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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

2049

2

My First 10 Minutes on a Server

1282

3

Apple File System

1094

4

VPAID ads destroy performance and are still served by major ad networks

1045

5

A Grain of Salt

803

6

Samsung Acquires Joyent

787

7

The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

641

8

Second Gravitational Wave Detected at LIGO

621

9

605

10

593

Top Ask HN

1

I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?

326

2

Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

310

3

What non-technical skills make a senior dev and how to develop them?

212

4

Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?

166

5

Should I sell out the startup that misled me?

142

6

What are some examples of successful companies rejected by YC?

115

7

What is the hardware of Hacker News?

90

8

Is there a site providing example files for “all” media types?

73

9

What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

61

10

How to learn machine learning on my own?

55

Top Show HN

1

I made a database of remote companies

747

2

The Segment AWS Stack

237

3

TCP/UDP over sound

186

4

My own C compiler (just for fun)

175

5

Create instantly shareable native app with a single JSON markup

165

6

Trigger – IFTTT for the stock market

164

7

Deskulu – Opensource knowledgebase and ticketing system

137

8

View Top 10 posts on HN, Reddit, Medium every day, week and month

111

9

Bot to steer discussions from Slack to Discourse

106

10

Tag – instantly jump to your ag matches

98

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

512

2

Canadian doctors reverse severe MS using stem cells

371

3

Apple announces iOS 10

313

4

Dropbox says it is cash flow positive, in no rush to IPO

261

5

Mongolia is changing all its addresses to three-word phrases

216

6

Toronto is poised to become a producer of tech startups

205

7

FBI says utility pole surveillance cam locations must be kept secret

204

8

Apple opens Siri to third party developers

192

9

Sunspring, a short science fiction film written by algorithm

135

10

‘Worms’ or bust: Britain’s most tenacious indie games company

129

News [?]

1

Appeals court upholds FCC's net neutrality order

591

2

Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction

518

3

Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade

501

4

Steps to Turn Off the Nagging Self-Doubt in Your Head

314

5

In poor neighborhoods, McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers

314

6

Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos

310

7

A Plan for a Long-Term Stock Exchange

270

8

The FBI 'is manufacturing terrorism cases' on a greater scale than ever before

255

9

Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow Bolder

248

10

There Have Probably Been Aliens

229

Scientific publications [?]

1

Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent

161

2

Improved Techniques for Training GANs – OpenAI's first paper

126

3

Unknown meteorite found in Swedish quarry

97

4

Smart Reply: Automated Response Suggestion for Email

12

5

Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent

6

6

Realistic photos from face sketches, using deep learning

4

7

Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence

4

8

A vitamin blend abolishes large brain loss, improves sensory function in mice

4

9

New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns

4

10

On-The-Fly TCP Acceleration with Miniproxy

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Apple File System

1094

2

Contextual Identities on the Web

555

3

Generative Models

353

4

Apple Pay on the Web

282

5

Hist Triggers in Linux 4.7

98

6

Apple Pay JavaScript Framework

88

7

Basic neural network subroutines (BNNS) API from Apple

51

8

47

9

GNOME's plan to discourage portable Gtk apps

43

10

Maker of First Bitcoin Mining ASIC Acquired for $466M

38

Tech blogs [?]

1

Investigating Cavium's ThunderX: ARM Server SoC

72

2

ARM Announces Mali Egil Video Processor: VP9 Encode and Decode for Mobile

71

3

Big Win for User-Generated Content Hosts in Vimeo Case

58

4

New Report: FBI Can Access Hundreds of Millions of Face Recognition Photos

14

5

The OPEN Government Data Act Would, Uh, Open Government Data

11

6

Apple Reveals 'Swift Playgrounds' Educational Coding App for iPad

10

7

Microsoft Teases Project Scorpio for 2017

10

8

House Poised to Advance Privacy and Defend Encryption…If Allowed to Vote

8

9

The OPEN Government Data Act Would, Uh, Open Government Data

8

10

Apple Opens Siri to Third-Party Developers with iOS 10

8

FAANG+ [?]

