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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right

2011

2

LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

1012

3

GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

808

4

India bans discriminatory pricing based on source/destination/app/content

684

5

Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

641

6

SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses

620

7

Parker Conrad Steps Down as Zenefits CEO

581

8

My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

577

9

Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your files without actually doing it

515

10

PayPal CTO Resigns

504

Top Ask HN

1

Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

156

2

What's going on at IBM?

128

3

Best curated newsletters?

127

4

What do you use to manage dotfiles?

91

5

Is it worth starting a SaaS in a niche that already has a clear leader?

90

6

Open problems in finance?

55

7

DO You Use AWS Lambda? Why? Why Not?

47

8

Best places in Europe to leave city life and work on your projects?

44

9

How did Twitter value Periscope at $100M before launching?

42

10

Do you need a new Issue Tracking and Project Management tool?

34

Top Show HN

1

I've been writing daily TILs for a year

819

2

Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

613

3

Deepstream.io – open-source real-time server with pub/sub and data sync

301

4

The Deadlock Empire – Slay dragons, master concurrency

269

5

SocketCluster.io – flexible open-source real-time server with pub/sub

217

6

HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments

217

7

LogDNA – Easy logging in the cloud

196

8

Twtxt – Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers

154

9

BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar

149

10

Transcrypt – Fast, small Python 3.5 to JavaScript transpiler

121

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google is banning Flash from its display ads

446

2

Laura Poitras Reveals Her Own Life Under Surveillance

325

3

How Wired Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking

249

4

AI That Annoys Telemarketers

216

5

Intel to shut down renegade Skylake overclocking with microcode update

158

6

Twitter’s User Growth Goes Nowhere as It Meets Revenue Expectations of $710M

128

7

Google Reverses Its Decision to Ban Ad Blocking Apps from the Google Play Store

122

8

20 Years Since John Perry Barlow Declared Cyberspace Independence

122

9

Chinese Tech Group Led by Qihoo 360 Bids $1.2B for Browser Maker Opera

116

10

UC Berkeley profs lambast new “black box” network monitoring hardware

113

News [?]

1

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right

2011

2

LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

1012

3

GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

808

4

Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

641

5

U.S. tells Google computers can qualify as drivers

454

6

Gravitational waves detected by LIGO

454

7

Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

452

8

iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs

438

9

Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life

431

10

Why expat Americans are giving up their passports

380

Scientific publications [?]

1

Plasma physicist discusses the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator

99

2

Drones learn to search forest trails for lost people

92

3

Winning a competition predicts dishonest behavior

91

4

Aztec app brings historic Mexico codex into the digital age

28

5

Quantum Capacities for Entanglement Networks

12

6

Deepmind Navigates 3D Maze WithAsynchronous Methods 4 Deep Reinforcement Learning

11

7

Swivel: Google's successor to word2vec [pdf]

10

8

Learning to Communicate to Solve Riddles with Deep Distributed Recurrent Q-Nets

6

9

Co – Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript

5

10

Probabilistic Programming with Gaussian Process Memoization

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The curse of the gifted programmer (2000)

381

2

LLVM Patches Confirm Google Has Its Own In-House Processor

165

3

Twitter's new timeline feature

162

4

CloudKit Now Supports Server-To-Server Web Service Requests

109

5

Writing Cloud Functions

81

6

Microsoft TLS 1.2 downgrade bug and how it was fixed

76

7

How Long Can AWS Keep Climbing Its Steep Growth Curve?

57

8

Announcing the Twitter Trust and Safety Council

41

9

Anton Sequel Makes Stronger Case for Custom Supercomputing

29

10

For $3100 USD You Can Have a Fast, Fully-Free-Software Workstation

10

Tech blogs [?]

