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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1238

2

EU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020

1205

3

You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]

957

4

An account of a serious medical emergency on a transoceanic flight

832

5

756

6

How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead

694

7

In defence of Douglas Crockford

683

8

“Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply”

660

9

WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio

627

10

I am a fast webpage

621

Top Ask HN

1

Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?

183

2

Where do you go for learning about health and well-being?

178

3

Any unfinished side projects to give away?

170

4

Non-tech books that have helped you grow professionally?

152

5

What does an electrical engineer actually do at work?

140

6

What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?

124

7

What happened to Facebook graph search?

114

8

Why is inter-device file sharing still a hassle?

110

9

What is the best open source OCR software supporting multiple languages?

86

10

Remote-only job boards

84

Top Show HN

1

Build your first real world React.js application

261

2

Postacard – Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on Earth for $3

218

3

HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification

180

4

Materia – A modern dev environment to build mobile and web applications

127

5

cookies.js, making cookies a delight to work with on the front-end

122

6

sdees – serverless decentralized editing of encrypted stuff

100

7

Txt.wav – Text Animation Library

98

8

Grumbles.js – Detects when your users swear out loud

91

9

Mobi.css – A lightweight, flexible CSS framework that focuses on mobile

91

10

Bild – Simple image processing in Go with parallel processing support

87

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness

572

2

Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker

266

3

Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers

238

4

Want to end mass incarceration? Stop blindly reelecting your local prosecutor

182

5

How Writing To-Do Lists Helps Your Brain

165

6

Apple Unveils the Apple Watch Series 2

157

7

Startups turning to a funding tactic used by oil and gas companies in the 1900s

150

8

131

9

Reverse Network Effects: Why Todays Social Networks Can Fail as They Grow Larger

112

10

Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time collaboration

104

News [?]

1

How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead

694

2

ITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down

487

3

FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps

410

4

‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll

300

5

16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese people name their babies

263

6

Dell Closes $60B Merger with EMC

260

7

Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace

259

8

It’s Tough Being Over 40 in Silicon Valley

256

9

Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification

250

10

You’re How Old? We’ll Be in Touch

244

Scientific publications [?]

1

Jupiter’s North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System

237

2

Stacked Approximated Regression Machine: A Simple Deep Learning Approach

123

3

Finnish Carrier Sets New World Record for 4G Download Speeds

75

4

Struggles with the Continuum

73

5

Future Airplanes Will Fly on Twistable Wings

70

6

RCA engineers envisioned automated electronic highways by 1975

42

7

A Strange Thing Happened in the Stratosphere

19

8

Planet Nine could spell doom for solar system

13

9

Lectures on Gravity and Entanglement

5

10

NIST and Navy tests suggest telecom networks could back up GPS time signals

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses

556

2

Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice

344

3

Remembering Vernon Adams, creator of KDE's user-interface font Oxygen

196

4

App Store Subscriptions

130

5

Snow Crash Revisited: Grokking a Satire of Mimesis

111

6

Details Emerge on China's 64-Core ARM Chip

84

7

What's next for Apache OpenOffice

74

8

Unrest in Gabon leads to Internet shutdown

33

9

Automatic license plate readers ubiquitous, including airport parking lots

11

10

Second night of Internet “curfew” in Gabon

7

Tech blogs [?]

1

The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM

457

2

The ESP32 has been released

267

3

EFF to Court: Government Must Inform People That It’s Accessing Their Data

158

4

GPU Docks Could Bring Gaming and VR to MacBooks

4

5

Code Craft: Cross Compiling for the Raspberry Pi

3

6

iPhone 7 Models from AT&T and T-Mobile Do Not Support CDMA Networks

3

7

Analyzing Sony’s PlayStation 4 Pro Hardware Reveal: What Lies Beneath

2

8

Belkin Introduces Jumbo Dongle for iPhone 7

2

9

LG 38UC99 Announced: 37.5-Inch Curved 21:9 Display with 3840×1600 Resolution

2

10

Apple: Buy the Lightening Dock

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

756

2

Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2

194

3

Amazon Aurora: Parallel Read Ahead, Faster Indexing, NUMA Awareness

63

4

53

5

4

6

New Reader Endpoint for Amazon Aurora – Load Balancing and Higher Availability

3

7

Implementing a Serverless AWS IoT Back End with AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB

3

8

Around 30% by using AWS Lambda, despite a 42% increase in portal users

3

9

AWS SDK for C++ Now Ready for Production Use

3

10

New Amazon Fire HD 8

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirates Plunder 4K Hateful Eight, but Did They Crack DCP?

