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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop

1054

2

904

3

I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know

833

4

Investing for Geeks

797

5

Music theory for nerds

766

6

What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

680

7

Washington Post Is First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source

588

8

Mozilla Thimble

565

9

What every coder should know about gamma

560

10

Announcing TypeScript 2.0

553

Top Ask HN

1

What are the must-read books about economics/finance?

446

2

Is it possible for someone to not be cut out for software engineering?

183

3

Which areas of math are practical to programming/algorithms and why?

149

4

Where do you go to get recruiters to find you a job?

89

5

How long did you work on a side project until it was your full time job?

88

6

Fulltime software engineers over 250k, how'd you get there(updated)?

78

7

In what areas are NoSQL Databases beneficial over Relational Databases?

74

8

How do you manage your personal software projects?

73

9

How do you define a junior developer?

72

10

How to find results removed from Google under 'right to be forgotten'?

55

Top Show HN

1

Primitive Pictures

894

2

Lemonade – the world's first P2P insurance company

185

3

Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

171

4

SpaceNeovim – Spacemacs for Neovim

105

5

I built a website that simplifies Congress and its activities

96

6

An Open Source Tool to Combat Clickbait Links

81

7

Python program to clean up handwritten notes

80

8

dingo - a Google DNS-over-HTTPS caching proxy in Go

75

9

CodeBuff – smart code formatter

62

10

Facebook Messenger Bot – Voice Recognition, NLP, Restaurant/News Search

57

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

It Costs $30 to Make a DIY EpiPen

506

2

Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal

505

3

Municipal ISP forced to shut off fiber-to-the-home Internet after court ruling

330

4

Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature

219

5

Udacity plans to build its own open-source self-driving car

213

6

The iPhone's new chip should worry Intel

196

7

Google Trips is a killer travel app for the modern tourist

185

8

Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of the on-demand economy

160

9

When Nintendo got rid of the headphone jack

157

10

Cornell wants to drill 2-4mi underground for enhanced geothermal heating

155

News [?]

1

Washington Post Is First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source

588

2

Tesla Wins Contract to Help Power the California Grid

540

3

House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

458

4

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)

354

5

What San Francisco Says About America

291

6

Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years

283

7

How Norway spends its $882B global fund

283

8

Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100

259

9

The Free-Time Paradox in America

257

10

Self-Driving Cars Must Meet 15 Benchmarks in U.S. Guidance

251

Scientific publications [?]

1

Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs

206

2

Ghost Robotics' Minitaur Quadruped Conquers Stairs, Doors, Fences

85

3

Science in the age of selfies

85

4

Playing FPS Video Games with Deep Reinforcement Learning

61

5

Programming quantum computers using 3-D puzzles

47

6

No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning (2015)

24

7

NASA to Hold Media Call on Evidence of Surprising Activity on Europa

7

8

Scientists confirm the universe has no direction

5

9

Fast Object Detection in 3D Point Clouds Using Convolutional Neural Networks

3

10

Researcher Proves Viability of NAND Mirroring to Bypass iPhone [pdf]

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Why Learning Angular 2 Was Excruciating

204

2

Instant Payouts for Marketplaces

164

3

Tor Browser Exposed: Anti-Privacy Implantation at Mass Scale

122

4

Tracking the Owner of Kickass Torrents – Schneier on Security

86

5

The Server At Peak X86

54

6

43

7

Introducing TLS 1.3

40

8

Twelve Fancy Chrome DevTools Tips

21

9

Stripe.com redesign

17

10

Instant Payouts for Marketplaces

16

Tech blogs [?]

