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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

2553

2

Announcing new tools, forums, and features

1142

3

Elon Musk on How to Build the Future

1106

4

How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

1037

5

I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

850

6

Angular 2 Final Released

838

7

How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat

816

8

Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out of them

713

9

Vim 8.0 released

661

10

Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity

579

Top Ask HN

1

Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?

822

2

What's your favorite HN post?

692

3

Strange bug workarounds?

148

4

How can I become a proper Project Manager from a Programmer?

128

5

Data visualization consultant

81

6

Are new posts getting less frequent on HN?

78

7

General advice to grow my network

69

8

How to Learn OOP

67

9

Has anyone here successfully applied to Stripe Atlas?

51

10

What are the hottest startups related to beer / brewing?

44

Top Show HN

1

A flask app to make dashboards, easily

302

2

Open-source search engine with 2bn-page index

229

3

Colors Used by Popular Sites

179

4

I invented a caffeinated toothpaste

169

5

OverThrown – A multiplayer turn based strategy game

141

6

Drum machine in 100 lines of HTML/JS

134

7

GraphicsJS, New Powerful Free Open-Source JavaScript Graphics Library

124

8

Simple in-memory key/value store written in Elixir using Shards

80

9

A WebGL visualization to show how global temperature changed since 1850

69

10

1Poshword, cross-platform PowerShell client for 1Password

66

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity

579

2

To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they're right

489

3

Adblock Plus now sells ads

381

4

Uber starts self-driving car pickups in Pittsburgh

323

5

Evernote is moving all its data, machine learning to Google Cloud

207

6

Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

196

7

An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year-old software

189

8

HP is buying Samsung’s printer business for $1.05B

180

9

JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the Desktop

172

10

Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year

137

News [?]

1

How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat

816

2

Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row escalates

488

3

Facebook is imposing American censorship on the rest of the world

343

4

Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub

343

5

FBI director: Cover up your webcam

332

6

Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon

295

7

Companies would benefit from helping introverts to thrive

292

8

Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals

265

9

The careless errors of credit reporting agencies

247

10

Teen Creates “Sit with Us” App for Bullied Kids

243

Scientific publications [?]

1

Neglected Food Bubbles: The Espresso Coffee Foam

158

2

Time crystals might exist after all

143

3

The bumpy road towards iPhone 5c NAND mirroring

129

4

Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play StarCraft

116

5

Defeating Image Obfuscation with Deep Learning

78

6

Discrete Variational Autoencoders

24

7

The bumpy road towards iPhone 5c NAND mirroring

12

8

Time crystals might exist after all

9

9

Apple tapping brakes on self-driving cars

6

10

Breakthrough in moving small objects using acoustics

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet – Schneier on Security

66

2

44

3

Israeli DDOS Service vDOS responsible for “several decades worth of DDoS years”

29

4

An API-first data visualization platform for developers

26

5

Stripe and RunKit

14

6

Organizational Doxing and Disinformation

7

7

Alleged vDOS Proprietors Arrested in Israel

5

8

Calling Aspiring Quantum Computing Programmers

4

9

The New Dell Stops Trying to Be the Old IBM

4

10

The age of Apple is over – it's become the new Microsoft

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Surveying MacBook Pro Users About Headphone Jack and Other Ports

143

2

The biggest surprises from living in a simulated Martian habitat for a full year

103

3

Tell Justin Trudeau to Fight for Web Developer Saeed Malekpour

95

4

Nvidia Announces Tesla P40 and P4 - Neural Network Inference, Big and Small

55

5

EFF to Court: Public Right to Access the Law Should Not Be Blocked by Copyright

25

6

European Copyright Ruling Ushers in New Dark Era for Hyperlinks

23

7

iOS 10 update bricking iPhones and iPads for some users

23

8

TPP Goes Down to the Wire: Help Stop It by Joining Our Call-In

15

9

Ios10 bricking devices

12

10

Tim Cook Says Apple Is 'Very Committed' to the Mac and to 'Stay Tuned'

11

FAANG+ [?]

