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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why we lost Uber as a user

1234

2

Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay

1195

3

We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated

910

4

Seymour Papert has died

820

5

What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone

625

6

Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production

599

7

Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel

595

8

Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here

586

9

Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby

544

10

Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS

512

Top Ask HN

1

What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

630

2

Who is hiring? (August 2016)

534

3

How do I write a resume after five years of a startup?

245

4

What's on your RSS reader?

148

5

Location-independent entrepreneurs, where do you live and why?

122

6

Do you still play with VR actively?

105

7

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2016)

68

8

Why are sites now breaking login forms into stages (name then password)?

54

9

What are your favorite board games?

48

10

Examples of elegant, non-trivial Smalltalk?

47

Top Show HN

1

Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git

508

2

Sharingbuttons.io – Fast and easy social media sharing buttons

350

3

1M rows/s from Postgres to Python

296

4

Learn Functional Programming Using Haskell

220

5

Apple – Every Second

172

6

Amium – A better way to collaborate

168

7

Neural network trained to generate GitHub repository names

145

8

Gesture controlled Smart Mirror

122

9

Use Windows 10 Apps APIs Directly from Node.js and Electron

113

10

Heartbeat – Transform REST Endpoints to Streaming APIs

111

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple

387

2

Apple announces bug bounty program

344

3

Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M

272

4

Scythe, the most-hyped board game of 2016, delivers

263

5

China has built an elevated bus that travels above car traffic

252

6

Federal health expert drop flossing from health guidelines

159

7

23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced Depression Study

122

8

Why swearing is good for you

118

9

There are limits to 2FA

100

10

How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world

96

News [?]

1

Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay

1195

2

Uber to Sell China Business to Rival Didi After Losing Billions

396

3

America uses stealthy submarines to hack other countries’ systems

363

4

Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor

247

5

Ireland jails three top bankers over 2008 banking meltdown

229

6

Billion-year-old air reveals surprise about oxygen on ancient Earth

207

7

Berlin’s Startup Hub Wants to Prove It’s More Than Just a Scene

205

8

The hidden base that could have ended the world

197

9

Alphabet Loses $859M on 'Moonshots' in 2Q 2016

189

10

Comcast wants to sell your Web history to advertisers

187

Scientific publications [?]

1

Is Earthly life premature from a cosmic perspective?

111

2

Detecting Living Eyeballs During Retinal Scan

43

3

Breakthrough in Silicene Production

29

4

How Lockheed Martin's SPIDER Blimp-Fixing Robot Works

10

5

Breakthrough solar cell captures carbon dioxide, produces burnable fuel

4

6

Interactive: The Top Programming Languages 2016

4

7

Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water

4

8

Moon Express Approved for Private Lunar Landing in 2017

3

9

Reach in and touch objects in videos with 'Interactive Dynamic Video'

3

10

The Biggest Mysteries of Neptune

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Some news from LWN

424

2

What’s Next for Multi-Process Firefox

355

3

The Internet of Onions

100

4

The Security of Our Election Systems

95

5

Enhancing Download Protection in Firefox

91

6

Linux: Controlling access to the memory cache

86

7

Introducing the p0f BPF compiler

69

8

Improvements in Firefox for Desktop and Android

67

9

MacOS Sierra Beta

40

10

Some news from LWN

17

Tech blogs [?]

1

Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking from Windows 8 and Above

233

2

Killed by a Machine: The Therac-25

89

3

Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border – for Travelers with Digital Devices (2011)

46

4

Stupid Patent of the Month: Solocron Education Trolls with Password Patent

22

5

Protecting the Fourth Amendment in the Information Age a Response to Robert Litt

5

6

Firearm Tech – Are Smart Guns Even Realistic?