1

How an Immigrant from Bangladesh Became America's Master Builder

67

2

How a Muslim Immigrant from Bangladesh Became America's Master Builder

6

3

The Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace – 20 years ago today

4

4

Senator McCain calls for end-to-end encryption ban in the USA

3

5

Huge Number of Mac Apps Open to Hijacking from Sparkle Updater Vulnerability

3

6

The internet of broken things

3

7

MPAA May Like Donuts, but They Shouldn’t Be the (Copyright) Police

3

8

John Perry Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

3

9

White House Executive Order on Privacy Falls Short

2

10

How Seagate Tests Its Hard Drives

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration

441

2

AWS and Zombies

122

3

Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS

114

4

Amazon introduces a new free game engine – Amazon Lumberyard

36

5

FirefoxOS GSM factory unlocked Fx0 for ~$60

9

6

Amazon Attention to Detail in TOS

7

7

Amazon GameLift

4

8

Amazon Lumberyard: a free AAA game engine with full source

4

9

Parse server now free on AWS marketplace

4

10

Apple VR Headset

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Malware Museum

472

2

PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services

296

3

Building a business, not just an app

170

4

James Burke: Connections, Episodes 1-10 (1978) [video]

159

5

The Reality of Missing Out

147

6

The Windows 3.x Showcase

101

7

“GOTO Considered Harmful” Considered Harmful (1987) [pdf]

39

8

Rand Fishkin's New Book Proposal

35

9

Against Generations (2015)

27

10

Lessons of Demopolis

23

Science News [?]

1

Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer

205

2

Amgen publishes failures to replicate high-profile science

193

3

Love Resembles Addiction

177

4

Scientists have found a way to help learn skills faster

143

5

Xiaoice, a chatbot that may be the largest Turing test in history

125

6

Riddle of cement’s structure is finally solved

123

7

Australia Cuts 110 Climate Scientist Jobs

101

8

Bacterial cells are small 'eyeballs', scientists discover

94

9

Chemical equation balancing: An integer programming approach

82

10

The chips are down for Moore’s law

80

Social [?]

1

Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices

337

2

What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jumper cable

313

3

J.C.R. Licklider on the History of Personal Workstations (1986) [video]

154

4

Oculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack [video]

96

5

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned [video]

96

6

The Ugly Indian

78

7

How Do Genetic Algorithms Work? [video]

75

8

“I want to respond to Marc Andreessen's comments about India”

67

9

GameTrailers Is Closing Down After 13 Years

55

10

Continuously writing an iPhone app, on an iPad Pro, using C# [video]

54

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your files without actually doing it

515

2

Investigate switching away from GitHub

498

3

Dragula: Drag and drop so simple it hurts

307

4

Diff So Fancy: make Git diffs look good

270

5

Records: Python library for making raw SQL queries to Postgres databases

257

6

The cost of transpiling ES2015 in 2016

177

7

Git-blame-someone-else – Blame someone else for your bad code

166

8

Test your BIOS and share your results on GitHub

157

9

Git-blame-someone-else – Blame someone else for your bad code

149

10

Meatier – A Meteor alternative

137

Wikipedia [?]

1

Old Tjikko, the oldest living clonal Norway Spruce

98

2

49

3

Moravec's paradox

30

4

17

5

Magnetic Shark Repellent

12

6

A Russian scientist was struck by a particle accelerator beam in 1978

5

7

3

8

3

9

List of common misconceptions

3

10

List of prizes for evidence of the paranormal

3

Blogs [?]

1

Internet Access Is Finally Permanently Tax Free in the U.S.

266

2

Dead Men Write No Code

260

3

Linux kernel bug delivers corrupt TCP/IP data

221

4

217

5

LinkedIn dark patterns, or why your friends keep spamming you to sign up for it

211

6

Introducing Vector Networks: Generalized path editing for graphics

198

7

The Key to Higher Quality is Higher Quantity

99

8

Microservices, the Unix Philosophy, and the Richardson Maturity Model

88

9

Living with and building for the Amazon Echo

85

10

I’m a web developer and can't make anymore the simplest web app

79

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does the statement “2i;” Not cause a compiler error?

2

Substack [?]