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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

1142

2

Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator

1113

3

How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with data

921

4

Matrix Multiplication

873

5

Fidel Castro has died

810

6

CyberChef – A Cyber Swiss Army Knife

785

7

We turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k debt and broke even

757

8

What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?

680

9

Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience

669

10

AngelList acquires Product Hunt

656

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (December 2016)

458

2

What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

151

3

Is there a “ground-up” explanation of PGP/GnuPG?

121

4

What are you thankful for?

96

5

I am 30yrs and never had a full time job, now suicidal. Any life advice?

80

6

How did Investor Day pan out? Will it happen again?

79

7

77

8

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2016)

72

9

Software Developers – Do you like your job?

68

10

How are OLED displays for coding?

65

Top Show HN

1

Antd – A set of high-quality React components

507

2

React Native Express – Learn React Native Through Interactive Examples

496

3

390

4

World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month

336

5

ICanHazData – Data URI Swiss Army Knife

257

6

LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

254

7

Image Effects with CSS

203

8

Storing your bookmarks under revision control

181

9

DIY Position Tracking Using HTC Vive's Lighthouse

153

10

H4ck 1t, multiplayer hacking game

110

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

AngelList acquires Product Hunt

656

2

Fitbit is reportedly buying Pebble for around $40M

419

3

Amazon makes good on its promise to delete “incentivized” reviews

267

4

Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ‘Android alternative’

176

5

Japan plans 130-petaflops supercomputer

109

6

Zenefits ordered to stop offering free insurance software in Washington state

102

7

CNN accidentally broadcast 30 minutes of hardcore porn last night

88

8

India is displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism

70

9

Neural Net Trained on Mugshots Predicts Criminals

68

10

Android Malware Used to Hack and Steal a Tesla Car

68

News [?]

1

Fidel Castro has died

810

2

Maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure

478

3

Nestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40%

455

4

Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to Staff

401

5

How to Hide $400M

399

6

Rents are plunging in the most expensive U.S. markets

371

7

FDA Agrees to New Trials for MDMA as Relief for PTSD Patients

345

8

FBI to gain expanded hacking powers as Senate effort to block fails

297

9

Germany planning to ‘massively′ limit privacy rights

294

10

Scientists record biggest ever coral die-off on Australia's Great Barrier Reef

280

Scientific publications [?]

1

Geologist uncovers 2.5B-year-old fossils of bacteria

110

2

Physics, Topology, Logic, and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009)

101

3

Exact mapping between Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning (2014)

97

4

Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits [pdf]

82

5

Neuroscientists Wirelessly Control the Brain of a Scampering Lab Mouse

69

6

Quantum Simulation of the Factorization Problem

50

7

A Hierarchical Approach for Generating Descriptive Image Paragraphs

30

8

Russian Space Cargo Ship Destroyed in Failed Launch, Debris Burns Up

16

9

PCA meets the Renormalization Group

15

10

Overheated Arctic sign of climate change 'vicious circle'

12

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Emacs dumper dispute

262

2

HPACK: the silent killer (feature) of HTTP/2

102

3

The void left by Apple

68

4

How Do Software Developers in NY, SF, London and Bangalore Differ?

29

5

Not one, not two, but three undersea cables cut in Jersey

29

6

Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory

28

7

12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory

21

8

San Francisco Rail System Hacker Hacked

15

9

Customize your G Suite experience with App Maker and Recommended apps

13

10

San Francisco Rail System Hacker Hacked

11

Tech blogs [?]

1

The most flexible synthesizer is DIY, Raspberry PI

103

2

GPU glitches in 2016 MacBook Pro models

88

3

Give Congress Time to Debate New Government Hacking Rule

71

4

Neutralizing Intel's Management Engine

49

5

Scientists find way to make water freeze at boiling temperatures

31

6

Flip Dot Displays Appear with Modernized Drivers

9

7

Secret “Super Search Engine” Amasses Trillions of Phone Records for Decades

9

8

Tech Companies, Fix These Technical Issues Before It’s Too Late

4

9

CREDO Confirms It’s at Center of Long-Running Legal Fight Over NSLs

3

10

Daisy kite wind turbine: Now you can buy one

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware

643

2

Amazon Aurora Update – PostgreSQL Compatibility

296

3

Amazon Lex – Build Conversational Voice and Text Interfaces

284

4

IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances in Virtual Private Clouds

255

5

AWS Organizations: Centrally Manage Multiple AWS Accounts

245

6

AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System

238

7

AWS Shield – Managed DDoS Protection

233

8

Amazon Rekognition – Image Detection and Recognition Powered by Deep Learning

182

9

Amazon Polly – Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages

179

10

Amazon Athena: Query S3 Using SQL

176

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?

