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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
1358
2
Diamonds Suck (2006)
1336
3
“I have toyota corola”
1155
4
SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed
1111
5
Quick, Draw
1083
6
Don’t Mess with The Google
1070
7
Leonard Cohen Has Died
978
8
Visual Studio for Mac
664
9
Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
651
10
Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News
626
Top Ask HN
1
What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
526
2
How do you handle the business structure and taxes of side projects?
260
3
Is Xamarin worth learning?
178
4
Best Git workflow for small teams
166
5
I will quit my job as a PM to join a coding bootcamp. Am I crazy?
155
6
Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?
149
7
Anyone interested in building tools for showing bias in news?
99
8
An idea that you could not implement?
86
9
What should I plan to do on a 6 month sabbatical?
83
10
What's your go-to back end for simple projects?
64
Top Show HN
1
Primitive for macOS
798
2
Whosfiring
256
3
Writing an HTTP server in Prolog
238
4
JavaScript books, free online
222
5
Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros
219
6
Gridmaster – A Code School for Learning Spreadsheets
188
7
Commits.io - Create a poster from your code and logo
163
8
Visual Studio Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi
157
9
A Web-to-RSS Parser in Common Lisp
125
10
Interactive deep convnet visualization for Keras and Tensorflow
124
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed
1111
2
Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
651
3
Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen
595
4
Why 30 is the decade friends disappear
512
5
Why did ProtonMail vanish from Google search results for months?
345
6
Microsoft announces the next version SQL Server for Windows and Linux
284
7
Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than a minute
272
8
Shareholders approve Tesla Solarcity acquisition
253
9
Snapchat has reportedly filed confidentially for its massive IPO
222
10
FBI operated 23 Tor-hidden child porn sites, deployed malware from them
222
News [?]
1
Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions
405
2
A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found
372
3
Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family
352
4
New Zealand earthquake: Tsunami follows powerful tremor
290
5
Google’s top news link for ‘final election results’ is a fake news site
280
6
Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
265
7
Gwen Ifill has died
250
8
Myron Ebell Takes On the E.P.A.
250
9
iPhones send call history to Apple, security firm says
242
10
U.S. chicken prices may have been artificially inflated for years
240
Scientific publications [?]
1
Wazer introduces the first desktop water-jet cutter
266
2
Black hole jets can influence star formation in galaxies
54
3
Why CPU Frequency Stalled (2008)
51
4
Reinforcement Learning with Unsupervised Auxiliary Tasks
47
5
Smart Watch Will Charge Itself Using Heat from Your Skin
28
6
A Theory of Taxonomy
16
7
Zero shot translation learning
15
8
Researchers discover new method to dissipate heat in electronic devices
15
9
Dark matter may be hiding in a hidden sector
11
10
Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography
4
Dev Blogs [?]
1
How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
578
2
Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS
535
3
Found in translation: More accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate
298
4
Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs
106
5
No One Cares About the Security of Unlocked Android Phones
103
6
Portable systemd services
75
7
OAuth 2.0 Hack Exposes 1B Mobile Apps to Account Hijacking
73
8
Progress on addressing online abuse
54
9
To Be a Young Black Man Working in an Office Full of White People
29
10
Fooling Facial Recognition Systems
21
Tech blogs [?]
1
15-Inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar Has Non-Removable SSD
20
2
15-Inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar Has Non-Removable SSD
14
3
Users Around the World Reject Europe's Upload Filtering Proposal
10
4
Touch Bar MacBook Pro have non-upgradeable SSDs, seemingly under-sized batteries
8
5
Upthere will scan your photos for free
7
6
TPP: A Post-Mortem
4
7
Apple eliminates Mac automation product manager position
4
8
Grassroots Digital Rights Alliance Expands Across U.S
3
9
Blockstream Commits to Patent Nonaggression
3
10
Arduworm: A Malware for Your Arduiono Yun
3
FAANG+ [?]
1
Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available
114
2
Tango: Distributed Data Structures Over a Shared Log (2013)
93
3
“Designed by Apple in California” chronicles 20 years of Apple design
74
4
EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
66
5
EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
10
6
EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)
7
7
Amazon QuickSight Is Now Generally Available
6
8
GPU-Powered Amazon Graphics WorkSpaces
5
9
AWS QuickSight data visualization tool generally available starting today
4
10
Three New AWS Certifications Announced. Advanced Networking, Big Data and Security
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and coming in 2017”
177
2
What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
154
3
Why Catholics Built Astronomical Features into Churches
142
4
Iran's Great Wall Is Now Buried and Forgotten
131
5
Full-body reading
55
6
Unified Theory of Evolution
24
7
On vagueness, or, when is a heap of sand not a heap of sand?
23
8
Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs (2012)
18
9
False, Misleading, Clickbait-Y, and Satirical “News” Sources
9
10
What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
5
Science News [?]
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Brain implants allow paralysed monkeys to walk
373
2
Cells edited using CRISPR–Cas9 injected into a person for the first time
201
3
The mathematics of science’s broken reward system
187
4
Finland plans to replace classic school subjects with broader “topics” (2015)
178
5
The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WWII (2007)
149
6
A Scientist Who Helped Amy Adams Talk to Aliens in “Arrival”
122
7
Altruistic People Have More Sexual Partners
77
8
Some Chimps Are Putting Grass in Their Ears (2014)
61
9
The World in 2076
57
10
Why Does Moby-Dick Sometimes Have a Hyphen? (2015)
35
Social [?]
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Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team
562
2
OVH automatically migrates expiring paid SSL to Let's Encrypt certificates
186
3
Nintendo’s method of making games [video]
141
4
Y Combinator blacklists founder of Gab.ai
105
5
Ghost in the Shell Official Trailer
63
6
Martin Luther King on “Guaranteed Income” (1967)
61
7
“Google can lock your account, forcing you to abandon purchases and credit card”
55
8
HyperNormalisation trailer [video]
53
9
Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account
48
10
What Can We Expect from the Internet in 2020?
35
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Qt binding for Go with support for all major operating systems
324
2
Miles Deep – Open Source Porn Video Classifier/Editor with Deep Learning
276
3
Dash for iOS is now open source
241
4
PoisonTap – Exploits locked computers over USB
235
5
A list of modern C++ features
167
6
A guide to using the Facebook Pixel
151
7
Machine learning algorithms
140
8
Leibniz – A Digital Scientific Notation
122
9
Codehash.db – A public database for software and firmware hashes
111
10
A Very Simple Genetic Algorithm Written in Swift 3
105
Wikipedia [?]
1
Bouncing bomb
91
2
IBM and the Holocaust
16
3
Cognitive biases
8
4
Nero
5
5
Moissanite
4
6
British Airways Flight 5390
4
7
The Southern Strategy
3
8
Collaborations Between the United States Government and Italian Mafia
3
9
Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository
3
10
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
3
Blogs [?]
1
Wind Waker Graphics Analysis
537
2
ICQ: 20 Years Is No Limit
323
3
Post Virtual Reality Sadness
292
4
You Don’t Need a Master Plan, You Just Need to Start
267
5
A few drawings about Linux
187
6
The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments
176
7
Making Time for Side Projects
129
8
Moving from Native Apps to Progressive Web Apps
124
9
Interview with Ted Chiang
98
10
Self-Taught Software Engineers: Why Open Source Is Important to Us
76
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Sqlite Performance
30
2
Service Objects (No More Fat Models)
13
3
Why can't Apple make it easier to debug memory management issues?
4
4
Reshape numpy array to contain logical blocks of values from original array
2
5
Stackoverflow Moderator Election 2016
1
6
How and when to align to cache line size
1
Substack [?]