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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
929
2
Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
652
3
Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren't Private, Court Rules
636
4
Writing a video chat application from the ground up, part 1
590
5
PostgreSQL Exercises
576
6
See the things you’ve searched for, visited, and watched on Google services
559
7
Rudolf Kálmán Has Died
549
8
Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
537
9
Servo Nightly Builds Available
522
10
Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C#
509
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (July 2016)
566
2
What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
382
3
What should I do with my old laptop?
139
4
Who wants to be hired? (July 2016)
122
5
Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects
122
6
Any advice for switching from self-employment back to employee?
81
7
How do you manage you money?
75
8
Rust or Swift for system programming?
61
9
What interesting software did you work on in the past?
50
10
Where is the next Shenzhen?
50
Top Show HN
1
OpenGL in super slow motion – visualising Z-buffering
276
2
Randomly generated metal riffs using Web Audio API and React
275
3
AutoMicroFarm Is Ready for Shipping
203
4
I Design with Code
149
5
An Alternative Web Interface for YouTube
110
6
I built my wedding website using Polymer
104
7
Readsure – Pass a quiz that shows you read an article before commenting
104
8
Realtime emotion tracking in JavaScript
69
9
Big-O Poster [pdf]
55
10
API Marketplace for Developers by Developers
54
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Silent Circle removes warrant canary
226
2
Security researcher gets threats over Amazon review
210
3
How AWS came to be
207
4
The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps router from 2005 still makes millions for Linksys
138
5
How Oracle’s business as usual is threatening to kill Java
119
6
End is nigh for Rosetta: Spacecraft will meet its end by crashing into a comet
116
7
Software faults raise questions about the validity of brain studies
110
8
The tyranny of messaging and notifications
90
9
The land grab for farm data
86
10
Google twists the knife, asks for sanctions against Oracle attorney
78
News [?]
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No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down
471
2
Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed
351
3
NASA Data Shows Toxic Air Threat Choking Indian Subcontinent
305
4
How 'Advantage Players' Game the Casinos
299
5
Helpless to Prevent Cancer? Actually, Quite a Bit Is in Your Control
239
6
Amazon Is Quietly Eliminating List Prices
216
7
How a team of young people helped rebuild healthcare.gov (2015)
215
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Trust in Government Is Collapsing Around the World
194
9
Zenefits Loses Over Half of Its Value
191
10
He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I Was Willing to Listen
189
Scientific publications [?]
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Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion that Regulates to Ensure Protection (2012)
247
2
Integer percentages as fingerprints of electoral falsification
225
3
Live coverage of Juno's Jupiter Orbit Insertion [video]
165
4
EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”
104
5
Automated to Death (2009)
100
6
DeepMath – Deep Sequence Models for Premise Selection
79
7
'Quantum' bounds not so quantum after all
51
8
Dudley Buck's Forgotten Cryotron Computer (2014)
48
9
Relative Likelihood for Life as a Function of Cosmic Time
24
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Probing quantum phenomena in tiny transistors
15
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Apple Open-Sources its Compression Algorithm LZFSE
340
2
Safari Tech Preview 8 achieves 100% ES6 support
87
3
IonMonkey now has Scalar Replacement and Branch Pruning optimizations
65
4
Betrayed by a bitfield (2012)
62
5
TP-Link Loses Control Over Router Configuration Domain
34
6
Why we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack
19
7
Inside Look at Key Applications on China’s New Top Supercomputer
7
8
Dreaming of 100 Exaflops in 2030
5
9
Uber Argentina Enlists Bitcoin Partner in Fight to Continue Service
4
10
Scientology Seeks Captive Converts via Google Maps, Drug Rehab Centers
4
Tech blogs [?]
1
Don Eyles Walks Us Through the Lunar Module Source Code
235
2
The Dual-Core, ARM-Powered Commodore 64
124
3
New Mac malware in the wild – can steal data, execute code, control webcam
14
4
Build a 3D Printer Workhorse, Not an Amazing Disappointment Machine
9
5
Apple's response to Spotify's complaints
3
6
Patents: The Next Open Access Fight
3
7
42,300 Transistor Megaprocessor Is Complete
3
8
The Evolution of HDDs in the Near Future: Speaking with Seagate CTO, Mark Re
2
9
New Mac malware in the wild, Backdoor.MAC.Elanor
2
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EFF and ACLU Opposes Dangerous Model Employee and Student Privacy Legislation
1
FAANG+ [?]
