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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

1563

2

Why you should never use Upwork

1175

3

Music Theory: An Education from First Principles

955

4

861

5

Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years

822

6

HN comments are underrated

733

7

Git from the inside out

722

8

Cognitive bias cheat sheet

684

9

White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many workers

667

10

Why we chose Vue.js

637

Top Ask HN

1

What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

1036

2

What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

516

3

How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

323

4

What good open source projects written in React that I can learn from?

270

5

What cool development languages/tools changed your career?

261

6

Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?

206

7

What are your passive income sources?

200

8

What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

193

9

Do you get paid to contribute to a open source project?

119

10

What are the best web tools to build basic web apps as of October 2016?

114

Top Show HN

1

Killing Procrastination by Making Everything Fit

301

2

A Simple Highway Simulator

219

3

Anonymous messaging with a 1km radius

194

4

TCP over sound on Android

179

5

Android 'root' phones via dirtyc0w exploit

143

6

A curated list of insecure Python packages

94

7

Run your own OAuth2 and OpenID Connect Provider

88

8

A chat client built on git

81

9

I'm writing the Modular JavaScript book series

73

10

Rambler – A simple and language-independent SQL schema migration tool

69

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Microsoft Surface Studio

599

2

Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones

279

3

Most Germans don’t buy their homes, they rent

176

4

Google buys Eyefluence eye-tracking startup

158

5

Microsoft announces new VR headsets for Windows 10, starting at $299

153

6

Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display

152

7

The new MacBook Pro is here

138

8

Bryan Johnson invests $100M in Kernel to unlock the power of the human brain

127

9

Google’s former happiness guru's three-second brain exercise for finding joy

126

10

Smartwatch sales are tanking

102

News [?]

1

Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years

822

2

White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many workers

667

3

Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

606

4

FCC Vote Means Internet Providers Need Permission to Share Your Data

540

5

Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week

458

6

Google Fiber Cutting Jobs and Halting Rollout

440

7

Battery technology may emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets

392

8

Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich kids who do things wrong

382

9

Webcams used to attack Reddit and Twitter recalled

368

10

AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B

343

Scientific publications [?]

1

ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency

273

2

Inside the Development of Light, the Tiny Digital Camera That Outperforms DSLRs

127

3

Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System

103

4

Transistor Production Has Reached Astronomical Scales (2015)

81

5

Semi-Supervised Knowledge Transfer for Deep Learning from Private Training Data

80

6

Casting a vote online can be secure and convenient

26

7

Photos of Mars Lander from NASA Mars Orbiter

14

8

Did 40-year-old Viking experiment discover life on Mars?

8

9

Psychological science explores the minds of dogs

6

10

A Learned Representation for Artistic Style

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

DTrace for Linux 2016

482

2

Jamboard – The whiteboard reimagined for collaboration in the cloud

141

3

Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates

132

4

Category Theory for the Working Hacker [video]

128

5

Using the KVM API

87

6

Viewing Sizing Recommendations for Instances

74

7

DDoS on Dyn Impacts Twitter, Spotify, Reddit

71

8

CPU, GPU Put to Deep Learning Framework Test

32

9

How Cloudflare's Architecture Allows Us to Scale to Stop the Largest Attacks

30

10

Why I’m writing a Windows 3 Emulator

30

Tech blogs [?]

1

Images of New MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar Leaked in MacOS Sierra 10.12.1

250

2

Samsung Sets Its Reputation on Fire with Bogus DMCA Takedown Notices

124

3

BASIC Interpreter Hidden in ESP32 Silicon

38

4

SSDs Kill the 15K HDD, Seagate Rolls Out Last Generation

17

5

AT&T requires police to hide Hemisphere phone spying

9

6

Apple Delays AirPods, October Launch No Longer Happening

8

7

Debunking the Patriot Act as It Turns 15

7

8

Tim Cook: 'We Don't Buy' the Need to Give Up Privacy for AI

7

9

IBM Says Macs Are Up to $543 Less Expensive Than PCs Over Time

6

10

It's Time for Answers on Yahoo's Email Scanning

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

861

2

Debunking Misleading Benchmarks Of Redshift vs BigQuery

168

3

A Cloud-Scale Acceleration Architecture: FPGAs in Microsoft’s Datacenters

112

4

68

5

October Special Event Keynote [video]

