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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Why I’m Suing the US Government
1855
2
Master Plan, Part Deux
1851
3
A practical security guide for web developers
894
4
Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem
862
5
I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court
779
6
Mr Robot S02E01 easter egg
639
7
HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal
630
8
When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)
626
9
Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work
521
10
Vim GIFs
489
Top Ask HN
1
Insider history of the demise of Kodak?
341
2
Considerations when asked to write a book?
288
3
Describing skills and competencies in a resume?
222
4
Interview tomorrow – How to learn whether an org is “healthy”?
191
5
What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?
115
6
Is it difficult for non-Chinese to work in China?
104
7
How did NASA make reliable software if they didn't invent unit tests?
98
8
Anyone moving their company out of the UK following Brexit?
86
9
How should the CLI be designed today?
85
10
Laptop that doesn't suck
59
Top Show HN
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Riko – A Python stream processing engine modeled after Yahoo! Pipes
283
2
Material Kit – Free Bootstrap UI Kit Based on Material Design
180
3
Language Evolution Simulation
159
4
Hacking airplane headphones
146
5
Lint for HTTP
138
6
I connected my house lights to video games
127
7
Convert PDF files into structured data
107
8
Read someone else's Twitter timeline
106
9
A console-based editor with Lua support, based on antirez's project
85
10
CC0 Avatar placeholder service
85
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested
378
2
Reddit is still in turmoil
335
3
Dissonant tones sound fine to people not raised on Western music
246
4
France orders Microsoft to stop tracking Windows 10 users
235
5
Twitter now lets anyone request a verified account
160
6
Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room
155
7
Opera browser sold to a Chinese consortium for $600M
151
8
Annoyed at crypto, Brazilian judge orders mobile carriers to block WhatsApp
147
9
What Mailchimp does to make sure emails get delivered
136
10
Microsoft reports $22.6B in Q4 revenue
128
News [?]
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Coup attempt underway in Turkey
453
2
SoftBank Group Nears Deal to Buy ARM Holdings
357
3
Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones from Betraying Owners
296
4
ARM founder says Softbank deal is 'sad day' for UK tech
281
5
SpaceX Picks Rocket for First Relaunch
237
6
Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI
233
7
Is full-time work bad for our brains?
227
8
China is challenging the idea that censorship thwarts online innovation
216
9
Saudi Ties to 9/11 Detailed in Documents Suppressed Since 2002
201
10
The Fake Factory That Pumped Out Real Money
200
Scientific publications [?]
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A Wait-Free Stack
281
2
The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014)
128
3
Quintuple: a Python 5-qubit quantum computer simulator
115
4
Researchers blur the line between classical and quantum physics
82
5
The Mythos of Model Interpretability
56
6
Researchers chip away at Smale's 7th unsolved problem in mathematics
53
7
New Perspectives on the Active IPv4 Address Space
25
8
MRI machine at the nanoscale breaks world records
5
9
Tesla working on Autopilot radar changes after crash
5
10
How Charles Kao beat Bell Labs to the fiber optic revolution
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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Reducing Adobe Flash Usage in Firefox
235
2
Ethereum Executes Blockchain Hard Fork to Return DAO Funds
8
3
10 Tools to Help Remote Web Developers Collaborate with Their Team
8
4
Ask Some HTTP/2 Pros the Hard Questions
5
5
MPI and Scalable Distributed Machine Learning
4
6
Google Cloud Natural Language API
4
7
China's Triple Play for Pre-Exascale Systems
4
8
How to Run Containers in Production Environments
4
9
Via TheNewStack: NATS Moves to Real-Time Message Streaming with Persistence
3
10
Detecting Spoofed Messages Using Clock Skew
3
Tech blogs [?]
1
Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Little Endian
119
2
DIY Scanning Electron Microscope
87
3
EFF Lawsuit Takes on DMCA Section 1201
81
4
Russia Asks for the Impossible with Its New Surveillance Laws
43
5
Nvidia GTX 1080 video card review
34
6
Apple Helped FBI Identify Alleged Owner of KickassTorrents
29
7
EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases
7
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Deep Dive: EFF's new wordlists for random passphrases
4
9
Russian Decapping Madness
4
10
Binary Keyboard Is the Purest Form of Input Device
4
FAANG+ [?]
