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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Developers’ side projects
1052
2
Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
1046
3
Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
1009
4
Things You Notice When You Quit the News
891
5
Bose Hearphones
830
6
World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind
785
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Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
785
8
I am not a self-made man
785
9
German research institutions boycott Elsevier
764
10
New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation
642
Top Ask HN
1
What was your best passive income in 2016?
779
2
What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
658
3
What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?
402
4
Where is AI/ML actually adding value at your company?
385
5
Maybe I kind of suck as a programmer – how do I supercharge my work?
328
6
Is the concept of a one-person software shop still viable?
315
7
Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?
242
8
Best Monitor Around $300 for Dev Work?
107
9
If you use keybase.io regularly, for what do you primarily use it?
104
10
Senior developers, what would you tell a younger you?
102
Top Show HN
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The Road to learn React – Build a Hacker News App on the Way
339
2
Godb is a simple Go ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and SQL Server
205
3
Peekier – A new way to search the web
120
4
xOS – a 32-bit OS for the PC
115
5
A partial HTTP server written in brainfuck extended with syscalls
103
6
Text Emoticon Generator
94
7
Web Bluetooth
92
8
Pixibot – Slack bot that makes text in posted images searchable
88
9
Automated Pipelines to Your Kubernetes Clusters
81
10
GoboLinux 016 featuring Runner, a filesystem virtualization tool
80
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
400
2
Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras
320
3
Bill Gates et. al. launch massive clean-energy fund to fight climate change
305
4
German judges explain their decision that ad-blocking software is legal
290
5
Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self-driving car
281
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Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco
280
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Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
280
8
Magic Leap’s technology may be years away from completion
232
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7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund’s Brain
228
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Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco
207
News [?]
1
World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind
785
2
GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016
540
3
Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes
405
4
Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal
277
5
The bank lent me $2m so I spent it on strippers and cars
267
6
The New Intel: How Nvidia Went from Powering Video Games to Revolutionizing AI
213
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Elon Musk, Travis Kalanick, Indra Nooyi to Join Presidential Advisory Council
210
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If you get rich, you won’t quit working for long
203
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Amazon has made its first drone delivery to an actual customer
203
10
China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
193
Scientific publications [?]
1
Neurogenesis Deep Learning
197
2
Galileo, Europe's own satnav, to go online
121
3
A neural link between affective understanding and interpersonal attraction [pdf]
119
4
Register-based VMs have a higher performance than stack-based VMs
119
5
Faster Space-Efficient Algorithms for Subset Sum, K-Sum and Related Problems
91
6
Self-Healing Transistors for Chip-Scale Starships
74
7
Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (2014) [pdf]
68
8
Schooling in adolescence raises IQ scores (2011) [pdf]
54
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General and Fractional Hypertree Decompositions: Hard and Easy Cases (2016) [pdf]
31
10
'Star in a Jar’ Fusion Reactor Works and Promises Infinite Energy
26
Dev Blogs [?]
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Starting a real business
458
2
Sharing National Security Letters with the Public
340
3
My Priorities for the Next Four Years
251
4
Function multi-versioning in GCC 6
210
5
Linux on the Mac – state of the union
208
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Linux 4.9 is out
208
7
BigQuery public datasets now include Stack Overflow Q&A
190
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Simplify Service Dependencies with Nodes
134
9
Reflecting on the Right to be Forgotten
128
10
What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service
95
Tech blogs [?]
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AMD Gives More Zen Details
290
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The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able to Cut Off Your Internet Access
280
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Law Enforcement Uses Border Search Exception as Fourth Amendment Loophole
113
4
Apple removing battery life estimates following MacBook Pro complaints
110
5
Microsoft: Mac Users Switching to Surface at Record Rates
103
6
Western Digital Announces Ultrastar He12 12 TB and 14 TB HDDs
84
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The New and Improved Privacy Badger 2.0 Is Here
75
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Apple Removes 'Time Remaining' Battery Life Indicator in Sierra 10.12.2
61
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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case That Could End Texas’ Grip on Patent Cases
27
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2016: The year AI got creative
18
FAANG+ [?]
