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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
1401
2
Defending Our Brand
1346
3
How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters
1181
4
“PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files”
1030
5
Spaceship Generator
850
6
The Monaco Code Editor
724
7
Tesla Makes Offer to Acquire SolarCity
708
8
Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat
667
9
How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)
652
10
The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web
644
Top Ask HN
1
Profitable SaaS? How did you grow your business?
295
2
As a programmer do you have ups and downs and periods of intense doubt?
187
3
One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
171
4
How do you install developer tools on a fresh system?
126
5
What projects are perfect for learning a new language?
85
6
Microsoft Computer Vision API or Google Cloud Vision API?
76
7
If my startup fails, what are the impacts on my future career prospects?
63
8
How do you find a good corp-to-corp tech recruiter?
52
9
How do you take notes other than using paper?
42
10
Any SaaS idea to share?
29
Top Show HN
1
A secure, open source U2F token you can make with $4.5 worth of parts
267
2
A Fortran web framework
227
3
Writing my first interpreter in C for fun
109
4
Why the most popular ways to do good in careers aren’t best
93
5
BBC Good Food Scraper in Go
92
6
ViziCities 0.3 – Framework for geospatial visualisation in the browser
89
7
Dynamic drawing application in Swift, inspired by Bret Victor talk
58
8
Git alias commands and shortcuts
37
9
Redis Java 8 Client and Command Executor
33
10
Find relevant emojis from text on the command-line
29
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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When everything else fails, amateur radio will still be there and thriving
363
2
Twilio opens trading at $23.99 per share
358
3
Apple confirms iOS kernel code left unencrypted intentionally
340
4
Apple launches coding camps for kids in its retail stores
250
5
Study suggests that the “brain training” industry may be a placebo
225
6
Real-time crash reporting tool Sentry raises $9M
214
7
Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
144
8
Sony agrees to pay millions to gamers to settle PS3 Linux debacle
117
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Senate rejects FBI bid for warrantless access to internet browsing histories
111
10
Los Angeles is suing a landlord for evicting tenants to rent units on Airbnb
109
News [?]
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Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat
667
2
EU Referendum Results
427
3
Crispr Wins Key Approval to Fight Cancer in Human Trials
349
4
Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard
341
5
India launches 20 satellites in single mission
283
6
Tech Companies Fight Back After Years of Being Deluged with Secret FBI Requests
263
7
The management myth (2006)
240
8
Think Less, Think Better
231
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American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth
228
10
How Diane Greene Transformed Google's Cloud
219
Scientific publications [?]
1
The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web
644
2
Tinnitus in relation to neck/head muscle tension
161
3
An AI dashcam app designed to rate every driver
150
4
Power plants that convert all of their CO2 emissions into carbon nanotubes
129
5
Solar System Internet on the ISS
76
6
Understanding the Factors That Impact the Popularity of GitHub Repositories
56
7
Are women exiting engineering because men get the challenging assignments?
46
8
Optimization Methods for Large-Scale Machine Learning
38
9
Relax, it'll be 1,500 years before aliens contact us
26
10
DAO May Be Dead After $60M Theft
6
Dev Blogs [?]
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Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects
280
2
CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography Doesn't Exist
268
3
Concrete AI Safety Problems
221
4
OpenAI technical goals
220
5
Twitter Acquires Magic Pony
128
6
Systems Programming in C# by Joe Duffy
92
7
What's New in Swift [video]
81
8
Rise of Darknet Stokes Fear of the Insider
79
9
Checked C – A Safer C/C++ from Microsoft
22
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CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography Doesn't Exist
19
Tech blogs [?]
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FCC to Investigate Raised RF Noise Floor
154
2
A Hacker's Guide to Getting Old
98
3
Espressif Releases ESP8285
84
4
Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer
28
5
We Made the Message Loud and Clear: Stop the Rule 41 Updates
13
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Jewel V. NSA Moves Forward–Time for NSA to Answer Basic Questions
12
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iOS 10 Beta Features Unencrypted Kernel
12
8
A Free and Open Internet Under Assault in Congress
11
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Apple officially discontinues Thunderbolt Display
11
10
Federal Court ruled defendant has no “reasonable expectation of privacy” for PC [pdf]
10
FAANG+ [?]