1

MacOS Sierra – Apple

15

2

8

3

Amazon Prime Music as Spotify Competitor

4

4

Apple Event – WWDC Keynote June 2016

3

5

Amazon Dash Button Now 100+ Brand

2

6

Apple WWDC 2016 Live Stream

2

7

MacOS Sierra Preview

2

8

Apple's new film about coding

1

9

Swift Playgrounds – Preview

1

10

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Backpropagation explicitly showing all the calculations for a full sized network [pdf]

67

2

Chrome about to get huge performance boost

27

3

64% of new energy from Solar Power in Q1 is not enough

22

4

Microsoft and Apple Double Down

19

5

The Farmer Who Sold Millions in Fake Organic Seeds Is Now Headed to Prison

15

6

There’s a better way to get smarter than brain-training games

6

7

Lobbyists Are Behind the Rise in Corporate Profits

4

8

Container Usage Survey – June 2016 by Kubernetes.io

4

9

Welcome to Earth, 2200 AD: pop 500M, temp 180°F

3

10

Session isolation in Headless Chrome

3

Science News [?]

1

Antarctic CO2 Hit 400 PPM for First Time in 4M Years

462

2

AI produces realistic sounds that fool humans

296

3

Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (2012)

187

4

Copyrighting DNA Is a Bad Idea

157

5

Blood of world’s oldest woman hints at limits of life

153

6

Ketamine lifts depression via a byproduct of its metabolism

125

7

Inspired by Genius: How a Mathematician Found His Way

117

8

A Brief History of Bog Butter

72

9

Computer model matches humans at predicting how objects move

63

10

Old World metals traded on Alaska coast hundreds of years before Europeans

56

Social [?]

1

The case for memory-mapped GPU assets

360

2

Statistics for Hackers [video]

338

3

Internet Archive is suffering from a DDoS attack

112

4

Building a SuperH-compatible CPU from scratch [video]

102

5

How The Commodore 64 Memory Map Worked [video]

91

6

Gawker Media files for bankruptcy

73

7

Unique fingerprint due to 3-year-old bug in Firefox

69

8

Facebook Bug Bounties – Unofficial Treasure Map

65

9

SpaceX: Eutelsat/ABS Mission Hosted Webcast

56

10

“I am quitting Twitter for a while”

31

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Git 2.9 released

357

2

GitHub Security Update: Reused Password Attack

250

3

Cayley – An open-source graph database

167

4

OS X DNS cache reset script

125

5

Deep Reinforcement Learning Using Keras and OpenAI Gym

94

6

Pin repositories to your GitHub profile

82

7

Bash aliases for Harry Potter enthusiasts

69

8

Information Theory for Machine Learning [pdf]

55

9

41

10

Structureshrink: Structured shrinking of unknown file formats

37

Wikipedia [?]

1

Works Records System – A multi-user online programmable spreadsheet in 1974

75

2

McCollough effect

32

3

Feynmann and Calculus, an anecdote

7

4

RIP Apple Ping: officially closed the service on September 30, 2012

5

5

Ulnar Nerve Entrapment (numbness in pink and ring finger due to desk edge)

5

6

3

7

Spurious Languages

3

8

2

9

Schengen Routing

2

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

A deportation at the UK border

449

2

Links sent privately through Facebook Messenger can be read by anyone

369

3

How to spy on a Ruby program

229

4

We Hired a Blind Coder

218

5

A Simple Explanation of How Image Recognition Works

166

6

Should you be scared of Unix signals?

155

7

Introducing Runway, a distributed systems design tool

153

8

The way Upwork treats loyal freelancers

136

9

Using ltrace to debug a memory leak

97

10

Confessions of a $20K bootcamp graduate

87

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?

3

2

What does document.domain = document.domain do?

2

Substack [?]