680

2

How Google Is Challenging AWS

467

3

Stanford Degrees in Statistics

198

4

Tesla hires HoloLens designer from Microsoft augmented reality program

140

5

How and why did humans domesticate animals?

104

6

163 Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Courses

25

7

Tesla received fraction of the subsidies the Big 3 and oil industry have received

17

8

The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence

12

9

Antigua and Barbuda Threatens to Punish U.S. With Piracy Free-For-All

9

10

Billion-dollar EV startup unveils its first models photoshopped on a Mitsubishi

7

Science News [?]

1

Finland set to become first country to ban coal use for energy

310

2

Inside tiny tubes, water turns solid when it should be boiling

192

3

The Case Against Dark Matter

172

4

When Einstein Tilted at Windmills

85

5

First real evidence of a strange quantum distortion in empty space

69

6

Understanding the Russian Revolution

52

7

Homeopathic Medicine Labels Now Must State Products Do Not Work

51

8

How a Genius Is Different from a Really Smart Person

32

9

Deepest water found 1000km down, a third of way to Earth’s core

24

10

The Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years

19

Social [?]

1

“AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure browser.”

315

2

Windows on New Macbook Pro Permanently Damages Speaker Due to Poor Drivers

216

3

Essence of linear algebra [video]

140

4

Connections between physics and deep learning [video]

128

5

Sam Aaron, Joe Armstrong – Keynote: Distributed Jamming with Sonic Pi and Erlang

92

6

ClojureScript and optimized C [video]

52

7

Announcing AWS Athena: Query S3 with SQL

41

8

Super Mario Bros. 3 – Wrong Warp

39

9

AWS Lambda now supports C#

34

10

Oh my god, this is the source code review for a certified voting machine

31

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Autopilot: an open source driving agent

344

2

AnyBar: OS X menubar status indicator

296

3

Git 2.11 has been released

281

4

LaiNES – Cycle-accurate NES emulator in around 1000 lines of code

231

5

Mail-in-a-Box – one-click, easy-to-deploy email server

188

6

Speech-to-Text-WaveNet: End-to-end sentence level English speech recognition

172

7

React Native Touchbar

155

8

Immer: immutable and persistent data structures for C++

144

9

Tiny-dnn – A C++11 implementation of deep learning

143

10

Tank – A very high performance distributed log service

136

Wikipedia [?]

1

Buy Nothing Day

27

2

Engelbart's Law

6

3

Paraconsistent logic

6

4

The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever

6

5

Named data networking

4

6

Dublin Mean Time (1880-1916)

4

7

Operation Mockingbird

4

8

Kola Superdeep Borehole – Wikipedia

3

9

Black American Sign Language (BASL)

3

10

Cốc Cốc browser

3

Blogs [?]

1

We turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k debt and broke even

757

2

The new MacBook Pro is kind of great for hackers

400

3

Why I’m thankful for JavaScript fatigue

201

4

I don’t belong in tech

162

5

Finding the genre of a song with Deep Learning

107

6

Crashes, Hangs and Crazy Images by Adding Zero: Fuzzing OpenGL Shader Compilers

68

7

A Week with the New Macbook Pro with Touch Pad

68

8

The Only Entrepreneurship Lesson You Need, with Do/Don’t Reading List

56

9

How practical minimalism helps me focus

51

10

Brain dump of a wantrepreneur

45

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does 128==128: false but 127==127: true when converting to Integer wrappers?

13

2

Highest Voted 'python' Questions

5

3

What is a metaclass in Python?

2

4

Pairing socks algorithm

2

5

Oop – What Is a Metaclass in Python? – Stack Overflow

1

6

How to fix “Requested array size exceeds VM limit” error in Java?

1

Substack [?]