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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Request For Research: Basic Income
1876
2
Amazon's customer service backdoor
1447
3
Marvin Minsky dies at 88
1259
4
Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion
1207
5
Facebook is closing Parse
1202
6
Voxel.css
771
7
T-Shirts Unravelled
756
8
Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show
683
9
Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley
634
10
Google's Free Deep Learning Course
614
Top Ask HN
1
How do prolific programmers go about their daily lives?
196
2
How do I fire someone who has sensitive data on their personal laptop?
90
3
What should replace XMPP?
75
4
Are there real-world examples of moral failures of software engineers?
60
5
Am I ridiculous for finding 8 hours of work as a coder, ridiculous?
54
6
What's the SQLite of graph databases?
31
7
Who are some of the most inspiring people/users you've come across on HN
31
8
What does it take to run Hacker News smoothly?
22
9
Boss/Founder keeping my departure a secret. What to do?
22
10
What maths should I learn to have a solid basis for Machine Learning?
20
Top Show HN
1
I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos
310
2
“Nim in Action” is now available
181
3
Wallabag, a self-hostable application for saving web pages
135
4
A support network for working remote – my idea to overcome cabin fever
115
5
Read Hacker News in a Pinterest Way
113
6
Graphene – GraphQL framework for Python
106
7
Pact, a simple utility that kills all procs given to it if one dies
94
8
Visual Search using features extracted from Tensor Flow inception model
75
9
Search Google, GitHub, Stack Overflow, other sites from the terminal
73
10
List of movie and book characters I use during application development
72
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Newegg sues patent troll that dropped its case
595
2
Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++
319
3
Internet of Things security is so bad, there’s a search engine for sleeping kids
208
4
Zcash, an untraceable Bitcoin alternative, launches in alpha
205
5
Shadowy tech brokers that deliver your data to the NSA
194
6
California Police Used Stingrays in Planes to Spy on Phones
185
7
Facebook Climbs to 1.59B Users, Beats Q4 Estimates with $5.8B Revenue
170
8
VMware Confirms Layoffs as It Prepares for Dell Acquisition
170
9
SoundCloud Will Be Worth More Than Spotify
100
10
Dotcloud Is Shutting Down on February 29
97
News [?]
1
Marvin Minsky dies at 88
1259
2
Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion
1207
3
Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement
401
4
Scientists open the ‘black box’ of schizophrenia with dramatic genetic discovery
296
5
SpaceX successfully tests parachute for bringing astronauts back [video]
221
6
The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)
218
7
Why do people put on differing amounts of weight?
183
8
Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers with Immigrants
180
9
Expect Some Unicorns to Lose Their Horns, and It Won’t Be Pretty
175
10
Google Paid Apple $1B to Keep Search Bar on iPhone
159
Scientific publications [?]
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COGENT: Certified Compilation for a Functional Systems Language
60
2
How to Build an Electronic Bee Counter
42
3
Lomonosov’s Discovery of Venus Atmosphere in 1761
40
4
NwAvGuy: The Audio Genius Who Vanished (2014)
33
5
Carbon dioxide captured from air can be directly converted into methanol fuel
27
6
Facebook's AI to make computesr play GO better
9
7
Life, Information, Entropy, and Time: Vehicles for Semantic Inheritance (2007)
7
8
Bitwise Neural Networks
6
9
Self-Driving Cars Will Be Ready Before Our Laws Are
5
10
Is Keck’s Law Coming to an End?
4
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite Sites
203
2
Updated Firefox Security Indicators
129
3
Unikernel Profiling from dom0
109
4
Google Cloud Platform Identity and Access Management
92
5
Addressing the Chilling Effect of Patent Damages
85
6
Mozilla Firefox Add-On Signing Update
75
7
How APIs Fulfill the Original Promise of Service-Oriented Architecture
45
8
A New Object of Supercomputing Storage Interest
12
9
Insight into SpaceX Software Development
6
10
‘Gizmo’, a Golang-Based Microservices Toolkit from The New York Times Dev Team
5
Tech blogs [?]
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“No Cost” License Plate Readers Are Turning Texas Police into Debt Collectors
285
2
Google Pixel C Review
176
3
25 Civil Liberties Orgs Call for Open Hearings on Section 702 Surveillance
132
4
The Apple iPad Pro Review
95
5
"Notice-And-Stay-Down" Is Really "Filter-Everything"
31
6
GDDR5X Standard Finalized: New Graphics Memory Up to 14 Gbps
14
7
How deep learning is used for Malware Detection?
