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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

RethinkDB is shutting down

1674

2

I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

1361

3

Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence

1346

4

Google Noto Fonts

1217

5

Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store

1036

6

Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data

826

7

792

8

Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend

712

9

651

10

Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

640

Top Ask HN

1

What's your favorite tech talk?

848

2

Who is hiring? (October 2016)

620

3

How do you get people to use your product when you suck at networking?

280

4

How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?

270

5

Alternatives to AWS?

170

6

Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)

164

7

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2016)

156

8

Who needs contributors? (October 2016)

152

9

Why do companies buy ads when they are the top result in search?

143

10

30+ men and women in software, how much do you make?

91

Top Show HN

1

Wave function collapse algorithm

1226

2

416

3

A new decentralized microblogging platform

364

4

Patat – Terminal-based presentations using Pandoc

167

5

Dijkstra’s algorithm in the web browser with OpenStreetMap

158

6

Cypht – Unique Open Source Webmail

110

7

Graph Convolutional Networks – Intro to neural networks on graphs

106

8

Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them

97

9

GUI for writing Elasticsearch queries

97

10

Use Trello as a Helpdesk

90

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

651

2

Police complaints drop over 90% after deploying body cameras

597

3

Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products

452

4

A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors

421

5

Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal

277

6

Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri

241

7

Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest plane

222

8

WalmartLabs open sources the application platform that powers Walmart.com

220

9

Udacity open-sources additional driving data

208

10

A Law Professor Explains Why You Should Never Talk to Police

188

News [?]

1

MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs

489

2

Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny

487

3

Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

433

4

How being alone may be the key to rest

353

5

Implication of sabotage adds intrigue to SpaceX investigation

304

6

Rosetta ends its mission

296

7

Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter

283

8

N.S.A. Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets

267

9

Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make a Bid

256

10

Code of Silence

253

Scientific publications [?]

1

Quantum-Chemical Insights from Deep Tensor Neural Networks

55

2

Practical and ethical implications of memory enhancement

55

3

Google Translate Gets a Deep-Learning Upgrade

12

4

Researchers Question Apollo-Era Evidence for the Late Heavy Bombardment

8

5

A mathematical history of taffy pullers

6

6

Quantum Tokens for Digital Signatures

4

7

(Lack Of) Representation of Non Western World in Creation of Web Standards

4

8

Reservoirs play substantial role in global warming

3

9

A 5.4 Gbps real time quantum random number generator with compact implementation

3

10

[1610.01178] a Tour of TensorFlow

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

499

2

Why kernel development still uses email

294

3

Lesser known Git commands

262

4

Data denormalization is broken

171

5

Systemd programming, 30 months later

168

6

Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system

158

7

Stripe in Japan

129

8

MOSS supports four more open source projects in Q3 2016 with $300k

96

9

How Twitter deploys its widgets JavaScript

54

10

Is WhatsApp Hacked?

39

Tech blogs [?]

1

IEEE P802.3bz Approval for 2.5G/5G Ethernet

103

2

USB-IF Publishes Audio Over USB Type-C Specifications

88

3

EFF Asks Court to Block U.S. From Prosecuting Security Researcher

85

4

Tell HP: Still a long way to go to make up for breaking our printers

44

5

Stupid Design Patent of the Month: Rectangles on a Screen

16

6

Yahoo Email Surveillance: The Next Front in the Fight Against Mass Surveillance

8

7

Spotify Free desktop users facing malware-filled ads

6

8

How to Hack a Spacecraft to Die Gracefully

6

9

Tim Cook Tells Utah Tech Audience: Encryption 'Makes the Public Safe'