1
Devastating Amazon hardware review of a wireless power switch
118
2
Create and Deploy a Chat Bot to AWS Lambda in Five Minutes
10
3
Amazon.com: Fun Finds
7
4
The Nature of Computation
4
5
Amazon's Alexa Can Now Place Prime Orders
3
6
Skype can use your public data as advertising
3
7
AWS Lambda Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney)
2
8
AWS Lumberyard Adds VR Support (Oculus Rift and HTC Vive) and HDR Support
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics
284
2
How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Comedy Sensation
145
3
Can Capitalism Be Redeemed?
19
4
UK Bill Introduces 10 Year Prison Sentence for Online Pirates
15
5
UK Bill Introduces 10 Year Prison Sentence for Online Pirates
5
6
Tesla driver dead in Autopilot crash earlier credited the system for saving him
5
7
List of Startup case studies
5
8
How monotheists modelled God on a harem keeping alpha-male
4
9
Wiley uses fake DOIs on its website as a crawl trap
4
10
SolarCity modules last 35+ years – 40% longer than industry average
3
Science News [?]
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Let’s make peer review scientific
279
2
Why Feynman Diagrams Are So Important
255
3
Rats free each other from cages (2011)
222
4
The “Internet of Things” Needs a Fix
85
5
ArXiv preprint server plans multimillion-dollar overhaul
80
6
Can Topology Prevent Another Financial Crash?
79
7
Second Careers of the Healthy Elderly
54
8
Welcome to the CRISPR Zoo
48
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Brian Eno Plays the Universe
36
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Genetic link between family SES and children's educational achievement
33
Social [?]
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Minnesota woman broadcasts police stop and shooting on Facebook Live
138
2
Snowden on FBI's Clinton Email Investigation
98
3
WebAssembly: A New Compiler Target for the Web [video]
62
4
Xerox Alto Restoration Part 3: drive ok and First boot attempt [video]
61
5
My roommate received this email from a Microsoft recruiter today
36
6
The Most Dangerous Town on the Internet – Where Cybercrime Goes to Hide
19
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A Redditor got CO poisoned (2015)
18
8
Comparing HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 on Aircraft WiFi [video]
13
9
Juan Benet's Stanford Seminar on IPFS
12
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How Snapchat's filters work
10
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
652
2
CSS is powerful, you can do a lot of things without JS
493
3
Felony – An open-source PGP keychain
469
4
ThinkPwn: System Management Mode arbitrary code execution
338
5
Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?
255
6
Lists of JavaScript methods which you can use natively
249
7
Freely available programming books
239
8
Say_what: Using speech-to-text to fully check out during conference calls
235
9
Lily Programming Language
210
10
Carp: a statically typed lisp, without a GC, for high performance applications
196
Wikipedia [?]
1
Wireworld
290
2
Closed-eye hallucination
54
3
ICBMs in Greenland: Project Iceworm (1960)
8
4
List of helicopter prison escapes
5
5
Feeder of lice
5
6
Orthostatic hypotension: fainting when you stand up
5
7
Visual snow
4
8
Kairos
3
9
Comic Sans History
2
10
Proposed redefinition of SI base units
2
Blogs [?]
1
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
929
2
Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
537
3
Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack?
427
4
The Mesmerizing Architecture of Mosques (2014)
175
5
Building my $1,200 Hackintosh
117
6
I tried to watch Game of Thrones legally in France, Here is what happened
105
7
The Zen of Y Combinator
59
8
An Erlang WAT-story about guards and guards
52
9
Mozilla Context Graph: It’s time to bring context back to the web
50
10
Why companies who don’t embrace remote working are wrong
46
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?
112
2
Extend the life of threads with synchronization (C++11)
16
3
HTML5 Selenium Automation: How to Access the Shadow DOM Tree
3
4
Why is C so fast, and why aren't other languages as fast or faster?
2
5
Has anyone else faced this?
2
6
Purpose of Trigraph sequences in C++?
1
7
When compressing and encrypting, should I compress first, or encrypt first?
1
8
How to convert data:image/svg+xml;base64 data from natural image?
1
9
SO: did Google play services update cause samsung permission issue?
1
Substack [?]