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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Tell HN: New features and a moderator

2381

2

Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years

1126

3

Pokemon Go is a huge security risk

780

4

Shipping Rust code in Firefox

748

5

The Fight for the “Right to Repair”

704

6

Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol

633

7

Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

627

8

Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s

582

9

Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console

542

10

Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun

535

Top Ask HN

1

Single Person startup/company?

390

2

How do you create productive habits?

253

3

What's your favorite way to save money?

164

4

Single-person company exit

163

5

What is the emerging state of the art in fuzzing techniques?

125

6

What to do after failing final interviews twice?

103

7

How do you decide for a backend language?

98

8

Stripe or Braintree?

68

9

GitHub vs. Gitlab?

65

10

What are your favorite books?

57

Top Show HN

1

Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X

388

2

Free and open source page builder for WordPress

202

3

Dependency CI – Continuous testing for your dependencies

198

4

Polybit – Build, Deploy, Host Node.js APIs

151

5

Turn a markdown document into an interactive tutorial

148

6

The SC4-HSM, a fully open USB hardware secure module

137

7

A realtime dashboard for Keras neural nets

87

8

A minimal setup for React/ES6 sites with a Firebase back end

59

9

Multi-GPU Reinforcement Learning in Tensorflow for OpenAI Gym

58

10

A NLP Library for Matching Parse Trees

46

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

384

2

Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation

312

3

Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

263

4

Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster

243

5

How Uber secretly investigated its legal foes and got caught

168

6

We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert

166

7

Yoshi (YC S16) launches “set it and forget it” vehicle re-fueling service in SF

156

8

Learning to code as a 30-year-old kid with Apple’s Swift Playgrounds

143

9

PewDiePie and other YouTubers took money from Warner Bros

89

10

Peter Thiel will speak at GOP convention

88

News [?]

1

How we're scammed into eating phony food

439

2

U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating Labs for Two Years

418

3

Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong?

346

4

How Trees Calm Us Down

345

5

A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are in Decline

307

6

Hedge Fund Wants to Use Atomic Clocks to Beat High-Speed Traders

290

7

'Pokémon GO' Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android

242

8

Brexit Is a Lehman Moment for European Banks

201

9

Venezuela Refuses to Default, and Few People Seem to Understand Why

194

10

UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears

188

Scientific publications [?]

1

Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins

281

2

Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music

213

3

NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth for 2nd Time in a Year

199

4

Critical Behavior from Deep Dynamics: A Hidden Dimension in Natural Language

175

5

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View

173

6

Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification

169

7

Quantity discounts on a virtual good: results of a massive pricing experiment

124

8

Item2Vec: Neural Item Embedding for Collaborative Filtering

103

9

Are we getting enough sulfur in our diet? (2007)

52

10

Tesla Autopilot Crash: Why We Should Worry About a Single Death

49

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Why we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack

254

2

Replacing Google with microG

236

3

Porting Python to GRUB: “Networking without an operating system”

186

4

Canonical’s Snap: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

55

5

WWDC16 Video Transcripts

55

6

Confessions of a bootcamp graduate

54

7

Password Sharing Is Now a Crime

30

8

More data, more data

10

9

Password Sharing Is Now a Crime

8

10

When HPC Becomes Normal

7

Tech blogs [?]

1

Use Someone Else's Password, Go to Jail (EFF)

22

2

Hundreds of Thousands Call on Leader Pelosi to Block the Undemocratic TPP

20

3

Apple officially discontinues Thunderbolt Display

8

4

The Dubious Claim of a World Helium Shortage

8

5

Cracking the Sega Saturn After 20 Years

6

6

EFF Joins Stars to Rock Against the TPP and Finally Defeat It

5

7

EFF Takes on the Eleventh HOPE

5

8

Reverse Engineering Blood Glucose Monitors

4

9

'Pokémon Go' Now Considered 'The Biggest Mobile Game in U.S. History'

4

10

The Samsung 850 EVO 4TB SSD Review

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS

262

2

Preview the Python Serverless Microframework for AWS

19

3

Amazon WorkMail

7

4

Python Serverless Microframework for AWS

6

5

Help Secure Container-Enabled Applications with IAM Roles for ECS Tasks

5

6

Microsoft's Project Malmo

4

7

Magic Wand customer reviews

3

8

Preview the Python Serverless Microframework for AWS

3

9

Meet the dogs of Amazon

3

10

Amazon SimpleDB – Simple Database Service

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Coursera courses preserved by Archive Team

513

2

Scottish Tech Map

140

3

Russian Government Seize Private Internet Access' Servers

120

4

Why is the Iranian government opening the world’s biggest bookstore?