1
Microsoft Earnings Release FY16 Q4
3
2
Microsoft Earnings Release FY16 Q4
2
3
Analyzing Genomics Data at Scale Using R, AWS Lambda, and Amazon API Gateway
2
4
Open-Sourcing Amazon’s Career Choice Program
2
5
Systematic Program Design: From Clarity to Efficiency
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything
237
2
Maths notation is needlessly complex [video]
195
3
Great Mathematicians on Math Competitions and "Genius" (2010)
191
4
How yuppies hacked the original hacker ethos (2015)
94
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Micro-targeted digital porn is changing human sexuality
72
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Feds Seize KickassTorrents Domains, Arrest Owner
61
7
Falling for sleep
44
8
Why Did American Cats Get Blamed for So Many Divorces?
35
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Leonardo Da Vinci's “Scuba” Suit
8
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Court: Google and Bing Don't Have to Censor “Torrent” Searches – TorrentFreak
6
Science News [?]
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Fresh work on the mathematics of bicycles in motion
165
2
MIT scientists find weird quantum effects over hundreds of miles
128
3
The Science of the Missing Gravitational Waves
91
4
Why do many corpses found in Europe’s peat bogs show signs of violent death?
81
5
Study opens new realms of light-matter interaction
78
6
The Magic of “Untranslatable” Words
61
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How a word sparked a four-year saga of climate fact-checking
61
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Move Over, Madagascar: Luzon Has the Most Unique Mammals
52
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Turkey Purges Universities After Failed Coup
24
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Chinese scientists to pioneer first human CRISPR trial
21
Social [?]
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“I built a fusion reactor in my bedroom – AMA”
434
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Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
319
3
SpaceX: “First stage landing confirmed at LZ-1”
170
4
Grace Hopper explains nanoseconds [video]
152
5
How to be a wizard programmer
113
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The Product Development Triathlon
100
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Building a CPU from Scratch: Jcore Design Walkthrough [video]
85
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TempleOS Benchmark: VMware, VirtualBox, QEMU
84
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Wikileaks released 294,548 emails from Turkey's ruling political party
65
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Automizy: A.I. for automated drip campaign optimization [video]
61
Github repos and gists [?]
1
A practical security guide for web developers
894
2
Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of PC DOS
468
3
Microsoft REST API Guidelines
339
4
Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux
280
5
On the fly SSL registration and renewal inside Nginx with Let's Encrypt
234
6
Run code inline in Atom using Jupyter kernels
229
7
Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail
202
8
Use LetsEncrypt and CloudFlare to secure any Heroku app for free
142
9
Copy and paste-friendly Go crypto
141
10
Gatsby – A Static Site Generator for React
129
Wikipedia [?]
1
Zenzizenzizenzic
258
2
Superformula
176
3
The Battle of Palmdale
60
4
Bernoulli number
22
5
Why did the chicken cross the road?
7
6
Binary lambda calculus
6
7
List of coups d'état and coup attempts by country
5
8
Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant
4
9
Islamic terrorism as a phenomenon
3
10
AIR-2 Genie Unguided Nuclear Rocket
3
Blogs [?]
1
I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court
779
2
Graal and Truffle could accelerate programming language design
478
3
How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server
423
4
Senior Engineers Reduce Risk
175
5
Cyberpower crushes coup
131
6
Don't replace people, augment them
112
7
One way to make containers network: BGP
92
8
Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring
87
9
I Teach Seniors How to Use Technology
48
10
Open Letter to the Emacs Maintainers
46
Stackoverflow [?]
1
How does Linux's perf utility understand stack traces?
37
2
Why don't people use base128?
2
3
Those clowns over at Dropwizard and the Play Framework can bite a rock
2
4
CTO Wikimedia Foundation
2
5
Why is Chrome version 29 disproportionately popular?
2
6
DxTooltip not working in IE, working in Chrome
1
Substack [?]