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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
1187
2
NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender
1055
3
Japanese writing system basics
961
4
Web Scraping in 2016
852
5
The Cuban CDN
832
6
Nasa just made all its research available online for free
776
7
Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large
731
8
“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
624
9
Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
615
10
Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss
605
Top Ask HN
1
Best passive income method for a solo developer?
427
2
Failed interview, feeling unemployable and depressed – what do I do?
377
3
How much do you make at a remote job?
105
4
Are open vacation policies a scam?
83
5
Is there any US bank with a sandbox or API?
82
6
How to best interview a candidate?
63
7
Why has the downvoting timelimit been reduced?
46
8
What is the recommended way to create Windows desktop apps right now?
39
9
What is the business opportunity of climate change for startups?
37
10
How to learn about distributed systems when not possible at work?
35
Top Show HN
1
Carbide – A New Programming Environment
628
2
A Multiplayer Geography Game Using WebSockets
220
3
Workq – Job Server in Go
185
4
KnightOS – An open-source OS for calculators
180
5
Replify – Create a REPL for any command
112
6
Cryptic – A sensible secret management toolkit and Go library
93
7
Igloos That Don't Melt
81
8
SecretCrypt – Keeping secrets in plain sight
75
9
W3clan – User-Curated Tutorial Network
42
10
Introducing Fr8, an Open-Source SaaS Integration Service
23
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Pokémon Go loses its luster, sheds more than 10M users
209
2
Startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 2
193
3
All of Google's cloud database services are now out of beta
173
4
Judge grants Happy Birthday lawyers $4.6M, citing “unusually positive results”
173
5
Startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 1
155
6
MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model
126
7
Anti-Google research group in Washington is funded by Oracle
118
8
NASA plans to hand over the ISS to a private corporation
85
9
EFF blasts Microsoft over Windows 10 privacy concerns
81
10
Paleontologists find huge T. Rex skull in Montana
73
News [?]
1
Nasa just made all its research available online for free
776
2
University of Chicago: ‘We Do Not Support So-Called Trigger Warnings’
439
3
July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa
381
4
Everything I Am Afraid Might Happen If I Ask New Acquaintances to Get Coffee
379
5
Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA
378
6
How to be mediocre and be happy with yourself
356
7
Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You
352
8
Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis
337
9
Why Do We Judge Parents for Putting Kids at Perceived But Unreal Risk?
243
10
Uber Loses at Least $1.2B in First Half of 2016
241
Scientific publications [?]
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Nasa Establishes Contact with STEREO Mission
124
2
How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost? (2012)
80
3
Robot Octopus Points the Way to Soft Robotics
73
4
Death and Suicide in Universal Artificial Intelligence
55
5
Promises and pitfalls of applying computational models to mental disorders
50
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Fighting Poverty with Satellite Images and Machine Learning Wizardry
49
7
Genetically Modified Bacteria Conduct Electricity
29
8
A History of Dark Matter
28
9
Graphene Doubles Up on Quantum Dots’ Promise in Quantum Computing
26
10
AllConcur: Leaderless Concurrent Atomic Broadcast
25
Dev Blogs [?]
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The Cuban CDN
832
2
Python JITs are coming
318
3
Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale
179
4
IBM’s 24-core Power9 chip
176
5
Rust: Systems Programming for Everyone
126
6
Machine Learning Unconference
125
7
Fedora 25 to Run Wayland by Default
60
8
New Mozilla logo concepts
48
9
Intel Leverages Chip Might to Etch Photonics Future
47
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Bus1: a new Linux interprocess communication proposal
46
Tech blogs [?]
