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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

“It's The Future”

1323

2

PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

1217

3

Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons

859

4

What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?

758

5

743

6

Machine Learning and Ketosis

706

7

Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs

701

8

617

9

Writing Less Code

583

10

Go 1.7 is released

545

Top Ask HN

1

Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?

648

2

How to prepare for a Front-end Developer interview?

209

3

How have you achieved financial independence?

187

4

What is the future of back-end development?

177

5

How to get out of Tech and still make a decent living?

158

6

Did some of you try the digital nomad lifestyle and not like it?

151

7

Anyone here use a Hackintosh as one of their main machines?

132

8

What keeps you from exercising?

123

9

Good tech blogs to read

79

10

What are the cool life hacks for Developer?

71

Top Show HN

1

New time and daylight application

150

2

Hacker Hall - Virtual Coworking

147

3

WebGL Fire Simulation

143

4

GPU-Accelerated Digit Recognition with WebGL

135

5

A Web Extension to save a page or selection as eBook

106

6

Thyme, a simple CLI to measure human time and focus

99

7

Make notes, mindmaps, diagrams online – for studying or brainstorming

83

8

Realtime, self-hosted monitoring for Node.js inspired by GitHub Status

75

9

Amazon Search on Steroids

71

10

LockedAway – A unique text experience

65

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Pinker: “News is a misleading way to understand the world”

176

2

SpaceX successfully lands its sixth Falcon 9 rocket after launch

174

3

Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse

166

4

Facebook is building its own Steam-style desktop gaming platform with Unity

164

5

Billionaire founder of Free launches free coding college

135

6

Kansas couple sues IP mapping firm for turning their life into a “digital hell”

123

7

Patagonia's CEO Explains How to Make On-Site Child Care Pay for Itself

117

8

A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens

113

9

There’s a $200k reward for anyone who proves Microsoft ripped off MS-DOS source

102

10

Turn Off Cortana Completely in Windows 10 Anniversary Update

85

News [?]

1

Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons

859

2

What Danes consider healthy children’s television

355

3

Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees

349

4

Stop Treating Marijuana Like Heroin

335

5

Intel Licenses ARM Technology to Boost Foundry Business

317

6

Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month

289

7

NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments

271

8

Lonnie Johnson: The father of the Super Soaker

257

9

Technology was meant to herald a new way of working, but that’s not the case

248

10

A look behind the scenes at an index fund with Vanguard's Gerry O'Reilly

203

Scientific publications [?]

1

Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression

157

2

A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype

132

3

Helsinki Tries Self-Driving Buses in Real Traffic

97

4

Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference

91

5

New Startup Aims to Commercialize a Brain Prosthetic to Improve Memory

80

6

Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers via Hard Drive Noise

79

7

Proxima Centauri has a Earth-like planet

75

8

Physicists confirm possible discovery of fifth force of nature

18

9

Robots will soon replace human fruit pickers

17

10

Physics: possible fifth force of nature

8

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Automatically closing FIN_WAIT_2 is a violation of the TCP specification

238

2

Bus1: a new Linux interprocess communication proposal

106

3

OpenAI Team Update

86

4

Why some businesses aren't allowed on Stripe

85

5

Accelerating Node.js Applications with HTTP/2 Server Push

50

6

Yet Another Government-Sponsored Malware

45

7

Major NSA/Equation Group Leak

21

8

15

9

Bandwidth costs around the world

12

10

Getting the Cloud Out of a Fugue State

9

Tech blogs [?]

1

With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy

465

2

AMD Zen Microarchitecture: Dual Schedulers, Micro-Op Cache and Memory Hierarchy

190

3

The FCC Can't Save Community Broadband, But We Can

95

4

Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning

94

5

iMessage's 'End-To-End' Encryption Hardly Better Than TLS

91

6

New steel treatment could enable lighter, stronger, cheaper cars (2015)

85

7

As Apple offers $200k for iPhone vulnerabilities, Black Hat firm offers $500k

11

8

OpenAI Project First to Receive Nvidia's DGX-1 'AI Supercomputer in a Box'

10

9

What are magnetic gears good for?

