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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Building Jarvis

1164

2

Cat-proofing a cat feeding machine

1107

3

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

883

4

Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch

735

5

Practical Deep Learning for Coders

683

6

To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)

618

7

Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income

610

8

How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)

586

9

Why time management is ruining our lives

552

10

509

Top Ask HN

1

How do I get freelance developer jobs?

433

2

Books you read in 2016?

414

3

What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning?

204

4

Why does 'View Source' issue a new HTTP request?

173

5

Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player?

122

6

What's the value proposition of RISC-V?

96

7

Is it just me or do a lot of people not know how stock options work?

90

8

Do SMBs still care about their websites?

87

9

84

10

What do you use to take notes?

68

Top Show HN

1

Hire an Oldster

475

2

30 Days of React

190

3

Learn how to build a small Twitter clone in 7 days

190

4

Subreddit classifier using scikit-learn and a high-performance Go proxy

170

5

RealIdeas.site (submit an idea, get 10 real ones back)

94

6

Google Blade – discover, create, and share custom search engines

88

7

Libtmux – A tmux workspace manager in Python

86

8

Teleport: Simple command line app tutorial written in Haskell

76

9

Eskéndereyya – Learn How to Read and Write Arabic in Latin Script

72

10

Get alerts for tweets containing IP addresses in your network

59

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

400

2

Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC

289

3

Employee sues Google for 'illegal' confidentiality policies

252

4

Prenda Law “copyright trolls” Steele and Hansmeier arrested

225

5

Uber lawsuit alleges employees were misled on equity compensation

201

6

Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal

153

7

Growth as a false signal in Y Combinator startups

149

8

Getting Rid of Comments on Vice.com

138

9

Fedora 25: With Wayland, Linux has never been easier (or more handsome)

138

10

Google launches developer preview of Android Things

134

News [?]

1

To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)

618

2

Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income

610

3

Why time management is ruining our lives

552

4

Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

426

5

How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists

425

6

Galileo navigation satellite system goes live

411

7

How Social Isolation Is Killing Us

395

8

No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep

324

9

Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views

286

10

Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader

277

Scientific publications [?]

1

ALPHA observes light spectrum of antimatter for first time

199

2

Human Cells Eat Nanowires

96

3

Do We Really Understand the Cosmos?

40

4

No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning

11

5

Test shows dinosaurs survived mass extinction by 700,000 years (2011)

7

6

Quicker Camera Chips Coming

4

7

Event-driven Random Backpropagation

3

8

Rice, Baylor team sets new mark for 'deep learning'

3

9

SpaceX Founder Elon Musk Joins Trump Advisory Group

3

10

Hacking for Diplomacy Class Takes on Refugees, Radicalization, Space Debris

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Update on Multi-Process Firefox

498

2

Apple Delays iOS SSL Requirement Indefinitely

160

3

How My 10-Year-Old Learned JavaScript

150

4

Google Cloud Platform Icon Library for Architecture Diagrams

121

5

Faulty Reward Functions in the Wild

63

6

A Very WebP New Year from Cloudflare

53

7

Bruce Schneier: Plagiarism and Academia: Personal Experience

40

8

Making WiFi fast

29

9

Use Django or end up building a Django

19

10

Encryption Working Group Annual Report from the US House of Representatives

6

Tech blogs [?]

1

Qualcomm Demos 48-Core Centriq 2400 Server SoC in Action, Begins Sampling

119

2

How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Amazon

69

3

Law Enforcement’s Possible Use of Surveillance Technology at Standing Rock

57

4

Mainstream VR HMDs Are Coming, with a Range of Specs and Features

47

5

Nintendo says it doesn’t have plans for any additional Super Mario Run content

36

6

EFF: Trump & His Advisors on Net Neutrality

12

7

Star Wars: Rogue One and Hollywood’s trip through the uncanny valley

10

8

U.K. Surveillance Powers Are 'Illegal', Rules E.U.'s Highest Court

10

9

EFF takes out full page ad in Wired

9

10

U.S. House 'Encryption Working Group': Weak Encryption Harms National Interest

7

FAANG+ [?]