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We Shouldn’t Wait Another 15 Years for a Conversation About Government Hacking
165
2
ARM v8-A with Scalable Vector Extensions: Aiming for HPC and Data Center
69
3
Colossus: Face to Face with the First Electronic Computer
23
4
CloudFlare Insists on Lawful Orders Before Blocking Customers
16
5
External GPU for MacBook Pro, promising up to 10x performance increase
6
6
A Message from Anand – About AnandTech
4
7
Word Games: What the NSA Means by “Targeted” Surveillance Under Section 702
4
8
Thunderbolt Device Promises Desktop-Class GPU Performance for MacBooks
4
9
Hands-On the Shaper Origin: A Tool That Changes How We Build
4
10
Legislation to Reclaim University Invention from the Trolls
3
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Vehicles
472
2
AWS Week in Review Is Now a GitHub Project
4
3
Getting Started with AWS
3
4
Amazon EC2 Beta (2006)
3
5
Announcing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (24 August 2006)
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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A Soccer Con Man Who Couldn't Play the Game
183
2
The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’ Is Not What You Think
142
3
How an early telephone silencer took on AT&T
62
4
Can we make consciousness into an engineering problem?
43
5
In praise of Dewey
43
6
‘I want my family back in a Tesla’ says father after severe crash in a Model X
15
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Are We Losing the Grand Canyon?
14
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75 hours of classic science fiction audio for free
4
9
Gravitational waves will bring the extreme universe into view
3
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Cloudflare Fights RIAA’s Piracy Blocking Demands in Court
3
Science News [?]
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Loneliness Is a Warning Sign to Be Social
225
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New batteries could make phones, drones, and electric cars last twice as long
171
3
Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain
165
4
The Neuroscience Behind Bad Decisions
82
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Questioning the value of sports is seen as blasphemy
82
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How to Slash the Cost of Drug Development
76
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Sponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
69
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Plan to Send Probes to the Nearest Star
69
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Farming Invented Twice in the Middle East, Genomes Study Reveals
61
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First study to explore language and LSD since the 1960s
53
Social [?]
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Unreal: The Backstory
125
2
NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video]
112
3
Guiding a Venture-Backed Startup to a Felony
86
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Animation That Explains Multi-GPU Algorithms [video]
66
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Hoaxes and scams on Facebook: How most of them work and spread
57
6
VeraCrypt 1.18a released
56
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How a GIF of Aly Raisman's Floor Routine Got Me Permanently Banned from Twitter
28
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Alan Kay's Turing Award Lecture (2003) [video]
27
9
How a GIF of Aly Raisman's Floor Routine Got Me Permanently Banned from Twitter
26
10
Emulating a 6502 in JavaScript [video]
21
Github repos and gists [?]
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Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' aliases from PowerShell
475
2
Types
445
3
A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor multi-core machines
280
4
Kubernetes the Hard Way
240
5
Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
213
6
Thor – A minimalistic operating system in assembly and C++
189
7
Building Your First Atom Plugin
143
8
Credo: Static code analysis for Elixir with a focus on consistency and teaching
137
9
Reactotron – CLI and OS X app for inspecting React Native and JS apps
126
10
Redcon – Fast Redis-compatible server framework for Go
105
Wikipedia [?]
1
Zhou Qunfei
124
2
List of languages by time of extinction
98
3
PACELC theorem for distributed databases – improves on CAP theorem
38
4
Interactive EasyFlow
34
5
Nim Game
26
6
Sabbath mode
9
7
Dymaxion Map
8
8
DPLL algorithm
7
9
Computational humor
7
10
Hachikō
6
Blogs [?]
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Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
615
2
Satellites auto detect buildings in OpenStreetMap
163
3
Why the NSA Dump Isn't from an Insider
106
4
PSD to HTML editor in your browser
102
5
Checking the C# Source Code of MSBuild with PVS-Studio
66
6
The Olympics didn’t stumble because of Millennials, but because of NBC
29
7
Is Elon Musk the next king of trucking?
20
8
A Response to PHP – The Wrong Way
19
9
A Web Audio experiment – detecting piano notes
18
10
The importance of visual design localisation
16
Stackoverflow [?]
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When Progressive Web Apps are better than native Android apps
2
2
How to randomly assign values row-wise in a numpy array
1
3
How can you echo a newline in batch files?
1
Substack [?]