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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments
1043
2
Life is Short
970
3
Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
924
4
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Planet Beyond Pluto
883
5
Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity
798
6
Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation
778
7
Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
667
8
I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
639
9
The NICAM Codec replacement project
519
10
The Rails Doctrine
497
Top Ask HN
1
What sites do you use to find contract work?
358
2
Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?
263
3
In a microservice architecture, how do you handle managing secrets?
134
4
Where are all the non-web jobs?
79
5
Getting back into programming with a hacker’s mindset?
75
6
Why is Azure so expensive?
69
7
I've got one user. What's the best way to get more?
66
8
How to call functions and do basic math in Clojure and core.logic?
36
9
Are any startups working on text-to-speech?
36
10
What book changed your life in 2015?
28
Top Show HN
1
Super Mail Forward, an HTML email that evolves as you forward it
454
2
Nativefier – Wrap any web page natively
162
3
OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Source Software
150
4
Chatlio – Live chat with your web visitors directly from Slack
136
5
IPalyzer – Analyze any IP for location, RDNS, blacklisting
123
6
An open-source ultrasound imaging dev kit side project
122
7
CMS.js – Fully Client-Side JavaScript Site Generator
117
8
Detect upsampling in images
113
9
Python to C++14 transpiler
96
10
Git Draw allows you to draw pictures directly into your GitHub heat map
91
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
408
2
Docker Acquires Unikernel Systems as It Looks Beyond Containers
279
3
It's time to build your own router
185
4
Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform
178
5
Patreon Gains $30M Series B Funding to Support Growth
124
6
IBM Acquires UStream, Forms New Cloud Video Unit
84
7
Elder Care Startup Honor Makes Contractors Full-Time Workers with Equity
82
8
Project Abacus: Google's plan to kill the password via biometric tracking
81
9
The complications of nutrition science
62
10
Baidu’s AI Team Releases Key Deep-Learning Code
60
News [?]
1
The NICAM Codec replacement project
519
2
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years
493
3
Iran Complies with Nuclear Deal; Sanctions Are Lifted
264
4
Why London Underground stopped people walking up the escalators
263
5
Silicon Valley and Black Coders: Howard University fights to join the tech boom
257
6
Why Are Corporations Hoarding Trillions?
241
7
NSA Chief Stakes Out Pro-Encryption Position, in Contrast to FBI
230
8
SpaceX Falcon rocket explodes on landing after delivering satellite to space
222
9
All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America’s white working class
213
10
Japan: Tardigrade reproduces after 30 years on ice
177
Scientific publications [?]
1
Jewish problems (2011)
120
2
Recurrent Neural Nets for Speech Synthesis
88
3
Research backs human role in extinction of mammoths, other mammals
47
4
We Will End Disability by Becoming Cyborgs (2014)
28
5
Ronnie Nader: Ecuador’s One-Man Space Program
26
6
KIC 8462852 Faded at an Average 0.165+-0.013 Magnitudes/Century from 1890-1989
15
7
Combining Markov Random Fields and Convolutional Neural Nets for Image Synthesis
4
8
Too good to be true: when overwhelming evidence fails to convince
4
9
The Spreading of Misinformation Online [pdf]
4
10
Quantum violation of the pigeonhole principle and nature of quantum correlations
3
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Twitter’s Silence on State-Sponsored Attacks
85
2
Linux EBPF Off-CPU Flame Graph
66
3
Sandboxing with Firejail
53
4
eBPF stack trace hack
37
5
Automated image testing with Verified Pixel
19
6
Guy Who Tried to Frame Me in Heroin Plot Pleads Guilty to Cybercrime Charges
14
7
Go coverage with external tests
9
8
Steam on Linux Hits 1800 Games Available
7
9
OpenSSH and the dangers of unused code
6
10
Preventing Malicious Request Loops
5
Tech blogs [?]