5

7

Omega2: $5 Linux Dev Board with WiFi

5

8

Don’t Wrap Anti-Competitive Pay-TV Practices in a Copyright Flag

4

9

Stupid Patent of the Month: Solocron Education Trolls with Password Patent

4

10

EFF Asks Court to Uphold Invalidation of Podcasting Patent

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Dashboard – 500 Service Unavailable Error

8

2

Microsoft Pix for iOS

3

3

Introducing the Microsoft HoloLens Commercial Suite

3

4

Apple's new diversity website

3

5

Microsoft's updated Xbox agreement prevents “unauthorized” hardware and apps

2

6

Amazon Cognito User Pools Is GA

1

7

How to Find a Job at a Tech Startup

1

8

Microsoft Services Agreement Update FAQ

1

9

Nucleus Anywhere Intercom with Alexa Voice

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Go Packaging Proposal Process

171

2

Rules of Thumb for HTTP/2 Push

106

3

Comparison of Programming Language Package Managers

93

4

Resurrecting the Flower Crowns of Old Ukrainian Wedding Photos

64

5

I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why

32

6

Australia's Entire GPS Navigation Is Off by 5 Feet

24

7

Mr. Robot ‘Plugs’ UTorrent and Pirate Release Groups

7

8

Will human sexuality ever be free from stone age, evolutionary impulses?

6

9

Google's Rules of Thumb for HTTP/2 Push

5

10

World’s largest solar power plant planned for Chernobyl nuclear wasteland

5

Science News [?]

1

We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated

910

2

Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here

586

3

Moore’s Law Is About to Get Weird (2015)

101

4

Do Neutrinos Explain Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry?

72

5

Are Fantasy Football and Baseball More Based on Skill Than the Real Sports?

68

6

52

7

Bad news and good news for tinnitus sufferers

51

8

2015 Set a Frenzy of Climate Records

49

9

Scientists have found a woman whose eyes have a new type of color receptor

48

10

Moonshine Master Toys with String Theory

40

Social [?]

1

Not Saying Winter Is Coming, but Where’s Your Coat?

454

2

BitFinex down due to Bitcoin security breach - 120k BTC stolen

226

3

Paint drip people, a successor to T-shaped people

185

4

Bret Victor, Inventing on Principle (2012) [video]

84

5

Kelsey Hightower questions Docker leading OCI standard

69

6

The Hyperloop: BUSTED

38

7

Patent troll lawyers are sons of East Texas judges

26

8

Rich Hickey: The Language of the System (2012)

19

9

Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex loses 119,756 bitcoins in security breach

13

10

The Mental Impact of Tech Interviews

12

Github repos and gists [?]

1

React Native for Ubuntu

380

2

Protocol Buffers v3.0.0 released

278

3

FastText – Library for fast text representation and classification

220

4

Love for TypeScript

220

5

Rust on BBC micro:bit

206

6

MNIST Handwritten Digit Classifier – beginner neural network project

205

7

Barliman: Prototype of a smart text editor

164

8

WebRender2 Lands in Servo

158

9

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for all AWS Certifications

126

10

Doing Bayesian Data Analysis On the GPU: Examples

112

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Diolkos: an ancient Greek paved trackway enabling boats to be moved overland

121

2

84

3

20

4

Waffle House Index

6

5

Interactive proof system

5

6

Delegative Democracy

3

7

DRY vs. WET solutions

3

8

3

9

3

10

Man of the Hole

2

Blogs [?]

1

What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone

625

2

Inside font-rs, a font renderer written in Rust

430

3

Habits of highly mathematical people

429

4

Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?

308

5

Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder

253

6

Losing our business – we didn’t see it coming

193

7

The beauty of bitwise AND

161

8

Why Experts Make Bad Teachers

98

9

Uber and Under: China’s Hometown Advantage Claims Another Victim

93

10

The law depends on compute power

91

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Huge no. of files for Angular 2

110

2

Lonely programmer detective uncovers the Mozilla JavaScript coercion conspiracy

29

3

How do you fix a bug you can't replicate?

4

4

In Python you don't use getters or setters or properties just for the fun of it

2

5

Huge number of files generated for every Angular 2 project

2

6

The non-spiral rule about C declarations

1

7

Is Poco RefCountedObject thread safe?

1

Substack [?]