8

10

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 10-Series for Notebooks Unveiled, Launching Today

8

FAANG+ [?]

1

Hololens Commercial Suite

113

2

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Elasticsearch 2.3

15

3

Hello, Perl Developers

4

4

The amazing, underrated book that first got me into neural networks

3

5

Amazon Kinesis Analytics – Process Streaming Data in Real Time with SQL

2

6

New AWS Solution – Transit VPC

2

7

Amazon Kinesis Analytics – Process Streaming Data in Real Time with SQL

2

8

Apple Announces Environmental Progress in China

2

9

Microsoft Research Explores Secure Cloud Data Exchanges

1

10

Secure Data Exchange: A Marketplace in the Cloud [pdf]

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

What Great Listeners Actually Do

521

2

Lake Nyos suffocated over 1,700 people in one night

472

3

How America Converted Its 1980 Olympic Village into a Prison

146

4

First Tesla Taxi in America after 100k miles

126

5

The hunger mood

120

6

Cuban Cartoonist Fled from Castro and Created 'Spy vs. Spy'

109

7

Which MBAs Make More: Consultants or Small-Business Owners?

103

8

Truth in stereotypes

62

9

'Mutable' Torrents Proposal Makes BitTorrent More Resilient

23

10

Like It or Not, “Smart Drugs” Are Coming to the Office

20

Science News [?]

1

Age differences in learning from an insufficient representation of uncertainty

200

2

Rock climber Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us

157

3

A Magnetic Wormhole (2015)

106

4

World's Oldest Gold Object May Have Just Been Unearthed in Bulgaria

60

5

Did Our Ancestors Become Bipedal So They Could Throw?

42

6

Why Do Some Sports Vanish and Some Sports Survive?

40

7

‘Radically rewritten’ bacterial genome unveiled

32

8

Protecting privacy in genomic databases

32

9

'Chemtrails' not real, say atmospheric science experts

31

10

Morphing neutrinos provide clue to antimatter mystery

25

Social [?]

1

Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publication of the take is

387

2

Streetfoto founder Ken Walton arrested at gunpoint

164

3

Windows Holographic Shell Demo [video]

36

4

Guido van Rossum: “PDF Must Die.” (2014)

31

5

GameDVR: Is Windows 10 recording my screen, at all times, without permission?

15

6

This Student Invented a Stepper Motor Organ

15

7

Reddit's post-mortem about Zookeeper migration

14

8

DjangoCon US 2016 Videos

13

9

Web Scraping using Google sheets uses xpath_query syntax

10

10

RTL URLs get flipped, making phishing easier

9

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Machine Learning and Ketosis

706

2

617

3

Jailbreaking the Kindle

306

4

Simpler GitHub Pages publishing

275

5

Setup Keybase.io, GPG and Git to sign commits on GitHub

247

6

LogicJS adds logic programming to JavaScript

209

7

The Witchcraft Compiler Collection

181

8

Maintainers Wanted, open source projects looking for new maintainers

180

9

Pendulum – Python datetimes made easy

172

10

SVG 2 new features

152

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of unsolved problems in physics

119

2

Higher-order abstract syntax

76

3

Systems of Survival

30

4

10

5

Electropermanent magnet

5

6

Secretary Problem

4

7

Michael I. Jordan, Mentor of Andrew Ng (deep learning/ML/AI)

4

8

3

9

3

10

German tank problem

3

Blogs [?]

1

This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley

480

2

How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools

391

3

Startups in 13 Sentences (2009)

306

4

NoSQL Databases: A Survey and Decision Guidance

297

5

My favorite day of the month is bank statement day at my company

199

6

The State of Vue

128

7

HTTP/2 makes media loading 3–15 times faster on mobile

97

8

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

85

9

The awkward journey towards less back end

70

10

Standup Antipatterns

66

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Regular expression to match line that doesn't contain a word?

9

2

OAuth is really about a Dutch and a donut

4

3

How to download dotfile using html5 download preserving name

2

4

StackOverflow Documentation

2

5

What “tools” are available in Python standard library – Stack Overflow

2

6

The Community Introduction to Python from Stack Overflow

1

Substack [?]