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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

UK votes to leave EU

3125

2

The Daredevil Camera

1302

3

The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields

911

4

889

5

Announcing .NET Core 1.0

717

6

Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook

670

7

Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more

664

8

Investing Returns on the S&P500

618

9

Languages Which Almost Became CSS

586

10

How to Compromise the Enterprise Endpoint

553

Top Ask HN

1

Just got an innocent man out of prison. What now?

510

2

What is your go-to example for a good REST API?

401

3

Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

247

4

Best place to learn GPU programing?

155

5

What is your best advice for a developer to write better code?

146

6

How do I stop myself being toxic?

119

7

Did anyone's life ever gotten more comfortable after accepting funding?

96

8

Good software for interactive exploration of quantum/particle physics?

86

9

How to reconcile “teach everyone to code” and “only hire the top 1%”?

75

10

Looking for a Book on Cellular Automata

63

Top Show HN

1

Anime.js – Polyvalent JavaScript Animation Engine

283

2

“OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands

215

3

Monkberry – a JavaScript library for building web user interfaces

115

4

Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances

95

5

Instant alerts for applications in distress

79

6

Improved passive TCP/IP geolocation

78

7

My side project – Laps – Client, Project and Time management

70

8

Telegram bot with filters to read Hacker News

66

9

Scale is an API for human tasks

57

10

Min, the world's fastest CSS framework

52

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

A ZFS developer’s analysis of Apple’s new APFS file system

384

2

Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed

297

3

US Customs wants to collect social media account names at the border

234

4

From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story

176

5

YC set to launch one-year minimum income pilot project to figure out logistics

176

6

Judge Says IP Address Doesn't Prove Anything in Piracy Case

159

7

iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra: Networking for the Modern Internet

123

8

A Scenario Where Brexit Does Not Actually Happen

100

9

The European Union is updating its electronic signature laws

92

10

Tesla driver killed in crash with Autopilot active, NHTSA investigating

86

News [?]

1

UK votes to leave EU

3125

2

The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it

413

3

David Cameron announces resignation

403

4

NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (2013)

386

5

Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, but not to start one

342

6

Spanish authorities raid Google offices over tax

333

7

Caltech glassblower's retirement has scientists sighing

301

8

To Compete Better, States Are Trying to Curb Noncompete Pacts

300

9

Volkswagen's U.S. diesel emissions settlement to cost $15B

292

10

Adnan Syed, of ‘Serial’ Podcast, Gets a Retrial in Murder Case

256

Scientific publications [?]

1

On the Complexity and Performance of Parsing with Derivatives

182

2

The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes

108

3

The Godzilla of Solar Ovens

82

4

Custom Processor Speeds Up Robot Motion Planning

76

5

Neglected channels could add Wi-Fi capacity

69

6

Fansmitter: Acoustic Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers

60

7

Entropy/IP: Uncovering Structure in IPv6 Addresses

53

8

Clandestine black hole may represent new population

47

9

Human Connectome Project Updates

45

10

Three Ways to Build an Artificial Kidney

37

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes

105

2

Slicing into a Point-of-Sale Botnet

77

3

Skimmers Found at Walmart: A Closer Look

71

4

Difficulties in Saving Moore’s Law

55

5

Transport-level protocols in user space – your own private TCP

20

6

Scientology Seeks Captive Converts via Google Maps, Drug Rehab Centers

18

7

14

8

The complete guide to Go net/http timeouts

12

9

Stripe: UI components for iOS

11

10

AMD Radeon RX 480 Review on Linux

8

Tech blogs [?]