56

5

Autopilot not on during crash in PA, Musk says it would have prevented accident

21

6

Has Silicon Valley destroyed the original hacker ethos ?

7

7

Megaupload 2.0 to Launch with Original Megaupload User Database

5

8

A Technical Glitch

4

9

How to Handle Your First Meeting with a New Boss

4

10

Tesla Model S driver and 8-yr-old son survive 80mph rollover truck crash

3

Science News [?]

1

The Fight for the “Right to Repair”

704

2

Hyperuniformity Found In Birds, Math And Physics

174

3

Three Puzzles Inspired by Ramanujan

159

4

Germany enlists machine learning to boost renewables revolution

99

5

Musical preferences mainly shaped by a person’s cultural upbringing

93

6

In Search of Time’s Origin (2014)

45

7

How to stay anonymous online

37

8

This Is Your Brain on Silence

33

9

A Bird’s-Eye View of Nature’s Hidden Order

15

10

Why We Should Let the Pantheon Crack

13

Social [?]

1

Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years

1126

2

C++14 for the Commodore 64 [video]

106

3

Why it's important to optimise the tricky parts of Ruby [video]

86

4

TempleOS Flight Simulator and FPS Video

43

5

Slow Motion Video of a Speed Solve of a Rubik's Cube

42

6

Apple unencrypts more of iOS 10 in Beta 2

28

7

Shezhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary)

27

8

I Am Werner Herzog, the Filmmaker. AMA

20

9

Sega Saturn CD – Cracked after 20 years

14

10

How do Erlang processes work internally?

12

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Corrode: C to Rust translator written in Haskell

387

2

Elixir 1.3.1 released

299

3

Rustls: new, modern TLS library written in Rust

287

4

Avalonia – A multi-platform .NET UI framework

223

5

Mozilla Fathom: Find meaning in the web

192

6

WebAssembly Specification Prototype

179

7

List of open source iOS apps

168

8

Reviews of neural network research papers for art generation

160

9

WhatsApp Blocking Encrypted Calls to All Saudi Numbers

156

10

Starcraft Html5 project revived on GitHub without all copyrighted materials

150

Wikipedia [?]

1

An Atlas of Fantasy

52

2

Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell

9

3

Snake oil (cryptography)

8

4

Waffle House Index

4

5

The Headington Shark

3

6

3

7

Biophilia hypothesis

2

8

National Radio Quiet Zone [US]

2

9

2

10

Interlingua – Wikipedia, le encyclopedia libere

2

Blogs [?]

1

Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer

534

2

Tech job listings are down 40% on several job boards

296

3

Linux debugging tools I love

279

4

Airtel is sniffing and censoring CloudFlare’s traffic in India

258

5

Security Flaw in OS X displays all keychain passwords in plain text

118

6

Emails from a CEO Who Just Has a Few Changes to the Website

115

7

A Glimpse into the Apollo Guidance Computer

114

8

Composability: From Callbacks to Categories in ES6

113

9

Actually, Slack really sucks

94

10

Stop using gmail.com for things you care about

83

Stackoverflow [?]

1

New features in C++17

15

2

A 2011 stackoverflow post on Diablo AI, updated with technological advances

3

3

No visible cause for “Unexpected token ILLEGAL”

2

4

Why is char[] preferred over String for passwords in Java?

2

5

How to scale Docker containers in production

1

6

How to access values from 's Closure in Chrome Developer tool's Watch panel?

1

Substack [?]