1

A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid

351

2

Playpen: The Story of the FBI’s Unprecedented and Illegal Hacking Operation

176

3

If You Build a Censorship Machine, They Will Come

46

4

Join the Movement for Community Control Over Police Surveillance

11

5

Facebook's Nudity Ban Affects All Kinds of Users

5

6

ESP32 Hands-On: Awesome Promise

4

7

Apple sends survey over headphone jack to MacBook Pro users

3

8

Copyright Loophole Could Undermine Important Consumer Protection Bill

3

9

Comparison of Secure Messaging Applications

3

10

4 Things to Consider When Running Social Media Campaigns About Texas Inmates

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Introducing Amazon Wind Farm Texas

144

2

56

3

AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References, Substitution

19

4

Prime Insider Audible Channels

14

5

Amazon API Update – New Features Simplify API Development

6

6

Ziria – Wireless Programming for Hardware Dummies

4

7

Mount Amazon Cloud Drive as Network Drive

3

8

Migrating a Native JAVA REST API to a Serverless Architecture

3

9

3

10

Amazon API Gateway introduces 3 new features to simplify API configuration

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Oracle’s Cloudy Future

195

2

EU Court: Open WiFi Operator Not Liable for Pirate Users

185

3

Companies and Billionaires

158

4

Esoteric Topics in Computer Programming (2002)

126

5

Torrent Site Founder, Moderator and Users Receive Prison Sentences

121

6

Life’s Work: An Interview with Penn Jillette

72

7

The '80s Public Access Films Produced by a California UFO Cult

65

8

A Theory of Creepiness

59

9

The Woman Who Is Preserving the Smell of History

50

10

Blue oceans for banks

50

Science News [?]

1

How the FDA Manipulates the Media

221

2

Fungus in humans identified for first time as key factor in Crohn's disease

155

3

Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed

147

4

Closing in on high-temperature superconductivity

107

5

String Theory’s Strange Second Life

77

6

How Morality Changes in a Foreign Language

70

7

Human skeleton found on famed Antikythera shipwreck

53

8

Improved radiotolerance of human cultured cells by tardigrade-unique protein

52

9

A Mental Disease by Any Other Name

52

10

The oil and gas we have already tapped will take us past 1.5°C

50

Social [?]

1

Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop

1054

2

Faking your death

384

3

Hillary's IT guy asking Reddit how to cover up emails

266

4

How to Overthrow a Government [video]

243

5

Photos, videos, GIFs, polls, quotes no longer count toward your 140 characters

84

6

YC's Xerox Alto restoration Part 7: disk exerciser trial [video]

73

7

"This is Tayo. He's 11 and showed me a game he built called Spike Rush"

51

8

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announcement [video]

39

9

KrebsOnSecurity being taken down due to persistent DDoS

34

10

Can we cure all diseases in our children's lifetime?

24

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers

213

2

Twitter's Bootstrap hit 100,000 stars on GitHub

200

3

OS X-KVM: Running Mac OS X El Capitan on KVM and QEMU

185

4

Principles we use to write CSS for modern browsers

184

5

Dokany – User mode file system library for windows with FUSE Wrapper

182

6

Pixar Universal Scene Description

181

7

License now displayed on repository overview

173

8

React Router v4 FAQ

159

9

Gallium – Build Desktop Applications in Go and HTML

146

10

Golang landmines

141

Wikipedia [?]

1

207

2

146

3

125

4

69

5

Apple owns the world's largest hedge fund

16

6

Ben Franklin effect

14

7

11

8

Modern flat Earth societies

6

9

List of intelligence agencies

5

10

Rendezvous Hashing

3

Blogs [?]

1

Getting things done

362

2

iTunes will never work well

305

3

My experience rewriting Enjarify in Rust

230

4

Some questions about Docker and rkt

187

5

Scalable Stream Processing: A Survey of Storm, Samza, Spark and Flink

135

6

Vector is now called Riot

120

7

How to Adapt to Prison

96

8

Distressed ravens show empathy

76

9

Win3mu Part 1 –Why I’m writing a 16-bit Windows Emulator

74

10

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

62

Stackoverflow [?]

1

SVG changes color when rotated in Safari 10

102

2

Image to ASCII Art Conversion

2

3

Can num++ be atomic for 'int num'?

2

4

Is sizeof(void()) a legal expression?

1

5

Why are complex numbers in Python denoted with 'j' instead of 'i'?

1

6

How do I debug jonesforth with GDB?

1

7

How to disable pinch2zoom on webpages?

1

Substack [?]