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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
780
2
Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews
692
3
LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
639
4
Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013)
516
5
Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
507
6
The little book about OS development
497
7
Rust is mostly safety
487
8
Technical report on DNC hack [pdf]
456
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UDP vs TCP
453
10
Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business
445
Top Ask HN
1
What do you want to learn in 2017?
357
2
Best place to look for remote jobs?
278
3
What Are the Best Current Methods to Delete Yourself from the Internet?
239
4
What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
173
5
What coding/programming podcasts are you listening to?
154
6
Should I learn Bootstrap 3 or 4 at this moment?
106
7
Best uses for Amazon Echo?
106
8
32 and lost
93
9
What are some good podcasts?
73
10
What if we legalize cybercrime?
72
Top Show HN
1
Rocket – Web Framework for Rust
484
2
Wick – A free and open-source creation suite
322
3
ThreadTone – Halftone images made of thread
303
4
8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600
289
5
Learn how to build electronics with monthly kits
272
6
Mitmproxy 1.0 released, now with a web interface
248
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Code.hackmit.org – Software for Hackathons
140
8
Angular 2 HN – A progressive Hacker News client that works offline
134
9
ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users
120
10
Tabbie, a tab manager for Google Chrome
73
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Carrie Fisher has died
428
2
Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case
279
3
The best board games of 2016
241
4
Raspberry Pi releases an OS to breathe new life into old PCs
233
5
Child uses sleeping mom's thumbprint to buy $250 worth of Pokémon toys
191
6
Watch Tesla’s Autopilot Brake for a Crash Before It Even Happens
152
7
A tiny forest tribe built a DIY drone from YouTube to fight off illegal loggers
150
8
Mind as an emergent self-organizing process
145
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Global living conditions are getting better
144
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People's underestimation of AI
137
News [?]
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Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
507
2
A bigger problem than ISIS: The Mosul Dam is failing
406
3
The farmer who built her own broadband
278
4
“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar
272
5
IQ is only a minor factor in success
261
6
The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020
248
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Hedge Fund Math: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
248
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U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote
223
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About Those Air Cushions in Amazon Packages
218
10
U.S. government begins asking foreign travelers about social media
203
Scientific publications [?]
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Operational calculus on programming spaces and generalized tensor networks
166
2
Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial
128
3
Still no violation of Lorentz symmetry, despite strongest test yet
125
4
Franka: A Robot Arm That’s Safe, Low Cost, and Can Replicate Itself
105
5
Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
103
6
Deep Learning AI Listens to Machines for Signs of Trouble
91
7
RenderGAN: Generating Realistic Labeled Data
11
8
'Ant-like' bees among new desert species identified by USU entomologist
3
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Why the Automotive Future Will Be Dominated by Fuel Cells
3
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ProjectQ: An Open Source Software Framework for Quantum Computing
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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Things I learnt making a fast website
385
2
Security Risks of TSA PreCheck
116
3
High-speed Wi-Fi rolls into 100th railway station in India
99
4
The end of CyanogenMod
69
5
Who’s on Your 2016 Web Development Thank You List?
44
6
Building an MVP for Fun and Profit
10
7
The Programmer’s Guide to Booking a Plane
5
8
Developer risk profiles: why you won’t find a technical co-founder
4
9
Refactoring to Reactive – Anatomy of a JDBC Migration
4
10
Update on Firefox Support for Windows XP and Vista
4
Tech blogs [?]
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Dubai Police now using Crime Prediction software
94
2
HTTPS Deployment Growing by Leaps and Bounds
74
3
Whistleblowers Dont Need Elite Credentials to Help Protect Us from Gov Overreach
72
4
Kaby Lake Systems with Intel Optane SSDs Coming Soon
71
5
President Signs Law Protecting Your Right to Review
70
6
Apple pulls Nokia’s Withings health product line from stores
51
7
Disassembly Required
48
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Court Rejects Government’s Secrecy Claims in EFF’s Hemisphere Suit
42
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Technical developments in Cryptography: 2016 in Review
31
10
Lenovo Updates the ThinkPad Lineup: New Models, Welcome Changes
6
FAANG+ [?]
