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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
1131
2
4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles
703
3
How to start a company with no free time
692
4
Miyazaki Tribute
678
5
Who Will Command the Robot Armies?
673
6
Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him
668
7
A practical guide to securing macOS
633
8
Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS
598
9
EmDrive study officially published
595
10
NIH Scientists Identify Antibody That Neutralizes Nearly All HIV Strains
595
Top Ask HN
1
What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
209
2
What's your backup solution?
140
3
What are the bibles of Computer Science?
105
4
Why aren't websites adopting client certs in lieu of passwords?
97
5
As a developer, how can I take advantage of time spent driving to work?
93
6
Why should I use Django?
92
7
Does it matter to be the first on the market?
81
8
How much do you earn from side project or passive income?
53
9
Books you would recommended for starting out in product management?
48
10
Plain, unstyled html to clean, well design page
45
Top Show HN
1
A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties
1117
2
Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
673
3
Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
405
4
Learn to Code for Free
395
5
Publish a Markdown website in 5 minutes
291
6
Zenkit – Productivity app of List, Kanban, Spreadsheet and Calendar
264
7
Generate Google Slides from Markdown
246
8
StockDroids.com – A curated list of near-stock Android devices
245
9
Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
238
10
TB-303 Synth, Drum Machine and Sequencer in Web Audio
238
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him
423
2
Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel phone resellers
346
3
Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
309
4
Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com
206
5
Microsoft planning to enable x86 on ARM64 emulation in Windows 10 by Fall 2017
199
6
Headphones can be hijacked to surreptitiously record audio
192
7
Second Chinese Firm in a Week Found Hiding Backdoor in Android Devices
186
8
Tesla runs an entire island on solar power
166
9
Beyond Nokia: A love story
110
10
Intel is laying off a major portion of its wearables group
110
News [?]
1
No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS
472
2
Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into China
470
3
Scientist discovers particular seaweed nearly eliminates cow methane emissions
442
4
Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers
404
5
We Tracked Down a Fake-News Creator in the Suburbs
358
6
The psychology of stress and burnout
318
7
Japan issues tsunami warning after magnitude 7.3 earthquake
306
8
OK Go’s video, for the song “The One Moment”, took only 4.2 seconds to film
280
9
Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat App
279
10
Homeopathy 'treatments' must be labelled to say they do not work, US gov orders
266
Scientific publications [?]
1
Israeli firm can steal phone data in seconds
225
2
Silicon Valley’s Secret: Proximity, Stolen Parts, and the Kindness of Strangers
160
3
Learning to Superoptimize Programs
121
4
Learning to reinforcement learn
97
5
Automated Inference on Criminality Using Face Images
48
6
Who’s Hiring? Who’s Firing? Checking in on Tech Jobs
48
7
Huge Underground Ice Deposit on Mars Is Bigger Than New Mexico
15
8
Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions
15
9
Automatic Racial Discrimination via Artificial Intelligence
15
10
Neuromorphic Silicon Photonics
6
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Sccache, Mozilla’s distributed compiler cache, now written in Rust
243
2
Learn the basics of data science with these books
190
3
How Eve unifies your entire programming stack
188
4
How to speed up the Rust compiler some more
170
5
WebExtensions in Firefox 52
167
6
OpenAI and Microsoft
162
7
Intel Declares War on GPUs at Disputed HPC, AI Border
151
8
Add-ons in 2017
136
9
98% of sites on Cloudflare now use IPv6
116
10
Know before you go, with Google
98
Tech blogs [?]
1
The BASIC Issue with Retro Computers
106
2
Smartphone Resin 3D Printers
66
3
New MacBook Pros have non-upgradeable SSDs, seemingly under-sized batteries
26
4
Send in the Clones: If Apple doesn’t want to innovate the desktop Mac
19
5
Clones: If Apple doesn’t want to innovate the desktop Mac, it should let others
17
6
Open-V: the first RISC-V microcontroller
8
7
Tech Companies, Fix These Technical Issues Before It’s Too Late
8
8
Donald Trump Promise to Offer Apple Very Large Tax Cut to Make Products in US
4
9
Obama Can Still Boost Transparency, Accountability Before Trump Takes Office
4
10
Apple reportedly stops developing AirPort WiFi router products
4
FAANG+ [?]
