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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week

1630

2

1247

3

OpenAI Universe

1021

4

Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

929

5

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

919

6

'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience

911

7

Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017

861

8

Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off

812

9

John Glenn has died

797

10

I'm giving up on PGP

745

Top Ask HN

1

Are there any systematic and scientific ways to develop a habit?

334

2

Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?

253

3

Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

247

4

Are you more likely to apply for a job that discloses salary upfront?

154

5

As a single bootstrapper, how do you deal with the pressure?

119

6

Can anyone recommend some fulfillment alternatives to Amazon?

106

7

How are you doing performance appraisal at your startup?

77

8

What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?

71

9

What is your hardware/garage side-project?

63

10

What’s the best city/state for self-taught web devs without a degree?

63

Top Show HN

1

U.S. Legal Concepts for Founders – Online Handbook

309

2

Handicareers.com – A simple job board for disabled people

303

3

Fun tool that cut my family and friends tech support time in half

285

4

Victory – ReactJS library for building interactive data visualizations

220

5

CakeResume – Drag and drop resume snippets to build a unique resume

195

6

Gomix the easiest way to build apps and bots

185

7

Staticland – Open source static site hosting with SSL via Let's Encrypt

180

8

Filter the web by Hacker News

146

9

Skov – A visual programming environment

142

10

PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds

139

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Microsoft is bringing Windows 10, with desktop app support, to ARM chipsets

309

2

Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker

271

3

With Station F, Paris will have the world’s biggest startup campus

205

4

Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning plugin

203

5

DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman says general AI is still a long way off

170

6

Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters

137

7

Chrome 55 chooses HTML5 over Flash by default, drastically reduces RAM usage

127

8

A practical guide for learning meditation through the art of gaming

117

9

FCC says AT&T and Verizon ‘harm consumers’ with free data schemes

73

10

Tech billionaires award $25M in Breakthrough prizes to top scientists

61

News [?]

1

Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017

861

2

Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off

812

3

Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline

632

4

I Dialed a Wrong Number and Stumbled into International Phone Fraud

453

5

Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press freedom alarms

439

6

Apple to Start Publishing AI Research

434

7

Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’

322

8

Confessions of an Instagram Influencer

282

9

No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems

280

10

Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal

268

Scientific publications [?]

1

George Hotz Is Giving Away Self-Driving Software

179

2

Salto – UC Berkeley’s Agile Jumping Robot

108

3

Parallelizing Word2Vec in Multi-Core and Many-Core Architectures

75

4

The Security Behind the Birth of Zcash

61

5

Photonic Bell states creation around rotating black holes

52

6

How to Convert Old Film Reels with a Raspberry Pi

22

7

NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Colonization (2014)

9

8

Test of 'Impossible' EmDrive Space Engine Passes Peer Review

7

9

Germany's Aggressive Switch to Renewables Will Save €149B

7

10

Expert discusses NASA's study of paradoxical EM propulsion drive

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Google Trusted Contacts

406

2

The Django Project Debates User Tracking

82

3

The Daily DDoS: Ten Days of Massive Attacks

67

4

Linux on the Mac – State of the Union

44

5

A (Relatively Easy to Understand) Primer on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

20

6

Deep Learning Cheat Sheet

19

7

Netflix and Gremlin: Failure as a Service, LDFI, and Why It Matters

9

8

Shadow banned in Google Play

7

9

Oracle Might Be Canning Solaris

6

10

TLD glue sticks around too long

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages

274

2

The Crime of Speech: How Arab Governments Use Law to Silence Expression Online

97

3

SSD Prices Skyrocket as NAND Shortage Deepens, HDD Shortage Looms

87

4

Micron Announces 5100 Series Enterprise SATA SSDs with 3D TLC NAND

54

5

Canada Wants Software Backdoors, Mandatory Decryption Capability, Record Storage

18

6

Librarians, Act Now to Protect Your Users (Before It’s Too Late)

12

7

Windows 10 to Support ARM Chips with X86 Emulation Next Year; Qualcomm Chips

9

8

Uber Should Restore User Control to Location Privacy

9

9

Unreliable Informants: IP Addresses, Digital Tips and Police Raids

8

10

The World Wide Web Consortium at Crossroads: Arms-Dealers or Standards-Setters?

