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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test

1764

2

Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript

1714

3

Open Guide to Amazon Web Services

1362

4

The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”

1149

5

Suspicious court cases, missing defendants, aim to get webpages taken down

819

6

Taking PHP Seriously

819

7

Windows 93 (2014)

790

8

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 awarded to Bob Dylan

731

9

A decentralized web would give power back to the people online

710

10

You might not need JavaScript

649

Top Ask HN

1

What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

1081

2

Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

373

3

206

4

Learning to code, without a computer?

205

5

Any recommendations on resources for learning one algorithm a day?

204

6

How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such as Digital Ocean?

127

7

Consider banning paywalled articles like those from wsj.com please

121

8

What do you use for Log Management?

92

9

Where should I host my startup?

92

10

Fired at 51 weeks by prominent startup?

90

Top Show HN

1

Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)

911

2

Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages

727

3

TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager

361

4

Nightlight, an editor that runs inside Clojure projects

195

5

Styled-components – Use the best of ES6 to style React apps

172

6

Marathono – A GUI tool for managing long-running processes in macOS

165

7

Live control a robot running around my house

162

8

Projects Made with Code

154

9

Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

136

10

Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch

124

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

A decentralized web would give power back to the people online

710

2

Barack Obama on A.I., Autonomous Cars, and the Future of Humanity

317

3

ACLU exposes Facebook, Twitter for selling surveillance company user data

296

4

Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

213

5

Twitter bot is tracking dictators' flights in and out of Geneva

195

6

NSA could put undetectable “trapdoors” in crypto keys

155

7

VMware’s new cloud service will run on AWS

138

8

Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

125

9

London police charge man with terrorism over use of encryption

114

10

Another replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has caught fire

111

News [?]

1

Suspicious court cases, missing defendants, aim to get webpages taken down

819

2

A Man Who Stood Up To Facebook

495

3

Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing Its Human Editors

355

4

Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit?

349

5

Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone

324

6

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Steps Down

312

7

Decades-Old Mystery Put to Rest: Why Are There X's in the Desert?

307

8

Major Investor Sues Theranos

254

9

How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages

241

10

Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars

223

Scientific publications [?]

1

Robot Can Do More Push-Ups Because It Sweats

269

2

Hubble Finds 10 Times More Galaxies Than Thought

186

3

European Spacecraft Prepares to Land on Mars Next Week

95

4

Discovery of peculiar periodic spectral modulations in some solar type stars

50

5

Quantum Tokens for Digital Signatures

43

6

At the World's First Cybathlon, Proud Cyborg Athletes Raced for the Gold

37

7

23

8

Towards Deep Symbolic Reinforcement Learning

14

9

The Astropy Problem

8

10

Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effect on the Web

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras

336

2

69

3

Why No One Responds to Your Customer Success Managers

31

4

Raising the Standard for Storage Memory Fabrics

15

5

Empty DDoS Threats: Meet the Armada Collective

12

6

10

7

Adapteva Joins the Kilocore Club with Epiphany-V

10

8

All the nonce schemes of TLS from 1.0 to 1.3

5

9

Security Economics of the Internet of Things

5

10

How PMs Can Earn the Respect and Trust of Their Team

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

How to Make a Handheld EMP Jammer

134

2

The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus Review: Iterating on a Flagship

95

3

Doubt cast on Dash developer's defense against Apple's claim of review fraud

60

4

Secure Messaging Scorecard

37

5

Tell the Copyright Office: Copyright Law Shouldn't Punish Research and Repair

29

6

Unblinking Eyes: The State of Communications Surveillance in Latin America

10

7

Where WhatsApp Went Wrong: EFF's Four Biggest Security Concerns

9

8

How Big Pharma's Shadow Regulation Censors the Internet

9

9

Upload Filtering Mandate Would Shred European Copyright Safe Harbor

6

10

EFF Goes to Washington to Fight Against the Changes to Rule 41

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

Going Serverless: Migrating an Express App to AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda