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Matthew Garrett reviews “smart plug” on Amazon
40
2
SQL Server on Linux
12
3
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports cross-region read replicas
4
4
Technology ventures: From Idea to Enterprise
3
5
Amazon.com now HTTPS by default
3
6
Amazon's Cheapest Kindle Just Got Even Better
3
7
Information for 2016 Apple EBooks Antitrust Settlement
2
8
New Data Security Model for Azure
2
9
All-new Kindle E-reader
2
10
AWS Lambda Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney)
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Telephony, SMS, and MMS APIs
122
2
Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage
118
3
TV Advertising
67
4
Survey of research into the effects of pornography
36
5
Cognitive roadblocks to reconciling merit and diversity
33
6
High IQ Countries Have Less Software Piracy
7
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Are U.S. Millennial Men Just as Sexist as Their Dads?
4
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Elon Musk Suggests Possible Conspiracy Behind Tesla Model S Suspension Claims
4
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Turn Tesla Model S in to a boat
4
10
Rethinking What Masculinity Means at the Office
3
Science News [?]
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In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery
550
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New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity
422
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The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life (2013)
178
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Relativistic-microwave theory of ball lightning
152
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May is Earth's hottest on record
128
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The Inside of a Neutron Star
80
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There are now 234 pregnant women in the US with confirmed Zika virus
73
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Is This New Swim Stroke the Fastest Yet? (2015)
70
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Causal feedbacks in climate change
64
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The Anthropodermic Book Project analyzes books rumored to be bound in human skin
43
Social [?]
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Bought and returned set of WiFi home security cameras; can now watch new owner
454
2
Valve funding VR projects, exclusivity-free, with pre-paid Steam revenue
299
3
Image Hosting on Reddit
191
4
“@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS/PCI/PCC/SD”
155
5
Blackbird, a car rig that creates photo-real CG cars [video]
135
6
Another successful DAO attack recursive split
128
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Canonical asks OVH to pay €1-2/mo/VPS. Else, prohibited to use the mark “Ubuntu”
123
8
The Engineering of a Disposable Diaper [video]
94
9
Introducing SpotMini, a smaller version of the Spot robot [video]
92
10
Data Analysis with Vector Functional Programming [video]
88
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Spaceship Generator
850
2
Phoenix 1.2
404
3
Afl.rs: Fuzzing Rust code with american-fuzzy-lop
155
4
Ruru: native Ruby extensions written in Rust
143
5
DarkForest: Deep learning engine for playing Go from Facebook research
135
6
FasterPath: Faster Pathname Handling for Ruby Written in Rust
131
7
APL compiler targeting a typed array intermediate language
123
8
Simple Windows GUI Application Written in Go
107
9
Inline C/Assembler in Bash
106
10
Yakyak: Electron Chat Client for Google Hangouts
103
Wikipedia [?]
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Lenin was a mushroom
574
2
Low-background steel
159
3
Non-English-based programming languages
57
4
GOES 3 satellite
18
5
List of inventors killed by their own inventions
5
6
“IP over Avian Carriers”
4
7
SW26010
3
8
Younger Dryas
3
9
Sea Hero Quest
2
10
Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
2
Blogs [?]
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“But he does good work.”
415
2
DAOs, Hacks and the Law
216
3
Numerai, a hedge fund built by a community of anonymous data scientists
178
4
Why Kotlin is my next programming language (2015)
133
5
My Google Interview and Lessons Learned
90
6
Visualizing good behavior
43
7
Why Smart Contracts Fail: Undiscovered bugs and what we can do about them
41
8
John Gruber Misses the Point About Lightning Headphones
36
9
So you’re foolish enough to make satire for the App Store
36
10
How to Land an Autonomous Vehicle Job: Coursework
29
Stackoverflow [?]
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How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)
652
2
Elixir vs. Erlang, is Elixir safe bet for my time investment?
91
3
What are gzip and Zip? How are they different and how are they same?
7
4
Efficient way to search a stream for a string
7
5
How are zlib, gzip Zip related? What are is common and How are they different?
5
6
How branch prediction makes sorting a sorted array faster
2
7
A few questions about CRC basics
2
8
Compiling an application for use in highly radioactive environments
2
9
How to return first async task to complete
1
10
Local Storage vs. Cookies
1
Substack [?]