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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
The Dropbox hack is real
1313
2
Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup
1311
3
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
986
4
Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
853
5
Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
819
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How to steal a developer's local database
770
7
How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015)
751
8
Tricks to Monetize Your Side Projects
651
9
Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service
596
10
The Myth of RAM (2014)
593
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (September 2016)
521
2
How Did You Escape 9 to 5?
226
3
What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?
223
4
How do you handle DDoS attacks?
223
5
Early signs that a company is failing?
147
6
How are credentials managed at your company?
138
7
I am doing $2M annually as a solopreneur and need your help
122
8
What kind of projects should I build for a front-end portfolio?
115
9
Who needs contributors?
107
10
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2016)
72
Top Show HN
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Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News
463
2
A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, and Freshbooks
396
3
Poor man's Google Docs
136
4
A Bot to Deploy to AWS, Digital Ocean Etc.
129
5
In-view.js – Get notified when DOM elements enter or exit the viewport
118
6
Use Meetup.com Data to Find Your Ideal City
104
7
Intro.js v2.3.0 – Step-by-step guide and feature introduction
82
8
Price changes alerts for any store
79
9
War on Ether
76
10
Transform any web page into a document
73
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
986
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Breaking a myth: Data shows you don’t actually need a co-founder
380
3
New cloud attack takes full control of virtual machines with little effort
302
4
Dropbox employee’s password reuse led to theft of 60M+ user credentials
294
5
43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach
235
6
Startup accused of scamming employees scrubs its online presence
208
7
A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point
180
8
Former Sequoia partners: The Midwest is the future of startups
175
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90% of software developers in the US work outside Silicon Valley
152
10
The same melodic sequence appears in a surprising number of recent pop songs
118
News [?]
1
Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
853
2
Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service
596
3
Gene Wilder Has Died
379
4
Amazon is piloting teams with a 30-hour workweek
362
5
Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B
339
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California bans ITT tech from accepting new students
293
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New class of galaxy has been discovered, made almost entirely of dark matter
288
8
SEC awards $22M to Monsanto whistleblower
285
9
New Virus Breaks the Rules of Infection
267
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Warned of a Crash, Startups in Silicon Valley Narrow Their Focus
230
Scientific publications [?]
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There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
294
2
FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals
161
3
Scientists find 3.7B-year-old fossil, oldest yet
136
4
SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship splashes down in Pacific
113
5
The Story of the First Microprocessors
103
6
Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Discovered
90
7
Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited
89
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IM2CAD – Reconstruct a scene that is as similar as possible to a photograph
86
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Researchers Map Locations of Servers in Netflix’s Content Delivery Network
84
10
NASA's Juno to Soar Closest to Jupiter This Saturday
68
Dev Blogs [?]
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How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow
423
2
Talk of a Split from Docker
323
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Infrastructure for Deep Learning
278
4
The NSA Is Hoarding Vulnerabilities
153
5
The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement
125
6
App Store Improvements
79
7
Mitigating MIME Confusion Attacks in Firefox
48
8
A Docker Fork: Talk of a split is now on the table
40
9
How the Consumer Product Safety Commission Is Behind the Largest DDoS Attacks
22
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WebAssembly: A New Compilation Target for the Web
10
Tech blogs [?]
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Stupid Patent of the Month: Elsevier Patents Online Peer Review
29
2
EU Copyright Leak Exposes Plans to Force the Internet to Subsidize Publishers
11
3
How to Change Your WhatsApp Settings Before Facebook Data Sharing Begins
9
4
Latest Leak Confirms European Copyright Plans Offer Little for Users
7
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Intel announces Kaby lake SKUs
6
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Transparency Hunters Capture More Than 400 California Database Catalogs
5
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Intel Announces 7th Gen Kaby Lake: 14nm
5
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HANDS-ON THE SHAPER ORIGIN: A TOOL THAT CHANGES HOW WE BUILD
4
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CloudFlare Protects Internet Users by Insisting on Lawful Orders Before Blocking
4
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Hackaday Raspberry Pi Hive Mind
4
FAANG+ [?]