1
EFF Pries More Information on Zero Days from the Government
124
2
Sort Faster with FPGAs
86
3
Microchip to Acquire Atmel for $3.56B
75
4
J.C. Bose and the Invention of Radio
58
5
Ike Had a Dream, and It Unfortunately Came True
20
6
California Introduces Bill to Ban Strong Encryption in Smartphones
9
7
Shmoocon 2016: Reverse Engineering Cheap Chinese Radio Firmware
6
8
Wolfenstein in 600 lines of awk
6
9
Fair Use Economics: How Fair Use Makes Innovation Possible and Profitable
5
10
What’s in a tool? A case for Made in USA
4
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
350
2
AWS Certificate Manager – Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS – AWS Official Blog
31
3
Music Memos
10
4
CloudWatch Events – Track and Respond to Changes to Your AWS Resources
9
5
105" HDTV for $113,861.81 on Amazon
7
6
In the Works – AWS Region in Canada
6
7
Apple Opening Europe’s First iOS App Development Center in Italy
4
8
Amazon Wind Farm Fowler Ridge Is Live
4
9
Amazon Introduces Slack Integration for AWS Lambda
3
10
Amazon Wind Farm Fowler Ridge Is Now Live
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
An introduction to Machine Learning
302
2
Cars and the Future
42
3
It’s time to claim your piece of the final frontier
25
4
Want to Be an Outstanding Leader? Keep a Journal
13
5
The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ
7
6
Node.js Foundation Core Technical Committee Meeting on Chakra
7
7
Google self-driving cars would have caused 10 accidents in 2015
6
8
The Struggles, Chapter 1 by Michael O. Church
6
9
Why California Is Such a Talent Magnet
5
10
Creative blocks (2012)
5
Science News [?]
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Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all
172
2
Why boredom is anything but boring
110
3
If being too clean makes us sick, why isn’t getting dirty the solution?
97
4
Grisly find suggests humans inhabited Arctic 45,000 years ago
90
5
The Secrets of Sherlock’s Mind Palace
76
6
‘Locked-in’ people show signs of awareness when faced with sums
72
7
Yoda Is Dead but Star Wars’ Dubious Lessons Live On
70
8
Speed reading promises are too good to be true
69
9
Tricks That Make Virtual Reality Feel Real
68
10
An Ancient, Brutal Massacre May Be the Earliest Evidence of War
66
Social [?]
1
Breakup, as captured by my fitbit
251
2
Andrei Alexandrescu: Writing Fast Code [video]
172
3
The Amiga Demoscene Mixtape Vol. 1 [video]
132
4
How jumbo jet engines are made [video]
84
5
Nadim Kobeissi on why he left Peerio
63
6
Demonstrating the pantorouter (2010) [video]
42
7
Object-Oriented Programming is Bad
26
8
Twitter down?
25
9
Chess has just been banned in Saudi Arabia
19
10
Object-Oriented Programming is Bad
15
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Enable Node.js to Run with Microsoft's ChakraCore Engine
346
2
An open letter of gratitude to GitHub
248
3
Is Express.js dying?
183
4
A critique of "How to C in 2016"
157
5
Once upon a time, memory allocators made sense
142
6
STOKE – a stochastic optimizer for x86_64 assembly
129
7
blip.strongloop.com is dead – what is this?
126
8
Tcpdive – A TCP Performance Profiling Tool
113
9
Sailor, a native and portable container system for NetBSD and Mac OS X
109
10
SVGnest: Efficient packing of irregular shapes with JavaScript
108
Wikipedia [?]
1
Wikipedia Turns 15
441
2
Flyby anomaly
153
3
Plankalkül
56
4
A History of the World in 100 Objects (2010)
53
5
Homoiconicity
20
6
Chaparral Cars
8
7
Vieta jumping
5
8
WinFS – Microsoft's abandoned Database filesystem
3
9
List of unsolved problems in statistics
3
10
Bremermann's limit
3
Blogs [?]
1
Life is Short
970
2
I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
639
3
Introducing Apex – Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda
234
4
Is Apple Using Swift?
142
5
Good Design
141
6
What I Learned from Creating a High School Social Network
132
7
What Working at Facebook Has Taught Me About Design Critique
125
8
A reply to Russell Okung
110
9
How to Leverage Technical Debt
102
10
Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story
92
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Is Emmet available specifically for C#?
1
Substack [?]