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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Apple’s declining software quality
1282
2
Introducing the Keybase filesystem
1252
3
Get HTTPS for free
731
4
Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World
720
5
No More Deceptive Download Buttons
706
6
Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode
686
7
Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
612
8
Why use www?
601
9
15 years of VLC and VideoLAN
585
10
How I fixed a bug in Atom
551
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (February 2016)
455
2
How happy are you working as a programmer?
349
3
Your Passive Income Suggestions?
327
4
What should we fund at YC Research?
316
5
Do you use an old or 'unfashionable' programming language?
187
6
What's the most elegant piece of code you've seen?
139
7
How do game companies keep their files organized for a large-scale game?
94
8
Which industry sector should I target?
77
9
Where would you incorporate your European startup?
65
10
Evernote alternatives for research?
62
Top Show HN
1
3D Vector Graphics
441
2
Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing
322
3
Simple and elegant Markdown-based resumes
255
4
Hint.css v2.0 – Pure CSS tooltip library
253
5
Turtl – A secure, encrypted Evernote alternative
236
6
Ship – A fast, native issue tracker for software projects
219
7
An algorithm to automatically turn photos of food into faces
211
8
Wired Logic – a pixel-based logic simulator
176
9
AskIzzy – a mobile website for homeless people
151
10
Skadi – self-hosted Trello alternative with a 10 second installation
104
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World
720
2
China Has Released True Color HD Photos of the Moon
464
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Microsoft Is Acquiring London’s AI-Driven Swiftkey for $250M
262
4
Apple Ordered to Pay $625M to Patent Troll in FaceTime Lawsuit
176
5
Autodesk announces 925 layoffs
171
6
AI is transforming Google search – the rest of the web is next
162
7
Obama Pledges $4B to Computer Science in US Schools
157
8
Windows Phone is dead
132
9
Google plans to beam 5G internet from solar drones
125
10
Yahoo lays off 1,700 and is up for sale
115
News [?]
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Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units
351
2
Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team
328
3
Goldman Sachs and the $580M Black Hole (2012)
289
4
Amit Singhal, an Influential Engineer at Google, Will Retire
284
5
How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off
275
6
Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate
232
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Oil Crash is Kicking Off One of the Largest Wealth Transfers in History
213
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Yahoo ex-employee sues, alleging performance review manipulation, gender bias
198
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Nuclear fusion device's first test with hydrogen declared a success
198
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UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour'
189
Scientific publications [?]
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Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment (2006)
98
2
Curiosity Self-Portrait at Martian Sand Dune
77
3
Gradient-Based Hyperparameter Optimization Through Reversible Learning
58
4
DNA evidence uncovers major upheaval in Europe near end of last Ice Age
44
5
A Tesla in Every Garage? Not So Fast
26
6
Stopping hardware trojans in their tracks
18
7
Dutch Police Training Eagles to Take Down Drones
9
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Dutch Police Training Eagles to Take Down Drones
8
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The aliens are silent because they're dead
6
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Dutch police training eagles to take down drones
5
Dev Blogs [?]
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The Internet of Things Will Be the World's Biggest Robot
134
2
Dataflow/Beam and Spark: A Programming Model Comparison
109
3
Removing support for Emacs unexec from Glibc
106
4
Meet LKL: Turn Linux Kernel into a Library
102
5
Inside the Volkswagen emissions cheating
100
6
OpenSSH and the dangers of unused code
79
7
Sources: Security Firm Norse Corp. Imploding
79
8
The Bits and Bytes of the Machine’s Storage
18
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Run Parse-Server on Google Cloud Platform
16
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A Decade of Hadoop: Doug Cutting on the Right Place for the Right Time
12
Tech blogs [?]
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How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights (2015)
299
2
Medium's Sitewide Encryption Confronts Censorship in Malaysia
13
3
Zalman ZM-K700M Mechanical Keyboard Review
8
4
Stupid Patent: Sharing Your Hard Copy Documents, but on a Social Network
4
5
The Cherry MX 6.0 Mechanical Keyboard Review
4
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THE DARK ARTS: MEET THE LULZSEC HACKERS
4
7
Why Are Universities Fighting Open Education?