4
8
Accessing Cell Phone Records Without a Warrant Violates the Constitution
4
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No One Owns the Law. Everyone Owns the Law
4
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These Processes Are Vital to Creating Copyright Rules That Work for Everyone
4
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results, Slowing Growth in iPhone Sales
132
2
Microsoft Cloud Strength Highlights Second Quarter Results
105
3
AWS Introduces Certificate Service
4
4
AWS Certificate Manager
3
5
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Dilbert author Scott Adams
3
6
Customer Reviews “The Internet Bubble” (1999)
3
7
AWS CodePipeline Adds Support for Triggering AWS Lambda Functions
3
8
Microsoft AC power cord recall for Surface Pro, Surface Pro 2, and certain Pro 3
2
9
Amazon introduces SSL Certificate Management
2
10
Learn JavaScript basics for 99 cents
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
244
2
Renaissance Florence Was a Better Model for Innovation Than Silicon Valley Is
172
3
Writing Assembly on OpenBSD (x86) (2012)
38
4
How Facebook squashed Twitter
33
5
Changes in Climate Have Always Made Things Worse for Accused Witches
20
6
Is it OK to have kids?
16
7
How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels SF's housing crisis (1999)
14
8
The Origin of Chernobyl's Most Famous Photo
9
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Hunger is psychological
6
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The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ (2013)
5
Science News [?]
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More evidence emerges for 'transmissible Alzheimer's' theory
171
2
Why Understanding Space Is So Hard
148
3
How to Discover a Galaxy with a Telephoto Lens
142
4
It's Time to End the War on Salt (2011)
114
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Antioxidants May Make Cancer Worse
99
6
New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time
85
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Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
58
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The height limit of a siphon
49
9
When Edison, Ford and Friends Went Road-Tripping in Model Ts
47
10
Personal Space Is a Fear Response
34
Social [?]
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Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement
544
2
Building AI
175
3
Cord drill and Pump drill [video]
106
4
World's Fastest Rubik's Cube Solving Robot [video]
88
5
Power laws as a thinking tool
35
6
The Landscape of Parallelism in C++ [video]
34
7
Preserving the Chrysler Electronic Voice Alert (2015) [video]
19
8
TP-LINK WiFi Password = MAC address
15
9
World's Fastest Rubik's Cube Solving Robot [video]
15
10
1.7B Reddit comments loaded on BigQuery
14
Github repos and gists [?]
1
GitHub Outage
420
2
ES6 Cheatsheet
324
3
GoQt
281
4
Use JSON files as if they are Python modules
267
5
RabbitMQ Internals
253
6
Replace a running Debian installation by Arch remotely over ssh
161
7
MRI Scans of a person's brain
152
8
Viewer.js – JavaScript image viewer
142
9
Single-file public-domain/open source C libraries with minimal dependencies
132
10
TBOX: A Multi-Platform C Library
130
Wikipedia [?]
1
The China GPS shift problem
205
2
OpenDoc
27
3
Satoshi Nakamoto
5
4
Wilhelm scream
4
5
Banking Model of Education
3
6
Simple explanation of UTF-8
3
7
Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science
3
8
Return-oriented programming
2
9
The Great Stink of 1858
2
10
André Courrèges 1923-2016
2
Blogs [?]
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Amazon's customer service backdoor
1447
2
Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley
634
3
Life is more like Tetris than Chess
109
4
The limitations of sampling profilers
104
5
At 83, I Decided to Develop an App
102
6
The Computer Revolution Has yet to Happen
100
7
What Paul Graham Is Missing About Inequality – Tim O'Reilly
89
8
Facebook ad click numbers are inconsistent with other analytics
68
9
El Niño vs. the Drought
56
10
Angular 2 First App Post-Mortem
52
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Should I use Vagrant or Docker for creating an isolated environment?
6
2
1M Java questions have now been asked on StackOverflow
3
3
Redux-saga vs. redux-thunk
3
4
How to design mobile device edge using CSS?
2
5
Java have now passed 1.000.000 questions on stackoverflow
2
6
Why is max slower than sort in Python?
2
7
Making sure to always run the dnvm and dnu commands
2
8
How to Find Existence of .Net Framework Data Provider for MySql on Mono Ubuntu?
1
9
Why to define <button> as .btn?
1
Substack [?]