1

AirPods Case Can't Be Plugged into Macbook Pro

4

2

Amazon ECS Now Supports Windows Containers

3

3

3

4

AWS Managed Services

2

5

The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It … Every Time

2

6

iPhone 6s Program for Unexpected Shutdown Issues

2

7

Shared Responsibility Model – AWS

1

8

Regulating Sensor Error in Wastewater Management Systems with Machine Learning

1

9

[Book] Building Machine Learning Projects with Tensorflow

1

10

FGPA in Amazon EC2 F1

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree

327

2

The AI Unemployment Anti-FAQ (2013)

140

3

Krugman: Internet’s Economic Impact No Greater Than Fax Machine (1998)

84

4

The Incompatible Food Triad

66

5

Why Aren’t There More Asian Americans in Leadership Positions?

58

6

How Xerox Invented the Copier and Artists Pushed It to Its Limits

54

7

The Phineas Gage effect

49

8

Why won't biologists say that animals might be conscious?

45

9

The Obsessed, Feuding Searchers Still Looking for Amelia Earhart

37

10

Elon Musk is launching a tunnel digging company to reduce traffic in cities

21

Science News [?]

1

Stack identical flat objects so they project over an edge as far as possible

179

2

System loads web pages 34 percent faster by fetching files more effectively

177

3

Hans Rosling doesn’t consider himself an optimist or pessimist but ‘possibilist’

164

4

No Proton Decay Means Grand Unification Must Wait

148

5

First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter

137

6

A Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic

122

7

A defense of Christianity helped unlock the secrets of the brain

81

8

Solar System’s biggest asteroid is an ancient ocean world

71

9

Matchmaker, find me a grant

67

10

Data diversity: Preserving variety in data sets should aid machine learning

50

Social [?]

1

Building Jarvis

1164

2

15 years trying to make everyone separate HTML, JavaScript, CSS – and then

254

3

I have no side code projects to show

184

4

Proto REPL, a New Clojure Development and Visualization Tool [video]

129

5

All Code Implementations for NIPS 2016 Papers

117

6

Retiring SHA-1 certificates

107

7

Method-1 Manned Robot Project

84

8

Mastering Programming

66

9

“So many fakers in startup land today”

58

10

A/B testing the gnupg developers. Submitting patches as female and male pseudonyms

46

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox

381

2

The Crystal Programming Language

306

3

Single-file C/C++ public-domain/open source libraries with minimal dependencies

303

4

Cancelable Promises: Why was this proposal withdrawn?

296

5

AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse

281

6

Mdmath – LaTeX Math for Markdown inside of Visual Studio Code

225

7

The Longflow Manifesto

204

8

Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with great free tiers

156

9

Daala: Modern video compression for the internet

146

10

HoloJS – A framework for creating UWP applications using JavaScript and WebGL

105

Wikipedia [?]

1

385

2

List of virtual communities with more than 1 million users

68

3

Inventors killed by their own inventions

67

4

The Great Stirrup Controversy

44

5

37

6

1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash

10

7

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

6

8

1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak

6

9

Bellard's formula

5

10

Philo Farnsworth

4

Blogs [?]

1

Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch

735

2

Modern garbage collection

434

3

Harassment at Apple: A personal perspective

406

4

Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction

365

5

Learning from a Year of Security Breaches

327

6

Why I Only Work Remotely

316

7

GPU folks: we need to talk about control flow

204

8

JavaScript frameworks and topics to learn in 2017

202

9

Rocket AI: 2016’s Most Notorious AI Launch and the Problem with AI Hype

152

10

The fourth industrial revolution: a primer on Artificial Intelligence

83

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What special training do engineers working on mission-critical software receive?

2

2

Why is infinity printed as “8” in the Windows 10 console?

2

3

What Unicode symbol represents a person?

1

4

TIL: The default value for the type attribute of button elements is “submit”

1

Substack [?]