3
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Trade Officials Sign the TPP but It's Still Up to Lawmakers to Reject It
3
9
UK’s Investigatory Powers Bill
3
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Stand with Diego. Support Open Access
3
FAANG+ [?]
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Mass recall of Apple AC Wall Plug Adapters 2003-2015 due to shock hazard
34
2
Awesome Book I Wrote Introducing HTML
6
3
Practical Machine Learning
3
4
Apple AC Wall Plug Adapter Exchange Program
2
5
Scheduled Auto Scaling Now Available in the AWS Management Console
2
6
Microsoft's experimental project lab
2
7
Amazon AWS Mobile Hub
2
8
A true story of development of the modern smartphone
2
9
“With Math I Can: Amazon's growth mindset math initiative
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The NASA Rocket Countdown Came from a 1929 Fritz Lang Film
114
2
Tesla Hires Jim Keller as Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Engineering
38
3
VPN Comparison Chart
7
4
P2P takes on Ebay
6
5
“Piracy Harms” Are Now Part of U.S. Education Law
5
6
Be Happier
5
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If NASCAR embraced electric cars it could change the world
3
8
I wasn't prepared to work (2013)
3
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YouTube is not liable for pirating users, court rules
3
10
How Venture Capital Works (1998)
3
Science News [?]
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Destroying worn-out cells makes mice live longer
186
2
What We’ll Do in Space by 2116
137
3
Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors as its predecessors
137
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Babylonians Were Using Geometry Centuries Earlier Than Thought
117
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Make journals report clinical trials properly
109
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In Retrospect: The Selfish Gene
86
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Men Are Better at Maps Until Women Take This Course
62
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Shared genetics between cognitive functions and physical and mental health
62
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The Man Who Would Tame Cancer
40
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A developmental disorder promises a new window onto the brain’s secrets
26
Social [?]
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Interlocking Bricks Before Lego [video]
93
2
Why does the the human mind ignore the second "the"?
91
3
Reddit in 2016
82
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An Introduction to C++ Coroutines [video]
49
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WSJ journalist John Carreyrou shares year-long Theranos investigation [video]
43
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Introduction to the Dial Telephone (1936) [video]
41
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Police position bodycam P.O.V to make suspect look like he was resisting
29
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Raspberry Pi automatically tweets at Comcast when ISP speeds drop
29
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Self-assembly of a lipid bilayer
24
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Everything in Sydney is now illegal- including fun
17
Github repos and gists [?]
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Kinto by Mozilla – An open-source Parse alternative
537
2
January 28th Incident Report
451
3
List of high-quality open datasets in public domains
388
4
The Command Line Murders
364
5
Google Open Source Load Balancer in Go
323
6
Use Atom to edit in Chrome
269
7
Huginn – Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf
264
8
GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3
249
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Glider, Mac Classic game, open-sourced
229
10
Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code
198
Wikipedia [?]
1
Rithmomachy
142
2
Phantom Time Hypothesis
54
3
Atbash – Ancient Hebrew Cryptography
43
4
Entropic gravity
4
5
Tally Stick – an ancient memory aid device
3
6
Mirage Men, a documentary on how the US used mythology to cover up advanced tech
3
7
Wikipedia is now a client-side app
3
8
The Ellsberg paradox
3
9
Nontransitive dice
3
10
Mars Colonial Transporter
3
Blogs [?]
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Why did Facebook decide to shut down Parse?
190
2
Go, Marvin Minsky, and the Chasm That AI Hasn’t yet Crossed
163
3
Rust for Web
136
4
Your Life Is Tetris. Stop Playing It Like Chess
132
5
The Biggest Mistake I Ever Made
125
6
The Sad State of Web Development
123
7
Deep Learning in Rust
106
8
Implementing the Elm Architecture in Swift
93
9
How we've analyzed our homepage without spending a single dollar
59
10
React.js pure render performance anti-pattern
53
Stackoverflow [?]
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How and when to align to cache line size
3
2
Any Swift Devs that can help?
2
3
ASP.NET OmniSharp server is not running on Ubuntu Mono
1
4
Zalgo bug
1
5
Angular2: extract array element form http.get response
1
Substack [?]