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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]

2123

2

Ripgrep – A new command line search tool

740

3

UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency

688

4

Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack

658

5

Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany

658

6

Leaflet 1.0 – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps

628

7

WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion

608

8

Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI

573

9

Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box

568

10

PostgreSQL 9.6 Released

553

Top Ask HN

1

What are the best practises for using SSH keys?

306

2

What's the best way to learn about the blockchain?

259

3

When are you considered a “senior” programmer?

218

4

What do you wish someone would build?

186

5

How much do you make in London?

126

6

What do you use for remote access?

57

7

How do you get the initial traction for your web side-project?

52

8

What to do with 3K visitors a month?

47

9

Is 170k a good salary for a software developer in Seattle?

46

10

What TLD do you use for local development?

45

Top Show HN

1

InstaPart – Build circuit boards faster with instant parts

309

2

G9.js – Automatically Interactive Differentiable Graphics

237

3

An Open Retro RPG Game Maker in Python

215

4

Material Design for Bootstrap – Powerful and Free Material Design UI KIT

164

5

How many days until?

156

6

Live visualization of Kafka streams

144

7

Rust, ARM Cortex M, and a Generated HAL

137

8

Jpeg.io – Convert any major image format into a highly optimized JPEG

122

9

Printed Books from WhatsApp with Python and LaTeX

114

10

I built a MySQL storage engine which is InnoDB compatible

106

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI

573

2

How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City

163

3

BlackBerry confirms it will end in-house hardware development

141

4

Unsafe at any clock speed: Linux kernel security needs a rethink

139

5

Uber-owned Otto to offer freight hauling services using autonomous trucks

127

6

People who can’t afford Teslas are using car-sharing networks to pay for them

119

7

Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959)

117

8

SpaceX is testing new powerful engines for its mission to Mars

114

9

The hippest internet cafe of 1995 [video]

110

10

A third of the homeless people in America are over 50 and I’m one of them

108

News [?]

1

Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack

658

2

Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany

658

3

Defending Against Hackers Took a Back Seat at Yahoo, Insiders Say

357

4

Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

333

5

Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx

296

6

U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians

277

7

Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google

267

8

What I Learned from a Stroke at 26: Make Time to Untangle

248

9

Am I Introverted, or Just Rude?

237

10

What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (2014)

225

Scientific publications [?]

1

Google’s Neural Machine Translation System

236

2

Mercury found to be tectonically active

134

3

A novel brewing process via controlled hydrodynamic cavitation

116

4

Nasa to reveal 'surprising' activity on Jupiter's moon Europa

92

5

D-Wave Founder's New Startup Combines AI, Robots, and Monkeys in Exo-Suits

86

6

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

42

7

Shape-programmable magnetic soft matter

27

8

Pilots, air traffic controllers shifting to text messaging

12

9

Full Resolution Image Compression with Recurrent Neural Networks

12

10

Computer Program for Simulating Time Travel and a Solution to Grandfather Paradox

7

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The decline of Stack Overflow (2015)

322

2

The Democratization of Censorship

182

3

A Rare Tour of Microsoft’s Hyperscale Datacenters

153

4

Inside Arizona’s Pump Skimmer Scourge

104

5

Google, Red Hat Work on a Way for Kubernetes to Run Containers Without Docker

96

6

The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google

86

7

Windows Server 2016: End of One Era, Start of Another

58

8

Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Launches Three New Experimental Features

45

9

Are we there yet by Rich Hickey

23

10

The Rules of Optimization: Why So Many Performance Efforts Fail

23

Tech blogs [?]

