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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

2475

2

All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware

1493

3

Shame on Y Combinator

1280

4

Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month

1071

5

Programming books you might want to consider reading

1019

6

Nintendo Switch – New Video Game System [video]

942

7

Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw

846

8

Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'

782

9

Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline

621

10

Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it less secure

593

Top Ask HN

1

How to get started with machine learning?

950

2

$1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you did to market it?

494

3

Good books or articles on UI design?

363

4

To those who became fluent in a second language, what did you do?

195

5

What is the state of C++ vs. Rust?

154

6

How to ask companies about problems they are facing?

145

7

A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?

126

8

What's the best 'non-frustrating' search/directory UI/UX you've seen?

96

9

How to handle a workaholic colleague?

91

10

Why is the Peter Thiel Trump donation story buried by HN?

83

Top Show HN

1

I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination

277

2

Get encrypted data from people that don’t know how to encrypt

275

3

CSS ICON, an icon set crafted by pure CSS

250

4

Swip.js, a library to create multi device experiments

152

5

TrueJob 1.0 – Pandora for jobs and data for everyone

140

6

hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting

109

7

Nuage – Domain names with no hassle

79

8

Tdo – keyboard driven, hackable todo list

78

9

Skeletal Animation in Your Browser via Dual Quaternion Linear Blending

75

10

Jumper, a robot to help you exercise every day

65

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

“Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit

483

2

Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase

435

3

WTF is a container?

366

4

T-Mobile will pay a $48M fine for throttling ‘unlimited data’ plans

231

5

Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen

192

6

Revenue from self-driving Teslas only allowed through the Tesla Network

173

7

Apple hires CMU professor as director of AI research to smarten up Siri

170

8

Fujifilm X-T2 review: for the love of photography

157

9

A Kickstarter idea could be on sale in China before fundraising has finished

142

10

Chipotle Eats Itself

111

News [?]

1

Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'

782

2

The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’

426

3

The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play

394

4

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (2013)

378

5

I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me

305

6

“If you get a C or lower, I’ll buy you a present”

304

7

Leo Beranek, an engineer who helped build Arpanet, has died

290

8

Italy’s rarest pasta

284

9

I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be

275

10

Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds

273

Scientific publications [?]

1

A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

212

2

Discovery of peculiar modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars

108

3

Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012)

77

4

Curious tilt of the sun traced to undiscovered planet

77

5

Is Silicon Valley Discriminating Against Men and Asians?

58

6

Ugly Year for Tech Layoffs, and It’s Going to Get Worse

6

7

Analyst: Ugly Year for Tech Layoffs, and It’s Going to Get Worse

5

8

A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors

4

9

SRI Demonstrates Abacus, the First New Rotary Transmission Design in 50 Years

4

10

NASA's Centennial Challenges: Vascular Tissue Challenge

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Radar – A new set of integrated tools to help prevent fraud

293

2

Phasing Out SHA-1 on the Public Web

197

3

How to speed up the Rust compiler

185

4

OpenSSL after Heartbleed

113

5

109

6

The Next Wave of Deep Learning Hardware Architectures

84

7

It Looks Like Ethereum Is Going to Fork Again

76

8

How to Destroy the Myth of the Proper Solution

53

9

Memory is the Next Platform

38

10

Labeling fact-check articles in Google News

38

Tech blogs [?]

1

More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold on Amazon are fake

284

2

Facial Recognition’s Threat to Privacy Is Worse Than Anyone Thought

194

3

OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces

133

4

A cheap 555-based Geiger counter

127

5

Germans React to UK’s micro:bit

126

6

Samsung Foundry Announces 10nm SoC in Mass-Production

90

7

Uncovering depression's web in the brain

85

8

Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

76

9

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

17

10

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

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

98

2

AWS announces launch of us-east-2 (Ohio)

13

3

Data Center Operations: A Guide to Effective Planning, Processing and Performance

6

4

Run Windows Server 2016 on Amazon EC2

3

5

The Curse of Cash

2

6

Amazon Aurora New Features: Lambda and S3 Integration

2

7

Amazon Aurora – Call Lambda Functions from Stored Procedures; Load Data from S3

2

8

VMware Cloud on AWS

1

9

VMWare cloud on AWS

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211

223

2

4os – An operating system written completely in Forth

141

3

Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation

93

4

Guns, empires and Indians: Imperial politics triggered an indigenous arms race

24

5

Theranos and the Dark Side of Storytelling

17

6

Tesla announces all production cars now have fully self-driving hardware

7

7

GitLab prohibits employees to carry out any personal work (14. Additional work)

5

8

RethinkDB short-term goals

5

9

Boon and Gable (A Better Way to Shop for Clothes) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers

4

10

London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211

3

Science News [?]

1

Europe and Russia prepare for historic landing on Mars

130

2

There is a blind spot in AI research

98

3

Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language (2015)

80

4

The power of prediction markets

74

5

80 Years Later, Polar Explorer’s Sunken Ship Floats Again

52

6

How Schrödinger’s Cat Became Such a Violent Fable

49

7

How Can We Tell Which Election Forecasts Are True?

37

8

New record for fusion

27

9

Meteorites pummel the Moon far more than expected

27

10

Herbal, dietary supplements cause one-fifth of liver injuries

25

Social [?]

1

“Julian Assange’s internet link has been intentionally severed”

231

2

1000W LED on a Drone [video]

185

3

Sam Altman: “YC not going to fire someone over support of a candidate”

168

4

Elm 1+2: can't download X

54

5

Reddit links Assange attacks to "Center for American Progress"

51

6

HTTP/2 core features and how they relate to real-world conditions [video]

46

7

We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange's internet access Saturday, 5pm GMT

44

8

Jakarta's Aeromovel – mass transit powered by pressurized air [video]

40

9

Wikileaks releases pre-commitment hashes after Assange's Internet has been cut

37

10

Kill “Microservices” Before Its Too Late by Chad Fowler

37

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Noms – A versioned, forkable, syncable database

399

2

Angular 1.x Banned from Firefox Addons

384

3

Sanic – Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast

227

4

Awesome .NET – A collection of .NET libraries, tools, frameworks, and software

198

5

Minimal Raspberry Pi VPU firmware

171

6

A curated list of Blockchain, Bitcoin and Crytocurrency resources

163

7

Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS

144

8

What should go into JSX 2.0?

122

9

SWAPDB Redis command

121

10

LightGBM – A fast, distributed, gradient boosting framework

104

Wikipedia [?]

1

Bitmessage: a decentralized, encrypted, trustless communications protocol

70

2

Wirth's Law - Software gets slower more quickly than hardware gets faster

40

3

Apportionment paradox – Wikipedia

7

4

3

5

Clean (programming language) – Wikipedia

3

6

3

7

Internet background noise

2

8

Deutsche Physik

2

9

Kerckhoffs's principle

2

10

The Birthday Paradox

2

Blogs [?]

1

Programming books you might want to consider reading

1019

2

Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

450

3

Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes

387

4

Operations for software developers for beginners

154

5

Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

134

6

Universities have turned over hundreds of patents to patent trolls

128

7

New paper: “Why most of psychology is statistically unfalsifiable”

81

8

From Mac to Linux: Web Development with Linux

81

9

Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

59

10

Peter Thiel, YC, and Hard Decisions

58

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stackoverflow needs redesign

18

2

The new features in C++17

3

3

What are the new features in C++17

2

4

Performance cost using std::move vs. using a pointer to the thread in c++?

2

5

Strategies for re-deploying an older version of your application's database

1

Substack [?]