8

FAANG+ [?]

1

1247

2

AWS announces new region in Canada

220

3

Amazon Polly – Lifelike Text-To-Speech

137

4

Amazon Lex – Conversational interfaces for your applications

69

5

Introducing OpenType Font Variations

42

6

Rich Hickey: Books that influenced Clojure, in no particular order

42

7

Amazon AppStream 2.0 – Stream Desktop Apps from AWS

22

8

22

9

Amazon AppStream 2.0 – Application Streaming Service

4

10

iPhone 6s Program for Unexpected Shutdown Issues

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Datasets for Machine Learning

36

2

Andrew Ng: What Artificial Intelligence Can and Can’t Do Right Now

35

3

Opendoor: A Startup Worth Emulating

20

4

The Problem with the U.S. Economy Isn’t Something Politicians Can Fix

10

5

Why schools should not teach general critical-thinking skills

9

6

You are a bubble

5

7

One Obstacle to Curing Cancer: Patient Data Isn’t Shared

5

8

How AI is revolutionising the role of the literary critic

4

9

The harvests of Chernobyl

4

10

Human population through time visualiziation

4

Science News [?]

1

When antibiotics failed a severely ill patient, a virus saved him

134

2

Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem

114

3

Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? (2008)

99

4

In the Deep, Clues to How Life Makes Light

77

5

Tests confirm that Germany's massive nuclear fusion machine really works

71

6

Chernobyl’s Hot Mess, “the Elephant’s Foot”, Is Still Lethal (2013)

66

7

A California Startup Is Using Ashes to Protect Forests

56

8

Fighting Depression by Staying Awake

52

9

A New Physics Theory of Life (2014)

46

10

Testing Ancient Ships

36

Social [?]

1

Amazon seller’s account suspended after changing profile name on Kindle Fire

576

2

Spec-ulation – Rich Hickey [video]

283

3

I am an investor in The Style Club. Or, at least, I thought I was

227

4

Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems by Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport

208

5

A Dell Customer Service Dispute

168

6

Golang: sub-millisecond GC pause on production 18gb heap

119

7

Computer Vision in 1982 Using Altair Computers and a Cromemco Cyclops Camera

86

8

“There is no justifiable reason to be working 100+ hours a week."

81

9

Integrating Microsoft and LinkedIn

70

10

WhatsApp CEO donates $500k to FreeBSD Foundation

64

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released

278

2

UBlock Origin for Safari

243

3

A fast multi-producer, multi-consumer lock-free concurrent queue for C++11

210

4

Jid – Drill down JSON data incrementally

196

5

Mux – A lightweight, fast HTTP request router for Go

152

6

DoomRL Open Source Release

143

7

ECMAScript bind operator proposal

107

8

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup

98

9

A Provably Secure Proof-Of-Stake Blockchain Protocol

93

10

Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier in Go

89

Wikipedia [?]

1

Burned house horizon

180

2

The German tank problem

64

3

Damnatio memoriae

8

4

Cargo cult programming

6

5

5

6

Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

4

7

List of fictional colors

3

8

3

9

How the auto industry squashed nimh batteries

3

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

Dear JavaScript

429

2

StageXL 1.0: Fast 2D rendering engine for HTML5 inspired by Flash

58

3

Using the 2016 MacBook Pro as a development machine

57

4

Deep Learning in the Stock Market

32

5

How I burned $10M so you don't have to

31

6

Dear Apple: Give Us Control Over Stalkerware

30

7

It's Python, Not Python 2, Not Python 3

22

8

How a Rust Belt Native and Silicon Valley Technologist Is Re-Thinking US Mfg

19

9

How I burned 10M dollars

17

10

GraphQL is the King, R-I-P Rest

16

Stackoverflow [?]

1

StackOverflow – Jobs

1

Substack [?]