5

10

The World Trade Organization Sets Its Eyes on the Internet

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

New P2 Instance Type for Amazon EC2 – Up to 16 GPUs

223

2

AWS IPv6 Support Update – CloudFront, WAF, S3 Transfer Acceleration

27

3

9

4

Comcast Xfinity 3.8/5 stars on Amazon, but 86% of the 870 reviews are 1 star

7

5

Some AWS Reserved Instances Now Convertible and AZ Agnostic

3

6

The DevOps Handbook

3

7

Amazon launching Prime reading with just 1000 books

3

8

IPv6 Support for Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

3

9

Introducing Amazon EC2 P2 Instances, the Largest GPU-Powered Virtual Machine

2

10

Amazon Game Studios Announce Breakaway

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious

447

2

We're Sequencing Every Member of the Weirdest Bird Species on Earth

91

3

Watching Pirate Streams Isn’t Illegal, EU Commission Argues

83

4

The examined life

39

5

Lovely Hidden Paintings Adorned the Edges of Historic Books

35

6

The desire to fit in is the root of almost all wrongdoing

31

7

“If KickassTorrents Is a Criminal Operation, Google Should Start Worrying”

11

8

Tesla delivers 24,500 vehicles during the last quarter, 5,500 more in transit

11

9

RethinkDB. The MySQL storage engine for solid-state drives (2009)

10

10

Canada to introduce $10/ton carbon tax

5

Science News [?]

1

Scientists Trace Society’s Myths to Primordial Origins

137

2

80% of current drug applications in China failed to meet analysis requirements

127

3

“Infinitely Rich” Mathematician Richard Guy Turns 100

124

4

When world leaders thought you shouldn't need passports or visas

110

5

A Nonlinear History of Time Travel

73

6

A theory on how insulin resistance, metabolic disease begin

71

7

Using Mathematics to Repair a Masterpiece

47

8

Social Learning in Nature Is Ubiquitous

41

9

Ancient teeth make H. sapiens the lead suspect in extinction of H. floresiensis

36

10

Neanderthals Fashioned 'Jewelry' Out of Animal Teeth and Shells

31

Social [?]

1

I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

1361

2

There's no easy way to say this

570

3

The Art of Making a Nixie Tube [video]

199

4

Pixel by Google

148

5

macOS Sierra Stores and Syncs SSH Passphrases to iCloud

111

6

Mouse cursor disappears when my refrigerator turns off

39

7

Problems with Mars

36

8

The Inevitability of Physical Laws: Why the Higgs Has to Exist (2012) [video]

29

9

Xamarin – The latest release is unusable and I need to vent

28

10

Being a Manager is Hard

27

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become a Google engineer

327

2

Neural-redis – Neural networks module for Redis

229

3

Best practice examples of data journalism and visualization projects

214

4

Subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural network implementation with Tensorflow

210

5

The Berkeley Document Summarizer: Learning-Based, Single-Document Summarization

195

6

Karabiner – Easy Keyboard Remapping for OS X

179

7

Rust gets working asmjs and wasm targets

177

8

Gorram: go run for any go function

162

9

A list of all Android permissions

134

10

Solvespace – parametric 2d/3d CAD

128

Wikipedia [?]

1

Pieter Hintjens

62

2

Timekeeping on Mars

10

3

9

4

7

5

Pluralistic Ignorance

4

6

Interplanetary Internet

4

7

List of light sources

3

8

3

9

Sverdlovsk anthrax leak

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend

712

2

How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

452

3

The cost of forsaking C

292

4

Vue 2.0 is here

250

5

When Roman “Barbarians” Met the Asian Enlightenment

224

6

Are closed social networks inevitable? (2010)

170

7

“I just want to run a container”

117

8

The Prostate Cancer Test That Saved My Life

81

9

Harassment of Our Authors Is Not Ok: A Conversation

57

10

Electrode: A universal react/node application platform by Walmart Labs

38

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Call a function named in a string variable in C

4

2

Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm in plain English?

3

3

Can GNU Make handle filenames with spaces?

3

4

Detailed reason why remote Git rebase is evil

1

5

Instantiating BSD jails from C

1

6

What is Dependent Typing?

1

7

Are GCC and Clang parsers really handwritten?

1

Substack [?]