1
Amazon S3 and Glacier Price Reductions
293
2
New for AWS Lambda – Environment Variables and Serverless Application Model
264
3
Mobile Holoportation
122
4
Amazon adds FIFO feature to its Queue Service
5
5
Introducing the AWS Serverless Application Model
4
6
Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball (2011) [pdf]
3
7
AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)
3
8
SQS FIFO Queues with Exactly-Once Processing and Deduplication
3
9
Amazon WorkSpaces now has virtual cloud desktop access using Chrome and Firefox
3
10
AWS Price Reduction – CloudWatch Metrics
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Stoicism: Indifference is a power
434
2
Open-RethinkDB meeting notes
158
3
An Alarm Designer on How to Annoy People in the Most Effective Ways
125
4
Fake News
55
5
Right-wing group launches campaign against Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX
55
6
The high-tech ideas of Bucky Fuller
49
7
Why Did Ancient Italians Bury Thousands of Clay Body Parts?
45
8
The story of 83 American captives and the "Digit Affair"
33
9
[Tesla] Solar Roof Cheaper Than Regular Roof BEFORE Solar Energy
30
10
The Village Sin Eater
27
Science News [?]
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Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics
415
2
The war on drugs has failed: doctors should lead calls for drug policy reform
361
3
The sparrow with four sexes
156
4
Authenticity in the Age of the Fake
124
5
The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics
86
6
Scientists have figured out the reason London fog killed 12,000 people
44
7
Non-citizen voting likely changed outcomes of 2008 US elections
34
8
NASA's peer-reviewed EM Drive paper published – and the drive appears to work
18
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NASA's peer-reviewed EM Drive paper has been published
16
10
Google’s DeepMind AI can lip-read TV shows better than a pro
13
Social [?]
1
Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him
668
2
Joe Armstrong Interviews Alan Kay [video]
269
3
New security camera compromised by worm within minutes of installation
263
4
Android user locked out of Google after moving cities
238
5
Doom on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar [video]
180
6
Assange and Wikileaks – Some basic facts all in one place
92
7
This is a graph of total global sea ice. The red line is this year
76
8
Why is Firefox still not supporting .webp?
65
9
Online Summarizers overview
48
10
Introduction to Swift Intermediate Language [video]
46
Github repos and gists [?]
1
A practical guide to securing macOS
633
2
Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account
503
3
Pipfile for Python
479
4
Computer Science courses with video lectures
347
5
FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro
245
6
Vue.js 2.1 Released
243
7
Constexpr-8cc: Compile-time C Compiler
185
8
Quorum – JP Morgan’s permissioned implementation of Ethereum
171
9
CoreCLR ARM 32-bit progress
169
10
List of Computer Science courses with video lectures
166
Wikipedia [?]
1
List of spacecraft in the Culture series
115
2
Atari Transputer Workstation
63
3
Illegal prime
39
4
Toast sandwich
39
5
Strowger Telephone Switch (1891)
22
6
AI winter
9
7
Servant leadership
9
8
Overton Window
8
9
The trolley problem (Relevant to autopilot mode in cars)
6
10
Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-Op
5
Blogs [?]
1
How to start a company with no free time
692
2
To Know If the Election Was Hacked, Look at the Ballots
240
3
Riot releases end-to-end encryption: get ready to chat securely
152
4
To-Do Lists Are Not the Answer to Getting Things Done
146
5
Ideas for Startups (2005)
135
6
How to get started with DJing
118
7
How to run a Meetup – Lessons learned running React Vienna for a year
96
8
Signal for Beginners
95
9
Why Native Apps Really Are Doomed, Part 2
82
10
Homestuck in review
73
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What is “:-!!” in C code?
242
2
Empty CA List in HTTPS Client Authentication (Apache / Nginx)
3
3
Stack Overflow Developer Story
3
4
You can't parse [X]HTML with regex
2
5
Getting started with Theos (build iOS software and tweaks without Xcode)
1
6
On the std::abs function
1
7
Stackoverflow Tumbleweed Questions
1
Substack [?]