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uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge
296
2
AirPods are now available
244
3
Join-Idle-Queue: Load Balancing Algorithm for Scalable Web Services (2011)
91
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AWS London Region (eu-west-2) now available
68
5
AWS Managed Services – Infrastructure Operations Management for the Enterprise
10
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AWS Managed Services for Enterprises
4
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The New AWS Research Cloud Program: Accelerating Science and Innovation
3
8
AWS announces new London region
3
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Amazon announces first autonomous drone delivery with Prime Air
3
10
First Amazon Prime Air Customer Delivery
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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How I use Anki to learn mathematics
256
2
Opendoor, a startup worth emulating
223
3
How to run a meeting (1976)
147
4
The Last Resort, Robert De Niro's Forgotten '90s Adventure Game
96
5
In 1562 Map-Makers Thought America Was Full of Mermaids, Giants, and Dragons
35
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The Lost Art of Painting on Cobweb Canvases
29
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India’s Botched War on Cash
11
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The State of Technology at the End of 2016
10
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Tesla’s new radar technology is already saving owners from accidents
8
10
What if jobs aren’t working anymore?
6
Science News [?]
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Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator’s magnetic field
340
2
Let your kids lose: Success inhibits preschoolers’ selective trust
276
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All of Richard Feynman’s physics lectures are now available free online (2014)
271
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LIGO black hole echoes hint at general-relativity breakdown
254
5
Why a Post-Nuclear World Would Look Nothing Like “Mad Max”
204
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Teeth May Reveal a Multi-Day Biological Clock
117
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My Life with the Physics Dream Team
84
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Making big data manageable
53
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Chemists Discover Why the Nose Is Hypersensitive to Sulfur Odors
15
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Aging Is Reversible--at Least in Human Cells and Live Mice
13
Social [?]
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I am not a self-made man
785
2
A map of the entire internet as of May 1973
235
3
Load Balancing is Impossible [video]
193
4
Dissecting a Case of Imposter Syndrome
149
5
Xerox Alto Restoration – Ethernet pioneers/founders of 3Com visit [video]
95
6
List of companies using Nix
70
7
LA Musician Built $1200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them
42
8
Driverless Uber runs red light in downtown San Francisco
35
9
Someone started dumping Lockheed Martin stock just before Trump's tweet
27
10
Don Knuth – Lattices of Trees (1997) [video]
22
Github repos and gists [?]
1
A Git query language
352
2
Hyper 1.0.0
333
3
Resolve simple merge conflicts on GitHub
228
4
Kubernetes 1.5.0 Released
226
5
Rust gets a faster sort implementation
224
6
The .zip file specification is flawed
214
7
Containerd – An open and reliable container runtime, by Docker
190
8
Git Cheat Sheet
182
9
Finding surprising moves in chess games
135
10
HIP: Convert CUDA to Portable C++ Code
134
Wikipedia [?]
1
Timeline of the far future
12
2
Deutsche Physik
5
3
Mao (card game)
3
4
Soviet Space Dogs
3
5
Going Postal
3
6
Diet Coke and Mentos eruption
3
7
Eternal return – Wikipedia
2
8
The Headington Shark
2
9
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment
2
10
Thomas Schelling is dead
2
Blogs [?]
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PR 101 for engineers
223
2
Webpack 2.2 – Release Candidate
197
3
My search for a MacBook Pro alternative
167
4
A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American Manufacturing
96
5
Public Policy Implications of AI
84
6
Should a Programmer Learn to Design?
53
7
YCombinator-backed Fiix.io is a scam
52
8
Why Zuckerberg Wears the Same Thing Every Day
50
9
What I learned about China by searching for the world’s rarest bird
43
10
Local Django on Kubernetes with Minikube
41
Stackoverflow [?]
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0.1 Million views on creating folders inside GitHub's repo without using git
2
2
“scry” is a real English word – React's scryXxxx naming convention
1
Substack [?]