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Interactive Analysis of Genomic Datasets Using Amazon Athena
5
2
Amazon ECS – Support for Windows Containers (Beta)
4
3
December 31, 2016 Leap Second on AWS
3
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Amazon Digital Day: Friday Dec 30 (12AM PST), 50%-80% off select digital content
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The First Female Doctor in Britain Spent 56 Years Disguised as a Man
167
2
The queen does not rule
79
3
Tesla's new radar tech predicts an accident caught on dashcam a second later
79
4
How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings?
78
5
The Case Against Sugar
30
6
Inside the Bodleian Library's Map Room
27
7
Why bullshit is no laughing matter
11
8
Arabic Translators Did Far More Than Just Preserve Greek Philosophy
11
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Solar power at 1¢/kWh by 2025 – “The promise of quasi-infinite energy is here”
9
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Make Peace with Your Unlived Life
7
Science News [?]
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What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics?
362
2
Six more radio signals from deep space deepen mystery
178
3
Solar power is now the cheapest form of energy in almost 60 countries
142
4
Nurturing Genius
112
5
Some People's Brains Are Wired for Languages
69
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Sure, Earth Could Get Hit by a Deadly Asteroid–But There’s an Upside
51
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Catching crumbs from the table (2000)
46
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How We Got from Doc Brown to Walter White
46
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GMO corn has metabolism disturbances caused by the transformation process
39
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How “Useless” Science Unraveled an Amphibian Disease
33
Social [?]
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Tesla footage of braking before crash ahead [video]
351
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What Is Abstract Algebra? [video]
192
3
I'm becoming scared of Facebook
103
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Ubuntu 16.04 Unity 8 current state [video]
72
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Facebook knows my surgeon
67
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“Emoji composer is now at 100% on Twitter”
59
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TV is bricked by Android malware and LG wont disclose factory reset
39
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Ex-CyanogenOS dev: company might push adware to phones. Disable updates
27
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AMD Ryzen benchmark leaked from French hardware magazine
27
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Piers Sellers has died
25
Github repos and gists [?]
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Atom-in-orbit: Putting Atom in the browser
255
2
Top-down learning path: Machine Learning for Software Engineers
250
3
Haskus – A Haskell Framework for Systems Programming
146
4
Autovpn – Script to Create an OpenVPN Endpoint on AWS
139
5
Get Let's Encrypt Cert in Five Minutes
133
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BrowserFS: an in-browser filesystem with many back ends
121
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Dragula: Drag and drop so simple it hurts
104
8
Raytracer.el: a raytracer in Emacs Lisp
94
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Geohot tries to break Google's recaptcha
90
10
Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by WeChat
88
Wikipedia [?]
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Vasili Arkhipov – Soviet Navy Officer Who Prevented Nuclear Strike in 1962
92
2
Moving sofa problem
38
3
George Pólya: How to Solve It (1945)
12
4
Communication with Submarines
10
5
Curry–Howard correspondence
6
6
Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient
4
7
Agrippa
4
8
Sedlec Ossuary
4
9
List of mathematical symbols
4
10
Cargo cult
3
Blogs [?]
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From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way
256
2
Vue in 2016
227
3
Reasons 2016 was a great year for humanity
161
4
Inequality and Skin in the Game
105
5
Why I only work remotely
95
6
Secure your MongoDB, Redis, etc
88
7
Why I bought a 2015 Macbook Pro
67
8
Introducing “Zero,” a new app to help you fast
38
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Not Working for Us (Preparing to Discuss Jacob Applebaum at CCC)
38
10
Why you should take everything Jason Fried writes with a pound of salt
36
Stackoverflow [?]
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Is a code that produces deep call stacks considered an anti-pattern?
2
2
What does a standard “installation” actually do on Windows machine?
1
Substack [?]