46

6

New – AWS Server Migration Service

5

7

5

8

AWS Budgets Update – Track Cloud Costs and Usage

3

9

Microsoft Surface Studio

3

10

Microsoft Surface Dial

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Red Gate Woods: The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor

67

2

When Tomatoes Were Blamed for Witchcraft and Werewolves

35

3

Beyond Humans: What other kinds of minds might be out there?

9

4

Why I Tell My MBA Students to Stop Looking for a Job and Join the Gig Economy

7

5

Let your workers rebel

6

6

Cisco Develops System to Automatically Cut-Off Pirate Video Streams

5

7

The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

4

8

RethinkDB version 2.4 “already in the works”

3

9

Why I Tell My MBA Students to Stop Looking for a Job and Join the Gig Economy

3

10

Cisco Develops System to Automatically Cut-Off Pirate Video Streams

3

Science News [?]

1

Young, talented and fed-up: scientists tell their stories

248

2

Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight

161

3

MIT launches new venture for world-changing entrepreneurs

146

4

Tardigrade protein helps human DNA withstand radiation

133

5

WHO Cancer Agency Asked Experts to Withhold Weed-Killer Documents

117

6

Computing glitch may have doomed Mars lander

85

7

Physics tweak solves five of the biggest problems in one go

70

8

Formal Verification Creates Hacker-Proof Code

69

9

How many genes does it take to make a person?

46

10

Is an Engineer an Artist?

35

Social [?]

1

Elon Musk SpaceX AMA

299

2

1177 BC – The Year Civilization Collapsed [video]

280

3

“No, I'm the ex-CEO of Reddit because eventually there was too much bullshit.”

204

4

Impossible Coin in Super Mario 64

187

5

We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point

74

6

Bitcoin is at over 43K unconfirmed transactions

58

7

Noam Chomsky: The Alien perspective on humanity [video]

41

8

3 Rules for Rulers

36

9

Group chat sucks for programmers, so I'm fixing the problem

34

10

Heavily armed 'police' appear outside Ecuadorian Embassy in London

30

Github repos and gists [?]

1

The Remote Freelancer: A list of remote work alternatives to Upwork

494

2

Deep learning papers reading roadmap

421

3

2017 Rust Roadmap

332

4

262

5

Baidu File System – A distributed file system for real-time applications

239

6

Games on GitHub

195

7

Django React/Redux Base Project

175

8

The DrK Attack: De-randomizing Kernel ASLR

159

9

Gdrive – A command line utility for interacting with Google Drive

145

10

How to Make a Computer Operating System

143

Wikipedia [?]

1

Microsoft Chrome

148

2

132

3

Salisbury cathedral clock

57

4

19

5

LCS-1 – Oldest spacecraft still in use

8

6

Origin of speech

5

7

Leader Election

3

8

On this day in 1984: “Baby Fae” received a heart transplant from a baboon

2

9

Time formatting and storage bugs

2

10

Proposed redefinition of SI base units

2

Blogs [?]

1

Why you should never use Upwork

1175

2

HN comments are underrated

733

3

Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement

572

4

A Quantum Leap for the Web

495

5

Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app

451

6

Building a Shop with Sub-Second Page Loads: Lessons Learned

271

7

Running containers without Docker

205

8

How I make $400 a month in Passive Income by Self-Publishing

198

9

Anti-patterns and Malpractices in Modern Software Development (2015)

187

10

How to Accept Over-Engineering for What It Really Is

168

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the relationship between the Python data model and built-in functions?

3

2

Aaron Swartz on stackoverflow

2

3

Twitter image encoding challenge (2009)

2

4

You can use PHP as a C preprocessor

1

5

How to split String with some separator but without remving that separator:Java?

1

Substack [?]