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A Message to the Apple Community in Europe
316
2
Amazon Launchpad for Startups
275
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Amazon EC2 Beta (2006)
119
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Apple Event on September 7th
44
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Improvements to CloudWatch Logs and Dashboards
4
6
The Manga Guide to Databases (Amazon)
3
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Apple responds to EU tax claims
3
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Auto Scaling for EC2 Spot Fleets
3
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Announcing Auto Scaling for Spot Fleets
3
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Supersingular Isogeny Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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A Brief History of the College Textbook Pricing Racket
137
2
Indian ISPs Speed Up BitTorrent by ‘Peering’ with a Torrent Site
97
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A federal carbon tax is imminent in the USA, and Exxon is pushing it
75
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The evolution of transportation-as-a-service
59
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How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 13th Century's Answer to Tumblr
56
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A Tiny Amazonian City That Supplies Aquarium Fish to the World
39
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The 9,000-Mile Sea Journey of an Irradiated Indian Mango
18
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The Story of Captain Midnight (2000)
12
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Thousands of patients diagnosed as vegetative are actually aware
4
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Why Are So Many BASE Jumpers Dying?
4
Science News [?]
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In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to Sci-Hub
330
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A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013)
279
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Majority of mathematicians hail from 24 scientific ‘families’
171
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Interview with Steve Wozniak
158
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Is artificial intelligence permanently inscrutable?
124
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Alzheimer’s treatment appears to alleviate memory loss in small trial
118
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How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine
114
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In Mathematics, Mistakes Aren’t What They Used to Be (2015)
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User-friendly language for programming efficient simulations
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Nearly two-thirds of carbon emissions originated in 90 companies
66
Social [?]
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Changing the Culture of Python at Facebook [video]
81
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Finally it is possible to run Windows 3.11 in ReactOS without any other software
23
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A two-year-old's solution to the trolley problem
20
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X86 Assembly Crash Course [video]
16
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Facebook is down
14
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Gene Wilder, dead at 83
13
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Forking Docker Not
12
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Wash.io decimated local businesses, then crashed anyway
11
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Max Levchin: Why It's Time to Reimagine the Financial Services Industry
11
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Thorough description of a negative experience interviewing at Palantir
9
Github repos and gists [?]
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Code that is valid in both PHP and Java, and produces the same output in both
405
2
Paddle: Baidu's open source deep learning framework
230
3
Ntfy: A utility for sending notifications
226
4
Itsy Bitsy Data Structures – Simplified examples of many common data structures
223
5
KickSat: open source spacecraft project
193
6
Movfuscator – A single-instruction C compiler
191
7
Micro v1.0 – a terminal-based text editor written in Go
161
8
Doc2text – Detect text blocks and OCR poorly scanned PDFs in bulk
161
9
Text to Image Synthesis Using Thought Vectors
153
10
Parallel – A command-line CPU load balancer written in Rust
148
Wikipedia [?]
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The Traitorous Eight
117
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Dry water
13
3
Weev
4
4
Chlorhexidine
4
5
The Cape York Meteorite
4
6
Real life Suicide Squad transfer program
3
7
Embarrassingly parallel
3
8
System dynamics
3
9
Liberland – self-proclaimed micronation on the Danube
3
10
List of unsolved problems in computer science
3
Blogs [?]
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Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup
1311
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How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like After 100,000 Miles
194
3
How and why I made a zine
126
4
Why do UDP packets get dropped?
94
5
My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”
81
6
GitHub Issues Do's and Don'ts
71
7
Tabs or spaces – Parsing a 1B files among 14 programming languages
70
8
The Readability bookmarking service will shut down on September 30, 2016
50
9
Pantsuit: The Hillary Clinton UI Pattern Library
41
10
Announcing the Android SDK and Lyft Button
37
Stackoverflow [?]
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JavaScript – How does Trello access the user's clipboard? – Stack Overflow
29
2
How does Facebook disable the browser's integrated Developer Tools?
4
3
Why is the JVM stack-based and the Dalvik VM register-based?
3
4
Check synchronously if file/directory exists in Node.js
2
5
Caps Locks can't be remapping via AutoHotKey in Visual Studio 2013
1
Substack [?]