1

Florida Man Sues Apple for $10+ Billion, Says iOS Devices Copy His 1992 Drawings

8

2

EFF to Copyright Office: No New Barriers to DMCA Safe Harbors

7

3

AMD RX-480 Preview

6

4

Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display

5

5

Fail: The 7B Dollar Overflow

5

6

EFF to Copyright Office: No New Barriers to DMCA Safe Harbors

4

7

Florida Man Sues Apple for $10+ Billion, Says iOS Devices Copy His 1992 Drawings

4

8

Racial Bias and Arrest Tech

3

9

Taking Killer Robots Seriously

3

10

AMD Radeon RX Polaris 480 Review

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

245

2

Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions

232

3

Elastic Network Adapter – High Performance Network Interface for EC2

82

4

Getting Started with C#

50

5

Worldwide Delivery of Amazon SNS Messages via SMS

17

6

Elastic Network Adapter – High Performance Network Interface for Amazon EC2

6

7

Efficient and Precise Interactive Hand Tracking

4

8

Amazon Prime offers ad-subsidised unlocked phones

3

9

Amazon Launchpad: New Products from Today's Brightest Startups

2

10

Peter Norvig and Paul Graham Reviews of the SICP Book

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Proposed New Go GC: Transaction-Oriented Collector

203

2

Creative Computing Magazine

174

3

The link between language and cognition is a red herring

158

4

The Brexit Possibility

113

5

Mosquitos as Weapons

43

6

The Strange History of Microfilm

41

7

A Night and a Day in Tonopah, Nevada

31

8

At This Lost Alpine Resort, You Could Ski Among California's Orange Groves

30

9

If Your Argument Is Based on Economics, You’ve Already Lost

11

10

How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

9

Science News [?]

1

The problem with reinforced concrete

288

2

The Oracle of Arithmetic

112

3

Doctors issue warning about effects of LED streetlights on health

75

4

Christo's Floating Piers

71

5

When Good Waves Go Rogue (2014)

68

6

Traffic Wouldn’t Jam If Drivers Behaved Like Ants

40

7

Chronic fatigue syndrome is in your gut, not your head

29

8

The Surprising History of the Infographic

29

9

The Physics of Tea Leaves Floating Upstream

18

10

ArXiv preprint server plans multimillion-dollar overhaul

18

Social [?]

1

Gag Order on Lavabit’s Levison Lifted

284

2

Ten Year Old Girl Gets Accepted as Paris Innovation Fellow

249

3

Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid

241

4

Donald Knuth: Surreal Numbers [video]

156

5

Xerox Alto Restoration Part 2: Firing up the monitor [video]

107

6

“I have a copy of a Terrorism Blacklist. Should it be shared?”

73

7

How hackers hack you using simple social engineering [video]

60

8

Nothing but radio silence from DigitalOcean while 38k sites remain down

37

9

Android N is Nougat

35

10

11 Years of Cassini Saturn Photos [video]

34

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Investing Returns on the S&P500

618

2

A book series on JavaScript

479

3

D3 v4.0.0 released

438

4

“Oculus removed the headset check from the DRM in Oculus Runtime 1.5”

272

5

Startup incorporation checklist

268

6

Making open source data more available

254

7

GitHub's 2015 Transparency Report

194

8

Learn JavaScript and artificial intelligence in a fun, interactive way

174

9

PowerNex: a kernel written in the D Programming Language

130

10

Mac CLI – OS X command line tools for developers

122

Wikipedia [?]

1

87

2

Norway–European Union relations

50

3

5

4

5

5

5

6

Toxoplasma gondii – 30 to 50% of humanity has a brain parasite

3

7

United States National Radio Quiet Zone

3

8

3

9

Mozart´s Requiem: the autograph and the missing corner

3

10

Indigo children

2

Blogs [?]

1

Inappropriate Uses of Google Trends

488

2

How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Internet providers

327

3

Dunning-Kruger and other memes (2015)

243

4

Brexit wins. An illusion dies

129

5

I renounced my US citizenship

128

6

ChatBots and the future of Apps in India

117

7

Why Infinite Scrolling is probably a bad idea (2015)

96

8

A Natural Language User Interface is just a User Interface

88

9

Help Me to Die, O Lord

79

10

Extreme Methods for Breaking Bad Habits

55

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden features of Python

17

2

Is there a Python constant for Unicode whitespace?

2

3

Dynamically load a library at runtime from an Android app

2

4

C++, STL or Qt containers?

2

5

How do I invert RGB hex values by contrast in PHP?

1

6

Why auto_increment doesn't increase by one in a MariaDB cluster

1

Substack [?]