49

6

YouTube threatens legal action against video download service

12

7

JTransc: Java and Kotlin Everywhere Through Haxe

8

8

The Logic of Buddhist Philosophy

7

9

SolarCity robotic factory coming soon

5

10

Tesla Reveals New Details of Its Autopilot Program

4

Science News [?]

1

Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians

303

2

How do food manufacturers calculate the calorie count of packaged foods? (2003)

214

3

Two-hundred-terabyte math proof is largest ever

166

4

Cancer therapy by RNA delivery to dendritic cells

158

5

Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanese

114

6

How Crowdsourcing Turned on Me (2014)

100

7

What Happens to the Brain During Cognitive Dissonance? (2015)

98

8

A Proposal for an Antifragile Software Manifesto

67

9

The Ecologist Who Threw Starfish

63

10

How Neanderthal DNA Helps Humanity

57

Social [?]

1

Affiliate links on Reddit

205

2

Blizzard Exempt from iOS and MacOS Security Sandbox

141

3

European Lisp Symposium 2016

134

4

Dark UI patterns on the verizonfios website

121

5

iTerm2 v3.0 Released

121

6

SpaceX's Falcon 9 first stage has landed (again)

112

7

Escape from the Heap: Low-Level Programming in Common Lisp [video]

94

8

Elixir Confs Sessions

73

9

The Death of Object-Oriented Programming [video]

62

10

Many users are claiming TeamViewer has been hacked

56

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Blocklist of all Facebook domains

499

2

500 Lines or Less

377

3

TensorFlow – Consise Examples for Beginners

340

4

Drop jQuery as a dependency from Rails

292

5

FiveThirtyEight has a GitHub repo with story-related data and scripts

235

6

One Click to Be Pro: my list of the best resources for mastering a subject

209

7

Gordon: a tool to create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas

207

8

Systemd developer asks tmux to add systemd specific code

194

9

Pills: A simple responsive CSS grid for humans

190

10

FullPageOS – A RaspberryPi distro to display a full page browser on boot

170

Wikipedia [?]

1

109

2

MD6 Message-Digest Algorithm

30

3

SimHealth: The National Health Care Simulation

13

4

Overengineering – I see this every day, please stop

11

5

Doomsday argument

4

6

ICQ (Wikipedia)

4

7

Principle of least astonishment

3

8

Simulation hypothesis

3

9

9223372036854775807

3

10

New World Order (conspiracy theory)

3

Blogs [?]

1

The Quiet Crisis Unfolding in Software Development

263

2

Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (1979)

237

3

I’m a black man – What happened when I booked an Airbnb

233

4

Three ways to solve hard programming problems

110

5

Who really gets hurt when startups blow up, and what to do about it

105

6

The GRIM test – a method for evaluating published research

79

7

The rise and fall of the dungeon master on software projects

67

8

The Pros and Cons of Taking Investment from Corporate VCs

65

9

Santa Cruz's plan for a ubiquitous fiber-to-home network

50

10

Upwork is Changing Again and What We Can Do About It

45

Stackoverflow [?]

1

If nullptr_t isn't a keyword, why are char16_t and char32_t?

3

2

Is using an outdated C compiler a security risk?

2

3

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array

2

4

I have designed my own implementation of OAuth2.0 Refresh Token concept

1

5

Selenium automation: How to get the URLs of automatically started downloads?

1

6

FLOPS per cycle for sandy-bridge and haswell SSE2/AVX/AVX2

1

7

What is the way to start Mongo DB from Windows 7 (64 bit)

1

Substack [?]