1

What HP Must Do to Make Amends for Its Self-Destructing Printers

230

2

European Court Allows Copyright Owners to Demand Open Wifi Networks be Secured

157

3

How Police and Courts are Misusing Unreliable IP Address Information [pdf]

105

4

Axial stack battery design could unlock the era of supersonic electric airliners

86

5

Don't Hide DRM in a Security Update

10

6

Five EFF Tools to Help You Protect Yourself Online

7

7

Web Bluetooth: The New Hotness and Its Dangers

6

8

NSA’s Failure to Report Leaked Vulnerabilities Underscores Need for Oversight

5

9

Nvidia Teases Xavier – ARM for HPC

5

10

HTML standardization group calls on W3C to protect security researchers from DRM

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Project Springfield – Microsoft’s service for finding security-critical bugs

68

2

EC2 Reserved Instance Update – Convertible RIs and Regional Benefit

9

3

AWS Expanding the M4 Instance Type – New M4.16xlarge

5

4

Now Available – Amazon Linux AMI 2016.09

4

5

First Annual Alexa Prize – $2.5M to Advance Conversational AI

4

6

AWS Introducing new M4 instance sizes

3

7

How to give a great research talk

3

8

Coming in 2017 – New AWS Region in France

3

9

Introducing OpenType Font Variations

1

10

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion

608

2

Nature’s libraries are the fountains of biological innovation

100

3

Y Combinator W17 Blank Application

68

4

America’s Short, Violent Love Affair with Indoor Track Cycling

58

5

The Strange Victorian Computer That Generated Latin Verse

55

6

How Beige Took Over American Homes

52

7

Space Art Propelled Scientific Exploration of the Cosmos, But Its Star Is Fading

47

8

You Don't Have to Be Stupid but It Helps

40

9

Plotting the Geocoordinates You May Have Accidentally Left Behind in Photos

23

10

Latvian government approves innovative new startup tax

10

Science News [?]

1

The Limits of Machine Learning

129

2

Poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers

118

3

Paradoxical Crystal Baffles Physicists

94

4

The price of connection: 'surveillance capitalism'

90

5

Telephoto Camera Lens Assists Dark Matter Find

65

6

Watching Evolution Happen in Two Lifetimes

52

7

Combating multidrug-resistant bacteria with nanoengineered peptide polymers

47

8

Life “not as we know it” might be possible on Titan

40

9

The Common Genius of Lincoln and Einstein (2014)

39

10

Two more classic psychology studies just failed the reproducibility test

24

Social [?]

1

What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]

502

2

Yandex Mail Success Story [video]

110

3

Talking to C Programmers about C++ [video]

86

4

Palmer Luckey secretly funding meme army on Twitter, Reddit

36

5

SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

30

6

Presenting the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

15

7

2600 offers $10,000 for first access to Donald Trump's tax return

13

8

I am deeply sorry - Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey

12

9

Cypherpunks, Bitcoin, hackers and changing the world through tech -Ulterior States

9

10

WDC test engineer describes some fascinating details of modern HDD

9

Github repos and gists [?]

1

UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency

688

2

Neural Photo Editor

337

3

V86 – An x86-compatible CPU and hardware emulator

221

4

Teleport – Modern SSH server for clusters and teams

218

5

iGAN – Deep learning software that generates images with a few brushstrokes

194

6

Rebase and merge pull requests

181

7

John Carmack .plan Archive (2014)

153

8

How OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code

133

9

Uvloop – Ultra fast implementation of asyncio event loop on top of libuv

127

10

Gosl – Go scientific library

125

Wikipedia [?]

1

Burning Ship Fractal

252

2

Bogdanov affair

131

3

Unethical human experimentation in the United States

24

4

Dihydrogen monoxide hoax

13

5

Space Travel (the video game that led to creation of Unix)

8

6

7

7

Portland International Airport carpet

4

8

4

9

What products and services Google killed

4

10

Burning Ship fractal

3

Blogs [?]

1

Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box

568

2

Two years spent spamming spammers back

457

3

Pixels and voxels, the long answer

435

4

On Phone Numbers and Identity

301

5

Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?

271

6

It’s easier and cheaper to use bank wires than Bitcoin

206

7

Software Development at 1 Hz

180

8

A Letter to the Berlin Startup Scene

100

9

Tensorflow Ruby API

90

10

Functional programming in C++

65

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Simple caret (^) at end of Windows batch file consumes all memory

14

2

JavaScript Conditional Comments for IE

2

3

Is there a PgHero equivalent for MongoDB?

1

Substack [?]