1

514

2

Swift Playgrounds – Learn to code on your iPad

296

3

5

4

Upgrade to macOS Sierra

4

5

4

6

Amazon seems to have gone HTTPS

3

7

Glad I could get a refund for Kindle purchase

2

8

All new echo dot (2nd generation)

2

9

: It Takes 'Courage' To Sell Vulnerable Abandonware

2

10

iPhone 7: Pre-order now

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH'

175

2

Advice I Wish I'd Been Told (1999)

170

3

The MI6 Spy Who Perfected the Art of the 'Honey Trap'

127

4

The Real-Life Plan to Drain the Mediterranean and Merge Africa and Europe

119

5

NUMA-aware scheduler for Go

102

6

An Unnervingly Life-Like Japanese Doll from the 1800s

33

7

What’s the allure of a fruit designed to repel?

20

8

TorrentFreak Gets Its First YouTube Copyright Claim, and It's Bull

14

9

Tesla is suing oil industry exec for impersonating Elon Musk

9

10

10 Years in Prison for Online Pirates a Step Closer in the UK

7

Science News [?]

1

The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition

343

2

Lessons from a 45-year study of super-smart children

153

3

People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity

106

4

What goes wrong in the brain chemistry of a gambling addict?

100

5

Milky Way mapper: ways the Gaia spacecraft will change astronomy

79

6

The study of acoustic signals and the supposed spoken language of the dolphins

79

7

What insights can an LCD display give us about time's arrow?

54

8

How the Blind See the Stars

45

9

Robots Can’t Dance – Why the singularity is greatly exaggerated (2015)

44

10

Design of a hyperstable 60-subunit protein icosahedron

42

Social [?]

1

Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard and Why Math (Alone) Won’t Help Us [video]

90

2

“... it's my fault that Google shut down Google Reader”

70

3

Using docker in GitHub repo names is forbidden

52

4

This Is Water – David Foster Wallace

21

5

"One of the reasons I left Google was ... "collect and monetize information"."

21

6

Steve Jobs – Courage [video]

20

7

The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

16

8

Twitter discussion – Docker threatening legal action over naming

15

9

George “Geohot” Hotz announces a self driving car kit [video]

13

10

'Say hello to the real reasons we got rid of the 3.5mm jack'

12

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Announcing new tools, forums, and features

1142

2

Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux

267

3

Golang concepts from an OOP point of view

200

4

QuineDB – A quine that is also a key-value store

185

5

A TensorFlow Implementation of DeepMind's WaveNet Paper

185

6

Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

178

7

Fighting Corruption in Brazil with Machine Learning

162

8

Kubernetes – The Hard Way

157

9

Top-level await in JavaScript is a footgun

141

10

Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C

140

Wikipedia [?]

1

Przybylski's Star

96

2

54

3

Day of the Programmer

10

4

Russian political jokes

10

5

Day of the Programmer

8

6

Relative age effect

7

7

5

8

Kumdang-2, cure for AIDS, MERS, Ebola, tuberculosis, cancer and more

4

9

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

Machine Learning in a Year

359

2

How I learned to program

308

3

Why I’m dropping Rust

276

4

Learning systems programming with Rust

184

5

To the 4 white male policemen who beat me for checking the health of [detainee]

163

6

Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts

100

7

To the 4 white men who beat me for checking the health of a sick black man

55

8

What every developer needs to know about GitHub’s new API

42

9

How I gained access to TMobile’s national network for free

39

10

How I gained access to TMobile’s national network for free

27

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?

24

2

Open CSV files correctly with Excel on both Mac and Windows? (2011)

3

3

Which languages are used for safety-critical software?

3

4

When would anyone use a union? (C++)

2

5

How to solve this hack: custom iOS push notifications with php

2

6

Expand a random range from 1–5 to 1–7

1

7

Using emoji in Haskell

1

8

Haskell – function takes a list of Ints, returns a list with odd numbers squared

1

9

C++: Why is a public const method not called when the non-const one is private?

1

10

How to reverse a string in Go?

1

Substack [?]