145

2

Inclusive Design Toolkit

46

3

VMware Cloud on AWS

26

4

Microsoft Design – Inclusive design toolkit

8

5

Microsoft Windows 10 Event

3

6

New Amazon EC2 X1 instance size and expansion of X1 instances to new regions

3

7

Windows Server 2016 Evaluation Edition

2

8

Amazon Music Unlimited ($7.99/month for Prime Members)

2

9

Come and Take It, Cody Wilson, man behind 3d gun printing has released his book

2

10

New AWS Quick Starts for Atlassian JIRA Software and Bitbucket Data Center

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

RethinkDB needs a new home

302

2

Inside the New York Public Library's Last, Secret Apartments

168

3

Monks Who Spent Years Turning Themselves into Mummies While Alive

125

4

Why Women Pretended to Be Rocks and Trees in NYC Parks During WWI

106

5

Web2Web: Serverless Websites Powered by Torrents and Bitcoin

102

6

What Chinese corner-cutting reveals about modernity

63

7

The problem with p-values

58

8

The Dramatic Life and Mysterious Death of Theodosia Burr

32

9

Most of the time, innovators don’t move fast and break things

12

10

It’s not all lightbulbs

7

Science News [?]

1

Farm grows vegetables in a desert using sun and seawater

543

2

The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless

261

3

New 'Dead Sea Scrolls' Revealed

208

4

Elephants without tusks are a response to the selective pressure of poaching

186

5

Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory

153

6

The Problem with Modern Romance Is Too Much Choice

150

7

We May Never Truly Fathom Other Cultures

107

8

What 18th-Century Paris Sounded Like

97

9

The Genius of Learning

90

10

Meet the New Math, Unlike the Old Math

66

Social [?]

1

Facebook seems not to be paying app developer $160K in ad revenue

317

2

Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video]

286

3

Decap of a Cell Phone SIM card [video]

129

4

Robot band plays Ace of Spades

51

5

Microsoft Paint Preview [video]

42

6

Thread in Which DHH and Paul Graham Argue about Thiel's YC Position

42

7

Eliezer Yudkowsky on Trump's “maybe we shouldn't defend NATO” remark

39

8

Black Mirror: Official Trailer – Season 3

19

9

Is a round Minecraft world possible? [video]

19

10

GlobalSign experiencing issues – Certificates showing as revoked

18

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Open Guide to Amazon Web Services

1362

2

Latency numbers every programmer should know (2012)

224

3

The P programming language

220

4

Image unshredding using a TSP solver

205

5

Keras.js – Run trained Keras models in your browser

192

6

Suiron – Machine Learning for RC Cars

156

7

Manic Digger – A multiplayer block-building voxel game, Minecraft clone

131

8

Python Library for Learning Binary Trees

111

9

Desktop Notifications for console logs in browser

97

10

Cuberite – A FOSS Minecraft Server Implementation

95

Wikipedia [?]

1

Honey Encryption

75

2

List of countries by tax rates

25

3

16

4

GitHub was blocked in Turkey

11

5

Dario Fo has died

5

6

Bede BD-10 – Attempted Homebuilt Supersonic Aircraft

3

7

Duverger's law: single-choice voting tends toward a two-party system

3

8

The Fujiwhara Effect

2

9

Now Pick Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms or Mx for No Specific Gender

2

10

List of distributed computing projects

2

Blogs [?]

1

Developer hiring and the market for lemons

448

2

How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps

432

3

What $50 buys you at the Huaqiangbei electronics market in Shenzhen, China

358

4

I’m Done Pretending SF Tech Is Visionary

212

5

Fuck You Startup World

157

6

F-– You, Startup World

133

7

Why we rejected Pfizer’s donation offer of pneumonia vaccines

112

8

Why a Brit chose to start a business in Berlin

111

9

All you wanted to know about ‘all-hands’ meetings

93

10

The Julia Programming Language for Number Crunching

66

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Use PHP as a C preprocessor

3

2

Why is the size of a lambda 1 in C++?

2

3

Sequelize sum between two columns in model

2

4

Proposal for Blogger (Blogspot) Documentation :)

1

5

Which encoding opens CSV files correctly with Excel on both Mac and Windows?

1

6

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

1

7

Stack Overflow Developer Story

1

Substack [?]