207

2

How do you use HN?

147

3

The Fierce, Forgotten Library Wars of the Ancient World

105

4

Why are so many BASE jumpers dying?

59

5

Warner Bros. Flags Its Own Website as a Piracy Portal

42

6

Guide to the Longest Running Scientific Experiments

28

7

The Odd Hybrid Businesses That Defined the Early American Service Sector

18

8

What I’ve learned so far from living in a Mars simulation

17

9

Lost Hiker's Remains Found 5 Years Later in Utah Wilderness

10

10

The World Wide Cage

6

Science News [?]

1

Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children

490

2

Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning

149

3

How Much More Can We Learn About the Universe?

116

4

Most Depressed Adults in the U.S. Remain Untreated

98

5

Modern science and Chinese philosophy tell us about how we think (2014)

69

6

In the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom

66

7

How DNA could store all the world’s data

57

8

A Universe Made of Tiny, Random Chunks (2013)

55

9

Roger Tsien’s legacy: The creations that lit up biology

55

10

Ale genomics: how humans tamed beer yeast

7

Social [?]

1

You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]

957

2

In Norway, everyone can know how much you earn [video]

124

3

“We’re winding down Starfighter”

112

4

AMD’s Virtualization Memory Encryption Technology [video]

99

5

Xerox Alto Restoration Part 5 [video]

90

6

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (2007)

80

7

To finish projects on time, start every single step as late as possible

70

8

Douglas Crockford Out as Keynote Speaker at Nodevember

44

9

D. Crockford removed as speaker at Nodevember for making speakers uncomfortable

30

10

Today I sold my $278,987 worth of Apple Stock

27

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Skypeopensource2 – Skype client based on reversing Skype 5.5

250

2

Git 2.10 has been released

205

3

Taylor – Swift on bare metal

157

4

FastNetMon – very fast DDoS analyzer

151

5

Getting to Bootstrap v4

148

6

Infinite Noise – Simple, Open-Source TRNG

140

7

NativeJIT – JIT compilation of expressions involving C data structures

130

8

A collection of links that cover what happened during ElixirConf 2016

117

9

Dependency graphs of Go web frameworks

114

10

Improving collaboration with forks

111

Wikipedia [?]

1

Turtles All the Way Down

57

2

13

3

5

4

“I would rather cry in a BMW”

4

5

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

3

6

The Drugs That Hitler Took

3

7

3

8

Today is the 50th anniversary of Star Trek

3

9

Japanese Gardening

2

10

Process Calculus

2

Blogs [?]

1

Linux debugging tools you'll love

400

2

Inclusivity Is a Joke

320

3

Tor’s Branding Pivot Is Going to Get Someone Killed

235

4

Why Remote Work Should Change Startup Culture

163

5

How Elixir Helped Us Scale Our Video User Profile Service for the Olympics

132

6

There's no good reason for Apple to kill the headphone jack

45

7

We’re F*cked, It’s Over. Or Is It?

43

8

We’re F*cked, It’s Over. Or Is It?

36

9

How the CIA made Google

34

10

Google Flutter II – Material Design

31

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (2014)

324

2

Lua vs. XML for data storage

12

3

5000 Rust questions on Stackoverflow

4

4

Java thread executing integer division blocks all other threads

3

5

SharpSpring Is Hiring Back End and Front End Engineers

1

6

Representing numbers as 8 bit objects in R

1

7

Faster way to trim a long character vector in R

1

8

Is a wide character literal like L“Hello World” guaranteed to be in Unicode?

1

9

Print bits from any type using less code and resources (C)

1

Substack [?]